Between the Game and the Book. Which fiction is official canon?
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> Between the Game and the Book. Which fiction is official canon?
tbh idk
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> Between the Game and the Book. Which fiction is official canon?
If I absolutely had to pick, it would be the game.
If I’m correct than both canon.
A bit strange - I know - since the Autumn was never landed on Reach when the Covenant attacked; then in the book the Covenant was really quickly to eliminate the UNSC forces (actually right after they arrived the UNSC had lost most of its ships, and Reach was also filled with Covenant forces) while in the game it happens in 1 month probably. Cortana was already on Autumn board. And we could continue the thing doesn’t match with eachother, but still the game and the book is canon.
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> If I’m correct than both canon.
> A bit strange - I know - since the Autumn was never landed on Reach when the Covenant attacked; then in the book the Covenant was really quickly to eliminate the UNSC forces (actually right after they arrived the UNSC had lost most of its ships, and Reach was also filled with Covenant forces) while in the game it happens in 1 month probably. Cortana was already on Autumn board. And we could continue the thing doesn’t match with eachother, but still the game and the book is canon.
^^^ This.
But if it came down to one or another, from what I’ve seen from any video games lore is that the in-game story/lore always trumps lore from other sources.
They are both canon, people need to realize that, and deal with it.
Both were canon, but both were different due how the book and game did it.
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> > If I’m correct than both canon.
> > A bit strange - I know - since the Autumn was never landed on Reach when the Covenant attacked; then in the book the Covenant was really quickly to eliminate the UNSC forces (actually right after they arrived the UNSC had lost most of its ships, and Reach was also filled with Covenant forces) while in the game it happens in 1 month probably. Cortana was already on Autumn board. And we could continue the thing doesn’t match with eachother, but still the game and the book is canon.
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> ^^^ This.
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> But if it came down to one or another, from what I’ve seen from any video games lore is that the in-game story/lore always trumps lore from other sources.
They cant both be canon they contradict eath other too much. The book was commissioned by Bungie and came out long before the game. We need an official release that states the canonical chain of events.
Games take precidence over outside media. When Reach was released as a game, it superceded canon of the book. There’s a short interview here with Marcus Lehto that covers some of it, I imagine there will be other commentary from Bungie about this elsewhere:
http://www.mtv.com/news/2461855/bungie-on-the-contradictions-between-halo-reach-and-halo-the-fall-of-reach-novel/.
The novel was actually re-released in 2010 with some changes that bring it more into line with the game:
https://torforge.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/tor-books-announces-enhanced-re-issues-of-the-original-halo-novel-trilogy/
http://www.halopedia.org/Halo%3A_The_Fall_of_Reach#2010_bonus_content
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> Games take precidence over outside media. When Reach was released as a game, it superceded canon of the book. There’s a short interview here with Marcus Lehto that covers some of it, I imagine there will be other commentary from Bungie about this elsewhere:
> http://www.mtv.com/news/2461855/bungie-on-the-contradictions-between-halo-reach-and-halo-the-fall-of-reach-novel/.
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> The novel was actually re-released in 2010 with some changes that bring it more into line with the game:
> https://torforge.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/tor-books-announces-enhanced-re-issues-of-the-original-halo-novel-trilogy/
> http://www.halopedia.org/Halo%3A_The_Fall_of_Reach#2010_bonus_content
Oh awesome thanks. Thanks for the facts.
Game canon is superior to any eu type canon but it’s truly how you think it happened.whether it’s the fall of reach or halo reach.
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> They are both canon, people need to realize that, and deal with it.
People have been “dealing with it” since Reach came out. Throwing something’s past out the window when a massive change comes isn’t the only way to deal with something, and lots of people really enjoyed the canon of The Fall of Reach prior to Halo: Reach the video game. They are “both” canon, but really the game is true canon and whatever you can manage to scrape out of the book without breaking the game’s story is allowed to be canon too. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing necessarily, just that it’s the way it’s handled.
The Halo lore community loves to analyze and discuss things, and when there’s massive inconsistencies or outright changes to something like in the Reach game people analyze and discuss them. Some people try to make the game and book play nice together somehow, some people pick a camp and say why they prefer one totally over the other. That’s all “dealing with it”.
“Deal with it” is such a stupid, reductive, restrictive, disrespectful thing to say and I wish people would stop saying it, especially when they mean “you don’t share my exact view on the subject, so shut up”.
After looking through my copy of Halo Mythos, out looks as though 343 is using the game as the official canon. The only way that this works is if the pillar of autumn had descended to the planet reach to retrieve cortana. AND blue team had actually been without her on the mission to secure the nav data. This is because in the remastered version of combat evolved Linda’s informationcan be seen in the cryo chambers readouts. So she had to be injured during the mission.
Bottom line is: game is canon.
Their are plenty of instances in all of fiction where new fiction contradicts some previously existing fiction. Sometimes it’s done purposefully, as with Superman from the Silver Age to Gold Age. Sometimes it could be done by accident. This can always cause a little controversy, especially for fiction that has as passionate and large a following as Halo.
But ultimately, it’s up to the creators what is called canon and what isn’t. And Halo’s creators decided the game was canon.
I’m pretty sure Bungie confirmed that the game was canon.
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> Between the Game and the Book. Which fiction is official canon?
They are both cannon. The book just goes into more detail and doesn’t just tell the story of Noble Team
There are minor differences though but I believe the book tells what actually happened while the game deviates a little bit to make it more epic (the autumn was already in space when the covenant attacked )
Game always takes priority of being canon over literary material.
That doesn’t mean the literature isn’t canon, but if there is ever a conflict, the game canon will be considered true over the literature.
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