I actually prefer playing Team Snipers and Team SWAT, and in all honesty I won't be touching regular slayer games once they release those playlists. True, that I may not care quite as much about playing just to win, but that's not saying I play just to have fun. I can understand where you are comming from when you are complaining about there being no penalty for losing, since I liked the rank system from the Halo 3 multiplayer a whole lot, however considering the fact that right now there are no playlists besides Regicide where your own skill ammounts to anything, it's not entirely unexpected that they'll include a rank system when they realease other playlists, such as MLG, since that's the whole reason people play those gametypes. All I'm saying is that you are judging a newly released game as horrible because it doesn't have everything you want avaliable right from the start. If you remember correctly, it wasn't until later in Halo 3's lifespan that they included the more skill-oriented gametypes. Also, what exactly is it that you were dissapointed with in the campaign? It had a good variety of locations and objectives, as well as being more difficult than the previous games, especially in the later levels, and definetly more so on Legendary. On top of that, they vastly improved the AI, so that now they made an effort to get out of the way of your weapons rather than stand there getting shot......
As for me needing to "broaden my scope," I'm not talking about what I've heard on the 343 website, since I don't pay attention to most people who post here, due to the simple fact that they are undoutably biased towards the game. I'm talking about all the sites that I usually visit, as well as all of my friends, (some of who were die hard Halo 3 fans who wouldn't touch Reach after they played for more than a week), and yet the biggest complaints I've heard prior to you were simply about issues with the servers being a bit touchy, (which is due to the massive ammount of players to sign on so early after the game released), and about the fileshare system not wanting to work properly, (again, server issues). Asside from that, my only complaint is the fact that more than one people focusing on one person almost always ends with that one person dying, namely me. Though that is more due to a lack of teamwork on my team's part than any real flaw in the system.....