Assuming each Halo game sold about 7,000,000 average.  The top 2% would be 140,000 people assuming the same 7,000,000 bought all the games.  Most of which are gamers like us.

The league is up-to-date for this week!

I pulled the numbers last night but the update will not be posted until tomorrow night as I spent last night at a hockey game and am going to a Christmas party tonight.

No worries Neo. Quiet around here ain't it? Too quiet.

Hope I didn't turn off potential Dark Souls buyers with all my whining. A major patch while I was busy with WitN, Halo CEA and ESV seems to have made it a bit better overall. Target lock switches faster and holds from farther away which was my major beef. A lot of skills like Pyro got downgraded for no reason I can understand. It's bound to get cheap fast.

http://www.trueachievements.com/n6480/major-dark-souls-patch-released.htm

I may have to fulfill my Sonic Gens. promise later. Nothing against hedgehogs. Didn't realize it was a full price compilation thingy. Hope you get a decent tourney without me.

Anyone else getting sick of killing dragons? Damn this is a huge game. My first character must have offed 50. I was expecting one to come down the chimney. Now for a true Nord, horns and all, on expert if I can. Then cat people. I was 2nd in the tourney by about 300 TA pts yesterday. Now I'm 400 behind Matrix. Surprise! That's despite staying up all night (again) and getting 3 more achs. He manipulates time.

I wonder if that fixed the glitch that allows you to level up quicker then normal.

Yeah Mightymango the dragon head glitch for infinite souls is supposed to be fixed in this patch. Looking at what the patch actualy does i think it may actually make the game harder. The pryo spells i found were a must and now they have been nerfed i'm not too happy. More people should check the game out though and if your a fan of wrpg's you owe it to yourself to at least try it.

The league is up-to-date for this week!

Thanks for the update Neo.

Just got back into cheevo hunting, adding Halo and Rayman hurt my completion %, hopefully I can get it over 90% again soon.

I wouldn't be happy with them nerfing Pyro spells. The game was already too hard... let's make it harder! Yeah, not regretting trading it in.

I can't state enough I loved Dark Souls, but at the same time I don't think a game has to be cheap and sadistic to be challenging. I play games to have fun and relax. I like a challenge but not countless repeated beatings for the sake of the games amusement. Dark Souls was going to put me in the grave from a rage induced heart attack. I regret never at least beating it once but I think quitting was a positive thing.

At the same time Skyrim is too easy. I just beat Alduin in the final battle without taking one hit, in about 3 minutes flat and only used 2 mana potions. And yes I know you can cut up the difficulty in Skyrim but just like Oblivion I don't think it was the games fault it was that easy but my own fault for building such a powerful character. A full set of double enchanted dragon light armor with perks providing 100 percent more protection certainly didn't hurt. And my magica regenerates about 400 times faster than normal so it basically just fills back up in about 8 seconds when I'm fully drained. By the time I finished the story I had 100 light armor, 100 destruction, 100 enchanting, 100 smithing, 95 one handed, 90 conjuration and about 80 restoration. I'm still going to use that character to get the 15 artifacts and probably for the DLC.

I'm expecting the thief character I'm about to start will be much harder because I won't be using destruction magic or enchanting.

Yeah JPL! You are into it. Massive Stats. I mentioned dialing it down for The Fallen. I was in the original Leather I first built although I upgraded and enchanted the hell out of it. All Ebony weps and never got to 100 where you could put both Soul Trap and say Shock and Weakness to Shock on one wep like I always did in ESIV. I hadn't really stocked up on potions either. I kinda just wanted it to be over with by that point. Choosing sides in the war reminded me of your Vegas comment about there not really being a 'good' ending. Par for the course with this dev?

I'm really enjoying playing as a Khajiit. It makes for a very different feel and the Thieves questline is a contrast to the Mage's which I finished, or the Companions which I'm half way through as a Nord. The game is a bit daunting but you don't have to do everything at once. Unless you wan't to win the tourney. I'll be finding new dungeons and quests for years.

Not happy about the patch messing with resistances though and I had a glitch where the targets I needed to hit at High Hrothgar appeared about 1 in 10 times. Got through eventually. I'm noticing some framerate slowdowns allegedly linked to a memory leak as well. Where's the QA Bethesda? This is supposed to be your 'A' team! This from one of their biggest fanboys. They're taking a page from the EA/BioWare playbook with patches that need to be pulled.