- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Wow!!! Mostly everyone here is crying about the Pistol! If the Pistol was as powerful as it was in Halo 1 then why the hell would they make any other weapon if you're just going to use it because its all powerful? Would you pick up a Battle Rifle if you could use the Pistol from Halo 1, I'm pretty sure that Bungie wants you to pick the Battle Rifle... I mean... thats why they made the magnum right? If the Pistol was still around in Halo 2, who would ever duel wield stupid SMG's? Everyone would have a double pistol killing people in seconds and half of the entire weapons in the game wouldn't be used... If you like Halo 1 more then Halo 2, yay!! You should play it on XBC like the rest of us did before Halo 2 came out... honestly though, I got sick of XBC and it's funky lag way before H2 came out so when I got to play on Live it was a fresh relief. I hate when people complain about a good thing.
Watch, someones going to say I hate Halo 1 or something... because everytime I tell someone to stop crying about Halo 1 and how most people perfer it better then Halo 2 simply because a 2 inch weapon... that means that I hate Halo 1. Halo was the very first game I got for my xbox... I played it over a friends house and it was the reason I got an xbox in the first place. So just because I'm telling you to suck it up and move on doesn't mean that I hate it. The only thing that I really wish Halo 2 had is Xbox Live Co-Op... I'm pretty sure alot of people would stop complaining if you could have 5 people online playing The Great Journey on Legendary. That and I really don't play matchmaking anymore because of people standbying... I'm just a 14 on Team Slayer and I've gotten standbyed the last 3 times I've played Slayer or Skirmish. I think that is a drawback, but with any game there will be cheaters and glitchers. It's a given.
Also, it does take skill to be good in Halo 2... most people who say there doesn't take any skill, well I think if you take a look at their level you might put 2 and 2 together. =\
Come on guys, grow a brain! They had to tone down the older weapons because of duel wielding! Hello? Didn't anyone think of that? You guys are so stuck up on Halo 1 I don't even think you thought about actually holding a weapon in your left hand aswell. If you play matchmaking again try either one of these combos:
Duelwield: Plasma Rifle, SMG.
Duelwield: Magnum, SMG.
Duelwield: Magnum, Plasma Pistol.
Duelwield: Plasma Pistol, Battle Rifle.
or just try to grab a rocket launcher and blow someone up.
It's not that hard... 3 shots to the head on halo 1 with a Pistol... 1 Shot from a plasma pistol and another from a magnum gets the job done in Halo 2... It's called Duel Wielding people, try to think on your feet alittle.
Grimz4-
[Edited on 3/12/2005 11:05:56 PM]