People who go straight online with MW2 after getting it
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I was astonished to find that many of the people I know went straight onto multiplayer with MW2 as soon as it arrived at their doorstep.
I don't understand this at all. True, COD4 and MW2 have sublime online play, but any game's soul and personality is found in the single-player/story mode. That's how I started with MW2. I got a proper feel for the game, absorbed the differences, and over time I got immersed with the story and became shocked and enthralled by some of the missions.
I'm an avid gamer, I like COD and I hate the video game blame culture as much as the next person, but I am beginning to worry about the sort of gamers that this franchise is attracting - people who just want to log onto a soulless, hostile environment and kill other people on new maps with new guns and perks.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
I don't understand this at all. True, COD4 and MW2 have sublime online play, but any game's soul and personality is found in the single-player/story mode. That's how I started with MW2. I got a proper feel for the game, absorbed the differences, and over time I got immersed with the story and became shocked and enthralled by some of the missions.
I'm an avid gamer, I like COD and I hate the video game blame culture as much as the next person, but I am beginning to worry about the sort of gamers that this franchise is attracting - people who just want to log onto a soulless, hostile environment and kill other people on new maps with new guns and perks.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
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So for Modern Warfare 2 i did the Single Player first, then jumped into Multiplayer.
MW2 however I did MP first as I already knew the basic controls.
Still, started the SP campaign on day 2 of having the game though.
Although for COD6 I am going through the SP first as well. Then might go through Spec Ops with a mate.
Playing with random's just doesn't do it for me. You either getting whooped as they have all the best weapons and know the maps inside out or you just get abuse from an american teenager who wants to do nasty things to my mum.
At least with friends, you can balance out the teams and communicate with each other via the bluetooth headset which is nigh on impossible with randoms.
I'll then move onto online and play that until the novelty of it being new wears off.
Then i start the campaign again and work my way through it on veteran but i'll switch between that and online when veteran frustrations get too much.
I find online play to be a bit boring after a couple games unless i'm playing with friends who i can talk to and have a bit of a laugh with. I'm a girl so any time i open my mouth to anybody who isn't a friend i get bombarded with friend requests and questions about what i'm wearing. Sitting there playing game after game in silence isn't fun.
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I think you will find that you are in the minority,as the majority of people have bought this game for the online play.The single player is more like a nice add on.
It's half way there now by the way things are going, it would allow the devs to put all there efforts into the multiplayer/maps etc to make the ultimate online game?
It would also mean no half hearted SP campaign that SP players only may not be happy with.
Yeah but not as much of a furore as when there servers went down due to demand!
This is very unusual; I know I can often be found playing a game before I've actually bought it:p.
That. Is a very good point.
Interesting. On the first day of release, for the first 8 hours or so I was playing online fine with no lag whatsoever, and it was only much later that I realised that that was with 'another P2P' program running as well.
Of course later that day, as more people started getting on it I ended up having to switch the other one off.
Indeed.
Whenever you come across CoD4 players that are on the highest prestige levels and you check their achievements you usually find virtually zero points achieved foe the game.
They spend their entire time just playing online.
Then after that spent most of my time doing the campaign. Only intended to have a short blast on that too but it got me hooked after the second level.