Poll: When did COD 'jump the shark'? - if ever (Spoilers within)
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When the games became "COD:ONLINE" with the entire single player campaign as a 4 hour exorcise in running to checkpoints followed by rail shooting.
I can forgive COD4 just because the nuke at the end made an artistic statement...not that any of the fans appreciated the humanization of the "invincible hero" being wiped out in a few brief seconds. most of them just said "Wow, that was gay"
I understand that I am stereotyping but come on, 90% of the people I've met that play the game are under 15 years old.
I can forgive COD4 just because the nuke at the end made an artistic statement...not that any of the fans appreciated the humanization of the "invincible hero" being wiped out in a few brief seconds. most of them just said "Wow, that was gay"
I understand that I am stereotyping but come on, 90% of the people I've met that play the game are under 15 years old.
Well for that game the Russian rocket level was a massive shark-jump.MCDeltaT said:
I mean it was freaking irrelevant, sabotaging the Russian Space program and a blatant fake-death of the big bad. Who is a terrible big-bad. it was all but irrelevant to the "plot" as stupid as it was.
And to spite all our efforts we fail and miraculously we find a command-guided rocket, that is apparently part of the plan, to blow up the rocket in air as it launches. Why isn't that Plan A? For one it doesn't get us freaking shot at and surrounded as we try to shoot our way into a base.
Even the third person top-down view was done in Ghost Recon (at least in the later ones). Ironically enough, those are Clancy games, and they make sense.Treblaine said:
And come on guys, I suspended my disbelief a little bit longer--up until the point where they cleared a 30 metre gap on snowmobiles
.Holy fuck shit! Its an actual valid criticism of MW2 instead of *HURR DURR* IT WAS TEH SAME GAMEZ. I'm totally gonna send you a pic of a cake or something. You'll probably be the only guy to post in this thread that says something beside *DERP DEY WERE ALL GARBAGE*Treblaine said:
I agree, it doesn't make any sense at all once you think about it. They could have been alot less over the top in making Soap and Price fugitives. So for that I do hope that MW:3 is the last one... the story might be able to hold together enough for one more game, but I am not hopeful past that. My hope is that they end the story arc and move on to something else.
T8B95 said:Even the third person top-down view was done in Ghost Recon (at least in the later ones). Ironically enough, those are Clancy games, and they make sense.Treblaine said:
And come on guys, I suspended my disbelief a little bit longer--up until the point where they cleared a 30 metre gap on snowmobiles
Snowmobiles are pretty amazing machines.... 30 meter jump isn't really all that impressive tbh.
When it Branched into Modern Warfare. I prefer'd my World War Two with 1-3. World at War was ok. Yet Big Red One and 3 had the best campaign to me.
Sure World War Two isn't to original but it also represents the time when it was young and wasn't focused on multiplayer.
Sure World War Two isn't to original but it also represents the time when it was young and wasn't focused on multiplayer.
The reason why Shepard kills them is because the DSM they recovered contained information on Shepard and Makarovv's deal to start the war. In order to prevent Roach and Ghost from finsing this out he has them and the rest of TF 141 killed, remember those guys were the elite of the elite and having them out of the picture would make Shepard's plan much easier.Treblaine said:
Also the level is called "loose ends", Shepard doesn't like loose ends, and TF 141 was a big loose end and were the only people who had a chnace of finding out what Shepard was really planning.
Yes it's stupid, but it does make sense in a stupid Hollywood blockbuster action flick kind of way.
uuuuh, Shepard had the DSM IS HIS HAND when he shot me.ChupathingyX said:
It is also NEVER made clear what Shepard's involvement actually is. Were he an Makarov allies? Or did Shepard trick Makarov? Or did Makarov trick Shepard and Shepard is just covering up his screw up.
Whatever he did, he had no reason to kill or try to kill Soap, Price, Roach or any of TF-141.
They were zero threat, they knew nothing. THERE WAS NO LOOSE END!!! Hollywood has never done something this stupid.
In fact the first hint that Shepard was in any way untoward was when he started murdering his own side.
All Shepard had to do when he was handed the DSM was say:
"good job, now get on that chopper and get your ass to Afghanistan"
Roach: "Say, what's on the DSM?"
Shepard: "Top Secret. Now shut the fuck up and go kill Makarov!"
Don't you think it causes a fuck load more loose ends trying to murder the most elite special forces team in the Western Block? Imagine if General Pretraus started ordering that all the Navy SEALS get shot on sight, that raises a million god damn questions. The most obvious one being that if you don't kill them all then any survivors are a massive fucking liability simply if they contact a politician, judge or simply another officer to inform of the treason.
Even if by some miracle he is able to kill all the TF-141 without anyone noticing, what about his murder squad? They know Shepard is guilty as hell, that IS A MASSIVE LOOSE END! He would then have to kill them all, but then he'd have to killer the killers of his killers. This is why conspiracies are bullshit, it's a Ponzi scheme of murder.
But while Shepard's motives are moronic, not quite as retarded as deliberately provoking that his own country gets invaded to boost recruitment numbers.
yeah, boost recruitment numbers when earlier in the game he was boasting about how the US Army was the largest and most powerful military force THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!! And he is willing to jeopardise every part of his country just to make it a little bit bigger?
BULLSHIT!
The Rock had a more logical plot and that is NO ENDORSEMENT!
Jumping the canyon that was TOO far for me to jump. Its possible to go far but even with that steep a slope and a jump, not possible to go that far.
OFF TOPIC: Did anyone ever say the Halo "Betrayal" sound when Shepard betrayed them? Its hilarious.
OFF TOPIC: Did anyone ever say the Halo "Betrayal" sound when Shepard betrayed them? Its hilarious.
Um....I guess I'd have to say the multiplayer of MW2. I love the campaign and Spec OPs, but the multiplayer sucked. I mean really...Dual wielding shotguns? Are you FUCKING kidding me?
I am suprised to be the only one to vote for MW3 based on the trailers so far. I liked every CoD so far for one reason or another. From M1 garand to M4A1 i love it all. MW1 gave me the best campaign, MW2 gave me the bast multiplayer gameplay, and Black Op gave me BRAINS!!! However it seems like the more attention you pay to the trailer the more it seems like you couldve place it on air a few years ago as a trailer for MW2
when they stopped making CoD games and started making and let franchise stagnate. Seriously, there was a stagnating competition between Halo and CoD. Halo at least came up with RTS, instead of "oh look the only reason anybody will buy this game is zombies"
It was the point where you crawled painfully injured and dieing from the helicopter in MW4. That was touching. Dieing 16 more times? way to turn something that NEVER happens in games into a cliche.
From that point on they kept using the same shit but just "MORE XXX-TREEMEEE!"
From that point on they kept using the same shit but just "MORE XXX-TREEMEEE!"