Halo is not highly competitve. Halo 4....

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Compared to the games out there, Halo is on the Below Mid/Mid Tier list of competitve games. It’s not meant to be super competitve. It never was. And I don’t understand this group of fellas Who are probably a vast less then 10% margin of Fans who believe Halo is some highly skilled video game with a huge skill gap in which new players are punished by the very heat and pressure of the game play and mechanics.

I mean I’m not saying it doesn’t. Yet Halo doesn’t have much of a skill gap at all. It has the same amount of skill gap as foot racing or bike racing, hell maybe even car racing. It takes some skill, but you wouldn’t compare it to Star Craft, or Chess, or Poker.

I think it kind of goes along with the typical notion of Forum goers who have a bigger voice compared to those who actually play or like the game. I mean where were all these Halo 2 loving folks when Halo 2 was out Playing the game. Theres no love for Reach because people who like it are PLAYING the game.

And it goes with competitive folks too. People who just want to play a game, new or old, good or bad, play the game. And there’s always those who feel like they are being abused and need to voice themselves. Yet overall Halo is not very competive at all. It has a skill gap, But don’t try off and make it seem like the next Star Craft/LoL/Chess of gaming.

H A L O 4

Halo 4 will most likely have the same skill gap Halo has had. It’s a small difference between Halo 1,2,3 and Reach. You can say all you want that Halo “X” is less skilled, yet overall Halo itself is not. Any PC gamer, Star Craft Player, Chess player, Poker Player, or a number of dozen much more competitive gamers/players would all laugh at you.

Halo needs to do what it does best. Being an awesome, fun, friendly game. That’s why Halo 2,3, and Reach are so fun. That fun factor. If Halo focused more on skill gap and competitveness it wouldn’t be liked by 90% of its fans today. I think some people need to learn what Halo is. Because it’s not MLG, It’s Halo.

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> Compared to the games out there, Halo is on the Below Mid/Mid Tier list of competitve games. It’s not meant to be super competitve. It never was.

Nothing comes close to Runescape in terms of Competitiveness. Try getting a 99 in over 25 skills… Like the game or not, you cant deny it’s very easy to be competitive with anyone…

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People think that just because Halo is “more competitive than CoD”, all Halos instantly become the epitome of competitive gaming.

And I’m not hating, but CoD Black Ops and Modern Warfare 3 were more competitive than Reach.

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Lol fail, that is all i can say in response to OP.

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Any competitive player would tell you that Halo is nowhere near the peak of competitive gaming. Star Craft, Quake, Counterstrike, and Fighting Games are all leagues ahead of any Halo game. However, in the FPS genre on consoles, you would have a difficult time finding a game that has a skill gap as large as Halo’s.

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Wow, just wow, we’re you even around in the days when you had to have 4 xbox’s to have a full party? Guess what, In the grand scheme of gaming, the OP is just bout spot on. Maybe one day you’ll get it.

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Actually I was. I did lans all the time back in the day, and of course not in the scheme of gaming in general, but for console gaming, yes, halo is one of the most competitive titles, at least it was before reach.

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thank you! i honestly never viewed halo being competitive at all. which is probably why i don’t really like the mlg community very much or at least the people who blindly follow them.

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In halo 2 one was able to tell the difference from a level 20 to a 23 or from a 23 to a 26, from a 26 to a 29 and so on. True skill 1-50 made the game competitive but thats gone now so i have to agree with you. Halo is not as competitive anymore

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Wow, really OP, name a more competitive console FPS then?

After all, you have just listed PC games, and as seeing as it isn’t competitive, I am assuming you can obtain Level50/100BPR/Onyx legitimately after a first days play.

Halo has /has the potential for a huge skill gap, however, to sell copies it is dumbed down for acessability.

I doubt you made it past a level 20 in Halo 3 and never even touched Halo 2 MLG.

I don’t intend to sound like a fanboy, but Halo is skilful, but being on a console, differently to PC games.

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> Lol fail, that is all i can say in response to OP.

-3 week ban-

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Competitive level is determined by the players not by what the game simply looks like…

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> Yet Halo doesn’t have much of a skill gap at all. It has the same amount of skill gap as foot racing or bike racing, hell maybe even car racing. It takes some skill, but you wouldn’t compare it to Star Craft, or Chess, or Poker.

You lost me at this paragraph. Every pursuit has elements of skill whether you believe them or not. Massive differentiators that normal people would never know. Your post is invalid.

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I bet OP can’t find an FPS console game that has a larger skill gap than Halo.

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This thread is a joke right?

Obviously OP has never actually played a competative game of Halo. On a side note, an RPG or MMO is NOT a competitive game (disregarding pvp).

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Instead of making a useless post, why not take your negativity out of this thread?

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> I bet OP can’t find an FPS console game that has a larger skill gap than Halo.

I think you missed the point, the “competitive community” on these forums acts as is halo is/was the very pinnacle of competitive gaming, that is not now nor has it ever been true. Slow down and maybe you’ll see a forest instead of just trees

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> This thread is a joke right?
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> Obviously OP has never actually played a competative game of Halo. On a side note, an RPG or MMO is NOT a competitive game (disregarding pvp).

There can however be stiff competition in rpg and mmo communities, hell I could compete with you over who can shave better and faster, something’s "competitive nature is extremely relative to ones understanding and viewpoint

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> > I bet OP can’t find an FPS console game that has a larger skill gap than Halo.
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> I think you missed the point, the <mark>“competitive community” on these forums</mark> acts as is halo is/was the very pinnacle of competitive gaming, that is not now nor has it ever been true. Slow down and maybe you’ll see a forest instead of just trees

lol

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> > > I bet OP can’t find an FPS console game that has a larger skill gap than Halo.
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> > I think you missed the point, the <mark>“competitive community” on these forums</mark> acts as is halo is/was the very pinnacle of competitive gaming, that is not now nor has it ever been true. Slow down and maybe you’ll see a forest instead of just trees
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> lol

Glad someone finally caught the quotations