Classic hate/stealth troll. Cool stuff.

I don't mind scripted, I don't mind linear, those things can be done to great effect. Look at Half Life 2.

COD4 wasn't just scripted and linear, it was really clunky with how you "pushed" the experience "forward" if you will. For me to enjoy it there doesn't necessarily have to be more ways to tackle a situation, but it has to be flexible and "adapt" to me rather than mechanically transporting me through the game like it's some kind of factory. The other characters didn't feel like living people when they bust through doors and stuff, they felt like part of a machinery. A machinery that you had to sort of navigate alongside.

It doesn't have to be that way even if they make it a very directed, deliberate and guided experience.

I think the problem I have with it lies in your squad being the thing to make the game advance instead of you yourself pushing it forward. That's what makes KZ2 a better experience for me, it never feels like someone keeps pressing pause and play on the "stuff that goes on", because the game reacts to ME, not everyone BUT me.

It's just so much more frequent in COD that the canned animations interrupt what you're doing, or you have to wait for them to happen.

I lost count of the times Pierce got up to a door about to breach it and I got up beside it on the other side and a dude would come and stand where I was standing, just FORCING me out of the way. Then, I'd stand in another position at the next place, and someone was gonna mount a charge on the door, again he came from behind and just shoved me out of the way. As they breach, I sometimes tried to run into the room all actiony like, but you couldn't kill the enemies because they were part of the breach animation and were destined to die at the hands of the guys that were with me, not me. I'm glad the game even allows you to get any shots in ever.

A lot of times I would shoot my way through defenses and arrive early at a certain point only to find that nothing happens. The camera team and the movie shoot obviously arrive with my squad, so there's nothing to actually do while waiting for my guys to catch up.

Other times because of this I've tried kind of playing at the pace the game seems to want me to, only to find PERPETUAL FUCKING SHOOTOUTS because the enemies never stop coming. Then, shooting my way through it reaps the same reward.. a door destined for canned animation opening and at that point I stayed the fuck away from there while the characters all do their thing, as to not break the illusion that I'm in any way playing a role in this game.

That just does NOT HAPPEN in Killzone 2. If a door needs to be opened by someone else that's explained in dialogue and there's some special circumstance surrounding it. Here there's no reason why they won't let me open a completely normal door - like, with a door knob - and shoot the dudes. Instead I have to wait for the game to be all cinematic.

All of these things can be attributed to being part of this squad who go cutscene on you all the time.

Oh so it's a FACT that the single player campaign isn't going to change at all in MW2 now? Even though that's primarily what they talk about in the GI reveal? It's cool dude, I didn't realize that you played the game already.

lol bold text makes you right...

I'm not even saying that it's a FACT (lol) that it's not going to change, but it's been the primary focus of all of the attention on MW2 thus far. All they've talked about is the campaign and the focus has been squarely on changing the SP experience in COD6.

Buy the PC version :PVote-kick :)There is co-op, just not the campaign. I would not mind seeing another survival co-op mode, but I suppose it being replaced by the special ops scenarios is much more interesting anyway.

What makes you think I don't? :O

The whole reason I mostly don't bother with multiplayer is because I can't realistically play something that goes on forever and lacks closure considering how many games across all these formats I want to play.

Only part I read.That's a real shame. You're missing out on the best part of gaming.

Well, personal preference, naturally.. but I assumed that was a given.

Well no.. definitely not. And I do enjoy a good single player game every now and then. I just greatly prefer the multiplayer experience in general. There are plenty of games in this generation though were MP is tacked on. If it's just there to increase the games perceived value, then that's lame..

Hell I have no problems with MP-only games.