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Call of Duty: Black Ops II - To Prestige or Not to Prestige?

FanBolt writes: "The biggest problem with Prestige, a problem that has kept many from diving in once they hit the level cap, is that it resets nearly everything. Some challenges take an extremely long time to clear, or are simply not available until a high level, which can be a deterrent and cause players to stave off hitting the confirm button. Some players just don't want to lose their favorite gun. Fear not- Treyarch has aimed to remedy these issues."

csreynolds4104d ago

To eject, and play something else.

JeffGUNZ4104d ago

Congrats on posting something relatively on topic and mature. You must be proud of your self, you're so clever. I never have seen anyone come into a COD article on N4G and make fun of it. You must be the first. Oh boy! You're so clever!

csreynolds4104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

Wow. Someone needs a Valium.

I made this comment in jest. I didn't think I would need to spell that out, but considering how many gamers suffer from sense of humour failure nowadays I suppose I should've considered added a winking smiley or something... *frowns*

JeffGUNZ4104d ago

Try to spin it however you want but it grows tiresome to see people complain about COD. Christ, I don't even care if you like the game or not and you posted a logical comment about it. The point I made is very simple, yet you try to make it look like I took it wrong and it was meant as a "jest". Read the article and make a comment about it. Simple really. Not try to be clever and take your own spin on the title and try to get some easy "agrees" from foaming PS3 fanboys who hate COD for no other reason because they think it's cool to hate what's popular.

By the way, your little "jest" doesn't even work with the title. If you wanted it to truely correlate with the "to prestige or not to prestige" you should have done "to eject or not to eject" or to "play or not to play".

Lastly, don't blame your pathetic sense of humor on people not having a sense of humor. You really expect people to think you're kidding about COD on a site that a majority of the users bash it constantly? Know your audience.

csreynolds4103d ago

@JeffGUNZ

I apologise. I wasn't aware jest, humour or sarcasm of any kind wasn’t allowed on N4G. I’ll spread the word immediately.

Frankly, if my “pathetic sense of humour” is enough to upset you this much, I dread to think what your reaction is when someone actually goes out of their way to offend you.

Incidentally, if I had written my comment in the format you suggest, I wouldn’t be answering the question (which was my intention); I’d just be rephrasing the title, which is neither funny nor logical. But thank you for attempting to correct my remark, he who cannot spell ‘truly’…

Look, I get it. You love Call of Duty. It’s your baby. No one should be mean to it, but you’re saying this to someone who no longer likes Call of Duty. Know your audience.

JeffGUNZ4103d ago

You're adorable. Who said I love COD? My point is it grows old when people like you just post hate on COD for no reason. You can take a dump on the game for all I care, but at least try to contribute to this site instead of trolling like a majority of the people on this site.

Also, grow up you f'n nerd. You really searched through my entire post to find a typo? I didn't know n4g.com was a formal site where we post essays we need to do spell checks on. The sign of a giant nerd is someone who calls out a typo on a forum.

Again, I think everyone is entitled to their opinion about anything. Unfortunately, you didn't provide any constructive recourse about the article, you just threw out an unsuccessful zinger. I guess I shouldn't expect anything less looking at your comment history and how often you post. Dude, get a life bro lol

csreynolds4103d ago (Edited 4103d ago )

"You're adorable."
Thanks. I'm also straight and spoken for. Sorry.

"Who said I love COD?"
If you don't, why does it bother you that people hate on it? Or, on this occasion, joke about it?

"At least try to contribute to this site instead of trolling"
Isn't what you're doing to me now trolling? After all, I didn't invite you to start calling me names and pulling my hair - I thought you were all about constructive recourse, relevance and maturity?

"You really searched through my entire post to find a typo?"
No. I read what you'd written and the typo stood out like a sore thumb. I'm a nerd for knowing how to spell? Damn. Now I feel stupid...

"I shouldn't expect anything less looking at your comment history"
You really searched through my entire comment history to find ammunition for your comeback? I think it's obvious which of us needs more of a life, 'bro'.

JeffGUNZ4102d ago

You're spoken for? I feel sorry for that guy.

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These Call of Duty games are officially dead as servers go offline

Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.

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Call of Duty players are playing this game for the last time before it's taken offline

Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.

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Xbox backwards compatibility sends old Call of Duty games back into the Top Five | UK Monthly Charts

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales

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shadowT249d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty248d ago

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

4Sh0w248d ago (Edited 248d 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.

wiz7191248d 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

mkis007248d ago

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

Rhythmattic248d 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.

EasilyTheBest248d 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.

Rhythmattic246d ago

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

jznrpg248d ago

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

shinoff2183249d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai249d ago

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

Rutaprkl248d ago

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

Rhythmattic248d ago

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

RaidenBlack248d 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

Rhythmattic247d ago (Edited 247d 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.

thesoftware730249d 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.

CrimsonWing69248d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor248d 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

CrimsonWing69248d 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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