How would you make Modern Warfare 2 better?

[Julianking93]

I'd start by not having a 200 dollar fucking price tag

 

[cantthinkofausername]

Re-skin it as a WW2 era game, as it should be. MW warfware and made up conflicts are weak.

I'm sure if you combine the Medal of Honor and CoD series as well as some other less-popular WW2 games, you'd have every operation in the entire war.

OT: I demand Prestige edition be less expensive so I can have real life night-vision.

Less joking OT: Stop doing the "Co-op ruins the experience" crap and just make it. Even if it's split-screen I demand the ability to play campaign with a friend.

You'd be wrong. If you think Easy Company and the 501st, a solitary russian sniper, and a platoon of British SAS soldiers were the only stories out of WW2...well, I'm sure you can see the fallacy in that train of thought. There are thousands of stories still left to be told about ACTUAL conflicts, World War 1, 2, Vietnam, Korea, etc... If I wanted made up conflicts, I'd play Stalker: Clear Skies.

Well the reply was more on the joking side really. But I stick by my point that WW2 has been done so many times, I don't see what more a new WW2 game could have to offer. Especially when the games are going to focus specifically on major battles like they always do.

 

[Chunko]

I'd like to see a new and improved version of nazi zombies

 

[Thunderhorse31]

If you're like me, you're a little P.O.'ed about spawning in the middle of an airstrike

Pro-tip: If you die during an airstrike, DO NOT MASH THE "RESPAWN" BUTTON.

Only YOU can prevent spawn-death

OK, wait a minute. You don't control where you respawn. You're advice is admirable but the game shouldn't spawn you in the air-strike zone.

No I agree, I just thought I'd share that advice since I've done it more times than I can count. I jam on X to get back in the game and BOOM! I spawn next to a teammate who is being carpet-bombed. It's best to wait the extra 5 seconds. Or ya know, just don't die. EVER.

OT: Can you really make a spawn system where you never spawn in danger? Ever?

 

[Joshimodo]

Make the multiplayer actually difficult.

Also get rid of the character who has a Bickle-esque mohawk.

OT: Can you really make a spawn system where you never spawn in danger? Ever?

Spawn invunerability. Or specific "safe" areas around the map.

 

[Joshimodo]

Double-post, apologies.

 

[A random person]

-Reduce price of PC version to $50
-Reduce price of console versions to $55
-Captain Price
-BEARS

May I ask why most PC versions of games are cheaper? I've always wondered about that.

I'll take a stab at it: with consoles, developers have to pay a fee for the company to allow the game on their system. They also have to comply with other demands of the console owning company. It isn't absurd to think the company would want to improve profits by upping prices. With the PC, you don't have a company that owns the platform to go through. That's my guess, anyway.

That, and it's easier to develop for the PC. The 360 is supposedly developer friendly because it's PC-like.

But on topic, have a feature that gives Activision's CEO an electric shock. Also more seriously, make it longer, get rid of the respawning enemies from the first one, maybe make more mission types, and don't make absurdly hard levels in open spaces like the ferris wheel thing.

 

[cantthinkofausername]

What about the Tuskini [I think that's what it was] Raiders or whatever? The African-American squad? We have yet to play as them. Come to think of it, you never see African-Americans in WWII games... I'm glad that COD 2 was in Africa though. I get tired of the same German city, or the same Japanese island/forest. They did have war in Africa. They even were in Iraq during WWII [Is that were COD 2 was set? I only played the demo for the 360, I wouldn't know :S]

Well seeing as this is an American franchise and America is obsessed with our apparent awesomeness in WW2, they probably will keep the main characters American, and some other significant power that an autistic 2 year old baby would know of.

And I never played CoD 2. So I'm at a loss here.

 

[Kermi]

That's your opinion, not mine, and given the sales numbers on World at War, I'd be inclined to disagree with you, that 'everyone' is sick of WW2. The OP asked for personal opinions. That's what I'd do.

Well, according to VGChartz while WAW outsold COD4 initially the sales have dropped off, and it's about half a million units behind COD4 at the same stage of its shelf life - and there's been a recent surge in COD4 sales. With MW2 coming out in November I doubt we're going to see either title selling consistently for much longer.
On top of that COD4 consistently comes second to Halo 3 on the weekly XBox Live charts, with WAW coming in as the 3rd most played game on XBox Live.
Now you might have problems with the 360 as a gaming platform - I don't know, but the PS3 sales charts indicate a fairly similar trend. COD4 and WAW are actually at about the same number of units sold on the PS3 for this stage in their shelf live, but like on the 360 we saw a quick surge in initial sales which then dropped off fairly sharply.

If you have information I don't that supports your opinion over mine, I'm certainly interested in seeing it.

Perhaps you would reskin COD4 to be a WW2 game (essentially what Treyarch did when they made WAW anyway - is that what you were referencing?), but in my opinion that's positively ludicrous. Which is why I didn't buy WAW.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

If it is indeed like CoD4 in this respect, I'd like them to stop it with the respawning enemies. One of the things I hated tremendously about the original Modern Warfare was that unless you charged the enemies, adopting a run-and-gun mentality, they would respawn forever. I'm the kind of guy who finds cover, pops a number of enemies, finds slightly closer cover when it's relatively safe, and pop a few more enemies.

I played Call of Duty 4 like it was Rainbow Six: Vegas, and the game punished me for it. A lot.

This caused me immense frustration, especially considering no one else goes to clear the way a little so I don't become Swiss cheese when I move ahead. I'm being punished for fighting rationally? Pardon me for handling urban combat at least somewhat realistically, Infinity Ward. Sorry I can't adopt a Master Chief mentality and destroy everything while out in the open. After all, bullets go the Kevlar a tad quicker than they do through Mjolnir armor. Stop treating me like I'm wearing the latter.

If they could fix this, I'd genuinely love this game. This one aspect is what made me dislike CoD4.

 

[Emphraim]

A gun that shoots shurikens and lightening.

A gun that shoots shurikens and lightening.

A gun that pulls people from Yahtzee's ass.

OT: If they haven't got it in the game, customizable clothing.

All of this can be done with the wonders of modding. i bet we will see guns that shoots shurikens, lasers, nukes, etc soon after release, just like as for any other FPS.

 

[cantthinkofausername]

What about the Tuskini [I think that's what it was] Raiders or whatever? The African-American squad? We have yet to play as them. Come to think of it, you never see African-Americans in WWII games... I'm glad that COD 2 was in Africa though. I get tired of the same German city, or the same Japanese island/forest. They did have war in Africa. They even were in Iraq during WWII [Is that were COD 2 was set? I only played the demo for the 360, I wouldn't know :S]

Well seeing as this is an American franchise and America is obsessed with our apparent awesomeness in WW2, they probably will keep the main characters American, and some other significant power that an autistic 2 year old baby would know of.

And I never played CoD 2. So I'm at a loss here.

They had Africans from America in the military. They had their own little group, too. Why don't we get to play as one of them?
And in COD 2, your a British troop in some place with sand and Arabian-like buildings, but Tunisia was in Africa, but I'm pretty sure it was an Arabian city/country [I forget what Tunisia was].

I know they had Africans. Apparently their missions are less intense. Or something. Maybe at one point developers will make a game for the history instead. That'd be cool.

 

[Chipperz]

I was gonna come on and say "for it to be released" but, well...

Liam Neeson voicing everyone

Is just right. Liam Neeson voicing everyone would be amazing.