Anyone going to buy Call of Duty: Black Ops?

Technology and Gaming
#41

Far Cry 2 was not a good game. It did have an interesting storyline, but like it’s gameplay, it was ultra repetitive. Drive here, blow this up. Talk to this guy. Drive there. Shoot that guy. Repeat 50 times and you have Far Cry 2. Also, the jamming guns, though a cool idea, were extremely annoying and made getting a gun anywhere other than the weapons dealer useless. And the driving never ended. Far more time is spent driving than fighting.

Ummmmm… claymore=it’s too easy to camp??? By that logic HL1 and HL2 dm have way to much camping because they have the tripmine and the SLAM.

@EDIT: When it comes to singleplayer, most definitely not, when it comes to multiplayer, IDK cause I haven’t played it. It may or may not be a good game, but either way that doesn’t make Modern Warfare 2 any worse. And I’m sure you hate CoD fanboys yet you are acting exactly like one except replacing CoD with BFBC2.

@EDIT EDIT Yes, games that focus on realism suck. I’m sure BFBC2 put more focus on gameplay.

#42

DLC will cost $.

End of story as to why I will not pay for this game. :pirate:

#43

You mean like Call of Duty and Halo have that really annoying mechanic where you shoot, then run to another group of enemies, and shoot them. Then go and shoot some more people. And, and guess what? More shooting!

It’s just as repititious as Far Cry 2 is. At least FC2 mixes it up with realistic weapons and some fucking driving. Yes, I like the Call of Duty games, but to call a game where you do nothing but shoot people less repititious than a game where you shoot and drive is just plain stupidity.

#44

The difference is shooting and fighting takes skill while driving slowly through a repetitive landscape doesn’t. And in Halo and CoD you are fighting in different places, in different terrains, and different strategies are most effective for different situations. In Far Cry 2 there was only one situation and one most effective strategy; snipe as many as possible from a distance, get close and shoot the rest.

#45

That entiely depends on the game, wether it takes more skill to drive or shoot. In games like CoD and Halo it mostly depends on what gun you have: an assault rifle and a rocketlauncher is the best one. And guess what? There are perks that let you have infinite ammo for it. How marvelous. You don’t have to pick up another gun!

#46

I’m pretty skillfull and I managed to still kick ass,

What games DONT charge for DLC? Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Dragon Age: Origins…And then there are all those old ‘expansions’ that were exactly the same thing; everything from the Sims to Neverwinter Nights had those.

Starcraft II comes in 3 parts. All of which will cost money. That’s 2/3 of a game that’s effectively going to be DLC.

Valve are pretty much the only company that DON’T charge for DLC, and they STILL do that for any platform other than PC. So I wouldn’t write off all companies that charge for DLC just yet, otherwise the list of games that you will be able to play is extremely short.

I think the line you have to draw is at what stage is the DLC so critical to gameplay that it should’ve been included in the first place. I think that piece of DLC that extended Fallout 3 beyond your ‘death’ certainly should have been, and but given that the new MW2 only adds a few new maps, its hardly so central to gameplay that its absence causes a completely unrewarding gaming experience.

Agreed. For all its flaws, at least Halo and CoD actually drove your forwards. In Far Cry 2, not only do you have to do that yourself, you spend so much of the gaming driving across the entire map that you’re so exhausted you don’t have any motivation to continue.

#47

Of course you can be skillfull and kick ass in it. I never said otherwise. Just that you can kick ass even without videogame skill.

GODDAMNIT FFS MICROSOFT CHARGES FOR DLC ON THE XBOX! NOT VALVE!

#48

There is a slight difference in DLC and expnsion packs, expansion packs are generally larger, more along the lines Ep1 and Ep2 whereas DLC tends to be extra multiplayer maps and models and skins. Which quite a few PC companies have given away over the years.

#49

I don’t see how pirating the games is a statement against them. It’s like the school bully in high school; if you do ANYTHING, they’ll take it to mean everything revolves around them. (for instance, the game IS awesome but just doesn’t have enough DRM). The best method: Ignore them entirely.

And I agree about FC2; in reality, the only thing that prevented it from being fun for most people was expecting it to be like GTA.

#50

Wait, what??? I don’t like Far Cry 2 and I’ve never played a GTA game and am not particularly interested in playing one. FC2 wasn’t fun because there was way too much driving, the missions and the places they were preformed in where all too similar, out of the tons of strategies to use to take down enemies, sniping was by far the most effective.

#51

How about just playing the game for fun and use some of the other strategies. Then it’d be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more fun for you to play.

#52

That’s pretty far-fetched

#53

Well, he said there are a ton of strategies >_>

#54

bscly

#55

I think I may have sniped maybe twice in the entire playthrough I’m on, and I’m roughly 3/4 of the way through the game. It’s certainly not the most effective. Also, there are bus stops in the game for a reason.

#56

You know, I’m beginning to think he barely played FC2 at all.

#57

I will own it, but not buy it.

#58

That’s because you don’t use the as50. The other snipers aren’t very useful but the as50 destroys enemies. Dart rifle is good if you don’t have the as50.

That’s annoying. Games (except for casual ones) are meant to reward skill and good strategy. If a game doesn’t do that well then it isn’t a good game.

#59

I’m so amazed how the stim pak for pc has refucked us. I thought the worst of the storm was the no dedicateds. But wow. Its like Activision is purposely telling us to fuck off. These people should be banned from pc.

#60

Eh? I know that the distribution of the stimulus package has been sub-par, but that’s usually the way with major DLC. IIRC, Fallout 3 had major issues. If you wait a few days, I’m very sure the process will have all the kinks ironed out.

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