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More deaths in Halo 3 than people on Earth photo

Recently, iTwire reported on something fairly irreverent. As of a few days ago, the kill count in Halo 3 has reached a number so high that it has eclipsed the amount of people living on the planet. While this should probably be a cue to take a moment of calm reflection on what we do with our lives, one cannot help but admire the senseless slaughtering that has gone on in Halo 3.

An astute Bungie forum member was the first to think about the numbers involved. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Clock, the Earth now has 6,707,128,707 people in it. Bungie’s kill counter for Halo 3 lists 6,852,762,021, and that’s just for enemies. Add in another 1,197,119,900 friendly kills and you have a wholly awesome number. Not included in Bungie’s system, but probably still eclipsing the population mark, is the number of times dead people were teabagged or called some sort of racially insensitive remark.

That said, I am always personally amazed at the dedication that Halo players have to Bungie and their favorite series. The mere number of kills speaks volumes about them. I am sure that over the years, Counter-Strike, Unreal, and other popular shooters have logged many more deaths than this, but I find it fascinating that a console FPS could stick around long around enough to have this kind of tally.








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pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 10:25
pendelton21
4 billion of those deaths were by me, actually.
crila's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 10:27
crila
i want a tea bag count!
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 10:29
falinter
Sad revelation:

I wouldn't play this game as much if everyone else I knew didn't play all the fuckin' time.

I would rather be playing Crack Down Co-Op or GTA Multiplayer but everyone I know is still playing this. So if I want to have multiplayer fun I have to play Halo. Its an alright game but it gets boring after awhile.
Alexradl's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 10:34
Alexradl
Holy shit, that's a lot of friendly kills.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 10:45
king3vbo
4 billion of those deaths were me
Justin Villasenor's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 10:50
Justin Villasenor
The just-under-2-billion friendly kill count gave me a good laugh.
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 11:05
DaedHead8
Wow, those numbers are huge. I'd love to see what kind of numbers unreal tournament, quake and counter strike have.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 11:08
MechaMonkey
The friendly kills are even more shocking. For approximately every four kills of players on the other team, there's one friendly kill. Team killing bastards...
EternalDarkWing's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 11:10
EternalDarkWing
It should be noted that the number you're referring to is the amount of enemies killed in the campaign and not in multiplayer. Thank you, Brad, for putting another news-worthy article on the front page.
EternalDarkWing's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 11:10
EternalDarkWing
It should be noted that the number you're referring to is the amount of enemies killed in the campaign and not in multiplayer. Thank you, Brad, for putting another news-worthy article on the front page.
Blackhat's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 11:14
Blackhat
I think it's even more amazing that it's campaign kills only.

I still hate the Halo franchise, and what it's done to the FPS genre (as well as the Marathon universe), but that is pretty crazy number-wise.
EternalDarkWing's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 11:19
EternalDarkWing
Within the past week or two, members of the Bungie community have been farming campaign kills in massive numbers to get the number up to 7 billion in time for Bungie Day, July 7th.
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 11:26
Cheeburga
Mother of god..
Mushman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 12:30
Mushman
Woah! That's it, just woah. Unbelievable
Cricketman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 12:51
Cricketman
70.346342% of those friendly kills were caused by none other than...Cricketman V3, due to his lack of intelligence in fast paced situations.
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 13:07
Clockwork
Dammit king, you beat me to it.
KyleGamgee's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/01/2008 13:47
KyleGamgee
Halo man...

It's fun.
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