You’d never believe it, but for the first time in several months Mark, Tyler and I all played Call of Duty 4 together online. You see, Tyler’s had internet issues for just about forever, and Mark has had a vampire’s gaming schedule, so to get the three of us together at the same time is a bit of a surprise.
We only had time for one threevue round, since my wife and I had to meet a friend at a really classy restaurant called Hooters for dinner.
This morning, I noticed my DS looking a little lonely, so I thought I’d show it a little love. I ended up playing the first few levels of Call of Duty 4 DS, and was actually pretty surprised with its quality. The DS is defnitely not set up for hardcore FPS-ing; the only other one I really ever spent time on was Metroid Prime: Hunters, which did a lot of things right. The Metroid controls were solid (and even better, customizable), and because it didn’t have to look realistic, it looked pretty sharp. A game based in reality, such as COD4, suffers visually from the limited DS capabilities, but this one doesn’t try to do too much, so it works out.
The other combat shooter I played on the DS a couple months ago was Brothers in Arms. It was a third person shooter, but there were definite similarities. I ended up playing all the way through that one, mainly because it took about thirty seconds to beat, but they were thirty good seconds (reminds me of myself).
I’m not sure if I’ll commit to playing all the way through COD4DS, but it’s definitely worth spening a little time on.
Happy Memorial Day, everybody. If you got the day off, I hope you are spending it with someone you love, or are at least exchanging massive amounts of texts with them. If you have to work, I hope you make a lot of money.
Let’s not forget what this day is all about; honoring those that have died in military service. All three of us here at threevue either were or are in the military, and we are lucky enough to have made it out alive (although Russ almost had a heart attack on Wii Fit the other day). Some of us, though, weren’t that fortunate. I propose a moment of silence while we commemorate the following fallen heroes, not all of which are American, but deserved to be honored nonetheless.
Sgt. Paul Jackson USMC
Sgt. “Soap” McTavish 22nd SAS
Capt. Price 22nd SAS
Gaz 22nd SAS
Lt. Vasquez USMC
Staff Sgt. Griggs USMC
God bless you brave soldiers.
This is a little eerie since I just posted about their new album the other day, but two-fourths of Death Cab for Cutie will be online tomorrow night playing COD4.
I’ve never done this “Game With Fame” thing, but if I was going to, tomorrow would be the time to do so. I’ve been a fan of the band for close to ten years now, and it would be pretty sweet to shoot them in the face. Even if it is just the bassist and drummer.
So, tomorrow marks the day that I will be getting my Xbox 360 back from the grave/Microsoft, only 40 days after it started wigging out on me. I could make some sort of Jesus and his 40 days in the desert reference here, but I get enough comparisons already.
Now what am I going to do first? Probably play a bit of GTA4, since I haven’t even seen it in action yet. Maybe some COD4. I’ve also had a hankering for The Orange Box, too. Man, so much to choose from!
This afternoon, Mark and I witnessed a gaming tournament courtesy of The Circle Hawaii. And a reader came, too! Oh and by the way Circle Hawaii, if you’re hiring, Mark would like to work for you guys.
It wasn’t a very large gathering, but considering our location and the fact that it was Easter Sunday, I would say it was a pretty good turnout. I think it was that $1000 grand prize. They had Halo 3, Call of Duty 4 and Super Smash Bros. Brawl competitions, but the latter we didn’t really watch. We witnessed the final match of Halo 3, which was a blowout, and some pretty intense COD4 action.
Maybe next time there will be a Team Threevue. We won’t win, but we’ll have the most character. And matching t-shirts.
I’m moving right along in my COD4 online ranks, just a few moments ago turning over into my fourth prestige. I got to this one a little quicker than the others with some help from my brother, Cody. We got into the same free-for-all matches a few times and took turns letting each other get the more difficult challenges. I finally got the “What the?” challenge doing this, where you kill an enemy by shooting his explosive through a wall. It was a lot of fun.
It’s still amazing to me when I see people that are all the way to the end of their tenth prestige, which is the max. I mean, it’s no secret, I play a lot, and I just started number four. These guy must have ass grooves the size of the Grand Canyon worn into their couches.
I have two quick gripes regarding Call of Duty 4 multiplayer. The first has to do with the way that a winner is determined in deathmatches. Currently, it is solely based off of who got the most kills. I think this is a bit unfair, because even though a player got 15 kills, dying 27 times certainly didn’t help his team out any. And in free-for-all deathmatches, who do you think had the better round? The skilled player that barely lost with 24 kills and only 5 deaths, or the bullet sponge that won with 25 kills and 20 deaths?
I think that next to the final standings at the end of each match, there should also be a numerical kill-to-death ratio. The guy with the 24 kills and 5 deaths would have 4.80 ratio, and the other guy would only have a 1.04 kill-per-death total (p.s. I came up with those figures in my head, I’m a mathematical genius).
Here’s one more gripe that some may, and some may not agree with: I believe martyrdom kills should count toward a kill streak. If I’m in the midst of a four kill streak, I die, and my martyrdom kills someone, that should count as a five kill streak and should respawn with an airstike. I feel that the most fair thing to do would be to count all kills up until the point of respawning. Last stand kills count toward a streak, so why can’t martyrdom, just because your heart hasn’t completely stopped yet? That hardly seems fair to me. But who am I?
via Joystiq
The long-awaited Call of Duty 4 patch is now available on Xbox 360. It contains some tweaks, such as a better kill-cam that will show you how I kill you with an airstike or an explosive. Also, the sniper rifle and ACOG accuracies are supposed to be improved, but I rarely ever use those anyways. I just downloaded it and played a few free-for-all matches, but the only thing I noticed so far is that there is now a little Infinity-Ward graphic in the lower-right of the screen on the pregame lobbies and load screens.
Will Arnett was my favorite actor on Arrested Development. He was brutally funny as a total dick brother and fit in perfectly with the top quality cast. So it’s cool to hear that he’s a fan of hardline FPSing. It just seems to me that he’s playing down the passion so as to escape the stigma that afflicts adult, male gamers.
Man, if I was playing COD and I heard the scintillating and sultry voice of Will Arnett comming over my headset I would have a hard time backstabbing him if he were on the opposite team. I’d still do it though… gotta live by the code.
I’m a Xbox 360 guy, first and foremost. But back in the day I wielded a mouse and keyboard in the Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight arenas on the MSN Gaming Zone. I switched over for the same reson most people did, the price of upgrading hardware in order to meet the ever expanding system requirements was too much.
For years I have been happy with the decision, that is until this year…
There were always map packs and skins to download. Now all I want is the ability to download the content that Valve’s Steam subscribers are privy to, and all of the Team Fortress maps and tweaks on the way, and now COD4 mods.
If detonating a quarter mile length of C4 is wrong then I would prefer not o be correct.
Continue reading ‘“COD4 PC mods” or “Damn you Xbox live DLC screening process!!!”’
These last few weeks in my gaming life have been almost exclusively devoted to Mass Effect, sprinkled with some Rock Band touring when I’m feeling saucy. But today, with one midterm and a major presentation behind me, I was finally able to catch up with my five-hour-ahead-time-zone brother for some hardcore Call of Duty 4 action. I figured it would be just like old times, hop in a room, pull a few triggers, and ten minutes later leave behind me a trail of blood, teeth, and tears the likes of which Xbox Live has never seen. Boy, was I in for a surprise.
Somehow over the last two weeks, everyone else has either become infinitely better, or I have lost every ounce of skill I ever had. I couldn’t stay alive for more than ten seconds, and the only kills I was getting were by way of martyr-dumb luck. My little brother actually got more kills than me in a couple rounds, which has never happened to me before, I swear.
I realized that Mass Effect has really slowed my game down. Not in a negative way, but in a more methodical way. Although there is a lot of action in the game, ME is most definitely not a run-n-gun shooter. But just like any skill, if you don’t use it, you lose it, and right now, COD4 is waving at me in the rear-view mirror of a War Pig shrinking over the horizon.
As of yesterday, Call of Duty 4 has changed the rules of its online Free-For-All mode. Now, instead of it taking 20 kills for me to win, it now takes me 25 kills. When the game first launched, (I’m pretty sure) that there was a 35 kill limit. When they knocked it down to 20, the matches didn’t seem to last long enough. The new 25 limit is just enough to make a match worthwhile, but it doesn’t drag if you happen to be on the business end of my red dot.
It’s official, video games have taken over my life. How do I know? These are just some of the reasons. When I walk around outside, I am constantly checking rooftops for snipers, and wondering at what angle I would have to lob a grenade in order to get into a window (thanks, Call of Duty). I see imaginary red and green guidelines on the road when I drive, indicating whether I should speed up or slow down to take a turn (thanks Forza 2). I imagine what my life would be like if it was a video game (a boring RPG). But the thing that has made me realize that I’ve gone over the edge is the fact that 95% of what I’ve listened to on my iPod in the last week has been either the Joystiq podcast, or the Guitar Hero 1 soundtrack. The sad thing is that it’s not even the song by the original artists, it’s the game’s cover versions, most of which I like better. I also downloaded the Hitman: Blood Money soundtrack, and Chop Chop Master Onion’s theme from PaRappa the Rappa.
I guess it could be worse, but, just like the pied piper led rats through the street, I’m afraid I may be swaying to a symphony of destruction.
I usually don’t like to brag (ok, maybe just a little), but yesterday I performed the most dominant round of Call of Duty 4 multiplayer that I have ever seen, including matches that I lost. My girlfriend was getting ready to go out, and I had to start getting ready for work, but I knew I had about ten minutes to get in on some pwnage. Little did I know that I would need only a small fraction of that time to completely annihilate everyone in a free-for-all match on the map Downpour.
Let me give you a very brief brekdown of the action: The game starts, and before anyone could blink I had three kills and UAV. Once deployed, the next two kills came even faster. I used the airstrike given to me to get two more kills, bringing it to seven total without dying, and called in the helicopter. After a few minutes, some stealth maneuvering, and buckets of blood and bullets, I had a fifteen kill streak. Finally someone got lucky and brought my reign of terror to an end. I jumped right back in the action and only died one more time before winning the match with 20 kills, and it took me less than five minutes. The chump that came in second had only five kills and died six times.
So, to anyone that may have had the misfortune of crossing paths with me yesterday, I’m sorry, I was born this awesome.
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