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Call of Duty’s Biggest Problem? Penis Swastikas.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II, like the last few Call of Duty games, allows players to create and personalize emblems—little icons that appear on their weapons and next to their names when they're online.

Naturally, being mature and respectable members of society, Call of Duty players are using these emblems to draw swastikas made out of penises.

BadboyCivic4130d ago

What else did u expect from them?

GuyThatPlaysGames4130d ago

Actually I think the biggest problem with the game is the bullet lag and hit detection....not the emblems.

SuperbVillain4130d ago

You must admit,the hit detection is the best it's been in the past couple COD games.Though it still fux with you at times.

I loved the first MW,then hated everything after it, basically.Then I stopped taking COD as a game to be highly competitive in and just started playing for fun.it's way better like this for me.I think I'm past my days of tournaments and wages.I'll save those for sports games with my buddies

guitarded774130d ago

I don't know about the emblems being "obscene", but the pic with that story title is epic.

StoneyYoshi4130d ago

OH MAN not bullet lag! Thats not realistic or anything.......

Relientk774130d ago

I've played the online a lot and this is true, Black Ops 1 had way better hit detection

lex-10204130d ago (Edited 4130d ago )

This is a Kotaku article. What did you expect something actually true and well written?

The_KELRaTH4129d ago

Bullet lag, hit detection and host lag compensation that seems to add on about 1/4 second to everyone else (PS3).
Of course taking the PS3 out of a DMZ reduces the chances of being picked as the host but now there's a shortage of hosts so the game is constantly shuffling, restarting trying to find one.

SAE4129d ago

respawn too, the game is all about luck , one game you are the first the other game you are the last ..

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HammadTheBeast4130d ago

Are multiple penis, penii?

Cause I see tons of penii emblems.

GraveLord4130d ago

Are you doing your part by reporting them?
It's ridiculous that I can't scroll through peoples emblems without worrying about shit like that.

RXL4130d ago

it's not "penii" it's "a good time"

HAAAAAYYY

Cablephish4130d ago

Pretty sure that only applies to words that end in "us" not "is"

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zerocrossing4130d ago

Maybe they are compensating for something and I don't mean the Swastikas...

Reverent4130d ago

Nah, CoD children are just Jew hating penis lovers.

As sarcastic as I may seem, I'm actually serious:/

Blastoise4130d ago

People are still whining about these custom emblems?

Get over it already.

SilentNegotiator4130d ago (Edited 4130d ago )

It's not a lot of people. It's just one article plus Kotaku piggy-backing it with "penis" in their title.

Raccoon4129d ago

but really though get over it!!! I think artistic folks and idiots should have the freedom to express their artistic creations.... the game is rated M for mature so act like it and understand these ignorant jokes...

Faelan4130d ago

So, these... people... wanting to identify themselves with a penis swastika.... seriously... they get turned on by sucking a group of nazi d***s and they want to proclaim it to the rest of the world in a video game? Sounds pretty disgusting and pointless to me, but it's a free world. However, if that's what they really want, then maybe they should put down the contoller and find some nazis dudes. That is, once they're old enough to engage in sexual activities.

alegolo4130d ago

I don't get this. Treyarch said that they'll ban everyone with ''offensive'' emblems but....come on! its suppose to be an 18+ game, it says so in the box.
There's something called freedom of speech, you can put whatever you want. YES, children are the ones with penises in the emblens and the only harm they make is the shame if you die by their hands.
But again, Activision is being hypocrite selling an 18+ game and then banning you for putting such things, because they know their main target are immature kids.

zerocrossing4130d ago (Edited 4130d ago )

Actually freedom of speech does not extend to the Internet, that is to say many websites, game servers and such are regulated, so you play by the rules or you don't play at all.

Also it's probably because Treyarch know impressionable kids play these games that they feel they need to put a stop to it.

gazgriff2k124130d ago (Edited 4130d ago )

yep sad fact over 50% of gamers are immature di*ks most of them own xbox 360's lol. my advise don't look at offensive emblems (and dont be so sensitive and serious} also mute racist 10 yaer old Americans you dont need to hear what they have to say. the gaming world much like the real world has its fair share of di*ks just ignor them and pray they mature one day

lilbrat234130d ago

Apparently you are one of those people who DO NOT READ the TOS there is NO such thing as Freedom of Speech when you accept the TOS. *sigh* But I also think the report player is a joke since even cheaters get away with cheating.

Griffin48714130d ago

Typical Call of Duty fanboys...always blaming the children for immaturity. Penis swastikas are too damn sophisticated for a kid. It's a fking adult.

MysticStrummer4130d ago

"There's something called freedom of speech"

Yes, but it has nothing to do with the internet.

Nothing.

At all.

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shadowT253d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty253d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w253d ago (Edited 253d ago )

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.

wiz7191253d ago

@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

mkis007252d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic252d ago

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.

EasilyTheBest252d ago

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.

Rhythmattic250d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg252d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff2183253d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai253d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl252d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic252d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack252d ago

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

Rhythmattic251d ago (Edited 251d ago )

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.

thesoftware730253d ago

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.

CrimsonWing69253d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor252d ago

@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

CrimsonWing69252d ago

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.

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