CoD:MW2

[Icemage]

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Joint Operation had nothing to do with weed either, I believe I got it by 'protecting' a team mate, which actually means I shot a guy who was shooting another guy.

It's a joint operation. Do you get the joke yet?


Icemage

[DakAttack]

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All I hear is 'Wahhhh. I'm not crying. Wahhhh."

If you want to play it, play it. If you don't, don't. Sometimes things are that simple.


So, remember that grenade spam PSA? You get ONE frag grenade, and two special grenades. What the hell could you possibly spam? You don't even have to choose frag grenades, there are other choices for that slot now, such as a marker used to place your own temporary spawn point. And that 'Joint Operation' title shown? It's still in the game. Who the fuck thought that would actually be a good idea, especially since it's adorned with pot leaves?

There are millions of titles to earn and choose from, each of which will be displayed upon a kill. I can't wait to see all the other stupid shit they came up with. I ran 1 mile and it gave me the title Track Star featuring a picture of a yellow Lamborghini. Wtf? Joint Operation had nothing to do with weed either, I believe I got it by 'protecting' a team mate, which actually means I shot a guy who was shooting another guy.

I was really hoping they would be a little innovatie when it came to team play. Of course, they didn't, go figure. Team deathmatch is still deathmatch where you can only shoot half the people in the game. Ground war is still run around because sitting in any single place is just asking for somebody to be spawned behind you etc.

[Malacite]

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The PC gamers that really expected those features DID get shafted, the hypocrites are the PC gamers that went out and got it anyway or pirated it. They will look for any excuse to tear the game apart. Those people are bashing.

Not that I approve of Pirating, but actually the people who pirated it aren't hypocrites at all; Many of us who are boycotting this want to play it but refuse to pay for it. In this sense, people are (illegally) sticking it to Activision right where it hurts.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I haven't completed the game yet so I do not know. I can only assume that it is to show how "bad" the bad guy is. Of course it has been mentioned in this thread that they probably could have done something else to create that feeling.

Its a little more than what you're thinking.

[Durahansolo]

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It's that and all the shyt talking you do while your drinking lol.

LOL, I didn't hear much trash talk yesterday except for the 2-3 dudes that got the last kill in the match. (For those that don't know, the winning kill gets a kill cam at the end of the match showing the epic final kill, and everybody is forced to watch it.)

Yelling at 13 y/o kids

They're usually the ones doing all the yelling... "OMG LEMME G3T TEH TURRETZ D00D!..." (After the driver drives off with nobody on the turret.) "You guys are all noobs!"

[ShadowHolyFlyingDragon]

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I thought the whole reason anyone played this game was because of the PVP..... and that was it. At least, that's what I've heard from most people who play it.

It's that and all the shyt talking you do while your drinking lol. Yelling at 13 y/o kids..... Halo anyone!?

[Durahansolo]

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I like how when you start the game, if you try to go straight to multiplayer it'll say something like "It is recommended that you play the campaign first." "Would you like to play Multiplayer anyways?" (I got scared and chose campaign.) Played through the training course and then went to MP.

[Skoal]

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None of the trophies are linked to that level.


Icemage

I haven't played much farther past that, just repeating what the game said.

The fact they put the option to skip it in there shows the scene's irrelevance. So why does it exist at all? What was the motive here?

I haven't completed the game yet so I do not know. I can only assume that it is to show how "bad" the bad guy is. Of course it has been mentioned in this thread that they probably could have done something else to create that feeling.

[Durahansolo]

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Played MP for a few hours last night and I'm glad that "Sleight of Hand" was made accessible almost from the very start (Had to unlock create-a-class first, unless there is a beginner class that uses it.) My sidearm is a shotgun and OMFG the shotguns are sweeeeeet. IMO the 'Nade Launchers, read n00btube, are a bit overpowered, but then too maybe they aren't. When you get to a certain level, you can pick what Kill Spree Items you want (3 Kill UAV, 4 Kill UAV Jammer (I think), I forget what my 5 kill was I think it was a missle of some sort.) There were also many other options for the sprees that I can't remember atm. One in particular I liked was the "Supply Drop" (Which might not be the name but you get the picture.) A dropship would drop a crate with random power-ups in it, could be anything from ammo to a Stealth Bomber Airstrike. BTW I only played Team Deathmatch, some of my friends were playing some of the more involved MP games, but I like TDM the best.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I love how you guys bashing it don't own the game and haven't played it.

Sorry, play doesn't factor into what I'm judging here, in some cases due to a lack of features that should have been there anyway.

The PC gamers that really expected those features DID get shafted, the hypocrites are the PC gamers that went out and got it anyway or pirated it. They will look for any excuse to tear the game apart. Those people are bashing.

PC reviewers that were giving scores on par with its console counterparts I also have to question. The fact that some of them don't even bring up the gutting of dedicated server support and mod tools leads me to wonder who's really writing the reviews here. This isn't stuff you gloss over for the PC market.

I am not really even a PC gamer, but I understand why they're upset. I also understand that if I don't like something, its probably not a good idea to buy it. When someone does something I disagree with, I communicate that by not giving them my money.

I didn't like what I was hearing about this game, so clearly the first thing I need to do is buy it to give it a fair shake, right? I could be totally wrong about how tasteless gunning down hundreds of civilians is, but I think stopping three minutes into the video online showed me it was a fairly tasteless, weak plot device. Tom Clancy could have summed that whole scene better in a paragraph and used it as a point in which to move the main plot. In fact, hasn't he done that a lot?

The fact they put the option to skip it in there shows the scene's irrelevance. So why does it exist at all? What was the motive here?

[Icemage]

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The game asks if you would like to skip some parts of the game that people may find offensive. I assume its the airport level. The only downside is that you may lose a chance for a few trophies.

None of the trophies are linked to that level.


Icemage

[Skoal]

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The game asks if you would like to skip some parts of the game that people may find offensive. I assume its the airport level. The only downside is that you may lose a chance for a few trophies.

[Malacite]

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Which is specifically why I bought it. With all the shit being slung, I wanted to know what was really going on.

Or you could have just rented it like I plan to do. I still want to try it out, maybe snag a few achievements, but I'd rather pay my local video store the $7.00 to play it for 5 days than pay $60.00 to activision


And Icemage, I'm not bitching about the game itself; I'm bitching about the bullshit Activision has pulled on PC gamers. That is seriously not cool. Their reasoning behind it is because of the 360 version too... it was all covered in an episode of Invisible Walls a few weeks back, and I happen to agree with what Marcus said about it 100%.

Get this, they cited cost issues and that sales wouldn't be high enough (compared to those say on the 360) and that it's more cost-effective to just pay M$ for the live servers...

Methinks the cost to run those servers is nowhere near the potential damages that will ensue from this PR nightmare. It's not as though PC gaming has just off and suddenly died either.

[DakAttack]

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I love how you guys bashing it don't own the game and haven't played it.

Which is specifically why I bought it. With all the shit being slung, I wanted to know what was really going on.

Modern Warfare 2 IS getting unconscionably high review marks in some cases. The graphics aren't all that and a bag of chips. The gameplay improvements are incremental, not revolutionary. The single player campaign isn't any longer than the first game (which wasn't that long), and yes the act of terrorism mission could have been excluded and everything would have been fine.

The gameplay isn't anything to write home about, and if it is it's simply a letter explaining how disappointed you are. The game is obviously meant to be cinematic, but it plays like a book. It plays like a book with multiple plot holes.

The AI is the worst. Enemies and allies don't really shoot at each other unless directed to do so. I've seen them standing right next to each other waiting for me to show my face or 'advance the plot' as my friend like to put it. Are they sharing war stories over a spot of tea? SHOOT HIS FACE OFF. SHOOOOOOT.

[Yellow Mage]

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I love how you guys bashing it don't own the game and haven't played it.

Those are actually the sane guys. The people you want to steer clear from are the people who bash it, and then buy and play the game anyway.