Virtually Gifted - Gaming Community

I found some pretty cool smileys on the XF website that I thought would fit in right here at vG... so without further ado, say hello to your new smiley friends!

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Hey guys, looks like it is that time of the yea.. errr... month again (;]). We had the dark skin, but it is hard to do anything with it because EVERYTHING clashes with the color black. I couldn't do anything creatively and it really limited us. I have been up all night actually looking for a good skin, and I finally found a good, professional looking skin. I had to edit the fffuuu out of it though to get it where I wanted. I am still working on getting a randomized banner, so we can have different games in the banner.

I have also added a new Xbox Live Leaderboards feature that can be accessed by just clicking on the "Leaderboards" tab in the navigation bar. It shows all the members who have filled in their XBL Gamertag in their Personal Details, gamerscore and all the games they've played. It also shows the most played games by the members!

It is now the default skin and I hope that you all like it. If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to post it in this thread.

Halo 2 was the pinnacle of online gaming for me. It was the perfect game in the sense of being easy to play but hard to master. Anyone could pick up Halo 2 and play it but the metagame was so much more complex that it really allowed players who played more to be better than the casual player; something that Halo has really gone away from in the latest games.

In Halo 2, you had a really simple game on the outside. You can kinda relate Halo 2's shoot-em-up style to simplicity that pulls in the Call of Duty players. Anyone could play it and have a good time without sitting there for hours and the ranking system allowed players of the same skill level to play against each other. I don't ever remember in Halo 2, playing a game in the Matchmaking where I would get completely blown out because the ranking system was so good that every game would be close.

Halo 2 on the inside was a really complex game full of different tactics to outplay your opponents. This is what really set apart the...