Unskippable: Call of Duty: Ghosts

[deathmothon]

No, that's assuming anyone's even playing the single player campaign. Which I'm guessing isn't many people.

On Steam, last I checked Black Ops 2, more than half the players (closer to 2/3s) had got the achievement for the first story mission. The question isn't "do people play the story?" It's "how much do they play" and "do they pay attention?"

I decided to check for Ghosts, too. Right now, almost 3/4 have at least completed the first mission, with the first six story achievements having over a 50% user completion. From all appearances, the people playing the story aren't few at all.

Granted, this is the only platform I'm aware of where we can check overall user scores, but still.

Well colour me surprised. I figured people only played Call of Duty for the multiplayer.

I used to enojy the Call of Duty campaigns. Then MW2 happened. I still enjoyed it, but the more I thought about it the less I liked it. Same with every CoD up to Black Ops 2. That was the one that made me give up on CoD for good.

And then MW2 happened... The campaign jumped the shark and the MP got even more twitchy.

 

[ThatDarnCoyote]

Why would you call your kill-sat ODIN anyway? Did they already have a THOR?

Presumably it's an acronym. "Orbital Destruction In...NOW!"

 

[Canadamus Prime]

And note to Zachary and canadimus_prime: I read your above debate in Graham and Paul's voices, and it was hilarious.

Which one was I? Graham or Paul?

 

[MatParker116]

Anthony Hopkins is doing what now?

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

No! She was only three days from retirement!

I assume the female astronauts going to die right? There's no point having people wistfully wanting to get back home if they actually get back home.

It's like showing someone a picture of the girl you promised to marry when you got back from the war; you're drawing a metaphysical bullseye on your forehead.

She can't die, she just christened her new boat the "Live 4 Eva!".

OT; The dusty space needing a vacuuming joke, I think it was the best pun you have ever come up with.

 

[Darth_Payn]

And note to Zachary and canadimus_prime: I read your above debate in Graham and Paul's voices, and it was hilarious.

Which one was I? Graham or Paul?

That depends: which one do you identify with?

 

[duchaked]

that was hilarious xD tho tbh I found the Ghosts intro to be more interesting than say the Black Ops ones lol

 

[teamcharlie]

Wait. So, the space flashback is to fifteen minutes earlier but you have to actually do something to get the plot moving forward. What if you leave your game running for twenty minutes without pushing off from the station? Is there a temporal paradox? Do you have to go back in time to fix it? Are you actually your own dad?!

 

[Camaranth]

I think I'm going to spend the rest of my life looking for a way to implement that space vacuum pun into conversation.

I only wish Graham could have said it completely straight.

Wait, why name a satellite weapon after Odin? How about Zeus? Was Zeus taken?

The Greeks are sooo 2013 man. 2014 is the year of the Norse, baby!

 

[blackrave]

Wait, why name a satellite weapon after Odin? How about Zeus? Was Zeus taken?

Because I'm pretty sure it is abbreviation, because EVERYTHING now needs to be abbreviation *sigh*
I'm still waiting for a game where dialogue would go like this
"...We name this orbital defense platform Zeus."
"Let me guess, it stands for Zero Encounter U-something Satellite?"
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"No, it stands for Zeus, y'know bearded greek dude, throws lightning, kills stuff. We though it was fitting name"

 

[Shinkicker444]

Well, with the whole explodey mountain thing,they should have called it RAGNAROK, or maybe FENRIR. But ODIN works I guess, could double as a spy satellite then to.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

To be fair, wax soldiers are really cheap. It just shows how low the budget was that they could only afford 60 of them.

Why would you call your kill-sat ODIN anyway? Did they already have a THOR?

Well n the Mortal Engines series the big space based death satellite is called ODIN because it stands for Orbital Defence Initiative. And because its stonking great laser cannon is like one big eye (from a distance anyway). Its probably something similar here

 

[Skeleon]

I actually lived very close to the Odenwald - which some claim is called that as "Odin's forest"; the etymology isn't entirely clear - for several years. We never had satellite-induced volcanic eruptions. But maybe Odin just likes us better? Also, I'm pretty sure they weren't in Purgatory but Hel or something. The vacuum joke made me chuckle.