Let me guess, story matters a lot for you (because of that thread you made)? Lately, with Black Ops, it's obvious that I personally prefer gameplay over story any day.

Also I agree, the story in MW2 was kind of all over the place with lots of plots holes everywhere and such (I just figured out it's really a story about conspiration, especially referring to what happened in 2001...). They should have hired a better writer, haha. You can't say that the pacing was bad though. One of the best cinematic experiences on the gaming market. I'm also a bit biased about the game because of the music mostly (can't say anything bad about Zimmer!).

Not just graphics, but physics, scale, modability, absence of dedicated servers (in MW2, not Black Ops) and interface. Essentially, most games are simple ports of console games meaning they have no optimisation for the PC and therefore do not take advantage of the benefits of the PC as a platform. Not saying I blame the devs for doing it as they need to make money in a competitive environment.

I'll give a few examples.

1. Oblivion: Now I love this game and it's one of my faves of all time, but the interface was obviously designed for consoles, and the experience was "streamlined". Now I liked this to an extent, but many Elder scrolls fans were disappointed at the seemingly "casual" nature. Instead, we now have many many mods that change and improve the interface and features so they're more in-line with PC games. The Obscuro Oblivion Overhaul mod was so popular that they actually hired the guy who made it to work as a consultant on Fallout New Vegas.

2. Mass Effect 2: Again, great game, but was obviously a direct port of the 360 version. The graphics and textures were the same as the 360 version with no extra optimisation for the PC version. Even basic PC graphical options were taken out such as anti-aliasing which you needed to "force" via the hardware. Another small yet easy to implement problem was the lack of shortcuts on the PC version. The PC has the advantage of having an input device with multiple buttons so why did they not implements simple hotkeys? (e.g. 'J' for Journal).

3. Deus Ex Invisible War: From last gen, all the design decisions were made based on the orginal X-box then ported to PC. It meant areas were smaller (the last level is a recreation of the first from Deus Ex but split the level in half with an extra loading screen). The graphics were poor (A fan made high def texture pack was released after 6 months), yet the system requirements were higher than Half-Life 2 (which released after). Finally, they made some really shoddy design decisions based on "appealing to console gamers" such as unified ammo.

Btw, what's unlimited detail mode?! :P

Maybe this also?

While their are going to be developers that don't optimise for the PC, there are other's who will.  The point is, in the end it's the developers choice on how they create their game and if they will or will not optimise their games for specific platforms.

And Unlimited Detail is a new way of creating graphics for gaming.  Basically, instead of using polygons covered in textures, it uses billions upon billions of floating dots to create objects/characters.  This creates not only the shape of the object, but also covers the textures, as well.  Here's a vid about it.

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For me, I end up defending Black Ops because, once you get past the forgettable story (eventhough it was held together better) it has more features for greater replayability than MW2 had.  I get bots and Zombie mode, and Zork and also a Smash TV zombie mode knock off.  I also get the Five zombie level.  All and all i feel I am now set with Call of Duty.  In short, for replayability, Black Ops is superior for me.  Only regret about getting rid of MW2 is that I lose the special ops mission stuff.

Probably just for the PC version to compensate for PC users not being nearly as good at FPSes as console gamers.

I believe Blizzard once declared that something like 40% of Starcraft players only played the single-player mode.  SP is the dominant, if not sole, means of playing a game for many, many people.

This is a very expensive movie!

lol at everyone who bought this shxt.