Revolutionary Rant: Veteran's Affairs

Pretty much agree with everything. Veteran difficulty should probably be renamed "HURR DURR", but I've still beaten it on CoD 4, W@W, MW2, and BO. But you know what? I never beat The Mile High Club on CoD4 on Veteran. That is, without a doubt, the Devil's greatest achievement.

You just NOW realized this?

The resposibility is also on the player when having fun while playing a game, not just the game designer's. The CoD seires was intended (maybe unintended?) as a linear and cinematic shooter where straying from the beaten path usually leades to death and scripted sequences where it's difficult to survive. Yes, it's not the best game design so, yes, they did back themselves into a corner in terms of raising the difficulty. .

But the thing is, most gamers know this fact about CoD and the smart ones avoid playing in on the hardest settings. They can instead enjoy themselves in playing a very entertaining campaign (my opinion of course) or fragging other people in multiplayer (no idea how good the multiplayer is since i spend most of the time playing Bad Company 2). You backed yourself into the corner too when you felt the strong need to get achievements that has only superficial value (unless that achievement can unlock something). So whos to blame in this case? The gamer with a scratch that's hard to reach? Or the game designer? I say both, this game is not perfect, but it can still be enjoyed greatly

Everytime I played modern warfare 2 on vet if you follow sgt foley. You can get through and duck behind where your team goes into cover.black ops on vet ill be prone picking targets off and sgt woods will push my out of cover or when I'm trying to beat a mission and bowman dies you can't finish the story because he supposed to open a crate thus restarting the whole level to protect bowman from getting killed...poor a.I design

Cry much?

No just inches away from hurling my controller at the wall....thank god psn is back don't have to play it anymore

Its about damn time you realized this daniel!!!!

So this whole rant was about the hard difficulty being hard? K.

Dude. I totally agree. That exact part of the game was such a *****. The worst part is sometimes you'd reload the checkpoint and a box would be in your face...or something gay like that. It took me a bunch of tries to get past it. That and that ****ing gay part where you gotta get down the hill and cut open the napalm canister (it took me literally like an hour and a half of trying to to figure out I even needed to use the napalm. Ug. just frustrating. ANDDDDD the worst part is. I beat the entire game on Veteran....and the game ends and I don't get the achievement for it. I go and look and I didn't get the achievement for the first 3 missions on veteran...which I know I did because all I ever play is veteran....Fucking stupid man.

@ De-Ting Haha dude just mentioning The Mile High Club brings up bad memories. That was such a giant pain in the ass. After a few hours of trying I gave up. A few months later I had to "cheat" and look up how other people were doing it, and it still took forever to get.

Wait, Black Ops has a single player mode now?

The part with napalm canisters is where I got stuck you go down the hill with woods and hudson go prone and boom they push you back standing up getting you killed instantly...and enemies respawn forever until you push ahead I sat there and wasted every weapon I could possibly find to realize these panzies are just going to come back to life...figures the treyarch game is like seeing as how they got zombies

That's what I was trying to do for a good hour or so, but it was impossible to get down to the checkpoint.

How the hell did you get past that without tipping the napalm....