The Plasma Rifle in Halo CE was perfect imo. It was beautiful, the sound was perfect and it felt powerful.
Halo CE (biutiful)
They replaced the sound with this:
Halo 2 (Fugly)
And they kept this for Halo 3, ODST and Reach. What the heck were they thinking? I sure hope 343i will fix it for Halo 4.
Opinions?
R.I.P Iconic Plasma Rifle. :C
I loved the Anniversary Plasma Rifle!
The Halo 2 plasma rifle looked and sounded far better than the CE plasma rifle…
If only it was coming back. I loved that gun.
It was also one of the most iconic weapons of the Covenant arsenal.
wow the ce pr sounds so much more powerful when played next to the h2 one.
Problem with this, Halo 4 is very close to going gold and being released, any and all changes right now, are fine tuning, it’s too late to add any major things like new vehicles, new weapons, new armor, new AI, and new major features. The time to add things like that has come and gone.
the CE plasma rifle sounded as it should,
an automatic plasma pistol 
I just wish we had a weapon that did the entire stunning thing the CE plasma rifle did.
Making the storm rifle have a similar stun effect that impairs movement would be really good, and help differentiate the storm rifle from the AR.
Storm Rifle is good enough (even if it lacks stun) IF it can get an overkill against enemy Grunts on Easy difficulty. That was one of the things that defined ‘fun’ for me in CE and it wasn’t the case in Halo 2, Halo 3, or Reach. Reach came close but the damage sponge nature of enemies nullified it’s efficiency.
Crys
It’s a shame to see it go. I certainlly do hope it comes back for the future Halo’s. 