GameZone writes, "The haters are out again in force this year; this time for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. For the second year in a row, there seems to be a large disparity in the reviews for a Call of Duty game between critic reviews and user score on Metacritic, bringing into question the legitimacy of the website's review process. Now, normally, I'm all for everyone having their own opinion of a game, but Metacritic has become known as a place for angered gamers to go and slam a game's score."
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1) It brings nothing new and doesn't deserve the sales i gets, compared to innovative games like Okami which get nowhere near the same sales
2) Its killing variety this gen, too many FPS games
Oh wait, 1 bubble.
Disregard.
It is constantly expanding on the modes its has, tweaking gameplay and adding other multiplayer options with every new game. Once again another user on N4G swept up on the CoD hate train and copies and pastes what other say about the game without having playing it themselves.
Fault CoD for turning out a new game every other month it seems but don't say they never bring anything new.
And how is CoD killing variety?
I get the idea you didnt play the game at all really because there is lots of recoil on the guns they even have mods for the guns to reduce the recoil.
@ranma
blops2 has changed a lot the story is very well done and nothing like previous cods so you really should give it a go instead of just hating for hates sake.
@logic
You have the same emotion towards a person that stole your wallet and a person that raped your girlfriend ??? thats very very odd.
you're going to have 1 bubble too in no time with this kind of comment..
Seems you should hate console gamers. They are the reason it's made no?
We can all hope.
I typed out the first part, asking what games he would prefer. Okami is last gen, and it really isn't THAT innovative (Zelda formula, but its art style shines). And then I saw he had 1 bubble.
/shrug
Oh a military FPS is going to outsell it even if it was advertised, it's the hot genre in the gaming world at the moment, I'm not that dumb as to think something with so unique in it's presentation would sell CoD numbers. But games like Okami are not promoted to the wider gaming audience that don't spend hours and hours trawling review sites on the net looking for the news on the latest games.
Those people have no idea about games like Okami...and for that, you can blame the publishers.
As for CoD not deserving it's sales.....that's nonsense. They have their formula, and it's a successful one. They create what their customers want every year and promote it properly so as to maximise sales potential. It's not rocket science, it's not evil...it is what it is, consumerism at work.
Other companies should do what Activision do...they have a vision for their game and they stick with it, and they make sure people know about it. They don't copy some other game's style or gameplay, as many of the CoD clones do. More publishers and developers should follow their lead - create their own vision for a game and promote the damn thing...if people like it, they'll buy it. It's THAT simple.
/cry me a river.
I've disliked the series since W@W and i've just left it at that, nobodys gonna think your cool or unique for hating a game that millions of people around the world love.
Tekken, DOA, Sleeping Dog, Borderlands2 and Darksiders all got pretty great reviews.
Maybe its starting to be the "smaller games" (Compared to Cod) are getting more attention. Believe it or not, this could actually be a good thing. Other games are getting attention along with decent sales.
Site/Mag Reviews are always possitive I'd rather hear a review from a gamer on a site like this one then someone like IGN who in my opinion are like many other sites out there who are s*** scared to bad mouth the game and be truthful because if they p*** Activision off there will be no more exclusive reveals, behind the scene gossip, first look previews, interviews for their magazine/website, plus lets not forget with it being a hot game to talk about because of it's social gimmick like elements it's not something they can just ignore, they NEED that info off Activision so they have to play nice.
....right
Small, minimal improvments are common when you bring a new game out. I have never seen any BIG changes to this game since, well the first Mordern Warfare when it mordernised it's setting and had a massive online revamp....thats when you improve something.
LOL, you think the average gamer on this site is any less biased than an IGN journalist?
When it comes from the reviews section, why not, if theres a bunch of them then it's better to browse their reviews and see what they've said because they don't rely on Activision for anything.
Just because you don't like Call of Duty doesn't mean no one can like it.
also I'd rather hear from people (like myself who have played the game) than people on the web with no lives who haven't played, can't afford, dont want whatever their reasons are hating on a game based off a trailer...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
However a game that will probably be ridiculed by reviewers like Declassified is getting pretty good user scores.
This is a strange world we live in...
Try something like Amazon for more reliable scores. At least we know they bought the game.
But BLACK OPS 2 is awesome.
Had quite a few matches earlier on PS3.
Excellent maps and lots of fun.
it needs a specific moving and thinking to control the match kills and deaths and that dont give you different ways of playing like in cod 4
the weapons and maps not that good to me , so i think it depend on players taste ...
Let the disagrees commence on both sides!
The people on Metracritic haven't even played the game but are trashing it....
It's not a bad shooter. It has changed. It doesn't have to be better than Halo 4.
People need to grow up.
Halo 4, all 3 versions of BlOps2, AC3, Skylanders, Bastion... the only 10 is for Kirby's Dream Collection.
Last year when BF3/MW3 came out, you could tell people were signing up just to trash on both games because low and behold, their only two games were BF3/MW3 (and their preference was blatant!! 10/1, 1/10...). The trend continues.
Hey Master, I think you need to rent more!
Who cares it has no effect whatsoever.
Not all of the 7 billion people in the world play video games or care about this stuff. I doubt even 2 billion do so also. So 1 percent of the population is maybe 70k people of the total population and 20k, by my estimate, which is actually a lot considering they're only user reviews.
But then again, your 1 percent was some form of over/underestimated exaggeration so who knows how many people use Metacritic. All we need to know is that only personal anecdotal evidence can provide personal opinion (hence, personal opinion) not someone else's.
I'm just here to question the validity of your point.
I haven't played Black Ops 2, so I can't hate it, even if I'm not fond of the franchise. But the LAST place you'd expect reliability on ANY game would be the Metacritic user reviews.
Football is football...should they add zombies...should they add football to COD...everyone says it's so cookie cutter, but no one has a solution or idea to quantify exactly what innovation means.
You have a gun...you shoot the gun at people...should the guns shoot puppies?
When you see user scores of 1, that to me is clearly mad fanboys. A 1 score would scream that a game was broken completely. I cant think of many games that I'd score a 1, aside from Superman 64 or E.T. Unless its utterly unplayable and full of glitches, it deserves better than that.
If I had a message to send to the haters it would be to get over it, COD sells well, people like it, the game franchise continues to do better and better. If you don't like it, play something else entirely.
There is No winning so try it yourself. And with at least 15 of my friends already playing it all day, it won't hurt to at least try it. There have been constant 450k people playing online all day.
Too many 12 year old Mountain Dew induced kids going out and buying it not knowing it's nothing more than a reskin of last years tripe.