Serves them (IW) right for not testing their code with a beta! This could all have been avoided. Essentially everyone that bought MW2 ended up being beta testers!
People are blaming the hackers & cheaters which is good and all, but in the end you (IW) should have these same people testing the code to make sure it's solid before release, not after the fact. Now there's going to be a lot of pissed legit gamers out there.
Every game has there small issues, but keep ...
chewmandinga said:
"Hope MAG doesn't have this kind of annoyance in it. If someone glitch-kills me i'll never find him in a sea of 200+ people!"
MAG is NOT going to have this many bugs because the devs were smart enough to have a 6 month BETA test and fixed most of their issues!
IW were too arrogant to beta test their crappy code... I mean come on man there's like glitchs/cheats being found daily. Now the stats, leaderboards & trophies/achievement...
The focus has now shifted from winning a match/game to killstreaks rewards. It's ruining the game!
Actually Bubbles rextyrann is spot on with the rest of his post as well.
2 million + pre-orders before anyone touched the game? That's almost half of their 4.7 million first day sales! Also, there were no reviews allowed to be release until the day it released.
So again I say that's not hype?
1st Edit:
I've read on several forums (not just N4G) that there is a small percentage of gamers that regret purchasing the game.
2nd Edit:
Point taken... but it seems that IW are lowering the standards for the COD franchise....
So bubbles, you're saying that BFBC2 has the same grainy graphics that BFBC had? And, the same jerky movement and bad animations as well? Personally I think you must have downloaded & been playing the beta for the first game because I see a huge difference.
Just to note I absolutely hated the first BFBC but I love BFBC2... so I don't fall under your category of "like the first... will like this one".
Yes, you can say I'm a bit bitter with the success of...
I can't believe how much I've played this one multiplayer map/mode and I'm still having a ton of fun! The teamwork is incredible and you don't ever hear any annoying kids screaming obscenities in your ear at all, just tactical chat with your squad mates.
I too rented MW2 (for a week & don't missed it a bit) and like my comment on my psn friends lists states "BFBC2 owns MW2 IMO". I've had many of my friends on my list ask me why I think so and I had to tell them the ...
Dejavu!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
I'm on the floor LMAO right now!
Hell no! Those 600,000 to a 1,000,000 banned players are going to want to get back on xblive and play MW2!
I don't own it remember or are your magnifying classes so filled cat poop, that you can't read the words I wrote? I don't really care for the game, I was just explaining my short experience with it and my future (sarcastic) prediction of the game.
Hey if you love having an over the top break neck fast pace FPS game that has a 100ms to 200ms delay because of it's network architecture, who am I to stand in your way?
Notice the game you used in the video has dedicated s...
They were able to get away (again) with not implementing dedicated servers on a game that clearly requires them. With how fast the gameplay is, the p2p method they're using just can't handle the packet round trip of information going on in that blazing fast gameplay. Especially with the variations of world internet connections, which already creates an imbalance (along with the imbalance perk system).
Here is what will happen... MW3 will have dedicated servers but for a marginal ...
Good post and I agree with you 100%!
IMO yes, (not saying I'm right or wrong) in my view there are other games out there that are more deserving of the praise that MW2 gets. MW2 is actually a very bad game for the industry... instead of innovating the genre, most devs (not all) will try to copy the success of the one trick pony of IW's masterpiece and we'll be stuck in a COD FPS game type rut for some years to come.
Gaming is supposed to move forward by a fairly good pace IMO and MW2 did move forward, but not by muc...
The frustration level is unbearable, I'm right there with you guys. I still can't believe that IW/Activision made all that $$$ and skipped dedicated servers (for all platforms). Their netcode is an absolute joke! They improved on almost every aspect except where is counts the netcode! Again, good thing I only rented it!
I too only rented it (on release day) and haven't played it for 2 days now. I had a feeling this would happen, and I was right. Anyways, I give the game back to Blockbuster tomorrow and then it's on to BFBC2 beta... this game however, I can see myself playing for quite a long time, lets hope I'm right!
I also hate MW2 multiplayer (I'm playing it now because I rented it). I find it way too fast and way too many ways to get easy kills, all you have to do is camp for your kill streaks the get more easy kills with your kill streak reward.
The p2p network code it uses has a second or two delay, which makes the game frustrating as hell... the kill cams will show you that every time.
The good news is that I give it back on the 18th and start playing BFBC2 beta on the 19t...
I rented it and already played through the very short single player... it's an good game and all, but it felt like I've played it before. I don't why so many other reviewers rate it so high why most say it has little or no WOW factor? The one very annoying thing that bugged me (actually pissed me off was more like it), every time I took a few bullets some midget off screen would throw strawberry jam in my face to obstruct my view... I couldn't see sh!t.
Anyway I have it for a wee...
that it always gets a free pass no matter how generic it is, other games get dinged in reviews for not being innovative enough, but reviewers & gamers most times give COD a free pass!
Gametrailers is one of the worst... subtracting points for the game not being innovative, it ended up with a 9.3. Meanwhile, I would almost beat my left nut that MW2 will not have the same fate and receive at least a 9.5.
While the COD series is good and did bring a few new things t...
With players hoping from building to building, it doesn't seem that realistic, I'd love to see real military infantry do that! And, jumping off 3 story building only gets you a splash of strawberry jam in your face LOL... wtf is up with that?
With a decent dev mod group this gameplay could be duplicated as a Quake 3 mod!
Meh.. no big deal.
The MW2 cheating & bugs are getting ridiculous! Now this server/ISP thing... I don't know how true it is though.
I feel like the guy who missed his flight... but ended up living because the plane crashed!
I sure hope many gamers learn from this... and wait for games that don't have betas or demos.
Thank GOD I didn't buy that game... boy did I ever dodged a bullet there! I would have been pissed off beyond belief if I spent $80 CAD and had an unplayab...