Games like COD4, COD MW2, BF BC2 and so on.
I had an idea to post this while I was watching youtube videos. I wanted to list my own frustrations and I also wanted to know what other people’s were, and if they shared mine or I shared theirs.
Many of mine are fairly obvious/common. I want to list the things that annoy me about the games themselves, and the things some players do.
The Games themselves
Modern Warfare 2 - removal of cage
They took away the cage mode. I was a legitimate player! I hated the use of that mode by boosters. The removal of that mode has actually been counter-productive and seems to show that the game’s producers (or whoever is responsible for the decision to remove the mode) are either stupid or don’t care enough to actually be aware of what goes on in the game. Because what it has done is forced the boosters to use the Free for All mode. For some this can be a good thing because it provides the oportunity for some righteousness in the form of finding and killing the boosters… and in some cases making their lives more frustrating (as they do for others) by following them from game to game. But for most it just makes FFA a really arse-custardly annoying mode to play.
Modern Warfare 2 - being thrown into the middle of games in progress
What is so hard about giving the person who paid money to own the game the option of only joining ‘lobbies’ or ‘parties’ that are between games?? It’s frustrating to be thrown into a game where the score is 1350 and there is 1:23 left to play. What’s more it creates a false impression of the achievement of those people who were in the game for the full time - For example a really bad player will not come last because people who joined late won’t have had time to get the same amount of kills in order to rise up the scoreboard. Same for the good players - it makes it seem like they beat more people than they actually did.
Battlefield Bad Company 2 - infuriating text blocking
The way you can’t use the chat function while dead or when a game ends. Often the first thing you want to do if you’ve been killed by a particularly dirty tactic is put something out there using the chat function… but you have to wait to respawn, by which time you’ve lost the ‘moment’. I accept that it might be good for the game to force people’s rage to subside before they can rant using the chat function but it’s bloody frustrating!
Battlefield Bad Company 2 - inability to strafe while running
This is the first/only game I’ve ever played where this isn’t possible. Run-strafe is the game equivalent to being able to turn your head to the side while running in real life. In other words it is a legitimate ability inherent in human beings. In the game it means that if you are running you are unable to look to one side. You have to stop to a walk to be looking round the corner you are walking round. If you are running you only get to see what’s round the corner once you’ve changed your direction of travel. It might make the game more of a challenge, but it’s off-putting coming to this game and not being able to do something I can do in every other single or multiplayer game
The things gamers do
Modern Warfare 2 - boosting
It annoys me in principle as well as on a basic level. The principal being that the point of boosting seems to be to gain unlocks in order to make your game character better, but surely the obvious way to get better is to play the game properly. You get to gain those unlocks and real actual ability to play the game well through experience. When cage still existed I demonstrated this often. When I was level 38 or so and hadn’t ‘prestiged’ at all I was able to pretty much paint the walls red with players who were level 70 tenth prestige.
Modern Warfare 2 - auto-handgun or shotgun akimbo
This is probably more a fault of the game than the player but these days it seems like the way to win the game is to be using that setup. “Darn I died… let’s watch the killcam… oh surprise - akimbo g18… ‘pok’ ‘pok’ ‘pok’ dead”. There were days where the winners of games were exclusively the people who used this weapon setup. Therefore implying that what won the game was the weapon, not the player.
MW2 and BFBC2 - ‘noobtube’ (grenade launchers)
I believe this is the most common irritation with this type of game, hence the very well known name for it - ‘noobtube’. I’m not sure what to say about this one so I’ll move on.
In general - camping
There are different levels of camping. Some are acceptable. Some less so. The acceptable kind I guess is patroling a section of the map. The unacceptable kind is hiding behind a rock motionless with your sights trained on an area waiting for people to walk into them. Where’s the fun in that?? Come out and fight like a grown-up.
And now things that just annoy me but aren’t really ‘faults’ with games or players
The fact that in BFBC2 I can be running exposed in the open and surviving being shot at but invariably I always die ONCE I’VE GOT INTO COVER! It’s almost like some evil intelligence controling the game is saying “I’ll wait until he’s got behind that wall and then let him die”
The fact that if I find myself suddenly in the midst of one or more enemies who haven’t yet seen me, after having killed someone. I need to reload and it seems to take far longer to actually reload the weapon. And by the time it’s reloaded they’ve seen me and I’m killed. I know this is just my perception (the time taken to reload), but it’s annoying because suddenly I find myself in a situation where I might be able to get a few kills in quick succession but I am weaponarily impotent. (Well I could use the knife or the secondary but both are inadequate for the situation)