- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
In one hand, we have the high hopes and faith in tradition, blindly wishing the AR and M6D will return.
In the OTHER, we have the close-minded contentment that the BR and SMGs have promptly replaced both in solving the balance and power issues so many have clamored for in recent months.
We'll agree that the AR was useless on it's own, and the pistol was all too powerful. We must realize however, that we are speaking of a VIDEO GAME - nothing more. Hence, the potential for CHANGE. Beef up the AR, and tone down the Pistol.
But THEN you say they already HAVE, with the BR and SMGs!!!
It's a [color=red]vicious[/color] cycle!!
THEN we bring the REALISM factor - the fact that the very STAPLE of the UNSC, and the all-too-common standard-issue SIDEARM of ALL UNSC personnel simply [color=white] CAN NOT[/color] DISAPPEAR overnight. It's not possible.
Or IS it?
THEN AGAIN, even if it WERE possible, there's still the fact that all those weapons STILL EXIST. It's similar to today's AK-47. They've been around for years, what once were standard issue are now outcast and scavenged by lesser powers. So even if the BR is the new Standard, the AR and M6D MUST still be present.
Earth is our [color=white] LAST STAND.[/color] Even CIVILIANS must now bring up arms, to defend the massive ball of dirt beneath their feet, that simple sphere of rock and sand which we call HOME.
MY opinion: The M6D and MA5B will return. Bungie is taunting us, torturing us, leaving us to rant and rave about their potential return, laughing and pointing and getting a kick out of it all the while.
Mangy Bastards. Such LOATHING, such LOVE.......it's almost laughable.