CoD: Black Ops / AC:Brohood
My sister got Call of Duty: Blacks Ops and she beat story mode in six hours. I was there.
Okay, so even if I wasn’t the one playing Black Ops, I still have THOUGHTS on it, particularly the storyline, having called out a crucial scenario and was, for once, RIGHT about it. Mason is a crazy ass motherfucker, and that’s all I really have to say about it.
Well, no.
I mean, for a Call of Duty game, I thought the storyline was pretty interesting, which was unfortunate, because I think it suffered from an immense lack of endearing characters. MW2 had Soap, who was a general badass with a cool Scottish accent, and Ghost, who was British and wore a mask and I guess that’s pretty hot. And since their voices were easily defined (easy to pick out since I’m, hurr-durr, American), it was sort of comforting while taking down whole armies and whatnot.
In Black Ops, you get mentally insane Mason and his screaming and cursing and Reznov’s creepy Russian accent, which only gets creepier if you realize that he doesn’t even exist. (“Kill, Mason! Kiillllllll.”) Also, Alex Mason is also apparently Jake Sully from Avatar, and my sister and I would occasionally break out into giggles. (“Alex Mason, you shud nut BE heereee… UGGHHHHNAAAAA.”) But anyway, once my sister realized that Mason was insane, she said she was kind of uncomfortable playing as him, and I was also uncomfortable watching my sister play as Mason-who, let me remind you, is listening to an imaginary Russian person in his head and stabbing Vietcongs in their sleep.
Speaking of which--!
Gosh, the level of graphic violence was… surprising? I mean, I’ve played Call of Duty games before, but that close up of Mason stabbing some sleeping dude in the neck with these shluck shluck sounds were a little unnerving. I’m no stranger to violent videogames, but… um. Yeah. Idk. Black Ops kinda made me 8| and have seizures. Seriously, so many flashing numbers and general flashes. I never looked forward to a cut scene, lol.
Oh, and Woods died, so that’s that.
My lack of commentary on the gameplay is not really due to the fact that I haven’t played it (I have, zombie co-op), but there isn’t all that much to say. It’s exactly like MW2.
eta: oh yeah, and that arcade mode. Um, yeah. Okay.
I’m really glad the game was a gift, lol.
But you know what else we got as a gift? Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which I have been waiting forever to play. By the third consecutive day in front of my TV, controller in hand, I figured it was time to stop dicking around and get on with the storyline.
I am still playing.
There are so many side quests and if you are anything like me, you'd want to do them all-- or at least, I thought I did. I gave up on trying to get full sync for every mission because then I'll never be done. So now I'm stuck on Sequence 8 because of some STUPID game glitch (woo, boy there were a lot of those) because my two targets keep running out of the area, into the white space matrix thingy and all I have is the stupid Apple and that is the silliest weapon. And by silly I mean goddamn awful.
Ugh, I want to beat it, but I'm still butthurt over one of my maxed-out recruits dying. >:(
Okay, so even if I wasn’t the one playing Black Ops, I still have THOUGHTS on it, particularly the storyline, having called out a crucial scenario and was, for once, RIGHT about it. Mason is a crazy ass motherfucker, and that’s all I really have to say about it.
Well, no.
I mean, for a Call of Duty game, I thought the storyline was pretty interesting, which was unfortunate, because I think it suffered from an immense lack of endearing characters. MW2 had Soap, who was a general badass with a cool Scottish accent, and Ghost, who was British and wore a mask and I guess that’s pretty hot. And since their voices were easily defined (easy to pick out since I’m, hurr-durr, American), it was sort of comforting while taking down whole armies and whatnot.
In Black Ops, you get mentally insane Mason and his screaming and cursing and Reznov’s creepy Russian accent, which only gets creepier if you realize that he doesn’t even exist. (“Kill, Mason! Kiillllllll.”) Also, Alex Mason is also apparently Jake Sully from Avatar, and my sister and I would occasionally break out into giggles. (“Alex Mason, you shud nut BE heereee… UGGHHHHNAAAAA.”) But anyway, once my sister realized that Mason was insane, she said she was kind of uncomfortable playing as him, and I was also uncomfortable watching my sister play as Mason-who, let me remind you, is listening to an imaginary Russian person in his head and stabbing Vietcongs in their sleep.
Speaking of which--!
Gosh, the level of graphic violence was… surprising? I mean, I’ve played Call of Duty games before, but that close up of Mason stabbing some sleeping dude in the neck with these shluck shluck sounds were a little unnerving. I’m no stranger to violent videogames, but… um. Yeah. Idk. Black Ops kinda made me 8| and have seizures. Seriously, so many flashing numbers and general flashes. I never looked forward to a cut scene, lol.
Oh, and Woods died, so that’s that.
My lack of commentary on the gameplay is not really due to the fact that I haven’t played it (I have, zombie co-op), but there isn’t all that much to say. It’s exactly like MW2.
eta: oh yeah, and that arcade mode. Um, yeah. Okay.
I’m really glad the game was a gift, lol.
But you know what else we got as a gift? Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which I have been waiting forever to play. By the third consecutive day in front of my TV, controller in hand, I figured it was time to stop dicking around and get on with the storyline.
I am still playing.
There are so many side quests and if you are anything like me, you'd want to do them all-- or at least, I thought I did. I gave up on trying to get full sync for every mission because then I'll never be done. So now I'm stuck on Sequence 8 because of some STUPID game glitch (woo, boy there were a lot of those) because my two targets keep running out of the area, into the white space matrix thingy and all I have is the stupid Apple and that is the silliest weapon. And by silly I mean goddamn awful.
Ugh, I want to beat it, but I'm still butthurt over one of my maxed-out recruits dying. >:(