Stop Trying To Challenge Call of Duty

[park92]

I say this, not because I'm an obsessed, overzealous kewboard warrior, but because there just really isnt any point in doing it anymore.

COD has just well, nailed it. At least, better than anyone else really has.

I rented out and played Medal of Honour recently, along with Killzone 2 and Bad Company to see how they stacked up, and by comparison they were just awful. Sure, maybe they wouldnt be so bad if I didnt have something better to compare them to, but for christ sake they bored me.

Aiming the weapons was a sluggish chore, point blank hails of bullets took a solid 6 seconds to bring down an enemy, the close combat animations were lame, the characters were highly punchable, the story was broken and unfocused and badly told, and the set pieces made me yawn.

As Yahtzee once said, popular things are often popular for a reason, because they are good.

So who agrees? Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing about "COD killers" and just wish these bland imitations would stop so new first person shooters could just be good on their own merit, or is it actually possible to knock COD off its perch with a new title? (That would be, off its perch in its prime, not when it starts releasing endless successions of clones after MW3.)

if we are looking at your perspective on copying games. The Modern warfare series would be a copy of the battlefield series. Since battlefield 2 came out at 2005 and cod 4 came out at 2007

 

[Iwata]

This thread reminds me of the "leave Britney alone!" kid.

 

[Wow they sure are generous with the usernames]

Civ is a RTS? what?...

i apologize for my obvious oversight of such a basic fact. I meant to have said that Civ would be contending for the strategy game of the year, RT, TB, or even QF. obviously the franchise would be battled for by Mr. Sid Meier himself, weapon choice at the discretion of GameOverlord Molyneux.

HE WILL RIP YOUR THROAT OUT

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

I say this, not because I'm an obsessed, overzealous kewboard warrior, but because there just really isnt any point in doing it anymore.

COD has just well, nailed it. At least, better than anyone else really has.

I rented out and played Medal of Honour recently, along with Killzone 2 and Bad Company to see how they stacked up, and by comparison they were just awful. Sure, maybe they wouldnt be so bad if I didnt have something better to compare them to, but for christ sake they bored me.

Aiming the weapons was a sluggish chore, point blank hails of bullets took a solid 6 seconds to bring down an enemy, the close combat animations were lame, the characters were highly punchable, the story was broken and unfocused and badly told, and the set pieces made me yawn.

As Yahtzee once said, popular things are often popular for a reason, because they are good.

So who agrees? Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing about "COD killers" and just wish these bland imitations would stop so new first person shooters could just be good on their own merit, or is it actually possible to knock COD off its perch with a new title? (That would be, off its perch in its prime, not when it starts releasing endless successions of clones after MW3.)

WTH? KZ2 plays nothing like Call of Duty. You fire from the hip t kill people and the melee isn't one hit kill. The game is more team based. Actually, MOH, KZ2 and BFBC2 are the only games tht can be compared to each other b/c MW2 is user friendly. you don't have to pratice to be good. People can basically get lucky and get a nuke in a game. I game like KZ2 (only one I played out of BFB2 and MOH)< EVERY SINGLE GAME requires you to play at your bst to o well. There is nevr an occasion where you can get by by dumb luck.

The reason COD is so successful is because you don't have to be a hardcore player to do well. I play that game oce in a while but never do poorly because thegame is so basic and easy to pick up. KZ, MOH and Battlefield all require you to learn how to play THEIR game in order for you to do well online. You have to commit many hours into the game. Thats why you have people say KZ2 has bad controls whereas the vets say otherwise. Why? Peple like me took the time to master how the game works because I, like many othes, decided not to ***** but try to improve.

/rant.

 

[subject_87]

Really though, let them die in peace and concentrate on making games that are fresh and interesting.

 

[Geekosaurus]

I dont hate CoD, just the multiplayer nut heads it attracts

Yes.

Although I don find it hilarious that so many people seem to hate COD. Yet I bet nearly all of them bought MW2, thus making it one of the best selling games ever made. We only have ourselves to blame.

 

[Cronq]

Call of Duty is not the leader of online FPS shooters.

That trophy belongs to Counter Strike and Battlefield 2.

People who only play on consoles wouldn't know this though.

 

[xXDeMoNiCXx]

I say this, not because I'm an obsessed, overzealous kewboard warrior, but because there just really isnt any point in doing it anymore.

COD has just well, nailed it. At least, better than anyone else really has.

I rented out and played Medal of Honour recently, along with Killzone 2 and Bad Company to see how they stacked up, and by comparison they were just awful. Sure, maybe they wouldnt be so bad if I didnt have something better to compare them to, but for christ sake they bored me.

Aiming the weapons was a sluggish chore, point blank hails of bullets took a solid 6 seconds to bring down an enemy, the close combat animations were lame, the characters were highly punchable, the story was broken and unfocused and badly told, and the set pieces made me yawn.

As Yahtzee once said, popular things are often popular for a reason, because they are good.

So who agrees? Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing about "COD killers" and just wish these bland imitations would stop so new first person shooters could just be good on their own merit, or is it actually possible to knock COD off its perch with a new title? (That would be, off its perch in its prime, not when it starts releasing endless successions of clones after MW3.)

Actually I preferred all those games over CoD so basically your whole post is just opinion.

 

[tsb247]

You know what?

We should stop trying to challenge Pac-Man. No other ghost-evading, fruit-gobbling game will ever come close to it. And while we're at it, we should stop looking for alternatives to sails and oars - ships cross the ocean just fine with them. And starting a fire by smashing two stones together over some kindling - how are you ever gonna improve on that?

I sincerely hope that the OP is a Kotick plant or is just flame-baiting, because otherwise, he's a total fucking tool.


While we're at it, can somebody PLEASE try and challenge Jane's AH-64D Longbow? 14 years, and still no flight sim comes close...

What about Falcon 4.0?

Well, sure. And there was Jane's USAF, too. But there hasn't been a truly great combat flight sim in the last decade, and that's a crying shame. With the power of today's PCs...

Not quite...

Ever ehard of DCS: Blackshark?

Spoiler: EPIC game footage

Like Falcon 4.0, this game has a ridiculous learning curve and a manual of over 1000 pages.

The downside: STARFORCE DRM and noline activation.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Bad Company 2?
Like COD?
Give me a fucking break, will you...
It basically solved the problem of camping. It removed everything that was annoying about COD to me.

Whats the FIRST game it, or any other recent "realistic war game" gets compared to? Go on, hazard a wild guess.

Yes, it does get compared to COD, but then again, the first thing that Republicans compare video games to is serial killer training machines. Comparisons people make can be wrong, as can the people making them. The two games are very different, and should be treated as such. I won't say which one is better, because it would be impossible. The two have almost nothing alike, except that there are Americans fighting Russians around the world.

 

[nYuknYuknYuk]

COD's controls are responsive and fluid. Until another FPS gets their controls to be up to par with COD, they will fail at dethroning COD.

 

[Cronq]

COD's controls are responsive and fluid. Until another FPS gets their controls to be up to par with COD, they will fail at dethroning COD.

You mean there is no realistic ballistics and the guns have absolutely 0 recoil.

 

[nYuknYuknYuk]

COD's controls are responsive and fluid. Until another FPS gets their controls to be up to par with COD, they will fail at dethroning COD.

You mean there is no realistic ballistics and the guns have absolutely 0 recoil.

Nope. More specifically, I mean the sticks move very fluid compared to MOH and BC2 and KZ2, where they feel like the response is delayed and its feels like you are moving your gun through water.

 

[Nouw]

So are you saying that there should only be 1 FPS in the market?