Poll: Why all the Call of Duty Hating?

[Hiphophippo]

I wouldn't say I hate it. In fact, I enjoy most all of the single player campaigns. While on the generic side they usually are pretty filled with ridiculous, over the top set pieces that make for a fun experience. Truly though, I could not give a single shit less about the multiplayer. I can't even wrap my head around why anyone would.

 

[Woodsey]

Time to break out pretty much the only thing I agree with Eurogamer on:

"Never mind the fact that they might have just made the biggest-selling videogame of all time. Playing the original game again, I feel like this series could have been more than that."

Watch the trailer for the first Call of Duty, then watch the Eminem one for MW2.

It's just a cash-cow now with a very poor multiplayer (that is likely so popular because most of it's players think CoD and Fifa are the only games in the world), non-sensical plots and incredibly short campaigns.

I couldn't buy Black Ops even if I wanted to, since the reviews have now become the same as the Halo reviews. It could be worse than Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing and they'd still give it high scores, so how am I supposed to know if it's really any good or not?

 

[ProtoChimp]

I don't hate the franchise, I just hate the last game, MW2.

It could have been a great game that's a lot of fun, but some extremely poor design decisions, and a complete refusal by the developer to fix many glitches, hacks, or exploits in the game render it one of the most frustrating gaming experiences I've ever had.

Essentially this except I thought most of the previous games were just droll. 5 was good (even if it was very, VERY fucking tasteless) and 4 was really fun, but I hate the rest of the series. I only ever found spec-ops and couch multiplayer to ever be fun. The online is unfair and glitchy and the campaign is a massive dissapointment.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Personally, i feel if your playing a COD game and trying to be hardcore about it, your doing something wrong. Call of Duty, to me, is all about mindless destruction and less tactical action. But please, if you hate the game, tell me why.

This is exactly why I hate the new Modern Warfare games. Have you ever played the original Call of Duty? It was a masterpiece. It was truly an intense, realistic, somewhat historically accurate and respectful depiction of World War II and it is truly one of the best games I have ever played. Then it "sold out," if you will. Now it's aiming for the "kids" and trying to do everything they want as in focus on multiplayer and don't even bother with the single player. The fact that the once friendly and fun community has been turned into the cess pool that it is today makes me a very sad panda.

I just want the old Call of Duty back. The ones I loved.

 

[Dr.Fantastic]

I liked Cod4 but didnt like Mw2 as much. Overall WaW was my favorite. Great single player and zombies was awsome. Multiplayer was good too.

 

[hawkeye52]

the problem with call of duty lies in the way the franchise is handled from one company to another and then the change in handling within that one company.

let me elaborate. call of duty's 1 and 2 (infinity ward) were meant to be very good from what i had heard. call of duty 3 on the otherhand was apparently and as i believed was shit (treyarch) then cod4 came out and in my opinion was the pinicle of the series with infinity ward getting most things right (apart from the imbalance of the noobtube and the cheapness of some kills. last stand and martyrdome) then treyarch released call of duty 5 and the only good thing about it was thing added on the side called nazi zombies so treyarch admiribly held up to their expectations for this installment.

now here is where it gets tricky. infinity ward had a choice either to improve all of the console market multiplayer through the use if dedicated servers or to gimp the PC and alienate their community through incredibly bad marketing such as advertising how non dedi servers will help keep piracy down (which it failed to do) make hackers less common (if anything they became more prevalent due to the lack of admin powers) switching from PB (which is overly sensitive but does its job) to VAC since they were migrating to steam (but VAC is inherrently shit) to and this is my favourite make it less daunting to new players trying to select a server. essentially they just said there that the consumer is to dumb to make a decision regarding which server is populated and which is isnt and using a filtering system practically indirectly insulting every PC and console gamer out there. this is just to do with them lying to us about the advantages of iwnet there are many more problems such as OP weapons. the failure to remove some rediculous perks and even make them more stupid like the difference between last and final stand and i believe you can equip them both. to even how short the single player was. the last and most final thing they did by removing dedis which ensure longevity of a game was the lack of moddability and communities being formed around one server and this is vital for all games if they want to progress from a simply average/good game to great one

in short infinity ward managed to cock up so badly that they actually ended up firing bobby cottick and vince zampella (unless i have mistaken them with activision to which then im truly sorry) who were two senior managerial staff. in one fell swoop they ruined their reputation with the PC community with even some of the consolers prefering the original call of duty 4 to this.

however i assume there was only one real reason behind their thinking. $ or £ (if you are british) since if they could control all content being released then they could make sure that the extra content they make is bought through the method of lacking any seperation between those that buy the content and those that done meaning that if you dont have the content then you get kicked out of the game leading to people getting so annoyed at kicks that they end up buying the content for sake of being able to enjoy multiplayer without getting kicked every second map. on top of that the content wasn't even that good since they just copy pasted the old cod4 maps meaning minimal effort for maximun game and douchefaggery

 

[TerranReaper]

I don't hate all the COD games, but MW2 was terrible in my opinion. Sure, it doesn't need to be hardcore ArmA style gameplay, but was it too much to ask for balanced multiplayer? Quake and Unreal Tournament has addicting and mindless gameplay, but it was at least balanced, was it too much for some consideration towards what they put into multiplayer? Luckily, Black Ops seems to address some of the issues MW2 had.

 

[Barry93]

The single player is short, boring, and easy. It only took me 8 hours to beat it on Veteran.

Muliplayer is completely unbalanced; you'll often die when there wasn't anything you could do about it, such as lifespans that last less than a second because you spawned outside when a heli was in the air, or spawning in an air strike. You get punished when your team sucks; they run around and go on a 25 death streak, thus feeding the enemies kill streaks. For me, that is all the time since my k/d is over 3; I get the 5 worst team mates.

The leaderboards are full of thousands of hackers who really think people will be impressed with their 2 billion kills and 0 deaths.

There's no option to turn off late join. So you get tossed into games where your team is getting spawn killed and there are 10 kill streaks in the air. I don't wait around to see what's going on, soon as a I join a game late, I immeadiately quit. I'm not wasting my time with that bullshit. In my case, this creates a bizzare scenario where you can have a k/d over 3, yet a W/L under .5.

Kill streaks are overpowered, I probably have more kills with those than actual weapons. Going for a nuke is pathetically easy; Get 7 kills, and watch as your harrier and chopper gunner easily carry you to a 25 kill streak while you kick your feet up in the back of the map.

The multiplayer is just bad, yet so popular. And because of this, other developers are starting to make their fps's like CoD. Resistance: Fall of Man was a brilliant FPS and about as close to perfection as you can get. But the sequel was ruined because Insomniac felt the need to make "Halo 4: CoD Edition" as opposed to Resistance 2.

There's my QQ/rage post for the day.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Love it. Warfare done right.

I can understand why people like Modern Warefare 2. The customization and experience systems make it approximately as addicting as crack, it's a popular game so you can play with all your friends, and the game is well polished with a fair bit of content.

That being said, it has very little to do with warefare. Arma2 is much much closer to warefare, and even then it's not terribly accurate.

So yeah, I have a problem with your statement due to a technicality.

Let me rephrase: ONLINE warfare done right. Or, competitive warfare done right. Or, 360 warfare done right! PC WARFARE DONE RIGHT! PS3 WARFARE DONE RIGHT!

I said nothing about it being realistic, just done in a fun way.

'Warefare' is the problem word. 'Deathmatch in a Modern Setting' would be more appropriate. Unfortunatly that doesn't exactly slip off the tongue - once again the English language has failed us.

 

[William Dickbringer]

I don't hate the series I just hate the recent game I felt it was still in beta and just wasn't interesting but then again I'm always in favor of the black sheep of series as I liked world at war

 

[FirstOne617]

I can't stand Modern Warfare 2 anymore.

Story was dumb, the shock of killing your character worked once last game because it was genuinely shocking instead of repeated three times to the point where it has no emotional resonance whatsoever, and the stupid plot had a couple gaping holes in it, too. SPOILERS for those of you who still haven't played the games and care, but why could no one figure out that Makarov and his flunkies invaded the airport? Does Russia not believe in security cameras or something? No facial recognition out there? Why did Shepard betray TF141? It's not like he was working for Makarov. He still used the information gathered to attack Makarov, after all. So, he wanted all the glory?

And of course, multiplayer is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, full of those jerkoffs who care more about K/D spreads than having fun, so we have guys running around with double shotguns and teleporting knives, and then whining at you in that trademark prepubescent crackle.

However, I don't hate the series as a whole. Modern Warfare was great, and I had a decent time playing the other WW2 games. Can Black Ops be good? Probably. Will I rent it before buying, though? Bet your ass. I'm cautiously optimistic, but Modern Warfare 2 really just killed my CoD buzz.

 

[Zhalath]

I play games only in single-player, unless they're on DS, so I only played MW2's campaign.

In the end, it felt like a rail shooter where I can move around. The firefights were kind of fun, but honestly, shooting AI dudes gets old. Some of the objectives seemed arbitrary and difficult, and I remember doing the old "die a million times in one place because game cheats." It got to the point where I just memorized enemy spawn points and chucked grenades there. There's like 3 dozen guns, and I always mixed them up. The plot felt like I was watching an episode of 24 directed by Michael Bay.

Yeah, the game looks really nice, but it got pretty boring. In case you're curious, I play other FPSs. Half-Life? Love it. Bioshock? Love it. Fallout 3? Love it. Doom? Fricking awesome.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Loved CoD 4, hated MW2.

MW2 was just so broken it was/is unplayable.

 

[SonicKoala]

I really wish somebody would count up the number of threads on this website which revolve around either people's strong dislike/like of COD, or people's lack of understanding regarding those same feelings. I swear there are hundreds, and the monotony is truly painful.

 

[me and my dog]

I was looking for a game that was actually worthy of being called the sequel to the the genius that was call of duty 4: modern warfare. I did not get that. Hell, Black ops seems like a better sequel to cod4 than mw2 ever was.

 

[lukemdizzle]

people hate on COD because its the new cool thing to hat on. it happens to anything that is really popular regardless of its quality. as a halo fan I saw the same thing happened to halo. Its only when Cod became more popular than halo did the halo hate let up and as soon as theres something more popular than cod that will get allot of hate

 

[cainx10a]

Love it. Warfare done right.

I can understand why people like Modern Warefare 2. The customization and experience systems make it approximately as addicting as crack, it's a popular game so you can play with all your friends, and the game is well polished with a fair bit of content.

That being said, it has very little to do with warefare. Arma2 is much much closer to warefare, and even then it's not terribly accurate.

So yeah, I have a problem with your statement due to a technicality.

+1 Sir, I just recently discovered how much I was missing from not playing ARMA 2, OA and BAF (hell event the DLC has more content than MW2 DLCs combined). The editor is relatively easy to use to create quick and entertaining missions.

MW2 is a good game, it's certainly not as bad as raging PC gamer would love it to be, and it's certainly not as stellar as it should have been. In my honest opinion, the factors that affect MW2 is the fact that IW is basically dead, and IWnet doesn't receive the maintenance it should get.

While many gamers in my clan, and friends were whining about lack of dedicated servers, I was enjoying how matchmaking was quick, and relatively efficient. I could play the game mode I felt like playing whenever I wanted to without admins imposing their will on you (CoD4 was plagued with Hardcore servers, and vanilla servers didn't even have objective base gameplay).
Also, why the hell did they forget about that secret gem of theirs? Spec Ops!!! They should have released more content for that.

The worst thing that happened to MW2 is IW breaking down, and their odd choices of merging the DLC playlist with the core game. I bought BAF (arma 2 dlc), and the resurgence map pack last saturday. I was only able to play 2/3 games on a DLC map in 48 hours.

 

[sharkinz]

I think the series has become so improbable in its scenarios that I find it hard to play the campaigns anymore. As for online play I don't like it at all. The design encourages camping, many weapons are borderline broken, the kill streak rewards unbalance the game, and it requires very little skill in my opinion. Though in the games favor I will say that the campaign set pieces are well done, the voice acting is pretty good, and I do find the campaign enjoyable when I can forget about how ludicrous and poorly constructed the plot is.