Joker961
Shared on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 05:33
Had a really enjoyable night of gaming Saturday, tho I didn't jot down the stats. We lost more games than we usually do, as we only had 3 regulars, and strategy with randoms is a lost cause. Most of the randoms didn't have headsets plugged in; and, since we played hardcore, the HUD didn't have speaker's ID displayed. (Hmmm. Let me take a minute to add that to the CoD: Black Ops wishlist.)
The most frustrating thing was trying to get through one of the Modern Warfare 2 Spec Ops missions, Homeland Security, the Charlie level Burgertown wave defense. We made it through the 1 star level; but we weren't able to beat it on two. The weapon selection, frankly, could be better. Instead of the M21 EBR, I'd prefer the SCAR with a thermal scope. (The M21 EBR, apparently, appears to be loaded with candy bullets. Unless you shoot one of those Russkis in the head, he's crawl around a bit shooting you with a laser-accurate sidearm or, worse, he'll regain his health and get up to whup your ass some more.) Once the Spetsnaz start coming in force, the EBR kinda sucks due to its 10 round magazine. The secondary weapon is usually the RPG to down helis and shoot armored vehicles, so switching is a problem. And, being a Call of Duty game, a burst with an AK-47 isn't enough to down an enemy, you need two or three frackin' bursts, and there's no guarantee he won't get up to shoot at you some more. Matt and I tried a two-pronged defense with him in the gas station and me next door in the restaurant, but that wasn't working out. From the strat guide in the links below, it looks like the winning strategy might be to start in the gas station & then after the 2nd wave, fort up in the restaurant next door. We'll give that a try the next time we tackle that mission.
As noted in the links below and in this Kotaku article, Roger Ebert believes videogames can never be art. I'd probably like to tackle that opinion sometime, but I feel pretty good this AM, and I don't want to get all PO'ed first thing in the morning. My immediate reaction is: Movies are considered art, and the production of videogames is today indistinguishable from the production of movies, so why aren't videogames art? I generally like Roger Ebert, but I think he's being a douche on this issue.
- BrightHub: Modern Warfare 2 Spec Ops mission guide.
- PRNews: Modern Warfare 2: Heading to Nintendo Wii soon?
- BigPondNews: Australia's best gamers get the call. As reported on BASHandSlash, CoD4 PC isn't dead, especially in Oz.
ACR w ACOG, TDM, Scrapyard
I feel like I've been neglecting Battlefield: Bad Company 2 lately, so I'll try to make up for it a bit now. The first BC2 embedded YouTube vid below is a VZGProductions collection of funny douchebag moments from the multiplayer beta. Suggest you watch with the sound off. You're warned. The second vid shows attempts to air launch the quad by Skaterrob15 with no commentary, just the incredibly appropriate Yakety Sax (the Benny Hill theme song). Finally, there's a neat PS3 vs. PC BC2 comparison. It looks like DICE did a fantastic job keeping the PS3 console version looking awesome, even compared with the PC version.
Uploaded 20 February 2010 by VZGProductions
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Quad Launch
- GameSpy: Bad Company 2 post mortem.
- ApertureGames: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC review.
- Joker961's HQ: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 review (Xbox 360 single player).
A shout out to Team Xbox for their compendium of Splinter Cell: Conviction reviews, which generated about a quarter of the bazillion review links below.
- 1Up: Splinter Cell: Conviction Strategy Guide.
- GamesRadar: Splinter Cell: Conviction on PS3 - we tell you when.
- Splinter Cell: Conviction review round-up: MetaCritic average 86%; Kotaku Frankenreview (snippets of multiple reviews); Kotaku; GameSpot; GameTrailers video review; CNet; GameDaily; IGN; Joystiq; IGN video review (YouTube embedded above); 1Up; GamingUnion; ShackNews; ITWire; Destructoid; Edge Online; GamePro; VoodooExtreme; VoodooExtreme video review; ActionTrip; GamesRadar; MTV Multiplayer Blog; Kombo; VideoGamer.com; TechDigest; Planet Xbox 360; G4TV; Guardian UK gamesblog; Telegraph UK; Play.tm; StrategyInformer; Terminal Gamer (single player).
- Worthplaying: Halo: Reach screenies.
- Kotaku: Left 4 Dead 2's The Passing DLC is coming next week.
- Joystiq: Singularity falls in line for a June 29 point of delivery. Looks pretty Wolfensteinish to me:
- IGN: Daily Fix for 16 April 2010. (No Jessica Chobot. *sob*)
- Kotaku: Ubisoft: DRM 'Vital' to 'Creative and Innovative' PC Game. I guess headache-free gaming isn't 'vital' to game dev/publisher douchebags.
- GameTrailers: Pach-Attack 112: Pachter discusses whether Xbox Live prices are going up, more.
- Attack of the Fanboy op-ed: Does anyone really care about 3-D? If it didn't cost me much extra, I'd like to try 3D gaming, but the cost is prohibitive right now.
- Joystiq: Roger Ebert's latest column posits 'games can never be art'.
- Platform Nation: Ebert is right - for now.
- IGN: Smug Gamer Quotes. My fave FTA: "I won't play a game that runs lower than 60 frames per second." I do think that games that run 60 fps look better than games capped at other frame rates, tho.
- Joystiq: Red Steel 2 sells only 50,000 copies in first 12 days of release.
- Engadget: Adobe CEO: Flash coming to Android, WebOS and BlackBerry 'smartphones and tablets' in 2H 2010.
- ToplessRobot: Review: The First Episode of the New Doctor Who. And also check out The 12 Most Tragically Lost Doctor Who Adventures.
- UGO: May the Force be With Blu. Star Wars Trilogy heading to Blu-Ray. Han shot first, BTW.
- Topless Robot: Nathan Fillion Can Attack You With a Lighsaber at Any Time.
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