Opinion: Modern Warfare goggles bag their first critic

From Gameswire.net: "The first piece of mainstream nonsense to express concern regarding these free night-vision goggles has surfaced over on Philly.com.

"In the article, titled "Night goggles with a game - invitation to mischief?", plodding journalist Rob Watson makes a shamefully vague, hurried and half-arsed attempt at convincing readers why offering such gadgetry with a game is DANGEROUS.

"After six paragraphs of mostly attempting to establish himself as someone with no existing prejudice against games (where he uses words like "doodads" and says "trippin'" in an entirely transparent attempt to endear his message to younger readers), the point begins to get made..."

[Gun_Senshi]

Whom is buying Prestige Edition is a retard. Those are not NVG, that is a toy. I forgot model name but I saw those toy NVG cheap from ebay, perfectly the same with same fuctions 50 meter range dual mode perfectly the same.

Have fun using your over priced toy NVG with no perception to bump into something that looks 50 meters away. Real NVB costs at least 1k$, and 1k$ are the cheap ones they range up to 10k$+.

Remember kids, switch of the lights and play MW2 with NVG on! Its part fo the game.

[CSM-101e]

cost me about 2500. Gonna make me a woman suit...

[omegaortega]

Silence of the Lambs, lol I bet you thought no one would get the joke.

LoL nice one btw.

[Pixel_Addict]

don't forget to listen to "Goodbye Horses" while your at it - It rubs the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again!

[CSM-101e]

Gumb is way sicker in print.

[Soldierone]

Its like saying me spooking people with a halo helmet is gonna cause the next global warming...people breath out so much from getting scared all the time or laughing is causing too much heat at which its rising up and melting the ice caps, in 30 years all that laughing will cause drastic changes in our atmosphere and we can blame it all on special edition video games! prove that theory wrong i dare you!

Now the theory for the goggles. So many people will buy it and be so satisfied seeing in the dark that they will feel like real soldiers. With the next game they will offer replica M16 guns and combined with the goggles world war 3 breaks outs. So we must stop it now, people CANNOT i repeat CANNOT see in the dark or bad things will happen! not including the random raids of girl sleepovers it will cause.

[Pixel_Addict]

for stupid people, but hey for those who wish to get [it]... by all means I'm not one to stop fools from parting with their money.

[FLOWCity]

Go to the kitchen in the dark...Now thats spec ops

[KillerPwned]

Wow that writer is retarded saying their dangerous. If i see any of my friends buy this im gonna wrap bars of soap in pillow cases and beat the p!ss out of them.

[FantasyStar]

Don't underestimate stupid people. They do things you or I could never dream up and the only time you ever know is when it's already happened.

[KillerPwned]

^^^^^
lmfao that was funny

[Cajun Chicken]

Sorry, all I can really see is millions of Tom Greens running around wearing night vision trying to put their dad asleep when I see these.

[doctorstrange]

damn, why did you have to say that, now I can't get that image out of my head

[Ellessdee]

In the article, titled "Modern Warfare goggles bag their first critic", plodding journalist Guy Who Doesn't Sign His Articles makes a shamefully vague, hurried and half-arsed attempt at convincing readers why some other article on another site is rubbish.

good job man, your just as much of an idiot ast he guy that your talking about is.

in the end, those stupid goggles are just toys, crappy little toys that only suckers will buy. but we know there are plenty of suckers in the world, so does activision. so im sure they will be a big hit. that is until people actually get ahold of them and realize how stupid they actually are.

[Major Kanimo]

BUT THEY ARE NVG'S im not going hunting with them, im going to go out drinking with them and that will be epic. they will prob be broken the first night when im wasted but still they are EPIC

[DeviateFish]

I feel I should specify that real NVGs (at least 2nd generation ones) also have IR leds, although only as an auxiliary method, for areas where there is no light.
That being said, the MW2 NVGs are indeed cheap toys. I don't think people get them because they're going to stalk around the woods with them, but rather as a collector's item, a knick knack, a gadget.

[ambientFLIER]

HOW ARE THEY FREE????? I wish stupid people would stop saying that. You're paying $150 for the whole package, and half of that is for the goggles.

[matchgrade]

Based on the ridiculously low price of the package, i'm guessing these NVGs are Generation 1, as a decent later-gen pair of NVGs SHOULD cost upwards of $600. If thats the case, this package isn't really worth buying. Night vision goggles vary in quality based on how wide and how deep their fields of view are, and how clean the image is. Crappy generation 1 goggles actually make your night vision WORSE, as it severely limits your field of view and gives you a fuzzy image that doesn't go more than 20 feet in front of you.

But the average video gamer don't know that, so Activision is going to make a killing off these "dream come true" Prestige sets.

[DeviateFish]

These NVGs are toys, they're not even a generation. 2nd generation NVGs cost about $7000 4 years ago, and they only have monovision, ie no depth of field. At that time the 3rd generation was already in use. Also they rely on light amplification with IR leds only as a backup for pitch black places.
With that out of the way, I'm guessing these goggles are basically the night mode of a medium priced camcorder.
Worth it? Not if you want NVGs. But as a collector's item and a cool toy, sure.