Halo 2 Xbox LIVE

Wow. It has been forever since I last posted here. I've been doing lots of fun stuff like, for example, Xbox Live! I've had Xbox Live for a few months and I have had lots of fun with it. Every few games or so you'll run into an annoying or lewd person. I simply mute these people and leave feedback. It certainly is unfortunate for people who use Xbox Live that I joined it, because I leave feedback on them :)!

I find it quite hilariously incomprehensible when after the game, the people on the other team get mad at you. It doesn't happen so often but when it does it is laughable. It doesn't make much sense to me. Why are they mad? Are they mad that I played against them? I guess they've forgotten that the experience they had in the last game depended on me being there to play against.

And what is it with those people who have a vendetta against "n00bs" (new people). They must have flunked in economics and in number-crunching or they've simply forgotten that the very thing that is keeping Xbox LIVE. . . alive is the fact that new people are joining up. The more people join, the better it is for LIVE. Not to mention that the more people there are using the service, the less time it takes for the service to match you up with other players, and therefore the more games you get to play!

What is funny to me is when people make big deals out of using certain weapons. Apparently, using a plasma pistol (a weapon that you can entirely take out someone's shields with in one shot) with any weapon, not just Battle Rifle as I thought, can be considered a "n00b combo." Some players will call a technique "cheap" basically if it makes them lose. Such as using a sword, using a grenade, using a Battle Rifle---the list goes on. This list can be compressed with the phrase "doing what you can in order to win" which I thought was the ultimate goal, besides cheating (which is pointless because cheating at the game doesn't get you anything real anyway).

These characters are funny and I'm sure everyone on live has met them at least once. The "Griefer", the "Anti-n00b", the "datsCheap", the "Cheater."

I will now state why I am so happy with Xbox LIVE, with this character I have found. The "Friend".

I am happy with my experience with LIVE so far. And the secret is the tool called... the friends list. I have met people who are very fun to play with. They realize that it is just a game, but care enough to try their hardest, and are easygoing. Some of these people I met in real life. I met some of these people on a Bungie.net fanclub-type thing called "Ickthus." It's pretty cool because it is a Christian group. It is very nice having these nice people on your list because they play often which is nice and they are nice themselves, but not nice-sessarily from the city of Nice in Europe.

These people give a great gaming experience, it is awesome to get a group of them together and fight our way through matchmaking together. It builds great fellowship and comradery. And the game is fun to play anyway!