I used to be like you, thinking 'Bleh, Bretons and High Rock' but thanks to BT it really has grown on me.
I think one day it'll be the same for you, after all you already have milk chugging characters so it's only a matter of time.
Oh no doubt there'd be war, I can't see the UNSC submitting without a fight. But in regular continuity they tried to work out a peaceful negotiation aka surrender but all attempts at even contact failed.
I think it'd be a cool alternate serious of the old outer colonies holding their Insurrectionist beliefs and motives refusing assimilation into the Covenant.
Speaking of which, after reading Contact Harvest did anyone else wonder what kind of universe Halo would have been had the old Hierarchs maintained their position and tried to assimilate Humanity into the Covenant instead of wipe them out?
Whoops I didn't finish my sentence, I meant to say "and while they had past confrontations with the Flood before Halo 2, before High Charity got overran the Flood wasn't their number 1 enemy."
Mmmh, when it was shown I was skeptical to say the least. It didn't feel quite so faithful to the older stuff, hell even the books prior (I stopped at Mortal Didacta) to Halo Wars 2 made it seem like the Covenant's only real enemy was mankind at that point and while they had past confrontations with the Flood before Halo 2. Adding a splinter faction that managed to hold back the covenant and was partially the reason mankind survived felt kinda cheap.
If you've seen the Designers Commentary on Halo 2, this cutscene as cool as it is was to replace an even cooler level.
You'd play as Chief with the level ending like what we'd saw.
God, imagine if we got a good port of Halo 2 instead of the half assed thing we have.
I recall reading a SPV Halo 2 would be impossible because they don't have the tools due to microsoft not releasing them.
The first Halo Wars cutscene is in my opinion one of the very greatest in the series, there is something so charming about the non-spartan POV's throughout the war. From the books to games.
Imagine playing a marine in the book version of Halo CE, Halo: The Flood.
Halo was my childhood man, if you ever get an Xbox one or hell ever pop Halo Reach into a 360 shoot me a message. I'll always be wanting to relive the good memories with friends.
Something that just dawned on me and hit a nostalgia nerve, the Halo Reach theme sounds very similar to the latter half of the Halo 2 Ghosts of Reach OST.