Frostbite3789 said:
Why are people getting so pumped up for this? It still looks godawful. I really don't get it. Have we learned nothing from CoD: Not Another WWII Shooter, MW2 and BlOps?
In my opinion it actually looked pretty good, the bits in Britain actually
looked like places I've been to in London so that alone for an American developer is pretty damn impressive.
You may have your grieviences with the Call of Duty series, and that is your choice and no-one else's, but that doesn't make anyone else feeble minded or lesser for being excited about this game.
It's going to disappoint (me). Every one of the last 3 CoD games has (disappointed me). Or has everyone convinced themselves BlOps is good now?
I believe that my little corrctions there more accurately reflect what the real truth behind your statement is. I actually enjoyed Black Ops and thought that, despite having a somewhat hard to follow plot, was overall a good game both in single and multiplayer (my reason? I had
fun playing it, do I need a better reason than that or is the concept of fun beneath you?).
Not the stuff of legend but still a great game that I would give positive reccomendation to, it didn't disappoint me, maybe you expected more from it than I did but saying something was 'disappointing' says not so much about the game as it does about what you were expecting from it (I found Half Life 2 and the Orange Box to be very disappointing considering how much I was hearing about the games inside).
Also why do I see a soldier with an American flag patch in France? I gotta think if we're getting invaded, we aren't really down for sending soldiers elsewhere, I think we've got enough problems.
That is an actual plot hole right there, it might have just been a mistake in editting and animation (slip ups like that can happen) or there may be an in-game explanation for it.
The only way we'll find out is to wait for it to come out and give it a chance.
Who the hell is even invading the entirety of the west? Russia? How and why? I asked this question in the teaser trailer, and not a single person answered.
Why were we not told in the trailers for Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes back that Lando Calrisian will turn out to be a back stabbing bastard? In hindsight this seems like an almost painfully obvious plot turn but back then, when no-one had seen it yet, it actually did come as a suprise.
Maybe the suprisingly large scale of the invasion does have an in-game explanation (I'm sure that America has more than enough enemies that oneor a combination of them can provide a fitting explanation as to why), maybe it's supposed to be a suprise twist, maybe there is no reason and it's just shoddy writing.
You know how we'll know?
By playing the freaking game and finding out for ourselves.
They might as well have added "Herp derp" at the beginning of the dialogue. The Modern Warfare series was in the process of jumping the shark in MW2, it has finished that jump with these trailers.
Are you trying to imply that this is honestly the most stupidly written plot that you've seen recently?
So we're discounting FEAR (where a psychic clone army activates because of the will of a little 'The Ring-esc' girl and stages a minor invasion of the urban US), Metal Gear Solid 4 (I could be here writing essays trying to explain the abstract craziness in that one), Bioshock 2 (Communist cultists under the sea want to play God, only one man can stop them), Splatterhouse (we're sorry Rick but your princess is in another Elder God's plane of existance), Bad Company 2 (which basically copied Modern Warfare 2 and tried, badly, to be witty about it), Lost Planet 2 (Evil Government tries to kick start global warming/ice age because...hey, why not?), anything from the Command and Conquer series (seriously, that crap gets weird sometimes) and Mass Effect 2 (or as I like to call it, 'I just made Space Cthulhu my *****')?
I would say most of those games are absolutely brilliant (except Bad Company 2 and FEAR but I had to make a point) yet all of them have had times where their plot has gone completely haywire (sometimes this is partially why those games are so good).
My overall point I'm trying to make here is basically to actually wait for the damn game to come out before you start deriding others for actually being excited for what may turn out to be a good game, wait until you actually have a game to judge before you start raining on other people's parades (especially since most of your issues seem to stem purely from you personally not being much of a CoD person, that's fine and all but acknowledge that it also fine that it's no less acceptable to be a CoD fan).
