I finished Black Ops 2. They introduced some major changes, and they’re either awesome or just plain stupid.
I’ll start with awesome. First of all, you follow 2 stories at once, the 80s story in Vietnam of Alex Mason and the 2020 or so story of David Mason, his son. I found that pretty interesting. Another good thing is that you can finally pick your weapons and attachments and also even the skin of the weapon. Otherwise it’s not anything revolutionary, but for CoD it is .
Now, for the stupid. STRIKE FORCE. Who the FUCK wants to play that? It’s some sort of RTS/Tower Defense/FPS mix, fucking bullshit. I wouldn’t even mind it if didn’t impact the storyline, but it does and if you don’t do the Strike Force missions you get a worse ending. Talking about endings, now you are sometimes given a choice in the game and the choices you make determine what kind of an ending you’ll have. Which would be completely fine if you could know that if you choose something it won’t backfire and you won’t get the opposite result of what you chose. Yes, I know it adds to realism and NO, I don’t like realism in games, there’s enough realism in reality and I play games to fucking ESCAPE from it. CoD storyline and gameplay isn’t believable anyway, so let’s be honest, if you’re looking for realistic games, CoD is among the last choices.
Also, they seemed to have tried to make the main villain sympathetic and IMO failed miserably. Basically, he is a criminal who tortured and killed the whole team and only one of the main characters survived. and then he is shown to have a soft side for his sister. Then the same main character who watched his teammates get tortured and killed by the criminal tries to kill the guy by throwing a grenade and he instead accidentally kills his sister ( he didn’t know she was in the room too). Of course, the villain tries to get his revenge by making the whole world pay and you have to save it.
All in all, just another decent CoD with a fun, short campaign.
MagsJ
Oh, a late 80s early 90s gamer? I used to play games like Crash Bandicoots and Spyros on PS1 while I was a kid, though I never owned a Nintendo.
Why do you draw the line there? If you want to play, just do it, you’re never too old if that’s what you mean . Or you might be interested in more serious, “mature”, artistic sort of games.
Contra-Nietzsche
Not sure if I’m getting your point. I think you might be trying to make a joke because I play games and portray me as a typical geek. However, geeks usually have an aversion towards any kind of physical activity, so riding the bike doesn’t fit. Also, that song… just WTF
fuse
Mmm, yeah, it lagged like hell on my old PC so I quit after about 5 minutes but on my new PC it shouldn’t. I may try it, I hear it’s hardcore.
I played it with a mage until level 7-8 or so. It was kind of fun at first but it got boring. Combat mechanics aren’t that horrible if you play a mage. It’s the best Bethesda game so far IMO, though it’s still a little too generic in terms of gameplay, world design and character design. It’s also very time consuming.
If you like RPGs like Skyrim and Dark Souls I recommend Kingdoms of Amalur (awesome melee and mage combat) and Gothic games. Also, Dragon Age Origins is great.
My brother is a huge fan of it, me not so much. I prefer games that I can finish . If you like Minecraft you may also like Don’t Starve, it’s an interesting indie survival game quite similar to it.
People keep recommending me that game… I guess I really have to play it
I only have a PC, and The Last of Us is a PS3 exclusive. I’d like to play it, but I don’t feel like buying a console for just one game
I tried Metro 2033 and liked it… for the first couple of hours. Then I realized that there is only 1 model of mutants in the whole game (except the flying ones) and I got really pissed off at such laziness. Then the Nazi mission came and I was forced to sneak a lot. I hate sneaking in FPS games, so I quit and looked up the story, wasn’t impressed and never looked back.
I prefer S.T.A.L.K.E.R when it comes to FPS/RPG survival horrors.
I’ll definitely consider Half-Life tho, it’s one of many classics I have yet to play.