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Posted by: SweetTRIX
Posted by: x Lord Revan x
Not all MLG players are jackasses who worship the battle rifle and hate the normal game. They just prefer their variant as you prefer yours. Respect that and also try to avoid stereotyping. Its a poor thing to integrate into the community and if you start labeling people one thing youre not better than they are.
Fair enough, but they are poorly represented by their Halo community. I've ran into much fewer cool guys from MLG than anything else, but they do certainly exist. My issue isn't so much the community itself but the direction that the ultra-competitive players take MM in general, look at what's happened to the playlists to this point. It's all due to the majority prefering the simplified (and becoming simpler) slayer playlists and MLG playlist falls under that category. The emphasis on the hyper-competitive takes away from the rest of the game, that is my issue.
Again, I'm pleased with the list MLG has come up with and I hope they will encourage Bungie to cater a bit more to the hardcore fans at least in the custom game options to allow us to create the type of gaming we want. After all, MLG may still be small, but it is growing quite steadily and its bringing back competitive gaming to the market thats going quite casual. A good mixture needs to be set. Games need to be fun for everyone after all. Thats why choice is such a big factor. Game Developers need to offer both styles of play.
I have no problem with any of those features becoming available for custom game options, personally I was rather impressed with how Halo3's custom options were expanded they way they were. There is nothing wrong with further expanding the custom game options, but I would never want to see any of these things make their way into regular MM, which I could easily see happening in a similar fashion that it did with Halo3.
The thing youre failing to realize is that MLG is basically self contained within its own playlist. You don't have to play it. Also, while I agree that there is a form of simplification in MLG, it doesnt in fact simplify the game but in fact makes it more difficult.
It lowers the amount of total instances, but with increased movement speed, more damage dealt, and slower recharge on shields, it counteracts the fact that things were removed and thus instances that could occur were removed, by reducing the time given to a player to make a decision in a situation. Plus, it places more emphasis on weapon control in combination with weapon handling skill. The rockets may be the only exception in that they have high magnetism, high damage, and offer an instant kill, but they fit the niche they need to in the competitive arena.
I haven't played a single game of Halo 3 multiplayer online in which someone has not been a jackass. It was the same with Halo 2. Its called online anonymity and it permeates every single community. Looking around these forums I see a bunch of people who act like jackasses and i see the same on MLGs. The percentages, I would be willing to bet, if you were to run a test, would be identical. Its merely the nature of human beings. Sociology, if you will.
Personally, I find the Halo community, especially that of the Halo 3 community forum, is a terrible representation of the community. The amount of spam, the amount of repeated threads, the amount of people asking "can I haz reconz?" is appalling. Not to mention but the flood is a poor representation of the Halo community as half of them don't even like Halo anymore but stick around to spam and talk about unrelated issues. Every community has a bunch of people that rise to the top and become the stereotypical person for the group.
To an outside who doesn't play video games at all, they see us as people who are generally nerdy. For those who have witnessed some of the things that occur on live, they too would be appalled by gamers in general for their general disregard and hate speech about other people in the community. Trash Talking sums up videogames in general for the rest of human society and thats a terrible thing.