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Tue Nov 10
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07:20 AM
And to be perfectly honest, I found the Makarov chapter to be completely gut-wrenching but, as sickening as this may sound, it's nice to see another developer besides Rockstar trying to push the boundaries of censorship. #modernwarfare2
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(And before this starts an orgy of hatred again: Yes, I got it on PC, whoopdeedoo. And, yes, I didn't notice the staggered release on Steam because it had a countdown clock instead of an actual date when I prepurchased, and I just assumed it had the same release date like every single other Steam game I've ever bought.) #modernwarfare2
06:26 AM
@Strangelove: Dude, big, green, inch thick bar with "Available: 12 November 2009" isn't exactly duping you.
And not all games release the same time on Steam, mainly due to retailers complaining about DD. So it's not safe to assume. #modernwarfare2
06:38 AM
I've bought the following days ON LAUNCH DAY (for PC) on Steam:
- Bioshock
- Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
- Chronicles of Riddick Butcher Bay / Dark Athena
- Cities XL
- Dawn of Discovery
- Empire Total War
- FEAR 2
- Fallout 3
- Ghostbusters
- GTAIV
- Operation Flashpoint
- Red Faction Guerilla,
- Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II
The big green bar is a change because people weren't noticing. Kotaku didn't post this until 10 minutes before the midnight launch. Don't you think that means that a lot of people didn't see before prepurchasing some time ago? It used to be in the mo/days/hours/min countdown format, and didn't have the date so highlighted. #modernwarfare2
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Also i don't know whether it was mentioned before that spec ops is only 2 player which is quite annoyed because i thought it was going to be this games version of the zombie mode from WaW.
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05:55 AM
It's not all that bad.
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04:47 AM
I'm curious to know if it really is that bad. #modernwarfare2
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05:05 AM
Now personally, I couldn't care less about this, but if I worked for Activision corporate, I'd be pretty pissed off. #callofdutymodernwarfare2
02:46 AM
Of course the game is overrated, but I still can't wait for my pre-ordered copy to get here, especially after reading this. Not expecting them to re-invent the wheel (they didn't with CoD4) or even touch Uncharted 2's story, storytelling and characters, but I know I'll have a blast with this online and co-op. Well into next year indeed. #modernwarfare2
01:53 AM
I've never played the original (I've had my 360 for less than a year and haven't wanted to shell out $40 for the game yet), and it sounds like that's almost a prerequisite here. I don't think I've seen the game for cheaper than that $40 price, which is a little odd - even Halo 3, the king of Live multiplayer, dropped to $5 at FYE thanks to an awesome rebate.
Designing a sequel with that much reliance on its predecessor doesn't seem like a smart idea to me. If I'm new to the series and I won't be able to understand what's going on and I'll just get killed over and over in multiplayer, why bother? That doesn't sound like an experience worth $60 to me. #modernwarfare2
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I haven't gotten too far in yet but multiplayer is already quite frustrating, although I've mastered the art of getting my extra power after I've died over 3 times in a row! #modernwarfare2
01:17 AM
Edit: By the by, thats my opinion, if you felt otherwise, please share yours, just keep in mind i'm not trying to flame the game, I loved its gameplay and its multiplayer to death.
01:30 AM
It simply cannot- because if it did, they wouldn't be able to let you skip it. They had to sacrifice relevance to allow you to skip it, rendering the scenes pointless. #modernwarfare2
01:31 AM
The thought alone bothers me. #modernwarfare2
01:47 AM
As Charlie Brooker said the other day; the plot's nonsensical, the terrorist scene neither made the story better nor added to the game as an experience (IMO naturally!:))
#modernwarfare2
01:52 AM
Liked the first games single player (liked, not loved) but I expected more from this, instead, I got a ridiculous story wrapped in pretentiousness (yeh, thats a word now!).
Still, I still love what we all bought the game for, multiplayer! #modernwarfare2
01:55 AM
He is exactly the kind of person you expect that behaviour from (cant go an hour without teabagging someone on halo), instead, he was bored.
At the heart of it, the first half to that level, is incredibly boring. #modernwarfare2
03:08 AM
I didn't think it was that bad either, until I realised that one of the ambient crowd noises was a baby crying.
Admittedly, I only realised that after playing the level 3 times. The second due to my Xbox's disc drive dying at the end and me not realising that you can skip from the pause menu, the third out of curiosity to see if you actually have to shoot anyone, and you don't.
I think it's safe to say they were aiming to make the act seem very deliberate and incredibly evil, which was done pretty well, but a little more set up for it would have been good. A little more than "btw, here's this dude who's infiltrating these terrorist guys. You're him now, go pretend to be a bad guy" would have been nice. #modernwarfare2
05:19 AM
A better and equally shocking way could have been first person view as a civilian, and when you die, you just shift to the next civilian's view, to make it seem terrifying and inescapable.
Or maybe the game could put you in the shoes of a security guard, shooting without effect at the armored baddies, who mow down your friends with ease. A role reversal from the player's normal army-killing romp.
I just never got into the plot. Thats not to say the first one, which I did get into, had better storytelling ideas or techniques. Its just it felt really new to me then, so I was interested in everything about it.
Good fucking game though. #modernwarfare2
11/09/09
A really excited dude waiting in line also in Chicago. #callofdutymodernwarfare2
11/09/09
Launch in Chicago store. Funny thing was there was another Gamestop across the street that we didn't go to, but they only had like 5 people waiting. #callofdutymodernwarfare2
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