[CoD Black Ops 2] News and Discussion

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

It's a glorified map pack with a €60 premium. I despair at people lapping this stuff up. It's fair enough to like these games (after all, there's no accounting for taste ) but to buy essentially the same game year in, year out is depressing.

Glorified map pack? Do you people actually play the games? Mw3 has 17 maps on release, 3/4 new game modes, new weapons, new spec ops game mode and a new campaign. Do these not count because its the same engine? :rolleyes:

Don't get me confused for a cod fanboy, I'd rather be playing RFoM or Kz2, but those games are dead and their developers created absolute abominations as sequels due to overchanging their games, forgetting why people liked them in the 1st place, going for the 'cod feel'. I played RFoM an insane amount, I played R2 for 2 months, I didn't buy R3. Why? Because it tried to be cod, and if I wanted to play a game like cod, I'd just play cod. At this point, any other shooter that I liked on PS3 has been ruined by crappy sequels, however I know the latest installment of cod will give me something decent and playable albeit 90% of my gameplay will be in restricted private games, at least CoD gives me that option. Kz3 removed it, BF3 removed it until months and months after release, Resistance also removed features they had in previous games in terms of private games.

So why am I buying a 'glorified map pack'? I'm guaranteed to get days and days of playtime out of it, and won't be particularly disappointed because I know what I'm gonna get. If in the mean time a decent shooter comes out, which hasn't made some horrible attempt to hybrid its own gamestyle with cod controls in order to boost sales, I'll try it. The only one on the horizon is CS:GO, which looks very promising. You can bash Cod's conservatism all you like (which I find ironic given that Bops 2 seems to be the most 'out there' cod so far), but when their competitors aren't producing, people will continue to buy cod.


As for reusing guns and other graphics? Doesn't bother me, gameplay > graphics all day long. Changing the looks of a gun for the sake of its a bad idea anyway, most of the guns that have changed from cod to cod look worse. Same can be said for other games, from my experience.

Actually, I can't help but ask: What would you improve in terms of weapon design/the HUD/Character models? You seemingly want them to change aspects of the game for the sake of it. The hud is fine, Mw3 is pretty much the peak of CoD so far weapons wise (not everything else) and the only issue with the character models is them brushing off eachother at the start of the map.

cloud493 wrote: »

Don't know why. It certainly is over priced, and the map pack prices are absurd, but their always really well designed, well done, good ish story, cool multiplayer, solid framerate, awesome game

Over priced? Last time I went to the cinema it cost me 7.50 for a student ticket, for 90 minutes of cinema time. I've probably got 15 days playtime on my 45 quid mw3.


*Points made in this post are at several people in this thread rather than the 2 posts I've just quoted*

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Still 'feels' like Allied Assault and funny quirks like booting up an entirely new executable to run multiplayer, no matter how well hidden now, stink of Q3A code. Feels like a lot of fancy graphical polish put over the old engine no matter how much they changed it. Would love an engine change to even just make the game feel fresh again, although nothing would annoy the fanboys more.

Well at its lowest level the engine will still have the same architecture as the Q3A engine which is why you have the split between executables. That doesn't mean, however, that all of the core systems that sit on top of it like the renderer, animation systems, physics engine, audio systems etc.. won't have been entirely rewritten.

As for the possibility of a new engine, well while I'd love to see one, I can't see it happening until the next generation of consoles.

Not sure the zombies is going to be a good thing now.

_Gawd_ wrote: »

Some rumours going around that you will need to buy Elite from the get-go to even get access to online multiplayer lobbies at all. Activisions way of saying "FU". Well, we knew Pay-2-Play was coming eventually and Elite was the start of it...

I doubt those rumours are true. Not for this release at least. But maybe buying the game second hand will require Elite or a different sub.

-Ade- wrote: »

Hearing rumours MOAB's will be in the game -__-

and there is no need for this.. just encourages camping really!

-Ade- wrote: »

Hearing rumours MOAB's will be in the game -__-

Woo

MOAB Man V2

how many people here are going to renew their Elite sub?

anyone?

*tumbleweed*

I cant even remember the last time I went into Elite, its just an unused icon on the xmb these days.