I like games where you shoot people. If you get where I'm going.

Do you like Unreal Tournament?

Sweet. You and I think alike. We should be friends.

Says the guy with a knife... No im kidding.

But I think this topic is kinda getting Off Topic. Its supposed to be about why people think the forums might be less active due to MW2, but it shifted to i dont know what.  My thoughts are, the forums are actually livening up again.

True. Very true.
Strategy games like AoE or BattleForge don't go down so quickly, since they have devs who check the forums every day.

Interesting. You mentioned BattleForge, which is a game that I like to play.

Cesna wrote:

mw2 sucks. sure, it's easier on ur console than halo 3, but halo 3 is 10x better.
you can't smack around dead bodies.
you can't smack around ANYTHING.
you can't drive vehicles in multiplayer.
you can only play 1 person/console online.
the physics engine sucks.
grenades take forever to go off.
there are too many weapons, it gets confusing.
you need to zoom in to get a decent shot, and when you do, your target has either moved, or your line of sight is broken by your own weapon.
Russia launches a single 82 MT ICBM that blasts the majority of the east cost and takes out the ISS. aka, the realism sucks.
one minute you're driving snowmobiles down a mountain, the next you're in Brazil, the next you're scuba diving from a submarine onto a Russian oil rig to save hostages.
good things:
launching guided missiles from a Predator drone. (but, if the drone gets taken down after you shoot a missile, the missile magically dissappears)
air support from an attack heli. (can only be used in multiplayer, can only be taken down by 2 weapons, both epicly hard to aim. by the time someone takes it down, half of their team would have left)
save yourself the trouble and get halo 3.

Why? Is Call of Duty too hard for your tastes? It's just a change of pace, the only reason I actually like Halo is just for the story and the gameplay is only second but I have to admit in terms of story Modern Warfare 2 does kinda blow Halo away with it's twists and large battles while in Halo everything seems so scripted. The gameplay is Halo is practically made for it to be an easy game

Why do you think Halo is so popular? It's the most easiest game to pick up and play, give anyone a battle rifle and they can get a double kill in 2 seconds. The only Halo game that took actual skill was Halo CE (Which is still the rest one in the series) while the others just went down in quality over time, to me Halo 3 was a HUGE disappointment, we were set up for an epic battle but fell so short also multiplayer doesn't have the same feel that Halo 2 did, I practically hate most of the maps due to their unfair advantages.

It's not so much which game is better but which game people will feel more comfortable with.

I feel that if you're just starting out with the FPS genre then get Halo since it's the easiest to play but if you want a game that will more fast paced and thinking on your feet then get MW2.

yes, try thinking on your feet seconds before you get headshotted from around a corner by a famas, which isn't even a 3 burst rifle.

Dude right took the text right outta my mind.

No problem, I have a knack for things like this

I never liked shooting games because they were too fake... well that and there isn't really any punishment for dieing other than another number... Thats reallly what I like about Utanks.... but that's another (illegal) conversation all together.

mw2 sucks. sure, it's easier on ur console than halo 3, but halo 3 is 10x better.
you can't smack around dead bodies.
you can't smack around ANYTHING.
you can't drive vehicles in multiplayer.
you can only play 1 person/console online.
the physics engine sucks.
grenades take forever to go off.
there are too many weapons, it gets confusing.
you need to zoom in to get a decent shot, and when you do, your target has either moved, or your line of sight is broken by your own weapon.
Russia launches a single 82 MT ICBM that blasts the majority of the east cost and takes out the ISS. aka, the realism sucks.
one minute you're driving snowmobiles down a mountain, the next you're in Brazil, the next you're scuba diving from a submarine onto a Russian oil rig to save hostages.
good things:
launching guided missiles from a Predator drone. (but, if the drone gets taken down after you shoot a missile, the missile magically dissappears)
air support from an attack heli. (can only be used in multiplayer, can only be taken down by 2 weapons, both epicly hard to aim. by the time someone takes it down, half of their team would have left)
save yourself the trouble and get halo 3.

Why? Is Call of Duty too hard for your tastes? It's just a change of pace, the only reason I actually like Halo is just for the story and the gameplay is only second but I have to admit in terms of story Modern Warfare 2 does kinda blow Halo away with it's twists and large battles while in Halo everything seems so scripted. The gameplay is Halo is practically made for it to be an easy game

Why do you think Halo is so popular? It's the most easiest game to pick up and play, give anyone a battle rifle and they can get a double kill in 2 seconds. The only Halo game that took actual skill was Halo CE (Which is still the rest one in the series) while the others just went down in quality over time, to me Halo 3 was a HUGE disappointment, we were set up for an epic battle but fell so short also multiplayer doesn't have the same feel that Halo 2 did, I practically hate most of the maps due to their unfair advantages.

It's not so much which game is better but which game people will feel more comfortable with.

I feel that if you're just starting out with the FPS genre then get Halo since it's the easiest to play but if you want a game that will more fast paced and thinking on your feet then get MW2.