2 new Brawl Reviews, you seen em?

[BenKenobi88]

Leaderboards suck anyway. Hell, I love Audiosurf.

But after playing a song like "Sweet Child of Mine," thinking I did alright, I got Stealth after all, meaning I dodged all the gray blocks on Ninja Mono. I was pretty proud.

Then I looked at the leaderboard. Global, almost all of the top 20 or whatever scores did not have Stealth. Instead, they hit gray blocks occasionally and then deleted them to score bigger combos. OK, I know they intended for the game to do that, but it pissed me off that I did SO well on the song, but instead, I was supposed to actually hit the grays and get bigger combos.

It kinda ruined the moment for me. And don't even get me started on games where people hack, disconnect, or whatever to put themselves higher in the ranks or get a better score. It makes me feel like I either suck or did not exploit the game to win, which I don't want to do.

There will be kids with no lives playing Brawl, and probably hackers too, and I don't want to see the first 1000 names full of hackers, to see my name raise from 1742 to 1249 isn't really going to make me feel any better. I'd rather just...play the game.

Apparently some of you console gamers don't realize that most PC FPSs don't have "leaderboards." There's just...no such thing. There's often stat-tracking, so you can see how many kills you've made, taken, shots fired, whatever. And you can often compare those stats to other players, one at a time usually. But seeing a list of scores of every player existing? Lame, I don't care.