New Modern Warfare 3 Screens Bring the Grey

[Plunkies]

Just how COD fans love it. Bland, mediocre and derivative.

 

[shrekfan246]

is that black Ops? How about a GOOD game that doesnt make me want to stab my ears?
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Ladies and gentleman... an example of why arguing on the internet is utterly pointless.

I've learned to use the "realistic-shooter-haters" merely as a source of laughter, now, because nothing with ever make them change their tunes. Apparently they expect every single pixel to be a vibrantly different color than the one next to it (which would incidentally create absolutely atrocious aesthetics) and that no matter how many blues, purples, yellows, greens, and oranges you mix in, it'll all still just be grey and brown somehow because, you know, god forbid a game should have a consistent tone to it.

 

[Furioso]

It's nice to see that we like to judge a game by three screenshots taken in the same area of the game...

Here in the city where I am, when I look out the window, do you know what I see? Grey.

Yea but these are the pictures they chose to show us, and since there isn't any evidence of color in the game, this is the only evidence of the games color scheme we have to go on, even the banners on the building are a glorious grey

It takes me only one bloody minute to find screenshots. Tell me, is this gray buddy?

Oh my god, some yellow screens next to grey/dark everything else, alert the media...

You know what? You are as stubborn as a bloody mule. I quit arguing. I can no longer tolerate such immaturity.

Immaturity? I fail to see how arguing a valid point makes me immature

"Oh my god, some yellow screens next to grey/dark everything else, alert the media..." I find this disrespectful sarcasm. Do I have to be more clear?

Hmm yea your right, was not my intention but looking again that was clearly a bad way to put it, sorry about that

 

[Jegsimmons]

is that black Ops? How about a GOOD game that doesnt make me want to stab my ears?
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Ladies and gentleman... an example of why arguing on the internet is utterly pointless.

Ladies and gentlemen, some one who think their funny!

 

[Calvar Draveir]

so new york has NO cars, signs, big ass street sign, chalk on the side walks, not even shrubs out in front of the building?

and if not...WHY ARE THE SOLDIERS SO FUCKING GREY!!! THE MILITARY DOESNT WEAR GREY!!! THEY WERE GREEN AND TAN!!! ive been to new york and even the building had more colors than grey and their was a BLUE SKY!!
hell, even grey with realistic lighting has beauty...this is DULL!!!

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Do you notice something abotu that picture you posted?

All the colour comes from electrically-powered billboard signs. The buildings are grey, the roads are grey, the pavements are grey. The only thing that add colour are the sky, the civilians and the electric billboards.

Now, here's the funny thing about war. When an area becomes a warzone, several things happen:

- the civilians all get evacuated.

-all the power for those pretty billboards gets diverted or shut off.

If you were to take a picture of Time Square during the middle of a conflict, you'd find that all that pretty colour you're going on would have disappeared, and been replaced with dust, rubble and craters.

it wouls still have FUCK TON more color than what the screen shots had! i mean LOOK AT THE ACTUAL GREY! it has colored tints of blue and what not not! the different lighting actually makes it more vivid, even if it is grey and lacks power it doesn't mean it had no color! hell they still have posters, signs, shrubs, cars, the sky, central park,and ANYTHING ELSE!!!

ive been in the middle of a town during a wide spread power outage (i live in huntsville and the tornados we had back in the spring took out power for a week) and even the buildings didnt look like shit grey. they didn't make the national gaurd look grey, the cars didnt look grey, in fact....where is the more tannish tint given by the sun? is every major battle in COD suffering from cloud cover?

I borrowed a picture of 9/11 because that is the closest to what makes it seem war torn compared to Modern Warfare 3.

Oh yeah, mind talking in a more polite tone?

well no i wont speak in a more polite tone.(because i'm typing.)
also, using 9/11 as a point in your argument? nice bro...reeeeeal nice.
but even then lets look at this, those were the two tallest building on earth going down. Yes it creates dust, but why would any one shoot a sky scraper that size down in war? yeah it might happen but most militarilys will avoid that type of collateral damage because its a hazard to their own troops as well and wont honestly accomplish anything.
and even then, thats only ONE spot. that only represents a war zone if building of that size went down in the middle of one.

But dude, what we're talking about in MW3 is huge amounts of explosives and buildings going down non-stop for an extended period of time! It's understandable that things would look worse.

which would call bullshit on because no military would honestly try and take down monstrous buildings which would defeat the purpose of capturing a city.
and even then those in game pics showed NOTHING like that. after all the twin tower dust isnt brown.

Well it's their own artistic interpretation of a bleak situation. And nothing says bleak better than the colors they're using. Personally, I have no problem with people trying to tell a depressing and frenetic story, I just would like there to be gameplay updates and for the story to actually be interesting.

The problem with CoD isn't really the fact that it's brown or grey or that they're not updating the engine, it's that they're not trying to constantly give you smarter enemies and interesting gameplay sequences and mechanics or tell a better story.

 

[markisb]

i have never seen a game so grey.

on a lighter note they have finally gotten rid of that brown people have been complaining about.

Somebody never played Gears of War 1.

no i havent. i dont own an xbox.
now i know gears of war got there first thank you.

 

[Elijah Ball]

im going to give it the benefit of the doubt and say this is only one level in the campaign. hopefully the multiplayer wont be as monotone.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

is that black Ops? How about a GOOD game that doesnt make me want to stab my ears?
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Ladies and gentleman... an example of why arguing on the internet is utterly pointless.

Ladies and gentlemen, some one who think their funny!

...and another one. Keep 'em coming bro.

 

[sleeperhit79]

sorry kids, but guess what this is it. All this BS about high end PC graphics is just that, BS. Sure you spent hundreds of dollars on a new processor and graphics card and the veridict is...a "realistic" game whose graphics the untrained eye cannot differentiate. I'm sure the extra googles of tesselation on directx 11 and the extra shading on the guys balls in BF3 will make you drool when you compare them to MW3, but to the rest of us it's BS. Hey remember when 911 happened and we got the closest thing to a bombed out new york that we'll get, them were some gray streets, so get over it. And stop whining just to wine. The choices are there. Gaming has never been better than now, theres something for everyone but gamers love to complain about games that they probably dont even play.

P.S. BF3 looks fun because of the wide open gameplay and vehicles, yet they give us the subway on foot for the beta, nice one dice.

 

[sleeperhit79]

::sigh:: a game that has a metacritic of high 80's on console and 81 on PC and is to date THE highest selling console game(not sure about PC) of all time. I can understand if you said it wasn't your cup of tea, but to say it isn't good is just crazy. Clearly this has become a fanboy war now.

 

[Cyrus Hanley]

It's New York City, so what the fuck were people expecting? A rainbow colour palette?

 

[Creator002]

Though the pictures are almost monochrome, I'm sure someone[footnote]That someone most likely being too young to legally buy the game as well as young enough to think blood, guts and war are super, ultra cool things. And thus, this footnote invalidates what follows as they'd possibly be too young to obtain upcoming "excitement". [/footnote] tried to hide their "excitement" when they saw these pictures.

Honestly though, while FPS devs do seem to have some unmentioned hate for colour, I'm sure that game won't be THAT bland.
I hope...

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Wow.

I legitimately think I'm turning more towards Battlefield 3. Never thought I'd say that.

I really love the CoD series, but as of right now the only thing it has going for it is that it's going to be the end of the story for this trilogy. I think this past month I kinda just stopped caring about the multiplayer for it.

I'm sad in a way. Because I know Battlefield 3 will never fill the hole in my heart. Why CoD? Why couldn't you have just given yourself a little extra time to put into the game?

I blame Activision.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

afgan opium fields...you know...one of the dirtiest and more shit colored countries with thousands of years of war GROWS FIELDS OF FLOWERS!!!

check and mate!!!!

i would LOVE to play a game where you had to slowly cross a field of these exchangeing fire with enemy forces. like in the movie the thin red line.

Your argument is rather diluted by the presence of Poppy fields in Modern Warfare 2.

oh you mean that whole 20 square meters of plants in that one multiplayer level?

not convinced, and even then the colors looked washed out and crappy! how do you screw up primary colors!

I'm not gonna let that one slide.

Afghan, being a map that took place on the side of mountain in the desert was actually extremely colorful.

Modern Warfare 2 was many things, but grey and dull it was not.

 

[Legit101]

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[not_you]

Here's me thinking that all the colours on my monitor and TV were too stimulating.....

Let me wheel out the black+white TV from the 60's and maybe the game will look the same...
Pity there aren't any AV ports....