J10 said:
I get your point, but I'm talking more about the role of the weapon in relation to everything else in the sandbox. I see people here lobbying for one utilitarian weapon that would kill any desire to use the majority of all the others. That just seems boring to me.
The Pistol didn't do that to Halo CE, you still wanted to fight over Rockets and Sniper, it made fighting over Powerups skill based instead of just luck or having the good fortune to spawn near it and pick it up. Along with weapons like the Plasma Rifle, Shotgun and even AR all having their place. Of course the Pistol was the best weapon for most situations, but everyone had one, it was fun to use, took skill, and offset the Power weapons/powerups enough to make their acquisition a challenging and balanced aspect of the game. It also added to teamwork and map control.
Halo has since still tried to keep a utility precision weapon as the go-to weapon (BR/DMR), but it hasn't really worked. So Halo needs to either go all the way and truly give guns a niche, like what Shadowrun does, or go back to what Halo CE did and have a Pistol type weapon with Power weapons and power ups being the reasons to move around the map, and fight over them, along with some close-range specialty weapons like the Plasma Rifle/AR and Shotgun. Most of the guns that have been added to the Halo franchise are only fun to use for a few mins in a Campaign environment. They have no real use or purpose in the MP.
Only being able to hold two weapons in Halo games emphasizes having a utility weapon at spawn like Pistol/BR/DMR, and then you fight over specialty and power weapons/powerups. If it was Quake style with tons of weapons at your disposal all the time, the utility weapon role would be marginalized and you would be able to actually switch between distinct weapons for any given situation. Halo isn't that game, so we need a go-to weapon that is based around precision and good range. The Pistol was the best version of that theory.
FyreWulff said:
Nope, never heard that part of it.
Listen from 38:00 on, and hear that part of it.
http://halo.xbox.com/Content/assets/en-us/Podcast/343Sparkast_006.mp3