I spent my first significant amount of time on MW3 multiplayer tonight

[Jacco]

Normally I can get behind unlocking weapons and attachments too, but the absolute killer for me in this game (and in MW2) was the sheer effectiveness of them. Try to go head to head with someone running around with an EBR (level 60 i believe) while you've got an M4 or SCAR (both starting weapons) and let me know how that works for you.

And I completely agree with you on Hardcore. It made the came at least playable so having to level through 19 just to gain access to it was sickening.

I was lucky, Id been work all day and a friend had gone to lvl 19 so I piggy backed into hardcore. I never used anything other than the SCAR, funny how perceptions are different. SCAR did everything you need a weapon to do on Hardcore.

Im really enjoying MW3. Kill confirmed cuts down on camping (very few sniper rifles around) and Ive got a real liking for the shotguns. The perks and kill streaks have been watered down and I see that as an improvement. Its a shame you're not enjoying it. Heres hoping you find something more to your liking.

That's what I was getting at- that what makes normal mode suck so much is my example of the EBR and M4. In Hardcore, all of that is negated and it levels the playing field so the only leg up an EBR has is that it can be used with a sniper scope. In a head to head firefight though, its not who has the one hit kill weapons that wins.

 

[Jacco]

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6 hours may be nothing to you, but to someone like me who is absolutely not a hardcore gamer, 6 hours is a lot of time to put into a game just to make it even remotely fun. That's all I was getting at and one of the big reasons I don't play Reach.

 

[Jacco]

Then how and when did Makarov obtain control of the entire Russian military?

I'm going to assume after he captured the President.

After that I guess he then used the President to control the military.

Because we all know holding the President in duress guarantees obedience from the military to carry out suicidal missions.

Don't try and defend the Modern Warfare story line, it is a broken piece of crap that does not make any sense from start to finish. It wasn't meant to be a serious block-buster story here! This whole thing started because someone, likely management level with no writing skills, demanded there be a US on Russia conflict because he just couldn't let the cold war turning hot idea go. It became, quickly, nothing more then glue for a bunch of maps and half-baked 'military objectives' to be stuck together with and they didn't care about things like reality and common sense.

Let us not forget that the whole 'war' started because a bunch of Russian terrorists attacked a Russian airport and pretended to be US citizens. Something that would NEVER lead to a massive war between two first world nations, PR black eye at best, and doesn't explain the rest of the bullshit that happened ever since that point. I have yet to finish up MW3, but from what Yahtzee has put forth the insane story line continues to get even more unbelievable... wee.

Story is not something I would defend MW on, leaving very little this game has going for it. For someone who played hundreds of hours of MW2, cleared out all the of the achievements, weapons and everything like I suffered from OCD for that game... admitting the whole franchise started on a down note and slid further since. Sad isn't it?

What is sad is that MW1 had such a fantastic story. It was well concieved and put together and its pacing was excellent for a video game. It's up there with Halo 1 in terms of all time best video games/stories in my book.

That being said, they had a good idea for a compelling story. They just fucked it up by making a multiplayer game instead of a hybrid game. MW2, while not fantastic and full of holes, had at least a coherent narrative. MW3 was literally copy-pasted MP maps strung together by jumping perspectives.

They had such a potential gem and they squandered it in favor of a mediocre multiplayer experiece.

 

[gphjr14]

It's only fun to play with friends besides that I've gone days without playing it because as previously mentioned the maps are essentially like the ones in MW2, the spawn system sucks, and activision refuses to have dedicated servers so end up with god awful lag during peak usage.