Poll: Should Call of Duty Stop?

[SturmDolch]

No.

I would have said so last year, but Black Ops is a great game. World at War? Terrible. Modern Warfare 2? The whole PC fiasco turned me off it. But Black Ops is the most fun game I've played on PC in a long time.

Oh, wait, you were talking about single player? Why in the world are you playing CoD for the single player!? That ship sailed a while ago. It's all about the multi now. In my opinion, they could ditch the single player entirely and focus even more energy on the multiplayer.

Not to mention that CoD is the biggest franchise in gaming right now. It brings in more money than most films. Taking CoD out of gaming takes out $1 billion + per year out of the gaming industry.

Stop being a video game hipster. Just because something is more popular than something you like more doesn't mean it's shit. It just means that people *gasp* have a different opinion.

 

[Infinatex]

Screw the single player and just make an updated multiplayer title every year. No one plays it for the campaigns anyway.

 

[Geo88]

I know a lot of you "hardcore" gamers are immediately reacting to this thread with "WTF is this guy nuts?" But, hear me out. The Call of Duty franchise, as we all know, has been getting worse and worse with every new release, and not just online either. We all know the cheating and cheap "n00b tubes" is very prominent in the online but the story has been getting less emmersive and as soon as the newness wears off everyone can agree that most new CODs suck. Honestly I don't think Trearch or IW has put out a good COD since 2007 with COD4, and despite it being the biggest FPS franchise to date, I think they need to put this cow they've been milking dry for 10+ years to rest.

I personally would rather play a good single player game like Fallout that keeps me hooked for months than have to deal with some of the a$$holes online in COD and debatably Battlefield or HALO. Maybe the next COD should just be an outstanding career and no online, or selective online like the new Combat Training feature.

I honestly don't think the right question is being asked. You're suggesting that Activision, headed by possibly one of the greediest people I've ever heard of, should stop making a franchise that sells millions of copies each year before the cases even hit the shelves. That's just not realistic. I'd rather play a solid single player game, too, but that's not going to affect CoD because it's so centered around multiplayer.

This is the sort of thing that the market will have to correct. For example, I really liked both CoD4's campaign and multiplayer, so I bought MW2. I thought MW2's multiplayer was an improvement, but the story was less exciting. Because I value story more than multiplayer, I didn't really care about BlOps. When it came out, I was too immersed with Fable III and The Force Unleashed II to bother with it. (Expanding on that, I thought The Force Unleashed II was a huge disappointment, so I'll just rent the third game.)

I no longer play the CoD series, but it's obvious that a lot of people do. For each person who says it's a horrible franchise, as we speak, there are 10 players who disagree and another 10 players too busy ordering air strikes online to care.

In the end, unless the quality of the games slips dramatically, CoD isn't going to stop or slow down until it's dethroned by another series. Hell, with the momentum it has right now, the CEO might get away with wanting to charge a monthly subscription to play online.

I just won't be one of the people paying or playing.

 

[Atrias]

A Battlefield-esque call of duty would be fun.

I remember Battlefield 2142, that was great. In a lot of warfare games, one thing I have personally always seen really lacking is the presence of vehicles, which while maybe not really good when it comes to competitive play, pure skills and all that, seemingly reduces the warfare atmosphere. What manner of war is consistently fought with only infantry nowadays, or in the future for that matter?

Large maps with variety and vehicles with futuristic, yet grounded in realism, war game would be fantastic.

Simply cloning what's already been done without adding too much innovation however may be a bad idea.

 

[JIst00]

Yes, Please.

 

[Korten12]

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They should go the route of Bad Company, big ass maps, somewhat realistic bullet physics, vehicles, and the biggest one, something that is taboo for them BETA TEST YOUR FUCKING GAME!!!!!!

That would be terrible, why? Because that isn't what COD is. Also don't you mean the route of Battlefield since that was before Bad Company?

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

They should go the route of Bad Company, big ass maps, somewhat realistic bullet physics, vehicles, and the biggest one, something that is taboo for them BETA TEST YOUR FUCKING GAME!!!!!!

That would be terrible, why? Because that isn't what COD is. Also don't you mean the route of Battlefield since that was before Bad Company?[/quote]I was giving a recent example, I have played the Battlefield series before.

 

[Korten12]

They should go the route of Bad Company, big ass maps, somewhat realistic bullet physics, vehicles, and the biggest one, something that is taboo for them BETA TEST YOUR FUCKING GAME!!!!!!

That would be terrible, why? Because that isn't what COD is. Also don't you mean the route of Battlefield since that was before Bad Company?

I was giving a recent example, I have played the Battlefield series before.[/quote]

Ah well still, it just wouldn't be good, cause if it wen't the BF route, why play it when you could just play BF?

 

[marblemadness]

I couldn't disagree more. I love all of the COD games since MW1. I actually prefer MW2 and BO over MW1. They change enough from year to year to make it feel new. The new killstreaks, new guns, etc... Oh, and about the single player: seriously, if you actually buy a Call of Duty game for the STORY, then you're a moron. COD would sell just as well if they only had multiplayer.

 

[Special Kiz]

Businesses respond to and rely on their consumers. As long as people want to buy a CoD game every year, a game will be released every year. If the developers release games with no quality or redeeming value, they will get hurt in the one place they really feel it, their wallets.

I doubt this topic was really ever about the business sense of Activision though. A good test would be to replace "CoD" with any other game series that you like and seems to get a annual new release and asking the same question, would them taking three years out benefit everyone? I think the response would reveal what a weighted question that is (but 'Super Mario Galaxy 2 was so innovative and fun', 'but the new Zelda game looks like it is going to break boundaries' 'The Uncharted series owns' etc). In other words, just because you don't like another genre or series, especially if it is popular but you consider it inferior to your gaming niches, doesn't mean you should hope it ends or takes a break.

I would like to ask the people who voted yes to the poll, would they be much more likely to buy a CoD game if it did take a couple years out to spend more time in development. If the answer is no, I don't think it is any of your business to comment and vote in this poll, because you clearly aren't the audience who would appreciate it in any way, and so come across as a hater who is gonna hate.

 

[marblemadness]

Or you could just, you know, not play it. It sounds to me like a ton of people like these games, so why the hell should they stop being made?

This is kind of a general response, btw. I haven't played CoD since the second game. I just hate it when people think a franchise should stop just because they don't like it. No one is forcing anyone to play anything.

You are a VERY wise man. I've never understood the people who complain about forms of entertainment that they don't like. I don't like Justin Beiber, Anime cartoons, pokemon, or World of Warcraft, but I don't start threads on the internet about how all of these things should just "go away" so that I don't have to hear about them anymore. It seems kind of petty to me.

 

[DPutna17]

I think Infinity Ward should finish off MW3 or whatever they're working on the try their hand at something different for a while. Though Activision would never let them do that so the should all quit and go join Respawn Entertainment instead(I know that's not realistic either, but whatever). They have got to be tired of making FPS's by now at least at a new studio they wouldn't have Activision looking over their shoulders. As for Treyarch they can keep taking Activision's cock up their ass for all I care.

So ya in conclusion it should take a break after MW3

 

[shemoanscazrex3]

The whoe game a year thing should be done with. It worked in sports games because back then there was no DLC but now they should maybe add yearly DLC or something. I'm tired of games being pushed back because it intervenes with COD time.
On another note I've never seen spam on this site so what's up with the captchas

 

[Comma-Kazie]

I'd like to see the end of the "Modern Warfare" arc, but after that I do think they should stop.

 

[Ldude893]

I'll stop buying their games after they release Modern Warfare 3.

 

[Entreri481]

OMG I agree, the Captchas are so freaking annoying.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

I think that it should take a break. 3 years sounds right. To give people enough time to miss it.

Reinvent itself, like it did with 4.

4's multiplayer was a revolution, even if the core gunplay was barely different from 2.

It's time for the next step.

Well...that's pretty much my opinion on the subject.

It's just rehashing itself and milking it's brand-power. It's an entertaining series, but if it wants to be great again it'll need to disappear for a while, give people time to miss it, then come back with something special.

That said, Activision is characteristically more motivated by the idea of highest-sales-ever kind of games than great games.

 

[Denos]

I think they should stop milking the series, i mean it is a good series and all, but everything needs to stop sometime. What they could do is make one last game that focuses around the multiplayer, maybe even make it have micro transactions for stuff like camo or face paint, kinda like LoL with the skins. But in the end call of duty really needs to let itself fall into history.

 

[Special Kiz]

That said, Activision is characteristically more motivated by the idea of highest-sales-ever kind of games than great games.

It's almost like a business is primarily concerned about the money it makes!!!