Face It: Call of Duty Is A Guilty Pleasure

Nave360:

"A lot of people have told me, whether it is at college or on twitter, that they cannot stand the Call of Duty franchise because it's just got out of hand and same-o same-o each one. I, myself, do agree with them. With Battlefield 3 footage floating about, people have said "Oh Battlefield 3 will own Call of Duty", which they might be right, or they might be wrong. There's usually a lot of hate when it comes to Call of Duty now; mostly actually directed at Activision for some strange reason.

But c'mon guys. Face it. Call of Duty is a guilty pleasure. A lot of people will say "I am not going to buy this game." But in honest truth, you may/will buy it. And why? Because everybody else does."

[Close_Second]

Yes...but Call of the Dead looks like a real guilty pleasure. It looks like a blast.

[Kran]

And that's how else it temps you... lol ;P

[limewax]

Call of Duty is a disease

[farhad2k8]

I know many people who talk so much shit about CoD, but then go and play the damn game.
The fact is, it's fun. But for some people, it just dosnt give them entertainment about it, mainly because they force themselves to not like the game.

For about a month, I hated CoD, I used to think it was a completely unbalanced game, then I realized that;s what it was.. a GAME. So I just played it and had fun instead of moaning constantly and growing gray hairs.

[Rybakov]

call of duty is guilty of ruining gaming not a guilty pleasure

[Close_Second]

It has not ruined it its just made FPS multiplayer more accessible to the masses. Unfortunately by doing so they alienated the hardcore audience that helped make the COD franchise a success in the first place.

[Danielmccue]

Call of duty has done a LOT for gaming.

Gaming is no longer a geeky hobby anymore thanks to COD

The franchise has sold so many copies its become the face of gaming to the public.

[tmoss726]

Honestly I wouldn't care if it was a geeky hobby....And it's sad because there are much more well made games then CoD, yet most people only follow the crowd.

[Rybakov]

yes cause really short game play terrible broken gameplay that has been using the same engine for like 4 years now with no update REAAAALY helps gaming

look at elder scrolls people get 100+ hours out of those games...you can be call of duty in 2 hours.....not to mention they have the worst stories on earth cause the devs think its 1952 and are afraid of things they don't understand

but yeah its clearly done a lot for gaming to RUIN IT

[Chnswdchldrn]

im guilty of buying all the new CODs Ill admit that, but I sure as hell stopped buying DLC when MW2 came out with that overpriced shit

Havent bought a single 15 dollar DLC since

[Raven_Nomad]

It's a pleasure, but I don't feel ashamed to love the series. Maybe if other FPS games stepped up to the plate like the boys over at Activision there would be some other titles worth playing in the FPS genre aside from Halo.

If you don't have the new COD, YOUR NOTHING!

[Der_Kommandant]

Guess I'm...

http://i55.tinypic.com/2uq0...

[acquanemesisX]

Unfortunatelly Call of Duty won't die. There are other shooters that I believe that are better than Call of Duty and their sales don't even compare. I know people that never heard of any shooter except for Call of Duty. Call of Duty isn't quantity over quality nor quality over quantity...it got none because there are other games with better quality and more features and yet Call of Duty sells...what a shame.

[voodoopickle]

i stopped buying games that dont care about the single player experience, i.e. COD

[Danielmccue]

Call of duty single player is incredible.

[voodoopickle]

incredibly short maybe

[MysticStrummer]

Not for me. I stopped after W@W and have never felt guilty about it.

[HeavenlySnipes]

Not for me
only play it for the split screen with my bro. When I game alone, I NEVER play that BO. When online I play Demons Souls, KZ2/3 or NBA 2K11. I can admit, that even with all the cheap bullshit in MW2 it kinda grew on me...
:/

[ERMAC_]

If you want to bring out the COD hate, write articles like this. :D

COD is a decent series, (and I am actually not a big fan) its just that they went the madden route and cashed in on its success. Slow it down, take a breather, and get some new life into the series. You don't need a new COD game every year and a half on basically the same engine. Take some time, get a massive update for their engine going, change things up a little.

[ionlyneedonebubble]

Modern Warfare 2 is more than guilty pleasure for me. When it comes to online multiplayer gaming, Modern Warfare 2 on the PS3, in my opinion is the best competition youre going to get. It has the most competitive multiplayer I have ever witnessed. I never played the first Modern Warfare because I was too busy playing Resistance: Fall of Man. I also have never played W@W. I did however buy Black Ops @ midnight release and was severely dissapointed. 3arc need to stop making CoD's. Also I heard Modern Warfare 3 is being made with the same engine as Modern Warfare 2. You have no idea how happy this makes me.

[Der_Kommandant]

It was

[8BitSoul]

I used to play CoD every day for a couple of years. Stopped playing after I got Black Ops. It's not that the game is bad or anything, it's just that I've seen it before, and there isn't enough new stuff to keep on playing. I did however feel, that Black Ops had a lot of issues with hit detection and lag, and didn't play as smooth as previous installments. It just felt like the game hadn't changed at all since CoD4.

Comparing Call of Duty to the Elder Scrolls series however, is not fair. Skyrim has been in development for almost 5 years, while the CoD games usually have a 2 year development time, and they use the same engine and a lot of copy and paste from the previous games. I'm not saying Skyrim will be "the best game evar", as a lot of people put it, but at least Bethesda is taking their time with the game, and building the entire engine and gameplay mechanics from scratch, and not just rehashing the same stuff every year.

At the moment, I'm playing a lot of Bad Company 2, and I'm loving it! Simply because it feels fresh and I'm kind of new to the series. I played BF2 back when it came out, but 1943 was the first one I really got into. The difference is that BF1943 and BC2 are two completely different games. They look and play very different from each other, and that's not something you'd see in a CoD game. Don't know if I'll feel the same way about BF3, but it's looking really good. Maybe CoD should take note of Battlefield and do something like DICE did with the Vietnam expansion. Probably the best 1200MS points I ever spent on a expansion/add-on (especially compared to the CoD map packs). I still play CoD once in a while with my friends, and have a lot of fun with it, but I do feel the franchise has overstayed it's welcome. Unless they really step up their game and make some much needed changes, I won't be buying the next game.

[maxmill]

COD is for retarded casual gamers who like

same shit over and over
sub hd
broken gameplay
horrible story

every year

[ionlyneedonebubble]

What do you play?

[KingElixir]

demolition/split screen = fun fun fun

demolition is the best!

I can't remember the last time I played Nuke Town.

[antauwnehart]

COD is the dynasty warriors of shooters!
COD same graphics,crappy noobish but addicting gameplay that requires no skill and rehashed every year. dynasty warriors same crappy graphics,crappy noobish but addicting gameplay that requires no skill and rehased every year.Both with little to no improvement sometimes worse. ahem cod4 to black ops dynasty warriors 3 to dynasty warriors 6.

[FunkMcnasty]

the article says: "The obvious reason you may buy it is because you're a diehard fan of the franchise..." That's exactly why I'll buy it! That's also the same reason I'll buy BF3! All this nonsense about secretly free basing your CoD crackpipe in the back alley where no one can see is just rediculous. If you like it, play it. If you don't like it leave it alone.

I love CoD, and I don't give a rat's ass what anyone thinks, ESPECIALLY on N4G. That's right, I said it: I LOVE CALL OF DUTY. BOTH MP AND CAMPAIGN.

Go ahead and disagree. I'll be out of work in an hour and guess what I'm gonna do when I get home?? Roll a nice spliff and play some Black Ops Demolition with the first strike pack. There. Eat that.