Tin Man said:
Maybe you can answer this for me, your post seems as good as any here...
Why do people that dislike COD actually want it to do poorly and fail? If loads of shooters are copying cod, then those shooters are the ones you have beef with, it's not cods job to rewrite the rule book on multiplayer shooters again. Successful games are good for us all. It'll end up like the movie industry. The profits from huge things like cod go on to be the bankroll for riskier propositions.
Simply because the games are all very similar to one another and hardly do anything truly brand new each game.
Or if they do, it is usually quite late.
For example, Black Ops had it's theater mode, a nice addition - one that Halo had for nearly 4 years already.
However my main reason for not liking CoD is that it's seen no major gameplay changes since CoD 4, and no graphical updates since MW2, while rival shooters such as Halo and Battlefield change the formula regularly. It may not be huge differences, but each has made a damn sight more effort to change for the better since their predecessor.
I wasn't pissed off at all CoDs, in fact it's pretty much only been this most recent addition that's really annoyed me. I loved the past four games until I got bored of them, but MW3 I find insultingly similar to MW2.
I mean, most of it is
the exact same, with identical model animations, and even a MP score bar ripped directly from the previous MW. New guns be damned, from what I've seen half the game looks identical or near-identical to MW2, and the lack of effort irritates me far more due to how big MW3's release is regarded.
I mean yes, I see your point about how it's good for the industry clearly, but it still irritates me that the current flagship of gaming's latest iteration has a fair ton of elements copy and pasted from it's 2-year-old predecessor.
I also don't like the money-hoarding policies of Activision, what with the games being £2-5 above usual price simply because they know people will buy it, and the map packs being extortionate for the amount of content given.
So really I'm just annoyed that the biggest game in the world is putting less and less effort into new iterations, yet charging more for it, simply because they know it will still sell.
I don't want CoD to fail because it's successful or because it's CoD, but because it's extortionate and becoming more same-y each year. I would much prefer it if CoD continued to thrive and gave fresh iterations with with actual passion put into them each year, but since this doesn't seem to be happening or likely to happen at all, I would sooner rather it outright died, to kill the stagnating series.
