The Call of Duty hate.

[omega_peaches]

So, it's pretty obvious, the general consensus here is that Call of Duty is shit, never changing, etc.
But, it seems that a lot of the hate is because it ushered in a new era of shooters, which is obviously "modern games (Homefront, MoH, etc.)
But, how is this Call of Duty's fault? It seems that Call of Duty is getting hate because it found something that works, and other companies wanted to emulate that.
Don't get me wrong, I see where most of the other hate comes from, that it's the same game every year (I get, but don't agree,) that apparently it's about how America is FUCK YEAH (The main character is Scottish I think,) etc.
But why are people hating because it's successful? Is it because it's the cool thing to do?

 

[Rawne1980]

I don't hate it because it's successful, that would be akin to me hating Footballers for being overpaid. That wouldn't work very well seeing as I have a Liverpool FC badge tattoo'd on my shoulder.

I dislike it because it's not my kind of "setting" and I don't like the feel of it.

I dislike the multiplayer aspect due to the amount of morons (yes, yes I know it's the same for a lot of games with multiplayer and thats the reason I dislike them aswell).

And I disagree with one of your "opinions" (highlighted because this is all they are, opinions, just to make sure people don't think i'm using my statements as fact) on them not being the same. They look and play exactly the same to me. None of the CoD games have looked any different than the ones that came before it.

To be fair I haven't really liked an FPS game since UT, gotta love those nostalgia goggles.

Although we had proper team leagues going on and none of that "noob stop killing me" bollocks or they got banned from the team they were in. If the team didn't kick them the team was banned from the league. We didn't tolerate dickheads in our fun time much.

Now i'm not by any stretch of the imagination blaming CoD for bringing that type of player in (we all know it started with Counter Strike mwahaha) but it does attract them none the less.

The only time I had fun in a CoD multiplayer was when 1 tit decided to accuse me of cheating when I killed him so spent the rest of the match just hunting him. I enjoyed it, he didn't.

The single player isn't enough to warrant any money leaving my pocket (okay technically my wifes purse ... for some reason I can't be trusted with the credit card ... may have something to do with the masses of DvD's I bought with no intention to watch them) to buy them.

At the end of the day CoD is just an average game that managed to latch on to a market and sell.

In short. I don't hate it but it's not my thing.

 

[scw55]

I just hate it because I'm not good at it. I don't enjoy FPSs as I want a reason to kill things, not just the sake of killing (e.g. exp, but it doesn't count in CoD Multiplayer as 70 is the cap and you can reset to do it ALL OVER AGAIN).

I also hate how steam is blinding my eyes with an overly big spread about it coming out soon on the main page. Steam, I don't care

The single player of MW2 is too short and they killed off the only character I actually liked; Ghost. I also didn't see the point of killing. I like killing everything. But it doesn't reward you for being thorough with your killage. I just found myself literally sprinting to the objectives as I couldn't be fucked with shallow pointless gun fights.

 

[jobu59749]

Sadly, all the reasons you outlined about why people don't like the game are many of the reasons I don't. It's not even the game itself, specifically the multiplayer. I know people will find exploits, but the fact that they don't do anything about them pisses me off. In general, I really hate 12 year olds that think they are all of that and a bag of fuckin chips because they can say whatever they want on the other end of a mic. I bet you anything, they wouldn't say a goddamn word if they were in the same room...namely because I would have to beat them because their parents don't beat them enough.

The multiplayer is fun for some, but not for me. As a modern warfare game that boasts its realism with weapons, that's crap. There is no true amount of leading your shot. I mean, really leading a shot. If a target is on the move, you have to lead your shots ahead of them, and this game just doesn't emulate it well for me. And yes, I know about the true leading of a shot...you hit a moving deer from 300-350 yards with a 30-06 rifle, while it's moving, there is no putting the site on it's body and it'll die.

I think the single player campaign story is fun, but that's it for me. Graphically, I think it's about to be out-performed. In terms of "defining a genre", I disagree. I think it helped to emphasize a genre of modern warfare games, but in all honesty, there are numerous games that deal with modern warfare and urban combat...can anyone say Rainbow Six?

Like all great things, it will come to an end or they will have to step up their game. When you play off the same graphics engine, the majority of your environments look and feel the same as their predecessors, and you cut and paste the multiplayer....you aren't moving the industry ahead, you're just working a cash cow and being a dick.

Purely my opinion.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I didn't mind CoD until Black Ops come out with possibily the worst FPS single player campaign i've seen in a long time and the same Multiplayer as MW2 but without the hilarious bugs.

I still don't hate it exactly, but MW3 is basically the only game i'm not buying in November, the exact point i decided "yeah not buying this" was when Sledgehammer and IW spent a lot of time during an interview going "wooo 60 FPS on consoles!!!"

Seriously if that's all you can say about your "new" game then you can just fuck right off.

 

[yuval152]

Heres few reasons:

Overpriced DLCs.

The game itself should cost 30$ bucks.

Activision.

Call of duty Elite.

Releasing the game every year with few tweaks.

It dosn't require skill at all.

Unbalanced.

They're rushing the game.

it's worst than fallout BOS.

The community sucks.

Rarely there's any useage of teamwork.

And it's not because its successful,it's because its overrated.

 

[Cazza]

I hate Call of Duty because it's been going down hill after Modern Warfare. I don't know who is buying the new one (12yrs old??). If they read any gaming forums they would go backwards towards MW. Though I kind of stop caring. I'm just waiting for Battlefield 3.

 

[Woodsey]

I just find it bland and stupid (and this goes for Modern Warfare 1 as well, although to be fair it was just unbelievably bland for the most part, and wasn't particularly stupid - the SAS missions were enjoyable, but nothing outside of that was fun). As for the multiplayer, its unbalanced, glitchy, and has a higher twat:normal person ratio than most other multiplayer games.

I actually think the issue is that people "like" it because its popular. Its amazing how many people buy it just because their friends do, and how unwilling they are to try anything outside of it.

 

[Stall]

It's not my kind of game. That doesn't mean I hate it. Clearly, there are millions of people who find some kind of appeal in the game, and who am I to argue with them about it? They have fun with it, so it means that there are people who do find these games good.

 

[Zac Smith]

I don't have a problem with Call of Duty, all the installments have been a staple of my gaming diet since Call of Duty 1 on PC.

All the reasons that are usually given for hating CoD I think are bullshit, well at least 90% anyway. I feel that most hate on it, because that's what everyone else is doing, it's the in thing. Half the "problems" that arise e.g overprice DLC is because activision know's people will buy it, because they enjoy it, because Activion have made an enjoyable experience, to me in single and multiplayer, and I can't hate on a game or company if I enjoy it's work. It's like saying I love my Iphone, but I hate everything apple stands for. Credit where credit is due

 

[HassEsser]

I don't hate it because it forced a bunch of other dev's to copy them, I couldn't care less about all the similar shooters.

What I hate about Call of Duty (after World at War) is literally just how shitty the game actually is. Story was botched since the beginning, multiplayer is completely broken, unbalanced, frustrating, and not fun, and the gimmicky "Spec Ops" is just that, gimmicky (and useless).

I hate it for the game it is; I hate it because of how the dev's handled it; I hate the way the publisher treated it; and lastly I hate how just about everyone thinks it's the second coming of Jesus Christ in a video game.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

COD is great in what it is. But the last few games have been the same. I dont like it because i prefer the WW2 COD games more, MW sucks, hate the weapons and everything else....just doesnt interest me. Give me a huge play area ala Ghost Recon (original) and lots of choice of clearing out buildings/areas then i will buy them. But the MW are all walking along a corrider with the odd "room" area to have a battle then off to the next corridor. They just not moving forward apart from the graphics.

COD MW is like Pokemon.....they sell. No need to change them much.

 

[DexterNorgam]

I'm forced to wonder how different any game you spend 90 percent of your time looking down the sights of a modern weapon (of which there are a finite number) CAN look from another game where you spend 90 percent of the time of pretty much the same modern weapons...

 

[TokenRupee]

I find it alright. It's good for just some mindless fun and that's it. My dislike for it comes when people award it perfect scores or overrate it as the greatest series of all time when not every entry in it is always good and the subject of it even being the best shooter series, much less the best series period, is highly questionable.

 

[JayDeth]

So, it's pretty obvious, the general consensus here is that Call of Duty is shit, never changing, etc.
But, it seems that a lot of the hate is because it ushered in a new era of shooters, which is obviously "modern games (Homefront, MoH, etc.)
But, how is this Call of Duty's fault? It seems that Call of Duty is getting hate because it found something that works, and other companies wanted to emulate that.
Don't get me wrong, I see where most of the other hate comes from, that it's the same game every year (I get, but don't agree,) that apparently it's about how America is FUCK YEAH (The main character is Scottish I think,) etc.
But why are people hating because it's successful? Is it because it's the cool thing to do?

Yes. Yes, that's it exactly. I hate CoD because it's successful and hating successful things is cool. It's obvious you're grasping at straws here (for whatever reason), but when what you're grasping at is so retarded that anyone with half a brain would know it's not true you should have just skipped the pretense of dishonest interest in what others think and made your opening post more truthful. Like: "I know CoD is the greatest game franchise in the universe, but I hear a lot of people think it's shit, so I'm going to pretend to care for a moment and listen to why you think that while I snicker from upon my throne of hideous graphics and crappy single player campaigns I love so much."

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

It's just the fact that they basically release the same game but in a different setting, taking away from the experience every time.
Black Ops is the worst offender, doesn't even hold your intrest for long, stop playing it after a month or two.

It's just that if they mixed up the formula a bit it would be much better.

 

[ProZack]

So, it's pretty obvious, the general consensus here is that Call of Duty is shit, never changing, etc.
But, it seems that a lot of the hate is because it ushered in a new era of shooters, which is obviously "modern games (Homefront, MoH, etc.)
But, how is this Call of Duty's fault? It seems that Call of Duty is getting hate because it found something that works, and other companies wanted to emulate that.
Don't get me wrong, I see where most of the other hate comes from, that it's the same game every year (I get, but don't agree,) that apparently it's about how America is FUCK YEAH (The main character is Scottish I think,) etc.
But why are people hating because it's successful? Is it because it's the cool thing to do?

Yes. Yes, that's it exactly. I hate CoD because it's successful and hating successful things is cool. It's obvious you're grasping a straws here (for whatever reason), but when what you're grasping at is so retarded that anyone with half a brain would know it's not true you should have just skipped the pretense of dishonest interest in what others think and made your opening post more truthful. Like: "I know CoD is the greatest game franchise in the universe, but I hear a lot of people think it's shit, so I'm going to pretend to care for a moment and listen to why you think that while I snicker from upon my throne of hideous graphics and crappy single player campaigns I love so much."

This. I couldn't have seen it written better than what you just stated. I could almost never agree more, the almost part because I cannot claim the credit.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The reason I hate COD is because all the haters won't shut the hell up about it.

Call this beating a dead horse, but COD to me is like Justin Bieber. By themselves, they're very meh. The haters are even worse than the thing they're ranting about.

 

[omega_peaches]

So, it's pretty obvious, the general consensus here is that Call of Duty is shit, never changing, etc.
But, it seems that a lot of the hate is because it ushered in a new era of shooters, which is obviously "modern games (Homefront, MoH, etc.)
But, how is this Call of Duty's fault? It seems that Call of Duty is getting hate because it found something that works, and other companies wanted to emulate that.
Don't get me wrong, I see where most of the other hate comes from, that it's the same game every year (I get, but don't agree,) that apparently it's about how America is FUCK YEAH (The main character is Scottish I think,) etc.
But why are people hating because it's successful? Is it because it's the cool thing to do?

Yes. Yes, that's it exactly. I hate CoD because it's successful and hating successful things is cool. It's obvious you're grasping a straws here (for whatever reason), but when what you're grasping at is so retarded that anyone with half a brain would know it's not true you should have just skipped the pretense of dishonest interest in what others think and made your opening post more truthful. Like: "I know CoD is the greatest game franchise in the universe, but I hear a lot of people think it's shit, so I'm going to pretend to care for a moment and listen to why you think that while I snicker from upon my throne of hideous graphics and crappy single player campaigns I love so much."

Gee, I was just curious, I said other things, but you decided to be a jack ass and take what I said, and make it look like I'm bashing people who dislike a game that I like.
Get your head out of your ass and try reading my post next time, thanks.
Back OT:

Sadly, all the reasons you outlined about why people don't like the game are many of the reasons I don't. It's not even the game itself, specifically the multiplayer. I know people will find exploits, but the fact that they don't do anything about them pisses me off. In general, I really hate 12 year olds that think they are all of that and a bag of fuckin chips because they can say whatever they want on the other end of a mic. I bet you anything, they wouldn't say a goddamn word if they were in the same room...namely because I would have to beat them because their parents don't beat them enough.

The multiplayer is fun for some, but not for me. As a modern warfare game that boasts its realism with weapons, that's crap. There is no true amount of leading your shot. I mean, really leading a shot. If a target is on the move, you have to lead your shots ahead of them, and this game just doesn't emulate it well for me. And yes, I know about the true leading of a shot...you hit a moving deer from 300-350 yards with a 30-06 rifle, while it's moving, there is no putting the site on it's body and it'll die.

I think the single player campaign story is fun, but that's it for me. Graphically, I think it's about to be out-performed. In terms of "defining a genre", I disagree. I think it helped to emphasize a genre of modern warfare games, but in all honesty, there are numerous games that deal with modern warfare and urban combat...can anyone say Rainbow Six?

Like all great things, it will come to an end or they will have to step up their game. When you play off the same graphics engine, the majority of your environments look and feel the same as their predecessors, and you cut and paste the multiplayer....you aren't moving the industry ahead, you're just working a cash cow and being a dick.

Purely my opinion.

The whole exploits thing seems just to be with MW2, like with Black Ops, they showed that they could patch the shitload of glitches and exploits it had. Yeah, the community does suck, I can't disagree.
To me, CoD isn't really a "OMG REALISTIC SHOOTER GRAWR," It's just kinda an arcadey-fast paced shooter where I point at someone, and they're probably gonna be dead soon. If I want to be serious,I put Bad Company 2 in the PS3, and put on my try hard pants.
Yeah, the single-player to me is pretty much a short, fun blast of bad writing, linear action sequences.
I do like CoD, I just kinda want a new game.

 

[C95J]

The opinion of the majority of people will always bring a false sense of superiority with it. Me? I like both games, one slightly more than the other, but I play both and I love both. I just don't understand why so many people bring up this topic over and over again.

There is obviously no reason to hate on this, or on any game. Some people just feel extra special conveying their opinion to other people who feel the same way. It gets harder and harder to respect someones opinion when it gets shoved in your face multiple times every day. Not to say that I don't respect their opinions,I just wish people would shut up about it for once. Because in the midst of all their moaning about the immature fanbase and annoying, childish players some people haven't realised how much of a hypocrite they really are.

EDIT:

If you notice there are two types of people who complain about call of duty. Those who complain that it is the exact same everytime and those who complain becuase of how much it has changed since CoD4. Now to me they cant both be right since a game has either changed or it hasnt changed. One of these groups is a bunch of fucking morons who have never played the game before. I shall leave which group that is up to you.

Couldn't have put it better myself, thank you.