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Subject: Are Stats Killing Today's Games?

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I was a solid player of Halo 2 for quite awhile. I played it for a couple years straight and I never got bored of it. When Halo 3 was released, I played for a few months or so, unless some friends really wanted to play. Fast forward to this past September. I have played Reach for awhile, but I am starting to do the exact same thing I did with Halo 3.

This got me to thinking, are the stats Bungie offers us killing the motivation to play? It's like I don't want to play Reach because I don't want my K/D ratio to go down, or my game losses to go up. If I get a negative ratio in a game, I get kind of upset, and I play Score Attack or just turn my Xbox off.

Halo 2, on the other hand, only showed you the previous game's stats and that was it. No one that I played with really cared about their K/D ratios, winning, or anything else until the game started dying. Heck, there was no such thing as cR or exp. Maybe I am uncovering the fact that Halo 2 was just more fun in general.

Am I anywhere close to being right in this regard, or was Halo 2 just more enjoyable because of less segmentation? For example, playing Halo 2 online gave you matchmaking, custom games, and that was pretty much it. However, Halo 3 and Reach both have so many more gametypes to play, and even less friends are willing to play.

I really don't know what the purpose of this rant was, but I still find that I had more fun playing Halo 2. Anymore, I just play Reach for the challenges to rank up. It really is kind of disappointing, but I guess that's why I have Halo 2 PC. :(

  • 01.12.2011 1:10 PM PDT

YOU MESS WITH THE BEAST, YOU WILL DIE LIKE THE REST!

You are right on stats are killing all gps games but mostly halo and cod. Every match I play now seems to have someone ranting about their stats or that their better than someone else just for getting more kills, then that person does the worst of everyone the next game.

  • 01.12.2011 1:27 PM PDT
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Everyone else's story has ended..... I see yours is still going....

I completely agree with you on this.
I'm not a great fan of being constantly reminded what my K/D is and its hard to not look at what your K/D rating was after every game.
Then you get ppl going on about how 'amazing' they are because they have, say a 2.30 K/D, it just gets boring after a while.
I, personally would like to see them take away stats but I can't see it happening tbh.
I just kinda have to get on with it and just try and forget about it all and enjoy the game :-)

  • 01.12.2011 1:55 PM PDT

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If you want to play it for xbox 360 then get xbox connect.

  • 01.12.2011 2:08 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

I never played for stats...

There were a ton of websites that offered H2 expanded stats, that are even better than today's stats on bungie.net and if you look at the tribute page I made for H2 in this forum you could download a spread sheet and break down stats by hours in a day what you K/D ration was (I think, I've never used it but from what I hear it's like this).

So na it's your perception that it's the stats hording but really it's your outlook on the game and how you play it/use it. Halo 2 made it fun without caring about stats, just playing to have fun and try your best to win, if a win was obtainable with the group you had vs their group. It was the best match making system and the game play was perfect but I dont follow you with this stat causing problems thing...

Customs were easier to get into and way faster in Halo 2, it also was a better game and the game types and modes were endless.

Reach is a flawed game, as was Halo 3, but saying stats is the reason it's bad is not correct to me. lol.


[Edited on 01.12.2011 2:29 PM PST]

  • 01.12.2011 2:27 PM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.


Posted by: Stevie Wonder 5
You are right on stats are killing all gps games but mostly halo and cod. Every match I play now seems to have someone ranting about their stats or that their better than someone else just for getting more kills, then that person does the worst of everyone the next game.


True, their are a lot of people who do nothing but rant on about their stats. Nowadays most leader boards have been manipulated to such an extent that it no longer matters. People have manipulated the stats of themselves, their friends, and their enemies just to satisfy their ego.

Stats don't tell how good a person is gonna be in their next match, everyone has their ups and downs when it comes to gaming. In one game you could be the best player in a team slayer match, then the next game you end up as the worst player on your team with more deaths then your fellow teammates deaths combined.

  • 01.12.2011 2:38 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

It kills pokemon too.

"d00d look at mah lv 100 ev iv trained tyr@n!t@r it haz maxed out legit statz @nd pwnz"

And that's smogon (read: mlg pokemon elitests) summed up.

  • 01.12.2011 3:34 PM PDT

Oh hey there

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I really couldn't care much less about my K/D ration.

  • 01.12.2011 4:50 PM PDT