Modern Warfare 2

[Aqua]

It took me twice to get the nuke right, I had to pay close attention to the briefing before the snow level. Playing the campaign more than once let's you fully appreciate how well made the story actually is.
~Aqua

[Cactuscat222]

-SPOILER-
I loved the story - except for the ridiculous amounts of the "oh no, you blacked out, are you going to wake up?! Oh oh, am I? Am I?! OH he did! He did! He did wake back up, I didn't see that coming at all". I also didn't like how they killed Ghost, and you so many times; it was surprising in the first game, but they did it like 3 times here, and it just didn't have the same effect. On that note, I have no idea what Yahtzee is talking about when he says there are 3 different nuke situations in the game, I only ever saw one.... so I think he was crazy or something.
-END SPOILER-

[Aqua]

Well CoD WaW was worse will all the being rescued and ambushed. The fact that I was on the edge of my seat kept me from really noticing all the blackouts, but now that I think about it, there are quite a few. Still amazing though.
~Aqua

[Chaos]

There wasn't 3 nukes.   Yahtzee never said there was.  There were 3 "nuke scene from MW1 rip-offs", aka, "LET'S SHOCKINGLY KILL OFF THE PLAYER".  Not literal nukes.  Srsly gaiz, I haven't played MW1 OR 2, and I understood that.  He essentially said what you just said, Cactus:

it was surprising in the first game, but they did it like 3 times here, and it just didn't have the same effect.

[Turkey]

Yahtzee

Yahtzee's awesome.

[ARTgames]

There wasn't 3 nukes.   Yahtzee never said there was.  There were 3 "nuke scene from MW1 rip-offs", aka, "LET'S SHOCKINGLY KILL OFF THE PLAYER".  Not literal nukes.  Srsly gaiz, I haven't played MW1 OR 2, and I understood that.  He essentially said what you just said, Cactus:

it was surprising in the first game, but they did it like 3 times here, and it just didn't have the same effect.

Oh in that case your right. I see what he means now. But i was so out of the story to start with killing of a player would do nothing for me anyways. All i know is i walked away from the story going "wow that was fun". and i guess that's all that matters.

Online game modes! which ones do you play? I'm TDM most of the time but i would like to try out other things.

[Torch]

There wasn't 3 nukes.   Yahtzee never said there was.  There were 3 "nuke scene from MW1 rip-offs", aka, "LET'S SHOCKINGLY KILL OFF THE PLAYER".  Not literal nukes.  Srsly gaiz, I haven't played MW1 OR 2, and I understood that.  He essentially said what you just said, Cactus:

it was surprising in the first game, but they did it like 3 times here, and it just didn't have the same effect.

Oh in that case your right. I see what he means now. But i was so out of the story to start with killing of a player would do nothing for me anyways. All i know is i walked away from the story going "wow that was fun". and i guess that's all that matters.

Online game modes! which ones do you play? I'm TDM most of the time but i would like to try out other things.

Domination / Ground War when I'm on my own and CTF/Demolition/Sabotage when I'm in a party. I HATE TDM, half the people that play it camp with assault rifles. Not fun...

[Torch]

A new complaint I have with this game is that the in-game stats are god-awful. The stats are confusing as hell and in many cases straight-up wrong. For example, the FAMAS does the exact same damage as the m16, however the ingame stats tell you that the FAMAS does half the damage of the m16. The FMJ does not really increase damage at all, it simply makes bullets penetrate thicker walls and deal more damage through walls, however the ingame stats show it to increase damage. The mini-uzi has a higher rate of fire than the P90, yet the P90 is shown to have a higher rate of fire. The list goes on.

Each weapon has a maximum and minimum damage value (the maximum damage will be dealt at close range and as your target gets further away, the damage will decrease to the minimum damage), a range (the distance that the weapon will shoot at it's maximum damage value), an aim-down-sights time, and for sniper rifles, body multipliers (example: for the intervention, shots to the torso will be multiplied in damage by 1.5), and various other stats that the ingame stats do not express correctly or in some cases at all.

I see no reason why Infinity Ward couldn't just release the exact numbers for each of the weapon's stats, instead of giving arbitrary green bars for stats or at least give green bars that are somewhat correct. COD4 has the same problem and I can't think of why IW would think this is a good idea.

Players have 100 health in standard modes and 30 in hardcore.

An accurate, though not entirely complete weapons stats chart can be found here: http://www.modernwarfare2forum.com/modern-warfare-2-game-guides/1300-weapon-stats-chart.html

[ARTgames]

I never pay any attention to weapon stats at all. The don't give enough info to start with. I just simply try out ever gun and attainment out for my self. (That makes the game fun for me :P) And what ever works best for me i stick with.

But i will say that link you gave has REALLY good info. I think any one who wants to go online should look at it.

[Torch]

I never pay any attention to weapon stats at all. The don't give enough info to start with. I just simply try out ever gun and attainment out for my self. (That makes the game fun for me :P) And what ever works best for me i stick with.

But i will say that link you gave has REALLY good info. I think any one who wants to go online should look at it.

Yeah, also, stopping power increases bullet damage by 1.4x.

[mikkelet]

Got the game for my Bday :P Level 16 now - So contact me if anyone's starting something :P

[Mr Pwnage]

Got the game for my Bday :P Level 16 now - So contact me if anyone's starting something :P

What platform did you get it for? I have it for PC.

[Titan]

I'm kinda confused.

(spoilers below)

Was it a nuke that was launched? I thought it was an emp which is why all the helicopters and red dot sights failed??(Plus the fact Pvt.whateveryournamewas survived along with everyone else)

I didn't really like the plot.
An American terroist? Extremely stupid reason to start a war.
Hundreds of undetected Russian planes?
Plus the thing with all the deaths. They saw people thought it was cool in the first modern warfare, so they over did it.
The no Russian level. It would have been cool to be able to kill the Terroists and have an alternate campaign, or at least be able to kill the terroists.

All in all I thought it was a decent game, but it was no where as good as the first one.

[Torch]

I'm kinda confused.

(spoilers below)

Was it a nuke that was launched? I thought it was an emp which is why all the helicopters and red dot sights failed??(Plus the fact Pvt.whateveryournamewas survived along with everyone else)

I didn't really like the plot.
An American terroist? Extremely stupid reason to start a war.
Hundreds of undetected Russian planes?
Plus the thing with all the deaths. They saw people thought it was cool in the first modern warfare, so they over did it.
The no Russian level. It would have been cool to be able to kill the Terroists and have an alternate campaign, or at least be able to kill the terroists.

All in all I thought it was a decent game, but it was no where as good as the first one.

The EMP was caused by a nuke being detonated in space.

The "American Terrorist" was held responsible for thousands of deaths in a Russian airport. 9/11 caused a war in Iraq, same shit here.

The Russian planes got through because (spoilers) General Shepard had Soap and Roach find an ACS module that he KNEW was faulty and did not detect the Russian planes.

[ARTgames]

(spoilers below)

Was it a nuke that was launched? I thought it was an emp which is why all the helicopters and red dot sights failed??(Plus the fact Pvt.whateveryournamewas survived along with everyone else)

Its a nuke used as an emp.

Price initiates a nuclear missile launch with the intent to detonate it in the upper atmosphere as an EMP.

http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Contingency

An American terroist? Extremely stupid reason to start a war.

An American under cover with terrorist to find out info about them. The terrorist found out about the under cover person and set him up. Now Russia thinks America did it. Russia now wants payback for the airport shooting. Yeah its over exaggerated but the game would be a whole lot more boring if it just ended there.