Enclave's Thoughts

These two games have been the ultimate time wasters. BO2 is well Call of Duty and we all know how that goes. "I think I'll play one more, no wait one more after this one." That goes on for a while and all of a sudden its 2:00 Am and you need to be up in 5 hours. Towns has had that same effect on me. For some reason it is extremely addictive, I love this game.

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I think I may go to the midnight release for BO2... Hopefully I don't get trampled. I used to think midnight releases were for extreme tryhard people but Idk.. It could be fun?

Some quick thoughts about the game. I've heard on from some well known Youtube channels that this will be an Assault rifle based game. I also heard from other will known Youtube channels that this will be an Smg based game. I hope it doesn't cater to either honestly. I like using all the weapons types.

My favorite weapons are Sniper Rifles but they don't really fit well in the past 2 games. I'm hoping I'll get some cool sniping spots again >:D

I'm also hoping the lag compensation is done better. Mw3 felt weird at times and I'd like BO2 to be a flawless game. (I know it wont happen.) A quick example of what lag comp doessss. Halo 4's lag comp is funny. Dead bodies will shoot you with shotguns and hit you with swords. It's kinda cool to kill eachother in Flood mode. In Mw3 it presents itself with instadeaths and dying around corners. This happens to everyone it just depends on connection to the host. While it is annoying you'll find that every match there are players who die easy and some who don't. I hope BO2 irons it out so every engagement feels the same.

I hope there isn't any go to weapons either. I want there to be reasons to take lots of different guns. I hate seeing go to weapons. (MW2=UMP, BO1=Famas, MW3=ACR, Etc...) Variety is Ftw

Ummm I hope Combat Training has different game types...

I really like how polished the graphics are in the game. The game looks nice compared to Mw3's outdated graphics. Seriously put MW2 back in and look at the similarities. Black Ops 2 looks like it out does Black Ops 1.

I hope Zombies only gets more fun than it was.

It's been fun but with Black Ops 2 coming out I wont be playing it anymore. I rocked a 2.23 K/D with a couple of MOABs under my belt. Favorite gun was the FAD with Suppressor and Extended Mags.

Things I hope are the same or better in Black Ops 2-

Weapons have good variability. They all feel different. That is something Blacks Ops 1 failed to do and Mw3 succeeded in doing.

Maps looked interesting and not plain. Although they weren't setup very well. I'll get to that.

The perks were fairly well balanced and I hope Black Ops 2 improves or equals Mw3 in this aspect.

Match types were extremely fun and they should stay the same. Hopefully they might even add a few

Things that need some major improvement over Mw3-

Matchmaking. I heard its no longer location based in Black Ops 2 and instead it is now ping based.

Lag Compensation needs a slight adjustment. At times the lag compensation would delete shots that I would clearly fire and other times I'd be on the benefiting end and insta-kill people. I'd rather have my game play the same every match instead of dominating 40-0 and then getting destroyed. 12-18 or so.

Map Layout. This includes spawns and pathing. The paths to get around the map are completely messed up. It's like fighting in a blender. The revenge spawn also needs to go. I don't want to spawn in front of people just to get killed again or pull off a cheap shot and kill the poor guy who wasn't ready for me spawning around the corner.

Warning long political/historical based rant! Proceed at your own risk ;)

The election that was just a few days ago really saddened me. I'm not a Romney fan nor am I an Obama fan. Although I was more of a Romney fan than an Obama fan because I like to pick based on intelligence. Romney came off as the more intelligent of the two. I am not saying Obama isn't a very smart person by the way, because he's extremely intelligent. Romney had some great ideas and Obama has all the charisma with less of the ideas. That is the extent to which I will comment on that.

What saddens me is the way the voting happened and the way we act as a country at times because of this.

Let's take this electoral map for example.

Unity Reagan managed to pull off a landslide victory. He won by a hugeeee margin. Personally I like the maps that show disproportionate victories better than the close victories. Things get done under a President who manages to score a landslide victory. A close race means a divided nation. No one can make up their minds. This is really unpreventable as there is no way to make it so when there is an election there is an automatic clear choice for the nation but I feel like something is influencing the polls so that landslides will become less and less common as time goes on.

That something is the party system. Now before you say well that can't be changed or you're crazy let me just pull up a quote.

George Washington, September 19, 1796

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.”

Divided

We should not have let the Government embrace a party system all those years ago... What saddens me is that when an average person registers to vote they choose Democratic or Republican based on the parties current standings. So let's Democrats become overwhelmingly Liberal in their views in the next 30 years, but 30 years ago a 50 year old person registered Democrat based on the ideas when he or she was 18. The person works hard and tries to enjoy life. He or she pays attention to the news but really just likes to support their registered party because that's what they are. I think people feel awkward voting out of their party, I know I would... What this is preventing is voting for the right person for the job! I'd be dumbfounded if every single voter out there evaluated each person, identified their strategies out of all the rhetoric, and made an informed decision. It seems like that would be the responsible thing to do and I think at one point it was.

There's 2 main parties, that means by chance there should be a 50/50 divide. We are seeing it get closer to 50/50 in the past 3 elections. Each side has people who strictly vote within their parties. If we would have followed Washington's message, people would not be able to vote strictly within their parties. There would not be guaranteed states (I live in New York so I know what it is like to have a guaranteed state :\ ). People would have had no choice except to either evaluate the candidates or vote randomly.

Ending Statement

Honestly I think it would have made elections much more fair and interesting had we not adopted parties.