Modern Warfare 3, hurry up!

I am chomping at the bits, so to speak, for Modern Warfare 3.

Call of Duty, you ask? What are you, a 'console kiddy'? No, I'm a married 37yo gamer, and I do the vast, vast majority of my gaming on the pc.

Check this out. It's the trailer showing off Modern Warfare 3's new survival mode. That might be me you can hear in the corner, drooling.

It's pretty popular these days to hate on Call of Duty. I've been seeing a lot of that. Either it's got something to do with the fact that it keeps smashing its own sales records, or that it's made by Activision, and people just love to rain shit on Bobby Kotick.

I kept an open mind though, I promise you that. You may remember that, back at E3 time, it was all about MW3 vs BF3 for me.

I tried, really, but following E3, it all went to shit. Every news item that has come out about Battlefield3 since then has sucked. Firstly, no bots. Well, I knew that already. What with not being a multiplayer gamer, there goes any kind of longevity I was hoping for. What am I going to do, play the campaign over and over?

Then they announced it wouldn't be on Steam.

I remember first installing Steam back when I bought Half Life 2 on release day. It was a necessary evil, granted, but in all fairness, it was worth it to play that game.

Since then, Steam has just gotten better... and better... and better. I now have over 30 available games for it, and it's great being able to uninstall games knowing that they're always available again, if I ever want to play.

Battlefield 3 not being on Steam is a pretty big hit for me, and the game requiring EA's Origin service, well, that shit certainly ain't helping.

By about the time they announced that Battlefield 3's co-op campaign was only going to support two players, I had long since stopped caring.

No, it's all about Modern Warfare 3. It doesn't help that survival gameplay footage has just been absolutely rocking my socks.

No, I even preordered the fucker.

*gasp*

Do you have any idea how long it's been for me since I did that? It's been at least a couple of years.

And I'm not talking the preorder where you pay a $20 deposit or some shit, I'm talking about having paid in full.

I'm making a commitment to myself, with this. My wife and I may be buying a house, and our funds may be stretched to the limit, but nomatter how tight my funds are, every year come holiday time, I'm buying a game.

This year it's Modern Warfare 3, and it'd better not suck.