The single player in Modern Warfare 2 takes the bullshit level of the original Modern Warfare and somehow manages to double it. It's seriously infuriating how many times you'll just die out of nowhere, even on the easier difficulties. That, coupled with all of the other crap that they pulled with the PC port, is leading me to believe that Infinity Ward is somehow growing less competent with every release. I guess the multiplayer is okay (though I don't plan to play it simply because taking out dedicated servers was nothing short of fucking retarded), but the single player is just getting worse and worse. It's sad that I can't think of a single redeeming factor of the last few hours that I wasted beating it.
Even the storyline, which I thought was quite good in MW1, took a turn for the idiotic. MW2's story is so implausible and incoherent that it was impossible for me to suspend my disbelief for a second.
Lastly, the PC version feels like a terrible port. There are horrible performance issues (which affect both gaming PCs in my house), where the game will come to a complete stop for a second or two. Some of the menu controls are flat-out bizarre, and IW, against all logic, decided that allowing PC users to access the options menu in a sane way before the game starts was a bad idea. If you want to change the resolution from 1024x768 or (heaven forbid!) rebind your keys, you either have to completely start the game or jump into the Special Ops menu and enter the options screen like that.
Here's a hint: if you don't plan to make the PC port of your shitty game sane, don't fucking bother with it at all. I'm sick of being jacked over by asshole developers who can't spend a few days making the game comfortable to play (all eyes on you, Gearbox. Borderlands is even more of a goddamn mess) yet don't hesitate to release a shoddy port and screw PC gamers out of $50 (or $60, in MW2's case).
Long story short: I want the last few hours of my life back.
Another thing that is peeling my potatoes: the keyboard stand (i.e. the little clips that raise the back of the keyboard by a few centimeters) on my G15 broke. I should have known that Logitech couldn't get that shit right. From what I heard, they don't even offer replacement parts to customers, even though their shit has a tendency to break on pretty much every keyboard that they make. I'm glad you idiots couldn't even put durable parts on a $100 keyboard. Thanks a lot, assholes.
