So many people flaming it, but seriously I wonder what % of you own it. Also, compared to Avatar it was an artistic masterpiece filled full of innovation and newnessism, and it didn't shove it's stupid moralistic self-righteousness down my throat either. Kudos to Treyarch.
Black Ops Breaks a Billion
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Congratulations! Not everyday someone can repackage something and convince so many people it's new. Did anyone play the much cheaper priced new Bad Company 2:Vietnam expansion? AMAZING!!!
Truth is, all the explosions were just annoying. And I thought the graphics while good, weren't anything special this day in age. Also, totally just felt like a rail shooter. The characters weren't nearly as good as they were in the Modern Warfare games either. Nothing will ever top the feeling of when Ghost got iced at the end of 2. That game isn't art either though. One man's opinion.
I think your confused.... it's sold over $1 billion in sales... not 1 billion copies.teutonicman said:
This game had cool set pieces, but it's definitely not art. Don't confuse hype and sales with something meaningful on a deeper level such as art.L-J-F said:
Truth is, all the explosions were just annoying. And I thought the graphics while good, weren't anything special this day in age. Also, totally just felt like a rail shooter. The characters weren't nearly as good as they were in the Modern Warfare games either. Nothing will ever top the feeling of when Ghost got iced at the end of 2. That game isn't art either though. One man's opinion.
I have to praise Treyarch, it's quite a feat ^^
Still wanna kick him in the nuts...
Maybe if I yell 'NEW VEGAS > BLACK OPS' loud enough, he'll get irritated.
Still wanna kick him in the nuts...
Maybe if I yell 'NEW VEGAS > BLACK OPS' loud enough, he'll get irritated.
it might be fun, but because of it's lack of diversification in gameplay, it will still wither and die when the next games of Call of Duty appear...IBlackKiteI said:
Listen, I was just saying. But at the same time, if you round up in the companies favor, that much in sales means about 16 and three quarter of a million units. You said "ALMOST 1 IN 7 PEOPLE OWN BLACK OPS!". That is a false statement. I was just pointing out you either misrepresented what you meant, or you were simply not correct.teutonicman said:
Yeah thats pretty lame, the only people left on CoD 1 are friggin clan admins who mod their servers to get the upper hand on outsiders.Orcus_35 said:
I imagine its the same with CoD 2, CoD 4, CoD 5...
However quite a few people still play the 'Box version of MW2, probably because its so damn easy.
Asking for it.samsonguy920 said:
Counts about to reach 14 or something.
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Fine, I won't.
Ghost? Really? I thought he was one of the most bland characters of MW2. Gaz was a much better character. The ending of COD4 was much better than the death of Ghost and Roach. I really don't understand why everyone loves Ghost so much, seriously is it just because he has "an awesome cool badass mask wit teh super sunglasses"?Baresark said:
Im glad to say I did not contribute to that sale count. I bet I'm prouder than Activision is right now. I bet they just flung their share of that 1 billion into the bin and got back to swimming in their gold coin swimming pools.
That is impressive though.
That is impressive though.
>implying Kotick gives a flying crap about games quality or worthJemothSkarii said:
>implying Kotick cares about anything other than milking franchises for maximum profit
If you want to piss off Kotick buy a Wii and the most popular and profitable wii games instead, he'll never have THAT kind of money. (I personally will wait as long as it takes till Blops is discounted on Steam then buy it at around £26, I think that will do my part to send the message on what I think is a fair price for the game) There is only one game he really cares about:
only he's playing it for real.
I agree somewhat, Call of Duty nowadays seems to be only shoot and shoot, but BO had the very quick Hind moment and occasional small minigames, and Modern Warfare had the Ac-130, All Ghillie Up and Modern Warfare 2 had....had...the snow mobile chase?Orcus_35 said:
I dunno, I liked MoH and I think it was defintely better than BO in singleplayer campaign comparison. Chooper flying, wayyyy more stealth than what was supposed to have been in BO,sniping, etc....but true, once the hype goes up again for MW3 it's prob going to end up doing the exact same thing as its predessors. I miss the old CoD where there actually was interaction like arming bombs and fighting off people in CQC rather than one-knife kill.
Lol, kind of funnily - go to youtube and look up Metal Gear Solid meets Modern Warfare 2. It explains why he has sunglasses.ChupathingyX said:
And well, maybe it's the way they built up to the moment of the finale. I think why people like Ghost so much is the weird speculation that he's actually Gaz from CoD4 but I mean seriously, I have seen so many character deaths this year already - God of War 3, Red Dead Redemption, Black Ops (secret), and so many more. Call of Duty is already starting to lose its edge with character deaths with POVs. I mean, look, Ghost and Roach die by fire in MW2, whikle Jackson? Oh god i cannot remember dies in nuclear explosion - it gets boring or maybe its just the way they lead it up.
Medal of Honour had a very good singleplayer campaign, and it resulted in another character death from POV, but it was unique and soo much more different than any other FPS POV death I have ever scene and perhaps the only FPS with POV character death that made me feel emotion for once.