Halo 3 Stats

Bungie finally loosed some stats from their all powerful game servers. It's been almost two months (right?).

• Campaign Complete: Normal: 43.28%
  
• Campaign Complete: Legendary: 15.14% done!
  
• Graduate: Graduated from basic training: 66.92% done!
  
• UNSC Spartan: Promoted to Sergeant: 52.07%
  
• The most found metagame skull? Black Eye skull with 34.26% done!
  
• The least found metagame skull? Tilt at 22.98% (Go find it, jerks! It’s one of the best skulls in the game!) done!
  
• At 6.21%, Steppin’ Razor is the hardest multiplayer Achievement to earn, with Two for One right behind it at 6.77% and Overkill nipping at its heels (6.75%)
  
• 8.68% of players have unlocked the Marathon Man Achievement done!
  
• 1000/1000 Gamerscore: 2.07%

Personally, I think shooting the guy off the roof as he jumps across the street to be the most fun skull. Tilt was just plain hard to do, jumping on all those small ledges.

I haven't played Halo 3 since Otis got Crackdown and Mario Galaxy came out of the Wii. I'm 4 orbs away from getting all 500 in Crackdown, and Mario is turning out to be quite a fun platformer.

Tomorrow Mass Effect hits the shelves. Halo 3 has less of a chance of getting back in my 360 every day.

But seeing that I'm 50 points away from getting all 1000 Gamerscore is pretty tempting to make me want to go back and play online. I could be one of those 2.07 percent!

The Demise of Halo LAN

It wasn't until I put in Halo 2 into the 360 to play online with bcullers that I realized something. Something I wasn't ready to realize as a loss. Sitting here in my living room playing a game that in the past couple of years was only primarily played as a LAN game, I realized that we might never play it again that way.

Death of casual LAN gaming? Sitting in a room for 6-8 hours on two couches and an arm chair; everyone with their own tv, some propped up on pillows or books; a large pizza delivery, cold by the time we'd gotten around to eating it; bathroom breaks with treacherous tiptoe steps across controller cables and CAT-5.

It was sort of sad, actually. I'm not sure if months of Gears had anything to do with the depleted enthusiasm for the time old tradition. An era definetly felt past and unremarked.

Dear Halo and small cramped rooms, you'll never know how much you meant to us.
Love, Nerds.

Crackdown for Halo 3 beta?

I'm thinking yes.

I just watched one of the preview trailers for Crackdown over at IGN. I think this game is what Superman Returns should have been, minus the flying of course.

But check it out for yourself and see if you think it's worth it to get into a crowded Halo Live beta.

Right now it's a tie between Crackdown and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition.