Lol, i always defend CoD when i think someone is trying to hate on it (even though black ops was the last title i played online). People have gone off it after it's relentless yearly releases but they tend to slag the game off for things that made the earlier games great. Rather than say 'i got bored of playing the same-ish game' they try to justify their opinion by berating the game itself for suddenly being less than it was and that winds me up a little. Fair enough though, the community aspect to any game is enough to put some people off. I don't like being called a ****** anymore than the next person but i do find a strange glee in destroying someone who slags me off without any knowledge of who or what i am. Abuse makes me stronger and play harder so inadvertently the abusers are giving me the advantage.Thr33X said:Don't think that I'm defending COD here, not at all. Of any modern FPS game with multiplayer, COD is what I call "easy mode". It's just that I've seen enough threads on places like SRK in terms of fighting games where if someone has any form of gripe the de-facto response is the person "sucks". Getting a little tired of the whole dismissive, elitist mentality that some people have...that's no dig on you personally though. The nature of internet anonymity coupled with the already hostile "community" of fighting games and FPS alike is enough to eventually sour anyone's mood or desire to continue to play the games with any level of enjoyment.
As with all things, use the negatives to your advantage and you can succeed. That is a good lesson for all multi-player games, especially co-op.