What happened there, screamy? Thought you were about to play matchmaker??

I really want to bitch about remakes, consolification and so on, but I just can't. This looks too awesome.

That said, while we're remaking games, somebody please do the x-wing and tie fighter series. You don't have to change any of the mechanics, just a hd remake with online matchmaking

>> ^moopysnooze:

Yes but dating sites are adverts for yourself... When supermarkets sell ready meals that a lot of people would normally call very salty and unhealthy, they aren't going to want to put that all over the box but instead stamp it with "very tasty" and "convenient". It up to people to be more savvy.
>> ^xxovercastxx:
I've noticed, in normal life, women always think they're fat. On the other hand, visit an online dating/matchmaking site, and women always think they're "average".
On OkCupid, the trend seems to be that if you're 100lbs or more overweight, you call yourself "curvy". Usually "lumpy" is more apt. Christina Hendricks is curvy; Gabourey Sidibe is spherical.



Certainly you want to sell yourself but it's pretty pointless to lie about your physical appearance and then post a photo. Besides, there's plenty of guys who like big girls and none of them will be able to find you if you're lying about it.

Yes but dating sites are adverts for yourself... When supermarkets sell ready meals that a lot of people would normally call very salty and unhealthy, they aren't going to want to put that all over the box but instead stamp it with "very tasty" and "convenient". It up to people to be more savvy.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

I've noticed, in normal life, women always think they're fat. On the other hand, visit an online dating/matchmaking site, and women always think they're "average".
On OkCupid, the trend seems to be that if you're 100lbs or more overweight, you call yourself "curvy". Usually "lumpy" is more apt. Christina Hendricks is curvy; Gabourey Sidibe is spherical.

I've noticed, in normal life, women always think they're fat. On the other hand, visit an online dating/matchmaking site, and women always think they're "average".

On OkCupid, the trend seems to be that if you're 100lbs or more overweight, you call yourself "curvy". Usually "lumpy" is more apt. Christina Hendricks is curvy; Gabourey Sidibe is spherical.

This isn't a game review, this is a campaign review. Dammit Yahtzee, do you never play online? Bitch about the god-awful matchmaking, the shitty hit detection, the fucked-over sniping, and general fucktardedness of ragequitting hosts and failed migration.

@Matthu

There's quite a lot of advantages to them, let me list:

1 - Virtually latency free. It depends a lot on where you live but if you reside in say Australia, the average person has 0.5mbps to 1mbps upload if that. That is simply not something that can support 32, let alone the maximum 16 players in MW2. Where it does, you're looking at a ping of 100+, which makes the game feel noticeably imprecise and usually spiky. This is probably less of an issue on consoles since controllers are generally less responsive and lead to slower gameplay than with a mouse. If you don't believe me, google some youtube clips of a cross platform game and compare PC to console gameplay, it's really quite obvious. This is also likely why P2P matchmaking has always been fine on consoles.

2 - Competitive mods. The fact is MW1 was simply not balanced towards being a fair competitive game out of the box. Grenade launchers as an example are cheap, and not really counterable in any way shape or form. 3x nades, especially if used by a whole team and lobbed in particular locations for S&D makes the game Russian Roulette. That's not even getting into the atrocious gun balance or the ridiculousness of perks.

Even in MW1 which was comparatively pretty tame, in Team Deathmatch modes, easily 2/3, if not more of my kills would consistently be Air Strike/Chopper kills. The point is, IW made the game in the interest of appealing to the masses, making it easy to gain kills and generally allowing far too many ways to score cheap kills. MW2 took this 10 steps further. Which is why in the competitive scene on PC, MW2 is a shell of what MW1 was.

3 - Community - Like you said yourself, you can regularly play on the same server and get to know people over time. Without it, unless you /friend them straight away, there's a chance you'll never see them again.

As a game with good graphics, whiz-bang explosions and lots of action, honestly it delivers, but if you're looking for a game that rewards skill, and where half your deaths and kills weren't based on luck then you should really be looking elsewhere.

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And yeah, like westy said in his usual incomprehensible way, it's hilarious to see Black Ops stealing ideas from PC.

Especially GunGame which as far as I know originated from a mod. You know, the feature they removed in MW2?

Oh sweet irony, which unfortunately will be lost on most.

Moral of the story: never play the matchmaker. It will just lead you to dying from a horrible explosion in space.

You hit it right on the head KP. I think I am giving that penis a call later.

Thanks!

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Congratulamadingdong, IV! Can I call you 4? (Wink wink, get it? God DAMN, I'm clever!)

Hey, I don't normally play matchmaker, but I think I found the perfect guy for you:



You're welcome.

Congratulamadingdong, IV! Can I call you 4? (Wink wink, get it? God DAMN, I'm clever!)

Hey, I don't normally play matchmaker, but I think I found the perfect guy for you:



You're welcome.

>> ^blahpook:
The GMA correspondents always seem to slightly be on the edge of killing each other. Always entertaining.



It's not GMA, it's the Today Show.

Trailers get *commercial, *acitonpack for the play and *happy for the game's atmosphere (can you tell I was about to uplaod the Gametrailers version of this?).

Mega LOLs at the Pirate Bay screenshot.

The skill-levelled server-matchmaking sounds like a Good Idea.

The Pixar look definitely has the TF2 feel going on, but this looks unique enough on its own. Looking forward to it.

Sometimes:

That's not even close to the same thing. Lot's of people are proud of their jobs or their service. I'm not so proud to be a man, so proud to be white, or so proud to straight that I have to shove that fact into everyone's face. I don't care if people want to be gay. I care when they act a fool and dress and talk a certain way on purpose so I can't help but notice. I totally agree with what MarineGunrock is saying. I hate the fact that H3 matchmaking is so vulgar and I wouldn't use the name "GayBoy" as the best example of someone using their sexual orientation to draw attn to themselves, but still.......

Most of the people that play H3 are High School age and College age boys. Don't tell me that he chose the name "GayBoy" for any other reason than to get reactions out of people. Gay jokes are funny to boys the same way sex jokes and bathroom humor are funny to them. I've played H3 and had people make dirty jokes directed at me when my mic wasn't even plugged in. Most of the players in this video probably didn't even think he was really gay. They just jump on the opportunity to be the center of attention.


...Just like "GayBoy".