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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 11:06AM (Unverified) said

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Not to get all I-know-more-about-boxing-than-you, but there was a lot of speculation that Sonny Liston (pictured above) wasn't really hit by a punch from Muhammad Ali. Ali claimed the punch was so fast cameras didn't catch it. The so-called "anchor punch" nevertheless finished the fight. The ref pushed Ali into a neutral corner. Liston slowly got to his feet. The ref counted him out. It was a bit of a fiasco, but maybe he was indeed faking, as you unintentionally suggested via Photoshop.

Posted: Jan 30th 2008 11:12AM jynxycat said

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Regardless, the fact that a game with 1% of the total marketing is even close to Halo is just flat out hilarious.

Microsoft needs some odd hundreds of millions of dollars to keep people playing their game online ?

Try making something new.

Posted: Jan 30th 2008 11:25AM (Unverified) said

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Why did you copy my comment?
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 11:32AM Jakey777 said

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In fact the marketing is the reason why so many Halo haters like you suddenly pop-up.
If CoD4 had same marketing campaign as Halo 3 did, everybody would hate it too.

In fact am I the only person who notices visible flaws of this game such as USELESS Prestige Mode and scripts to name a few.

And one final thing.Fans are a rather unloyal bunch and while I'm certain people will still play Halo when Xbox 720 comes out, I'm not sure how many people will stick to CoD when R6V2 or GoW2 will come out.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 12:17PM (Unverified) said

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Jakub666

you aren't alone. COD4 is a good game, but it is extremely shallow. Most of its "innovations" are things that Rainbow six did better over a year ago.

The only thing it really has to differentiate itself is the level system...whihc RB62 has adopted.

COD4 is living proof that people will deal with repetitive gameplay as long as it is pretty enough.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 1:12PM hey buddy said

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"In fact the marketing is the reason why so many Halo haters like you suddenly pop-up.
If CoD4 had same marketing campaign as Halo 3 did, everybody would hate it too." - Dr. Yakub

No, I think you have an incorrect 'cause/effect' relationship in your statement - marketing isn't what brought out the haters, it was the disappointment many of us felt in the game of Halo. I won't go into that. But on the other hand, CoD4 has generally been considered as a game that 'delivered,' marketing or not. And as for me being a 'Halo hater,' you can bank on the fact that I didn't just 'suddenly pop-up,' I've never enjoyed that game as much as others have. But I can respect it. It's the indisputable online champ and Bungie has created a great system of stats and tracking that people really like. I've played through Halo2 and 3 on Heroic. But the story is so weak, the writing of nearly each and every piece of dialog soooo bad and clichéd. It's laughable sometimes. Embarrassingly so. It's just not for me.

And another thing: CoD4's 'Prestige' mode is only as 'Useless' as say, playing Halo on 'Legendary' after finishing it on 'Heroic' mode - people do it because they like the game. It's not a 'flaw.' It's not 'useless'; there is a graphic indication that you have purposefully given up your high status to get back in the trenches and build it up again. It's like turning on all the skulls in Halo - you do it for bragging rights.

YOU think it's useless because you don't like CoD4 as much as Halo so you pick it as an arguing point, but it's not really that deep.

You need to accept that not everyone is flawed if they don't like Halo as much as you do.
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Posted: Jan 31st 2008 1:21AM Greyze said

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always love the joystiq pictures..

Posted: Jan 30th 2008 12:20PM Deck said

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TUROK! Soon to be the number played game on XBL!

No doubt about it... no doubt...

Posted: Jan 30th 2008 12:26PM Jamis7 said

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What I hate about CoD 4’s multiplayer the most is how hard it can be some times to get everyone in your party into the same game. It’s not as bad with a small group, but if you have like 5 or 6 people in a group, it can take forever to get everyone into the same game sometimes. There is really just no excuse for this. Also I think Halo 3’s matchmaking is a lot better. For the most part it matches people of the same skill level, and you don’t run into as many games where you just get totally destroyed, or just totally destroy the other team.

Other than that I think CoD 4 is an awesome game. It’s really a different type of shooter than Halo 3. I don’t understand why people can’t just like both, or feel the need to always compare them to each other.

Posted: Jan 30th 2008 12:30PM (Unverified) said

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I played cod4 multiplayer after finishing the campaign mode last night, and it was a bit of a mess inmho. I am just going to go back and play through arcade mode and thats pretty much it for this title. Thats just my personal taste and opinion, so please don't flame me.

Posted: Jan 30th 2008 12:34PM (Unverified) said

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By the way, I wish Bungie would team up with Infinity ward for the next Halo, imagine a Halo with Cod4 graphics. Now that would be amazing.

Posted: Jan 30th 2008 12:40PM (Unverified) said

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Yea that would be sweet but I think Halo3 wouldve looked even better on UE3. For example on UT3 for PS3, the graphics are beautiful and I think Halo3/UT3 have more similar styles that Halo3/COD4 and that would have looked really sweet had it used that engine.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 4:15PM billy5000 said

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Fuck Halo 3 in the fucking ass, it's the most over hyped piece of crap game ever released. Bungie wishes it could make a game as awesome as COD4, which I can't seem to stop playing.

That is all.

Posted: Jan 31st 2008 1:11AM (Unverified) said

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I think your a piece of garbage for spewing nonsensical filth like that over of all things, a video game. Please don't breed.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 5:34PM (Unverified) said

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CoD 4 is realistic?


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

not trying to insult the game or anything, its great. just insulting the idea that it is realistic.

Posted: Jan 30th 2008 7:23PM (Unverified) said

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and COD4 fans will rally up next week to regain its top spot.... lmao

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