This comic goes out to the guys in my office who talk about Modern Warfare like it’s a deployment they were on together.
“Oh man, did you see when I kicked in that door and took out all those guys with a grenade?”
“Nah man, I was too busy guiding a missile from a Predator into a group of insurgents.”
Or something like that.
Truth be told, the two Modern Warfare games are the only ones – since the days my parents first brought home that NES – that I’ve played from start to finish. Honestly – I just don’t do video games that much. I’ve played about 10 minutes of Red Dead Redemption since buying it, and as awesome as it seems, finding time to play it is a skill I haven’t yet perfected. The one time I logged into MW2 with the guys from the office, I had an outright blast. I had the absolute worst score on our team, but it was fun, so I’m not knocking video games.
I am, however, knocking the asshats who go to great lengths to make sure the whole experience is mind-numbingly frustrating for those of us who don’t spend every waking minute perfecting our run-and-gun skills. Folks like that make it so I don’t want to to log in, because honestly, the game is no fun when I can’t get two steps into a level before someone picks me off. But hey, that’s entertainment for some people, I guess.
Personally, if I’m wasting my time doing something unproductive with a controller in my hand, it’s usually flying or driving one of my RC vehicles, which I’ve been told by video game aficionados are a waste of money.
But hey, to each their own, right? Maybe with their skills and mine combined, we could be a UAV crew…
I already have a set of the wings. 
-Farva
MW2 is a pretty rad game. Haven’t played in a bit, but I do own it. I’m just too busy… And I agree, sniping spawn points is noob bullshit.
Haha. Awesome!
riiiightt… thats like saying 3 landings in MS Flight sim makes you current in the real world.
RPA not UAV/UAS Farva. At least the big ones
I’ve decided not to go along with that. It’s too much to explain.
Kind of like how I don’t use the Combat Edge flight gear.
I’m just going to throw this out as a disclaimer: I LOVE Modern Warfare. I am a HELL of a sniper. I have never, and I will never, do something as shitty as snipe-camping spawn points. I actually do try to keep the game fun for others, even if it gets me killed a little more often and keeps me from getting the 25-kill-streak nuke every match.
I haven’t played in a bit, but when we doing this son? I’m on xbox live though.
As for the waste of money topic…
I have three that people see as wastfull and boring
Hookah…5 pipes and suplies, $600 at least
Paintball…2 markers and supplies, $300 at least
XBOX 360…MW2 edition console and other stuff…$700 at least
oh yeah some AFB players night would be cool,
Ugh Modern Warfare. I used to enjoy multiplayer until everyone figured out that double shotgun is the best weapon in the game. I stopped playing after the 20th session spent getting double shottied in the face from rediculous ranges or stabbed from ten feet away every time I turned a corner. I’m just waiting for Fallout: New Vegas
I like MW2, but I don’t get too bent out of shape if I get frustrated in multiplayer, since I have always bought the CoD games for the single player campaigns, especially with the newer games.
I’m all pumped for Modern Warfare 3. Maybe this game will allow us to equip Reflective Belts!
Spawn camping, the true sign of some one who’s not good enough to play. Still it’s always nice when the team only has those types of corrections to make. “Seriously? You’re car is filthy get it washed!”
i actually got so tired of the spawn campers and the double shotty whores that I posted the game’s forums about how it needs to be fixed. the response was overwhelming as within the course of 24 hours i had dozens of people telling me that i was lame, and being a noob, and didn’t understand how the game was supposed to be played. they insisted that playing like that was a strategic thing. since then it got worse and worse with people inventing ultimate custom kits : http://www.break.com/game-trailers/game/modern-warfare-2/modern-warfare-2-custom-kit-exploit—100-kills
since then i’ve sold it back to gamestop while it was still worth something, and took on god of war 3…ooooh man.
AFP, MW3 has me scared because the same people who did world at war are making it, so theres a high likelihood of it sucking hard… fair warning
If the same people the made WaW are makine MW3 then that means that any DLC that comes out won’t be available overseas. That is lame.
RC is a hobby. Games are for lusers.
Just curious: How do feel about those of us who occasionally find time for both? I mean, I’m gonna have to agree with the “to each his own” philosophy here.
All power to ya. The ones I don’t like are the ones who intentionally make it no fun for others. Aren’t there some games out there that pit you against rivals with similar skill levels?
I think Halo 3 tried to match by skill level, but ididnt always work out well
I may not play Modern Warfare, but I know n00b bullshit when I see it.
snipers take the fun out of the game… Especially the ones that use thermal. It may happen in actual combat but it sucks in a video game to be running around only to be taken out by some jackass camping on the other side of the map that you can’t even see because you don’t have 10x zoom. The only times I’ve ever sniped in a game is to take out another sniper. Lining up the crosshairs on a target that is moving right toward me or not moving at all isn’t very hard. Countersniping is fair and fun so after I take out a sniper I’ll switch to my secondary and close distance to keep it interesting for everyone.
I’m getting old. I remember Doom on a 286 PC.
In 1982, there was a place in Dallas where you suited up massive battery packs and helmet for two teams to play laser tag in this maze. running around, hot hard work, and beware the occasional inject to both teams with a gernade.
I finally found a cool cubby hole that had eyes on the main room, cant tag me, but I got points on you, you are dead for 60 seconds and didnt know what hit you.
War is hell, but the point is to win, and survive.
In the virtual world? watched the teenager go thru all the “secret cheats” found on the net. Whats the point of playing a computer game when you hit alt-ctl-cheet to become invincible?
You are getting old if you remember Doom on a 286. I don’t ever remember seeing Doom on a 286. I don’t think it could handle it.
It was Doom 1.0 and I still have the 3.5 720K disks to prove it.
(BTW it sucked, like most PC games from that era)
RobertM: I also remember playing Doom on a 286 with my brother way back when. His now 18 year old son was about 3/4, and we told him not to tell mom when she got back from work. First words out of his mouth when she got home and asked how he had spent the afternoon? “Killing monsters.” My sister-in-law likes me now, but not so much back then. Life was frustrating enough for her, even without my corrupting her son.
Haha… spawn camping. For shaaaaaame.
… It’s why I don’t really play FPSs and MMOs online anymore. It’s too easy to get pissed off at all the spawn-camping jerks.
I agree with you. Farva. Certain people out there just take away from the fun of playing the game. :C
I have a Nintendo 64. It’s a lot of fun.
It frustrates me to no end the guys that play every waking moment playing and figured out every map detail plus I deal with hard core lag but I’m addicted to the sound of a player asborbing my silenced bullets.
i just started playing gamecube again. mario kart is too much fun. but the wife gets cranky and shell give up but stop her kart on an item box, so it keeps restocking her weapons as she fires them non stop. and mario kart fiends know, last place always gets the blue shells, which sucks for me. but she works at game stop and gets me employee discount so im ok with it:)
Farva I never got into multi-player/online games because of the same reasons. Not only do I not have the time to “perfect” the game but the one time i did it (with Command and Conquer) I got my ass handed to me in the first minutes. Completely ruined my experience and never did it again. I am just glad I am not one of those type of people. They probably beat up the little kids in school too!!
Actually, I think the little kids who got beat up are the ones that spend all their time in a virtual world
LOL…good point! Of course revenge at its…well, best, in their case.
I quickly gave up on Quake II because any dipwit who could get the Quad Damage and a rocket launcher could take out any player with the maximum armor with a single shot, and nobody would run a server that banned QD.
Games are supposed to be fun. When there’s stuff in a game that’s only there to frustrate and annoy, it ceases to be fun.
Preach it brother! I barely have time to find to do the things I want to do that don’t require loads of time! Even when I was single! The games can be fun, but folks like you mentioned (and the @$$hats who use cheat codes) drastically reduce the fun effect.
I play MW2 (more than I should, I’m afraid), and I find it funny the amount of people who use words they wouldnt get caught dead with saying in real life (one in particular, and you all can imagine it). I love the multiplayer only because there can be some genuinely cool people to play with, and given the right situation, laugh your ass off after being on the wrong end of a M203 shot from across the map….
Yeah, sometimes when you get killed, it’s just frustrating, but every once in a while, the only response you can have is “… Nice” for particularly impressive or occasionally funny kills. I’m a little ashamed to say that I’ve been killed three or four times by supply crates.
All your spawn points are belong to us. Snipe.
I can agree with the not quite enough time to be perfect thing. I usually just only play online when it’s a game I’m naturally good at with having to practice much. (Soul Calibur 4)
I can honestly say that even WITH the new Map Pack that came out for MW2 (downloaded said map pack the minute it came out), that I spent my weekend playing Red Dead Redemption. Only issue with RDR is that it has that GTA-feeling to it for me. That means I’ll play the single player for a while, jump online for multiplayer, jump back to single player, than be bored and pop in something random like “Ninety Nine Nights”, then get bored with that and go back to RDR. Yeah, I’m weird like that.
I’ve been doing the same thing in RDR, though usually my multiplayer sessions consist of me being repeatedly killed by higher level players. I haven’t been able to try any of the co-op type stuff yet. The one time I tried, the person that sent me the posse invite just kept killing me.
Only online game I play on the consoles at this point is Ace Combat 6. I’ve got other games that are online capable but I won’t play them in that realm due to cheesey ass players. If anyone plays AC6 I use the same name there. Just look out for the hot pink Raptor. **lol**
IMHO Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 are awful turds when it comes to their multiplayer.
If the computer networks of the NATO member nations would be as insecure and vulnerable as the Modern Warfare games, Chinese hackers would have completely wiped out our entire infrastructure years ago.
Both Modern Warfare games are filled with modders and glitchers like no other game I’ve ever seen. Infinity Ward did a piss-poor job making a secure multiplayer.
You can’t aimbot or wallhack in real life. Nor can you use rapid-fire controllers in real life.
MW2′s multiplayer was fun in those first 2 weeks since release but after that glitches and vulnerabilities became documented on the web and now, with IW pretty much falling apart, there’s little chance most of those glitches will get fixed any time soon.
What I don’t get is these guys who put so much time playing MW2 are the ones that tease guys for playing WoW for hours and hours at a time. What is the difference of on guy playing MW2 for 6 hours and another playing WoW for 6 hours. The guys here in my shop argue this a lot like it is “ok” to play MW2 but no WoW
would airsoft or paintball be the same as LARPing?
only the ones playing scenario…
There was a sailor I was in a class with, who for some reason felt that it would be fun to pick on me by asking me about LARPing (even though I’ve never actually done LARPing… go figure). He decides to describe it in the goofiest way he can think of, and says “Hey, what’s that game where all the guys dress funny and run aroudn outside throwing balls at each other?”
“Oh, that’s Basketball, I think.”
The sailor lost some of the wind from his sails when a take-no-shit Army sergeant nearby nearly fell out of his chair laughing at that.
I never understood how someone could have a legitimate issue with spawn camping in a game where the spawn points are moved around all over the place. Really now, of all the shooters out there to complain about spawn camping, Modern Warfare?
I suppose that’s a good point – one where it’s really bad is Battlefield 1942 or whatever. It just feels that way in MW2 because as soon as I spawn, I’m usually killed, sometimes instantly. I also deal with really bad lag here, so while I’ll shoot at someone dead on, they’ll kill me and the replay doesn’t show me firing a single shot.
spawn points do move to a certain extent but if you chill out in the same place long enough it is guaranteed to become a spawn location at some point. for example if you overrun where the enemy started spawning from in team deathmath and you are still at your original spawn they will then begin spawning at your current location.
What really bothers me is when I kill somebody and they spawn them behind me where I just was a couple seconds ago. If I clear an area it should stay that way
Farva, you still owe me a few rounds oif Ace Combat 5 or Zero… I’ve got your number son.