Poll: Poll: Does Call of Duty deserve all the hate it gets?
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No, not really. Certainly not my favourite game out there and given I do rip on it a lot it doesn't deserve ALL the hate. Most of it though...
I find it kind of ironic how people diss the Dynasty Warriors games (a series which I'm not a fan of [yet] honest) yet give out high scores for a game that's mostly the same; kill guys, non-interactive bit, kill more guys, non-interactive bit, kill another group of guys, ect. At least DW has a Gundam spin-off series. Also DW fans aren't as big of jerks as CoD fans, just so long as you don't hate their games they won't threaten to kill you.Valiance said:
I went in to playing MW2 with a friend without having ever played a COD game, and I must say it was fun, exciting, addicting, and well made. Quite frankly I loved it. I just don't own a single COD game. So no. It doesn't. It was fun, and I'll call any game that I can sit down and have fun playing a really good game, and this is coming from a guy whose favorite series of anything ever is the Legend of Zelda.
The single player storylines have gotten shorter and more retarded with each iteration.
But the multiplayer is what takes the cake. It is the pinnacle of bad shooter design.
But the multiplayer is what takes the cake. It is the pinnacle of bad shooter design.
Not all of it. A lot of the complaints are true, but a lot of the people who jumped on the hate bandwagon started calling them the worst games ever. Which obviously isn't close to being true.
I thought there was a name for starting to believe something that you keep hearing or telling yourself, can't remember what, too lazy to search Wikipedia...
I thought there was a name for starting to believe something that you keep hearing or telling yourself, can't remember what, too lazy to search Wikipedia...
Jegsimmons said:
People hate it because it's popular and because it wasn't made in Japan. Call of Duty is a perfectly serviceable series that does what it does pretty well. The multiplayer system that Call of Duty 4 popularized is a good one, and whether the internet likes it or not(the internet doesn't like anything that doesn't have Kefka Palazzo in it), popular things are popular for a reason: because they did something really well.
Overrated because of how formulaic the game is and how nothing significant has changed about the games over the years.
Hated because it dominates sales for that very reason. Also the community can be irritating.
Hated because it dominates sales for that very reason. Also the community can be irritating.
People don't hate it because it's a bad game, people hate it because it has become the benchmark for current FPS shooters for better or worse.
It's the same with World of Warcraft. You can hate on the game all you want, but you can't deny it's success and influence on its competition.
It's the same with World of Warcraft. You can hate on the game all you want, but you can't deny it's success and influence on its competition.
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"It's overated" is an understatement.
1- Every sp that came after CoD4's is a tiring micheal-bay-esque piece of shit that lasts less than four hours.
2- From a multiplayer standpoint, every installment since 2007 has been either worse or equal to its predecessors.
3- But imo, the real problem is this: CoD's gameplay is dull as fuck.
- campaigns are endless loops of [...get to cover spot ahead to make enemies stop coming, so you can get to another cover spot further ahead to make another wave of enemies stop coming...] Also: all you have to do is lie down for 3 secs if you get shot, and the A.I. is terrible.
- multiplayer modes are endless loops of [...run in circles, kill dude(s), get xp, run in circles some more, kill dude(s), xp, get killed, wait 3 secs, keep running in circles, kill more dudes...]
That said, how can someone play that shit for months/years and not be a retard?
4- And, speaking of retards, CoD's target audience tends to make terrible online communities.
1- Every sp that came after CoD4's is a tiring micheal-bay-esque piece of shit that lasts less than four hours.
2- From a multiplayer standpoint, every installment since 2007 has been either worse or equal to its predecessors.
3- But imo, the real problem is this: CoD's gameplay is dull as fuck.
- campaigns are endless loops of [...get to cover spot ahead to make enemies stop coming, so you can get to another cover spot further ahead to make another wave of enemies stop coming...] Also: all you have to do is lie down for 3 secs if you get shot, and the A.I. is terrible.
- multiplayer modes are endless loops of [...run in circles, kill dude(s), get xp, run in circles some more, kill dude(s), xp, get killed, wait 3 secs, keep running in circles, kill more dudes...]
That said, how can someone play that shit for months/years and not be a retard?
4- And, speaking of retards, CoD's target audience tends to make terrible online communities.
No they don't, i've stopped ranting about them being bad because i realized, it's a big and important part of the gaming history the time where the fps found another staple and package to be based off of.
and reason two it's like mario, sure it doesn't have anything that couldn't have been 'Thought' of by anyone else but it delivers it so well that it's hard not to see the simplistic if not great gameplay, that is easy for new people to hop on to but something veterans can excel at through practice and play. but i personally am not a fan of the game, i like class based and sim, shooters far more.
(i don't consider the "classes" in CoD to be classes, just preferred ways to create one character, the changes aren't significant enough for me to say,
"that guy is supposed to do this and he's supposed to do that because they have certain gear and perks." but this might be because i wasn't a pro)
and reason two it's like mario, sure it doesn't have anything that couldn't have been 'Thought' of by anyone else but it delivers it so well that it's hard not to see the simplistic if not great gameplay, that is easy for new people to hop on to but something veterans can excel at through practice and play. but i personally am not a fan of the game, i like class based and sim, shooters far more.
(i don't consider the "classes" in CoD to be classes, just preferred ways to create one character, the changes aren't significant enough for me to say,
"that guy is supposed to do this and he's supposed to do that because they have certain gear and perks." but this might be because i wasn't a pro)
If it's sales figures show anything, people obviously enjoy Call of Duty, it's just that some people don't. Simple as that. Don't like it? Fine. Neither do I. It's certainly not the worst game ever, and it's certainly not the best. It's influence on the FPS genre is slowly wearing off, as is the fanbase. I see COD as an introduction to the FPS genre, but people would rather keep playing it than move on to a more challenging FPS. Can we stop talking about COD now? I feel like we're in this infinite loop of the same COD conversations over and over again.-_-
But also you can't deny there can be different levels of intellectuality in entertainment; different levels, different people - therefore, while I may think spending all day watching a rock is stupid, a caged orangutan may find it entertaining; being able to be entertained by things that other people find stupid is not necessarily a good thing for you...Buchholz101 said:
Some people get easily bored of stupid things, for instance, (Black Ops' ending) the US military making a derranged bipolar and schizofrenic rogue agent (who has been on heavy drugs the whole game) pilot an armed helicopter to help them take down a ship.
No. I can understand that it's the same game every year ever since they hit gold with CoD4. I've had mixed feelings about the multiplayer; sometimes I enjoy it and sometimes I ragequit early on. I think most of the CoD haters are jumping on the "I hate it because it's popular," bandwagon. Personally I prefer Battlefield over CoD because I like team-based games, but if I feel like a lone wolf I'll gladly play some CoD and have fun with it. There's also the community largely populated (in short) annoying people, but I don't blame the game, it's the franchise that's so immensely popular.
Call of Duty is definently a good, solid shooter. The only problem I have with it is that I got bored with it somewhere between CoD4 and Mw2, and I'm not really seeing anything that interests me in the other games, just more of the same. That and I hated most of the community. It deserves SOME hate, but not a lot, apparently now for some people it's cool to hate on CoD.
