- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well here's the deal... I, and quite a few other people, are pretty tired of all this whining about the stupid pistol. There are so many obvious reasons to remove such a weapon from a game that is based around... BALANCE ... that its idiotic and childish to sit here on the forums and post thread after thread of why they should bring it back. The Magnum, although it is weaker, is the perfect substitute for such a weapon. Don't get me wrong, I loved HALO and HALO CE, and I loved the pistol, and if HALO 2 and HALO 3 were to not have massive multiplayer capabilities, then heck yeah keep it in there. But, unfortinutely, they do. The pistol was the only gun anyone that was good at HALO used, because there was NOTHING that could counter it. It could take on the shotgun and the AR at close range, and it could take on the Sniper at long range. There was absolutely NO drawback to that weapon. And now you guys want to put it into the HALO 3 universe, one where dual wielding is capable? PLEASE! If you loved the pistol so much, it was because it was a freakin hand cannon that in reality required little or no skill to use at all. If you saw the other guy first, BLAM BLAM BLAM (literally), and he's dead. No chance for retaliation or redemption on the dead guy's part. The Magnums in HALO 2 were a PERFECT substitute! If you dual wield them they are just as powerful as the original Pistol. Oh... awwwww, no scope? WHO CARES! What it sounds like all you people are saying is, "Please Bungie, put the pistol back in.... my mad skills have gone way down since HALO 2 came out because it wasn't in it. Redeem yourself by putting it in a HALO 3!! If you don't I might have to actually use some skill to be good at it..."
I'm not trying to be rude, but if the pistol was to be put back in it would throw off the entire weapon spectrum. The BR would be useless, and all you would EVER see in multiplayer would be Dual Pistols. Sounds like fun to me!