jjrox32

It's a little late for this, but I totally called this happening before the game came out (page 8 of the thread).

Luckily my football field was cleared off today so I didn't have to play in the snow. However it was around -6, dark, and windy. It wasn't that bad as long as you wore a lot of layers and stayed moving... but if you took off your helmet or stopped running for 5 minutes, you were cold.

I don't understand how you guys can stand wearing earbuds. They start to make my ears ache after 15 minutes or so, the sound quality is normally pretty bad. I prefer small, compact non-earbud headphones like Sennheiser PX200's, which are very comfortable and fold up small enough to fit in my pocket (they're cheap too, less than $100 or so).

All right, I've played single player for a bit and I'm going to give my impressions. Overall it's very well done, the action is fast paced and addicting. It's very cinematic, and the cutscenes are very unique. On the bad side, I get major déjà vu playing this. It seriously feels like someone took all of the previous CODs and threw them in a blender. The pacific missions are the more enjoyable for me, since it's actually a fairly new landscape, with sun, beaches, different enemies, and a different WWII style game than normal. It's freaky, one minute you'll just be walking along doing nothing, the next you'll be blinded by a light and when you can finally see, there would be some Japanese dude with a sword in hand running at you screaming "BANZAI!". It's overall very fun to play through. On the other hand the Russian missions were a snore. It's the same thing as every other generic WWII game; crumbling buildings, everything's grey, the German's are still cold, ruthless bastards without any sort of humanity. Even though they did try to spice it up a bit it's still pretty boring for me. Oh yeah, and the flamethrower in campaign is [bleep]ing awesome.

[hide=Spoiler]What I meant was why couldn't they have written the plot so that Maria survives? I understand why Dom killed her (she was obviously in horrible pain), but I really wanted Dom to find her alive and unharmed. And I wouldn't bet that Dizzy survived. Skorge lives, Tai is captured. Why would Dizzy be alive?[/hide]

My brother bought this today...ugh, I was hoping I was wrong, but nope. It's COD4 with a WWII skin. I'm amazed that people are satisfied with this.

[hide=Spoilers]Why does nobody live? I mean every non-main character in the game dies. Carmine, Tai, Dizzy, etc. And why couldn't they let Maria live? I mean seriously, why they wouldn't let her live is beyond me... I'm still a little confused about that...what happens? Is Maria alive when they find her, then Dom kills her, or what?[/hide]

Umm, System Shock?

Shotgun isn't dumbed down. It was nerfed and made more consistent, but not dumbed down.

Horde is a lot of fun. Me and a couple of friends played some waves on hardcore, it was actually tons of fun. I got some complaints about multiplayer though. Chainsaw is totally overpowered, it's really hard to stop someone charging at you. The shotgun is almost useless since it's so weak now (one point blank shot should kill someone...it turns the shotgun into a useless close range weapon compared to the chainsaw...).

Great game. Story mode is pretty good, intense action, better environments than the first. My only complaint is that they still haven't improved some of the over-the-top characters from the first game that annoy me so much. Dialogue can be a bit cheesy, but it made me laugh at some points, like [hide=Spoilers]"IT'S A GIANT WORM! OUR CITIES ARE BEING DESTROYED BY A GIANT WORM![/hide] Also got into multiplayer quite a bit. It's a major improvement over the first, with matchmaking, party system, and better netcode. It also had a voting system which allows you to choose between 2 maps and 2 gametypes. My big complaint about multiplayer is that the netcoding is still pretty mediocre compared to games like COD4. It also limits your effectiveness with the hammerburst, since you need to be able to place precision shots with it, and a laggy game can make that hard.

Pre-ordered this and played through the demo. It really is fun and fast-paced, not to mention scary. This is the first zombie game I've played that's actually made me feel like I'm in a zombie apocalypse.

Blame Microsoft. They require for Valve to charge money for DLC. If Valve could just pump out tons of free updates and DLC for 360 just like PC, they would.

I ate a nail (a metal nail) when I was around 2 crawling around my kitchen floor. I'm totally serious, I have the x-rays XD

Great. Now I have 3 hour football practices outside, on an open field, IN THE SNOW. [bleep] you mother nature -.-

How to play an FPS: Step 1: Move aimer over enemy. Step 2: Push fire button.

Snow. Well, nothing new here considering I live in Canada... :lol:

I'm really confused... what happened?

PC: Far Cry 2, CS 1.6, TF2, some Peggle, WAR. 360: Rock Band.

The bus stops are really only useful for traveling cross-map, since there's only 5 bus stops.

You just need to get a gun with a scope. Either a sniper or an assault rifle with a red dot scope type thing on the top. And always aim for the head. But yeah, the get from A to B is very annoying, since it takes a long time and you run through random guard posts and people in jeeps.

I have this and I'm about 10% through. It is very fun, it's a very open world with many different mission and ways to complete them. For example, doing a mission for someone that owns a gun shop will get you new guns. The last mission I had was to whack a police chief. You could either set up a trap and RPG his car as he was driving, or steal something from his brother and the chief run back to his police station and wait there. Once he was at the police station, you had many options to kill him: stealthily sneak past the guards and kill him quietly with a machete, snipe him, run in with guns a' blazin', set a bushfire to the entire compound using molotov cocktails, or my favorite, RPG the little mud hut he waits in :lol: My only complaint being that you spend a lot of time randomly going cross-map on a lot of the missions, which can be frustrating seeing how big the game map is. Overall, good game so far, definitely worth the $45 I paid for it on steam.

Depends on my schedule, but between 30-40 hours a week.

From what I saw, very little.

That was a pretty poor attempt. You have to be bit more critical to get the response you're looking for. The series does appeal to a very small niche of people, doesn't mean it's artistic value is 'bad'. I don't like it much either, but for it's own genre, it's a damn twisted and evil story arch of John Kramer's experiments. The problem is.. Why watch it? You watch comedy to laugh. You watch horror to feel scared. You watch fantasy/adventure for excitement. You watch thrillers for the suspense. Why watch people getting torn out of their limbs in sick psychological 'tests' where often no escape is possible, leaving a very violent and painful death as the only option? I'd say shock value. Or at least for me, I just watched them to see what it's all about. The Saw series is all about shock value, which makes it a cash magnet especially amongst young people. Wont make a bet or anything, but I'd say very few people actually enjoy watching extreme gore and killing of innocent people (I know those people exist, just saying it's a minority) Saw does have a fairly interesting story behind it. And John Kramer always leaves the victims of these traps with an escape, generally a very painful escape, but an escape nonetheless.