Poll: Why all the Call of Duty Hating?

[Mikeyfell]

i wouldn't be surprised if some mod lined up all 118 people who clicked hate it and puts us all on probation

I'm not so much a Call of Duty hater as an FPS hater, i had fun with MW2
it had no right to exist for a number of reasons like the first three CoD games being IDENTICAL and World at War being the same but prettier. and with the fancy setting change in Modern Warfare bugger all changed in the game play except all the guns became super strong, thus alienating all us "average" players who need to take a second or two before they can land a head shot

the worst thing about CoD is the kill streak bullshit, and the level up bullshit
I hate every game that takes balance and kills it, rapes it, burns it to dust, and fucks the ashes.
the online multiplayer is the only reason any FPS sells at all because I've already spent a page describing the single player of any FPS game (my comment in Extra Credits, No Redeeming Value vid) think about Halo 2 or 3 when you join a game there was a chance you'd be up against a bunch of people who were about your level. and everyone got the same god damn guns.
you join a game in Call of Duty you're level 1 ass is going up against 3 level 70's 4 level 69's and the rest are above level 50.
does anyone know if anyone at Infinity Ward has a brain that is located above their waist?


then there are the guns. Call of Duty has one million different guns and everyone of them looks and sounds the same. and don't say they don't because they do. so all the veteran players know exactly which gun they want for what situation. which would be a stupid complaint if could have access to all the guns at level one. but at level one you only have the Pea Shooter, the Musket. the Blow Darts and some wadded up toilet paper you use as grenades. so you run around getting killed by everyone. and that complaint would ring hollow if 3 kills in a row didn't give them that stupid recon thing that lets them kill you faster and 5 kills gives them dogs to kill you faster and seven kills gives them a missile to kill more of you faster and even more kills gives them even more shit to do even more shit to you.
then there are perks that make the higher levels harder to kill like last stand or juggernaut. which is them feeding us their shit and making us say it tasted good.

games need to axe competitive multiplayer and put some fucking work into the single player and the co-op. instead of shoveling out the same damn tripe they know the brain-dead masses will buy if it comes with the chance to call some newbie a fag

 

[superbatranger]

I like the COD series. I've played Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty:Big Red One, Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty:World at War. They're not perfect, far from it. But, in the end, I still find them fun to play. I actually want to get Black Ops.

 

[Acryllos]

I loved the CoD 4 campaign. It was extremely immersive, I really felt like a special forces soldier. CoD 6...was immersive too...in a sense. But that feeling (or role-playing rather) of being a special forces soldier was lost. It was really only action packed.

I rather 'enjoy' the multiplayer. It's easy, mindless fun, although it has done a number on what little CS:S skill i had.

In short, I feel pretty damn neutral about it. I'm not gonna miss CoD.

 

[hecticpicnic]

don't really like it its just i think its overrated, if i hate it i hate it like a popular action movies,i think Cod 1,2 and 4 are great they were the ones doing something different its and its just now its popular, and when stuff people likes they wil stop liking it

(and because MW" was boring, uninovative, only made for the multiplayer,made to make money of the acclaim of the first one and because the story sucks

 

[jpoon]

Not a fan of it due to the online component. When I can manage to play with friends at my house it becomes a fun game...

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

I will say that CoD 4 was the best game in the series. CoD 1 and 2 were good, CoD 3 sucked and everything after CoD 4 was absolute horseshit, and the subject and medium of my RAAAAAGE.

WaW was the low point. It was a 100% blatant rip off of CoD 4 that it's pathetic. Same EXP system, same HUD, same fucking jump height and sprint speed! It's CoD 4 set in WWII with a sup-par campaign and more ranks in multiplayer. And let's not forget that abomination that was the MP40. When the game first came out, it was voraciously overpowered. It beat every other gun at every range (Save maybe snipers at sniping range if the sniper is better than the MP40 guy) and was simply broken. They fixed it, but only after a good year of it being like that if I remember right. I haven't mentioned Nazi Zombies because it was fun. Next!

When I first saw the trailers and teasers for MW2 it was like seeing a Phoenix rising up above the ashes that was WaW. It looked great, it looked fresh, it looked fun. It was not. The big change between CoD 4/WaW and MW2 was that now you could unlock more than three killstreaks (Which encourage camping to get the best ones and quickly became the new focus of gameplay versus little bonuses for good gunplay), and the EXP system is multiplied by 10. At least they tried to innovate, I guess. And now in place of the MP40, we get knives! And quick-scope happy super-pros in every game so people without insane skills or twitch reflexes need not apply.

Black Ops looks like it will be to MW2 what WaW was to CoD 4. A worse-than-original rip-off. I know it's too early to judge since the game isn't even out yet and the trailers DO look impressive, but judging by Treyarch's track record on the series it isn't looking good. Gimmicks like visual customization and zombies won't help, the gameplay remains the same and will suffer for it in my eyes.

Sorry for the rant. I had to.

 

[charlest92]

Cod MW2= Complete and utter failure. if you plan to realease a massive multiplayer game Launch a fraking beta first. That "Game" should have been realeased without a goddamned single player mode, since the selling point is the multiplayer and they couldnt even do that right..... See what I'm getting at here.
The reasons this game is bad are
1)single player campain lasts only a few hours meaning without Live you wasted all that money on a bad game.
2)The multiplayer is glitched out like a computer mainframe assembled by the amish.
3)The game has no balancing setup one side will enevatable have all the pros and the other complete noobs.
4)There is no kill count requirement for prestiege ranks
5)Recall the lack of a beta. You cant fix glitches unless you have a beta.
6)Again the beta. We want to know how the game will play sometimes.
7)If you are going to make a game either focus on the single player or the multiplayer. Cod MW2 failde on bof sides.

 

[blue spartan 11]

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I see your point but I still disagree about your comments on WaW and Black Ops. Sure, WaW MP40 was overpowered and a lot of the guns went unused by me. Yes, the multiplayer ressembled a lot Cod 4. But it also did things right. Nazi zombies, as you said, were awesomely fun when you played with friends. Plus, WaW was the second WWII game I had ever played (the other one being MoHacific Assault on the PC). For me, the campaign felt intense.

As for black Ops, I see it as the last hope of the Cod franchise. If Treyarch does it's job right, the game will be very balanced and very fun to play. For now, information is slowly coming out about the multiplayer and they seem to have taken notes about what was bad about MW2. The campaign is also trying to do something different. I'm still wa«iting to see how this will turn out, but I believe that this game has a lot of potential and might be one of the best game of the year.

 

[captaincabbage]

I don't think it's really the game itself that people hate, it's all the snot-nosed little 13-year-olds that think they know everything about life and everything about guns because they play a rediculously unrealistic game.

I personally love it, but I stay away from multiplayer, since I don't find anything fun about spawning and instantly getting shot within 20 seconds, then having to wait another ten seconds to get back into the game to be shot again. It's just irritating and I can do without.

I dunno nothing about it ever stood out to me... I don't dislike it though... so...

well said sir, well said.

OT: I don't think it's really the game itself that people hate, it's all the snot-nosed little 13-year-olds that think they know everything about life and everything about guns because they play a rediculously unrealistic game.

I personally love it, but I stay away from multiplayer, since I don't find anything fun about spawning and instantly getting shot within 20 seconds, then having to wait another ten seconds to get back into the game to be shot again. It's just irritating and I can do without.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

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I see your point but I still disagree about your comments on WaW and Black Ops. Sure, WaW MP40 was overpowered and a lot of the guns went unused by me. Yes, the multiplayer ressembled a lot Cod 4. But it also did things right. Nazi zombies, as you said, were awesomely fun when you played with friends. Plus, WaW was the second WWII game I had ever played (the other one being MoHacific Assault on the PC). For me, the campaign felt intense.

As for black Ops, I see it as the last hope of the Cod franchise. If Treyarch does it's job right, the game will be very balanced and very fun to play. For now, information is slowly coming out about the multiplayer and they seem to have taken notes about what was bad about MW2. The campaign is also trying to do something different. I'm still wa«iting to see how this will turn out, but I believe that this game has a lot of potential and might be one of the best game of the year.

I guess I can understand WaW not being quite as bad for people who haven't been beaten to death with the era, and maybe that's where I get most of the ire that I have for the game.

But I completely agree with you on Black Ops being the final hope for the series. It DOES have potential, because any game really does. Black Ops will decide if it wants to try and innovate, change, evolve and become a newer, better game or if it wants to reiterate the same old, same old. And with Treyarch taking the helm of Call of Duty, it will likely decide the fate of the franchise to become something we all still like or an FPS Madden.

Best game of the year, though? Can't agree. My fanboyism would like you to say hi to Reach.

 

[Dr. Dice Lord]

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.

This right here. And I have to admit I don't like how they arranged the weapon unlocks either, starting with the .50 and getting the AK last just seemed silly. Might sound like nit-picking, but it bothered me. Also, I missed the G3.

 

[Regular Guy]

Call of Duty 1 and 2 for the PC were brilliant. So was Call of Duty 4. MW2 and all the Treyarch games sucked. I never got why the multiplayer was so popular. It's not interesting in any way at all.

The Halo series is my go to console multiplayer game, just because its the ideal party game. Nothing else works as well. For solo play, nothing can top Insurgency Mod (if you don't have inhuman reflexes, you'll probably die a lot).

 

[blue spartan 11]

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I guess I can understand WaW not being quite as bad for people who haven't been beaten to death with the era, and maybe that's where I get most of the ire that I have for the game.

But I completely agree with you on Black Ops being the final hope for the series. It DOES have potential, because any game really does. Black Ops will decide if it wants to try and innovate, change, evolve and become a newer, better game or if it wants to reiterate the same old, same old. And with Treyarch taking the helm of Call of Duty, it will likely decide the fate of the franchise to become something we all still like or an FPS Madden.

Best game of the year, though? Can't agree. My fanboyism would like you to say hi to Reach.

Yeah. My fanboism is presently tearing me apart about wich three games I'm buying until Christmas : Halo Reach is preordered, I'm thinking about preoredering Black ops herdened edition for the WaW zombie maps and I'm hesitating between Fallout:New Vegas and Medal of Honor. I'm heading for New Vegas.

 

[Westaway]

Just because of all it's flaws that make it seem that no matter what I did there, I would have died. Sometimes it is just unplayable. And because it used to be great. Ah well, CoD 4 was the last good one. RIP.

 

[The_Puppy_Prince]

It did go down at 3
Cod4 was a bold step in the right direction
but MW2 bad matchmaking and terrible community has deemed it unworthy of anything but hate in my eyes
And i have played it
Campaign was terrible,Multiplayer was worse,the only thing i found fun was Spec Ops
So MW2 i hope you die a slow painful death

 

[II2]

I liked the original, on the computer, but all iterations have suffered from the exact same problem with their single player experience:

They are movies. [small]Or at least very LIKE movies[/small]

Very action packed, sometimes evocative movies, but forever and totally committed to playing "on the rails". You have no decisions that impact anything except your efficacy at triggering the next scripted sequence (by way of playing skill, choice of weapons, choosing when to reload, etc).

Typically, the battles are so hectic and clusterfucked with friendly and enemy AI's popping cartridges at one another, it tends to downplay the importance of you, your allies, your enemies or any of the events going on around you, because you have so little influence save reaching the next checkpoint.

On multiplayer:

Well, it's fast death match. If that's your fix, then you're made, but I stopped playing plain old deathmatch as soon as I realized that multiplayer Quake 1/2 Mods existed that made things more interesting (starting with the original TF, ActionQuake, Gloom, Weapons Factory, etc), followed by Tribes, the Battlefield series and even Halo(s).
( <3 Vehicles )

What was pretty polished to begin with though hasn't really been improved, so much as made flashier, more complicated and broken: from COD 1 to MW2.

So... Ehh?

I guess I don't like it more on principle than passion: that formula, instead of innovation is winning the race for the consumer dollar.

 

[SaKenyi]

I didn't particularly like the latest installment, nor did I dislike it. Sure, it had it's flaws (as most games do) but it managed to entertain me, whether it was just to continue the story (which wasn't all that bad in my opinion) or to play co-op with a friend.

I always found the multiplayer fun to play(if you turned off your mic/played with friends and didn't play it for 5 or 6 hours straight) despite it's obvious inability to contain any kind of fairness. Overall, MW2 enjoyed me, as did CoD;Waw, CoD4, CoD3, CoD2, CoD; UO and CoD. They all gave me a good time (some more than others, might I add, but that's just nitpicking) despite the flaws/bugs, so you wouldn't hear me complaining about the franchise.

I just hope that there will be a sequel to MW2. As much as haters gonna hate and fanboys gonna wet their pants in excitement, I just wonder whatever will happen to Soap, Price and Nikolai. Especially the two latter, since I've gotten more attached to those than the actual person you play (yes yes, you played Roach for a while and saw Soap as a supporting character, shut up, you're missing the point.)

So, ending this piece of rambling, I'd say that the CoD series never been bad, nor particularly epic. They just gave me some fun, which is the most important for me in games, the ability to enjoy it.

 

[blue spartan 11]

This right here. And I have to admit I don't like how they arranged the weapon unlocks either, starting with the .50 and getting the AK last just seemed silly. Might sound like nit-picking, but it bothered me. Also, I missed the G3.

I agree with you on this. They gave you overpowered weapons on the start. About the G3, fret no more! It is supposed to make an appearance(Some screenshots showing it) in Black Ops, along with it's older brother the G11 (can be seen :http://www.codblackopsblog.com/inside-xbox-call-of-duty-black-ops-multiplayer-overview/ at 3:56 as a contract)

 

[linkzeldi]

TOO MANY HAXORZ!
There I said it.

 

[blue spartan 11]

TOO MANY HAXORZ!
There I said it.

Meaning 50 of those stupid hacked lobby messages every hour or so.