I’ve been told that Call of Duty is an abomination. It’s a slap in the face to a “real” game, if you will. I’ve been told ‘this game takes no talent,’ ‘is garbage,’ ‘is filled with nine-year-old kids,’ and is flawed beyond belief.
It makes me feel like these are excuses for not playing the game, not reasons. I don’t know what your views are (please tell me), but I know where I stand.
As for the game ‘taking no talent’ to play, that’s all a matter of opinion. I have a feeling that most of the people saying it ‘takes no talent,’ most likely have no talent in the game, or get beaten into submission when trying to play.
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the success of a casual shooter is a threat to this entire industry as far as real gamers are concerned. That's why there is so much hate.
It must be carefully planned at Activision HQ to make the game accessible to children. They are bound to play it since their parents don't care. They are bound to be hooked to the game.
IMO Activision is exploiting parents' neglectting their kids. Not that they would ever admit it though. It's all a part of the great big plan. Activision can easily say this is not true since the game has a mature rating. They can wash their hands from that dirt just like that. The plan is perfect.
That is why I think Resistance: Fall of Man had/has the best, most competitive multiplayer. Besides a few weapons like the LAARK, 40mm, Bullseye tag, prepatch shotgun, and postpatch Arc Charger.. R:FoM was all skill. High shot to kill ratio, so you had to maintain your aim on your target. Significant enough headshot/bodyshot damage difference for more focus again placed on aiming and maintaining aim on a target (and not too much so 1 stray headshot isn't a lucky premature kill). No BS free killstreak rewards. No BS deathstreak rewards. No invisibility. No impenetrable mobile shields. No health or armor bonuses. No playing dead. No auto turrets. Etc. Aiming skill could turn around a corner camper getting the jump on you. 2 & 3 became more and more CoDified and anti-competitive.
I eventually did buy CoDs when they hit $10-15 (and platinumed each of them.. WaW, BO, MW2, MW3.. along with R2 and R3 mentioned above). I bought them for Single Player and coop. They're worth eventual buys for Campign, Spec Ops, and Zombies; but not Multiplayer. There are minimal decent MP modes in CoD like BlackOps' Gun Game, which doesn't have killstreak rewards or give more experienced players extra advantage with upgraded weapons.
Don't pay $60 every year on the new CoD. Buy it around $30 a few months after release or even lower later on if you're patient. Don't pay for overpriced map packs. Don't pay for Elite for things like clans that should be included. Don't play its garb anti-competitive MP that much. Do play through its very playable Campaign and Co-op modes including Spec Ops and Zombies. Then you won't have much to 'hate' about CoD.
The same exact situations and events happen over and over in the series. The multiplayer changes are minor. The maps keep getting worse.
It's just one of those things where the fans are massive, but the people who recognize the game's flaws have a strong voice because the game's popularity is way over what it should be considering. Another example; Angry Birds.
Because of its noob friendly twitchy repetitive sprint-shoot-die gameplay and its sequels are just glorified yearly expansions(like Madden) and undeserving of its sales. It's a game that "everyone plays" so it's supposed to be good and better than anything else, right? /s
Many of the sheep who play it think that any other game is inferior and don't give other really great games a chance. Some of these sheep seem to be addicted and don't have fun playing it and spend most of the time cursing at 12 year-old kids online because they take that shit so serious.
Okay, maybe a bit harsh. But it's a shame when other developers change elements in their games because they want a piece of the pie.
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It's a disease.
cod fans= 20-25million- 0.2 being on gaming sites.
1. Some people just love to downplay what is popular/successful and fight for the underdog. Whether it be Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Kinect, the Wii, Halo, Mario and Call of Duty. The more successful it is the more they want to hate it.
2. Some feel that Call of Duty is too successful and hurts the competition around it. So by hating it and being negative towards it they hope others will follow and hope the next one isn't as popular. As we can see that tactic hasn't worked.
3. Some people act like elitists and think they are better gamers than that. So they take an arrogant stance and say things like why are you playing such a noob game. The reality is you shouldn't care what other people enjoy.
4. Some see the marketing and big corporations brainwashing gamers and getting them to buy the same game over and over again. What they fail to realize is Call of Duty has a feel to it that millions seem to enjoy. It's no different than those who continue to support Gran Turismo, Halo and even a lot of Mario games. They too share the same formula.
5. Many, including myself, see publishers like Activision take less chances and focus on mostly what works and oversaturate the market with it. It happened with Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero. There comes a time the IP simply gets too watered down with not enough new ideas to take it to. Since Call of Duty does so well that is where the main focus is instead of creating new IP's. What's happening this generation is less risks and a large reason for that is simply the cost to make these games have gotten out of hand.
If it wasn't for Demons Souls and Dark Souls and other decent games, this gen would really be a suckie mainstream mess
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I'm not a lover or a hater of the franchise... I could live without it, but I still play the campaigns... very rarely I'll play the online.
My main concerns with the game are the overpriced DLC, which has set a standard in the industry for overpriced DLC, the unbalanced online in some of the CoD games, the lack of open beta which could fix bugs pre-launch, and the lack of fixing bugs post-launch. Some within the development community of CoD have gone as far as to blame players for exploiting bugs instead of fixing them. Lastly, the lack of taking some of that money they make hand over fist and investing in new tech for the game, like a new engine.
Even with all that, I do not hate CoD, I just expect more from the premier shooter with the most sales in the industry. It's okay to be critical if you have real concerns. I've played every CoD title since the first and really hope the series can improve in the areas I listed, that would be great.
20 million People love COD
a very small percentage of people actually show up on the forums to complain.
Console gamers just can get enough of COD.
1) You love it: Do what any fan would do -- follow and play the game ravenously.
2) You hate it: Pretend it doesnt exist. You will look like an idiot because no matter what you say, it's not going anywhere. Play your own game and avoid getting trolled.
Unfortunately that isn't true.
COD isn't entirely to blame but it has contributed a significant amount to the lack of innovation and over saturation of dull FPSs.
That's why we hate it so much, and we have a very big right to hate it.
If u truly to not care about a game you'd pay no attention to it. Where there is hate there is love and admiration.
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Killstreaks encourage camping.
Small maps and just packed with claymores, c4, campers killstreaks flying above you, it's just no fun anymore.
I used to play it, and i still do sometimes because it seems like this is the only game my friends have, but starting from cod 4 and 5, the game just went downhill, FAST.
Just my 2cents,
That is such a typical response. Sorry to fly off the handle, but it is not CoD's fault CoD is successful or that these idiot publishers (and in some cases, developers) dont have the damn brains to realize that CoD4 blew up because it did the shooter in a way that hadn't really been done before -- not because they made a carbon copy of a shooter before it (though it did draw influences).
CoD is not responsible for the lack of innovation in the industry -- it is the developers and the publishers that are to blame. Activision didn't hold a gun to anyone's head and say "you must be exactly like us and only develop half-baked clones of CoD forever!"
It's just so convenient to blame CoD for everything. F*ck it wont be long before people are blaming CoD for global warming and the poor economy.
I never bought a COD with my own money, but I was amazed at the sheer stupidness of MW2's tactical nuke
Im running flags, and you tell me that even with one flag away, with the enemy team taking none of ours... we lose because someone was camping in a corner and used a grenade launcher, resuplied it over and over again, and then ultimatelty wins the game, with out contributing to the objective?
Thats why I hate COD
Take the killstreaks out, change the game, that guy is still kicking your ass. The only difference is you'd have won the match.
That would be true if MW2 wasn't a broken, or to put it nicely, very exploitable game. For example, I was playing Domo on the airport level. Dropped care package, got a gunship, and now comes the fun part. Thanks to the broken spawn system, the entire enemy team keeps spawning in that room in the back of the terminal. There was nothing they could do, they couldn't move, it was spawn and die. 25 kills, nuke, broken game. A Utube search will show many examples of how easy it is to get a cheap Tac. Nuke.
I'm not saying that there aren't glitches and people willing to exploit them. I'm saying that the game itself doesn't frequently spawn you in crazy places.
In this particular case though, the guy doesn't complain about any of that. He just says that he should have won and didn't thanks to the nuke. In those circumstances, with negative K/D and a single guy making a joke of our entire team (whatever he might be doing to earn it), I wouldn't be happy with a win.
I am just against any game that has a yearly release
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Assassins creed. I hate AC more than COD because all the AC games have been kind f same old but AC3 looks to have changed a lot f things
The reason Sony,Microsoft and Nintendo posted looses because gamers are kind of tred of been there done that. Watch halo 4 will not sell more than halo 3 and halo 3 launched when xbox360 had a much smaller fan base.
Please bring out some new fresh games. A least Sony has done that a lt this gen many great new IP and last of us along with beyond 2 souls shuld be a fitting end to ps3.
Binary Domain was one of the best games I've played this year. Excellently designed, enjoyable, great story - why don't you ask SEGA how that new IP went down for them. It was in the bargain bins within a month of release. How many of these people screaming for new IPs bothered to buy that brand new?
The only FPS I have really played this generation is Killzone, because the story is kinda cool. I guess The Darkness II might count, but I use melee more then guns...
I don't play Battlefield, CoD or Halo.
But all in all, one shooter is like the next to me. So I found one franchise I liked the story to, and got it, I liked KZ2 online, but generally, I don't play online games, I used to play a massive amount of SOCOM 2, for most modern shooters are to much like a frag fest.
I prefer more tactical gameplay.
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But 1 is cheap, the other is not :(
They loved COD4 then as the years went by and they bought essentially the same game a few too many times, they directed the anger meant for themselves towards the COD series.
For me it happened after buying MW2, the campaign was short and shit and the MP was plagued by constant arial attacks. I was pissed I spent $60 on a game I got bored with after 10hrs.
Generally, I think COD is a great series as a lot of people have a tonne of fun with it. It's just not for me because I got my fill in COD4 and not much has changed.
That was what turned me off from MW2. Then a friend showed me BF: BC2 that changed my gaming world. Now I am currently hooked on Battlefield 3. There is nothing like planting C4 on a tank and blowing it up or flying an attack helicopter shooting down jets, evading javelin missiles. Or Sniping a guy from 1/2 way across the map while you have to adjust your aim for bullet drop.
Because it isn't as good as everyone makes it out to be.
I personally hate when youngster comes up to me and praise how good COD is, and how real it looks, and how fast the game plays. Then when I play it, the gameplay is way too fast pace, i don't even know what the game is about or why i am in the war in the first place....
Hipsters these days, I think I'll stick to liking unpopular games, just so all the cool kids aren't complaining about those games.
There are more reasons than that as to why people hate CoD. Being popular is one of them, but definitely not the main reason as there are a lot of games that are popular, yet they don't get the forum hate that CoD gets.
1) Buys new COD
2) Complains about almost everything about it, and says it sucks compared to the previous one.. complain nothing has changed, and then flame on videos, aggregate review sites, etc
3) A new COD is announced 4 months later
4) People complain in the first few weeks
5) After E3 people are all pumped up for it
6) The game finally launches, selling millions of copies, taking away from the sales of other good games
7) Start over from step one and repeat the whole cycle over and over and over again
The love hate relationship confuses the piss out of me... I don't like the game because of how its community plays it, exploits it, etc
But the actual community confuses me greatly... it seems so many people hate it... but the games sell record numbers
Hell I can't stand MachinimaRespawn due to the overwhelming ammount of COD content... I love the rare stuff there like Assassins creed, Gotham City imposters, etc
I think the people we see complaining don't actually buy the game. You claim people hate the game and still buy it but I don't think these people actually exist.
There are far more uneducated casuals out there that don't know what a good game is than core players that have standards.
The people complaining are sadly the minority.
It's the casuals that are to blame for the high sales numbers. As long as these fools continue to buy the same game every year, Bobby has no reason what so ever to spend extra money on making a better game.
Add to the fact that Call of Duty is a fun and easy game to play, especially with friends, and it's well worth the entry fee.
If I bought it to play on my own and expected a year's worth of play out of it, I'd be disappointed. With an 8 hour campaign, a ton of special ops missions/zombie levels and an addictive multiplayer though, I think I'd still probably get more than bang for my buck.
Sales: Cod may have ground breaking sales every year at launch, but there continuation sales after launch were disappointing, selling less than Black Ops in January. so the fans are starting to see the staleness of cod (Finally).
(Reviews) MW3 being the lowest rated title when it comes to user reviews, despite IGN's 9.00 score allot of people were agitated because of lack of change and innovation, and not only that but all the bugs were present in MW3 that were "supposed" to get fixed in MW2. Plus the bugs of its own.
As with many people I don't hate cod but the devs behind it and Activision's greediness is bringing the series downhill fast, probably already hit rock bottom for some.
Lol quick rant: But cod is only staying true to the way entertainment works in our generation. Like how Madden MOH (and soon to be) Bf and AC get released every year. Or Like how a Lil Wayne or Drake album drops every year. How a Transformers drops every other year, Twilight, paranormal Activity, a Marvel film every year. Our generation is greedy lol
The ONLY people I know that don't like Call of Duty are people who USED to love it. The number in my personal circle amounts to about 25-30 people. Three or four still buy the games, wasting their money on dashed hopes.
It's funny that you bring up BF3 and David Cage; the former is a better game(though not as good as it was a launch, now), and the latter MAKES better games than the CoD franchise. So people who recognize these games as better are automatically CoD haters? And what of those who don't like either one, but STILL hate CoD?
Start over and focus on creating a cast of characters...
add substance to the story...
add a little weight and realism to get the kids off the game...
focus on commanding a squad...
switch it up
and i got one question.... who is the main character of COD?
im one of the few gamers that don't give a rats a$$ if my favorite game doesn't sell as good as COD. I was very comfortable playing kz2 online.... i don't know what your talking about sir.
EDIT - I hate CoD because it's not my kind of game. I prefer teamwork, more players, and large maps over mindless run and gun rambo action with fewer players on smaller maps. Because the masses love CoD so much, it's ruining other games for me because devs try to CoD-ify their games in the name of sales.
Example Justin Bieber is loved by millions and just because people are foolish and jealous of the kid doesn't take away from the face that millions still love him and he continues to be a hit.
Being a firearms owner myself, it disgusts me to hear kids from the family talk about weapons they obvious don't know crap about and the heavy implication of using them. I can only hope they do not grow up to be a danger to society. Such shear disrespect for firearms and so little regard to using it to kill.
Perhaps it was just me being raised to respect firearms as a tool of freedom and self-defense, not a toy for waging war and causing misery.
Edit: Also... Clips and magazines are not the same thing.
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Then to suit the needs of the idiots, they make Modern Warfare worse and worse with each installment.
I dislike CoD because, as a single player game(I don't/can't play online) It is garbage. CoD 1, 2 and even WaW had great to decent SP modes, but the rest had "tunnel syndrome" progression.(something I think the Halo series has suffered from more and more with each iteration) I also dislike the fact that double tapping "L" auto fixes to enemies(a feature I never use), taking away what little gameplay is left(Aiming).
I disrespect the MP because the yearly Game releases with Bad Single Player and little to no gameplay change amount to glorified Map Packs, not full $60 games(think Capcom Fighting game "supers")
At its core, CoD is not a bad game. But I already own it, and feel saddened that so many will buy it over and over so that they won't get left behind in an "outdated" but wholly equivalent game they just bought last year.
No seriously, this is the worst part of the CoD hype, it wouldn't be so bad if the games just kept its casuals in one place, but nope, other games have to try to be the next CoD, and then the retards start spilling in, ruining every other good franchise out there.
It's just too popular.
1.- Fanboys talk about it as if it was the return of the messiah.
2.- It has no tactics. It's just shoot and run.
3.- Sets bad trends for the industry (Elite service later followed by battlefield premium).
4.- Activision is greedy as hell and deserves to be flamed (Sorry, but right now EA is nowhere near Activision in those terms. Maybe in the near future...)
I was away from home for a couple of months and came back and played COD. I realized what a piece of crap the online really is. I mean I knew it before but it really hit me hard this time. I think COD is for mindless drones. BF3 is a much solid game all around. I even think Gears 3 has better multiplayer. I have hopes for Black ops2.