Posted by: Viper Skills
Posted by: DougiePooDollar
Explain how the most successful game in xbox history becomes so overlooked.
You may call these forums the 'minority' but opinions of tryhards matter to a lot of noobs(sadly). This happens in-game too.
Your theory of why Halo lost its throne on the XBL leaderboards is because of trash talkers? My, my, the problems in your logic are plenty, child.
I'll play along a bit further, though. Call of Duty is more popular now for reasons that aren't relevant to this thread and anyone who has played more than five games of CoD knows that there is no shortage of (patriots) trash talkers on that game, either.
I am sorry, but you are attributing problems to the wrong things. Trash talk will always exist but you can minimize it by setting your chat settings to team and party only, which all but eliminates the trash talk in the game.
As for the forums, well, ignore it. I know it's not the ideal solution but elitists are going to be running around and hell, I'm guilty of being one. Just don't let it get to you.
A lot of people bought Halo Reach - FACT. Problems which did arise(armor locking, bloom etc) were talked about by the masses, with many elitists(e.g the MLG kids nowadays) discarding the game completely before giving it a chance.
You underestimate the power of 'word of mouth'. People start talking and opinions are made. A large part of Halos previous community were in fact competitive players who now look upon reach and Halo as a whole unfavorably.
Some trash talkers remain... and they occupy the MLG playlists as well as these forums.