I haven't done this in a while, but I do feel the need to rant about this game. First things stated, I own the PC version and I feel it to be a pale shadow of what it could have been. Yes it sold well, but that doesn't necessarily mean they churned out a great multiplayer. The modes work, the leveling works, the balance and lag however - not so much.

I've basically come down to seeing people majorly use only three different weapons, while occasionally i'll get killed by someone who either hasn't learned of the weapons or simply sticks to their preferences. That is great for them by all means, but the change eventually tends to come when you see 8 people in a 12 player map running around with Dual Akimbo 1887's simply for the sake that most maps can sufficiently support them at a range that destroys any other fully automatic weapon.

That being said. I do find it sad. I've been away from the First Person Shooter Multiplayer scene for a while. I did it mostly around the Battlefield and Tribes Series with a bit of Unreal, Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike mixed in. Never was one for much of the Console FPS games.

And yet I figured, I haven't played an FPS for some time (stopped after 2142, not to down the game - I enjoyed it, I just became bored with FPS games for a while). I purchase Modern Warfare 2, enjoyed the single player. I figured i'd give the Multiplayer a shot. I quite enjoy it, but I occasionally disconnect in sheer disappointment. Not one game has gone by in the hundreds I have played thus far where someone did not whine and complain about SOMETHING.

When it comes to balance or lag issues, I say that doesn't really count in this. No, instead I continuously hear people complaining. Regardless of what shotgun is used, someone dies from it - immediate complaints will rouse about "Shotty Whores". Regardless of accuracy in the shot, complaints will rouse of "Noob Tubers". Regardless of FMJ, it's "Complete Bullshit" to shoot someone who isn't doing a very good job of disguising that gigantic sniper barrel sticking out from behind the tin wall they're next to. Regardless of the fact that it's a damned Riot Shield, complaints will be made that someone can't shoot through it, despite that that is the exact purpose of the weapon.

Every single game, and it does not fail to amaze me at how often whiners in the game appear. I do not know if this is the case on the consoles, and i'd be glad to hear it. As of this typing, I just exited a game after a game of domination, in which the point is to capture and hold 3 points on the map. My team is awkwardly running into the middle of areas and getting killed constantly. I perch myself inside the Estate on the Estate map, guarding Point A. I see an enemy's shadow pass the greenhouse door and lob a semtex toward the corner he was headed to.

He rounds it, I land a lucky semtex stick and he dies. He tries to enter through the front door that I am not watching. However, I can hear his ridiculously loud footsteps as he decides to run around the house carrying what I imagined to sound like a couch. I sneak around, I knife him. He cries out "Fucking noob, stop camping" much to the same whining as his friends try to take A as I diligently continue to swap spots and take them out as they attempt to cap the point.

And after that map, I could hear them vocally in the lobby as I left. I was amazed. I was just on the receiving end of numerous complaints focused on the fact that I was defending a point on a capture and hold map.

I'm amazed I have yet to receive complaints for firing an assault rifle at all.

P.S. When did Destructoid come down with such a 4chan influence? I know I haven't been here for a while, but I don't really understand why more and more people are being influenced by a community with absolutely no connection other than hearsay and merely repeating what another community has either nonsensically rumored or what a reputable source has already reported on. I've seen 4chan simply take the efforts of a publication or a decent reputable gaming blog, read a report, appear on 4chan announcing it - then leading packs of people who appear in commentary claiming 4chan was their source of information.

All of a sudden i'm getting recommendations to update my password so the 4chans don't get me. What the hell has happened around here? Why is this community influencing such a decent site in the first place when, in my opinion, it should be Dtoid influencing THEM. It's just a social community, while Destructoid does seem to occasionally get recognition and interviews with people who actually know what's going on.

I have no problem with 4chan, I should note. It can do whatever it pleases as long as it remains factual toward what they actually are. I've just become annoyed with 4chan users constant claim to origin for numerous findings on the net. And seeing an influence of them on Destructoid was a little disappointing.