Are you getting Black Ops 2?

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Shoggoth2588

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I don't plan to but to be honest the only Modern Warfare game I've bought was Call of Duty 4 and that was months ago. A time may come (next generation) when I do buy it but that won't be until the Modern War games are being sold new for $20 or less. As it stands though I'm just not interested in what the game offers.
 

Jhooud

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Yep, I plan on picking it up. The games are fun and as a plus the Treyarch ones have bots (which I enjoy blasting split-screen with my daughter). I'm curious to see what they've done with the zombie mode this time around as well.
 

SonOfMethuselah

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I definitely won't be buying it. Chances are I'll get it for Christmas, though: MW2, Black Ops, and MW3 have all been under the tree on their respective years of release, despite the fact that I've never shown the slightest interest in them. I have friends that play them, so they're an okay diversion when I've got a couple of hours to kill, and a buddy who's available to play with, but I don't play them by myself. I didn't even finish the MW3 campaign: just couldn't be bothered. I'm just not that big of a first-person shooter fan, is what it comes down to. I'm also suspect I'm not very good at them, because while I have no trouble navigating my way through a campaign, I always get my ass beaten royally whenever I play online. I also always seemed to be on the losing team in MW3. Just bad luck, I guess, but frequently seeing the word 'Defeated' in blazing red letters under a very one-sided score is enough to make me stop playing.
 

Not G. Ivingname

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Nope.

I am tired of Call of Duty, the yearly updates, and the business practices of Activision.

I am sticking with TF2, thank you very much.
 

Verex

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So long as Battlefield keeps their standards, I'm not going to be playing COD.
 

Garyn Dakari

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No. For the same reason I do not own and have never played a single Call of Duty game: I boycott Activision. They're basically the only game company evil enough that I boycott, and mostly I don't miss out on much. I'd kind of like to play the first Modern Warfare game, just because of things I've heard about it, but I still won't. But besides MW1, Prototype, and maybe The Amazing Spiderman game, I don't feel like I've missed out on much.
 

MammothBlade

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Probably not, Call of Duty doesn't appeal to me anymore. Though I won't be at all resentful to it this time as it's taking a move away from the modern military shooter cliches.
 

Sennune

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Garyn Dakari said:
No. For the same reason I do not own and have never played a single Call of Duty game: I boycott Activision. They're basically the only game company evil enough that I boycott, and mostly I don't miss out on much. I'd kind of like to play the first Modern Warfare game, just because of things I've heard about it, but I still won't. But besides MW1, Prototype, and maybe The Amazing Spiderman game, I don't feel like I've missed out on much.
I would suggest purchasing these games used so that way you can be assured a fellow consumer or Gamestop, Gamexchange, etc, sees the money. So you can get to play a great game without the guilt.

I'm quite excited for Black Ops 2, personally. I've always enjoyed the Treyarch games stories more than IW's. Their expansion on the usual game design is intriguing. I like that Treyarch is making portions of the game the player can fail that alter the outcome of the story. I do like that it's touching on the later years of the Cold War in Afghanistan. Branching paths through their levels is also exciting. I find the linear design of Call of Duty games compelling, because of the contents. I agree they often don't live up to the innovations taking place in 3rd person shooters and other genres, but I can't wait for Black Ops nonetheless.
 

Garyn Dakari

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Sennune said:
I would suggest purchasing these games used so that way you can be assured a fellow consumer or Gamestop, Gamexchange, etc, sees the money. So you can get to play a great game without the guilt.
Yeah, I know it doesn't really accomplish anything....But I just don't want to support Activision in any way, least of all by buying their product. I've got no problem with other people buying it mind you, I'm not saying anyone else shouldn't, but I know I won't(The biggest reason being that they lay off or fire developers a lot after the game comes out, so the people who actually MAKE the game don't get paid the way they should). Another reason I dislike CoD in general is that all those map packs and stuff, make each new game over $100 by the time they're "Done", then that just gets repeated the next year -_-

EA is almost at a boycott level for me...But not quite...They're greedy, and really stupid, but not quite "evil" level that Activision is in my mind.

But anyway, all in all, I just don't want to buy Activision things, and the business practices behind CoD are just a huge turn off to me in general, regardless of the publisher/developer(15$ map packs, yearly releases, overpriced, ect.)
 

Pseudonym2

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Fuck Ollie North and his traitorous murderous bullshit. Fuck him and every nun-raping, drug smuggling, weapons dealing, shithead ally he has. He should be rotting in prison for the rest of miserable life.

In other words no.
 

Xariat

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I might obtain it though only for the single player.
CoDMP got boring around the time people started quickscoping and trickshoting in mw2.
I know my brother will get it on his xbox so if i really have to try the MP i can just go play it with him.
 
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Nah. The Treyarch titles are easily the weakest of the CoD franchise, with their unnecessarily clunky vehicle sections, overly cinematic Hollywood rip-off levels (WaW and Enemy at the Gates anyone?) and the entertaining-for-five-minutes-but-mind-numbingly-boring-after-that Zombie mode. But hey, nothing sells a game to the Internet like zombies, right?

I'm not a fan.
 

BreakfastMan

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Nope. Series hasn't been interesting since COD4, so I doubt that this one would bring me back into the fold. Might pick it up if I find it used somewhere for $15 a couple years down the line (because that zombie mode sounds awesome), but I am not buying it at launch.
 

Joccaren

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Nope.

For one, I have little interest in quick kill shooters like CoD, where you run around a small, cramped map and press a button when you see something move. Its not fun. Whilst you might die as fast in a Battlefield or Counter Strike game whilst being shot at, there is at least a greater average time of not being shot at, and IMO the map design is better in those games too. If I want mindless action, I'll play BF3 - a game that looks good, whilst providing that mindless action link. Normally I'd play BF2 instead, but I've played way too much of that by now.

For two, it will be ridiculously overpriced for what it is on release, and won't drop price fast. For the tiny amount that changes between CoD games, I don't see much reason for the massive price tag. Supply and demand is one thing, but after demand has dropped and there are 50 or so copies just sitting on my local store's shelf, it shouldn't still be $90+ [Australia, FML]. If I ever decided that I did want to play CoD, I would just get one of the older ones for pretty much the exact same experience, only cheaper.

Finally, yes, I hate it because its popular. Not in the sense that I hate its popularity, but that I've grown to hate it from all the people I overhear constantly talking about their 15 killstreak 360 noscope rampage or whathaveyou, and I was sick of the game before I'd even tried it. The story is nothing special, and the multiplayer... No. So, no, no reason for me to get it. I'll stick with Dishonoured, and another upgrade to my Gaming PC - though I'm running out of things to upgrade now - instead.
 

Auzzie Taco

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I'm colourblind, and COD is a incoherent stream of greyish brown, and the Oliver North thing put me off. ( See Gameoverthinker)