Halo: Cryptum

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Originally Posted by ejburke

My thoughts exactly. It's like the Master Chief in his Long Sword at the end of Halo 1 took a wrong turn at Albuquerque and flew into some retarded alternate universe.

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I think that's the actual plot of First Strike.

We had an empire....and went to war with the forerunners, and they beat us....then the forerunner were defeated by the flood, so they decided to make us their chosen inheritors...


Someone help me make sense of this.

What really makes no sense is that:

The Forerunners negotiate a peace treaty with the Prophets, but totally bombard Humanity into oblivion and devolution while also naming Humanity their successors. Then the Flood is actually some powder that Humanity encountered first that mutated from Human pet owners rubbing it on their pets. That's corny as hell. I thought the Flood had always been an horrifying force from the getgo, not some green crack cocaine on Steroids.

FUUUUUUU---- In before Bungie says "It was 343 Industry's idea, not ours."

The only difference between Halo: Cryptum and Halo: First Strike is that First Strike actually makes decent sense and is consistent with the canon. Cryptum is just random as hell, offers no consistency as what Bungie had dubbed the Forerunners as, and also belittles the Flood's origin. They really should have just left it alone. That or focus on individual accounts of the Forerunners suffering during the 300 years war between the Flood and the Forerunners.

This is what happens when you milk a franchise; eventually the tit starts giving you blood with the milk and it tastes pretty horrible.

Hey, Teek, doesn't this whole "humans were equal to Forerunners" thing sound familiar?

Yeah it does...Certainly does. >_>

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Originally Posted by TeeKup

Yeah it does...Certainly does. >_>

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I did it more tastefully, I think. Microsoft/Bungie has been hacking my brain and twisting my ideas into abominations since 2002. :saddowns:

Agreed. I still want to read the book and see how this author did it. Even though I may end up hating it.

I was pumped for this book, and now im not. Sounds pretty bad... ugh.

Only good books so far imo is First Strike and the Fall of Reach.

So has anybody read this yet? I wanna know if I should get it or not.