I like the Forerunner stuff a lot, but the Kilo Five trilogy gets me pumped, which how shady and morally grey ONI is. Especially since the new character seems to be an ONI agent, despite the fact that Spartans are Navy personnel.

There's actually a shit ton of canon issues between the book and the game. They rereleased the book with a few changes to fix this, but there is still quite a lot of issues.

A great deal of Spartan's survived. Many were with Halsey actually, on Onyx. Plus, the memorial for those on Reach was confirmed to have a lot of names of individuals not dead, as ONI's Section 2 wanted to cover up a lot of disappearances.

Maybe this guy looks like a clone trooper, but many of the Spartans are much more varied. And lore-wise, the two could not be more different. But, I'll save my breath, since you don't seem to care about Halo regardless, and my words won't change that.

Halsey was still trapped in the Forerunner Shield world on Onyx for a period of time. When she was found, she was arrested for stealing military assets (the Spartans trapped with her) and was under custody for a period of time. Chief was MIA after Halo 3, drifting for about 5 years until Cortana woke him up (Halo 4).…

Haley is seen as a mother figure to the Spartans. While odd, it's an emotional human response to react that way over the realization that you were kidnapped and robbed of your life to be a solider. And Osman was a SPARTAN II wash out that became mentored by Parangosky, who had her own reasons to hate Halsey. She used…

The Flood were great for the original trilogy. Their time is over. We fought, we won, the end. To bring them back is just a slap in the face to the first trilogy.

This. The Halo Wiki is great as a refresher, but not for acquiring new knowledge. I was worried that the Kilo Five Trilogy would be hard to follow, judging by the wiki entries, but it's actually an engaging, easy to grasp story. The Forerunner Saga even more so.

Well, in the Halo Universe, the Forerunners are seen as these mythical, all powerful beings. In reality they are just as messed up and prone to faults as humans are. The books do a pretty good job of expressing that.

I find it downright impossible to pick the best Radiohead album. We all have favorites (mine being The Bends for their more guitar era and Kid A for their more electronic era), but it's hard to pick an objectively best album.

God, does it feel good to see Snake in a cardboard box again.

so a 8.5% lead is that big of a victory? man, Sony fans will take scraps of anything huh?

Sony Playstation

No, I think "yes to pretty much everything" is a pretty gross overstatement.

No, it's just that everyone was so strongly against the original plan for Xbox One (always online, Kinect always on, no used games) that when Sony said "No way, we're doing the same thing we've always done" people were losing their minds. Plus Nintendo was such a non player with not having a proper E3 conference and…

I'll stick with Payday 2, thankyouverymuch

Super jazzed about this. Ep. 3 is when it all started getting really good.

So, let's recap what I feel is the main takeaway from this whole affair:

ha! beat you to it! ;p

Same thing as here. American translation makes it sound like it's in the US, when that is so clearly not the case. Like how the Pokémon dub tried to convince you that the rice balls are doughnuts (lulz wut?)