Call of Duty

[Starboard M]

I know Im not the only nerd here. :wierd:


Who has the new duty, and how do you like it? Better or worse than MW2?
Worth it to spring for the Elite version?



From what I hear they "recycled" one of the buildings from COD4, and some lag but both of those things seem pretty trivial to me.



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[xcm]

COD really took a shit after 3, i know tons of people LOVE MW2, most of those people are noobs. I used to absolutely love COD:UO, i even did the clan thang...

battlefield is such a better game... the larger maps promote better tactics, instead of spawn camping, not to mention vehicles were allways a band-aid in COD...

 

[rweaver138]

I'll be buying it tomorrow hopefully. I've been pretty big into COD since modern warfare, no need to stop here

 

[crimsondragon]

I heard it's practically the same game. So I went on youtube and watched a gameplay video. I haven't seen anything new except now you can see a radio when you use your killstreak.

 

[bails85]

my roommate bought it and we have been playing it all day. not sure if its better than mw2 yet. im so used to mw2 that the changes in mw3 are kind of not in my datbase yet. i hated black ops. but mw3 seems good so far.

 

[mcantar18c]

My buddy picked it up last night, then passed out after the first couple missions in campaign. So I played pretty much the entire game, beat it in 4 hours. Two guys I know advised on the game, one is a systema instructor/ex-Spetsnaz and one runs a combat school along with a few other related companies, and seeing their influence on the game was really the only reason I was looking forward to it.

Good:
Seeing stuff in the combat scenes I recognized was pretty cool.
More detailed weapons, mainly the optics. I especially liked the 3x magnifier with the EOTech and the MRDS on the sniper rifle.
Graphics were great.

Bad:
Missions were pretty short.
Campaign was a lot shorter than expected and not as captivating as the promos made it out to be.
Some instances of lag.
Exploding cars. I like a shooting game to be realistic... cars don't explode when you shoot them.
In the sniper mission at the church, the sniping is pretty video gamy-ey... don't need to lead shots, scope is perfectly steady without having to do anything, etc.
Along the lines of being realistic, I think it'd be cool to throw a weapon malfunction in here and there. Yet to see that in a video game though.

 

[ehall]

They're all just expansion packs on COD4. Pisses me off that they basically charge $100 per year for map packs and skins over the course of a year. Remember when game companies stopped providing printed booklets because they couldn't justify at $20 price point, yet they still don't do it at $50 price point either. And the Jeep product placement makes my friggin head spin!

Besides which, COD:UO was the height of the game. Best maps, best SP campaign

I'm done with COD

 

[fyrfytr1717]

Oh, that's why all those people were camping out in front of Game Stop last night...

 

[dave92cherokee]

Not sure if I'm going to get it or not being that COD is now filled with people using aimbot's and such takes the fun and skill out of it when they can run through a door and the aimbot gets them a headshot without even trying. I'll probably rent it to play the SP campaign but not going to worry about the multiplayer, I'll stick to GOW3 and Battlefield3.

 

[JDobrich]

Battlefield 3 all the way!!!! My name is jdobrich..... I know, creative right? Join my Poon Platoon!

 

[iwannadie]

I don't play online anymore. I had my fill of online FPS games back in the marathon/quake/quake3/UT days and don't care anymore about playing online.

I play the campaigns and the COD series is a joke when it comes to story. They just take random situations and slap them together and call it a game. They need to do what the old FPS games did, remove solo and just develop and market an online only game. The majority of people buying these games are there to play online. Most of my friends who play online say they never once touch the single player game so why bother wasting time/money to develop any single player content at all.

 

[rweaver138]

People play COD for the campaign?

 

[ehall]

back in the day of COD 1 and 2, that's what made it such a good game

 

[alex22]

I think it'd be cool to throw a weapon malfunction in here and there. Yet to see that in a video game though.

Remember that game the Army made? I think that had a weapons malfunction feature, I don't remember much else about the game though.

~Alex

 

[iwannadie]

I remember when that Army game came out, my computer couldn't run it . I know a bunch of my friends played it and it was popular.

 

[ehall]

COD:BO had weapons jamming in the SP and also briefly in the MP. It was soo annoying in the MP that they took it out of the server code

/COD:nerd

 

[bigalpha]

I jumped from MW to BF. I didn't like BF2 that much but BF3 is pretty awesome.

 

[xj^REMY]

They're all just expansion packs on COD4. Pisses me off that they basically charge $100 per year for map packs and skins over the course of a year. Remember when game companies stopped providing printed booklets because they couldn't justify at $20 price point, yet they still don't do it at $50 price point either. And the Jeep product placement makes my friggin head spin!

Besides which, COD:UO was the height of the game. Best maps, best SP campaign

I'm done with COD

i totally agree with you... the marketing gimmicks that have been a part of the the last 2, nauseating... typical over the top propaganda shoving something in your face every 5 minutes on every channel & plastered on a million + 1 products

i was completely turned off to COD after Black Ops, & xbox live soon after... cant stand paying $60 for a the game (when its not even good SP campaign), then extremely over-priced fees for membership to xbox live (not to mention internet access to begin with), then new maps, just to have hackers & "cheaters" exploit & ruin the online gameplay... come on microsoft, how much more money do u need to milk out of this... also, for BF3, u need a separate "online pass"?? my step-brother owns the game, brought it over to play at my place one day, & we couldnt play online, because i needed to purchase an online pass for 800 microsoft points... lastara

the original COD games were the best... there was an actual game to be played & enjoyed

 

[ehall]

the original COD games were the best... there was an actual game to be played & enjoyed

yes

 

[IndyXJ]

Battlefield 3 is better for realism and less arcade cartoony play. COD is great fast paced fun.
I like both. Been playing BF since 42 came out in 02.