[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Matu Flp Krawfe [i]Pentathalon![/i] That's cool, I guess. [i]Super secret Reach game mode![/i] [b]Bleh![/b] Just when I thought Halo might just have a rousing return to form in the form of a good game the words "highly competitive" come to smear my hopes for bungie in 2010 across the all too disappointing face of reality. Whenever you make something, by intention, competitive you inherantly pander to the worst within us. Egotism, primarily, becomes the core motivation of the experience as your will to win takes center stage. At that point, compelling and sensibly design gameplay becomes moot because such engaging elements are unnecessary intermediaries for the competitive experience. Best, in this case, to keep it a simple engagement between players with counfounding variables kept to an absolute minimum so skill can be touted as the deciding factor and thus validate the win. And so little else is left, in this case, but the ego, an ego that excludes such elements as fun and enjoyment (in the purest sense fo the words, rather than the twisted wretches that they can be made to represent through misconception) because such constructs can only interfere with the gloating and moping of it's victories and defeats respectively for which that ego lives. And so, Reach is most certainly dead to me. I was hoping for something of interest towards the end of this calendar year, but I suppose that Natal alone will just have to do.[/quote] Why don't you just open up and tell us how you really feel? :P In addition to my lobotomy, I am requesting some anti-depressants for Matu.