It feels kind of **** to know that you are not a shows target audience. It probably feels worse when you don't even realize it. Channels like Spike don't target "gamers" as their audience because they know, and you know it too, that gamers do not watch television. No, this channel is made for people who like Halo, MMA, and wear tight shirts that say TAPOUT and drink XYIENCE. So, when you start throwing awards to games that feature a slow paced combat system (Dragon Age) or games that feature actors from a cartoon (Arkham Asylum) they start to feel offended that Halo ODST did not win best original game or that Madden '10 won't get greatest innovation. Speaking of innovation let me get this off my chest. MODERN WARFARE 2 IS NOT INNOVATIVE IT PLAYS LIKE A GAME MADE 7 YEARS AGO NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Here is a great example of how a game can be considered "Innovative". Rainbow Six started out as a slow paced shooter favoring strategy FAAARR over fast reflexes. You had a planning stage where you could create waypoints that 4 squads could follow and using this you could execute a very successful mission. By about rainbow six lockdown they did away with that entirely. In fact it wasn't until Rainbow Six Vegas that they changed just about every single aspect of rainbow six to make it the game it is today. They removed the planning stage which a lot of people complained about and gave it a more on the go feel, added quite possibly the best cover system so far. Then Rainbow Six 2 came out and they added even more to it. Now you can sprint (which I admit should have been in the first game), but gave it a unique experience system, improved the co-op gameplay, made it so that your experience stayed with your character no matter what you did when playing the game, and you can shoot through stuff too. What has Call of Duty done in the 7 games that have been released for it? Experience system, shoot through stuff, and instant kill knives? Oh I know lets have it so when people die a grenade drops on the ground! Hey I remember counter strike did something like that =D. Yeah, the game was awesome 7 years ago when it was called Call of Duty, but when every sequel you play stays the same it gets stale. And now it seems that they are moving to more of a multiplayer deathmatch type of gameplay which could probably mean that nothing about this game will change for a long time. Speaking of multiplayer, since when did multiplayer become such a big **** deal. Since when did every single gamer out there want to kill each other? Here is something I propose. Since you want to make a fantastic shooter, and since shooters are now reviewed based on their multiplayer if they have any, don't even bother with the single player. I'm sick and tired of wasting $60, on a PC version of a game I probably should have bought for a console, when they shortchange the single player campaign. Yeah, I was disappointed with Modern Warfare 2. I went through it's stupid time trial and got a veteran recommendation only to turn the difficulty down because I am sick and tired of endless spawning AI with X Ray telescope vision that can shoot you in your safe hiding spot because your concrete wall turned out to be made out of plywood. Hey and controversy? I skipped that part where you go around an airport shooting people because I felt offended by it? NO! I skipped that part of the game because I didn't want to spend 10 minutes following 4 Russian douche bags accomplish nothing but artificially extend the length of the level (it was a short level) by doing something that could have CLEARLY been done better and probably been given a more profound effect if it was done as a cinematic. Wow...I have got to stop taking Percocet before posting....
What is so innovative about death perks in Modern Warfare 2? Because I remember there being 1 perk in the games prequel where if you died you dropped a grenade and another one where you died and then laid on the ground for a few seconds with your pistol out. This was innovative 2 years ago with modern warfare 1.\ It seems to me that most of the games that made the list where released within the past month or so. I think the reviewers are still on some sort of "high" where they think the game they JUST PLAYED is the greatest thing ever completely forgetting the other games they played earlier in the year. God I hate my massive amounts of free time.
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