"If you’re having an argument about why Call of Duty is the greatest franchise ever and just can’t find the words you need to win, like Call of Duty does, then just link the clueless fools to this article. It’ll win for you. Like Call of Duty does." - Capsule Computers
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales
Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.
@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol
Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.
If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.
Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.
Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite
I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts
I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.
Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.
We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.
I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.
I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.
What a messed up article, comparing COD to diabetes? WTF!? Some valid points though about how it is heaps good franchise!!!
Coincidence that they have Black Ops 2 ad on there site!?!?
I've said this before and I'm going to say it again and again! The COD Series suck ass and everything else it can get it's mouth around!
Not going to give this site hits.
Seriously though, is this just a troll article?
Please. I have no problem with people playing the game but please stop calling it the best franchise ever. just because people cling to something and refuse to let go no matter how mediocre or tedious it gets doesn't make it the best franchise ever.I know a ton of games that are better then COD in many ways. Just because a ton of people rush to do or see something doesn't make it the greatest anything. Transformers,Twilight, Dragonball Z and Naruto are very good example. All of them suck so much and yet people flock to them. Does that make them the best? No.Was Transformers the greatest. No.I know plenty of movies better then it, ten times better then it.
Was Brave the greatest movie Pixar made? No.And yet it will still get nominated and win awards and people will run to see it. It just means that people cling to it and won't let it go. The millions of Twilight fans may say it is the greatest movies they have ever seen but to everyone else it is a waste of space. Try to tell any Naruto fan that there are better mangas then it and they will eat your head off. Does that make it the best? No.It just has enough people to say it's the best and to shout down anyone who says otherwise. That is why they keep making crappy Twilight movies. Because they have enough clingy fans to keep it going. But does that make it the best movie ever? No it doesn't.