COD MW3 To Feature Subscription "Elite" Service

Swi1ch · 31 May 2011 at 21:37

I'm just stunned at the responses in this thread about the phrase "Hyper-realism".

Am I the only person who realises the original article doesn't mean "Yes, in this game bullets travel at their correct speed and inflict damage that mirrors real life" and instead clearly refers to a game that isn't populated with monsters, mythical creatures or fat Russian men with mini-guns shooting at a deranged Amercian using a rocket launcher to help him jump higher?

mattjd · 31 May 2011 at 21:48

Swi1ch said:
I'm just stunned at the responses in this thread about the phrase "Hyper-realism".

Am I the only person who realises the original article doesn't mean "Yes, in this game bullets travel at their correct speed and inflict damage that mirrors real life" and instead clearly refers to a game that isn't populated with monsters, mythical creatures or fat Russian men with mini-guns shooting at a deranged Amercian using a rocket launcher to help him jump higher?

It's still unrealistic though. A one man army in real life would never work.

TF2 is suppose to be unrealistic its more aimed at fun and hats.

Swi1ch · 31 May 2011 at 22:07

mattjd said:
It's still unrealistic though. A one man army in real life would never work.

But surely you see that when we say realistic, being gamers and especially PC gamers, we mean a different thing entirely.

It wasn't really that long ago that games were colourful little people-like things running around hitting colourful monsters with sticks. Shooters were populated with demons or other mythical creatures.

In COD you play a person, who looks like a person, who holds weapons that are modelled on real guns and look like real guns, who shoots and kills other beings who look like real people, in settings that look like real world locations.

That is pretty realistic. If people are going to be so hardline on the term realism we can pretty much scratch out any game ever other than sports games and ARMA2.

Flickeh · 31 May 2011 at 22:15

I don't see why people are upset about this. It adds nothing to the game itself. Just lots of community and post-game details, if people want to pay for that then so be it.
If it was exclusive weapons and maps then i'd be annoyed too, but it's not and i have never bought the CoD map back, never will!
I'll be buying both BF3 and MW3 on release, i got over 100 hours out of Black Op's multiplayer so i'd call that value for money.

Sin_Chase · 31 May 2011 at 22:16

Swi1ch said:
That is pretty realistic. If people are going to be so hardline on the term realism we can pretty much scratch out any game ever other than sports games and ARMA2.

In the world of cars you have supercars then you have hypercars.

ARMA is the hyper in the realistic warfare gaming arena. Calling any COD game hyper-realistic is like calling a Ford Fiesta a hyper car. It's ridiculous to even coin such a term for an arcade shooter.

opethdisciple · 31 May 2011 at 22:32

RavenXXX2 said:

Two things:

1. Seems to make people get past the fact that its another regurgitated COD game lacking all the features its competiton has, they are mocking themselves with that video.

2. The game just looks like Blops, which inturn looked like MW2 which sucked balls.

Swi1ch · 31 May 2011 at 22:36

Sin_Chase said:
In the world of cars you have supercars then you have hypercars.

ARMA is the hyper in the realistic warfare gaming arena. Calling any COD game hyper-realistic is like calling a Ford Fiesta a hyper car. It's ridiculous to even coin such a term for an arcade shooter.

We're a niche for this. Calling COD anything resembling a highly realistic shooter is of course madness for us, but for the majority of people (Including those who will see that article), hyperrealism is defined less by bullet-spread and limb damage, and more by the fact you're a person who shoots other people.

For example, up until your post, if someone had said the word 'hypercar' to me, I would probably assume that was perfectly interchangable with a 'supercar'. I see cars in the street and say "Hey, that looks pretty cool" and then have to be informed that the car I pointed at is actually a pile of crap.

We can't assume that everyone is going to bend to our niche. Sure, if the article said "Call of Duty, the cutting edge of gameplay and graphics that is going to be used to train the native Afghan home defence force" we could laugh and pick at it, because that's an absurd statement by anyone's standards.

"Hyperrealistic shooter" is not an absurd statement by the majority of people's standards, and to laugh and make fun of it just reinforces the notion that PC Gamers are pretentious, closed off group of outsiders, which is the reason we have more games like COD instead of BF or ARMA in the first place.

Buzza · 31 May 2011 at 23:26

Im surprised they havent done some sort of premium service which includes Dedicated servers supporting bigger maps and more players.

Gerard · 31 May 2011 at 23:40