That's usually how it be, even for people who started BLOPS from the very beginning. Though there are people who hate the story for BLOPS3. Finding it either too dark, too depressing, or both. Some didn't like the ending either.
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@Worgen, @NerfedFalcon, and @hanselthecaretaker2, I decided to pick up MW2 (2009) Remastered. Due note, in order to buy this game it's digital only, and for some reason you have to get off the PSN store via phone, tablet, or PC. For some reason, it never shows up on the PSN stores for PS5/PS4, unless you already purchased or put it on the wish list. I am not sure if it's the same for the XBOX/Game Pass store.
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0002-CUSA09249_00-CODMW2RSTANDARD1
MW1 Remaster I will order a physical copy from Amazon later today.
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0002-CUSA09249_00-CODMW2RSTANDARD1
MW1 Remaster I will order a physical copy from Amazon later today.
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I don't remember much about Blops3, I think I only went through the single player once and parts of it blend with 2, but I recall it being fine. I played the hell out of the multi, not as much as 2, but still a lot.
Anyway, beat Crysis 3. Crysis 3 started out fine, but pretty much got into every territory of annoying shooters for me. Shooting was fine, graphics were really nice, game started out not buggy, the bow is an ok addition that felt kinda half baked, like it should have either been excluded or made the primary weapon. Anyway, gotta talk story.
Story got really contrived feeling and went the standard boring route. It kinda ended up feeling like ideas for a Crysis 2 plot that they decided against and then just used for 3. Didn't like any of the characters. It retreated familiar ground with Cell being the initial badguy again then the ceth showing up again. Same story beats to 2, except done much more clumsily. The resistance fighters barely showed up and added nothing. It also has the most 'strong female character' I have ever encountered. Like when someone derides a strong female character, the strong female character in Crysis 3 is who they mean. She starts off tough and incharge, then as soon as things go wrong a little bit shes like "I agree with that guy, we are all doomed", then she gets rescued by Psycho then she dies to have a totally flat emotional moment. All the stuff with the ceth is pretty lame too, you beat them in a contrived way and any potentially interesting things that could have happened don't, its stock standard action plot number 3. Also, what happened with the disease that turns people into goo?
I can see myself replaying Crysis and Crysis 2, but probably not 3, unless I really want that achievement for beating it on the hardest difficulty, which I doubt I will.
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Gameplay of MW2 is really good, not as good as WW2, but it feels quite good to play. Story is just plop and silly.
I have the original versions of Modern Warfare 1 and 2 on Steam. They run surprisingly well on Windows 10 (I haven't tried Windows 11 yet), other than your windows getting messed up by the default resolution being 480p. It does have native resolution options up to 1440p at least, possibly even 4K if you have a 4K monitor.
Of course, the multiplayer is only played by hackers (the kind that steal your PC) anymore, not that you really care about that, and I guess there's some features in the remaster that might make it more playable, especially on console; I still think the originals hold up pretty well in graphics terms, though.
3 is my personal favorite of the franchise, but 2 has the better impact for me. I didn't find 3's story as bad as some online critics make it out to be. I do admit that I don't give a damn about Pyscho's love interest, Claire(?). Yet, the twist where he finds out who skinned him out of his suit is heartbreaking to hear from his perspective. Crysis 3 has the best upgrade system of the trilogy, and I love the hybrid level design of 2 and 3. They even bring back secondary objectives.
I've only had the game crash on me once playing the Remastered Trilogy on PS4. It was at the final boss fight. Closing the app, and starting it again fixed issue. It never happened again when playing on PS4 or PS5.
I do like the ending, as Crytek doesn't do a sequel hook and knew it was pretty much over for the series. I respect them for that.
I find myself replaying 2 & 3 more than 1. I just don't like the last 2/3 of the original, and hate fighting the Ceph there. They have too much health, even on easy in Crysis.
Exactly why I stopped playing MW after the second game. The franchise in general turned me off, because I got sick and tired of cover shooters really early. People trying to defend the silliness, or professional critics trying to justify the franchise still being 'realistic' made me less inclined to play them and my younger self told them all to fuck off.
Indeed they do.
Thank you. Even without the hackers I never cared that hard for the multiplayer to begin with, and I ain't paying $60 just so some assholes can yell the N-Word at me. Funny enough, when it did happen and they realized I am black, those cowards would take off running and leave the lobby. Though that was mainly in the Far Cry Instincts multiplayer the one time. Still, there are good people online, but not my worth time as a whole.
I haven't looked too much into DD2, but based on what I know I probably wouldn't like it. For all its other faults, I dig the progression systems and resource- and micromanagement aspect of DD1. It has the same appeal as XCOM: specific characters becoming your reliable specialists for certain tasks. DD2 doing away with that just feels like it's changing too much for me.
Playing Kaycee's Mod in Inscryption.
I'm a few brick walls short of giving up the Platinum on this one, at least for now.
You can break the game with the black goat card, which requires a single sacrifice to play but counts for three sacrifices itself (which is what the heavy weight cards require, and usually take a couple of turns to play). You ensure you always get that card on your first draw by getting rid of any other cards in your deck that also require a single sacrifice; you also ensure you can exploit the fuck out of the goat card by trading another card with a sigil that basically makes it immortal, either because it won't go away when sacrificed or will return to your hand when killed by an enemy. And that's how you win most battles in a single hand.
Reason I might give up is that you're eventually asked to play with EVERY challenge modifier on. Less item space, no rerolls, no stealing, no rare cards, double prices, double enemy quantity, double enemy damage, modifiers for regular and boss battles, and scales tipped against you (you start at -1), and that's just half the unlocks.
I'm a few brick walls short of giving up the Platinum on this one, at least for now.
You can break the game with the black goat card, which requires a single sacrifice to play but counts for three sacrifices itself (which is what the heavy weight cards require, and usually take a couple of turns to play). You ensure you always get that card on your first draw by getting rid of any other cards in your deck that also require a single sacrifice; you also ensure you can exploit the fuck out of the goat card by trading another card with a sigil that basically makes it immortal, either because it won't go away when sacrificed or will return to your hand when killed by an enemy. And that's how you win most battles in a single hand.
Reason I might give up is that you're eventually asked to play with EVERY challenge modifier on. Less item space, no rerolls, no stealing, no rare cards, double prices, double enemy quantity, double enemy damage, modifiers for regular and boss battles, and scales tipped against you (you start at -1), and that's just half the unlocks.
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The perspective on "skinning" was interesting, but it still reeks of an idea for 2 that they decided not to use to me. The upgrade system was fine, but I still ended up just getting a couple, mainly that sped up energy regen and not needing anything else.
I had a fantastic bug where near the end you rescue some guys and they ask you to gun on their apc. Died and when I reloaded it was pretending the gun was the alien sniper rifle I had been using... at least sound wise. Either way that section sucked and was so stupid, the gun they let you use is just the mounted 50, not the turret and the only enemies are the walkers who turn to face you immediately so you can't shoot their weak point and the 50 can't hurt them otherwise so you just die if you are on the vehicle. After dealing with them, which took much longer then it should have since they had an annoying habit of immediately facing me even if I was clocked as soon as I fired a weapon. I found another secondary with a morter team who I could have used against them, but no more walkers at that point so didn't get to do that.
I found the ceth rather easy to deal with and this was on the hardest difficulty. Like they didn't feel like they took much damage to kill. I remembered them being much tougher but with that ice cannon they were easy to take out, big guys little guys, no issue.
Who was saying that MW2 and 3 were realistic? I know of some that seemed to like the plots... for whatever reason, they just annoyed me.
I played a lot of cod multi, but I don't ever remember hearing the nword, but I did play on pc and I don't use a mic. I think I do remember someone being racist against mexicans on one match. I only game I really remember hearing it when I tried the original team fortress and it was annoying enough that I stopped playing it.
Certain professional outlets (a lot of them closed down, though IGN being one of them), no named journalists with shitty takes thinking they were going to go somewhere, but never did and were forgotten about, COD/cover shooter fan boys, and anyone who had an axe to grind on anything Japanese.
I was playing on X360 at the time.
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I have heard much of the cesspit of scum and villainy of the 360 online. I didn't pay so I didn't play online.
Do all these CoD games still need ActiBlizz client to install/run on PC, or has that changed since the Ms buyout?
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Maybe? Ones that were launched after activision tried moving everything to battle.net say they need an activision account, but I'm not sure if that just means for the multi or for all modes and if it also means a launcher or not. Sounds like it just needs an account, but the older titles like up to blops 3 or ww2 don't need that.
@hanselthecaretaker2, @NerfedFalcon, @laggyteabag, and @Worgen, I am playing MW2 Remastered (PS4 game being played on PS5) and it's basically Red Dawn crossed with three different Michael Bay films, and Bourne Identity. I got to the best section in the game where you're in the prison, and it's literally The Rock, except you're in Russia and being the invading force trying. Yep, this is 2009 gaming like I remember when it came to these type of shooters. This game is tougher than I remember too. Any of these people saying Normal mode is "too easy"are lying and full of shit. Surprisingly, I didn't die once in the prison level. I don't know how I survived all that, but was getting head shots left and right. Using the cover and terrain properly. I am actually having fun, despite the plot being stupid and nothing like the first game.
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Yeah, its still fun, but you have to ignore the plot, especially with the turn traitor guy, which still makes no sense and isn't brought up at all in mw3.
Shepherd's betrayal makes no sense, and him "snapping" felt like it was thrown in there to have another guy, and just sequel bait for the real final battle against Makarov. The only thing I can give credit to the story, is that at least his villainy is slowly implied and reveals a small little details each mission briefings or how gets so careless with the soldiers at or in his command.
If I remember correctly: Shepherd is still hinted at causing a lot of the mess, or at least implied the public wasn't aware of his actions during events of MW3.
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The only good thing about it is that the missions you get in the airplane graveyard and the mission in the house are cool locations.
That too. Right now I am at the part where the EMP struck and knocked out everything. I am stopping for tonight.
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It might be a hot take (probably not hot enough for the main thread), but my favorite missions in MW2 are the Rangers ones on the American home front. Admittedly they kinda suffer from being a little too America-Fuck-Yeah, but the setting is (or was in 2009) honestly pretty different to where most games were going, as much as it's kinda biting off Red Dawn. And stepping out of the bunker at the start of 'Of Their Own Accord' and seeing Washington DC on fire was pretty striking, and I'm not even American.