When did Call of Duty become an insult to gamers?
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I don't find it insulting at all. Then again I have never been one to care much about what people do in the privacy of their parents basement. I kid, not everyone that plays CoD lives in their parents basement.... just most of them do. 
Seriously, when did another person's game of choice become every ones concern. CoD is popular if you do not care for the game there are a metric butt ton of other games you can choose to enjoy.
Seriously, when did another person's game of choice become every ones concern. CoD is popular if you do not care for the game there are a metric butt ton of other games you can choose to enjoy.
personally i think people started disliking call of duty when in modern warfare two people started abusing the game eg with commando and onemanarmydangerclose noob toobing
back in the days of cod 4 the call pf duty series was seen as magnificent apart from call of duty 3
back in the days of cod 4 the call pf duty series was seen as magnificent apart from call of duty 3
People hate mainstream.
IMO the CoD games (especially CoD 4) are pretty good, and the amount of hate they're currently accepting is as unfair as it is inexplicable.
IMO the CoD games (especially CoD 4) are pretty good, and the amount of hate they're currently accepting is as unfair as it is inexplicable.
To expand on this, is basically like saying that a building could use an elevator and the refusing to enter the building because you have to use stairs... wanting an elevator is fine, refusing to use the stairs just makes you a lazy fatass...4li3n said:
Well to the people that think CoD is the ultimate game of ultimate destiny it's also insulting to the game to call it simple...V8 Ninja said:
READING BAD, MAKE BRAIN HURT...Plazmatic said:
Seriously, some people do enjoy reading, and others, like me, hate tutorials that treat you like some sort of drooling idiot because someone might never played video games before will also need to go through it...
But as i expanded above, it's not about asking that the tutorial be there (but i for one prefer that the tutorial isn't part of the story so i can skip it, like you could for most games made around 1999-2000), it's about refusing to play a game because it requires you to read stuff... might as well say you won't watch a movie because it has no explosions... that's not a weakness of the film, but of yours.
everyone just assumes if you cant do something you're a casual bleed-over sucked in by marketing and just fling whatever half hashed insults they feel are appropriate at you and like to ignore your opinions on anything if they do not at least partially align with theirs
it's because people are %^^&*)£! and treat each-other that way in the end
it's because people are %^^&*)£! and treat each-other that way in the end
Right when Infinity Ward demonstrated they just didn't give a shit by their reasoning for not having dedicated servers for the PC ("IW.net is the biggest investment in the series to date" they said, and that it would be "better than dedicated servers". Bollocks: it was little more than Steamworks' matchmaking and didn't work), and shortly before the line "It's not balanced for lean" (which, as Black Ops demonstrated, was bollocks and they knew it).
I played a lot of black ops and MW2 when they first came out (in black ops i have about 4 days in multiplayer play time). The thing is some of the players SUCK. My 9 YO brother and his friends play it ALL THE TIME. He has weeks of play time on there, and he and his friends all suck. A lot. Their lifetime K/D ratio is between .25 and .15. Younger crappier players bring the entire online portion is down, after all if your on a team with he and his friends your guaranteed to lose. I hate how online games have become so accessible to really young children (<15YO).Snork Maiden said:
Unless you have some sort of condition i'm pretty sure neither reading nor using stairs require some sort of special skills... the only other reason why you're not doing it is because you don''t want to, and i'm well within my right to look down on you when you're asking for someone else to make it so that you don't have to put in the effort at all...The Lugz said:
Stuff being fun doesn't mean also being effortless... and you not wanting to put in the effort is not valid criticism of a work... only of it's market appeal... and that should only be interesting to the people making money off it, not the players.
when did gamers become such hipsters where "mainstream" games aren't cool. sure it's not everyone's cup of tea but it is by no means an abortion of a game. if millions are playing it there must be a reason. if you dont like it, dont play it simple as that. i find some fun in it but with each new release being kinda samey i have grown indifferent to it and wont be waiting in line for a midnight release.
I would say World at War, because it was just CoD4 in WWII. No changes to gameplay. MW2 at least changed a bit, but the Treyarch games have killed it. And with MW3 coming, and nothing much beyond a flip-out sight pointed out as a gameplay change, I expect insult to injury this fall.
When it became popular. There is nothing wrong with COD per say as any other game that has many sequels ie madden, battlefield, list goes on. Its a game that plays to its base and has a big fan base.
What COD did wrong was to basically beat the hell out of every other game in terms of sales.
What COD did wrong was to basically beat the hell out of every other game in terms of sales.
The exact point at which the series died and went to hell was Modern Warfare 2. Now it's just kind of this sad, pathetic, pandering mess. It's just kind of chillin', with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, and all the other things I used to like that got completely ruined. It says something about you when you play it. Exactly *what* it says about you lies in the eye of the beholder.Kevlar Eater said:
For me, Call of Duty is no longer challenging, intelligent or fun. That's my opinion. I'll go play games I like, other people can go settle for Call of Duty, and coors lite, and keg stands, and whatever it is 12-21 year old gamers do these days. It's not my cup of tea. In fact, it's not a cup of tea at all anymore. It's red bull. Some like it, I don't. Deal with it.
Because it's fun and popular. It's hard to feel sufficiently edgy when something you like is that popular. When someone says "go back to Call of Duty" they're saying "I am a superior member of our edgy gaming subculture".
If they don't play FPS games this will extend to all FPS games; if they do, they will invariably prefer Battlefield because of the "emphasis on teamwork" (read: I can only win matches when there are skilled players on my side to pick up the slack for me) or the "vehicles" (read: I need a massive overwhelming advantage to rack up a significant number of kills) or the "wide open maps/lack of killcam" (read: I only get kills when I camp).
If they don't play FPS games this will extend to all FPS games; if they do, they will invariably prefer Battlefield because of the "emphasis on teamwork" (read: I can only win matches when there are skilled players on my side to pick up the slack for me) or the "vehicles" (read: I need a massive overwhelming advantage to rack up a significant number of kills) or the "wide open maps/lack of killcam" (read: I only get kills when I camp).
Actually, with DA2, the composer let slip that the unexpected popularity prompted the big-wigs to make a sequel to capitalize on it. It didn't really work as players from all around completely saw through the stitching and only made the rips larger.4li3n said:
Addendum: BioWare definitely said they "wanted CoD's audience" though. Whatever that meant, who knows? There's an article floating around here about it somewhere...