If it ain’t broken….

Just a bit of a moan really, being a bit of an old school xbox gamer, I had been looking forward to a bit of shooting and driving with Call of Duty MW2 and Forza 3.

Now I have both of these games and I will state they are both great and improvements from the their respective earlier counterparts.

However, they have both changed one simple point which although is not game breaking, really manages to piss me and my gaming colleagues off.

Starting with COD MW2, as the lesser of the crimes, they have stopped you using party chat in TEAM deathmatch.

The reason stated is it to combat cheats who party together and spot for the opposite team, fair enough, but I don’t think the ends justify the means.

It’s a like the old adage of trying to crack a nut with a sledgehammer, I think THEY need to remember that it is just a game that we play for enjoyment and personally one I don’t prefer littered with the various racists, idiots and screaming kids we now suffer in game chat.

Surely a simple solution would be to not allow parties to be on opposite teams, therefore eliminating the ability to cheat and allow myself and my friends to return to our more serene(ish) party chat.

For Forza 3 I have to admit to being a little bit more annoyed.
Keeping an eye on the various hype and news prior to Forza 3’s release, one of the promised features was the custom game settings for multiplayer, which is all I’m really interested in, allowing to you set the game how you want and race it against the world.

These setting are there as promised, but only available in private games, not public like Forza 2.
Why take this out??

Sure they have added multiplayer hoppers, those these seem to not have a huge amount of choice and definitely don’t allow me to set the game how I want and let the world come and play.

Having only 5-6 people I regularly play xbox with (stop having kids you fools!), getting a group together is not entirely easy and genuinely looks like this game will find its way from my desk to The Shelf™ where games do not return from.

What this also means for Turn 10 the games producer is that I am unlikely to purchase any of their Downloadable Content (DLC) at its generally ridiculous prices and will think twice before buying Forza 4.

If they had left these popular features in I would be singing their praises and would have my credit card to the ready when the next car/map/track/gun pack became available.

Of course if they fix said issues in a future patch, then I sure all can be forgiven. nudge; nudge;

ps: the comments below were before I had tried to set up a public race as we had a full party online, see how much better that made it…

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