doubleofive said:

Not I. Didn't get ODST, haven't really looked into Reach. If a bunch of my friends get into the full game when it comes out, I'll grab it. They're still on their stupid COD kicks. I don't care for those games. Giving awesome players more perks doesn't seem fair to REALLY mediocre players like myself. And not being able to take splitscreen online hurts it for my house, since I don't play Xbox much without the Mrs.

Yeah, my relationship with COD began because of a girl, so I sympathize with you on the splitscreen annoyance. Kind of lame I can only play it with her when we are both on opposite sides of town, and that when we are sitting right beside each other we have to find something else to do (though that is never a challenge).

As for Halo, yeah, I like the rank thing in theory. Though it seems about the time I start to get good enough that I am not dying every second or coming up last place or close to it every single round, I get promoted and find myself on the bottom again. So I feel like this function keeps me perpetually the worst player out of whatever group I am playing with, which is exactly why I don't play Halo online at all anymore. With COD, even though I am only at level 17 and often playing with a lot of 70s, I still feel like I have far more of a fighting chance to hold my own on COD than I ever did on Halo. On Halo I am usually dead before I can even pick up a gun.