Call of Duty: Black Ops (NEW POLL!)

[Donut]

oh great, a "theatre" mode. i suppose now i can actually figure out what the fuck killed me.
seriously though, a theatre mode is a nice feature to see. there have been a few plays on my part that have kicked ass, and a few times i would have liked to see how somebody did something, or where everybody was camping. the knife makes me laugh. its like a throwing knife, except now with this one you dont even have to worry about gravity or lead.

but oh my god fuck me, youtube will be full of even MORE "look how pro i am i play on 10 sensitivity and spin in circles in online public matches firing blankly with my bolt action rifle getting lucky kills that i pass off as skill even though its just cod's ridiculous autoaim" videos. but the trade-off there is being able to save the film of your team mate in search and destroy coming across the last enemy player (who is afk) and attempts a 360 noscope snipe 8 times unsuccessfully and uploading it as a video response to the inevitable montage that the player will later upload. can you tell i dont like those kids? lol.

but yeah, all in all, theatre mode looks kind of cool.

E: and GOD DAMNIT give me a playlist that disables killstreaks. what the fuck, is it really that much to ask for? and another issue in these games since cod4 is the ability to look over walls. the way your first person camera and gun are situated, in 3p the bullets basically come out of the top of your head. so you can be hiding behind a wall, or have a bit of a height advantage, and you can shoot somebody who cant even see you. that is so disgustingly fucked up that they havent fucking fixed that in 3 games. i guarantee you they wont fix it in this one either.

[ODX]

the knife makes me laugh. its like a throwing knife, except now with this one you dont even have to worry about gravity or lead.

It's a ballistic knife, belongs to the Spetsnaz (so of course, it fits well into the game). If you noticed, like I said, he shot it off, stabbed a guy where the knife just fucking reappeared, then put in a new knife.

Showing errors/bugs in your own game in the fucking MP Trailer. Way to go.

*Edit: Also there is a playlist on MW2 with no killstreaks. It's called Barebones.

[t3h m00kz]

I don't get why the last two poll options are there.

Wouldn't that fall under "won't buy"?

Some of those weapons seem really unique. I haven't missed a single COD game so far (except for some expansions), so I'll be buying.

[iizahsum]

actually alteriwnet has a mode called "global thermo nuclear war" and kill streaks are disabled; apparently it was supposed to be in game but got removed for some reason. Probably for being to fun.

[Donut]

yeah i remember people inviting me to global thermonuclear war lobbies on xbl. they all wanted 1600 ms points for it though, and thats like 20 bucks. fuck that shit and fuck their shit. it did look fun though.

and is that barebones playlist on xbl? i havent put mw2 into my xbox for over 3 months now. i figure im on summer break and i dont feel like being in a fowl mood

E: odx i saw the knife in the video. what im saying is that the throwing knife in mw2 at least required the skill to lead the knife in order to hit your target. now theyve taken that concept and gotten rid of the skill element essentially making the knife just as easy to use as bullets

thats another thing that bothers me. in cod4, weapons almost took skill to use. ALMOST (im looking at you m16 and m40a3 acog whores). weapons like the ak47 were difficult to use at range because there was noticeable visual recoil that made tracking your target difficult. the m14 is another example. it is animated so its firing animation causes the weapon to move off target, making it significantly more difficult to aim with than, say, the g3 or g36c. by choosing a more powerful weapon like the ak47, you suffer diminished ability to engage targets that are further away, whereas with the g36c, you can fire very accurately but do alot less damage.

mw2 takes this formula and removes the recoil. the two guns i use the most frequently in mw2 are the tar21 and the fal. like the m14, the fal is semiautomatic, and thus does more damage at the cost of firing speed and having to pull the trigger "manually" for each shot. UNlike the m14, the fal has almost no visual recoil, and therefore i can engage targets further away firing as fast as i please. id also like to mention how mw2 does NOT have a firing cap (at least that im capable of reaching). much like the ak47, the tar21 advertises an automatic rate of fire and very high damage (arguably the most powerful assault rifle in the game) at the cost of accuracy at range. in theory, the stats reflect this. in practice, because of the lack of recoil, the tar21 can hit people just as far away and just as accurately as the fal. thus i ask, what is the point of a highly accurate but less damaging gun like the acr?

tl:dr, as cods move on, they become easier and easier to play, taking more and more skill elements out. what it really has come down to is knowing where to be at what time, and camping. thats it. its fucking bullshit.

[Rook]

E: and GOD DAMNIT give me a playlist that disables killstreaks. what the fuck, is it really that much to ask for?

Also this game has my pre-order.

[Yoko]

Oh look, same walking/sprinting animations as MW2.
Oh look, same run-and-gun shit gameplay.
Oh look, care packages/multiple killstreaks.
Oh look, the first reload you see is a clear 'idea copy' from MW2's SCAR reload.
Oh look, the first weapon you see also has Bling.
Oh look, a replay system (end of video) that probably isn't nearly as good as Halo 3's.
Oh look, callsigns just like in MW2.

OH SHIT, BALLISTIC KNIFE...oh wait that's just their take on the throwing knife in MW2.


Fuck this shit.

I too pre-ordered the game just because of this post

[Syuusuke]

RC hotwheels with a bomb!

[Donut]

rook what im asking is if its on xbl too. i figure it would be, but who knows given iw's reputation.

[Pooky]

in cod4, weapons almost took skill to use. ALMOST (im looking at you m16 and m40a3 acog whores).

Surprisingly, very few people seem to understand this. M16 RDS and M40 ACOG are shit weapons for shit players, hth.