Official Modern Warfare 2 Launch Thread

[Dean-o]

I have been a COD fan since their PC days. I can't wait for this.

[Triple B]

I;ve got MY preorder in.

I had to get a new mic though, and the guy in GameStop sold me on the new Modern Warfare one. It's a throat mic.

It sucks. I'm returning it. Stay away from it at all costs.

[thwak is T.hawk]

Nov 4, 2009 23:45:10 GMT -5 sryans said:

Nov 4, 2009 23:06:35 GMT -5 thwak is T.hawk said:

I believe halo 3 had the previous record with over 4 million pre-orders.

According to Wikipedia, Halo 3 sold 3.3 million copies in its first 12 days, which is really impressive until you consider that GTA IV sold 6 million copies in a week.

I'm getting my information from this joystiq article since wikipedia didn't have the number of pre-orders:

xbox.joystiq.com/2007/05/10/halo-3-pre-orders-top-4-million/

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Here's the number of GameStops and Best Buys that'll be doing the midnight launch:

Best Buy - "More tha 500 locations"

GameStop - 4,250 stores out the 4,360 stores in the US. AKA, 97% or 98%(depending on how you round it) of all the GameStop locations in the US.

[Lazy peon]

I was interested in this game until I heard it was supposed to be even shorter than CoD4. Took me like 10 minutes to beat that game on the second hardest difficulty.

[i.Sarita.com]

Nov 5, 2009 19:38:26 GMT -5 Lazy peon said:

I was interested in this game until I heard it was supposed to be even shorter than CoD4. Took me like 10 minutes to beat that game on the second hardest difficulty.

That's another problem I have with the COD games. You are lucky if you spend 8 hours on the single player. And that's stretching things out. I beat COD: WAW in one sitting...60 bucks for one sitting. That was the last time I spend Full price on a COD game, thats for sure.

[Lord Rahl]

Nov 5, 2009 20:52:48 GMT -5 i.Sarita.com said:

Nov 5, 2009 19:38:26 GMT -5 Lazy peon said:

I was interested in this game until I heard it was supposed to be even shorter than CoD4. Took me like 10 minutes to beat that game on the second hardest difficulty.

That's another problem I have with the COD games. You are lucky if you spend 8 hours on the single player. And that's stretching things out. I beat COD: WOW in one sitting...60 bucks for one sitting. That was the last time I spend Full price on a COD game, thats for sure.

I'll completely agree with both of you. These games are waaayy too short. Its a good thing the story is normally good. Hell, when I first got COD4, I didnt have Live. So I beat it...and its like....OK, now what. Luckily, once me and the misses got our own place, I hooked up online and played it religiously until I traded it in like a month ago.

[The Wraith]

Nov 5, 2009 20:52:48 GMT -5 i.Sarita.com said:

Nov 5, 2009 19:38:26 GMT -5 Lazy peon said:

I was interested in this game until I heard it was supposed to be even shorter than CoD4. Took me like 10 minutes to beat that game on the second hardest difficulty.

That's another problem I have with the COD games. You are lucky if you spend 8 hours on the single player. And that's stretching things out. I beat COD: WAW in one sitting...60 bucks for one sitting. That was the last time I spend Full price on a COD game, thats for sure.

What difficulty did you play the CoD:WaW single player story on? I must've already spent at least 8 hours on 4 levels on Veteran (highest difficulty) and I don't think I'll ever finish it.

[BigBadZ]

Yea I've never played WaW, but MW took me many many hours to beat it on veteran because you can die so easily. In MW2 there's the story and the 'special ops' missions which are like the Mile High mission from MW (I think)

[Michael Coello]

I just wanna say....

I miss Medal of Honor.

[Lord Rahl]

Nov 5, 2009 22:53:38 GMT -5 Michael Coello said:

I just wanna say....

I miss Medal of Honor.

I thought I read somewhere (either IGN or the scroll on X-Play) that they may start working on another one.

[i.Sarita.com]

Nov 5, 2009 22:03:46 GMT -5 The Wraith said:

Nov 5, 2009 20:52:48 GMT -5 i.Sarita.com said:

That's another problem I have with the COD games. You are lucky if you spend 8 hours on the single player. And that's stretching things out. I beat COD: WAW in one sitting...60 bucks for one sitting. That was the last time I spend Full price on a COD game, thats for sure.

What difficulty did you play the CoD:WaW single player story on? I must've already spent at least 8 hours on 4 levels on Veteran (highest difficulty) and I don't think I'll ever finish it.

Veteran. And it's not that much harder, as long as you stick to using cover and just wait to heal any time you get hurt. I've discovered that your A.I. teammates do absolutely NOTHING in regards to advancing past any enemy. You could sit in once spot and a never ending supply of Germans/Japs and Russians/Americans would cycle. So....simple, just keep moving and you'll pass through the levels FAR to quickly and far to easy.

And every COD game has been like that.

[JRX]

My store has 598 preorders of the game. We still get 5 a day for all three systems. We also have 36 of the Wii CoD4 remake.


People love shooting people.

[Dean-o]

Nov 6, 2009 9:44:08 GMT -5 i.Sarita.com said:

Nov 5, 2009 22:03:46 GMT -5 The Wraith said:

What difficulty did you play the CoD:WaW single player story on? I must've already spent at least 8 hours on 4 levels on Veteran (highest difficulty) and I don't think I'll ever finish it.

Veteran. And it's not that much harder, as long as you stick to using cover and just wait to heal any time you get hurt. I've discovered that your A.I. teammates do absolutely NOTHING in regards to advancing past any enemy. You could sit in once spot and a never ending supply of Germans/Japs and Russians/Americans would cycle. So....simple, just keep moving and you'll pass through the levels FAR to quickly and far to easy.

And every COD game has been like that.

You are correct. It creates an illusion of fighting with a squad, but in reality, unless you keep moving, the game will respawn enemies nonstop.

I love COD. The story is awesome, the single player is such an amazing experience, I don't care if it's short. You get your money's worth out of multiplayer.

[i.Sarita.com]

Nov 6, 2009 21:25:02 GMT -5 Dean-o said:

Nov 6, 2009 9:44:08 GMT -5 i.Sarita.com said:

Veteran. And it's not that much harder, as long as you stick to using cover and just wait to heal any time you get hurt. I've discovered that your A.I. teammates do absolutely NOTHING in regards to advancing past any enemy. You could sit in once spot and a never ending supply of Germans/Japs and Russians/Americans would cycle. So....simple, just keep moving and you'll pass through the levels FAR to quickly and far to easy.

And every COD game has been like that.

You are correct. It creates an illusion of fighting with a squad, but in reality, unless you keep moving, the game will respawn enemies nonstop.

I love COD. The story is awesome, the single player is such an amazing experience, I don't care if it's short. You get your money's worth out of multiplayer.

An ILLUSION is the perfect word for it. Your teammates don't matter. So, all in all, it's just like Medal of Honor games in that you are some kind of super soldier taking out thousands of guys on your own. That's pretty lame to me.

And it's only worth the money if you LIKE multiplayer. And frankly, I've never been a fan of COD online. Unless its Nazi Zombie mode. That's almost worth the money.

[The Wraith]

Yeah I figured out the "keep moving unless you want to see 1,000,000 enemies" after a while, I still get killed now and then by random gunshots and 40 grenades thrown at me....at the same time.

Don't think I'll ever finish it since I got school mixed with playing CoD:WaW and GTAIV online, and then MW2 coming out Tuesday.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Here's the thing, Infinity Ward has promised they have taken out the "endless spawning enemies."

[AFN: Judge Shred]

I am fine with short story modes so long as I want to play them again, and I beat CoD4 4ish times, and replayed many levels on their own.

But of course my PS3 died to night So I may not be getting it so soon.

[Kroot bringing Justice]

Hell man I must have replayed All Ghilied up like 10 times.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Well I'm bumping this thread cause I've decided to change the overall purpose of it, this thread is now the official launch thread of the game.