That was in reply to "there was nothing that it had to do that distinguished it from a Horent or Falcon", which I took to mean things the Pelican has to do and/or things you have to do with the Pelican, and I was saying what about what you don't have to do but still can do? There isn't a lot of that though. :/

: Um... so?
: It controlled differently? Heh. If you want my opinion, it controlled like a
: compromise between the Hornet and the Banshee, with the convenience of
: being able to drop altitude at the press of a button. Even so, Banshees
: control differently from one game to the next, but I don't think there's
: enough of a difference to warrant a whole new vehicle.

so... you don't want a Pelican in the game?

: We got to use a new vehicle weapon? True. It's so new, in fact, it's never
: been mounted to a Pelican before!
: We could have gotten the same experience if we flew a Hornet that had a
: Spartan Laser in place of its gatling guns. We flew the Pelican as part of
: regular gameplay (not an easter egg) but the stuff that makes a Pelican a
: Pelican wasn't implemented.
: OK, since I get the feeling that you're going to bring up the Hornet and Falcon,

I wasn't going to and I'm not sure what you're getting at.

: I feel that the Falcon is what happened when Bungie took the
: Hornet and improved upon every single one of its shortcomings. This
: especially worked because we didn't have any prior expectations that the
: Hornet or the Falcon had to live up to.
: In the future, I hope that the Falcon remains a flying Warthog, while the
: Hornet becomes more of a flying troop hog. Give me FOUR passengers and a
: crate of fuel rod cannons!

That would make more sense with the Falcon though, it's got that big space in the middle.

: TVT!

what's TVT?

: And no, that's not my only gripe about the hip guns. When I first saw them, I
: had no friggin' clue what they were. That seat didn't look like it was
: meant to hold someone against the airstream at five hundred kph.

Who said they were made for going 500 KPH?

: When you're lying in the wreckage of the space station known as the Forward
: Unto Dawn. Stranded with no supplies aside from what's scattered
: throughout and slightly beyond the impact crater, with no knowledge of
: where you are and what this place is.
: The Chief could have set up a perimeter and established a base of operations
: while Cortana hunted down information about the opposition and the
: location... or he could have jumped into the nearest Warthog and drove off
: in the one, single path that the level designer laid out.

You won't accept weird seating but you'd accept an intact, working, flyable Pelican in that wreckage?