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[Mongerty2]

Quole wrote...

Valikdu wrote...

Haven't read anything by this author besides "The Flood". Therefore, can't give any opinions. Writing a book on Halo would be like writing a book on Jaws 4, it's inherently bad.

Why is that?` The Fall of Reach` and `First Strike` were good.

Ever heard of `Warhammer 40k: Firewarrior?` That was a book based off a game with even less of a story than Halo in yet the book was great. 

Don't worry about it. A lot of people troll against Halo because it is the cool thing to do. "Ghosts of Onyx" was better than any of the recent Mass Effect stuff that has come out, and TFOR was even better than Onyx.


That said, Flood is an absolutely terrible book that could have been soooo much better (but still not good) had they not given the first draft to a drunken monkey who then sent it directly to printing after skimming the last 3 pages...... The point I am making is that obviously Dietz was pushed to churn out a book after the success of "The Fall of Reach" by Nylund. The book would have been bearable had any editors actually read the damn thing and fixed a lot of easy mistakes.

Let's hope that he has more than a weekend to write the Mass Effect book.

[Dean_the_Young]

The Flood wasn't great quality, but I do appreciate it as a novelization/semi-expansion of the game. It did what it could be expected to in terms of narrating the important parts of the game, but also did much better in terms of adding alternative viewpoints and other character sub-plots. The cowardly grunt, the other humans, even the whole humans-trying-to-capture-flood-infested-ship plot line. It even had a nice mix of sympathetic and non-sympathetic characters across the spectrum, avoiding the general military/sci-fi cliche of 'all soldiers are honorable band of brothers.'

I certainly enjoyed it more than, say, the other spartan-****** books, like the immediate sequel or that one about the next generation (but inferior) Spartan project. When the Halo books try and get to military technothriller level, it breaks all believability and suspense.

Strangely enough, the same happened in Retribution: when the novel tried to explain everything technical that was happening, it generally was in it's worst mode. Tom Clancy these books are not.

[Zulu_DFA]

Dean_the_Young wrote...

It even had a nice mix of sympathetic and non-sympathetic characters across the spectrum, avoiding the general military/sci-fi cliche of 'all soldiers are honorable band of brothers.'

Same thing in Heaven's Devils. It certainly qualifies for the "morally ambigous, shades-of-gray" stuff.

[sporeian]

SandTrout wrote...

MJRick wrote...

Randy1083 wrote...

SudsyPatriarch wrote...

one day they´ll run out of "tion" titles and use "Mass Effect: Digestion"

I'm looking forward to "Mass Effect: Condensation."

I'm more looking forward to "Mass Effect Inception."

Judging by my previous experience with this author, the next book will probably be closer to "Mass Effect: Constipation".

Mass Effect: Conception

Make it about Shepard trying to concieve a child with Tali and Bioware will Make Millions!

[The Good Shephard]

I'll remain caustiosly hopeful about this change in authors. A change of pace could be for the better after reading through first three and their somewhat interesting ideas that didn't really go anywhere.

As for the title itself, it sounds like TIM is going to be working his ever-so-subtle magic.
I will be dissapointed if he does not team up with at least one of these guys.

[silent_key]

I suspect that Udina, and the events shown in "Inquisition" will have a significant role to play in the new novel. That story ended with way too many questions.

[bandfred]

Dietz was very confined with the source material. The scenes he added that didn't follow Master Chief (the elite, the ODSTs at Alpha Base) were decent.

[SudsyPatriarch]

sporeian wrote...

SandTrout wrote...

MJRick wrote...

Randy1083 wrote...

SudsyPatriarch wrote...

one day they´ll run out of "tion" titles and use "Mass Effect: Digestion"

I'm looking forward to "Mass Effect: Condensation."

I'm more looking forward to "Mass Effect Inception."

Judging by my previous experience with this author, the next book will probably be closer to "Mass Effect: Constipation".

Mass Effect: Conception

Make it about Shepard trying to concieve a child with Tali and Bioware will Make Millions!

Mass Effect: Experimentation, anyone?

[Rivercurse]

sporeian wrote...

Make it about Shepard trying to concieve a child with Tali and Bioware will Make Millions!

That would be Mass Effect: Exploitation

[docthe12th]

Or, to be a tad more specific, Mass Effect: Inse.... never mind, but you get the idea. As for game-based novels, they can work as long as they don't directly involve the game protagonist during the game events too much, otherwise it turns into an unimaginative recap. I do like things that strengthen game lore, though.

[tehprincessJ]

Notho wrote...

Why isn't Drew Karpyshyn doing this one as well?

This. I'll probably still read it, but I'd rather read stuff written by one of the game's writers.

[neal sonntag]

I still think this should be good even though its a new author. I was just reading on karpyshyns website that when he wrote the mass effect novels they had key bioware people sign off on the process like every step of the way. So im confident this will fit in nicely with the overall ME universe.

[Rekkampum]

Hirohumi wrote...

Bioware probably wouldn't let anything subpar (as far as the books go) to be released. <br />

I see what you did there.

[PugztheBoy]

SudsyPatriarch wrote...

sporeian wrote...

SandTrout wrote...

MJRick wrote...

Randy1083 wrote...

SudsyPatriarch wrote...

one day they´ll run out of "tion" titles and use "Mass Effect: Digestion"

I'm looking forward to "Mass Effect: Condensation."

I'm more looking forward to "Mass Effect Inception."

Judging by my previous experience with this author, the next book will probably be closer to "Mass Effect: Constipation".

Mass Effect: Conception

Make it about Shepard trying to concieve a child with Tali and Bioware will Make Millions!

Mass Effect: Experimentation, anyone?

MASS EFFECT: INCEPTION..........turns out, it's ALL in Shepards head.