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Any gamers?
Any gamers?
COD Black Ops
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I was all set up to get this but my gaming rig took a crap on me this week. I'm past due for an upgrade but I'm taking a trip this week so it'll have to wait.
Picked it up and played for a bit last night.
I like being able to buy the perks and such I want rather than grinding level after level to get the setup I prefer.
I like being able to buy the perks and such I want rather than grinding level after level to get the setup I prefer.
I want to get this, but Red Dead Redemption looks like so much fun!
waiting to get mine from gamefly
I like the new perk system as well, but I don't care for having to buy weapons in addition to unlocking them by leveling up. It just seems a bit redundant.
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RDR is one of the best games ever created. COD Black Ops is an awesome online game.
RDR is a fun game, but your enjoyment of it is mostly based on how you view GTA. I personally find GTA to be a snore. It's utterly repetitive without adding really any sort of story or experience to it.
RDR is almost the opposite. Every little quest you do is interesting and adds to the world.......
Except for the entire middle part of the game. The entire Mexico portion of the game is utterly horrible. You enter Mexico to find someone. Pretty much every quest you do is given to you with the promise that at the end, you'll know where the person is.
Twenty some odd quests later, they do tell you, after you've basically torn apart the entire region. Seriously, by the time they tell you where the guy is, you could have ridden your horse across the entire area 5 or 6 times and found him on your own, if the game allowed.
The beginning and end is great. Basically I loved RDR, then I grew really tired of it, then at the end I wound up liking it. It could have been the best game this year if not for the middle section.
I just like to warn people.
To stay on topic, I'm probably gonna pick up Black Ops tonight. I need to renew my xbox live and Target has a deal where you get a 12 month card for 30 bucks when you get BO.
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my xbox has the RROD so I've been out of the video game loop for awhile. I still need to get COD 2: Modern Warfare, Left For Dead 1 & 2, Aliens vs Predator, etc, etc.
Finally, someone with the same opinion as me about GTA. I've purchased all three games and didn't finish any of them. I would start the game, play a number of missions, get tired of it and put it back on the shelf. It was entirely too repetitive for me. I had more fun wandering around the cities on my own and smashing stuff up than I did doing the missions. I don't know why I kept buying them, but I did. I was particularly excited about the fourth one, as I live in NYC, but after the novelty of the city wore off, it went on the shelf like the first two.
I'm terrible at first person shooters, so I won't buy this new COD game, though the commercial looks awesome. I don't like video games where I have to practice to get good at them.
Hows the zombies in it
I stopped playing RDR because the Mexico portion is horrible.
I ended up buying it on Tuesday morning. I did the genius thing and looked up which Best Buy locations were having midnight releases and then went to the closest one that didn't have one. Sure enough, there were about 400 copies at the store I went to.
As far as the game goes, it is lagging a bit, but what do you expect when a billion people are playing at the same time. Based on my limited exposure to the multiplayer maps, they seem a bit smaller than some of the larger maps in Modern Warfare 2, but I haven't played them all yet. It's interesting to note that some of the maps are interactive, which is a nice little touch (like opening giant doors). The concept of the COD currency is great because you can customize the guns the way you want to. In MW2, in order to get extedned clips you would have to essentially unlock every other type of attachment. In Black Ops, you can simply purchase the extended clip without having to unlock everything else. This makes the game more fun to most as players don't have to trudge through matches with a weapon just so they can upgrade the attachments.
One bit of criticism is that aiming isn't as smooth as it was in MW2. The difference in aiming speed between a 6 and a 7 is seemingly enormous in Black Ops. As I didn't buy MW2 until a few months ago, I can't attest to whether the developers did a good job in fixing bugs and glitches. I presume that some of the kinks will be worked out in the next month or two (but they don't make playing the game impossible)
As far as the game goes, it is lagging a bit, but what do you expect when a billion people are playing at the same time. Based on my limited exposure to the multiplayer maps, they seem a bit smaller than some of the larger maps in Modern Warfare 2, but I haven't played them all yet. It's interesting to note that some of the maps are interactive, which is a nice little touch (like opening giant doors). The concept of the COD currency is great because you can customize the guns the way you want to. In MW2, in order to get extedned clips you would have to essentially unlock every other type of attachment. In Black Ops, you can simply purchase the extended clip without having to unlock everything else. This makes the game more fun to most as players don't have to trudge through matches with a weapon just so they can upgrade the attachments.
One bit of criticism is that aiming isn't as smooth as it was in MW2. The difference in aiming speed between a 6 and a 7 is seemingly enormous in Black Ops. As I didn't buy MW2 until a few months ago, I can't attest to whether the developers did a good job in fixing bugs and glitches. I presume that some of the kinks will be worked out in the next month or two (but they don't make playing the game impossible)
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Wow I never thought I'd ever read that in my life. Everyone loves the Mexico part. That's the best part of the game. Wait...are you joking?
I want to buy BO but for my PC, and not my PS3. I do better with shooters on the computer but I don't want to upgrade my entire computer just for this one game, so I'll be getting it when the price goes down. I'm going to be away for Thanksgiving and for the entirety of Christmas & New years so I can wait. Looks like I'll won't be gaming for a bit. 
I am currently stuck in Mexico. I completed the last mission assigned. There are no characters popping up for me to go to for my next mission. I am just aimlesly wandering around killing wolves and coyotes. Whats up?
Scott
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GTA IV is the best reviewed video game ever. RDR is not far behind.
I am sure there are some that don't like movies like "The Godfather" or "Casablanca" but that doesn't change the fact that they're great films.
IMO GTA IV is to video games what "Godfather" is to cinema. Red Dead Redemption is the best overall Game Of The Year.
Back to Black Ops, I like some of the changes but I am not impressed with the graphics or animation. Having said that, Black Ops is the best ONLINE game of the year.
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No, I'm not joking. Maybe part of my problem with the game is that I don't get to sit down and play it very often, it seems like I complete a mission and and the reward is that I'm supposed to find out where the person I'm after is, I don't remember his name. I complete the mission and I don't get his location. This seems to be happening again and again and I'm just getting tired of it.
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The game requires some problem solving.
Problem solving isn't the issue. My 12 and 16 year old sons finished the game.
The problem is that I don't find the Mexico portion all that interesting or compelling.
