This post by Bookshelf kind of got me thinking:
Posted by: aBlueBookshelf
I love watching the ignorant morons bash Arena. You have no clue what it's like, yet you rag on it.
lol retards.
When you consider the loadouts, map rotation and 1-grenade starts, Arena is basically a ranked* 4v4 version of Squad Slayer, and Squad is arguably one of the best playlists in the game behind MLG and Objective.
*Obviously it has flaws that 1-50 didn't (i.e. 2s tricking) but it's as close to a ranking system as we're going to get with Reach.
I actually enjoy playing Arena simply because I get to play against people relative to my skill level in a playlist without all the little things that annoy the -blam!- out of me. (i.e. Camo, AL, getting sword-blocked, grenade-spam)
So, for a player of any skill level (excluding some people in FT who insist nobody good plays Arena anymore), what is it about this playlist that's so bad it deserves the 'lol' prefix?
P.S. I'm a foreigner Australian who searches by himself and almost scrapes single-digit playing off-host.