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More deaths in Halo 3 than people on Earth
Brad Nicholson07.01.2008 10:26 (67 day(s) ago) 18 comments

More deaths in Halo 3 than people on Earth screenshot

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
pendelton21 at 07/01/2008 10:25

4 billion of those deaths were by me, actually.
crila's Avatar
crila at 07/01/2008 10:27

i want a tea bag count!
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falinter at 07/01/2008 10:29

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
Alexradl at 07/01/2008 10:34

Holy shit, that's a lot of friendly kills.
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king3vbo at 07/01/2008 10:45

4 billion of those deaths were me
Justin Villasenor's Avatar
Justin Villasenor at 07/01/2008 10:50

The just-under-2-billion friendly kill count gave me a good laugh.
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DaedHead8 at 07/01/2008 11:05

Wow, those numbers are huge. I'd love to see what kind of numbers unreal tournament, quake and counter strike have.
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MechaMonkey at 07/01/2008 11:08

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...
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EternalDarkWing at 07/01/2008 11:10

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.
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EternalDarkWing at 07/01/2008 11:10

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.
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Blackhat at 07/01/2008 11:14

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.
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EternalDarkWing at 07/01/2008 11:19

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.
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Cheeburga at 07/01/2008 11:26

Mother of god..
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Mushman at 07/01/2008 12:30

Woah! That's it, just woah. Unbelievable
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Cricketman at 07/01/2008 12:51

70.346342% of those friendly kills were caused by none other than...Cricketman V3, due to his lack of intelligence in fast paced situations.
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Clockwork at 07/01/2008 13:07

Dammit king, you beat me to it.
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KyleGamgee at 07/01/2008 13:47

Halo man...

It's fun.

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