I downloaded the free trial of COD:Black Ops...is this what PC FPSs have become?

I just recently got back into PC gaming after about 7 years and haven't had a chance to play any first person games except for Portal 2. I noticed that there was a free multiplayer download of COD:BO last night and decided to try it. I used to play Soldier of Fortune 2 and CS a lot back in the day and I was flabbergasted at how slow and clumsy the gunplay was in COD:BO compared to those games. The guns also felt very innacurate though the presentation seemed nice I guess. Are most FPS's like this now? I was really excited about playing BF3 after seeing some videos but I hope the gunplay is better than this.

CoD is the absolute worst example of a quality FPS, especially on PC

I just recently got back into PC gaming after about 7 years and haven't had a chance to play any first person games except for Portal 2. I noticed that there was a free multiplayer download of COD:BO last night and decided to try it. I used to play Soldier of Fortune 2 and CS a lot back in the day and I was flabbergasted at how slow and clumsy the gunplay was in COD:BO compared to those games. The guns also felt very innacurate though the presentation seemed nice I guess. Are most FPS's like this now? I was really excited about playing BF3 after seeing some videos but I hope the gunplay is better than this.

XanaduTheBand

Battlefield and CoD are pretty different. One focuses on working with your team while the other is more fast paced / lone wolf style gameplay. And a lot of people despise Black Ops / CoD in general, so you're not alone.

Go pre-order Red Orchestra 2, play the beta, and proceed to clean your now blown mind off the wall.

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I just recently got back into PC gaming after about 7 years and haven't had a chance to play any first person games except for Portal 2. I noticed that there was a free multiplayer download of COD:BO last night and decided to try it. I used to play Soldier of Fortune 2 and CS a lot back in the day and I was flabbergasted at how slow and clumsy the gunplay was in COD:BO compared to those games. The guns also felt very innacurate though the presentation seemed nice I guess. Are most FPS's like this now? I was really excited about playing BF3 after seeing some videos but I hope the gunplay is better than this.

Godofnerdyness

Battlefield and CoD are pretty different. One focuses on working with your team while the other is more fast paced / lone wolf style gameplay. And a lot of people despise Black Ops / CoD in general, so you're not alone.

Go pre-order Red Orchestra 2, play the beta, and proceed to clean your now blown mind off the wall.

Try right clicking to aim down the sites, that will solve your accuracy problem. This is weird to say but the gunplay in cod is more tactical then arcadey (when looking at older games).

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[QUOTE="XanaduTheBand"]

I just recently got back into PC gaming after about 7 years and haven't had a chance to play any first person games except for Portal 2. I noticed that there was a free multiplayer download of COD:BO last night and decided to try it. I used to play Soldier of Fortune 2 and CS a lot back in the day and I was flabbergasted at how slow and clumsy the gunplay was in COD:BO compared to those games. The guns also felt very innacurate though the presentation seemed nice I guess. Are most FPS's like this now? I was really excited about playing BF3 after seeing some videos but I hope the gunplay is better than this.

XanaduTheBand

Battlefield and CoD are pretty different. One focuses on working with your team while the other is more fast paced / lone wolf style gameplay. And a lot of people despise Black Ops / CoD in general, so you're not alone.

Go pre-order Red Orchestra 2, play the beta, and proceed to clean your now blown mind off the wall.

No problem! I think the first RO is great, but with RO2 coming out in just over a week, I would say skip it and go straight to RO2.

Get Red Orchestra 2 or wait for Battlefield 3.

Try right clicking to aim down the sites, that will solve your accuracy problem. This is weird to say but the gunplay in cod is more tactical then arcadey (when looking at older games).

timma25

Try right clicking to aim down the sites, that will solve your accuracy problem. This is weird to say but the gunplay in cod is more tactical then arcadey (when looking at older games).

timma25

I just recently got back into PC gaming after about 7 years and haven't had a chance to play any first person games except for Portal 2. I noticed that there was a free multiplayer download of COD:BO last night and decided to try it. I used to play Soldier of Fortune 2 and CS a lot back in the day and I was flabbergasted at how slow and clumsy the gunplay was in COD:BO compared to those games. The guns also felt very innacurate though the presentation seemed nice I guess. Are most FPS's like this now? I was really excited about playing BF3 after seeing some videos but I hope the gunplay is better than this.

XanaduTheBand

No, CoD is console trash. Don't play that crap. I've played BF3 alpha, and it was awesome. CoD is the worst example of FPSs.

yeah I remember the free trial a month or two ago, it was pretty damn bad.

The singleplayer for CoD is pretty good, but short, and I really cannot justify paying over 25 dollars for a game like that.

It's shocking how many people don't read the OP.

And I have a really hard time thinking about any good FPS newer than 2004 the original poster may like... Quake 4, Prey and... that's about it?

[QUOTE="timma25"]

Try right clicking to aim down the sites, that will solve your accuracy problem. This is weird to say but the gunplay in cod is more tactical then arcadey (when looking at older games).

alan_carter

Coming from someone who can't stand the newer style of FPS games don't bother with Red Orchestra, ARMA, Call of Duty, and Battlefield. You want to try something like Painkiller, Hard Reset (coming soon), Serious Sam 3 (coming soon) or Unreal Tournament 2004. You aren't really going to find an old school multiplayer FPS that is recent because thanks to Halo and then Call of Duty that type of game is pretty much dead.

[QUOTE="alan_carter"][QUOTE="timma25"]

Try right clicking to aim down the sites, that will solve your accuracy problem. This is weird to say but the gunplay in cod is more tactical then arcadey (when looking at older games).

Brean24

[QUOTE="alan_carter"][QUOTE="timma25"]

Try right clicking to aim down the sites, that will solve your accuracy problem. This is weird to say but the gunplay in cod is more tactical then arcadey (when looking at older games).

Brean24

they use the same gunplay, same animations, sounds, textures, models, etc.wis3boi

The fact that MW2 handles very differently with much tighter controls and far better responsiveness is a massive difference, unless you've never played a game competitively in your entire life. It's for this same reason that a lot of MW fans refuse to play BF or Treyarch games, some people hate sticky/unresponsive controls.

[QUOTE="alan_carter"][QUOTE="timma25"]

Try right clicking to aim down the sites, that will solve your accuracy problem. This is weird to say but the gunplay in cod is more tactical then arcadey (when looking at older games).

Brean24

You must be blind, the games are nearly identical.

[QUOTE="Brean24"][QUOTE="alan_carter"] Ahah do u mean recoil? Well since the late 90s, fps's commonly included recoil on the weapons, otherwise game would be too flat n even more simple, specially talkin about cod :P It's ridiculous that cod series cost more than other new mainstream games, at least 10 dollars more on pc, and that they keep that crazy price even after the release of the "new" or reskinned new installment, and inside a different box! I think that the extra cost is a tax u pay for being ripped on another cod lulmorrowindnic

You must be blind, the games are nearly identical.

You must be blind, the games are nearly identical.

morrowindnic

You must be blind and deaf, and lacking functional sensory registers. The games are completely different.

See how that works? I've yet to see one of you guys write go more than a sentence or two without invoking multiple logical fallacies. If you wish to debate about something, whether it be about politics, history, video games, or what have you, at least make the effort to learn basic logic if it is not so intuitive to you.

Also, just to reiterate what I mentioned above. Black Ops: IW Engine 3.0(modified); Modern Warfare 2: IW Engine 4.0. Most immediate difference any serious gamer should notice?: IW 4.0 has better controls and responsiveness.

Get Red Orchestra 2 or wait for Battlefield 3.

nameless12345

red orchestra...

For popular 'run and gun' shooters, yeah. What a joke.

Duke Nukem Forever and Wolfenstien (2009) are slightly less underwhelming, but still very bad when you consider how much they should've improved over the years.

They make the games easier so more people will buy it, in turn lowering the standard of the whole genre. It's amazing, but there are people out there who think that a game like CoD is too difficult. The ideal FPS would be like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0OOLeJKCs or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YceuXmeWrU

but as I said, the standard has been lowered.

MW was fun, MW2 was cliche but still good, but BO was absolute garbage. Everything about this game is garbage, the graphics, the gunplay, the stupid story, everything.GazaAli

They make the games easier so more people will buy it, in turn lowering the standard of the whole genre. It's amazing, but there are people out there who think that a game like CoD is too difficult. The ideal FPS would be like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0OOLeJKCs or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YceuXmeWrU

but as I said, the standard has been lowered.

kdawg88

black ops is a console port with added resolution.

not a pc fps in terms of gameplay or graphics.

you might want to try arma.

Black Ops isn't a PC FPS. It's multiplat and I'm sure it's a straight up port to PC. There are examples of PC FPS games but they might date back further than the most current FPS games out there. So yeah, I would never call any COD game a PC FPS.Elann2008

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They make the games easier so more people will buy it, in turn lowering the standard of the whole genre. It's amazing, but there are people out there who think that a game like CoD is too difficult. The ideal FPS would be like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0OOLeJKCs or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YceuXmeWrU

but as I said, the standard has been lowered.

FelipeInside

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="kdawg88"]

They make the games easier so more people will buy it, in turn lowering the standard of the whole genre. It's amazing, but there are people out there who think that a game like CoD is too difficult. The ideal FPS would be like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0OOLeJKCs or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YceuXmeWrU

but as I said, the standard has been lowered.

DanielDust

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]Black Ops isn't a PC FPS. It's multiplat and I'm sure it's a straight up port to PC. There are examples of PC FPS games but they might date back further than the most current FPS games out there. So yeah, I would never call any COD game a PC FPS.FelipeInside

I used to play Soldier of Fortune 2 and CS a lot back in the day

XanaduTheBand

[QUOTE="XanaduTheBand"]

I used to play Soldier of Fortune 2 and CS a lot back in the day

ADVIL87

SOF2 was the shooter that got me into multiplayer, missed the days when I played that.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]Black Ops isn't a PC FPS. It's multiplat and I'm sure it's a straight up port to PC. There are examples of PC FPS games but they might date back further than the most current FPS games out there. So yeah, I would never call any COD game a PC FPS.FelipeInside

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Wow i am downloading cod trial now, bit after reading some of the reviews here, i might reconsider and stop the download.

I had no idea cod was bad.

Ty for the heads up.

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shoot at the same places where they know the other player will show first...FelipeInside

I just recently got back into PC gaming after about 7 years and haven't had a chance to play any first person games except for Portal 2. I noticed that there was a free multiplayer download of COD:BO last night and decided to try it. I used to play Soldier of Fortune 2 and CS a lot back in the day and I was flabbergasted at how slow and clumsy the gunplay was in COD:BO compared to those games. The guns also felt very innacurate though the presentation seemed nice I guess. Are most FPS's like this now? I was really excited about playing BF3 after seeing some videos but I hope the gunplay is better than this.

XanaduTheBand

it's called "stagnation of gaming", post modernism in gaming and is actually from around the exact time you quit PC gaming

[QUOTE="GazaAli"]MW was fun, MW2 was cliche but still good, but BO was absolute garbage. Everything about this game is garbage, the graphics, the gunplay, the stupid story, everything.koospetoors

It's Treyarch and their silly COD spin offs, it's disgusting that Activision lets these guys piggy back off IW.

I haven't seen anything new, progressive or innovative in gaming since 2003, that's just how the story goes

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Wow i am downloading cod trial now, bit after reading some of the reviews here, i might reconsider and stop the download.

I had no idea cod was bad.

Ty for the heads up.

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Bagogis

I haven't seen anything new, progressive or innovative in gaming since 2003, that's just how the story goes

Kaelken

Wait, people still buy that game?