Point One: I joined because I thought it might be good for a laugh. Look at how wrong I was.
Point Two: Oh, look at that. You can three-shot a guy in the head with a Battle Rifle. How much skill you have there, Sir.
Look, I really enjoy some semi-competitive tournaments. I even play in a few of them. I absolutely love the opportunity to go out with some friends and have some fun, and know that maybe I won something at the end of it.
What I don't want is to have to spend half my time in the respawn lobby, waiting around because some idiot's hanging around with - oh, look at that. The Battle Rifle, as always.
1. There's no skill in it. Good news - you've made it to MLG Gameplay. Let's see how well you whore out one of the more ridiculously cheap weapons - of course, you'll only do well here if you can pull off nine out of every ten headshots, camp around the corner, and generally play like an elitist tw*t who grenade-spams to soften things up, then pulls of a cheap-as-hell headshot to finish up. Rinse and repeat, because God only knows that in close quarters all you have to do is fire blindly and hope some go through the opponent's FACE.
2. And notice that, people - as soon as either Boris or myself got a hold of a wider selection of weapons, things stopped being a Battle Rifle barrelw**k and started playing the way Halo was MEANT to be played - the FUN way. Assault rifles, carbines... hell, even the Missile Pod or Flamethrower. I had some FUN there.
If sitting around slapping yourselves off over the Battle Rifle is what 'competition' counts for nowadays, then count me out. Especially if I have to do it while enduring pre-game lobby trashtalk and the unintelligible redneck drawl.
