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Estefano Palacios, 20 years old.
Current Clan: FUERZA ECUATORIANA.
At the end you'll understand that the best drink to get drunk with is your own blood...
I am finally reading English based literature (I am ecuadorian, so I mostly read Spanish based), and I am finding 1984 by Blair something out of this world. I have already read 30 out the 100 Time Best Novels, who'd though English would be so enjoyable?
Well, so far I have loved the concept on Halo 3: OSDT. But one thing surprised me at the Gamespot feature when Joe Staten did in depth explanation on the first level of the game:
When he was playing he used melee attack to take down a Brute. This is, for me, completely nuts...
In Halo: Fall of Reach John was able to kill three ODSTs with his bara hands, on Halo: The First Strike he barely survived a fist fight against Brute, and as far as I am concerned no human other than a SPARTAN was able to take down ANY kind of covenant with bare hands (I have read all books, but Cole Protocol, and such thing has never happened). Taking the first two examples, extrapolating them and calculating the level of success of an ODST fighting against a Brute, we cannot argue that the ODST is incapable of even massaging a Brute to save his life.
For sake of the integrity of the story I hope Bungie really tunes down the melee when used against large Covenant. I can buy the idea of an ODST taking out a Grunt or Jackal with a punch, but a Brute? Give me a break.
Also, if four ODSTs (firefight) can take a whole Covenant platoon, why did the Humans loose so many colonies to the Covenant? (I have to note that one Elite obliterates four to five marines all by itself atleast it does so in the books, also, almost every ground battle was lost when the SPARTANS where absent)
I hope Bungie takes this into consideration, i cannot wonder what type of DEUX EX MACHINA they are planning to say in order to justify this things.
EDIT: For all of you guys saying that the Ground forces in Halo usually won in ground battles I have to say one thing: that is completely nuts too.
The Books constantly try to remind the reader how weak the humans are in comparison to the Covenant Elite and Brute Units. They also make multiple remarks on how underpowered and outsmarted regular Marines are against the Covenant. I have read comments in the thread, quite a lot, that the Covenant won because they retreated and glazed the planet. This is just false. To glace a planet the Covenant need first to kill every UNSC ship in orbit, as it takes their main defense weapon to glaze a planet, that and the process is long and time consuming.
The Covenant raped us in space and in ground and here are some examples:
1) Signa Octanus was destroyed fiercely by the Covenant, not even the SPARTANS mounted a retake mission.
2) When the Blue Team got to Reach the Covenant had already destroyed every human ground force with the first wave, we are talking about Reach, the main military planet.
3) On Halo Uprising it is more than obvious how the Covenant, even if they were outgunned (its Earth for gods sake), won singlehanded the ground fight.
4) Even in the Halo games if you leave the Marines on their own they are able to do nothing.
And all this argument is not about rendering the melee ineffective, its just about tuning it so that only with the Brutes it appears to be real, or atleast canonical.
PD: Pardon my english, it is not my first lenguage.
[Edited on 06.05.2009 9:06 PM PDT]