My Modern Warfare 2 epiphany

[DSEZ]

About 5 weeks ago, I was playing Modern Warfare 2 online. I finished second with a 29-6 kill-death ratio. Then, while waiting at the pre-game screen (listening to asshats yammer about nukes...or something), it hit me... I hate this game.
It had gotten to feeling more like a second job than a way to relax. The best part was the period in between games: looking at rewards, playing with weapon customizations, but always feeling like I wouldn't be satisfied without the next gun attachment
There was nothing fun about it anymore.

So I shut it off and I haven't turned the game back on.

Instead, I started playing through the Ratchet & Clank Games on my PS2. Turning robots into giant chickens and promptly blowing the shit out of them reminded me that video games WERE once fun. I've completed R&C 1-3 to 100% again.

I was once a dedicated XBoxer: since the 360's release. I've now canceled my Live subscription.
My next game slated for completion is Pitfall on the SNES

Am I the only gamer who's ever been hit in the face by such a realization?

no you arent alone i dont play xbox live games anymore for that reason its not fun the only games ive played in the past 6 months are castle crashers,i made a game with zombies in it,and mass effect 2 just because you can play them all alone

 

[p3t3r]

ya i relized that whenever i play it i don't have fun anymore so i stopped. turned it on a few times since but it just doesn't work for me

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

MW2 got really old really fast. You aren't the only one that got tired of it.

I don't have my Ratchet and Clank games. My brother lost the old PS2 ones (he was at flight school, and we would swap the Gcube and the PS2 whenever we got to see each other) during a move, and I traded the one I bought for the PS3 with a friend who then sold it. I got Burnout Paradise though, which I am satisfied with.

Tl;Dr: I talk to goddamn much. I liked WaW since there was Co Op campaign and that Zombie thing. Spec Ops was garbage to me. That's just me though, alot of people enjoyed them, and I'm fine with that.

 

[theklng]

Am I the only gamer who's ever been hit in the face by such a realization?

nope

 

[FatherSpleen]

...And this is exactly why I dislike many newer games, particularly online multiplayer ones.
What happened to fun?

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

I had my CoD epiphany, like, 1 year ago.
They don't quit milking Call of Duty.
It's started to suck at MW, and now took a dive head-first onto MW2 sucksville. It's the same thing, in different enviromment.

Here is my review on both MWs and their online experiences:

MW: "OMG TERRORISTS! PEW PEW PEW"
MW2: "OMG REBELS, TERRORISTS AND RUSSIANS! PEW PEW PEW"
MWs Online: "Headshot 15 kill streak! OH GOT YOU AGAIN FOR THE 10TH TIME TODAY, NOOB"

That's the end of my opinion. Remember, opinion, not wrong, only a view of something.

 

[SamuelT]

I had this a couple of weeks ago. So I downloaded some demos of games I'd normally never buy because they're so gimmicky. Stuff like Just Cause 2, and the new Crackdown. Had a couple of hours of fun with those, and spent the rest of the day going on a rampage in the beginning of Prototype.

Then I popped Bad Company 2 back in, and started with an entire new class.

Now it's fun again.

 

[bad_dog14]

Maybe, but not an epiphany so huge that it made me abandon current gen gaming altogether.

 

[natster43]

I stopped playing Modern Warfare 2 a while ago. I just stopped having fun and started getting annoyed by anything, the akimbo shotguns, people camping, even with my friends it was only annoying, I never cared about the stats since everyone has their ups and downs, but even just going around knifing people became dull. It may also have been caused by Battlefield Bad Company 2, because I started playing that and then got bored of Modern Warfare 2.

 

[Wicky_42]

Ive realised the problem...All online gaming is grind happy and thus boring...Single player is where its at people

Tell that to Mass Effect - I've almost got through it in around 35 hours, but thinking back so much of that was almost a chore :/

Plus auto-saves are lacking - I've got a 15 minute section to play through that ends with a 20-second timed race. Fail it and you die. It's the only timed bit in the game, and I wasn't expecting it. That's 10 mins straight of plot exposition to sit through again :/

 

[SpireOfFire]

my MW2 epiphany was: people on xbox live are assholes, even when they dont try to be.

but something amazing happend today, i had the urge to play MW2 online again. then i kept my mind and eyes on the road and didnt think about it again. all i had to do was remind myself of how off the wall that game drove me.

 

[HassEsser]

I realized it at that one chat deal between the devs and the PC community before its release date.

 

[Leviathan_]

i got mw2 for my birthday. i yelled at my cousin who gave it to me because it was a bullshit present

You must be a nice person.


OT: I'm actually getting the same feeling with BC2 atm, Though it's still fun to play with friends.

 

[RangerSERE]

Boredom with a game hardly counts as a revelation. It speaks more against you that you were complacent enough to go along with the crowd, instead of making up your own mind about things. Regardless, you stopped playing a game, big woopty shit.

 

[Grey_Focks]

Eh. As someone who just started playing MW2 on the xbox, I must say good god I hate that game, but I still have fun with it. Having to unlock all those perks. weapons, and weapon attachments is just not fun (I think I'm level 7 atm) though I actually have been having some fun using marathon (unlimited sprint) stopping power (bullets do more damage) and steady aim. I just use the UMP45 SMG and run around the map killing people the proper way, and I've actually been having something resembling fun. Then I get spawn-killed by a Harrier, or knifed 5 times in a row, and I remember how horribly balanced this fucking game is, and that I should really play something else.

 

[Flac00]

You just need to get a game that is just fun and isn't focused on getting good. I just recently played an insanely fun game on Battlefield 2142 with a couple of buds. It was absolutely awesome. The game lasted maybe 10 minutes but it felt like an hour, in the good way. I was jumping around (not literally), unloading my generic assault rifle into people, reviving people. It was chaotic, and so much fun. I've always loved the Battlefield series because it is just so much fun from the chaos and all. Plus, because awards are hard to come by but are extremely rewarding, they feel so good when you find out you just got a 10 kill streak (that is a lot in 2142).

 

[Flac00]

I had this a couple of weeks ago. So I downloaded some demos of games I'd normally never buy because they're so gimmicky. Stuff like Just Cause 2, and the new Crackdown. Had a couple of hours of fun with those, and spent the rest of the day going on a rampage in the beginning of Prototype.

Then I popped Bad Company 2 back in, and started with an entire new class.

Now it's fun again.

See, that's what I mean. Sure, i dont have bad company 2, but what I have played is fun as hell. If you just mix it up a bit in that game you can have so much fun. Do something like go on a rampage in a tank and then come back to me and not say that wasn't fun.

 

[UnkeptBiscuit]

EDIT: @CrashBang: About Red Dead... I think that was the point of Mexico. You're supposed to hate it. You're supposed to pop down there, pop Williamson and Escuela, pop back to the U.S., and that's that. But you get caught up in the politics, which end up being futile, and John Marston hates it. And I hope Rockstar's idea was to make YOU hate it. Not the best design idea for getting people to stick with the game, but it DOES get better when you cross back into the U.S. A lot better.

Weird, 10 minutes into Mexico was when I realized I really, really liked this game. I think the music they played had something to do with it. But I do see your point. The tone of the music was something along the lines of "stranger in a strange land," and you really feel like going right back into the US, but wind up stuck. No matter how long I stay in Mexico in that game, it still feels completely alien. The locals are hostile, even your so-called 'allies.' You're

Spoiler

playing both sides of the Revolution

, never making much progress towards your own objective, instead helping out people you hate. What makes it even worse is that just before all that you were *this* close to finishing what you had to do and getting the chance to get back to your family and your normal life. Even though I really enjoyed the newness of being in Mexico, now I, along with Marston, am really starting to hate it.

 

[Flac00]

I own it, but I'm thinking of selling it, but the local gameing place closed, and I could only thik of a few people who would but it.

I ussualy play Halo, I like it, I just don't see why so many people here hate it, I can see why people hate MW2, but I honestly think Halo is very good, but not what it was hyped to be.

If you got a pc, get halo ce and play some mods, they kick ass!

 

[Xerosch]

Am I the only gamer who's ever been hit in the face by such a realization?

Nope, you're not.
And I'm happy to see that there´s a still small but growing percentage of gamers who realize that what gaming is supposed to be died a few years back. About half a year ago I realized that the SNES, PS1 and PS2 era were the high point of gaming (well, for me at least). Went back to some older stuff and am still playing them.

It became a common mistake that great graphics equal a good game. That's simply not true. In my opinion a great game fluently combines story, atmosphere, music and a unique visual style (just look at some lesser known things Squaresoft pulled off on the PS1).

But apparently clonig the same green/brown/grey realistic-space-marine-muscle-hero-badass-shit is what sells. Just look at the laughable 'highlights' of this year´s E3...