/vr/ - Retro Games

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>too esoteric
That's funny considering the Bungie lore is lost on virtually everyone who has ever heard of Halo. Bungie's lore is esoteric in that you can stare at and memorise every single exoteric detail and still completely miss the point and miss the forest for the trees. Is 343's lore esoteric, or is it just dense and wide?

I have read all of the Bungie novels (up to Contact Harvest) and stopped there. I've sort of looked into the 343 novels and they don't interest me. It looks like the backstory to a "sci-fi" tabletop campaign. I probably *should* read these things to better know my enemy (Frank O'Connor and fans of junk buttscifi in general) but my gut says no, this stuff is bad.

Halo CE was envisioned as multimedia, the novel came first, but the stuff in CE isn't a worse novel installment that's worse because it has to accommodate "gameplay". The stuff you "play" is Halo. The point being felt by you directly rather than suggested at through literary iteration.

The original Bungie Halo vision (which only I have ever explicitly named as far as I know) is served by being a game in addition to novels. The 343 O'Connor vision, is not. It's just buttscifi that has to be games in addition to pointless doorstopper novels. Fuck it, I have to read these things now.