call of duty

[beakerboy]

Why do people love it so much? I'm going to take a wild guess before anyone answers me. It is because their friends play it, OR they only know about 1 video game. Seriously, Activision can pretty much sell any crap they want because they market it so well. Two years from now everyone will be fucking buying Activision's remastered collectors special edition of call of duty: black ops which isn't actually different from the original game in any way except for 1; which would be that it has a new weapon in multiplayer mode, for like 200 dollars. Activision needs to burn down.

[link4president]

Amen.

[futrchamp]

At 6/29/11 08:00 PM, RightWingGamer wrote: I take it from your apparently all-knowing sphere of infinite knowledge that "they just like the game" wasn't really considered as an answer.

Seriously, not a single fucking word in that post had any truth to it.

Smells like a fanboy. I agree with him on Activision. $15 for a map pack? They just want money.

Of course, I'm not a COD fanboy so I guess I wouldn't understand.

[ImaSmartass2]

Some people like being generic.

[beakerboy]

At 6/29/11 08:04 PM, RightWingGamer wrote:

At 6/29/11 08:02 PM, futrchamp wrote: Smells like a fanboy.

Is the BBS really getting so bad that people can't say "I like CoD" without being called a fanboy? Grow the fuck up.

Whoa dude chill out ur face is super red

[Danavers]

At 6/29/11 08:13 PM, ImaSmartass2 wrote: Some people like being generic.

OR they just happen to enjoy playing it. There is a possibility that Call of Duty sells so well because it's actually a good game.

[ImaSmartass2]

At 6/29/11 08:40 PM, Danavers wrote:

At 6/29/11 08:13 PM, ImaSmartass2 wrote: Some people like being generic.

OR they just happen to enjoy playing it. There is a possibility that Call of Duty sells so well because it's actually a good game.

Or it just be because it's a FPS with a multi-player rehashing the same gameplay mechanics since the original. It's like saying Guitar Hero 2 is any different from Guitar Hero 3, they have different songs, but is are the mechanics of the gameplay all that different? Has anything new come to the table? The answer is no.

Call of Duty is a name that sell well similar to why Halo sold so well. In Halo's case it sold so well because the original Halo was a major breakthrough in the Sci-Fi FPS genre similar to CoD's masterfully crafted original Modern Warfare, it brought new elements of gameplay to the table. Because of that title Call of Duty became a household staple of games to play ONLINE because EVERYONE HAS IT. It's not bought for it's compelling story, it's not bought for any reason other than multi-player for the most part. Take Halo: ODST for example, nothing compelling about it, but it sold wonderfully.

Sure it's fun to play, but single-player has felt since Modern Warfare, played, old and contrived, no innovation, nothing new, more of the same. And I guess if enjoy playing the same FPS over and over again with better graphics than have at it. All of these could possibly be rectified if:
A, The single player story was well-written, compelling, and made you have an emotional connection to your soldier(s).
B. Significant improvements were made to the game's physic's engine, allowing for more realistic and enjoyable methods of gameplay.

To me, the CoD series is this: I made a good movie, but it's in DVD quality. So let me make slight alterations to that DVD and then upgrade the quality to Blu-ray. Now let's keep upgrading the quality of the graphics each year and make everyone pay 60$ for the alteration and then have the balls to make them pay another 15$ within two-months of the games release for five maps.

[cheesimon3]

The thing is, little 9 year olds who are knew to the series have fuking orgasms the second they try it reigniting the flames and keeping the thing alive.

[Death]

At 6/29/11 09:02 PM, cheesimon3 wrote: The thing is, little 9 year olds who are knew to the series have fuking orgasms the second they try it reigniting the flames and keeping the thing alive.

probably because it's the only thing they can actually get a kill in multiplayer on. I tried it for an hour once, first time playing I went like 20-15

[FlaminSquirrel]

I'm not really a fan of Call of Duty. Or Battlefield. Or most war-themed FPS games, sans the late 90s/early 00s WWII shooters. I think that Call of Duty has seen much better days than what we have now, but there's no issue with liking it. If you play it, that's fine by me. People complain or defend way too much about this. Let people play what they want. No big deal. It's their money.

I'll leave it to Travis and RWG to whine to each other about why Call of Duty sucks/rocks. Meanwhile I'll be playing Skyrim and Skyward Sword this Christmas.

[Danavers]

At 6/29/11 08:55 PM, ImaSmartass2 wrote:

At 6/29/11 08:40 PM, Danavers wrote:

At 6/29/11 08:13 PM, ImaSmartass2 wrote: Some people like being generic.

OR they just happen to enjoy playing it. There is a possibility that Call of Duty sells so well because it's actually a good game.

Or it just be because it's a FPS with a multi-player rehashing the same gameplay mechanics since the original. It's like saying Guitar Hero 2 is any different from Guitar Hero 3, they have different songs, but is are the mechanics of the gameplay all that different? Has anything new come to the table? The answer is no...

They probably haven't made many changes because IT'S FUCKING FINE TO BEGIN WITH. Don't fix something that isn't broken maybe? Or maybe jump on the nonconformist hipster bandwagon.

[ImaSmartass2]

At 6/29/11 09:31 PM, Danavers wrote:

At 6/29/11 08:55 PM, ImaSmartass2 wrote:

At 6/29/11 08:40 PM, Danavers wrote:

At 6/29/11 08:13 PM, ImaSmartass2 wrote: Some people just like being generic.

They probably haven't made many changes because IT'S FUCKING FINE TO BEGIN WITH. Don't fix something that isn't broken maybe?

You're adorable. Thanks for proving my point broski.

[darkrchaos]

Well I love black ops because of zombies. Multiplayers okay, It was a lot better before they added all these camping maps. $15 for 5 maps isn't bad. That's only $3 a map, thats the same as Killzones rates. I'm not sure why people like the MW series so much since its the same as black ops just without zombies. If you like it, you like it. If you hate it, you hate it. Don't buy it if you don't like COD games. They aren't going to change the gameplay, stop complaining about it. There's other shooter game in the world.

[kiljoy96]

The way I see it, the gameplay is decent at best. Monotonous and tedious, but decent. The thing is, I wouldn't be willing to pay $60 for what is essentially just some new maps, some new weapons, and slightly improved graphics if I already owned a CoD game. Which I don't, because I don't support Activision's practices. Not to mention that the majority of the community is shit. But I like it for being there to attract the dipshits and dumb twats and 9 year old kids away from games that I play.

[Sandman99999]

Call of Duty will always be a blast to play, CoD4 was one of the first games I got for my Xbox 360 and it blew my mind. I just hadn't experienced anything like that before.

CoD is and always will be a blast to play. But, since there is very little varying substance between the most recent additions to the series, they're basicly cheap thrills imo.

[IrishGun]

At 6/29/11 07:16 PM, beakerboy wrote: remastered collectors special edition of call of duty: black ops which isn't actually different from the original game in any way

Woah.

I was prepared to tear you a new asshole because I thought you meant 'original game' as in 'the first Call of Duty'.

But now I get what you mean, and I feel all soothed.

[Jercurpac]

You can fault Activation for pumping out a new Call of Duty every year, but you'd be hard-pressed to make a solid case that any of them is a genuinely bad game. Personally I only bought Black Ops because my friends all had it and I wanted to play multiplayer with them, I briefly touched the single player campaign, but I couldn't get into it like I did with previous game, and despite the fact that I loved the new wager matches I probably would have been just as happy sticking to Modern Warfare 2.

Still even if I personally am a burnt out on COD I can see what keeps people coming back and I don't fault anyone who buys each new edition.

[Jackho]

At 6/29/11 07:16 PM, beakerboy wrote: Activision can pretty much sell any crap they want because they market it so well.

That was the only part of that that made sense.

[mentallkid]

cod was the first shooter i got and i like the story more than online. But yes i play online because my friends.

[simon]

My clan plays it, so I play it.

[Aprime]

I make COD videos on YouTube

[somedude294]

At 6/29/11 09:02 PM, cheesimon3 wrote: The thing is, little 9 year olds who are knew to the series have fuking orgasms the second they try it reigniting the flames and keeping the thing alive.

Lol, that too, That is when the person only knows one game, and then makes call of duty his/her 'standard' of a "good game." then every other game the person plays sucks compared to CoD, most of the time..