Category Archives: Gaming

Imbalance is fun to exploit

By spamfest | Published: March 3, 2010
Everyone knows that the air support in Modern Warfare 2 is ridiculous. However, it often feels daunting for the average player. And I don’t mean getting killed by it — I mean getting to use it. I am a prime example of this as I’m new not only to the game but to online [...]
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It’s not a party; it’s a funeral

By spamfest | Published: February 22, 2010
Like many pieces of Modern Warfare 2, the party system is not fair. While it can provide a good deal of fun to those within the party, those outside of it can suffer for no good reason at all. Generally those grouped into a party are using voice chat to coordinate amongst themselves. This [...]
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The Hardline perk isn’t that good

By spamfest | Published: February 7, 2010
The MW2 perk Hardline sounds good in theory — it reduces the number of kills you need to get a kill streak reward by one. UAVs come in after two kills, chopper gunners fly overhead after 10, and so on. The problem is that it’s ultimately not that useful. At best it reduces the [...]
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Modern Warfare 2 musings

By spamfest | Published: February 1, 2010
I am now level 27 in MW2. I’m not very good yet but I have managed to figure out how to go positive in most games. Sadly, this involves a lot of playing the opposite way I played in CoD4. However, I’m generally okay with this as my biggest flaw is my [...]
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PS3 Adventures

By spamfest | Published: January 17, 2010
I am now the owner of a PS3 and have been so for more than three weeks now. I only started playing just over a week ago, however, given a slew of problems I encountered along the way. Join me as I relive my annoying quest to play my first console since the [...]
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Borderlands on PC is pretty okay

By spamfest | Published: December 2, 2009
No, I don’t mean “pretty, okay?” I mean it’s pretty okay. Like, those two words together form one theoretical adjective. Oh, yeah, I’m getting all verbose up in this bitch. Way back in the middle of October I got in a Steam four-way deal and nabbed Borderlands for about $33. I’ve been [...]
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No regrets in canceling my MW2 pre-order

By spamfest | Published: November 9, 2009
Since I did wind up enjoying CoD4 more than I ever expected to, there is a part of me that remains disappointed in how MW2 turned out. The other day there was a live chat sponsored by Best Buy on IRC where people could ask Infinity Ward some questions, and in addition to what [...]
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Infinity Ward screws PC gamers royally.

By spamfest | Published: October 18, 2009
Note: This may be a bit of hyperbole given that no one truly knows what’s going on just yet. Time will tell. And soon — the game’s scheduled to come out in less than a month. Update. Things are continuing to unwind it seems. FourZeroSheep posted an explanation of what the dedicated [...]
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See you at the crossroads.

By spamfest | Published: September 11, 2009
Having been a disgruntled PC “gamer” for awhile now, I’m actually considering being (almost) done with it and buying one of the current-generation consoles. Shock and awe, I know. I’m leaning toward a PS3 at the moment for various reasons including but not limited to the following. The 360’s 54% hardware failure rate is [...]
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Modern Warfare 2 for $40!

By spamfest | Published: September 7, 2009
Pretty soon after that last post I was pointed to Walmart as a place to buy the next CoD. I was skeptical but found myself surprised. Walmart has Modern Warfare 2 available for preorder for “only” $50 and you also get an online gift card worth $10. I know it’s not really $40 but that’s $10 [...]
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