Poll: Do You Think Modern Warfare 2 Will Be the Next Halo 3?

[crepesack]

It's increasingly coming to my attention that Modern Warfare 2 is receiving a lot of bad press from both the media and gamers alike and it's got me fearing this could end up being the next Halo 3.

I don't mean a comparison in terms of quality, but the hatred that arises from a game that becomes so popular that a sequel either doesn't (or could never) reach fan's expectations, or a backlash from non-fans who don't understand what the fuss is all about to counter-balance any hype.

So why does it matter? Well, we've had enough anti-Halo threads on these forums over the years and as if that's not enough to deal with we could soon be putting up with anti-Warfare threads side-by-side.

Do you think this could happen regardless of whether the game is good or not? What do you think would be the cause? The game becomes too appealing to a certain audience (i.e. young gamers), marketing over-saturation that starts getting annoying, too many threads of the said game on these and other forums, over-referencing or quoting, jealousy, over-recognition?

Let me tell you, I ALREADY hate this game. Call of Duty just stands for me as one big pile of sameyness. Trying to make distinctions between one game in the series and the last is like trying to convince me that one Final Fantasy is way different from the other--it's hair-splitting that I think only core fans appreciate. That's not what bothers me, though. If it were just that, I could just as soon shrug and look the other way. But Activision is acting COMPLETELY full of themselves over it, as if they've developed the best game ever made. I don't care how good Call of Duty actually is, and I don't care how Infinity Ward actually feels (for the record: from what I can tell they have a great deal more humility than their publisher--it endears me to them greatly that they actually didn't want to make Call of Duty 2 ANOTHER World War II game), when a company acts THAT full of themselves, when they feel the need to treat themselves like King Louis at the palace of Versailles over one title, indistinguishable from dozens of others, unremarkable but for the fact that it's technically competent and fills a well-traveled niche, that company is DEAD to me and that game is a subject ripe for boycott.

I hate Bungie and Blizzard for the same reason--Blizzard especially because they actually take it to the point where they won't hire designers unless they're guild leaders in World of Warcraft. That's just great, isn't it? Limit your hiring pool to only the most hopelessly and sheepishly devoted fans. Generate no new ideas, don't listen to anyone who isn't willing to pay a monthly fee as a qualification or who doesn't think your games are absolutely the best thing since sliced bread. Never mind the fact that your next releases are sequels that've been in the works for 10+ years and that are in all likelihood copy/pastes of the previous games. I CAN'T STAND developers who let their egos get carried away, no matter how successful their products are. They don't know what could happen! Ten years from now Call of Duty is liable to have the reigns wrested from it in the shooter market in favor of some other bland shooter that copy/pastes the mechanics we've been running on since Goldeneye on the N64--and then how will those claims look? I'd make a claim about Blizzard, but ten years later somehow, with only World of Warcraft to their name otherwise, they've turned from "makers of Diablo, Warcraft, and Starcraft" to "THE GODS OF GAME DESIGN!" They've made NO GAMES but people worship them, to the point that some of my fellow students are willing to throw up their arms, give up on trying to think for themselves as they design their projects, and literally just imitate Diablo figuring that it's the best formula and that none better can possibly exist.

No matter what company it comes from, it's DISGUSTING, and the fact that they actually get away with such a limited portfolio of games and ideas and that people actually BELIEVE them when they claim themselves to be makers of the best-game-ever just disgusts me all the more...

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So yeah, in answer to your question, I don't care.

you win a...oh wait no i should take away whatever awards you have been previously awarded...you're arguments aren't very well substantiated.. but of course it IS your opinion thanks for the WoT.

 

[Durahan2]

Halo is a pile of over hyped crap, suited to 13 year olds who should be popping Ritalin like crazy.
Call of duty will hopefully be rightfully hyped, and hopefully halo ODST took away all the halotards that started playing COD.

Can we leave these childish fanboy comments aside for once?

Yeah I'm so totally a fanboy, thats totally why I don't have either game. I've got gamefly so I've played both. Halo to me just seems overrated in just about everything(same for a lot of games). If anyone is being a fanboy, it's you trying to put me down just because I don't like that game. I'd really like to play the new game's multiplayer when all the little racial slur yelling kiddies are playing a different one, thats no lie.

Edit: only reason I'm getting Modern warfare is because well all my friends are. I'd much rather they all get borderlands instead haha. So many other games that are higher on my list then CoD, do yeah don't call me a CoD fanboy.

 

[Durahan2]

Halo is a pile of over hyped crap, suited to 13 year olds who should be popping Ritalin like crazy.
Call of duty will hopefully be rightfully hyped, and hopefully halo ODST took away all the halotards that started playing COD.

Can we leave these childish fanboy comments aside for once?

Yeah I'm so totally a fanboy, thats totally why I don't have either game. I've got gamefly so I've played both. Halo to me just seems overrated in just about everything(same for a lot of games). If anyone is being a fanboy, it's you trying to put me down just because I don't like that game. I'd really like to play the new game's multiplayer when all the little racial slur yelling kiddies are playing a different one, thats no lie.

Edit: only reason I'm getting Modern warfare is because well all my friends are. I'd much rather they all get borderlands instead haha. So many other games that are higher on my list then CoD, do yeah don't call me a CoD fanboy.

Wow, because I asked you to leave your childish fanboy remarks out of the conversation, I'm the fanboy? Great logic!
I dont own any Halo game other than the first on Pc, I dont even own an xbox. Those childish remarks arnt needed in this thread.

How am I fanboy then? By your "great logic" I'm no much of a fanboy then you. Plus if anyone is being childish it's you. You insulted me, when all I did give me opinion of a game and the majority of it's community. I didn't call anyone a fanboy or anything else for liking halo; it's their opinion. Now please, stop to start something because "Obvious troll is obvious!"

 

[Jim Grim]

I'm already getting annoyed by all the publicity and trailers that are constantly bellowed in my metaphorical ear, so I'd say yes.
However, ignoring that, I think I'll definately enjoy playing this game. A LOT.

 

[0z0wen]

no halo 3 was way to good and as one review said 'forget game of the year, this is game of the decade'

 

[Christemo]

yes, but at least Call of Duty is something i dont find in Halo: FUN.

 

[Christemo]

Wait, what? No, it won't. It will be a bad game about generic soldiers shooting people at Middle-East.

it wont be generic, but the OpFor returns. so we are going to The Middle East.

 

[zombflux]

Agreed, but everyone who has an XBox pretty much has Halo, so it made for so fun LAN parties

I don't have Halo on FAILBox 360, I have the PC versions, sadly even the PC couldn't stop that game from sucking. I am curious how you managed to have a LAN (Local Area Network) party on an XBox?

http://www.locopuyo.com/xboxlan.html

I didn't set it up. But I agree that Halo does suck.

 

[Sgtkillalot0]

Well, is MW2 being the next Halo 3 a good thing or a bad thing...

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Eh. I'm going to end up buying it, I'm not very excited for it, though. I ended up getting Halo 3. Wasn't excited for that at all.

 

[bob-2000]

it'll be massively popular, but i think that MW2 deserves it more.

 

[H34DSCHOTT]

I just wanted to say, it's just another shooter. How long have you guys been playing them, you should know by now that its the same in the end. It never ends your just out there killing each other, and while the devs. might be able to add interesting new features to the game, it doesn't mean that you are going to like them. Sure you can make rash comments about a game that you have never played. Or you can just accept it for what it is.

I would imagine that more than half of the people commenting on this thread are going to get the game play it, love it/hate it, off it, and then next thing you know your playing another.

Get over it guys, games are games are games are games. They ain't never gonna quit.

I suppose the point I am trying to make is, just look at it for what it is, a new game, don't scrutinize the devs. and comment about the game before you have even played it.

I think that some people have forgotten that it's not about the gamerscore, and the multiplayer leveling system and all the stupid gimmicks that they use to keep you hooked. It's about how enjoyable the game was, did it capture you in some of it's moments.

I'm sure there are still a few people out there that know where i'm coming from.

 

[PezNic]

MW2 is the next Halo 3 cause they ditched dedicated servers and decided to use the console tard method of match making. Because obviously sitting there waiting for players is so much better than continuously playing on a single server for hours on end