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bombboy1252 wrote:Actually I replayed MW1 about a week or two ago, I liked it a bit, but that might just be my nostalgia from when I was a younger...

Yes, and I fondly remember Quake's multiplayer... but I still am able to objectively realize that Quake 3 and 4 were better... and quake 4's single player was much better structured and put together than quake 1's...

As for killstreaks, weren't we talking about single player, not multi? I mean, I certainly agree that killstreaks aren't exactly a great thing for multiplayer (now, points for getting kills/capping points/rescuing hostages/etc to spend in the match is fine-- rewarding people for supporting the team without it needing to be TDM...), so I wouldn't argue there...

Cerebrium wrote:It's the gaming equivalent of an Arnie movie. Brainless but fun.

No, that is reserved for anything made by Koei and ends with the word "Warriors".

I love myself some Dynasty Warriors no matter how shamefully bad of a game it is.

Does MW have a weak story? I could give you reasons why but I think this video sums it up better than I ever could

I loved their rank track in that game Gotta give Epic some credit for creative advertising.

So, I've been playing MW3

I take it back guys.
This story mode, is wayyyy more effing bland than the last two.
And wayyyyy less fun to play.

I guess give props to the first two game now.

Haven't gotten to much into multiplayer, but it seems alright so far.


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What I mean to say is, atleast the first two games had a few jaw dropping moments.
The only thing that has dropped so far was spacemarine's trade in value at gamestop when I tried to get store credit.

The story mode is not compelling in any way. Weak....

UM the bit with the shooting in the face with a knife was at the end of Modern Warfare 2 not one lol


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Melissia wrote:Its story is no worse than the average video game's story.










No, this isn't saying much.

Halo's story is pretty awesome. As is Mass Effect's.

I can only play the single player modes of these games, and I thought they weren't too bad. MW2 I really liked because there were a wide variety of environments you fought in. BF3 the levels seemed rehashed and boring. You can hardly see anyone either! Plus, I wouldn't want to play any of these games over Xbox Live because of the immaturity of its users. If I want to play an online FPS, I play TF2.

I enjoyed both MW and MW2 from a gameplay perspective, but the story for MW2 just makes my head hurt.

A Russian speaking CIA agent goes undercover with a Russian terrorist group to slaughter an airport. They figure out he's a spy and kill him, leaving his body behind. Russian authorities find the body and figure out he's American (because apparently we're a physically identifiable race now...?) due to outrage, the Russians detonate an EMP and invade the US to an extent which kills tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of civilians and untold millions of dollars in damage.

That alone is dumb enough, and is basically the logical equivalent of " this terrorist group attacked us and one of them was French, therefore, we're going to invade France", which is ridiculous for sooo many reasons.

But no, that's not all. The terrorist group was actually in league with an American general who was upset he lost so many men in MW1. So how does he cope with the guilt of American soldiers dying? He kills and sets fire to the groups of American soldiers who were supposed to be helping him track down the leader of the terrorist group, of course!

Then he says he done it all to save America. Never mind the fact tons of people are dead, the economy would probably take a decade or more to recover, and the military and infrastructure is ruined. Oh, and there's bound to still be some of the Russian army SOMEWHERE.

Way to go, Shepard! Here's the Medal of Honor for saving America.


Plot holes are one thing, but an incomprehensible plot from the start is something else. @_@

If you play CoD for the Singleplayer, you are silly.

If you want a story read a book.

Toastedandy wrote:If you want a story read a book.

Books are merely another medium for storytelling.
Films are another.
Games are a viable medium for storytelling and so can be judged on that basis.

MW1's story was nothing spectacular either, and wasn't exactly much less riddled with plot holes.

GalacticDefender wrote:Halo's story is pretty awesome. As is Mass Effect's.

Mass Effect is so far above average that this only reinforces my statement. As for Halo, I've heard plenty of mixed reviews on its story.

Melissia wrote:MW1's story was nothing spectacular either, and wasn't exactly much less riddled with plot holes.

GalacticDefender wrote:Halo's story is pretty awesome. As is Mass Effect's.

Mass Effect is so far above average that this only reinforces my statement. As for Halo, I've heard plenty of mixed reviews on its story.

Wasnt a big fan of halos story myself. If you ask me, it was generic and boring.
I liked Bioshock 2s story quite a bit. Havent played bioshock 1, so well see about that.

purplefood wrote:

Toastedandy wrote:If you want a story read a book.

Books are merely another medium for storytelling.
Films are another.
Games are a viable medium for storytelling and so can be judged on that basis.

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I did not mean that games are not a storytelling medium. On the contrary, games could become the most powerful storytelling medium of them all. Games could give us the freedom too shape our own story with our own actions, but games such as this. BF, GTA etc are like playing a movie, or even playing a Tom Clancy book, but with no imagination involved. So I say again, you want a story, read a book.

Toastedandy wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Toastedandy wrote:If you want a story read a book.

Books are merely another medium for storytelling.
Films are another.
Games are a viable medium for storytelling and so can be judged on that basis.

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I did not mean that games are not a storytelling medium. On the contrary, games could become the most powerful storytelling medium of them all. Games could give us the freedom too shape our own story with our own actions, but games such as this. BF, GTA etc are like playing a movie, or even playing a Tom Clancy book, but with no imagination involved. So I say again, you want a story, read a book.

There are games with good stories though. Usually not the massive ones but there are good ones.
Bastion for instance (IMO) has a greta story and is pretty damn cheap considering.