Poll: Call of Duty?
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That's what always brings me back, how things flow together. It's better on PC (not counting MW2) as the dedicated servers make the multiplayer flow even better. No other shooter like it has that feeling, I just wished that the campaigns were more fulfilling and a much better experience.MiracleOfSound said:
I don't think I could care any less about it. I've only played Modern Warfare, and if that's the peak of the series, then I don't think I want to play any of the other games.
Because Second chance is annoying enough without people getting Akimbo guns with it...ThatGuyWithTheShotty said:
No, I don't like it. Primarily because I don't like first person shooters (How have I got myself by the last 5 or 6 years?) . Pretty much the only one I've ever really enjoyed is portal, cause it's more puzzle based. I kind of like TF2, but mainly cause of the aesthetics.
No problem with people who like CoD though.
No problem with people who like CoD though.
I don't like it.
Yes, it's good, because it kind of brought gaming into the mainstream, but the game itself, along with its community are downright horrible.
CoD4 was kind of interesting, but I didn't see it as a major leap in terms of SP or MP experience, especially because I've played the original CoD, CoD:UO, CoD2 and that was pretty much the same with less scripting and obviously, less details.
The setting was again, pretty "meh". While modern-time war games weren't exactly new as some CoD players may say (the game engine is older than half the kids who play it, so disregard anyone who claims MW was the first FPS war game in a modern setting - Battlefield 2 or Delta Force series, anyone?) they were still a bit of fresh air in a sea oversaturated with nearly-identical WW2 shooters.
Then of course came Modern Warfare 2. The hype was crazy and everyone and their grandmother was playing it. However, it's the CoD game that I dislike the most.
To start off, key gameplay mechanics like the killstreak rewards, were simply a rip-off of [PST] Joker's eXtreme X4 mod (Google is your friend) for CoD4:MW. The weapons were horribly balanced. The game turned everyone into a K/D whore; nobody cared about objectives anymore.
Not to mention just about everyone playing CoD had the idea that they knew a lot about weapons, when in fact a lot of the weapons are incorrectly portraied: they were modeled after airsoft guns, so obviously there were incorrect models, the lack of a fire selector confused people into thinking some weapons can ONLY fire burst, while some only full-auto, obviously people never got to understand that a "Barrett .50 cal" is not the name of a weapon, but rather a family of weapons made by Barrett that fire .50 rounds, most notably the M95 and M82/107 (which is the one in CoD BTW).
And then of course it skewed people's view of combat. A lot of people actually think wars are basically fought by 6 guys on each side showing up at a maze and quickscoping eachother...
On the technical side, we have graphics that didn't improve one bit. Lack of polygons is made up by use of excessive bump mapping. Lack of dedicated servers in MW2. A poorly built matchmaking system to go with it. For Christ's sake, the PC version was a straight port from Xbox 360, most obvious when it got 360-specific error messages. Sounds in each and every game are horrible, looped noises, not even marginally close to the real weapons. Voiceovers are plain and lifeless. A far cry from the magnificent HDR audio of the Frostbite game engine.
The lack of notable improvement, ever since CoD2 is so obvious, it's sad. Let's look at CoD2 (2005) and MW3 (2011), and then at BF2 (2005) and BF3 (2011). I think it's pretty damn obvious how much things HAVE changed in a game that keeps pushing the boundaries (random fact: the medals, rewards, ranks and persistent stats trackign as we know it today was introduced by BF2; well, only the awards were so hard to get soem still didn't get them after thousands of hours of play) and how much things COULD'VE changed on CoD's side. Not only looking at graphics, but sounds and gameplay as well.
Multiplayer, no longer appeals to me, as large-scale maps are a rarity. Now everything is a little 15 x 15 meter lab rat maze and the pace is ridiculously fast...too fast to be entertaining. Refer to Katt Williams' "Liberty City" show from GTA IV (http://youtu.be/tvkuHATOPhU?t=1m38s)
Well, I won't go that much into what I like about the multiplayer, as I'm a Battlefield and ArmA fan, so maximalist combined-arms gameplay is what I like.
So let's talk singleplayer? I'll just tell, you CoD4:MW had an awesome story, well executed, with some great twists, and in a way, chillingly plausible.
Modern Warfail 2's singleplayer, on the other hand, the needle of its Cartoonish and Predicable gauge is indicating maximum value. Characters are shallow- but that's not the problem. The problem is you don't actually get attached to anyone of them because they're falling like flies.
And what's all this fake mil-speak full of Oscar Mike Stay Frosty? And what's with America basically being represented by Burger Town? While I approve of the stereotype, isn't it taking it a bit too far? And come on, Russia suddenly invades the USA? A General that goes as far as sacrificing his own men (even though apparently he still feels attached to the 30000 men he lost in the blink of an eye) to orchestrate a terrorist attack, went intentionally southside and then again using his men to tie up loose ends and killing them too, only to become supreme commander of US Forces? Stop the music.
And then Black Ops? I was expecting covert ops, but instead I'm greeted by a game that has more explosions per second than a packet of Pop Rocks in my mouth.
The franchise is getting milked. It's painfully obvious. But the shee...people keep buying even when they notice they pay 105 dollars for a game (60 + 15 + 15 + 15). 60 dollars for a mediocre title, and 45 more dollars on DLC with so little content if it would be translated into food it would have the nutritious value of a sunflower seed.
There are just a few things of why I dislike Call of Duty.
EDIT: It's not my first post, I just CBA to log in with my username.
Yes, it's good, because it kind of brought gaming into the mainstream, but the game itself, along with its community are downright horrible.
CoD4 was kind of interesting, but I didn't see it as a major leap in terms of SP or MP experience, especially because I've played the original CoD, CoD:UO, CoD2 and that was pretty much the same with less scripting and obviously, less details.
The setting was again, pretty "meh". While modern-time war games weren't exactly new as some CoD players may say (the game engine is older than half the kids who play it, so disregard anyone who claims MW was the first FPS war game in a modern setting - Battlefield 2 or Delta Force series, anyone?) they were still a bit of fresh air in a sea oversaturated with nearly-identical WW2 shooters.
Then of course came Modern Warfare 2. The hype was crazy and everyone and their grandmother was playing it. However, it's the CoD game that I dislike the most.
To start off, key gameplay mechanics like the killstreak rewards, were simply a rip-off of [PST] Joker's eXtreme X4 mod (Google is your friend) for CoD4:MW. The weapons were horribly balanced. The game turned everyone into a K/D whore; nobody cared about objectives anymore.
Not to mention just about everyone playing CoD had the idea that they knew a lot about weapons, when in fact a lot of the weapons are incorrectly portraied: they were modeled after airsoft guns, so obviously there were incorrect models, the lack of a fire selector confused people into thinking some weapons can ONLY fire burst, while some only full-auto, obviously people never got to understand that a "Barrett .50 cal" is not the name of a weapon, but rather a family of weapons made by Barrett that fire .50 rounds, most notably the M95 and M82/107 (which is the one in CoD BTW).
And then of course it skewed people's view of combat. A lot of people actually think wars are basically fought by 6 guys on each side showing up at a maze and quickscoping eachother...
On the technical side, we have graphics that didn't improve one bit. Lack of polygons is made up by use of excessive bump mapping. Lack of dedicated servers in MW2. A poorly built matchmaking system to go with it. For Christ's sake, the PC version was a straight port from Xbox 360, most obvious when it got 360-specific error messages. Sounds in each and every game are horrible, looped noises, not even marginally close to the real weapons. Voiceovers are plain and lifeless. A far cry from the magnificent HDR audio of the Frostbite game engine.
The lack of notable improvement, ever since CoD2 is so obvious, it's sad. Let's look at CoD2 (2005) and MW3 (2011), and then at BF2 (2005) and BF3 (2011). I think it's pretty damn obvious how much things HAVE changed in a game that keeps pushing the boundaries (random fact: the medals, rewards, ranks and persistent stats trackign as we know it today was introduced by BF2; well, only the awards were so hard to get soem still didn't get them after thousands of hours of play) and how much things COULD'VE changed on CoD's side. Not only looking at graphics, but sounds and gameplay as well.
Multiplayer, no longer appeals to me, as large-scale maps are a rarity. Now everything is a little 15 x 15 meter lab rat maze and the pace is ridiculously fast...too fast to be entertaining. Refer to Katt Williams' "Liberty City" show from GTA IV (http://youtu.be/tvkuHATOPhU?t=1m38s)
Well, I won't go that much into what I like about the multiplayer, as I'm a Battlefield and ArmA fan, so maximalist combined-arms gameplay is what I like.
So let's talk singleplayer? I'll just tell, you CoD4:MW had an awesome story, well executed, with some great twists, and in a way, chillingly plausible.
Modern Warfail 2's singleplayer, on the other hand, the needle of its Cartoonish and Predicable gauge is indicating maximum value. Characters are shallow- but that's not the problem. The problem is you don't actually get attached to anyone of them because they're falling like flies.
And what's all this fake mil-speak full of Oscar Mike Stay Frosty? And what's with America basically being represented by Burger Town? While I approve of the stereotype, isn't it taking it a bit too far? And come on, Russia suddenly invades the USA? A General that goes as far as sacrificing his own men (even though apparently he still feels attached to the 30000 men he lost in the blink of an eye) to orchestrate a terrorist attack, went intentionally southside and then again using his men to tie up loose ends and killing them too, only to become supreme commander of US Forces? Stop the music.
And then Black Ops? I was expecting covert ops, but instead I'm greeted by a game that has more explosions per second than a packet of Pop Rocks in my mouth.
The franchise is getting milked. It's painfully obvious. But the shee...people keep buying even when they notice they pay 105 dollars for a game (60 + 15 + 15 + 15). 60 dollars for a mediocre title, and 45 more dollars on DLC with so little content if it would be translated into food it would have the nutritious value of a sunflower seed.
There are just a few things of why I dislike Call of Duty.
EDIT: It's not my first post, I just CBA to log in with my username.
I used to think it was awesome, then that opinion kinda faded a bit. I never stopped liking it, my enthusiasm just waned a little with every sequel after COD2, is all. But then I came to the Escapist.
Now, let me tell you something about myself: I'm not a habitual smoker anymore. Most I'll do nowadays is trade a dollar for a couple of a co-worker's cigarettes if I'm having a particularly bad day. It's a painful habit that makes my job even harder than it has to be, and it's even worse for my regular exercise regimen; on top of that, it puts me in a perpetual state of short-tempered stinkiness. All of those reasons (and maaaany more) led me to quit, and I'm much better for it... but as soon as I hear somebody get shitty about smokers, my very first impulse is to haul ass to a convenience store, find the shittiest coffin nails money can buy, and wring every ounce of second-hand smoke I can into their nostrils. I'm just wired to counter unwarranted snobbery with malignant spite like that, I can't help it.
As a result, my time here has caused me to grow an extra-sympathetic mindset to popular series that I already love, including Call of Duty and Halo and pretty much whatever else everybody here thinks it's cool to hate. So while my opinion probably would have settled around "Call of Duty is pretty good, yeah" on its own, it currently rests at "one of the best series out there".
Now, let me tell you something about myself: I'm not a habitual smoker anymore. Most I'll do nowadays is trade a dollar for a couple of a co-worker's cigarettes if I'm having a particularly bad day. It's a painful habit that makes my job even harder than it has to be, and it's even worse for my regular exercise regimen; on top of that, it puts me in a perpetual state of short-tempered stinkiness. All of those reasons (and maaaany more) led me to quit, and I'm much better for it... but as soon as I hear somebody get shitty about smokers, my very first impulse is to haul ass to a convenience store, find the shittiest coffin nails money can buy, and wring every ounce of second-hand smoke I can into their nostrils. I'm just wired to counter unwarranted snobbery with malignant spite like that, I can't help it.
As a result, my time here has caused me to grow an extra-sympathetic mindset to popular series that I already love, including Call of Duty and Halo and pretty much whatever else everybody here thinks it's cool to hate. So while my opinion probably would have settled around "Call of Duty is pretty good, yeah" on its own, it currently rests at "one of the best series out there".
There isn't an option for "I hate CoD post MW2". Wich I do.
Seriously, I liked the CoD games and I loved CoD 4, but after MW2, I just avoided it like the bubonic plague.
Seriously, I liked the CoD games and I loved CoD 4, but after MW2, I just avoided it like the bubonic plague.
Yeah, I think it is a fun game to play. I am going to get MW3 as well, because I loved the campaign of MW2, and I want to find out how it finishes 
I may not get it on release day though, I guess it depends on how much I am playing, or will be playing other games that come out during that section of the year.
I may not get it on release day though, I guess it depends on how much I am playing, or will be playing other games that come out during that section of the year.
I loved CoD 1 and CoD 2. Liked MW1 and that's about it.
MW2 was the last CoD game I bought and was so disappointed with it and the lack of dedicated servers was the last straw. For me CoD is dead and i will not buy another rehash until the done a WW2 themed one again, without perks and with dedicated servers.
Yes, I do hate the perk system as they added a crutch for players, and they will never be taken out as the whiners would go into overdrive.
MW2 was the last CoD game I bought and was so disappointed with it and the lack of dedicated servers was the last straw. For me CoD is dead and i will not buy another rehash until the done a WW2 themed one again, without perks and with dedicated servers.
Yes, I do hate the perk system as they added a crutch for players, and they will never be taken out as the whiners would go into overdrive.
Damn ninjas.Megacherv said:
I realized this not too long ago as well. I mean, I still like games like Battlefield and to a lesser extent Halo, but the CoD controls are just so responsive and tight that when I play other games it feels like I'm playing underwater.
So yeah, Duty is still my default multiplayer FPS.
Wow, that poll is very surprising. I mean, I love the series, but I thought you people hated it.
The hell it doesn't!! Spec Ops is some of the most fun I've ever had with a game.Catchy Slogan said:
I just watched a friend complete the single campaign in Black Ops, which left me with "WTF" stamped on my head in big, red letters. But hey, it's a shooter game I'm good at, so I can't complain.