jack-tha-reaper

Spoony Bard

@Nexus6:

That's an interesting take, that it's the next-gen equivalent to Counter-Strike. I can see that. (Haha, and I hated CS, too. That makes sense.)

Strangelove

Nexus6

In Halo, when camping, access is lost on a variety of power weapons. Most power weapons are located in highly vulnerable areas in the first place. Risk = reward. There are very few dead ends, unlike COD4 where places to put "back to wall" are a dime a dozen. Hiding in tight or unusual spaces is also pretty useless unless you have a power weapon. Whereas in COD4, hide in a corner with an RPD it is easy to waste a whole group of soldiers caught unaware. Try doing the same thing with an AR or BR in Halo.

Xiedo

excel_excel

Nexus6

Mini-Boss

If their position allows it, I will do exactly that. However, most times they set up in an area with no other entrances with their red dot site constantly on the point of entry ready to fire at the first sign of movement.

It's easier to just go around him and not waste my time or give him another kill the only he can squeeze one out.

Mr_Pointy

Your rationalization sounds eerily like those people who have no relexes or skill and camp in a dark corner next to spawn points.

I have no problem with snipers. You can easily avoid them and sneak up to take your revenge. Corner/Spawn campers are the weakest of the weak and get their asses kicked in team matches where their one tactic is useless.

Mr_Pointy

All I can say is that the number of times a player ends a fight in a double-death melee is directly proportional to how bad that player is at Halo. Double-death melees usually happen when one player gets into melee range when they shouldn't have.

If you don't like having to track a moving target, that's understandable. I also know you're exaggerating here, but last I checked Spartans/Elites can jump their body height and they can only jump. There are no acrobatics in Halo. Halo ppl can barely run. That's doesn't make for an impossible target. Certainly more challenging than COD4, but not impossible.

Xiedo

Nexus6

Nexus6

Spartan1308™

dubz

Barf#1

Walker

enewtabie

Xiedo

Poltergeist13

Gray665

Spoony Bard

Also, I like the mature context of the game and the modern weapons. They handed the game perfectly -- now for those new maps they keep promising.

That and my Xbox 360 coming back from the repair center for the 5th time. Damn you red ring of death!!!!

DugDawg

NecronomiconUK

That's me. And that's how to play COD, people. In a game where face-to-face encounters are decided by a fraction of lag, whoever has "luckier" hip-fire, or whoever has (or doesn't have) Juggernaut/Stopping Power, by not taking all precautions to get that first shot you're just asking for it.

Want a game where head-on dueling is fair game and camping is discouraged? Play Halo. The perfect accuracy model ensures fair duels. Weapon spawns and map design don't allow camping. Too hard to shoot somebody more than once? They just added SWAT to playlists. Have a ball.

Xiedo

Coyotegrey

Gordon_Shumway

Lixie

Spoony Bard

At least Halo 3 introducted Forge and Saved Films which are two big features for a console game. It has a ranking up system and the matchmaking system in Halo 3 is alot better than in CoD4.

zonetrooper5

Daizzy

rawg

NecronomiconUK

The reason why COD4 is so popular because it's a faster version of Battlefield 2 which was the juggernaut of PC gaming for many years. BF2's two main problems was the amount of time it took to get back into the action (which is why most BF2'ers played Strike at Karkand) and the fighting over vehicles (griefing, teamkilling, unbalanced vehicles) While BF2142 focused more on instant action, COD4 went a step further and took out vehicles and made it instant action/more arcade.

Halo 3 is popular for totally different reasons. Halo 3 is a straight up arcade shooter in the same vein as Quake 3/Unreal Tournament whereas COD4 is more of a fast/slim-downed squad-based shooter in the vein of BF2.

Tepoz

They are like "Its the best game ever, nothing else needs to be played"

But people like me need different genres, and I feel like playing arcade games now and again.

I'm also bored of people calling CoD4 tactical, yes you can do some tactical things. But the majority of the game is who shoots first.

At least Halo lets you think about what to do to your opponents and if you think quick and take on 3 at once, you will feel very satisfied for thinking of a method out of there.

flukielukie

D Mitsuki

Halo is dead. Long live Halo!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

We realize there is very little way to count the online player total for the Playstation 3, so we'll just go ahead and assume it's a billion. We think it's a safe call.

And since we're talking about it, the COD 4 website gets over a thousand hits a day. We only tell you this so we can make bloggers cry, and we will then use those tears to lubricate our money machines.

Hey EA! Bid on us!

Forcepowered

Remember when FPS's on the console's were generally lousy?

I *LOVE* COD4 for the PC, but my damn 8800 GTS ($450 when I bought it) died for a 2nd time. It has a double lifetime warranty so it'll be replaced, but right now I'm running a single 8600 GT). With crap like this no wonder people are dropping the PC like it has SARS (RROD!)

balls187 upside yo head

D Mitsuki

Sweet. Thanks for that. I'm glad I've stayed at 55 then too! =D

dudeman5000

D Mitsuki

For those missing the humour..... you get sweet fuck all. Hence why I'm staying on 55 cos I really can't be arsed earning all my fave guns and doing the challenges again

NecronomiconUK

Is there cake or something?

dudeman5000

@Kanik: Are you dating Jack Thompson?

Kickinstuff13

NecronomiconUK

Maybe it's the game types you play, but I've found no problems like that with Merc Team DM, Domination, Ground War gametypes.

dudeman5000

Trust me, I'm a doctor

my Uzi weighs a ton!

Gadgetron

MakeFragNotWar

enewtabie

IntelSilver

Project Thanatos

MXs219

But only because Im going for the golden weapons.
I can believe it, looking at my friends list at least half of my firneds have played COD4, and at least 20 play it regularly.

CanaryWundaboy

Thats called strategy...if it keeps happening to you and you don't go after that person to make him quit, he will keep using the tactic because its smart and it works.

Pretty much in real life if you ran around the "map" so to speak you'd be killed in 2 seconds flat too. Your complaint sounds eerily like those people who always used to complain about the smart tactician who would get set up somewhere in a good position witha sniper rifle and go to town.

spinal77

Gadgetron

ChoZ3nWon

# Unique Players (Last 24 Hours): 885,355

Niroth

enewtabie

apu95

For me, thank Jeebus I can turn off ranged explosives (airstrikes and underslung grenade launchers) and grenades in SOCOM Tactical Strike...focus on the automatic weapons-fire, people...the gunplay is the shiznit in that game. None of this dancing through the bullets nonsense.

pylon_trooper

Halo 3 multiplayer is fun, but something about Call of Duty 4 just feels better, tighter, and more fun. Variety is nice but as a whole I prefer CoD4, which is impressive when you consider that the game has no vehicles and crazy weapons like H3.

Tons Of Fun

Gray665

ShaggE

Spoony Bard

holysocks

enewtabie

I don't get the appeal of corner camping either. It is so frustrating to be out there actively hunting people down only to have some tool camp in the same spot for the entire match get a victory for doing nothing.

In Team matches it's easy to counter. In Free-for-All, everybody is out for themselves and won't really make an effort to stop it. I can't count the number of times I've been killed by the same person in the same spot at the beginning, and then again, near the end of the match.

You check the scoreboard and see he has 25 kills and 2 deaths and eveybody else is in the 17-15 range or worse. It's terrible.

Mr_Pointy

pylon_trooper

FP_slomo788

1) Tight gameplay - Everything is balanced; whatever weapon you are playing with (except a pistol), you never feel like you're outclassed. Much.

2) No WWII in sight. Nuff said.

2) RPG lite - I think this is the main reason people keep playing. The more you play, the more perks you get, the better rank you get. This is definitely where this game gets my vote. It's fun to play games like Team Fortress 2 or Unreal Tournament III, but when there is something to be gained, it reels you in like nothing else.

There is also the fact that on the XBox, most people seem to have the headsets. This is a good/bad thing. Good because you feel more connected to the community when you play, bad when you get the 5 years screaming into your headset (until you mute them...)

That said, I LOVE playing with fellow Kotakuites. So feel free to add me and play some CoD4!

Spoony Bard

Opposed to Halo 3, where weapons are radically different and need to be understood, shooting first is not a guaranteed victory (and is actually sometimes stupid), and commonly one must track a target for 1/3 to 1/2 of the magazine.

Not to mention Halo 3 has more diverse weapons, vehicles, a lot more to do (in game modes and custom games), saved films, and Forge... but before playing Halo it's good to know how to play Halo. It's a lot more complicated on the basic level.

Xiedo

enewtabie

Free online gaming on PC & PS3 = more people playing...

Captain Fury

But a good game, nonetheless.

pylon_trooper

Again not trying to be a fan boy, even though I don't like COD4 online it's still a great game and the single player is some of the best ever.

sargemat

NecronomiconUK

Mech_Master

Hobartklikklak

I love CoD4 but it is getting somewhat boring and I'm utterly sick to death of the repeated and tiresome corner campers. I love Halo3 as well and I've been getting a lot more of a kick out of that recently.

NecronomiconUK

Derigor

Eville1

invictus2006

LittlestLamshi

enewtabie

enewtabie

Tofu_Survivor

Makes sense, innovative well put together tactical shooter vs Halo 2 in a newer slightly uglier dress.

kingmanic

Cayno

invictus2006

ErskinPig

jp182

mrantimatter

ShadowFFVI

AGROS

Hubert Humphrey Methadone

[kotaku.com]

Oh, tabloids, wont you ever learn?

Shiryu

cdr

Kanik

IronsUK

Shiryu

Jun581 won't give you tree fiddy!!

Kinda surprised about the number of player on the 360, I wonder what #'s Halo 3 puts up.

exkon

Gray665

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