Xbox 360 Fanboy

its cool if you want more difficulty. go ahead and paly halo. i can respect that.

but - i just can get into the sci fi weapon set that halo has to offer. id rather weild a m14 or m4 rather some laser blater with crystals. I might take a pulse rifle or a light saber though - but thats only for that upcoming 'aliens' and 'force unleashed' games. until then its cod4

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there will probably not be a drop off in quality COD4 games on live because only people who will not buy the maps will fall off. and they are ussually the halo fans. one less idiot to pick off - no big deal. plus you'll get a load of band jumpers picking the game of year adding more gamers to the network.

everyone wins - and even the halo fans playing cod4 can stick with each other if they dont buy the new maps

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yeah that makes sense

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I just think it's funny they are trying to brag, Bungie never brags about their accomplishments.

Halo 3 owns all.

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I prefer Halo and after checking Bungie.net, WTF? It says 2.2 million games were played in the last 24 hours so ha!

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Anyone know if this figure beats Halo 2's, or Halo 3's perhaps, back in it's prime?

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Those are individual games 'dartendaspartan', whereas this figure in the story is about unique players.
Yeah, just checked bungie net and they have 850k-ish players online in the last 24 hours.

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COD is boring...

I have had it since it first came out. Got into it, never thought I would play Halo. Luckly one of my better friends back from Halo 2 got on, and didn't have COD. He sent me an invite to go play Halo 3, I hated it, untill I got back into it. I have barely played COD since.

The biggest thing COD has going for it is the reward system. The gameplay its self is bland. It didn't take long for me to realize without prestige mode, almost no one would be playing it beyond the first week.

Halo has more tactics, team work, variety, skill. The MM makes for more competition then COD if thats what your looking for. With Custom games theres all sorts of things you can do if you like to casually play MP games.

Crazy fast zombies on Sandtrap. Rocket Race. Griff ball. Ninjanaunt. Pirate sharks. Pirate territories. Zombie survivior maps on Foundry. Mongoose tracks on Foundry. So many possibilities.

At the end of the day, COD is played because it is deceptive.

It fools you into thinking the gameplay is fun. But you eventually realize its bland after theres nothing to unlock. Then you prestige like a sheep. It fools you into thinking it takes more skill and tactics then Halo. But at a closer glance it clearly does not. It fools you into thinking it is a crazy good looking game. When it is, infact has the worst textures on the 360. Its actually pretty funny.

Also, Halo 3 has over 2 million games played. More then COD on the 360. Infinity Ward boasted the first week they over came Halo 3, the following Halo 3 over came COD, and Bungie was silent. Bungie never spoke an arrogant word with Halo 2, and it was king for two years. COD was king for one week and they were already bragging. They are doing it again now.

I hope Halo 3 over comes COD this week. As a result of:

- Free heroic maps last week

- MLG playlist out today.

- new COD maps hurting the experience for people without the new maps.

- Some of the COD player base moving over to Rainbow Six Vegas 2.

Would serve them right.

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@ ghostbuddy

You took the words right out of my mouth, except I play CoD 4 off and on and never really got fully obsessed with it.

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Stupid no edit button.

@Pyrobi

read this from the post

"Speaking to Eurogamer, Infinity Ward producer Mark Rubin revealed that nearly 1.3 million GAMES of CoD4 are logged each and every day via Xbox Live alone. That gigantic number eclipses Halo 3's GAMES played which hovers around the 1 million mark every day. Rubin also wanted to make sure that we understood that the 1.3 million number was just GAMES played on the 360 and that "there's even more on the other platforms [PS3 and PC], but we just don't have the same numbering system. Overall, even without the other consoles, we are beating the competition.""

as you can see, it is talking about games played, unique users is a whole other topic. This doesn't even mention people just games played.

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Scratch that, this article says games but the Eurogamer one says players.

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"new COD maps hurting the experience for people without the new maps"

how?

if based on fun factor and gameplay, CoD 4 wins hands down. it may be easier, but it's simply a joy to play. i'm tired of depleting a full clip into someone only for them to smack me dead.

if halo 3 had a run button instead of dual weapons, then i may reconsider. i guess i'm just addicted to good controls and great graphics--

it's not the textures IW uses but the environments they have modeled. MUCH more interesting than bland sci fi corridors and wide open spaces. you just can't Cat and Mouse on a H3 map.

and i didn't even mention my hate for H3's Magnum. *pew pew*

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The article linked to is actually 1.3 million GAMERS, not games. That's okay Joystiq, it's not like that's the headline or anything.

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@ Ryan

"if halo 3 had a run button instead of dual weapons, then i may reconsider."

I stopped reading after that. So if I throw a run button on the worst game invented, you'll play it? A run button is something that is used to move people faster to an objective, dual weapons allow you to double your fire power or mix and match combinations to best fit your situation, I would gladly take duel weapons over running any day. Halo doesn't have it because it is not necessary. I would also like to say the Halo's graphics aren't bland, there probably one of the most interesting to look at with the lighting and shadows. It has color like in the real world instead of shades of grey and black.

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sprinting heightens the feel of combat which is to me a better experience than wielding 2 guns while giving up the option to grenade. unfortunately for Halo 3, dual wielding isn't as effective as it once was in Halo 2.

it's not that CoD4 doesn't have as much color as Halo 3, but it's intricacy of it's environments is what i find appealing. Halo 3 is more cleaner and barren while CoD4 is more used and realistic.

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so i guess what i'm trying to say concerning running in CoD4 is i'd rather be a ninja than a tank. :D

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i'd also like to add that knifing with the right stick will always feel much much more satisfying than melee with the B button. i dunno...there's something about Halo 3's melee that just seems unintuitive to me.

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I doubt they will be able to tout that number for long. Halo will be the champ again.... SOON!!

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I'm not a big fan of the knife as the right stick, I feel since the right stick is for movement, let it be used as crouch (movement) and the b button as a melee. I see they did that so you can keep moving and melee as you usually don't need to crouch and move at the same time in that game. Halo you need to sneak by radar and stuff. You are right however that duel wielding has been tone down but its one of the most underrated parts of Halo 3 as I've used duel wielding to gain the upper hand on enemies when they go around with only on duel wieldable weapon. I also wouldn't say Halo is barren, because the levels are very populated with debris and objects that pertain to the level. CoD 4 is very populated because most of the game is in confined areas that aren't very big in terms of scale compared to other games.

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you know the ooooooonly reason cod 4 is at the top is because they arnt counting guests in halo 3.
there are so many guests out there, and none of them are counted towrds this number, meaning that there is actually wayyyy more people playing halo then cod 4

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