So /v/ have you ever read any video game tie in novels?
I read Contact Harvest. It was actually really good.
>>333310785
I read all the Halo books up until Cryptum at which point the canon ended and the fanfiction began and I've read none since.
>>333311010
The Greg Bear forerunner trilogy is actually pretty decent, barring the "humans used to be an interstellar civilization" shit.
On another note, First Strike was the best Halo novel.
>>333313437
>"humans used to be an interstellar civilization"
WE
>>333313437
>"humans used to be an interstellar civilization"
That was always the case, because humans were the Forerunners.
>>333313437
343 halo is so fucking stupid.
>>333314342
That was never the case in Bungie's Halo lore.
>>333313437
>First Strike was the best Halo novel
Agreed. I think The Flood would have been good as well, if it weren't for the fact that everyone who read it already knew about the huge twist with the halo rings purpose being revealed
>>333315016
Yes it was.
>>333315039
The Flood also focused on a lot on uninteresting one-off characters. It didn't help that we already knew all of the twists of the plot.
At least Ghosts of Onyx had some new stuff.
The Drew Karpyshyn Mass Effect novels were alright, I thought.
>>333315176
No, it wasn't. Guilty Spark going fucking insane and calling Chief a Forerunner doesn't mean ancient humans were Forerunners. Bungie played around with the idea very early on in development but abandoned it.
>>333315448
Yeah it does.
>>333313437
I really enjoyed Nylund's trilogy. They should have gotten him involved again.
>>333315406
I- I didn't know there were mass effect books and apparently there are dragon age books. Bet it's filled with that quality bioware writing.
>>333315901
I'm sorry nigga, but canon directly contradicts that, and that's disregarding everything 343 did.
>>333315016
Bungie halo humans were either
>Direct descendants of the forerunners
or, and the more likely
>The favored adopted child of the forerunners
>>333315985
One was so bad they pulled it and re-wrote it because the author had no clue what was going on in ME.
>>333315336
GoO had Kurt. Second most badass mofo after Chief.
As anon said before, any novels before Greg Bear's Saga were top tier. Then Halo spiraled into a shithole, especially with that cunt Karen Traviss and her "Halo isn't about action, it's about deep moral dilemmas." Fuck her.
all the resident evil books.
>>333313437
but that is what makes it cool anon.
>>333317820
Any good art in them?
Quite a few. Most of them were shit, but some of them (Fall of Reach, Hitman: Enemy Within) were ok.
Can Ciaphas Cain be considered vidya book?
>>333318627
just the front cover
>>333310785
In regards to the Halo franchise, I read Evolutions, Fall of Reach, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, and I'm currently on Contact Harvest. I think First Strike is probably my favorite followed by Fall or Reach and Ghosts of Onyx.
>>333316194
I distinctly remember humans were one of the species uplifted by the forerunners rather than direct descendants.
The ai they've left behind call humans reclaimers because the forerunners knew they were on the way out and their seeded civilizations were expected to retrace their footsteps to one day overcome the flood.
This was how I understood it at least.
>>333316194
Guess who wrote the novel that was ripped out of ME canon, the same asshole who wrote Halo: The Flood.
Halo and Warhammer 40,000 (I know it was a tabletop game first but there are video games) are my main books and novels that I read.
>>333310785
I enjoyed all the Gears of War books.
