- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
No offense, but the halo 1 pistol was a noob weapon. Why should it return?
My bro and I played Halo 1 split screen a while ago. He grabbed a sniper rifle, I grabbed a pistol. His first two shots missed. Then, I zoomed in on him using my pistol, and it went "Bam, bam, bam," and he died.
"What the heck, how did you kill that fast," he said, "you shot me BELOW the head!"
"Well," I said, "let's try again. So we confronted each other at the center of Blood Gulch. It took 4 hits to kill him this time. I still had plenty of ammo to spare.
The match stayed like this the whole time. Before you say 'Well, your brother's a noob," let me tell you: we are equally matched when it comes to Halo 1 and 2. It's the darn pistol and its mile-wide hitbox that allowed me to get an upper-hand in the match.
At least with the BR, it's not as overpowered: it has less ammo, slower rate of fire, and takes more to kill someone with. In Halo PC, you had people racing for the pistol. No one used any other weapon. At least in halo 2, a guy using an SMG can kill a BR user. All weapons are used. Not a single weapon is overpowered; and before you say "what about the energy sword," let me tell you: it's called staying at long range. The only way a sword-wielder will kill you is if you are right in front of him.
If the pistol was still there, you would have the unskilled three-shot kills all over again. And no one would use anything else.