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Think about it. Master Chief has limited inventory slots (two for guns, two for grenades) designed to force the player into making interesting choices and tradeoffs. If you pick up a powerful but overly specialized weapon like a sniper rifle, gravity hammer, or rocket launcher then you'll be less flexible in situations that those weapons don't excel in, but if you keep to your solid foursquare meat-and-potatoes loadout of battle rifle and shotgun/pistol you may find yourself outgunned or outranged in a key moment. Sometimes you'll just run out of ammo for the better weapons and need to scrape by on readily available trash-tier equipment like the needler until you can scrounge something better, a design philosophy meant to generate tense moments and force the player out of entrenched habits (or learn why the plasma pistol is actually good).
Halo also uses a two-track HP system with a large pool of easily regenerating ablative HP and a smaller one representing real injuries, which requires a limited resource to restore. The Chief spends a lot of time exploring ancient ruins, interrupting destructive alien rituals, and fighting eldritch tomb-spawned horrors.
Plus, you can honk the little horn on the mongoose ATV.