From the "kinda cool files"

[theweaselking]

Bungie is keeping track of the stats for Halo 3.

As in, *everyone*'s stats. Combined.

So I can see, easily, from that page, that two hundred million bad guys have been killed in the last day, and 32 million Master Chiefs. In fact, the all-time Master Chief death count is 183 million, with a staggering one point three BILLION enemies killed so far.

Dying a hundred and eighty-three million times in less than a week - most of which while taking orders from a nine-year-old, and least a few thousand by following blatantly suicidal orders just because the nine-year-old thinks it would be funny to give them to you.

There's a version of Groundhog Day for the 21st century in there, somewhere.

Comments

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Makes for an interesting take on TRON, don't it?

"Oh, dear MCP no... I've been rezzed into HALO!"

-- Steve prefers Warthogs to lightcycles, himself. (He crashes Warthogs slightly less often.)

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Halo is just one of those games I don't understand why its so popular, much like Golden Eye on N64... ITS CRAP!!!

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

It's all a matter of personal taste; myself, I don't understand why people would want to sit at home, alone, and pretend to beat up hookers... but GTA's a top seller too.

-- Steve particularly enjoys the social aspects of the Halo series, especially since the "jerk" filters in 3 have been beefed up and online cooperative play has been introduced.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Because video games are starting to become like network TV? You have the lowest common denominator appealing to the largest group of people?

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

to be quite honest... Wilma and i started playing Halo after watching RvB way too much...