I just read the new The Halo Bulletin, and I can’t help but to scrutinize the paragraph where Frankie says “We actually had Greg in last week to listen to some music, look at some graphics, including in-game graphics, to make sure they line up appropriately with <mark>his vision</mark>, and vice versa.”
Greg Bear wrote the Forerunner Saga for those that don’t know. This is yet another clue that we’ll be fighting Forerunners. I definitely have faith in any company that lets one of sci-fi’s most creative minds put his own vision into Halo 4 itself.
I’m just too excited for Halo 4. What do you think?
I honestly dont like Greg Bears’s vision. I always liked the thought of the Forerunners as being the most ancient species, wise, mysterious, and not just a step down from some strange, bug like creatures that are huge, and supposedly more advanced than Forerunners. I also dont like how humans used to be at the same level of tech. I mean come on, the terminals used to say that the flood was extragalactic in origin. unknown to this galaxy. and it was simply the Forerunners against the flood back in the days of yore. Now they are adding in the addition of Precursors, Super advanced Humans, and a war between them that makes the Forerunners look like jerks. This was not how it used to be.
I mean, am looking forward to halo 4, but This new stuff isnt at all like the old halo. Its just like what Hollywood does to everything, they take something that was already created, and change it because they feel like being creative.
> I honestly dont like Greg Bears’s vision. I always liked the thought of the Forerunners as being the most ancient species, wise, mysterious, and not just a step down from some strange, bug like creatures that are huge, and supposedly more advanced than Forerunners. I also dont like how humans used to be at the same level of tech. I mean come on, the terminals used to say that the flood was extragalactic in origin. unknown to this galaxy. and it was simply the Forerunners against the flood back in the days of yore. Now they are adding in the addition of Precursors, Super advanced Humans, and a war between them that makes the Forerunners look like jerks. This was not how it used to be.
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> I mean, am looking forward to halo 4, but This new stuff isnt at all like the old halo. Its just like what Hollywood does to everything, they take something that was already created, and change it because they feel like being creative.
The idea of the Precursors wasn’t created by Greg Bear though, they were present since Halo 3, in the Terminals if I’m not mistaken.
i really have no clue who the enemy might be, first we thought it was the foreruners, then perecursors, or a new type of flood/caveat thingy, then ancient humans, or possibly a new sect of the covenant, at this point i really dont know, but im leaning towards precursors, even though we havnt heard much about them in a while
I’m thinking that we might see or have mention of the Didact. Or see where the ship is off to in the end of “Primordium”.
As for the enemy, I really have no idea.
I liked his Forerunner Saga so far.
At times it gets painfully slow, and I would have problems understanding what he was trying to describe if I had never seen Halo Legends. All in all they have been a good read.
I have also read a lot of typos in his books as well. One that comes to mind is where he meant to write “neutral”, but instead wrote “neuter”. It’s not his fault, it’s his editor’s.
Now that I have that off my chest.
I’m really looking forward to the last book of the trilogy.
> > I honestly dont like Greg Bears’s vision. I always liked the thought of the Forerunners as being the most ancient species, wise, mysterious, and not just a step down from some strange, bug like creatures that are huge, and supposedly more advanced than Forerunners. I also dont like how humans used to be at the same level of tech. I mean come on, the terminals used to say that the flood was extragalactic in origin. unknown to this galaxy. and it was simply the Forerunners against the flood back in the days of yore. Now they are adding in the addition of Precursors, Super advanced Humans, and a war between them that makes the Forerunners look like jerks. This was not how it used to be.
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> > I mean, am looking forward to halo 4, but This new stuff isnt at all like the old halo. Its just like what Hollywood does to everything, they take something that was already created, and change it because they feel like being creative.
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> The idea of the Precursors wasn’t created by Greg Bear though, they were present since Halo 3, in the Terminals if I’m not mistaken.
some speculate they were mentioned. It says something about “stories from the past” and people jumped to the conclusion that it was some kind of beings beyond forerunner. I disagree and think that this was simply referring to forerunner heritage.
> > > I honestly dont like Greg Bears’s vision. I always liked the thought of the Forerunners as being the most ancient species, wise, mysterious, and not just a step down from some strange, bug like creatures that are huge, and supposedly more advanced than Forerunners. I also dont like how humans used to be at the same level of tech. I mean come on, the terminals used to say that the flood was extragalactic in origin. unknown to this galaxy. and it was simply the Forerunners against the flood back in the days of yore. Now they are adding in the addition of Precursors, Super advanced Humans, and a war between them that makes the Forerunners look like jerks. This was not how it used to be.
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> > > I mean, am looking forward to halo 4, but This new stuff isnt at all like the old halo. Its just like what Hollywood does to everything, they take something that was already created, and change it because they feel like being creative.
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> > The idea of the Precursors wasn’t created by Greg Bear though, they were present since Halo 3, in the Terminals if I’m not mistaken.
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> some speculate they were mentioned. It says something about “stories from the past” and people jumped to the conclusion that it was some kind of beings beyond forerunner. I disagree and think that this was simply referring to forerunner heritage.
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> but, that is the ONLY mention of them
The fact that we had no concrete information about the Forerunners before Greg Bear’s books doesn’t mean they changed anything, or things ‘used to be’ better. The only thing the original trilogy of games says about them is that they created the rings, once ruled the galaxy, were good at building vast, beautiful architecture, and that they activated the halo array. Bear’s books simply expand the story where there was none to begin with. You yourself even mention the ‘thought’ of the forerunners being wise or mysterious, but it was just that, a thought. No one ever said they could’t be space jerks in the first place.