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Just finished the MW3 campaign and am extremely close to finishing Black Ops 2. I didn't enjoy either of them and it just proves to me that you can make a bland, repetitive, predictable game and still make millions when you market it well.

MW3 SPOILERS:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I think ever since the nuke scene in Modern Warfare they've been trying to get the "OMG!!!" moment in every single one.

It was the "No Russian" mission in COD4. The one so brutal you could skip it if you wanted. It got them a lot of press and now they carry on like children acting out to get attention. The next game they blow up a kid in front of you, then they burn a little girl alive then smash her head open on a mirror. (all skippable scenes so they don't come off as jerks). I'm sure a child will be raped to death in the next one.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
It was the "No Russian" mission in COD4. The one so brutal you could skip it if you wanted. It got them a lot of press and now they carry on like children acting out to get attention. The next game they blow up a kid in front of you, then they burn a little girl alive then smash her head open on a mirror. (all skippable scenes so they don't come off as jerks). I'm sure a child will be raped to death in the next one.

No Russian was Modern Warfare 2. It was the nuke that was in CoD4 (aka Modern Warfare)

For the record, I enjoyed the airport massacre in MW2.
It reminded me of the old Amiga game "Lemmings" and the hours of fun I had trying to find awesome ways to splatter all of my lemmings. In many ways I never grew up.

I'll still argue the point that there was not objectives in Lemmings other than the kill the things...

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I think ever since the nuke scene in Modern Warfare they've been trying to get the "OMG!!!" moment in every single one.

I still think my favorite part of the Modern Warfare series was the mission "Whiskey Hotel". Seeing the White House in ruins and having to take it back from the Russians was such a huge "Whoa" factor for me.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
It was the "No Russian" mission in COD4. The one so brutal you could skip it if you wanted. It got them a lot of press and now they carry on like children acting out to get attention. The next game they blow up a kid in front of you, then they burn a little girl alive then smash her head open on a mirror. (all skippable scenes so they don't come off as jerks). I'm sure a child will be raped to death in the next one.

No Russian was Modern Warfare 2. It was the nuke that was in CoD4 (aka Modern Warfare)

Right sorry, I meant the CoD with the shooting in it.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
It was the "No Russian" mission in COD4. The one so brutal you could skip it if you wanted. It got them a lot of press and now they carry on like children acting out to get attention. The next game they blow up a kid in front of you, then they burn a little girl alive then smash her head open on a mirror. (all skippable scenes so they don't come off as jerks). I'm sure a child will be raped to death in the next one.

No Russian was Modern Warfare 2. It was the nuke that was in CoD4 (aka Modern Warfare)

Right sorry, I meant the CoD with the shooting in it.

Surely thats, err.... All of them, right?

I have to admit it was Black Ops 1 that put me off CoD, I enjoyed MW and MW2, but Black Ops just annoyed me, so I never got MW3, or BO2, and I'm probably not going to get Ghosts either. I still play CoD 2 quite a lot though, damn that's an awesome game!

Wow funny how I somehow managed to start a CoD discussion. When it comes to the games, the only real one that "put me off" was MW3 when I played online. I vowed only to pick them up for the story from then on, Black Ops 2 made me want to try the multiplayer again. Must say I'm enjoying playin FPS games again.

Now onto games I'm playing, picked up some indie games via various bundles so playing through them atm, some not so good and some very good games from em.

currently I'm playing Plague INC. On my tablet. I'm pretty hooked on this game if you find it on your tablet or phone I definitely recommend it.

I was playing a gam like that called Pandemic 2. Is Plague Inc better?

You know I played Pandemic 2 but hell if I can remember it past that I can say though, PlagueINC is super fun. Its a typical freemium layout,so some things will take awhile to unlock if you don't fork out cash, but so far I've been on it for several hours total and still keep trying

I am, of course, playing Skyrim!

I think it's a game that I will legitimately never get bored of. There's not really anything else like it (other Bethesda games nonwithstanding), and mods just add a silly amount of new content.

Finally picked up the new Tomb Raider...and holy gak, I'm really loving it so far. Normally I'm not a big fan of button-mashing and QTEs, but it's been working really well so far.

The one thing I'm enjoying the best is Lara Croft's reaction to everything that's going on...they make it very clear that she's out of her element, and nothing like Nathan Drake or Indiana Jones (in terms of "adventuring archeologists").

 mega_bassist wrote:
Finally picked up the new Tomb Raider...and holy gak, I'm really loving it so far. Normally I'm not a big fan of button-mashing and QTEs, but it's been working really well so far.

The one thing I'm enjoying the best is Lara Croft's reaction to everything that's going on...they make it very clear that she's out of her element, and nothing like Nathan Drake or Indiana Jones (in terms of "adventuring archeologists").

Well congratulations and agreed! The game is a true gem me thinks. Also it had some rather nice enemies & challenges.


For the moment I am slugging my way trough Far Cry 3 for the fourth or fifth time. And my god this game gets so much more enjoyably when you ramp up the difficulty level

 Trondheim wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
Finally picked up the new Tomb Raider...and holy gak, I'm really loving it so far. Normally I'm not a big fan of button-mashing and QTEs, but it's been working really well so far.

The one thing I'm enjoying the best is Lara Croft's reaction to everything that's going on...they make it very clear that she's out of her element, and nothing like Nathan Drake or Indiana Jones (in terms of "adventuring archeologists").

Well congratulations and agreed! The game is a true gem me thinks. Also it had some rather nice enemies & challenges.

Oh man, you're not kidding. The first time I had to actually fight bad guys was definitely an eye-opener And I always find myself walking around looking for journals/artifacts and hunting animals.

Dead island Riptide

Dark Souls, Catbroing it up.

I finally bought Battlefield 3 and am playing that. And thinking it plays a lot like Battlefield 2, which is not a bad thing.

commissar80 wrote:
Dead island Riptide

How do you like it? I really enjoyed the first, and was hoping the sequel was even better/expanded upon.

i shall be playing more World of Warplanes beta because i will not turn down 10k free gold for playing during E3, i also want to get my beta tester free plane.

Just beat RAGE, which I really enjoyed. Solid shooter. Also beat xcom, and I loved that game!

Iam enjoying dead island only wished they fixed the same bugs that occur as in the first one and occasionally some of the boards feel like there from the first one, i like that i can import the characters i used from the first game.

Just beat Injustice for the iPhone, excited to see my prize for beating every level...and it's just unlocking the Superman Prison outfit for the console. Sigh. Enjoyed playing as Scorpion on the console though, seeing how he's not even officially out yet, but the trick to DL him works! Have season pass, download Doomsday update patch, download Scorpion from inside the game, not from marketplace. Waiting excitedly for the next TMNT game too.

Civ 2 - trying the Crusader Rush strategies on as many poor civilizations as I can. It's remarkably successful - victory in 250 BC!

Planetside 2, Blacklight: Retribution, and Doom 3. Before that was Skyrim and Dark Souls. Planetside 2 is pretty amazing. I started ranking in the top ten for kills on the west coast server playing infantry. I'm taking a break for awhile. That game is fun.

I honestly somewhat prefer Blacklight:Retribution to PS2. Planetside2's been fun since I got a computer that doesn't cry out in agony from trying to run the unoptimized PoS the Forgelight engine apparently is, but I just think the sheer customizability of Blacklight is superior.

Back on Pokémon Emerald here. Playing a Nuzlocke challenge with one of my friends, a race of sorts.

Company of Heroes 2, the second beta. Loving the game without the mortar spam from the first beta.

State of Decay, Great 20 buck arcade game. Has more content and fun then some of the 60 dollar games I've bought