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Title: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: duckman2000 on July 13, 2009, 11:31:28 PM
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/07/mw2-night-vision-prestige-rm-eng.jpg)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/modern-warfare-2s-prestige-edition-includes-fully-functioning/

The sad thing is that some people on that other board actually seem to think that they are going to get some decent NV equipment out of this.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: WrikaWrek on July 13, 2009, 11:32:23 PM
Videogames.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 13, 2009, 11:35:31 PM
is that a free token for COD Classic i see? oh that is so bought.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: duckman2000 on July 13, 2009, 11:39:08 PM
Yeah, that part is neat. The goggle is just embarrassing, fucking toys. I'd pay 1k for an LE with decent goggles, but this shit is just sad. Go nerds!
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 13, 2009, 11:40:13 PM
so all the LE version is just a gay steelbook? why not include the COD token...
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 13, 2009, 11:41:01 PM
oh that is so bought
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: FatalT on July 13, 2009, 11:42:25 PM
oh that is so bought
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 13, 2009, 11:45:35 PM
i wonder how many budding jame gumbs will buy this just for the goggles

also, they're bringing COD1 to XBL?

BOUGHTEN (the XBL game, not the ghey goggles)
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Beezy on July 13, 2009, 11:46:16 PM
oh that is so bought
agreed
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 13, 2009, 11:49:49 PM
Is the first Call of Duty really that good?
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 13, 2009, 11:50:30 PM
its on a microsoft platform it is #1
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 13, 2009, 11:52:04 PM
it might not hold up that well as a single player game, but the MP could still be a blast (great maps)

wonder if they would include United Offensive with it?  that's a really good expansion
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Kestastrophe on July 13, 2009, 11:54:11 PM
nex gen perving brought to you by MW2TM
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 13, 2009, 11:54:56 PM
that would be an embarrassing display of fuckery to have in your home, why do people think that is cool

"Hey, nice MAN HEAD ya got there, champ."
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 13, 2009, 11:57:47 PM
put lipstick on it and tongue kiss it in the dark while wearing your ultimaghey night vision goggles
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 14, 2009, 12:00:44 AM
it will be as limited as halo 3 legendary was - which you could find at toys r us for $8 if you were lucky now
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 14, 2009, 12:03:41 AM
i don't have any interest in MW2, but i'd like to know more about COD "classic"
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 14, 2009, 12:08:23 AM
the hardened is $80, yikes
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 14, 2009, 12:10:24 AM
i don't have any interest in MW2, but i'd like to know more about COD "classic"

I would assume that classic means it's just COD re-released.


I realize that, but I'd like to know if the UO expansion is in there, and what kind of multiplayer we're looking at
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: fistfulofmetal on July 14, 2009, 12:10:25 AM
holy crap. i want night vision goggles.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Bildi on July 14, 2009, 12:11:37 AM
At least they didn't make it cat-sized.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: ManaByte on July 14, 2009, 12:14:17 AM
Third gen NV goggles still go for about $3k (they talk about them on Coast to Coast all the time since they use them to see UFOs), so even if these are real they won't be that great.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: cool breeze on July 14, 2009, 12:34:50 AM
if the price is right, why not.  I've embarrassed myself before by having a Halo cat helmet in my room and having the batarang version of Batman preordered, so Modern Warfare branded goggles isn't too bad.

Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: AdmiralViscen on July 14, 2009, 12:37:55 AM
The only goofy piece of shit I have is the Big Lebowski plastic bowling ball.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: cool breeze on July 14, 2009, 12:39:07 AM
and if I knew I would like Fallout 3 so much, I would have got the life sized pip-boy.  At least I have a lunch box.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 14, 2009, 12:41:48 AM
i can't talk too much shit with the vault-tec lunchbox and pip boy bobblehead sitting on my shelf, but you have to admit night vision goggles are sort of a creepy pack-in
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 14, 2009, 12:43:13 AM
Activision is appealing to the creepy, Virginia Tech massacre crowd.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 14, 2009, 01:24:09 AM
If someone walks into your college - nay, your dorm! - wearing Modern Warfare 2 night vision goggles... get the fuck out!
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: cool breeze on July 14, 2009, 01:36:32 AM
If someone walks into your college - nay, your dorm! - wearing Modern Warfare 2 night vision goggles... get the fuck out!

aha - you assume green man won't also own the mw2 nvgs

in that brief moment when you share a laugh about both wearing them in the middle of the night, neck chop him before he realizes what happened
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: duckman2000 on July 14, 2009, 02:54:36 AM
i can't talk too much shit with the vault-tec lunchbox and pip boy bobblehead sitting on my shelf, but you have to admit night vision goggles are sort of a creepy pack-in

It's not even that it's creepy. The problem, to me, is that it's a fucking (cheap) kids toy, an embarrassing pack-in especially given the tone and topics of the game.

Third gen NV goggles still go for about $3k (they talk about them on Coast to Coast all the time since they use them to see UFOs), so even if these are real they won't be that great.

I get them slightly cheaper than that, but yeah, NV is expensive. I'm going to guess that this is just basic illumination, like NV on video cameras and in those shitty "spy goggle" toys.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: cool breeze on July 14, 2009, 02:57:37 AM
 :lol  I just remembered that this is Activision.  They really are trying to pack in a plastic toy with all their games.

i can't talk too much shit with the vault-tec lunchbox and pip boy bobblehead sitting on my shelf, but you have to admit night vision goggles are sort of a creepy pack-in

It's not even that it's creepy. The problem, to me, is that it's a fucking (cheap) kids toy, an embarrassing pack-in especially given the tone and topics of the game.

the first game ended with a comedy rap in the credits

Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: duckman2000 on July 14, 2009, 03:02:07 AM
:lol  I just remembered that this is Activision.  They really are trying to pack in a plastic toy with all their games.

i can't talk too much shit with the vault-tec lunchbox and pip boy bobblehead sitting on my shelf, but you have to admit night vision goggles are sort of a creepy pack-in

It's not even that it's creepy. The problem, to me, is that it's a fucking (cheap) kids toy, an embarrassing pack-in especially given the tone and topics of the game.

the first game ended with a comedy rap in the credits



Sure, but the content up until then was nearly completely humorless, focused on the intensity of war complete with crawling enemies and executions, and had a generally very somber tone. I'm not sure what MW2 is going to be like, but I sure as hell don't associate it with rad EyeClops goggles, ads aired between Coco Puffs and Heelys.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: cool breeze on July 14, 2009, 03:05:28 AM
well, I hate to defend them and am not entirely sure on the direction of the game, but the teaser trailers were all about night vision and shit, so maybe it's a theme.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gdc-09-modern-warfare/47178

see
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: duckman2000 on July 14, 2009, 03:14:48 AM
A theme pushed with MW2 branded EyeClops. It's plain lame, dude.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Brehvolution on July 14, 2009, 10:29:38 AM
They should make you use them and have the enemies spam flash grenades on you.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Yeti on July 14, 2009, 11:39:06 AM
and if I knew I would like Fallout 3 so much, I would have got the life sized pip-boy.  At least I have a lunch box.

You got the best version, the Pip-Boy isn't all that great. The plastic seems really cheap, and it runs on 3 AA batteries which it drains in about five days, so not really all that useful for a clock.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 14, 2009, 11:39:43 AM
the pipboy sells on eBay for almost the cost of the limited edition it came with itself

edit: or that might have been the bobblehead
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: trippingmartian on July 14, 2009, 02:35:11 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSTP1HRSqWU
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 14, 2009, 07:53:13 PM
I played COD1 again last year. Still balls awesome, honestly it is probably going to the the best thing in the whole "box", if you will (I don't like the modern warfare style setting that much).

They should just do United Offensive as a 800 point add on later. It's awesome too.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Agent Whiskers on July 14, 2009, 09:44:30 PM
I love how in the YouTube unboxing, Robert brushes off the standard edition like it's nothing you should be spending your money on. Hardened for me, most likely.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: pilonv1 on July 14, 2009, 11:42:45 PM
the pipboy sells on eBay for almost the cost of the limited edition it came with itself

edit: or that might have been the bobblehead

would have to be the pipboy which was amazon exclusive.

if not i'd be happy to sell my bobblehead
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: chronovore on July 15, 2009, 01:07:42 AM
I've still got COD4:MW shrinkwrapped at home. How much am I missing out on?
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 15, 2009, 01:08:49 AM
a lot
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Beezy on July 15, 2009, 02:29:37 AM
I've still got COD4:MW shrinkwrapped at home. How much am I missing out on?
wtf
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: brawndolicious on July 15, 2009, 03:52:22 AM
a lot
If he plays it online.  Singleplayer is either too easy or too masochistic/cheap.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 15, 2009, 03:53:48 AM
um... so
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: chronovore on July 15, 2009, 12:17:53 AM
a lot
If he plays it online.  Singleplayer is either too easy or too masochistic/cheap.

Meaning there's a heap of difference between Easy and Normal or Normal and Hard settings?
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: demi on July 15, 2009, 12:27:10 AM
just a little. do veteran and put some hair on your nuts.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: chronovore on July 15, 2009, 01:08:51 AM
"There really is nothing like a freshly-shorn scrotum; it's breathtaking. I suggest you try it."

I hear the final level is ball-breakingly, controller-throwingly, kick-a-puppy difficult on Veteran.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: brawndolicious on July 15, 2009, 01:32:49 AM
No it's not hard on Veteran.  The enemy accuracy is just ramped up and your health is lowered but the AI is simple enough that that's not actually a problem.  You just crouch when you get hit, shoot a few guys, run forward past the respawn checkpoint, repeat over and over and over again.

Time limit levels are real ankle-grabbers though.  You pretty much have to spam flashbangs and run away from the enemies.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Beezy on July 15, 2009, 02:44:49 PM
Nintenho, wtf are you talking about? He said the FINAL LEVEL aka Mile High Club.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Andowsky on July 15, 2009, 05:02:10 PM
Grenades make veteran a bitch in Call of Duty.

Hardened edition shall be mine.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Third on July 15, 2009, 07:57:33 PM
Functioning night vision goggles for $80  :lol

I bet it's just ordinary green glass (or even plastic).
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: brawndolicious on July 16, 2009, 01:04:28 AM
Nintenho, wtf are you talking about? He said the FINAL LEVEL aka Mile High Club.
I was answering the question he asked before about the ramp up in difficulty levels.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: chronovore on July 17, 2009, 01:38:46 AM
Actually, thanks for the insight to both of you. I don't know if the "final level" is the last of the singleplayer or some additional bonus content or what. I know if I got to the very end of sp on Veteran, and then couldn't finish it, I'd be pretty pissed. Probably pissed off enough that I'd not re-play the entire game on a lower difficulty level just so I could finish it.

I like games that allow adjusting difficulty level on the fly, or at least at the beginning of each chapter.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: brawndolicious on July 17, 2009, 04:34:05 AM
the "last" level that people complain about was the one that takes place after the credits, it's not related to the main story.

It's a bitch.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Ganhyun on July 21, 2009, 10:33:15 PM
while playing COD4 last night, some peeps who worked at Gamestop were claiming that the night vision goggles are real and work up to 50 feet.

take that for what its worth. I have no clue if what they are saying is factual or not.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Trent Dole on July 21, 2009, 10:38:13 PM
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Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: chronovore on July 21, 2009, 10:43:19 PM
while playing COD4 last night, some peeps who worked at Gamestop were claiming that the night vision goggles are real and work up to 50 feet.

take that for what its worth. I have no clue if what they are saying is factual or not.

That's OK, neither do they.
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Ganhyun on July 23, 2009, 07:44:07 PM
while playing COD4 last night, some peeps who worked at Gamestop were claiming that the night vision goggles are real and work up to 50 feet.

take that for what its worth. I have no clue if what they are saying is factual or not.

That's OK, neither do they.

I figured as much, but I play pretty often with these guys (6 man Gold Cross 55s vs the world) so I figured I'd just say cool and let it slide.

Edit:

Hell, I guess this is where they got that info from:

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?Product_ID=75518
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 23, 2009, 08:13:46 PM
[youtube=560,345]41tdc1svK58[/youtube]


 :heartbeat Electric Six :heartbeat
Title: Re: Activision/IW brings the LE lol of the year
Post by: cool breeze on July 30, 2009, 02:55:22 PM
it seems like Activision knows classy PC gamers aren't into this shit, so the goggles are only for consoles.  also means there is no version that comes with CoD1.  and they still suck for charging $60 for the PC version when all PC games cost $50 or less.