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jasoncourt
06/30/09

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lol, I love how two of the shallowest dude-f'em-up fests(Halo and Gears of War) are 'novelized'. It is just so hilarious and odd to me.

And I know, I know "the Halo universe and ethos is so rich!", ok, perhaps the graphic novel is, but the fact that anyone would search this out or think to themselves that they wanted more of the story from either game is just ridiculous.

Those games are fun, sure, and the story in Halo has more to it than Gears. But still, I can't be the only one who thinks this is at least a little silly.
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subnet6
06/30/09

@jasoncourt: I'm with you. This makes no sense, unless you're like 14 and just have no idea what to read yet. But, to be fair, those people need books too I guess?
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Đipic
06/30/09

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Wait, people actually like Gears for it's story? wtf?
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mind in rewind
06/30/09

@Đipic: I thought Gears 2 did a good job with the story. The first one... not so much.
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Doeseph
06/30/09

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In before someone mentions Gears being a crappy milked franchise like Halo...
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Đipic
06/30/09

@Doeseph: Not sure how anyone could argue that it's milked when there are only 2 games out in the series.
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I_Hate_This_Place
06/30/09

@Doeseph: It cannot be like Halo, ever. The reason being is that Halo 2 had some actual improvements in the multiplayer area compared to the original, whereas Gears 2 is just broken in the multiplayer area compared to the original Gears.
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ThursdayNext
06/30/09

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At the risk of being villified, I detest fan fiction and fail to see where this is different.

I think there are fewer forms of "creative" writing lower than taking an established world, collection of characters or what have you and passing it off as your own book.

If Karen Traviss is such a fantastic author why does she not create something instead?

And before anyone says it, no, I have not written a New York Times bestseller, I still get to have an opinion though.
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phicaluk
06/30/09

@ThursdayNext: I just don't understand these books at all. If I go to Borders, there are more quality novels in there (you know, books with interesting plotting, compelling characters, political messages, whatever) than I could read in a lifetime - and I'm a pretty fast reader. Who bothers with this dreck?
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ThursdayNext
06/30/09

@phicaluk: Something of a bibliophile myself (hence name/avatar). It mystifies me too. Unless of course, there really are no more original ideas.
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rogue32
06/30/09

@ThursdayNext: karen traviss created a whole language and vastly expanded on the culture of the mandalorians from star wars, through the novels. i wouldn't be surprised if she did the same thing here.
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ThursdayNext
06/30/09

@rogue32: When she "created" the language did she devise her own syntax? Or did she just substitute words in a consistent fashion? Either way all she is doing is using other people's work to sell her books. Why not make her own universe up, with its own inhabitants and languages, instead of using Epic's, or Lucas'?
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BebopBlue
06/30/09

@ThursdayNext:

How did you think that she was just writing a story about Gears to make money off of it? There's all sorts of lawsuits there if that scenario was true. I would think that a bibliophile would understand that.
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ThursdayNext
07/01/09

@BebopBlue. Shini: R.O.A.C.H.: You seem to have missed my point. I'm not suggesting that she has infringed on Epic's IP, or that she is passing off the Gears universe as her own creation. I'm just saying that I think it is cratively cheap to do so and that the world would be better off with more original works and less remakes, sequels and spin offs.

She is doing it to make money off of it. If she wasn't making money she wouldn't do it.

I understand how licensing IP works, it's part of my job, and by the same token, I don't think that the people that make toys / statues of established franchise characters deserve any more artistic credit than do people who write using another persons creation.
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LosDaddie
06/30/09

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Should be a good read. Gears2's story was good...easily on par with most Summer blockbuster/action flicks.
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McDollar
06/30/09

@LosDaddie:

"...story was good...easily on par with most Summer blockbuster/action flicks.

DOES NOT COMPUTE.
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I_Hate_This_Place
06/30/09

@McDollar: It felt more like a Halo 2 retread to me. Or at least leading up to it. It had a civil war within the enemy faction(lambent locusts/regular locusts) as well as the sires looking and acting like a rip-off of the flood. The campaign was fun as hell(minus the shitty boss battles, just like Halo2), but the actual story sucked major ball sack.
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akumaserge
06/30/09

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I wonder if she actually plays the games.
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subnet6
06/30/09

@akumaserge: I wonder if people actually buy novelizations of games. Really? Why?
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☆Y2Jason☆
06/30/09

@subnet6: It is a little silly, but this isn't a novelization, rather a continuation of the storyline, hence why it may be of some interest to fans.
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subnet6
06/30/09

@☆Y2Jason☆: @cupajoe38: The gears franchise is a video game. Yes? This is a novel based on that franchise, yes? Ok, then, it's a novelization. Sure it's not just one game in a book, but still, it's a novelization of a game. And not a game with a good story mind you.

It's funny you mention mass effect, because just as I submitted my comment, I had the thought, "hmmmm, I'd read a Mass Effect novel.....maybe....nah".
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lachinay
07/01/09

@subnet6: You're wrong. "Novelization" means "converting into the form of a novel"; that means that the story must be more or less the same as presented in a movie/comic/videogame/true story already known. "Halo: Flood" is a novelization (of the first Halo); all the other (5) Halo novels are either prequels or they fill some gap in the series or they simply are set in the same universe. That does not qualify as a novelization at all.
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subnet6
07/02/09

@lachinay: So you're saying they're NOT converting the Gears franchise into novel form? Oh, ok, THAT makes sense. Even by your definition, it's a novelization. Please read what you write more carefully.

Or, better yet, read a dictionary.

Novelize: To write a novel based on something else, rather than an original work.

If this isn't a novel based on the Gears universe (a NOVELIZATION of the gears universe), what is it?
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