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11/04/09
- I tried playing MP on PC a couple of times, and was cursing furiously because no-matter how many times I was shooting guys, it seemed to do no damage and I never got one kill. Meanwhile, I died approximately every 7 seconds.
So, yeah, being able to actually kill guys in MP would be a hell of a fix. Jesus fucking Christ. Did nobody test the fucking game before they released it? #operationflashpointdragonrisin...
11/04/09
Also, what's realistic about a bunch of vehicles that control like they have ice skates instead on wheels, and why, if Im a freaking driver, can I not look around from the characters pov while driving?
Sooooo realistic. My entire reason for wanting this game was the vehicles, only to find when purchased that they all control like garbage. Shame. There's lots to like in the game despite it's flaws, but if they can't ge the core gameplay experience ironed out, why the hell would they expect anyone to shell out for DLC?
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They should sort out the problems with the game before throwing out DLC. #operationflashpointdragonrisin...
10/13/09
To compare Modern Warfare to Operation Flashpoint is simply retarded.
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Stuff i didn't like:
---Driving the vehicles SUcks. BF1943 does a better job. I'm talking about traction and steering.
---AI is just ok. NOT really great. Good for backup but not for much more. Enemy AI is decent though i did find a guy or two that should've known i was coming.
---Online just has a bs system. It's hard to find a game and I am Forever refreshing and still getting rejected from games. i just kept hitting ranked game, quick game to get into something for sure.
---I understand that for realism it takes time to change weapons but the 'system' adds delays too. If you pull out a rocket launcher and start getting shot at, TOO BAD, wait for the animation to finish before you can move or start taking out your rifle.
---not enough carnage, air strikes, or "the horror of war" ( i didn't feel it, i thought my way through it) i was really hoping to kill a bunch of people in an attack helicopter.
The writing? I guess I'm like a soldier. Just set the stage and tell me what to. The rest is paint.
I thought we learned from END WAR. WHERE ARE THE VOICE COMMANDS? that system rocks!
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And this is coming from someone who only really plays Call of Duty for the single player.
10/12/09
If Modern Warfare was say a movie it would be a big budget action flick (I mean think about it: terrorists, special forces team, a weapon of mass destruction) and it would be panned by critics for stock characters and an uninteresting and predictable storyline.
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It doesn't necessarily have any astonishing character development or storyline, but the events that make up the game are very, very powerful.
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It suffered from the same syndrome that affects most generic war movies where they throw a bunch of characters at you that sort of all look and feel the same so they don't really stand out (except for Price of course).
Also some people make a big deal about how...
*SPOILER WARNINGZ YO!*
the American character you play as dies at the end of the story's first act. But for me it wasn't really a big deal since, for all I cared, they just killed a camera I was looking through.
I felt no connection to Jackson or Soap as characters, and didn't really feel like I was inhabiting either of them.
I understand that they make both avatars essentially blank slates so you can project yourself into them, ala Half-Life and many other FPS, but there weren't enough story/character moments to make me feel personally vested in the shoes of the people I was walking in or part of the cast of characters they surrounded me with.
I really wouldn't mind if they abandoned that approach and just gave Soap his own dialog, voice actor, and backstory (assuming that they intend for him to be the protagonist for the series).
I appreciate the cinematic route they took with the storyline though, but it hardly holds up to the level of speculative politicking that you find in the Tom Clancy games, the philosophizing of Metal Gear Solid series, or even the sheer drama of the films they were trying to emulate.
Actually it would be cool if they could enlist a pro-writer to script a storyline for the next installment. Especially since, going back to the Tom Clancy comparison, it looks like with MW2 they are going to be creating sort of an alt-history universe, which could be really fun, exciting, and open up new possibilities for the franchise.
10/13/09
It wasn't like he had a back story. You never saw him grow as a character. He doesn't have any dialogue. You don't even see his face. How do you empathize with a character like that? Ok, he died. And...? You just continued with the game like nothing had happened. It was well presented, but it was a generic story.
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My system passes all the recommended requirements but the game still manages to crash my display drivers every time I switch view modes and the framerate randomly drops to a sideshow at very random points.
Actually the later problem feels like an optimization problem ala GTA:IV since I can play Crysis at higher settings and a better framerate than this game, which doesn't even look that exceptionally great to begin with...
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But like I said, I never had any similar problem running my other games :/
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If anyone wants to play mp, my Steam ID is star5CR34M.
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Umm ... my PC version of Operation Flashpoint runs at 1920 x 1080 at 60 fps maxed out.
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That said, I still play Arma II. It's the best milsim by far, and the majority of the players are very helpful and friendly.
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