Poll: MW3 and the doritos thing...

[GonzoGamer]

My wife will want to play with her friends so we will probably get MW3 in the first week.
As for the Doretos/MtDew thing, it does seem like it should be sponsored by whatever drug company that makes insulin.

We do get Doritos from time to time anyway, so we might get a swing at the double xp thing but I don't think we're going to get any more than we would normally get and we're certainly not getting it FOR the xp.

We don't do the whole multi-prestige thing anyway so we don't mind leveling up at the normal rate.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I've bought almost every CoD game up to Black Ops. After MW2 I was disappointed with the campaign (in quality and length). Also the modern setting doesn't really do it for me as WWII did. I don't give the tiniest shit about online multiplayer so I'm saving my money from now on, and buying other games instead. Next month I'm getting Skyrim and Saint's Row 3 (funds permitting) either game will cost me less, and have many, many more hours of enjoyment.

As for the promotion I'm not familiar with it, but I don't see much of a problem with it. then again, as I said, I couldn't care less about the multiplayer.

 

[JMan]

To get back on topic, I haven't heard of the Doritos XP thing but I do know that they are doing it with Mountain Dew which is fine to me because I drink Mountain Dew all the time anyway.

 

[GoGrapefruit]

I'll wait until the price drops.

Jesus Christ Modern Warfare 1 is still £20

 

[Shoggoth2588]

When the price drops I'm going to grab MW3. The Doritos XP thing sounds pretty cool even if it is a marketing ploy. Even if I did grab MW3 on day one I'd probably avoid the doritos. I'm not against doritos I just prefer funions and, ruffles a whole lot more.

Honestly I'm more disappointed in the Mountain Dew (sorry, Mtn Dew). When Halo and Wow had Mountain Dews, it came in 2 flavors, neither of which being the original flavor. Then again, those were both Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel. The MW3 thing is just Mtn Dew (according to the boxes, cans and, bottles)

 

[Bvenged]

They're not crappy dates, they're what I've researched - The campaign was 6 hours of nonsensical scripted bull, I played the spec ops with a friend for a few hours and then when it came to the multiplayer (the usp of the game, I might add) I tolerated it to a degree before it dawned on me how fucking aweful it was. End of. How do you not understand why I hate the game outright?

If by researched you mean wrote a bunch of random dates on paper and pulled one out of a hat then it might be believeable. But if you actually took a couple seconds to look around on the internet you would see you are obviously way off.


I understand perfectly why you hate the game so much. Its because you and me have different tastes in games and saying anything else on the subject is uselss. What I dont understand is why people continue to play games that do not like.

http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfare_3

there's one source; not 100% reliable I must add as I'm not a fan of wiki's. But it's off the first page on google. It was confirmed pre-production on the 9th April. My mistake, off by 20 days. Still falls in the same month, still little over 6 months total production.

EDIT: Still not worth £45 for a rehash of MW1 & MW2 plus crappy workmanship, crappy community & a random assortment of game breaking bugs. AS for the lack of testing? Alpha testing WAS the CoD XP event, Beta testing is behind closed doors (the least efficient testing possible).

 

[chuckey]

If I am going to get MW, I'll get it the week after christmas at my local Target. That one week they slash $20 off new or popular games.This means I'll only spend $30- $40(depending if I get a gift card from work). I think $30-$40 is fair for MW3. NOT $60.

 

[Bvenged]

You do realise that games are often in development for months even years before they are officially announced.

Yes, but in this case MW3 did not start production until after pre-production. pre-production being "got any ideas for what we can put in the game?" and production being "better start making it"; and that stage (pre-production) was confirmed to be in progress in april. So realistically the game wasn't even in development until AFTER 9th April.

You do realise that games are often in development for months even years before they are officially announced.

You do realise that games are often in development for months even years before they are officially announced.

You do realise that games are often in development for months even years before they are officially announced.

What you said there was so important I quoted you 3 extra times over it. YES, yes & yes, games should, need and almost always ARE in production for years (3 years BF3, 4 years Skyrim). It's paramount time is spent on a game as a rush product is faulty and poor quality. which is exactly my argument for MW2's poor engine, MW3's imminent faults & a reason why most of IW split off away from Activision to work with EA. Because Activision whore money out and demand devs to make the next CoD each November.

 

[Griffolion]

I'll probably get it when the price drops.

And by price drop I mean when the game is -£5, because there's no chance in hell i'm ever parting with my money for a CoD game.

And because Activision will never in a million years drop the price of MW3 to anything below £40, -£5 is an "over my dead body" situation.

And by "over my dead body" I mean that, should my corpse somehow animate itself and try to play MW3, my spirit will try very hard to stop it anyway (shorting out the electrics with ectoplasm etc).

As you can see, for me, probably not.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Have you never picked up a game, stuck with it for a few hours then decided you never want to play it again?

10+ hours isn't "a few."

 

[Sunrider]

Oh joy, another thread talking about how games like COD, or "casual" games like the Wii's library are ruining the quality of games as a whole.

Get off your high horse. Just because you don't like somthing or don't want to buy it doesn't mean it's bad.

So very this.

Your avatar was perfect for that post.
And your post count is just WHAT THE FUCK.

 

[Bvenged]

10+ hours isn't "a few."[/quote]

It is when you play of ran hour a day, every OTHER day for a few weeks. Then go "why am I putting up with this, it's nothing like MW1 and it's trash".

Edit; repost with actual quotes

 

[Bvenged]

10+ hours isn't "a few."

It is when you play for an hour a day, every OTHER day for a few weeks. Then go "why am I putting up with this, it's nothing like MW1 and it's trash".

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Most people can tell if they don't like a game within the first hour or two.

Not you I guess, had to stretch that shit out over a couple of weeks before you decided it was your worst game ever.

 

[Bvenged]

Actually realisticly preproduction started before mw2 was even released. People dont pay developers to sit on their ass and do nothing which is exactly what you are suggesting.


The reason Battlefield 3 was in production for three years was because they created a whole new engine for it. Your assumptions about why certain employees split from infinity ward are also hilarious and are opposite to the reasons stated everywhere. It was because of money.

In this case, IW didn't sit on their arse as they were in a huge legal dispute that ended with 70% of the workforce walking.

Yes, BF3 has a whole new game engine; but MW3 is currently built on a massively glitchy, outdated game-engine. It would've been wiser to re-write the damn thing rather than just run with it like they're doing.

 

[Bvenged]

Most people can tell if they don't like a game within the first hour or two.

Not you I guess, had to stretch that shit out over a couple of weeks before you decided it was your worst game ever.

Well after playing such an amazing game as MW1 I tried to like MW2. But after a few weeks I came to my conclusion. HOw are you not getting this? It's not me as after playing DMC4 for the first time I decided almost instantly that it was crap & only completed it to get my money's worth & as something to do until the next day where I sold it back at the shop. Damn, your nitpicking and polarised view on how other people attain opinions is pissing me off.

 

[Bvenged]

The legal dispute most likely did not have a large effect on it. They brought in another studio to replace everybody who left. Calling the engine massively glitchy is just hilarious on your part and once again shows your ignorance.

So I explain my factual-based opinions, then give a reference for my exclamations. Then re-explain multiple times why I think the game is crap, poor, nothing more than a money grabber & then, even then you say one of my points for me which is "games need more time in development" (which is pretty much the founding of my hate towards CoD); yet you still see me as a bad guy. How?

I hate that game, some of its devs & Activision for dragging CoD the way of Guitar Hero (except buggier and bloated with a bad community & unfair multiplayer). All they need to do is spend more time on it, but Activision won't have that. All I'm saying is I will not be buying MW3 due to a shocking track record and profound evidence that the game will be no more of a horrible mess than MW2 was.

EDIT: the game engine is to blame for a LARGE majority of fault with the game; the rest is down to a lack of effort in testing/maintenance of the game. How is that ignorance, exactly?

 

[Ima842]

I'm actually buying BF3, since i'm poor and can afford only a game I choose the one to benchmark my pc, and drive vehicles.

 

[scorptatious]

Just because you don't like somthing or don't want to buy it doesn't mean it's bad.

But it does. Bad and good are subjective terms, and if person X doens't like a game then it is a bad game in their eyes.


I would call Crysis a bad game. I didn't like it. I felt it was a bland, boring, samey sandbox shooter who's sole claim to fame is how hard it was to run. It is a benchmark that claims it's a game.Way better than MW2 though, that went flying past bad into "Bloody awful!" by the time I was ramping a snowmobile over a ravine...Crysis was at least amusing in the same way a Stallone flick is amusing, and I didn't feel like the fifteen I bought it for was wasted. But other people like it, they would call it good.


See how that works?

I'll agree with you there. What is good or bad is mainly subjective. To me though, it just seems like there are a lot of people on here that don't seem to realize people do in fact enjoy playing these kinds of games. Not to mention they seem to have this superiority complex that makes them think they are better than people who play things they don't like. And that just bugs the shit out of me. It's really no different from the rabid fanboys of certain games that most of us like to criticize.

 

[ssgt splatter]

I will be buying it. I love Call of Duty games.

And thanks for reminding me of the mountain dew and doritos promotion, I almost forgot about it.

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