Crysis 2 Writer Calls Modern Warfare 2 a Disappointment
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4,5 hour campaign is an EPIC FAILURE, for a game that costs millions of dollars in development and advertising.
It fills me with disgust and makes physically sick to my stomach that such products exist. It should be a laughing-stock of the gaming community.
It fills me with disgust and makes physically sick to my stomach that such products exist. It should be a laughing-stock of the gaming community.
Actually I have yet to meet someone who has said that MW2 storyline makes sense or is in any way coherent. Just because people like to play the multiplayer doesn't mean they all think the single player story is good, how does that even make sense?Tom Goldman said:
I think that is both profound and very true. I've played all of those games except STALKER (I'm an unashamed fanboy of all three of Doom [and Doom 2 - haven't played Doom 3 yet], Half Life [and HL2] and System Shock [and SS2 / Bioshock]) but "Painkiller's" biggest weakness is it's story, which it could ideally just do without.Furburt said:
To take the point further though: it helps to know what type of game you have against what type of story you have. "Half Life 2" sets up a very strong sense of place from the start, with the major characters and locations fleshed out from the moment you step off the train. From then on it's a fairly linear progression but the story works well this way, and every step adds to it.
On the other end of the scale you have open world games like System Shock and Bioshock where you can explore, pick up little pieces of what's happened, and mentally "put them together" yourself via ghost sightings, audio logs, radio transmissions, written messages, etc. There's no way that this approach would work in a game like "Half Life 2" - it would just break the "flow" of the game to keep stopping all the time - but for the more exploration-driven Shock games it was perfect.
people played the game for its multiplayer, not the story; since the developers knew that, they didn't worry about making a good story, so then we got that piece of garbage of a single player
don't get me wrong, the multiplayer is fun; but the game's singleplayer is just a wasted effort
don't get me wrong, the multiplayer is fun; but the game's singleplayer is just a wasted effort
I think the idea of MW2 is to play it for fun.
Not to take it seriously (despite how it's marketed or perceived by the masses).
Not to take it seriously (despite how it's marketed or perceived by the masses).
Are we actually asking if the story is good because it felt like reading a book that had been ripped up and put back together in the wrong order with pages missing.
This is certainly ironic.
Because from my point of view Crysis was a disapointment in comparison to Far Cry.
Far Cry had everything I ever wished form a FPS and when the highly expected sequel came out - Crysis - the game was virtually all about the graphics and very little about the gameplay.
Far Cry was a masterpiece with 30 hours of solid groundbreaking gameplay.
Crysis was an 8 hour long modern day copycat Sci-Fi shooter with little brains and all about the graphics.
Kind of funny how things turn out, don't you think?
Because from my point of view Crysis was a disapointment in comparison to Far Cry.
Far Cry had everything I ever wished form a FPS and when the highly expected sequel came out - Crysis - the game was virtually all about the graphics and very little about the gameplay.
Far Cry was a masterpiece with 30 hours of solid groundbreaking gameplay.
Crysis was an 8 hour long modern day copycat Sci-Fi shooter with little brains and all about the graphics.
Kind of funny how things turn out, don't you think?
MW2 was a disappointment as far as anything goes. It's a terrible game. It's like IW looked at CoD4 and thought "hey, that was nice... Now I wonder what we can get away with!". Either that or they got their "dos" and "don'ts" sheets mixed up, because MW2 seems like an amalgamation of every wrong thing in CoD4, with every good thing about it thrown out in favor of more horrible game design. This happens to the point where I have to seriously wonder whether CoD4 was just a massive once-in-a-lifetime fluke or if Mw2 was a conscious effort to be as bad as they could.Tom Goldman said:
I'm looking forward to Crysis 2. The writer seems to know what he's talking about at least.
I agree with this guy, so he better not dissapoint with Crysis 2! (I loved the first with a passion, but I admit the story was lame-ish).
Pretty much my view on the issue. CoD4's story was definitely a level up-there, though, I cannot articulate why nearly as well as many of you could. For me, it was more of a 'feeling' / 'sense of authenticity'. With that said, now I have much higher expectations for Crysis 2; otherwise, it's kinda...you know...hypocrisy thereFurburt said:
MW2 single player was pretty awful:
*trial and error gameplay
*awful AI
*too many 'monster closets'
*pretty average 'Oh no! Phew. Oh no! Phew' (repeat) story.
*trial and error gameplay
*awful AI
*too many 'monster closets'
*pretty average 'Oh no! Phew. Oh no! Phew' (repeat) story.
