Halo: Cryptum

[Arteen]

They killed the awe and wonder. Yay.

It's not even that that bothers me. I'm fine with 343i fleshing out the forerunner backstory. It's the sheer inevitability of humanity's successes that I dislike. It undermines the significance of every human triumph and makes their struggles much less compelling.

Forerunners didn't choose humanity to be the reclaimers because they saw a potential in the young species to become a galactic civilization greater than their own. No, they chose humanity to be reclaimers because they already had a galactic civilization greater than their own. Humans didn't survive the war against the Covenant because of the perseverance of the human spirit or anything like that. No, they had a secret council of guardian angel AIs making all of the decisions behind the scenes. Fujikawa and Shaw inventing the slipspace drive and allowing humanity to travel across the galaxy? That's not special, they're just retreading old ground. Humanity's few successes in the war? Was that impressive thinking and willpower, or was it all planned out by completely superfluous AIs?

There's just no, "Humanity, fuck yeah!" feeling to it.

[Dwood]

No. Spoiler that Arteen. I can't read that. I want to vomit. Edit:

I'd rather Humans == forerunner.

[=sw=warlord]

I would have preferred it to be like Stargate's Ancients =/= tauri but with the forerunners mostly killing themselves off.
I say mostly because I feel there should be some leverage to have a encounter with at least one Forerunner that may have escaped during the war to avoid the flood.

One can only imagine the kind of conversation you might get with a Forerunner and a Gravemind having a conversation.

[DarkHalo003]

I generally hate this fiction in generally. It totally defeats the mysticism and power of the Forerunners in many respects. Hurrrrrr this seems even more and more like just another Sci-Fi story and not another HALO story. I liked Halo because it was different enough from Stargate/Star Trek canonically speaking. Now it's slightly ruined because some dumb-minded writers decided to write canon for a universe they've barely dwelled in. That's probably what makes hate this situation the most; hardly any of them actually have actually dwelled in this universe.

[Warsaw]

Most sci-fi sucks. The best stuff was written 30-60 years ago. New-age science fiction is generally garbage. Even Mass Effect is garbage. Reapers...really? Couldn't come up with something better than that?

The only good new stuff I've read are Brian Herbert's Dune books. Specifically, all of the ones taking place during the Butlerian Jihad. I've never been so enraged or depressed at the actions and plot developments of characters in a book before those. Great writing.

[nuttyyayap]

Hey, guys, remember back when Halo didn't have a "canon", so to speak? Back when it was a game with next to nothing explained? It should have STAYED that way.
Although I did like the first few books.

[DarkHalo003]

Hey, guys, remember back when Halo didn't have a "canon", so to speak? Back when it was a game with next to nothing explained? It should have STAYED that way.
Although I did like the first few books.

I liked the universe before this crappiness that ruined much of the point of the Forerunners. The Forerunners were supposed to be like Guardians to the galaxy, not this trifled and easily challengeable race of non-mystics. I thought it was alright to put more detail into the Forerunners, but having a writer who is completely foreign to the Halo-verse and wrote the beginnings to many other sci-fi universes was a stupid move. Halo's fiction has been all about it being its own thing. Now I can't even say it is because any other sci-fi fan will only see it as a fun game and not a great universe.

[Luzaphant]

Don't have the money, sucks...

[=sw=warlord]

Holy fucking shit that signature is big.

[TeeKup]

Don't have the money, sucks...

You wouldn't want to waste your money on this.