See, looking at individual games doesn't tell the whole story though. The first guy you linked, for instance, meebly. Yes, his stats indicate that he does abuse meleeing a lot. They also show, however, that in Ranked games his K/D ratio is 0.90, meaning he's died more times than he's killed people. From the looks of it, he's killed 2300 odd people and died 2600 times. Whichever way you look at it, the lad is crap at halo. The second person you linked had a BR as his top rated weapon by miles, and the third was...well, an anomaly really. Can honestly say i've never seen a person with that many assault rifle kills before. A Colonel as well xD What a hero. But yeah. Take someone like RippinHeads for example, he's rated as one of the best players in the game and BR is far and away his most used weapon. His Melee count is just a little higher than other close ranged weapons like the shotgun. It should also be noted that a large percentage of melee kills will come from close range encounters like this, for example if you attempt to shotgun someone and are just a little too far away from them for the damage to be instant kill, it's better to melee afterwards to kill them as you're in range, as it comes out quicker than waiting for the next shell to pump into the chamber. Overall you can see that he averages 19 kills a game and averages 2 melee kills a game, so it's not a very big part of his gameplan and as mentioned he is a highly rated player.

I should probably make it clear as well that I'm not exactly a Halo 3 lover, my list of gripes with the game is endless and almost every session we play usually includes me describing exactly what I'd like to do to certain members of the bungie development team for their idiocy. The campaign is crap, the story is a load of horse. The characters range from boring to extremely annoying. Also, several of the multiplayer maps are awful. However as far as gameplay goes, I really don't see how Halo 3 can be considered a bad game. I've been playing FPS games for a good chunk of my life now and AFAIC Halo isn't comprehensively beaten by anything. My only problem is not being able to play it with a Mouse and Keyboard as I think it'd be far better if I could. The Auto-aim does annoy the out of me but aside from that I don't have any issues with the gameplay. If people annoy me using failure tactics there's always SWAT anyway. Some of the maps are awesome however, Valhalla is one of my favourite FPS maps from any game, ever. Cold Storage can be outrageously fun, Standoff is excellent and The Pit is awesome.

In fact, my biggest gripe with Halo gameplay is when Bungie ruins the experience with like Covies. That is a great way to turn people off your game, I assure you.

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And yes, grenades are defensive but effective. Take Orbital or Narrows, for example. That place is a freaking grenadefest, and if you can dodge them all, then you sir are a better player than I.
Narrows is a grenadefest but it's an obvious one and it's pretty pointless. Everyone lobs grenades over the middle and you know it's coming. There's not a lot you can do about it in some cases but it doesn't really matter because people throw them from so far away an there's so much cover that you can recover pretty easily almost anywhere on the map. Alternatively you could go downstairs 'cause hardly anyone goes down there after the sniper rifle/rockets go at the start.