Call of Duty: Black Ops

[Nonentity]

Didn't see a thread for this.

I know most people here enjoyed Modern Warfare 2 on the consoles, but I was one of the few who enjoyed it on PC.

Latest trailer about the 'Wager' modes in multiplayer sound kind of interesting - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg_8mPoloBo

Treyarch really must be trying to win that PC crowd back, as they keep going down the bullet list of things that are expected, such as dedicated servers and mod tools.

It also seems like for more of the casual players, they'll be interested in the standard modes, and the more dick wagging players can go into the more intense wager modes in an attempt to get a lot of 'CoD Dollars' to unlock a bunch of stuff.

[K9]

That looks pretty fun

[Malakili]

The gun game is ripped straight from a counter strike mod.  Looks decent enough I suppose if you are into Call of Duty to begin with.

[Nonentity]

The gun game is ripped straight from a counter strike mod.  Looks decent enough I suppose if you are into Call of Duty to begin with.

Yeah, I'm familair with the mod. I find it interesting they are putting that mode specifically into the wager modes.

Call of Duty is very much my guilty pleasure game. There's not exactly that much compelling content, but I like shooting dudes and getting new guns.

[Nonentity]

Bumping this for reveal info. This is kind of a plotline spoiler (not really, lol) in that it comes after the very end of the game, and is in relation to the zombie co-op mode.

[Ingmar]

That is... 

I might buy the game for that alone, and I don't play these things at all.

[jakonovski]

So is there going to be a sniper section like Chernobyl in MW, only this time you assassinate Kennedy. 

...I wish, the games industry is way, way too spineless to even entertain the idea.

[NiX]

Ugh, dolphin diving.

[01101010]

Is this even remotely worth getting right now? Anyone currently playing have an opinion? My curiosity is peaked a bit.

[Rasix]

Reviews are pretty glowing.  Single player looks like vanilla FPS with vehicles.  

Multiplayer options at least sound a bit intriguing.  I haven't done the whole online FPS thing since the first few months of TF2.  I'm pretty positive my PC would croak on this game and.. I'm not on board with the new fangled console shooter thing.

I'm pretty much waiting on the reaction here as well.  As a whole through, we don't seem like the audience for this.

edit: Hah.  The Kotaku review has me less interested.  Crecente is such a useless, fanboy hack.

[eldaec]

Everything I read says it is MW2 without herpes.

So I might pick it up when steam is selling it for £2 or whatever at christmas.

[NiX]

Roomie blew through this a day early. MW2 without Herpes is a very apt description.

[Hawkbit]

Apologies for the obtuse question, but what was MW2 Herpes?

[Nonentity]

Compared to MW2 on PC, the multiplayer in Black Ops is simply a refinement of what was there already, but with proper dedicated server support, and fun wager match modes.

There are some notable performance issues for a good chunk of people currently, and it is purportedly being related to something server side, but there are some tweaks you can do at the moment to make it playable. If you're on the fence, I'd say give it a week or so to make sure the issues clear up, but it's plenty fine as-is.

[tgr]

Hrrm. While World at War had interestingly aggressive AI, the level design sucked literal ass. I'm not convinced that most reviews these days will actually be representative of the actual gameplay, I'm not convinced it won't just be a 5 hour ripoff, and I'm also not convinced that there aren't any activations even though steam doesn't say anything about activations yet.

And what the christ at the €60 pricepoint? Is it made of pure gold?

Apologies for the obtuse question, but what was MW2 Herpes?

No console, no lean, no dedicated server (even though PC gamers managed to find all of the functionality in the game itself I believe, until IW released a patch that just removed it even further), 5 hour disjointed SP and a few other details I can't be arsed to remember offhand.

[FatuousTwat]

Anyone else when they saw the Kobe commercial?

[Paelos]

I liked the music. I was annoyed that they put Jimmy Kimmel in there.

[waffel]

[FatuousTwat]

Hey, Carl Winslow will fuck your shit up.

[Ginaz]

Gah.   I don't know what I hate worse....hopping or flopping.

[LK]

I almost don't want to see what that guy looks like today for fear of ruining my late 80's / early 90's image of him.

[Engels]

So, uhm, does this have lean? Its a serious question. World of Tanks has no lean. I'm ok with that. Its a tank. It can't lean. Humans, they be leaning machines. I gotta have lean.

[eldaec]

So, uhm, does this have lean? Its a serious question. World of Tanks has no lean. I'm ok with that. Its a tank. It can't lean. Humans, they be leaning machines. I gotta have lean.

Black ops is balanced for lean.

[tgr]

Black ops is balanced for lean.

You're not just making a funny now, are you? It actually does have lean?

(It's a bit sad to have to actually ask that of a COD game)

[NiX]

No lean to be found when we played.

[Engels]

Well, which is it?

I'm only interested in the PC version, and for the matter, only the Multiplayer elements. It may have a good first person storyline, but its secondary to me.

[Paelos]

Lean is in.

Gamespot thread here.

[NiX]

Well then, Phire just sucks at games then. Finally, I can confirm this truth.

[tgr]

I still dont see why people make such a big deal out of it though. It has its situations, but for the most part people dont use it.

Because PC gamers are the biggest crybabies with entitlement issues the gaming world knows. You're right, lean isn't a big deal. A couple "big bad hardcore PC FPS bros" will go around telling everyone it's the only way for a FPS to be "legit" and that they use it "ALL THE TIME OMG," but it's just a situational, minor feature.

I love that mentality. "It's a minor feature, which only a few people use, so why even bother putting it in? Damn, they've such an entitlement issue!"

[Paelos]

In any competitive environment, a working grasp of the "minor" features are the ones that usually seperate the great and the average.

[waffel]

Competitive online gaming is one of those things you do from ages 16-early 20s. After that you just say fuck it and play for fun.

[Nightblade]

The very little I managed to play actually was pretty good. It lacked that "lol you take three steps and die" approach to map design that MW2 had... Too bad the hitching makes the game essentially unplayable.

[tgr]

Competitive online gaming is one of those things you do from ages 16-early 20s. After that you just say fuck it and play for fun.

I actually play "competitively" in a lan party once a year, on a lan-party for neckbeards over 25. We still play such games like CSS (I don't, I got bored of that eons ago, though), MW1 and (this last time) BC2.

I still want lean. :P

Too bad the hitching makes the game essentially unplayable.

What hitching?

[Nightblade]

What hitching?

The game is unplayable for a large number of people, some of them even having expensive new gaming machines. The issue definitely isn't server side. What happens is you get crap frame rates and random hiccups no matter how good or bad of a system you have; rendering the game pretty much unplayable.

[Phire]

Well then, Phire just sucks at games then. Finally, I can confirm this truth.

More like I am too boss to need to lean. Call of Duty SP is a not a game that really requires leans as most of my deaths were caused by grenades :P

Besides I don't have manuals for these games nor do I read option menus.