Video Games

CoD: MW2 is quite possibly the best multiplayer FPS game ever made however it has one of the worst matching systems ever seen.  This problem is amplified if you try to party with ANYONE… even adding a single person to your group causes massive headaches.  I just tried playing with a friend of mine during my lunch break and over the course of an hour I was able to play … two games… that’s it, two fucking games.  Talk about a waste of time.

While I’m at it I’d like to rant about some pretty fucking key features that were over looked in development that cause more frustration in this game than anything else…

First up, hey devs! How about checking to see if you’re in harm’s way BEFORE you spawn someone in? Seriously how fucking hard is that and how did that make it through testing and out the door?  I’ve spawned in only to get killed by a “poorly placed” care package, air strikes, AC130 rounds impacting, shit I’ve even spawned in only to die because I was IN someone’s line of fire. In fact now that I think about it, the whole spawning system sucks.  If you play Modern Warfare 2 I’m sure you’ve run into the scenario of stalking a small group of enemy players with cold blooded pro on only to have a team mate suddenly spawn in AHEAD of where you are just to the flank of a group of enemy. Which of course sets off the alarm, the bloodbath ensues and whoever is left standing is left standing… real fucking great when you’re trying to be stealthy about it.  So yeah, the entire spawning system is major fail.

Second, why the fuck haven’t they released a patch yet for the exploits that are running rampant. Instead they threaten everyone with the ban hammer.  I think it would be a lot more enjoyable if you said you’re not banning anyone so that people could at least be on an even playing field.  If someone is exploiting with the Javelin then let us all do it.  Instead we have to sit idly by and hope it doesn’t happen, or fill out a useless report, or drop the game (take the loss) and start another one…

This is partly why I was only able to play two games over the course of an hour… I had about 6 games fail to start in one manner or another.  I spent about 15 minutes in “finding a new host” screens, I played 30% of about two games before someone on one of the teams set off a nuke because they were being boosted by clan mates on the opposite team, and the rest of the time I was in menu systems… talk about a complete waste of time.

Third, and last, I only play ground war… do you know why?  Because I like to play with friends and talk to them without being berated by 11 year olds and 18 year olds that act like 11 year olds over the fucking mic the entire time I’m playing.  I don’t want to listen to whinny bitches, douchbags who think they’re cool because they can rip on people behind the mask of anonymity, and asshats who call everything “gay”… I like to call them “gayers”.  So I’m stuck playing one game mode if I want to be able to talk to my friends while I play, that’s fucking fantastic.

Oh and one last thing about the shittiest fucking game matching system in the history of online gaming.  I’m tired of getting the same fucking map over and over and over and over again, IN A ROW! Because your PoS game host system keeps crashing, dropping people out, matching you to a server and then dropping your team mates out (without telling the party leader), failing to connect, or whatever other bullshit that causes you to have to join a new “session” where you are promptly served up TDM Terminal or TDM Highrise.  I don’t even fucking like playing TDM but I’m stuck playing it because there’s no “Ground War: Domination” or Ground War anything else for that matter…

If you’re looking for a clue as to why so many people play Ground War it’s not because of the increased team sizes it’s because you can talk to your friends while you play.  Why the FUCK would you want to subject yourself to the general chat on XBox Live when you play a game?!  Just let me talk to my friends isn’t that what the whole experience is about?