Can Haters shut up about Call of Duty?

[Helmholtz Watson]

I'm tired of going online to read or watch a review, and I get a bunch of douche bags leaving comments about how much Call of Duty sucks, or any game is better than Call of Duty. I don't mind that if someone doesn't like Call of Duty, but people act like assholes. It's idiots like this that makes the gaming industry look bad and immature.

This is a pretty human response to hate something because its popular to do so. Also I see this behavior in sports quiet often. For example the past two times I have bothered to see soccer, both times it was Germany vs England and the game was in England and yet both times when England lost, they brought up WW2. Sorry I'm going off now. My point is that acting like a child towards something you don't like is quite normal and not at all unique to people who hate COD.

Sadly that lack of willingness to stop rubbing WW2 in their faces doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. I even saw a t-shirt in a high street shop a few months back that said "two world wars and one world cup".

England, we don't win often but we can't shut up about it when we do.

I'm American, but because my ethnicity is German and they are the group that I root for in soccer, I does piss me off a little that people bring up the past. Honestly even here in America (where I was born and raised) I get called a Nazi if I root for Germany in FIFA. Honestly people enough with the WW2 references. -_-

Sadly in our culture many of the people who have a passionate dedication to football are the people who have a passionate dedication to not thinking much and drinking a lot. We call them hooligans (note I said many, not all or even most)

America has the same issue with the NFL (football). I remember a California raiders fan shot a guy because he was a fan of the opposing team. smh

 

[Brinnmilo]

There are dicks on the internet. Does any thing else need to be said? I used to debate on the internet but now I just don't bother. I think people are just mad that something is so popular even though it's so widely accepted to be a copy of a copy, like Madden or FIFA. It's similar to the way people think footballers are over paid, some believe they just don't deserve that much money.

 

[Jonny49]

Despite the fact I'm a fan of Call of Duty games, you used the word "haters" therefore your argument is invalid in my eyes.

I hate that word and everyone who uses it.

 

[GameMaNiAC]

This

Ugh, can people just stop talking about Call of Duty? It's a competent shooter with a Hollywood storyline. That's all.

And this

Making threads like this will merely continue the circle of "hate." I'm going to assume you had good intentions, so I'm not trying to "flame" or lecture you, but give you something to think of next time.

So can we please shut up about cod and start making positive threads about good games.

This is a positive thread about a good game. Perhaps not in your opinion. But the huge amount of people enjoying it begs to differ. Me included.

 

[RaffB]

Ugh, can people just stop talking about Call of Duty? It's a competent shooter with a Hollywood storyline. That's all.

That plus a fun multiplayer...

 

[Forgetitnow344]

I need fans to shut up about it. I'm 20 years old and I work with people 19-25, and I am literally TEASED at work for not caring about first-person shooters anymore. I just have an extreme lack of apathy for shooting things, at least with any sort of realism involved. The only game that involved guns I've played in the last six months that I actually enjoyed had a gun called the Boner that could actually talk. You could call a sex line for it and make it extend to be a good 20 feet long and thus be renamed Big Boner. The wielder of said gun would shout with each explosive shot, "COME AND GET A PIECE OF MY BIG BONER!" Not since Conker's Bad Fur Day has a game made me giggle with such childish delight. The only emotion Call of Duty or Gears of War elicits from me is distaste at the thought of another two weeks of everyone I know going all Awesome Reach on me.

Seriously, Call of Duty is like Madden to me now. I don't care. Just stop talking about it already.

 

[Tiamat666]

I'm tired of going online to read or watch a review, and I get a bunch of douche bags leaving comments about how much Call of Duty sucks, or any game is better than Call of Duty. I don't mind that if someone doesn't like Call of Duty, but people act like assholes. It's idiots like this that makes the gaming industry look bad and immature.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and Freedom of Speech is a virtue.

Also, Call of Duty is a decent shooter, but I'm starting to hate it because it's the same game with different levels over and over again yet everyone keeps buying it and all the ridiculous, overpriced DLC for it. They are milking the blood out of this cow and for some reason it's working. Another year, another Call of Duty. Then there is the constant torrent of threads like these, which make Call of Duty seem like an omnipresent demon which is always right around the corner, ready to torture your soul with ridiculous plots and overly protective fanboys. Earlier to day I checked BBC news and saw that there is an article about the impending Call of Duty release. Seriously, GTFOOMLCOD*!

Spoiler

*get the !%$# out of my life Call of Duty!

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

No because the MW games are crap and boring compared to the WW2 CoD games. I love the history aspect and thus the modern guns suck. They are so boring to use and play. The MW storys suck and are uninteresting mainly because the cliche ww2 plot works better than a modern warfare plot. Fact is, people buy MW cause thats the only online game people play. Thats it.

 

[RyoScar]

I don't hate COD, I just don't like how some fans treat it as the 2nd coming. It's a decant shooter, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Michael Hirst]

I think a lot of the hate for it comes from how all the lovers won't shut up about it either. We're all entitled to our opinions and while I admit it does get annoying to keep hearing nothing but negative criticism Call of Duty is the perfect target for it. I can't go anywhere online without another boring advert for another mediocre expansion to a run of the mill shooter. I want to talk about games and that is a subject much larger than Call of Duty or Bobby Koticks ego.

 

[Laser Priest]

People are always going to hate things. They're not going to stop for your convenience.

If you don't like it, no one's saying you have to go on the internet.

 

[Macrobstar]

People who say that they hate COD are like the hipsters of the internet. They take something that is clearly good, and very popular, and say that they don't like it just because they don't want to be seen as following the crowd. Of course, some people will like other games better, and there may be some elements of the game that they don't like, but all these people plastering their opinion about how COD is the most horrible series of games to ever hit the market, are only doing so because they want to feel superior to everyone else. Sure, maybe Battlefield is better, but that doesn't justify saying COD is crap.

Now this ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a cop out argument
"I can't be shit, therefore you dislike it because its popular"
Jesus fanboys get over yourselves, your game is not perfect, I hate call of duty and most war FPSs, because there boring piles of crap that are the same every instalment. You can like it, but when everyone is shoving it in my face why should I hold in my hate when no one else has the common courtesy to hold in the praise

 

[TheScottishFella]

Where is the guy who usually post the "Oh this thread again " pic?

Seriously though why does there need to be threads commenting on how Call of Duty is as if you are the first guy to come up with the thought, I'm sorry but you're not if these threads didn't exist maybe we could just chill and not give a damn about other peoples opinions and be happy with our own.

 

[krazykidd]

Can people stop complaining about Dragon Age 2?
The answer is no. Some times idiots think their voice matters on the internet and they will yell it proudly thinking that some one is leasing.
It is sad.

Well , since there is a lot of people saying the same thing. And threads like these are being made , it looks like it does matter or eveyone would just ignore it, no?

OT: i don't join in flame wars , but i am siding with the haters , if you don't like something band together and let your voices be heard. That is how change come about.

 

[weker]

I'm tired of going online to read or watch a review, and I get a bunch of douche bags leaving comments about how much Call of Duty sucks, or any game is better than Call of Duty. I don't mind that if someone doesn't like Call of Duty, but people act like assholes. It's idiots like this that makes the gaming industry look bad and immature.

Many people dislike the game, and just like any other game they are allowed to have criticism for it and call it shit, there is nothing immature about it, it's just their opinion.

 

[HavoK 09]

can you please stop disliking what i like?

thats your question, the awnser is

no, i have my own opinion.

i dont hate CoD but i think they haven't made anything different since MW, everything else used the same formula but added more and more which caused general unbalaced and the WIN GUN+WIN PERKS+ WIN KILLSTREAKS that everyone uses, sometimes the maps are too compact, but thats my opinion...

Personally i blame their 1 year development, even with big teams running on the same project there is not enough time to add this great extra to the formula that makes the game better with it

 

[Blandman]

Wait...MW3 is out? I didn't even notice. Too busy waiting for the grass to grow.

 

[slipknot4]

Well, making threads like this only feeds the trolls.

Ignore it. It's not overly difficult. I do it with Call of Duty, for example.

You good sir, made my day. Thank you!

 

[blizzaradragon]

I'll tell you what: I'll stop hating on CoD when the fanboys stop trying to shove it down my throat, belittle me for playing something that isn't a shooter of some sort, and generally treat me like some kind of hipster just because I don't like something you do. I've almost had my stuff stolen and broken because I was playing Zelda instead of playing "a good game like Call of Duty" and I get crap all the time at my local game stores because I never buy any shooters.

I find this to be appropriate: Liking Call of Duty(or any video game for that matter) is like having a penis. You can enjoy the hell out of your penis, and you can be proud that you have one. However, when you try to shove that penis down my throat I'm going to react loudly and violently.