Casual observer wrote:

Surely, the bink demographic was so important for me that I am now a devastated man, picked appart my the metaphorical Sea Snakes of Laoconte.

However, I'm putting my foot down, that perception that a game is better because its newer -has- to die, and the case of MW2 vs MW4 is a clear example of this, and I'll make the Methuselanic attempt to illuminate you monkeys.

James Wagner Au wrote:

First off, the arguments objectively summarized:

MW4 is better because, since it's newer, it's a more refined experience, matured with the passing of the earlier iterations on inferior tecnology.

On the other hand...

MW2 is better because the game mechanics are more congruent

Casual Observer's thesaurus wrote:

and the game itself, even my today's standards, is a more organic experience, and thus a better game.

Now, on to the all-exciting and infinetly stimulating sustentation phase!

Stuffy Old History Professor wrote:

MW4 is indeed a 'prettier' game, even despite the renewal some seven years ago when they came out with the graphically nasty as anal sex after a year-old enchilada dinner Titanium version of MechWarrior 2. Yeah, it was 3d, it was textured, it was ugly. However, subjacent to that aesthetically sickening exterior, the core was still an organic game that had r0xz3rd the gaming world by the foundations. So much so that Interstate 72, Heavy Gear, Earthsiege (conceptually, and from which Starsiege and later Tribes was spawned), with other less memorable games riding in the wake. Already this can be taken as contrast between both games, MW4 did -not- spawn nor did it renew the genre, as a matter of fact it -killed- it. There won't be an MW5, this has been an official announcement made by Microsoft on the matter.

Tycho from Penny Arcade wrote:

Similarly, when you look at other game mechanics, you find that this game was just half-implemented, and made entirely forgiving. Ammo doesn't blow up when hit, it just goes away, and Heat, the central balancing piece of the entire gamem doesn't really kill you. Behold the wonders of physics in the MW4 universe! No object can hold more than 10,000 Kelvin in heat, even when heated up even further! In MW2, there was a cut-off and a timer. If you were running hotter than a certain temperature for a short period of time, or if you went past the red line, boom. In MW4, you reached the aforementioned figure, and your screen wavered, your mech slowed down slightly. That's it. You couldn't get any hotter than the aforementioned figure because, precisely, the half-implemented feature didn't track heat above it. This is a broken game mechanic, it doesn't function as advertized, the self-destruction that you're warned about so tersely is an empty bluff.

Lord Higgenbottom of Monocle Manor wrote:

MW2 was, while it ran, far more an organic an experience than MW4 because there were far more limits that you could push, the rules themselves were clear and goddamn unforgiving, but within them you could play whichever way you goddamn pleased, to the level of complexity that -you- alone would like. MW2 functions within its own rules congruently, it didn't cut corners, it didn't just focus on how the game looked but rather on how it played, and Fuck it played a lot better than the newer one.