Poll: Is the true reason we hate MW2 because the game or the people who play it?

[Hyper-space]

I played the game strictly for it's single-player campaign, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

As far as I'm concerned most of the hate stems from it being trendy.

The game has a few issues insofar as balance is concerned in MP, and the decision to drop dedicated servers on PC was no doubt a mistaken one, but it's a good, fun, well made title, that for all intents and purposes came very close to living up to the game it was a sequel to.

The amount of frothing at the mouth hate the game seems to drum up is wholly undeserved, and I really don't get it. If you hate the game SO GODDAMN MUCH why are you bothering to concern yourself with it? Just go play a game you like and get over yourself.

-m

THIS.

For every perk, there is something that counters it. For every weapon, there is something that equals it. But weapons are not the only thing in this game, knowing the map, knowing where your enemies spawn can help you more than any double-barreled shotgun. The amount of customization allows you to fine-tune your class to whatever play-style you might have. That was mainly my beef with the first one, with so few perks/attachment you can't exactly find that one true class that you can always jump to if you need to kick-ass.

EDIT:

MW2 is one of the purest shooters it is just pure chaos which from what I've seen tends to be the default online mode reguardless of the objective or even the game. BC2 is a little more tactical but the game (MW2) isn't still being played almost a year after its release by a huge community because it suck. I think people like to hate on MW2 just to do it. A five year old boy is camping and has killed you six times in a row. Get over it. Black Ops is going to do great and have a massive community and next year this the next COD game will have us looking forward to it and you not me you will be dumping on black ops. God Bless.

Black ops will be one solid ass game.

Snooch to the nooch.

 

[Jon Shannow]

The thing that annoyed me the most about it was the hype. People were making it out to be the single greatest game that i would see that decade.
When it came out i didn't buy it at first, all my mates had it and told me to get it saying it was great and reviews were giving it 9/10.
Finally i gave in and bought it. And i enjoyed it, the multiplayer was solid and the the plot twist in the campaign i felt gave me adequate reasoning to want to kill the baddies.
But it was nothing that hadn't been done before, don't get me wrong i greatly enjoyed it and personally i would give it a 7.5-8/10 but i felt i didn't deserve the 9.5's and i think i saw at least one 10. For me for a game to deserve a 10 it must bring new things to the table.

 

[Saxm13]

I thought it was just fine. A polished well designed game, that i'm not particularly interested in.

GOTY material? Nooooooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

 

[miscelaneous]

Its all right, fun to play with friends and I'd say that's about it.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I don't hate MW2. I'm not some drooling fan, but I don't find anything wrong with it. I have yet to run into any real jerks online for it that ruin my experience and even if I did, that's hardly the game's fault. Although there are times when I get a little annoyed by certain combinations (akimbo shotguns and those superfast knifers), I never get overly upset about it. Because although they are good combinations, they can be beat and it does take some skill to use them. There is no "Choose class - win" combination out there. Is it totally perfect? Probably not, but it isn't broken I know that much.

I'm guessing the main reason why there is so much hate for it (at least around here) is because its almost "cool" to bash on popular games like that (Halo's another one I've seen). Or certain types of music (is Justin Beiber really that bad that he can't exist alongside your music?). Or certain works of literture (sure may Twilight isn't that entertaining for you, but what do the women think of your chainmail-bikini clad barbarians?). I shouldn't be surprised considering that the culture here is mainly "alternative".

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

I think the game just sucks in general. The people made it worse though.

 

[Serenegoose]

I don't hate MW2. The last call of duty game I played online was the first one - I have online games that cater for my urge and I've no real desire to get into MW2s. That's why I've no intent of picking the game up ever. £39 for a 6 hour campaign is just silly, and since the game will never ever be at £10 bargain basement prices (apparently this is a new thing with AAA videogames, you can find them at their RRP years later...)

I find it irritating that a game that originally had such a solid singleplayer offering has progressively moved away from it, as there is currently a bit of a drought of good singleplayer FPS offerings on the PC.

 

[Sinspiration]

No no no, you're confusing PEOPLE for "Annoying under-aged brats whose parents should know better"

 

[WanderingBiscuits]

For me its a little bit of both. I don't hate the game personally. I just think its very average and not deserving of its merit in the slightest. If it hadn't have become so popular i wouldn't have given it a passing glance after playing a few times.....but instead i have to hear about it every single day from people who claim it to be the holy grail of FPS games.

 

[Exort]

I enjoyed playing it, mostly, I don't play it any more though.
You can't really blame the players for using all the overpowered stuff, as it shouldn't be there in the first place.

Yes, player will always go for the path of least resistance regerdless if it is fun or not. It is the developer's job to ensure it doesn't happens.

 

[MurderousToaster]

I don't hate the game and I may hold some hate towards the idiotic, E-number induced moron thirteen year olds who scream down their mics at the slightest provocation, but the main reason for my displeasure is the way the game was maintained. They only patched a couple problems and then gave up.

To use an analogy, there's a doctor (Infinity Ward) who finds a patient (MW2) has been shot in the chest quite a few times and is rapidly bleeding out. The doctor proceeds to, incredibly slowly, remove the bullet from and plug up two of the gaping holes in his chest (the Model 1887s and the Care Package Glitch). He then finds that one of the holes has reopened and slowly fixes it again (Model 1887s FMJ Bling). He then notices that the patient has already given him his money for the procedure and notices his colleagues being fired for violating the Hippocratic Oath (the mass firings of IW's staff for violations of contract). He just thinks "Fuck this." and walks out leaving the patient still choking on their own blood and vomit with their chest full of holes(OMA grenade launchers, countless map glitches, Commando, weapon balance issues, leaderboard hacking, 10th Prestige lobbies and a lot more). However, the patient isn't being allowed to die. Abandoned by his doctors, the patient just sits there, dying of blood loss, covered in his own sick, blood and excrement. And, hell, his friends and family beg the doctor to come back and he says he will, lying through his teeth, but never bothers to return.

 

[Lineoutt]

I love MW2, I play it with my friends and online. Its one of the few games my friends play and its a social thing.

 

[Exort]

I dislike just about every realistic military shooter... with the only exception being Black from last generations Xbox... I just find most of them severely token, unoriginal, underwhelming and very average at best...

Becuase they put realism and graphic in front of gameplay.

 

[BenzSmoke]

I never played the game online, so I wouldn't know how people behave there.
But I can tell you that I thought the campaign was rather mediocre. Most of the time I had no idea what was going on.
"Alright so I'm a spy pretending to be a terrorist? The best course of action to prove I'm on the terrorist's side is to gun down hundreds of unarmed civilians? But the leader of the terrorists is right here next to me! I've got a gun, so why don't I just shoot him and his goons and prevent the deaths of these civilians? Oh, because you say so game? Well f*ck you."
"Wait now we're in some broken down shantytown running from a bunch of untrained minorities with guns? Why are these guys a threat? We're the military, don't we have, like, helicopters and drones and stuff? Oh, we're trying not to scare the guy we're after... but isn't that him running across the rooftops? I'd say we scared him already."
"Alright it looks like the general fellow betrayed us and we're trying to kill guys from our military so we can kill him. Hey, Price, why'd he betray us anyway? He lost a lot of men in the blink of an eye? So why's he taking it out on us and possibly entire countries? It's not our fault he sucks at being a general... what, you're not sure?"

 

[crimsonshrouds]

only played single an co op with my cousin. Not a bad game but only worth the rental i had to play it. i wouldn't buy it.

 

[LightspeedJack]

People hate it because it's popular. End of. Battlefield Bad Company doesn't get all the hate because it's not as popular. Sure it's not for everyone but people love to hate what's popular. To be honest it's getting pretty annoying now, can we, as a community move on?

 

[Sacman]

I dislike just about every realistic military shooter... with the only exception being Black from last generations Xbox... I just find most of them severely token, unoriginal, underwhelming and very average at best...

Becuase they put realism and graphic in front of gameplay.

not only that, but they really do nothing innovative or interesting...it's all the same kill, russians, asians or terrorists in a linear cover based environment, and instead of relying on the actual gameplay, pacing and setting to make it interesting they just throw explosion after explosion hoping it stimulates our brain somehow...

I mean look at S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl it relies completely on the tone and frantic gameplay to make each encounter exciting and often unnerving, the only time it uses any kind of cinematic set piece is in the finale and that's only for 5 minutes at most before it goes into one of the most unnerving horror environments I've experienced...

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, first let me just say that the single-player and Spec Ops are just fine as far as I'm concerned. Great, even. But the multiplayer.....God, the multiplayer.

The game really is horribly unbalanced. I mean really...Dual wielding shotguns? REALLY? The melee is way overpowered, as well as many of the perks. Bring in the unintentional errors (infinite care packages, javelin glitch, that thing that people to do go outside the map) and it all adds up to an unbalanced, unpolished mess.

I blame Activision, because Infinity Ward has proven itself in the past to be a great developer.

 

[Fidelias]

I guess it's a combination of both the game and the people. I mean, I wouldn't mind it if it weren't so praised. There's nothing to praise it for. The storyline is a load of garbage, and they threw out the realism that made the series great. The single player is one of the most boring and forgetful storylines I've played through. And the multiplayer is even worse. You have all manner of cheap strategies that just brake the game.

So, yeah. If it weren't so hyped up, I wouldn't mind it. But it is. It's not that I'm jealous that this game gets a 10/10 and others are passed up. It's because it scares me that more games might turn out like this one.

 

[TerranReaper]

People hate it because they're contrarians who must hate on the popular. Overall the game is good and not as unbalanced as people make it out to be..... there is a counter for everything...... sick of air support? Get cold blooded and carry a stinger and the problem is solved. Sick of knives? walk around with a shotty or shield. Sick of campers? Grenades work wonders as does going in guns blazing. Noob tubers? well if you're having trouble with them then you need to suck it up and get some skill.

If Modern Warfare 2 is not as unbalanced as people make it out, then why do most competitive scenes do not host any kind of ladders or tournaments on it and if they do, they have to do so by restricting certain perks/weapons used?

I think there just might be something wrong with the balance if a crapload of people are saying that it's imbalanced and certain weapons/perks/attachments are broken.