- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: ChefMasterChief
Do people want the Master Chief to have basic things like handguns, rifles, shotguns, rocket lauchers? Why is a cyborg with technology to travel through hyperspace doing fighting with a handgun? Why not a revolver and a Bowie Knife? Why does the game platform have you in the 20th century, and the Convenant in the 25th century? We should be getting creamed. Even Luke Skywalker had a laser blaster. Say MC couldn't operate any Covenant weapons, then what? As soon as he's out of "bullets" he's screwed. It's just a game, but that's pretty contrived. Is it for the challenge? Why aren't Earth's weapons at least as advanced as Covenant weapons? Why don't we have lasers? Is Halo little more than Commando in space? All Master Chief has to fight with is whatever he can find or steal.
Why aren't the Earths' weapons as advanced as the Covenant weapons?
Ummmmm, because they are far-more advanced than us? Because they have had access to Forerunner technology far longer than we have. Because they are a culmination of intelligences from different races that have contributed different technologies to one cohesive force.
The humans have only human inspired technologies.
Only when the covenant showed up and the Spartans began collecting Covenant Tech, the humans began advancing their knowledge of more-advanced technologies (i.e. Mjolnir armor is based of of the Covenant Elites armor tech).
That's why.