Is CoD losing its charm and creativity?

[Joshimodo]

Err, it hasn't ever had either.

 

[sheah1]

CoD had charm and creativity?

 

[Canid117]

losing? we are a little past losing my friend

 

[Baldry]

I lost my juice reading that title. I think it's brought something back with Black ops, but it'll never be as good as it used to be.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

U think that and so do others but I enjoyed the single player campaign in Black Ops and I also enjoy Multi when Im not getting my ass thrashed...but hell the primary allure is the zombie modes if Im being honest

 

[Les Awesome]

meh I really liked the campaign and LUVED nazi zombies so
i don't think it'll be going any where

 

[USSR]

They certainly do get more creative.
But creative does not necessarily mean good.

Call of Duty 4 was the best and the last good multiplayer experience I will enjoy to years on end from them.

 

[Yossarian1507]

You know what? I don't get it.

I finished playing CoD 4: MW about a week ago, and since I liked it very much, I purchased MW2 a few days later... And I liked it more actually. True, the plot has an uncomfortable level of holes in comparison to it's predecessor, but gameplay wise? What was working (great firefights, amazing feeling of tension, overall epicness), remained, and they added a few more 'awesome' features, like that snow mobile part in the first mission with Roach, and many other things like that.

I didn't play BlOps yet, but so far I'm scratching my head about this whole 'losing it's charm'. Granted, I never played a CoD multi (except from CoD 1, which was a ton of fun actually, but I'm talking about the latest installments), so maybe the problem lies here, I dunno...

 

[johnman]

For me call of duty 2 is the peak of the series and its been going downhill since then. Modern Warefare was very good though.

 

[DestroytheTyrant]

Thats certaintly an interesting way of describing CoD.

 

[Thedayrecker]

CoD? Charm and creativity?

I guffaw at your words!

 

[Nannernade]

Pretty sure it has lost creativity, I mean it's still fun to an extent I guess but it seems to just slowly descend downhill.

 

[Stu the Pirate]

CoD started out as a WWII shooter in a sea of WWII shooters, so I'd argue it wasn't really ever creative in the first place.

As for charm, after MW1 everything pretty much fell apart. Blops, however, is showing some promise.

 

[kikon9]

They had charm?

 

[Assassin Xaero]

After World at War, yes. I quit with the series after that, same with Tony Hawk after Proving Grounds.

 

[Netrigan]

for me this is definitely what's happening they were progressively good up until CoD 4 and now it's declining, their standards are dropping and i think that the end is nigh for the CoD series.

The first three Infinity Ward games were excellent, but it sounds like there was some sort of weird in-fighting going on during the development of MW2 that severely compromised its single player campaign.

I've not really been able to get into the Treyarch games. They seem to focus a bit too much on the talky bits, which I don't think plays well to the core game mechanics. I gave up on Call Of Duty 3 half way through (thanks to the shitty Sixaxis motion control), but I quickly grew annoyed at the cutscenes, because they were constantly setting up characters I didn't care about, nor wanted to care about. Kiefer Sutherland's bored narration in the World At War demo was the closest I got to that one. While the talk of the long Pentagon cutscene in Black Ops pretty much killed any interested I had in the game right there.

But mostly, Activision seems to want to transform CoD into their Madden Football. Hire two teams and have them push a game out every year. And they'll probably continue to do really well with it, because it's turning into a comfort food. Just good enough that you keep on buying it, but with no one really trying to do anything remotely innovative or novel.

 

[Ashcrexl]

activision does this a lot. very good franchises are driven into the ground with yearly installments that dont really suck so much as stagnate due to more of the same gameplay. oh well.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I don't like a popular game that a lot of other people like. They're just sheep and -I-, with my infinitely better taste, recognize that the series has been going downhill since X game that I liked. Despite being one of best-selling series in gaming history, my opinion shows that the series is clearly doomed. I must spread this gospel. The people must hear the word.

TO THE INTERNET.

 

[WonderWillard]

Adam Sessler (from G4, just in case anyone doesn't know) had a great Soapbox episode about this a while ago. He talked about how games like Black Ops, and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood were good games, but having sequels come out every single year takes away from the charm of the franchise. It removes the "worth the wait" aspect.

I completely agree with him. I'm not a huge CoD fan, but I'm sick of seeing all the hype for a new game EVERY year. I mean if you're gonna stick to the same franchise Activision, why make different genres? Maybe try a CoD RTS or something, instead of pushing out a military FPS every gorram year.

 

[Kae]

I did not know they had creativity in the first place much less charm.