Okay, but... who the fuck even IS Buck? Who are Red and Blue Team? Is this some Red v Blue shit...

Okay, but... who the fuck even IS Buck? Who are Red and Blue Team? Is this some Red v Blue shit? He appeared in Halo 3: ODST, but I've not got a clue who he is. Same shit with him popping up in Reach.

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Buck was in ODST. And in Reach, but only as a reference to ODST. And if you ask some nerd they'll probably tell you he was in one of the books.

No idea why they make ODSTs spartans now tho, seems like anyone can put on a set of armor and call themselves a spartan nowadays.

wasnt he recommended to the spartan program by someone after odst?

fucked if i know, probably the bitch who he was tryna fuck from oni.
Truth be told tho Osiris was full of fuckwits that shouldnt have been spartans. Oni faggot Locke who's only marketable quality is being the token black guy, Buck who likes to fuck and gets a shotgun to start with, crybaby bitch who's tragic backstory gives her a fast pass to the Mjolnir program for some stupid reason, and the forgettable one.

Name one single Spartan IV that stands out and has done anything to earn the title Spartan, beside being 343's shitty writing team's posterboy to try and replace the Spartan IIs.

Anything halo past 2010 is not canon

What about Halo Wars 2?

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He's the main character in one of his games and you don't know who he is? Are you stupid?

Red team and Blue team were two of the many ~4 man fireteams consisting exclusively of Spartan IIs following the conclusion of their training and experimentation.

Chief lead blue team with 3 other spartans, all of which died or went MIA. All of those deaths were retconned by 343 though as "oooOOOoooh spooky oni recruited them to train Spartan IIIs" despite The Fall of Reach specifically mentioning Linda being critically injured and left in cryostasis alongside John on TPoA moments before the start of Halo 1.

He was recommended to the spartan program multi able times, only accepting now since the odst were disbanded because 343 are retards.

this charlie sheen looking motherfucker is a pretty cool dude

i would say it was cool seeing buck as a spartan but the rest of them are not memorable because of 343's writing. We're introduced to these characters taking a mission to apprehend master chief like a nagging parent. During the whole story in halo 5 i could not give a fuck about osiris

To this day I will never not be mad that they killed Rookie in a no sales poorly written spin off book and decided it was completely canon in Halo 5

5 could have been a great game. Problem is its spent way too long trying to make me give a fuck about characters I didnt give a fuck about. They had a great opportunity to throw backstory onto blue team and reinforce their history to the normies who never read the books but nooOOOOoooo, we gotta learn about some crybaby bitch who lost her parents and grew up in slavery to the sangheli or some stupid shit or some dumb nigga who said UNSC should kill the arbiter oh yeah lets have a full on backstory about how Oni recommended that the fucking general responsible for fucking up reach should be assassinated really great writing guys seriously a round of applause for 343 and their genius writing.

He said what he said

>No spinoff game where the Rookie and Buck get recruited into the Spartan program and have an adventure
>Joke about the Rookie's helmet getting stuck so he can't take it off

Wait, they killed off Rookie? Seriously!?

Did he at least go out good? Or was it more like putting down a dog chained to a post?

Spartan 3s and Spartan 4s were a mistake

SOF is drifting away towards a star after Serina finds out flood has contaminated the ship, like it was originally intended before that shitty comic retconned it so the SOF survived just so that they could shit out HW2

eeeeeeh, Spartan IIIs were technically bungie's idea. But they weren't going to be nearly as powerful as Spartan IIs because again, say it with me, MJOLNIR ARMOR ON NON AUGMENTED HUMANS RESULTS IN PULVERIZED BONE...
anywho a lot of the Spartan IIs that survived augmentation but were unfit for battle were supposed to train the Spartan IIIs. But 343 retconned the deaths of active duty Spartan IIs such as half of blue team and now we have Baby Spartans playing hero when they're literally hand held by shitty writing and absurd numbers of spartan deployments.

This nigga used to captain the Serenity

I guess they took Spartans never die literally

Spartan 3's as suicide unstable orphans were cool as fuck. Ghosts of Onyx is the best Nylund book.
When Bungie made them into literally Spartan 2's that was stupid.

Yup. Should actually read The Fall of Reach user. Pretty interesting read. I'd pay to have an audiobook of it by Chief's VA.

Is there a chart for Halo books/general outside materials?

>Only accepting now since the odst were disbanded
Wait fucking what, when and how?

Executed by no name rebels holding him hostage

fall of reach was sick as fuck i loved it. read a chapter into the flood as well, loved the prose of needler rounds blowing up marines and stuff

The only thing I remember from The Flood is the Chief ripping the spine out of a hunter because that was before hunters got their worm colony lore.

During Chiefs baby nap between 3 and 4, they brought back the Spartan program and pretty much forced all odst to join the program and disbanded the odst. So the new Spartans are just odst in special suits, the brilliance of 343 where they try to kill everything that Bungie made.

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Eddy Buck is a fucking legend, OP. The dude turned down being a spartan because he didn't want to disband his team or leave Dare. One hell of a leader and one of the best ODST to drop feet first into hell.

damn i forgot about both of those things. wish i could find my copy of FoR but i have the flood right here at least

Did you play ODST? He might as well have already been a spartan.

Was this ever said or mentioned in the new lore or is it just what people think happened?