Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE
Based on campaigns.
Posted by: Sliding Ghost
And yes, I'm saying that I've seen enough of the Covenant. After H2, the Covies just weren't so great anymore. Even in Reach, they're just not the same. The Covenant deserve to be forgotten.
H4 = John 117
I have high expectations for H4. This is the life or death moment of Halo.
I disagree. The Covenant are like the bottom Jenna block of the Halo tower. They cannot be simply forgotten, they are too important for that. A lot of the backstory and storytelling of Halo is based on the Covenant. Their weapons and vehicles all have their own roles in Halo and in the campaign they were the main enemy and have had some sort of presence in every single Halo mission to date, be it their weapons, their vehicles, their corpses, their ships or the covenant themselves.
They cannot just be forgotten at the start of the new trilogy. They have to have some sort of presence, or it won't be Halo.
And no, having cheap Forerunner weapons as equivalents of covie weapons will not do for me. Weapons which have been with us since the very start, the needler, the plasma pistol, the fuel rod gun, can't just be replicated by last minute forerunner weapons, because that's just lazy. If the covenant don't return, which I hope they do, then we must at least keep some of their classic weapons and vehicles and they must have some sort of presence