here's my problem with halo 3 and with bungie. just underneath the surface there is a fantastic game here in halo 3. unfortunately the surface is filled with bungie's logical fallacies and self-righteous ignorance. they think they know what's best because they created halo 1 and 2. they defined modern console shooters and they defined online console shooters. they sold a -blam!- load of copies of both. regardless if halo 3 was a pet simulator or a tamogotchi, they were going to break sales records. this lead to them having a super huge ego where they think they know whats best. that's why they don't listen to us when we ask them to fix matchmaking issues or logical fallacies like this penalization for example. thats why instead of having team snipers we have pistols and shotguns and power ups. instead of having games ppl want we get stuck with silly ass swords games in lone wolves, somehow a game of this manner determines ur skill level? instead of brs we have assault rifle starts on too big and open for ar maps like pit and standoff? instead of letting the gamers decide whats fun they enforce their opinions on everyone about what they think is fun. like i said, underneath the garbage that bungie created on top, halo 3 is a good game; u just have to get past bungie's self righteous mess to find it (hint: its in customs).