Eric Nylund is one of the best authors of the Halo novels, he did an excellent job. Many people are nervous that Brian Reed is going to screw up with Halo 5: Guardians due to his work not being praised in Spartan Ops and Escalation. Eric hasn’t written a book in years, and he’s expressed interest in writing in the Halo universe again. What better privilege than to write for the game? I think he’d be great for the job as head writer for the games, do you agree?
Yes, yes, and yes. A million times yes!
Wait, the guy who wrote the story of Spartan ops and Escalation is writing H5? Time to kill myself.
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> Wait, the guy who wrote the story of Spartan ops and Escalation is writing H5? Time to kill myself.
Yeah, I and many others are quite worried that this could bring that game down. Let’s just pray that he does a good job and it results in a great script.
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To my knowledge Eric Nylund had nothing to do with either of those…
Yes, It would be an interesting change.
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I wonder if he would ever be up to joining 343 as head writer of the games, getting to bring his talent to the screen. I’m (and other fans) are just not enthused with Reed tackling this game which has tons of potential in the characters and plot.
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343 said they threw Requiem into it’s sun because they just couldn’t think of anything better. That means they haven’t been planning far enough ahead for Halo’s story. I have no faith in those people.
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> 343 said they threw Requiem into it’s sun because they just couldn’t think of anything better. That means they haven’t been planning far enough ahead for Halo’s story. I have no faith in those people.
Not necessarily. They did directly state before any of the games were released that unlike Bungie’s games, their direction for sequels was planned in advance. They probably intended for Requiem to be destroyed early on but struggled to think of anything better than throwing it into the sun. Granted it’s a little similar to Halo Wars ending that they triggered a sun to go supernova, but it’s not a terrible decision by any means.
It might be foreshadowing of what the Forerunners are capable of. Ancient humans and the Forerunners destroyed entire planets and solar systems to slow the Flood.
I don’t think a change in writer would really effect H5 much at this point. We’re under a year till launch. Cutscenes and levels are likely already being built, and dialogue already being recorded.
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> I don’t think a change in writer would really effect H5 much at this point. We’re under a year till launch. Cutscenes and levels are likely already being built, and dialogue already being recorded.
Except we haven’t seen or heard a thing on Halo 5 Story wise which is a little concerning.
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They want to keep it secret so no spoilers leak (which I like btw)
im sure things will leak as we go further in the year, it’s kinda hard to make a few hundred people not sneak a picture.
The Novels both Eric Nylund and Greg Bear have done in the Halo Universe have been simply works of art in my opinion. I would love to see either one of them as the lead writer in any form of Halo media, but a game would be a dream come true.
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True but just something to add to speculation something the name of the planet of where John is if he isn’t already on a known world. I remember way back when 343 first told us about Requiem. Us crazy lore people immediately went to the dictionary and applied what Requiem meant into halo. I need lore more than i need Oxygen.
Eric Nylund never wrote the older games…Joe Staten did, and we all know how good of a job he did. 
It would be neat for Nylund to write a future Halo game.
Why do people hate Brian Reeds writing? Ive never read his stuff before, so I wouldnt know.
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You’re talking about the studio that referenced Lasky by name in Petra, years before Halo 4 or his announcement as a character.
343i plans.
I would alternatively like to see Eric’s books turned into games that would be great who was the writer for halo 4 because they were pretty ok as for Brian reed writing I don’t know how I feel about that I actually quite enjoyed Spartan Ops and escalation and they were not bad other than some really strange statements but hey its better than destiny’s story. The characters were good the development of Halsey was fantastic also props for the term undid iridium being a typo text sent to his wife.
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Yeah no they’ve previously said they see halo as a saga rather than a new trilogy also for the reclaimer trilogy they do state they mapped out how influential characters would change and progress over the next three games and how the extra not game material would interact with that and vice versa alongside key events.
I just wish they were allowed to make Spartan ops season 2 and create the comics as levels that would have been really cool, of course they would have probably been terrible because the Xbox 360 didn’t have the processing power to like the scale of Spartan ops seen in escalation if only halo 4 had come out on the one ops wouldn’t have been as -Yoink- damn you Microsoft for pushing H4 forwards so you could keep the game off next gen!!!
No thanks. Nylund has said that he wants to work on his own stuff, and game writing just isn’t the same as novel writing - even some of his books had some rather choppy prose at times.
Now if Chris Schlerf, Kevin Grace, and Greg Bear could just write every piece of Halo fiction, that I would be happy with.
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> No thanks. Nylund has said that he wants to work on his own stuff, and game writing just isn’t the same as novel writing - even some of his books had some rather choppy prose at times.
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I don’t really get the praise for Schlerf. Besides the John-Cortana moments, nothing was exceptional about his writing.