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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 |OT|

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mYm|17|

Member
Best buys midnight sale was disorganized and their employees r morons. 1 guy got fed up with the wait he called an employee an asshole and was escorted out of the store by a cop.

Lots of prestiges being sold
 
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Coin Return

Loose Slot
Just got back, and it was definitely the biggest videogame launch I've ever been to. At least 150 people snaked around the shopping plaza:

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The faint red light in the distance is Gamestop, plus there was about 50 more people behind me. Gonna chow down on my Taco Bell, then it's on!
 
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SapientWolf

Trucker Sexologist
nib95 said:
Hmmm....ok....so after a few hours with the game, I'm just not very impressed. In-fact, I'm actually disappointed. My main complaints with the game lie with the aimlessness of it all. At times it feels almost serious sam like. And the amount of confusion and misdirection is just jarring. Things are going on from every direction, but it's never very clear which makes battles a tad confusing. I don't think the red blood/damage indicator is sufficient, especially when at times you can be getting shot from pretty much every angle. Half the time I was just clueless as to where I was supposed to shoot. And even when you do, the amount of effects, debris and smoke that come off sort of blur your vision to add to the confusion. The fact that the games constantly dogging you to get behind cover, when there isn't even a proper cover system (something the game desperately needs imo) doesn't help either. Just adds to the sloppiness of gunplay. It reminds me a little of RE5, where a lack of control options often lead to more deaths than actual player skill.

Then there's the auto aim. Ok, have they increased the amount or have times just moved on? The zoom in auto aim is just stupidly generous. It literally moves half the screen to click in to place. What the hell? It's like spoon feeding you kills. It's better to zoom in and out continuously and blindly (guaranteeing you insta locks) than it is to take your time and aim around zoomed in. I find that absurd, and totally anti-skill or reward.

Lastly, the narrative. I can't help but feel it's a tad blotchy and rushed. Elements just aren't fitting together very concisely, and I don't feel I'm getting a sense of the characters or plot much yet at all. For example,
after the Airport level, which by the way I think was probably unnecessarily extreme, the way the main villain just shoots the under cover agent, it all happens so quick and so anti-climatically, you could almost miss it, and all the events that follow just seem rushed and loose as well.
The menu's and interface events are slick, and aesthetically stunning, but how well they help the narrative/characters drive forward and actually embed themselves in the players mind, I'm not so sure.

I also think, the audio need some balancing. Voices are sometimes too soft/quiet, or change in pitch to variables that don't quite seem levelled properly.

On the pus sides, I loved the snow level (a nice pace, and cool effects), though the simplicity of the climbing was a bit un-ambitious (R1/L1 over and over repetitively like 100 times). The atmosphere is also really powerful in segments, in particular the art direction and colour schemes. It all looks quite raw and realistic, if a little on the light side.



So yea, so far, I'm finding it a bit difficult to see the AAA brilliance of the title. It seems like a very messy affair currently. Don't get me wrong, it's very polished with respect to the controls, but not (imo) so far in game design, where it seems to be all over the place and lacking in focus.

Will carry on and update with impressions later down the line. Maybe I just need to warm to the controls and pace of the game a little more, extremely frenetic and busy.
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Sold.
 
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TheExodu5

Banned
Waiting in line from 11:20 to around 12:30. PC version was actually $49.99 (CDN), and I got a free 4 pack of Monster Energy (worth $10). I was planning on staying up tonight (got a quiz at 8:30 so I'll be staying up until then).

Installing now.

Will report on lag issues shortly. I am extremely sensitive to lag, btw (previous cs 1.6 cal-m experience, if that matters).
 
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Mileena

Banned
TheExodu5 said:
Waiting in line from 11:20 to around 12:30. PC version was actually $49.99 (CDN), and I got a free 4 pack of Monster Energy (worth $10). I was planning on staying up tonight (got a quiz at 8:30 so I'll be staying up until then).

Installing now.

Will report on lag issues shortly. I am extremely sensitive to lag, btw (previous cs 1.6 cal-m experience, if that matters).
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Yea well I have CAL-i proof!
My friend hacked Meepins CAL pw so I was on the team for 12 hours.
 
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CitizenCope

Member
Big F U to the Woburn MA Gamestop. Waited an hour and it looked like I still had 90 minutes before I'd get my copy so I left empty handed for the night. Seriously wtf, a customer was coming out of the store every 3-4 minutes. WTH is taking so long with 2 registers?
Goodnight.
 
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Foxtastical

Member
CitizenCope said:
Big F U to the Woburn MA Gamestop. Waited an hour and it looked like I still had 90 minutes before I'd get my copy so I left empty handed for the night. Seriously wtf, a customer was coming out of the store every 3-4 minutes. WTH is taking so long with 2 registers.
Goodnight.
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Well, you know, gotta check if they want to reserve any upcoming releases, and wait, I can get you more trade-in credit.

If I'm behind a customer at the register, and they pull that shit, I walk out of the store. I can't stand it anymore.
 
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Captain N

Junior Member
a few questions..

does the ps3 version have an install?

What do you guys think the split will be with PS3 / 360?

How many kids are going to wake up christmas morning only to find out santa got them Modern Warfare 1 because it was cheaper?
 
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cresto

Member
I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but when I played the original CoD's SP there was a truck chase. When I played through cod4, the end truck chase reminded me of that. I swear it seems like IW reuses scenarios.
 
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TurtleSnatcher

Member
Foxtastical said:
Well, you know, gotta check if they want to reserve any upcoming releases, and wait, I can get you more trade-in credit.

If I'm behind a customer at the register, and they pull that shit, I walk out of the store. I can't stand it anymore.
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Its there job.. why shop there if you dont even like it.. retard.
 
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AranhaHunter

Banned
Full Recovery said:
if anyone wants to play PS3 send me a friend request because I'm playing all night.

Full-Recovery
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I'll do it later when I get online I'm gonna start SP first though, will probably play online after I play SP for a bit.

It's kinda amazing how big this franchise got in such a short time, the lines at walmart and gamestop were bigger than for GTAIV. I mean before COD4, COD wasn't that big, probably as big as what? Battlefield or CS? Maybe a bit bigger than that? But right now it's the biggest FPS franchise in the world, probably bigger than Halo, kinda amazing what one game can do for a franchise.

Captain N said:
a few questions..

does the ps3 version have an install?

What do you guys think the split will be with PS3 / 360?

How many kids are going to wake up christmas morning only to find out santa got them Modern Warfare 1 because it was cheaper?
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Box says 50MB required, so I'm gonna guess a very small install.

Split will probably be 3-1 360 in the US, 2-1 WW shipments.

Kids shouldn't be playing M rated games, bad parenting :)
 
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carpal

Member
Just finished Demon's Souls (if you can ever finish that game... at least I beat the last boss for the first time and saw the credits) in time for MW2 to arrive via Amazon Prime tomorrow.

Oh it's on.
 
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VaLiancY

Member
ergo said:
I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but when I played the original CoD's SP there was a truck chase. When I played through cod4, the end truck chase reminded me of that. I swear it seems like IW reuses scenarios.
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The airfield level, where you're firing panzershrecks from the back of the car? Oh what an awesome level that was.:lol

But yeah I do agree I feel like I'm doing the same thing over and over again.

"Go plant those charges!"
"Get on that turret and cover us"
"Take out that tank/helicopter/APC"
 
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KoruptData

Member
Y2Kev said:
KoruptData
Junior Member
(Today, 01:10 AM)
Reply | Quote

:lol
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Yep thats me!! There is nothing in the OP about it. But I went and deleted my save and reloaded the game and that worked. Good thing I did not play too far into the SP.
 
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ZROCOOL

aka II VerTigo II
Foxtastical said:
Well, you know, gotta check if they want to reserve any upcoming releases, and wait, I can get you more trade-in credit.

If I'm behind a customer at the register, and they pull that shit, I walk out of the store. I can't stand it anymore.
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gg guy
 
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lobdale

3 ft, coiled to the sky
KoruptData said:
Yep thats me!! There is nothing in the OP about it. But I went and deleted my save and reloaded the game and that worked. Good thing I did not play too far into the SP.
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If you had read a little bit of the thread you would have seen that only step two, and not step one, would have been necessary. This should work until you reset your system at least! AND THEN, WHO KNOWS?!?!?
 
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RedStep

Member
Rez said:
that's sort of what I meant. the game plays out in the exact same way, regardless of whether or not they're technically respawning. you can't just sit in one area and hope to kill everyone during mid to large scale shoot-outs; at least, not from my experience.
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I was referring to the blatant respawning. As in CoD4 (or worse, WaW), where you could sit and pop heads for literally 6 hours, and they would keep running out the doors until you ran forward. I didn't notice that in MW2; just the initial spawn, where they swarm you like crazy and make you run for cover (and then proceed to pop a finite number of heads).
 
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got2bekidding

Member
So I finally got my own copy to play. There were about 100 people spread out between Gamestop and Walmart waiting for this release during a tropical storm. I'm glad I wasn't the only crazy one out there.
 
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cresto

Member
got2bekidding said:
So I finally got my own copy to play. There were about 100 people spread out between Gamestop and Walmart, waiting for this release during a tropical storm. I'm glad I wasn't the only crazy one out there.
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grats :p

Ill be on most of tomorrow if you are down to play. GT: FREIGHT TRAIN68

That is, of course, if your electricity stays on :lol
 
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Not a Jellyfish

but I am a sheep
got2bekidding said:
So I finally got my own copy to play. There were about 100 people spread out between Gamestop and Walmart waiting for this release during a tropical storm. I'm glad I wasn't the only crazy one out there.
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Lol I hear you on that. I am in Gulf Breeze (right next to Pensacola, Fl). Surprisingly lots of people out.
 
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TheExodu5

Banned
Well guys...I'm going to eat a bit of crow. Game set up instantly, and the lag was not bad at all. I was only 3 bars, and it felt like I was playing in a maybe...70-80 ping server. I could hear my shot confirmations a little late, but my shots were hitting where I was aiming.

First impressions...this is about as good as matchmaking has been.

I'm satisfied.
 
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Speculator

BioWare Austin
Coin Return said:
Just got back, and it was definitely the biggest videogame launch I've ever been to. At least 150 people snaked around the shopping plaza:

hrd3lc.jpg


The faint red light in the distance is Gamestop, plus there was about 50 more people behind me. Gonna chow down on my Taco Bell, then it's on!
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O jebus (no pun intended), is that sugarland?
 
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imtehman

Banned
my gamedaily was selling CoD like a week and a half ago but i never bothered to pick it up because i'm still trying to finish valkyria. i'm afraid once i get CoD in the mail tomorrow i'll never look at valkyria again, and i'm only on
the part where i fight that big ass tank in the desert
 
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Drewsky

Member
Waited in line from about 11:30 till about 12:30 when I got to the register. Lady asked me what system I wanted etc. Standing in front of the mile long line I swipe my debit card. The cashier tells me that she can't accept my card, my limit on the card has been reached. I look in my wallet, no cash. I walk out of line to my friend who is laughing and walk out of the store. No MW2. I felt like Clark Griswold in Vacation when Wally World is closed.

Fuck.
 
scoobs

scoobs

Member
I live in a lawrence ks (home of the jayhawks!!) and the line outside of our gamestop was about... 500 deep i'd guess.
 
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neptunes

Member
It's always fun to see people come out the woodwork when you're lining up for a popular game. Especially when you live in a pretty sheltered/introverted suburb.

Edit: Did anyone else have losers trying to scalp the game to the people waiting in the line?
 
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The S-Word

Member
just got home with the game. Did my part to combat IW by buying at walmart. Now my sale won't show up on NPD you bastards AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(jk)
 
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Deleted member 30609

Unconfirmed Member
not to be a douche, but tell me you're not waiting for some sort of insightful critical analysis from Game Trailers, of all places.
 
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