MW2 - why are people STILL playing?

[MarsProbe]

I've being playing MW2 for quite a while but have since got bored with the multiplayer. After a while, I need a change, so it's lucky Reach has managed to fill that space. Also, Reach seems much mroe relaxed, none of the crazy killstreak chasing going on, just good old-fashioned running out there and gunning people down. Bliss.

As for the people who are still playing it after all this time, I don't get it. There must be people out there who still find it fun, even now. Best just to leave them too it.

 

[Zyst]

Because it's fun, get over it.

 

[Shoto Koto]

I know what you mean, I don't see the appeal of MW2 either, but I understand that other people do (The reason escapes me but hey, never mind). I was talking to my friend about this earlier today actually and we were saying that it's not so much that I don't want people to play MW2, clearly they enjoy it, but I wish they'd play other games so prolifically too. What bugs me is the monopoly games like MW2 have over the on-line communities like Xbox Live and PSN because it makes it more difficult for other less 'massive' games to get their own following.

 

[Kurokami]

Personally MW2 just annoys me now...

It is just so... unreal and insane compared to the more down to earth Bad Company Battlefield 2 which I love

Still MW2 is considered to be popular and it just grabbed peoples attention in the gaming world. Therefore it became the default online FPS for friends to play together. Why it is played is obvious... it is why the XBox 360 still has people playing it: Modern Warfare 2 came before Battlefield Bad Company too.

If the XBox 360 was released after the PS3 (and the PS3 was cheaper) then it would have such a smaller audience because it would not have been what everyone flocked to buy. (But I digress)

3rd party factors are involved in why it is the default... how good a game it is plays little part of it...

And here I thought they were the same game.

 

[C95J]

because it's fun to play. And they will most likely have multiplayer, so yes, it does have tons of replay value.

 

[Wolfram23]

They like the multiplayer... duh. I agree it gets repetitive and there's a lot of better and more interesting games to play but some people just want to play one game... so be it. It is fun for a while, if you're any good.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

I don't understand why people keep playing and buying the COD games, I could understand if they were the best online shooters but they're not. I played the hell out of COD4 when it came out, and it may have been the best online shooter at the time. However, I never even thought about getting the next COD game because I've had my fill of COD gameplay and I'm not gonna play the same game again, and it's not really that deep anyways. After COD4, I moved onto Metal Gear Online and I haven't stopped playing MGO because no other online game has eclipsed MGO yet (I'm hoping that maybe SOCOM 4 can do it). I played MAG, and it is by far the best FPS this gen. The game itself great but the players during the IGN tournament (extend BETA pretty much) made me not buy the game because very few people actually helped the team win and knew how to properly play. The team sizes in MAG are just too big to properly coordinate teamwork to 100+ random players over the Internet.

 

[someotherguy]

I dislike, others enjoy it. Not that hard to think about it. As someone else, said, get over yourself.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Its fun...that is all.

I know but... why? How can it be fun after nearly a year? I've played it a friend's house and I was bored after 20 minutes.
though your right, it's probably just people's opinions.

Challenge. Leveling up. Meeting with friends. Addiction. Not having another game to go to. Not having the money or hardware to get another game. Lack of interest in everything else.

People have opinions and limitation, and they will never be the same as yours, usually.

Really, there are 1001 plausible explanations to most of everything.

And why are we still making MW2 threads? I've hardly seen a BC2 thread, and there are still a flotilla of MW2 threads, even though it came out a few monthes before BC2 did.

 

[Barry93]

Oh look another MW2 thread.

MW2 is terrible, but can still be fun at times, especially when you get hate mail from a player you just rofl stomped calling you a hacker, camper etc.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

Some people like it. I don't really see how you can enjoy it (then again, if you play like an asshole or to win you get rewarded, sooo...), but people do, so that's why they're still playing. That simple, really.

 

[JonnyZOMG]

its great because it has a huge community and it has a huge community because its great every one likes to run and gun I'm gonna load it up right now

No, not everyone likes to run and gun. Not everyone is 12.

 

[Vrach]

...*Sighs*
Have you ever considered the fact they might enjoy it?
It's not that hard if you think about it.

^This. And the whole "even though they're underage"... I don't get it. I honestly don't. Barring having absolutely no upbringing, moral teachings or just a mom/dad saying "monkey see monkey do is a bad thing when looking at a TV/computer screen", why is that such a big deal?

 

[Steppin Razor]

...*Sighs*
Have you ever considered the fact they might enjoy it?
It's not that hard if you think about it.

*smack*
Bad. You're not allowed to use common sense when it comes to games that the majority of the 'Scapist makes a hate bandwagon against.

On topic: Uhhh... Maybe because they enjoy it?
Seriously, people don't play games they don't like because they're all a bunch of masochists. They play games because they like them. The amount of people still playing Modern Warfare 2 means that there are a hell of a lot of people that still enjoy it. As for why they enjoy it, well, I suppose it's because they find it fun.

 

[Comando96]

its great because it has a huge community and it has a huge community because its great every one likes to run and gun I'm gonna load it up right now

No, not everyone likes to run and gun. Not everyone is 12.

Its down to personal preference.

Don't bash other peoples views. This thread will just end in a flame war............ oh wait... it already will as I can see both the for-COD and the anti-COD lining up to "take their shots" xP in a sea of untraceable comments...

 

[zenoaugustus]

Oh look another MW2 thread.

MW2 is terrible, but can still be fun at times, especially when you get hate mail from a player you just rofl stomped calling you a hacker, camper etc.

Yo dawg, I heard you like bad games. So we put a bad game mode in a bad game mode, so you can play bad games while you play bad games.

-Xzibit

 

[BenzSmoke]

I guess people just find repetitively shooting the same few character models with a massive variety of different guns fun.
To each his own I suppose.