Poll: Should the Call of duty series stop releasing campaigns.

[Shionarco]

Uhhhh, honestly that'd be a terrible idea. I think Black Ops campaign is actually the best CoD campaign yet...They seem to be getting better, and just because a lot of people only like multiplayer doesn't mean they are going to or should cut out campaign, there are still a lot of people who like the single player more than the multiplayer.

Are you sure we're still talking about COD because I met very few people who actually liked the singleplayer as much, fewer more then the multiplayer.

I am. I actually like the singleplayer more, at least on Black Ops and the first Modern Warfare. Some of my friends like the singleplayer more too. But for the most part people do like the multiplayer more, I am just saying that there are still a decent amount of people that enjoy the single player, and would be sad to see it go.

 

[The Night Shade]

Never a game needs to be good on singleplayer

 

[spartan231490]

Prior to playing Black Ops on multiplayer, I found the campaigns in the CoD games to be easily the best part. And if you go through and actually play the campaign in Black Ops, which I have a feeling you didn't, you will see just how excellently made it was.

If you ask me, they should take a few hints from Halo, and allow co-op into their campaign. Just the same, allow more customization into the campaign mode as well, also like Halo.

Furthermore, I believe that they should in fact devote a lot more time into optimizing the single player experience of the CoD series, rather than focusing it on what is only really a -decent- multiplayer experience. Sure, the multiplayer is fun, but it is quickly ruined once Killstreak rewards, easily the dumbest possible thing they've put into the game, come into play. Not to mention other utterly ridiculous aspects of multiplayer... for instance, the Famas having almost zero recoil when spraying, the Ak74u being stupidly accurate and unbalanced, and don't even get me started on the damn knife.

I played campaign in MW, MW2, and started on black ops. After 2 frustrating, mediocre campaigns, and a level that followed the old archetype, i decided to go straight to multiplayer after the fist mission of BO. I would love to see no campaign in cod, if it meant a better multiplayer, as should any person who plays cod multiplayer. you are going to spend much more time on the multiplayer.

 

[TiefBlau]

2 and 4 I played just because of the campaign. In fact, with all the CoD games I've ever played, I always, always start with the campaign, even when it's shit.

 

[Professor James]

This is the silliest argument in all of Sillisville, United Silliness of America.

By this argument, my next statements are correct:
"I played Counter-strike (or Team Fortress 2). Why does Valve continue to pour resources into their campaign?"

Counter-strike and Team fortress 2 doesn't have campaigns. I don't think valve made any game that has a singleplayer and multiplayer mode.(unless you count left 4 dead but singleplayer and multiplayer is basically the same thing.)

"Mercenaries II wasn't critically acclaimed, I don't know why they even bother making games that are not critically acclaimed."

You can't tell if a game is going to be critically acclaimed until you either release it or you're releasing a game that's a part of a AAA series.

I highly enjoyed the campaign and would be hard pressed to purchase CoD if it was multi-player only. Just because you don't know anyone who enjoys it doesn't mean they don't exist.

I understand and there are people who enjoy COD singleplayer but the truth is, they're kind of the minority.

 

[Jack_the_Knife]

See, maybe a year or two ago I might've agreed with you, but Black Ops proved that the single player campaign can really be the highlight if it's carefully and cleverly crafted. Hell, add a scaling co-op(preferably just make every other player besides Player 1/Host just some generic soldier to avoid that surreal multiple Soaps/Masons situation) mode for the campaign(and not some two minute Greatest Hits compilation), and avoid the pratfalls of war fiction and you could have a pretty memorable campaign.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Personally, they should pick either singleplayer or multiplayer and make at least one of them enjoyable. Because at the moment, at least with Black Ops, I find both aspects decidedly average.

 

[Omikron009]

Absolutely not. I don't have xbox live, so if I buy a CoD game it's for the campaign, or maybe splitscreen sometimes. I replay the campaigns a lot, and I've honestly never been disappointed. I thought the campaign in CoD4 was fantastic, and I was under the impression that it was very critically acclaimed.

 

[Ghored]

I've noticed how less and less CoD gets focused on the Single Player as time passes by, and really, it's putting me off from the series.

Single Player was epic in CoD 4 and 2, Black Ops feels...

I dunno, Not epic.
But still, CoD should keep Single Player Campaigns for now.

 

[Digikid]

No. The campaign is the ONLY good part of the COD series.

 

[DalekJaas]

Black Ops had a fantastic campaign and almost everyone I speak to in the online world shares the same opinion.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

Where are you getting your facts? How do you know the minority enjoy single player? When Black Ops came out, G4 did a survey on what people would play first: Campaign, Multiplayer, or Zombies. Around 40% said campaign, 25% said multiplayer and 25% said Zombies, with 10% undecided. Also, I know no one who doesn't play the Campaign at some point. And they all love it.

 

[Justanothergamer300]

Yes the single player is boring just cut the price and give me multiplayer only I'll go play okami on the Wii when I want to play single player

 

[tippy2k2]

This is the silliest argument in all of Sillisville, United Silliness of America.

By this argument, my next statements are correct:
"I played Counter-strike (or Team Fortress 2). Why does Valve continue to pour resources into their campaign?"

Counter-strike and Team fortress 2 doesn't have campaigns. I don't think valve made any game that has a singleplayer and multiplayer mode.(unless you count left 4 dead but singleplayer and multiplayer is basically the same thing.)

"Mercenaries II wasn't critically acclaimed, I don't know why they even bother making games that are not critically acclaimed."

You can't tell if a game is going to be critically acclaimed until you either release it or you're releasing a game that's a part of a AAA series.

I highly enjoyed the campaign and would be hard pressed to purchase CoD if it was multi-player only. Just because you don't know anyone who enjoys it doesn't mean they don't exist.

I understand and there are people who enjoy COD singleplayer but the truth is, they're kind of the minority.

'My point was that Valve should stop making single player games period because I don't like to play their single-player games. They should focus on nothing but their multi-player games'

Obviously every gamer and their pet hamster is going to disagree with my above statement, but by the logic you're using against CoD's single-player mode, this makes sense. I don't play it, therefore they shouldn't develop it.

You also argue that you don't know it will be critically acclaimed without them trying...well, how would Treyarch make a truly critically acclaim single-player campaign if you write them off?

Lastly, you argue that we're the minority? Well, 19-55 according to your own poll at the time of this post.

 

[.No.]

I think they might need to make a better company do the campaign, or at least make it have a good story. Or just a ridiculous, yet fun campaign. And a new version of Spec-Ops. And co-op. And stealth missions. The multiplayer is fun, but just not really good. Oh, and whoever says single-player is for "losers and geeks" is probably just an insecure bastard, with no actual friends, except for the people he meets online. Who probably hate him.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Hell no, all of the CoD campaigns have been spectacular so far (even 3 and Modern Warfare 2, IMO). Black Ops has been one of the best so far, and I'm interested to see where they go from here.

Now, should they make a multiplayer-only version to sell for, say, 10 or 15 bucks cheaper? Sure, why not? They'd probably sell bucketloads, as many people really don't care about the SP campaigns, sadly. The only problem with the plan is, they are currently still selling amazingly well at full price, so there wouldn't be any reason to sell a cheaper, alternate version.

Lets just hope that they stay the course, rather than turning it around and selling a multiplayer-only for full price and making a SP campaign DLC. Now that would suck.

 

[-Ulven-]

If they do they will then be reffered to "the game that is battlefields infantry mode" for me at least.

Battlefield is also a better alternative to 12 yr. old screaming cuss words at you for having abit of skills or just being a camping fuck. (I would like to state that yes, there are many a mature gamer on the games but the people using the mics usually sounds like shrill 12yr olds).

 

[Professor James]

Absolutely not. I don't have xbox live, so if I buy a CoD game it's for the campaign, or maybe splitscreen sometimes. I replay the campaigns a lot, and I've honestly never been disappointed. I thought the campaign in CoD4 was fantastic, and I was under the impression that it was very critically acclaimed.

I said POST call of duty 4, post means after.

 

[Omikron009]

Absolutely not. I don't have xbox live, so if I buy a CoD game it's for the campaign, or maybe splitscreen sometimes. I replay the campaigns a lot, and I've honestly never been disappointed. I thought the campaign in CoD4 was fantastic, and I was under the impression that it was very critically acclaimed.

I said POST call of duty 4, post means after.

Did you edit in the "post 4", because I could have sworn that wasn't there when I read the OP. I'm aware that post means after. Maybe I'm just not being observant enough. I haven't eaten all day.

 

[xXDeMoNiCXx]

No they should stop making multiplayer cause I think we've all had enough of the same thing every year.