Posted by: Wilis_kid
Posted by: Ben2974
Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Ben2974
And that's why you can't reach a level 40 in Halo 3
I could, but I won't, because it means absolutely nothing. Stop pretending that your rank makes you good at anything.
Posted by: Ben2974
Maps are made the way they are for a reason. Different weapons are given to you for a reason. Different gametypes are developed for a reason. The list goes on.
You can be the best at shooting your opponent in an open space, but that doesn't make you the best player in the fps. FPS is a genre; the goal is to kill your opponent with a gun and achieve the objective. Do it any way you can, and may the best man win. If you can't defeat a guy that's hiding behind a corner, well, that's your problem.
It's a problem. Not with any particular player, but with the game itself. If a game rewards cowardice and allows lesser-skilled players to kill a better player even once, the game's not skill-based. If a game goes to such an extreme as to allow other various forms of cowardice to trump a seasoned FPS veteran, the game definitely takes no skill to play.
The bottom line is that the game allows FPS players that suck to beat FPS players that are good. That's why you like it, that's why you defend it. It's supposed to be a first person shooter, not a first-person camp-whore-power-weapons-spam-nades-and-let-the-game-aim-for-y ou.
Woah woah!! This is what I said: "It makes me a good Halo 3 player; nothing else can be extracted from that." That was a comment I had in one of my posts on the third page. Never said I was good at everything or anything cuz of my rank. Don't stuff words down my throat, please.
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You're missing the point, by saying Dusk could never get a 40 and openly saying you got a 50, you're implying that the skill level makes you a good Halo 3 player and Dusk a bad one when the ranking system means next to nothing, just because he doesn't have a 40. If you're going to compare to each other on a game like this, base it on you're w/l and k/d, but even then it's probably not worth it
I will say this, though: I was wrong to compare that camping because it is true that you can camp with rockets and beat a pro that walks in and even checks for the camper. I guess that was dumb of me to say. My mistake, I guess. Ofc the professional Halo player would simply avoid small spots, or he would nade the area, jump over the corner, or bring out a close ranged weapon for that very case.
I was speakin like a noob :p
But back in the day, when there were hundreds of thousands of people online at a time, getting a legit 50 was no easy task. 50's mean something, but fake 50s mean nothing. The ranking system was too easily exploited/cheated like I said earlier so the majority of 50s people see online aren't true 50s, making Dusk and others believe that 50s don't mean anything. So when I say that Dusk couldn't reach a 40, and that i'm better than him because I have a legit 50, then yes, I am implying that the skill level will help signal the other player that he's gonna have a hard time staying alive.
[Edited on 06.28.2011 8:43 AM PDT]