Is CoD losing its charm and creativity?

[Exia91]

No, the end is not nigh. Sales tell you exactly the opposite. Basicly, and to my Very Own honest opinion, CoD is for multiplayer. Why change a concept that works beyond Great? If I were to create such games, and if I knew for fact they'd sell like cupcakes, I would only change the multiplayer maps yearly to keep things 'fresh'. Afterwards I would staple a singleplayer campaign to it, so there's something to do when your mates are not around!

As a matter of fact, one can argue that this is already happening.

Spoiler: Disclaimer

I'm not a CoD fanboy, nor Halo fanboy. I do like FPS's, though.

 

[TundraWolf]

Call of Duty lost it's charm and creativity the moment it decided to come out with yearly installments. I loved the original and it's expansion, having some of my greatest online gaming moments with them. I loved the story and the action presented. It was all great.

The second one was just as good! I didn't enjoy the multiplayer quite as much, as it cut back the large expansive maps and servers and staretd funnelling everything down to a smaller area, but it was still fun.

I don't even regard Call of Duty 3 as a true Call of Duty game. It was just so... mediocre as compared to its predecessors.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the pinnacle, setting the ball rolling for modern day shooters. It was pretty, it was well-paced, well-balanced, had really entertaining gameplay even despite limiting the size of the maps, and was just awesome overall.

Then World at War came out. Step backwards. Then Modern Warfare 2. Step sideways. Then Black Ops. Another step back.

The only thing that's been new and exciting about any of those last three games were some of the multiplayer options you get in Black Ops, which I actually find much better than everything since the original. Wager matches are lots of fun. Most (but not all) of the maps are well-balanced. The weapons are fun. And it has the multiple-people-on-one-console thing that helped make Halo multiplayer so good too. It's good times all around.

Of course, I don't own Black Ops and refuse to spend money on it. I only know this from playing with a friend at his house.

Long story short, Call of Duty has been losing ground since the first Modern Warfare came out, except in the multiplayer department. Though that only recently started making headway once again.

 

[lacktheknack]

Your thread title made me laugh. Very hard.

I can't help it! When I think of "charm and creativity", I think of Portal or Psychonauts, not "Brown Bullet Sprayer XXVII".

 

[Armored Prayer]

I hate to ask this but is this an excuse for everyone to vent their hate for CoD and rip it to shreds?

While I love the series I must admit it is losing its charm and creativity. But I blame that on Activision and their greediness. They already killed IW its only a matter of time before the series itself collapses unless something is done.

 

[Woodsey]

Creativity?

The series started off as a WW2 shooter before deciding it wanted to be an action film. Where, pray tell, was the creativity to begin with? This is coming from someone who really liked the first two (and quite liked the 4th). It's never had any charm.

The series is stale as hell though, and I'd definitely had enough after playing MW.

 

[noble cookie]

Am I the only one who thinks Black Ops had a decent campaign and multiplayer compared to past titles except CoD 4?

Nuketown + wager matches = fun!

actually, yes, yes i think you are the only person.

Aww lol
By decent campaign, I mean fun. The story as always isn't that great.
Emblems and other customisation options are fun.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

CoD 4 was my favorite and then everything after that began to get worse and worse.

 

[OliverTwist72]

Who cares? I only play it for the multiplayer.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Yes it is still a very solid game and fun to play.

 

[Iiits Borthwick]

Creativity was always something Call of Duty lacked, although MW2's campaign was so ridiculous that it was farsicle.

People that play Call of Duty because it's an "amazing game" need to look up amazing in the dictionary, and seriously reconsider their last statement. Then again, most people are idiots. They are by no means bad games, but standard, I only ever play them if I want mindless multiplayer... Then go on Halo or Mass Effect 2 because I get pissed off by the amount of BS that Call of Duty includes as standard

EDIT = It also appears that everyone except me liked MW, I thought it was average and uninteresting... Anyone who says the multiplayer was balanced needed to look at the x3 Frags perk. I also am one of the few who thought Black ops and WaW were better than the MW subfranchise in pretty much every way (raises flame shield)

 

[Azure-Supernova]

I still seriously think that next time they want to release a Call of Duty game they should split the campaign and multi-player.

Infinity Ward can put together a good, fun on-line experience.
Treyarch can craft a good story with decent writing and dramatic but believable (in context) moments.

So it's simple. Infinity Ward can release a solely multi-player CoD and Treyarch a solely single player CoD. That way Infinity Ward can focus on crafting an excellent muli-player and put the time into working out the bugs and kinks; meanwhile Treyarch are putting together a completely epic campaign (perhaps with co-op).

Just let the two Devs do what they do best. Creativity and charm aren't the reason people play Call of Duty.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

It started getting old after CoD 2 though Modern Warfare was a nice break but it is once again back into its downward spiral.

 

[lacktheknack]

To be honest, who gives a crap? I don't enjoy CoD for it's creativity, I play it because the gameplay is so damn good. The charm comes from enjoying a good gunfight.

I give a crap. My favorite games include Mirror's Edge and Psychonauts, games that are famous for tripping over the gameplay but getting everything else right. However, war FPSs are the only genre I actively avoid.

 

[Evil the White]

Yes. I liked CoD3, I liked MW1, and i liked WaW. Then they jsut got silly, and just kept doing the same thing over and over again, but worse.

See: Guitar Hero.

 

[OliverTwist72]

Honestly this is Activision we're talking about, they're gonna flood the market with as many COD games as they can milk out of developers (see Guitar Hero).

Edit:

See: Guitar Hero.

Damn you! lol

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

To be honest, who gives a crap? I don't enjoy CoD for it's creativity, I play it because the gameplay is so damn good. The charm comes from enjoying a good gunfight.

I give a crap. My favorite games include Mirror's Edge and Psychonauts, games that are famous for tripping over the gameplay but getting everything else right. However, war FPSs are the only genre I actively avoid.

What? So you care about a series you never even played in the first place losing creativity?

 

[lacktheknack]

To be honest, who gives a crap? I don't enjoy CoD for it's creativity, I play it because the gameplay is so damn good. The charm comes from enjoying a good gunfight.

I give a crap. My favorite games include Mirror's Edge and Psychonauts, games that are famous for tripping over the gameplay but getting everything else right. However, war FPSs are the only genre I actively avoid.

What? So you care about a series you never even played in the first place losing creativity?

Not quite what I meant. I meant I cared that it didn't have creativity or charm, because that's the main reason I'll never buy it. (I have played it, I didn't care for it.)

 

[Elemental]

My dear boy, the CoD series never HAD charm and creativity.

 

[Creator002]

To me, yes. Both CoD and Halo. To me, it's just the same game, over and over. Once you complete the story, you have to rely on the multiplayer, which just feels tedious after a while.\
I can last 3-5 hours playing Grand Theft Auto IV, single or multiplayer, compared to the 1-2 hours I can last on CoD or Halo. I think I'm just a sandbox fan though. I love being able to go where I want in the game's world.