Poll: How would you react to the Call Of Duty fanchise being cancelled suddenly?

[Henkie36]

Well, I probabbly wouldn't care very much. Yeah CoD 4 was good, but they definitley went downhill from there on in. All attempts to cash in on that success still work, bizarly. No, not a very big deal. I guess some other generic brown FPS will pop up not too long after.

 

[Vigormortis]

The most poular game ever at the moment.......if it died, how would you react?

"The most popular game ever at the moment..."?

Uh...what? Isn't that a bit contradictory?

Though, it makes for quite the poignant statement on the average mentality of the series fans. It's always "the best game ever"; until the next one comes out a few months later.

Frankly, I don't care about the franchise. But honestly? I'll be glad when it's dead and gone.

 

[Creator002]

Wouldn't care (actually, I'd be a little glad). I don't play CoD unless I'm at my friend's house and there's 5 other CoD games (maybe more) we could play online.

 

[WanderingFool]

The most poular game ever at the moment.......if it died, how would you react?

Hmmm... wouldnt really care.

*Edit*

Actually, I felt it died with with the release of MW3.

 

[somonels]

None of the above. Modern Military Shooters are already on the decline. The problem was never that they were shit - though they were

I think almost [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-2] every [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-bad-company-2] reviewer [http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare] in the industry would like to say something about that.

Unless you want to rationalize it by saying they're biased/paid off/just stupid. That's cool too.

I don't really base my opinions on any solid evidence, nor do I follow things I don't care about. What I AM seeing is a lot of smaller / midsize developers giving up on copying the WW2/MMS shooters and actually making progress with the genre.
As for me calling them shit... it's a personal preference, I find the genre to be based on unappealing mechanics and, well, if there is a 'Music'critic, go check Justin Bieber, popularity is... just that.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

I don't play games from that franchise, so I would probably be indifferent. However, I have a lot of friends who love Call of Duty and have been with the franchise for years, and I understand that it's beloved by many in the industry so I guess I would feel some dismay for losing an overall loved video game series.

 

[Woodsey]

I would do that thing where people throw their hats in the air.

None of the above. Modern Military Shooters are already on the decline. The problem was never that they were shit - though they were

I think almost [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-2] every [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-bad-company-2] reviewer [http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare] in the industry would like to say something about that.

Unless you want to rationalize it by saying they're biased/paid off/just stupid. That's cool too.

Just stupid, definitely.

(And the real answer was that he was injecting his opinion, obviously. Trying to back that up with 'but look at what reviewers said' is fairly meaningless.)

 

[Phlakes]

None of the above. Modern Military Shooters are already on the decline. The problem was never that they were shit - though they were

I think almost [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-2] every [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-bad-company-2] reviewer [http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare] in the industry would like to say something about that.

Unless you want to rationalize it by saying they're biased/paid off/just stupid. That's cool too.

I don't really base my opinions on any solid evidence, nor do I follow things I don't care about. What I AM seeing is a lot of smaller / midsize developers giving up on copying the WW2/MMS shooters and actually making progress with the genre.
As for me calling them shit... it's a personal preference, I find the genre to be based on unappealing mechanics and, well, if there is a 'Music'critic, go check Justin Bieber, popularity is... just that.

There's a difference between "X is shit" and "I don't like X". Modern military shooters obviously (a/we)ren't shit if they (a/we)re universally praised.

 

[SEXTON HALE]

I would climb to the rooftops and laugh as the streets fill with the tears of thirteen year olds.
Then it would be back to business as usual it would'nt make much difference to my day.

 

[SilverUchiha]

Never played the games and don't desire to. But I'd be glad because it means the industry is deciding to go in a new direction and that means we wouldn't be getting the same mediocre shooter every year as well as the many other devs trying to make their own generic mediocre shooter every year too.

 

[Rai^3]

I really wouldn't mind it. Maybe then every other shooter on the fucking planet would realize that regenerating health is not the answer to everything. I don't mind Call of Duty so much, but I do mind its influence on other shooters.

 

[Jakub324]

I like CoD. I'm one of the freaks that buys it for the story. I'd kinda mourn for an hour or two and then go back to Crysis and Gears.

 

[kickyourass]

Since the best games of the series all got made at least 5 years ago I wouldn't really care all that much. I mean I'd care much more that all the dev people involved in the series are now unemployed, I may not like most of the games but those things put alot of food on alot of tables.

 

[Raven_Operative]

I would probably react like this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt2i0ts-uck

I wonder how the shooter genre would progress without everyone trying to copy COD.

...

.....

Oh right... They'd all copy BF.

 

[The Last Nomad]

I don't think I'd give a shit. Even a little one.
I've never bought a Call of Duty game and I don't plan to start now. Ever since playing CoD2 or 3 years ago I just thought they were very bad games. The few times I've played multiplayer in the recent incarnations of the series have done nothing to change my opinion.

The controls are awful and its just far too simple for my tastes.

 

[TheBlueRabbit]

I would have to be dead to care any less.

 

[Hazy992]

*shrugs*

I'd add something else to that post or you'll get a warning for low content

 

[KeyMaster45]

I don't think I'd really care. Franchises come and go all the time, hell before CoD it was Halo. I'm not a fan of the series though so my indifference would be the same as if we heard Michael Bay will never touch the Transformer's franchise again. (meaning that I'd be happy I no longer have to hear people piss and moan about how it's ruining its respective industry)