Infinity Ward’s “Modern Warfare” has been a Glitch and Hacker-fest since it was released in November for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The company has already released quite a few patches to fix such hacks and glitches; like the “Javelin Glitch” and the “Prestige” hack. But much like my character after a pain in the ass “glitch” match (which is riddled with bullets from unexplained deaths and constant glitches) the game still seems to be riddled with horrible problems. The latest is the “Ice Skating” glitch.
People are too damned politically correct these days. But the reason we celebrate this time of year is BECAUSE of Christmas. And this is GCN baby! A place where we speak our minds and don’t believe in today’s politically correct BS. So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GCN!
We will be back in full force in January 2010. Until then I will be doing a few updates. We have huge plans for GCN in 2010 as we gear up for our trip to LA for E3 2010. This year should be the biggest year yet in gaming history. Every gamer out there should be excited.
Writing an article about the state of Nintendo has been on my mind for some time now. So I think now is the perfect time to write an editorial about what I think about the current state of Nintendo. Now before anybody starts to send me hate mail or post a ton of comments calling me out as a Microsoft or Sony fanboy, let me tell you my history of Nintendo.
I grew up on the Nintendo Entertainment System. This gaming system is pretty much what got me back into being a hardcore gamer. Back in the 80’s I played the Nintendo morning, noon and night. I even remember taking a day off of school because I wanted to stay up all night and beat Super Mario Bros. 3.
I bought the SNES and N64 on day one, and purchased every game that launched. I used to freak out when E3 hit because I just loved what Nintendo stood for. It was all about fun and gaming. I guess you can say that I am a closet Nintendo fanboy, although my days when I worked for Mike Mullis and his Next Level Gaming website I was a full-fledged Nintendo fanboy. I would promote the Big N on NLG, doing pretty much every review for the Nintendo GameCube.
Many of you may have noticed that the GCN crew have been extremely slow on getting news out the last week or so. This is due to the flu-bug hitting the Gaming Console Network staff.
Right now I am fighting a bad cold and trying to recover. The rest of the GCN crew are sick and laid up in bed. So please stick with us during this crazy time. This puts us all behind on reviews and previews but rest assure that we will be back this week in full force. We also have a new member to the GCN family in Jan Alley. She is a die-hard gamer and we are glad to have her here.
By the way, does anybody have the number for Dr. Mario?
I will not be posting any news today. Instead I will reflect on 9/11. This is the 8th anniversary of the day that changed America.
I am still pretty damn upset about what happened. I think I always will be. I will never forget when my homeland was attacked. I was in Baltimore at the time and it effected me pretty hard. I remember my brother calling me in the early morning and saying “Man, turn on the TV. We are being attacked! We are being attacked!”
For the next few days I sat in front of my TV and watch what played out. I saw people jumping, bodies falling, people crying for loved ones. That night I went over my brothers house and drove along the roads filled with people mourning. American flags were being waved, candles were everywhere. America was as one.
What happened to those days?
Today, put down the game controller for a few minutes… remember what happened that day… reflect on it…
GCN’s Aaron Espinoza talks about how the new Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare hack is ruining the game.
As you many of you Call of Duty 4 PS3 gamers out there may already know, a new hack has hit and has it’s own name. The UFO hack. For those who don’t know what it is, I will explain it in the most basic terms possible. You can fly, go through walls and use it to kill people from any vantage point.
To many, this hack may very well be something that some are looking forward to using in the near future. People like myself, on the other hand, just want this patched up as soon as possible. Online Gaming is about skill and not about downloading cheap software that enables you to cheat your way through an online ranked match.
Unfortunately for myself, my PS3 suffered the dreaded, “Yellow Light of Death” so I have not been able to view the hack personally for myself, nor do I wish to be engaged in a match with some of these hacking scumbags. But even I could tell from looking at the you tube videos that these people are really desperate for attention and desperate to raise that Kill/Death ratio.
I honestly do not see what is so beneficial about hacking a game. Sure, you may get a lot of kills but where is the fun if you’re invincible? The fun in playing a game is when you’re in the heat of an intense gun battle knowing that at any moment you could be stabbed from behind or sniped from across the map. Dying in a game is what makes that game fun, believe it or not. It really lets us gamers know how to improve ourselves and allows us to learn from mistakes. Then you go on to improve your mistake and know you can get the sneaky bastard when you respawn once more.
What does a hack do? Absolutely nothing. It takes no skill to fly around a damn map and kill people from above. You may get a few laughs from it knowing that people can’t kill you but just so you know, you’re complete garbage. Everyone in the game knows you’re garbage, and you yourself know you’re garbage. There isn’t any other way to put it.
I have heard the most stupid excuses to why people are using this hack. Some include: 1) “Call of Duty 4 is boring! This hack makes it fun.” 2) “This hack is fun because I kill people.” or the ever so popular: 3)“The game has been out for almost 2 years, so stop crying.” Sure, those aren’t the only ones but I really don’t feel like going back and searching for excuses at the moment. Here is the issue with the people who have said those excuses, and also my answer:
2)I have heard this one(or close to it) on many of the you tube videos and forums out there. Look, if you honestly admit that you like the hack simply because you get kills, I could imagine why you didn’t like to play without it. From writing that, I get the impression that you DON’T get kills and that you must really SUCK at the game. You’re only hurting yourselves now by hacking the game. On behalf of the honest PlayStation 3 gamers out there, we hope you get banned for life and never return to any online game or console ever again.
3) This one is the one that aches me the most. So what? Are you guy stating that just because a game has reached 2 years of life it should be hacked? Just because MW2 is in development, that gives you an excuse to ruin what we currently have to play with up until it’s release? Are you all really that stupid? Just stop ruining the game for everyone else. There are many skillful gamers out there who really don’t need to put up with this hacking bullcrap. Either play right, or just get the hell out. You’re embarrassing yourselves and also putting your PSN IDs in danger of getting banned.
I have stated this many times in this article; I don’t see what’s so fun about hacking Call of Duty 4. It just throws all your skills in the trash. Admittedly, I have done some of the “glitches” in which you can walk outside the map, but even those got boring. Sure, I got kills. But it wasn’t much fun. There wasn’t any danger. The thing about Call of Duty 4 is that it puts you in the action, you feel like you’re in a Warzone. But the feeling is absent when you’re cheating yourself to win. I never did those glitches again, and I always pushed myself further to play and be better than the rest in the room, and I have always achieved that goal. Then comes the sense of satisfaction. The satisfaction of playing honestly on the field without using any kind of game enhancements (besides the perks in the game, of course).
So now this has spread to the 360. This is going to be worse for those who do it on Microsoft’s side of the fence because cheating in a game is against code of conduct. You can bet they will be reported by Xbox Live Gamers who come across those using the UFO hack. And I thank Microsoft for implementing that feature to Xbox Live right on the dashboard. Hopefully Sony will update their XMB screen to have a REPORT PLAYER section.
Look, just don’t do it. If you are, just stop now. If you’re thinking about it, just don’t. You’re only going to look like an ass to the entire Xbox or PlayStation community and also put your ID in risk of getting banned.
And before I get panned for this, I want you to truly look back at when you first played Call of Duty 4. What made it fun? When made it feel intense? Also try to imagine the game if you were invincible the entire match. Now if you’re EXTREMELY good at the game, like myself and many others, then you’re set straight and I’m not talking to you. When I say invincible, I mean if you stand in front of an entire team and they’re shooting you and you just cant seem to die while you just shoot each one down at your pace. Is that really fun? You may get a kick out of it, but think about it in the long run. It will just get boring.
I just want to wish a Happy 4th of July to this great country that I live in, America. We should also want to remember our brave soldiers around the world right now, fighting for our freedom and protection. And most importantly, let us not forget the brave men and women that have fallen to keep this nation free.
To quote the great John Carpenter film “Big Trouble in Little China”… Here’s to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here’s to America’s colors, the colors that never run. May the wings of liberty never lose a feather…
