Call of Duty is not a game <-- SERIOUS STATEMENT IS SERIOUS -_-

[Treblaine]

*snip*

That is ALL due to Lag problems.

Play black ops on PC that has dedicated servers and you will not have these problems.

Also learn to be a team player, if you don't like it when your team collapses and you get dominated then play free-for-all or only play in guild-matches with agreed teamwork strategies. And count your victories with your curses.

It is a game, you just don't like it and claim it somehow isn't out of spite

 

[AbstractStream]

It's not a great game (IMO), but it's as much of a game as any

This basically sums up my feelings.
Not a Call of Duty fan, but it still is a game.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Wow... then I've been playing a lot of not games lately. My whole life, in fact.

Weird.

I could have sworn I was playing video games this whole time.

 

[iDoom46]

So, basically, you're whining about how you can't seem to win at CoD, because its a bad game?
(Sorry, I'm an ass, I can't help it some times.)

But, in all seriousness, there is nothing wrong with random respawns (and this is coming from someone who ALWAYS gets the bad respawns).
Its the same as rolling a dice or drawing a card from a deck, random outcomes, and you wouldn't say Monopoly, Sorry!, poker, or Magic the Gathering aren't games, would you? Because, by your logic as presented, they aren't.

When you have control over all aspects of a game, it is no longer a game, its a personal fantasy simulator. Part of playing a game is doing whatever you can within the rules the game has laid out for you to follow, in CoD's case: random respawns, limiting knowledge on enemy's location, etc.

And you DO have a say in the outcome of fights. If you didn't, then all you'd have to do is stand around each game and let the kills be awarded. But, no, you have to choose to go out, find someone to kill, and pull the trigger. Whoever fires first, has the best aim, and has the best guns/perks for the job is the one who prevails... In an ideal world, at least.

I won't say CoD isn't broken, or doesn't have horrible balancing issues, but what I'm 100% positive it DOESN'T do is choose who lives and who dies in a firefight.

There's a quote I'd like to leave you with, from the professor of my Maya class:
"There are times where you'll be tempted to say '[the computer] did this wrong!' or '[the computer] messed my thing up!' but, and I assure you of this, it is in fact all your fault. [The computer] didn't do anything wrong, YOU DID.
All [the computer] did was what you told it to do. [The computer] isn't smart enough to actively mess with you. Rather, [the computer] is pretty dumb, it only does what you say.
So don't blame [the computer]. Blame yourself for not telling [the computer] to do the right thing."

 

[Wolfram23]

...mostly already said.

Just to throw it out there, a lot of what's wrong with CoD is due to no dedicated high speed servers. When the players are hosting the games, you get some people with great ping, some with shit ping, and one player with zero ping. Obviously not fair.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

It's a game, it's just a game based incredibly much on chance.
Luckily, I almost never even touch multiplayer that isn't by Valve. They do it right.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Wow... then I've been playing a lot of not games lately. My whole life, in fact.

Weird.

I could have sworn I was playing video games this whole time.

This is news to me too. Somewhere along the way we were deceived! I'm calling Batman.

 

[Grufflenark]

For those of you who think this is tl;dr I'll give you a summary.

'I suck at call of duty, here's my excuses as to why it's not my fault.'

This is pretty much what I was thinking. I don't particularly like COD, but yeah, don't blame your losses on the game. It's as "fair" and skill based as most games, it's just not a game I enjoy.

Also, just because you can state some things you don't like about the game, does not mean it is not a game. A game would still be a game if it was just a long cut-scene in which you could wobble a side characters ear with your joystick if you got bored.

CoD isn't really skill based.
Its more like a, first person to shoot wins.

 

[ZeroMachine]

For those of you who think this is tl;dr I'll give you a summary.

'I suck at call of duty, here's my excuses as to why it's not my fault.'

This is pretty much what I was thinking. I don't particularly like COD, but yeah, don't blame your losses on the game. It's as "fair" and skill based as most games, it's just not a game I enjoy.

Also, just because you can state some things you don't like about the game, does not mean it is not a game. A game would still be a game if it was just a long cut-scene in which you could wobble a side characters ear with your joystick if you got bored.

CoD isn't really skill based.
Its more like a, first person to shoot wins.

No it's not like that.

I've faced many a situation where they shot first and I won, or vice versa.

It's just a different kind of skill.

 

[CptRumGuy]

I looked up the definition of game

Dictionary.com
"a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators."

Wait, between two or more people? That means every game that doesn't feature multiplayer isn't a game...this changes everything...

 

[Mavinchious Maximus]

CoD is a game, a casual game!

ownage

anyway, blops was a horrible experience. Until they fix the connection issues in the game, it is deemed casual.

 

[Woodsey]

I thought this was going to be a joke about the amount of scripted events.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Arent most games like this, just with different objectives then kill everyone ou see that isnt you/on your team?

I mean, well, oka:

1) Every game I've played had a set save point (if it had one at all) and I couldnt move it. At least not that I knew of outside hacking the game (which usually takes far too long to be worth it). everygame's hit detection is based on the tech of the game, and there for the developer. To say you're being played because they guys were limited/didnt want to put enough into it doesnt make something not a game.

Honestly, if you're smart, you as the player will camp near/at the oppenent's base and shoot them everytime they spawn. thats just being smart (and slighting being a douche XD kidding).

2) You could be good at anything and be wrecked up. Lets take a real world example. Tom brady was arguably the best quarterback this season, but look who he lost to. Mark fucking Sanchez.

Not an American sport, Wayne Gretzky didnt win the cup EVERY year he played in the NHL and he's one of the bst players (I wouldnt say the best though).

you're saying being human makes the game not a game? if you were such a good player, you would and could fight your way out of the situation and come out alive, olr at least with more kills then deaths.

but in the end you said to me, so its your opinion. I'll choose to leave it, but thats just me.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

Short version: One overly long acid trip about the metaphysical aspects of a game and our interactions within and then a 'lol jk, but serious' a half rant about how broken the game can get due to uncontrollable circumstances. Amirite?

 

[Gaiseric]

Nope. It's a game.

You can interpret any definition to support anything.

I couldn't have said it better.

 

[TheMightyWarHamster]

can't tell if troll or just very... y'know
your argument is just like saying poker isn't a game, just because skill and tactics sometimes loose to chance.

 

[Jonny49]

Couldn't the same be applied to...almost every game in history? At least in some way or another.

 

[Wireframefool]

I'm pretty sure it's a game, If you don't enjoy it, that's fine! I'm not really a fan of it either. But it's like me saying "I hate My little pony, and everything that happens in the show. Therefor it is not an animated cartoon"

 

[Particulate]

I have had fun, online and off, with nearly every game in the franchise.... the newer ones especially. Why? Well with the most recent incarnation I got an outlet for something that's been gnawing at me for years. The fact that aside from my very early childhood I missed out on the cold war and yet I was raised by people that not only were alive during its height but even lived through vietnam and had their childhood rooted in the true golden years of america. So with Black Ops I finally had my crack, albeit virtual, to live out some of the stories of my father and his brother... stories of slinking through the jungle to do battle with the communist hordes.

And that experience, the stories of my childhood realized in stunning HD graphics with exceptional voice talent and tinfoil hat worthy plot-line, is one that I enjoyed.