My friend's cousin is a Call of Duty fanboy

[Madshadow]

I'd say ignore him until he starts to engage in new things/games live experiences. For you you said he's obsessed with it. And if he really is that fanatic. never indulge his interest for that game only, Will only make it worse in the long run. But to do this you need to be very patient and very rational about it. Which isn't always easy.

Don't know how social he is and such besides game related stuff.

 

[Fusioncode9]

Why would your friend purchase a game he doesn't like? Tell your friend to grow a pair and have the cousin buy COD if he really wants it.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Seriously, I don't know why people get so up in arms about people like CoD. Its not like its a drug or something, either play it and enjoy it or ignore it and don't worry about it.

The problem isn't that he likes Call of Duty (quite a few of my friends like it, even if I don't), it's that he only plays Call of Duty, nothing else, outright refuses to even look at anything else (calling it "gay") and cuts himself off from members of his own family if they don't want to play Call of Duty.

Sounds like a problem to me...

I really think you guys should call an intervention on this.

 

[ejb626]

OK, I think you know what I'm going to ask by now: WHY does he want to be friends with this guy? He only talks to him while he's playing COD, for fuck's sake! That doesn't sound like friendship! If this guy was really worth being friends with, your friend probably wouldn't have to jump through all these ridiculous hoops just to gain his approval. So I'll ask one more time: Why does your cousin want to be friends with a guy who CLEARLY isn't worth the effort?

My friend is a very nostalgic and very passive person. He was best friends with his cousin when they were younger, and he's been trying to keep his cousin as a friend, and trust me when I say he will do anything to maintain a friendship. We hadn't spoken in about 2-3 years and he suddenly calls to ask if he can go to martial arts class with me. He is very dedicated to friendship (if only he was that dedicated to study, he might be doing better), and he wants things to be like they were in the good old days.

I'm sorry but I think your friend needs to learn to move on, I have plenty of childhood friends who I've drifted away from for one reason or another and I've learned to move on. I do have a question though.
1. How old is his cousin, he sounds like a pre-teen to me and if this is the case he'll probably eventually mature. I had a friend who at the age of 14 was a massive CoD/Halo/Gears fanboy and wouldn't play any game beyond those three and wouldn't try any other genre and hes grown out of and now he hardly has any time for video games. It might be the same case with this cousin.

 

[AlphaEcho]

The cousin only wants to play CoD because it's a great series, and he doesn't feel the need to play anything else yet. At least the cousin can openly admit his feelings.

It sounds like your friend is being extremely passive, and because of this he is suffering in life.

So to solve your friends problem for you, have your friend say he doesn't want to play when he doesn't want to play. There will literally be zero consequences.

As far as the lacking money thing goes, try getting a job or mowing some lawns.

I lawled. It ain't great it's the reason no modern game is original or any good. He is playing the game addictively and (like many CoD fans I met) is bashing anything else anyone wants to play. That is not being open about is feelings, that's being a massive prick.

Let me summarize your response- 1 Bashing on something other people like. 2 Insulting someone for allegedly bashing on things other people like.

Yeah pretty much. But at least I go into games with an open mind, trust me I really tried to like CoD.

 

[NinjaCatStudios]

He'll grow out of CoD eventually.
Let the kiddy have his toys...

 

[Thaa'ir]

In some cases, the painful solution is the only good one. I don't think a lack of CoD will result in a permanent disowning...buck up and put the foot down or get over it.

 

[Section Crow]

i have only ever met two cousins throughout my life and liked neither so forgive me for my cynicism.

screw the cousin, let his devotion bring nothing but loneliness for which only he has caused upon himself

 

[Totes]

-Tell your friend to grow a pair and tell him to leave his cousin to his life consisting of playing cod all day long. He's not worth the effort

 

[Hedonist]

The problem isn't that he's a COD fanboy, it's that he's a total asshole.

 

[MisterDyslexo]

Tell his cousin to go fuck himself. If he can't respect your friend and his personal likes and dislikes, then he can shove it. Do something for yourself, because you want to, not because others want you to.

 

[Something Amyss]

So I have a friend who has a cousin that is a big Call of Duty fanboy. This wouldn't be such a big issue if it weren't for the following things:
1. He refuses to play literally any other game.
2. He won't speak to my friend unless they're playing Call of Duty.
3. My friend doesn't even like Call of Duty.
4. My friend's gaming budget is so low that he can't afford the games he wants, and he still has to buy Call of Duty (he always visits me to play the games he wants to play).

So what should he do? I've suggested introducing him to other FPS's that will ease him into other games that they can communicate in (he refused to play them (even TF2 and Battlefield)) and introducing him to the best of other genres to get him interested (apparently Street Fighter IV and Shadow of the Colossus are "gay"), but these won't work.

Can any of you suggest any solution to the problems (my friend still wants to be friends with his cousin, so don't suggest anything that will break their friendship)?

Tell your friend to stop being pushed around?

I can't imagine playing a game I hated just because one guy refuses to acknowledge other games. Though it is frustrating to listen to my own friends obsess over the game, at least I can occasionally pry them away from it.

 

[KennardKId5]

Play one of the original Call of Dutys on the PC that came out in 2000. When he asks what game you're playing, say" Call of Duty" with a creepy grin on your face.

 

[drh1975]

Your friend should try finding common interests with his cousin that don't involve games. If he can't, he should cut the guy loose. I have a "friend" (in quotation marks because I use the word loosely) who told me Black Ops was the only reason to own a PS3. Because of his refusal to play anything else, I don't talk to him unless I have to.

 

[Alphakirby]

And he didn't just critique Shadow of the Colossus, did he?!

You really just called this guy's cousin callin SotC gay critiquing it. It's not a critique,it's an insult from an immature little kid. If he critiqued it,he would've listed reasons why he didn't like the game (Bugs,gameplay,etc.) all he did was call it gay which in itself is a pathetic insult in this day and age.

OT:Just tell the kid not to play with his cousin,he may want to be friends with him,but if this guy is too stubborn to like anything but Call of Duty,he's an idiot with poor taste.

 

[cookyy2k]

Wow a lot of escapists need comprehension lessons, I'm sure less than 50% of posters on here actually read and understood the OP.

OT, not much you (or your friend) can do I'm afraid.

The options are;

He keeps playing CoD for the sake of the friendship.

He grows a pair and says enough, cuts off his cousin and waits for the cousin to either contact him or grow out of the CoD phase.

Or I suppose you could try inserting some other game into the cousin's xbox (I just assume xbox for some reason) then gluing the cd draw closed. I'm guessing this cousin is 13-14 (from your description) so he wont be just getting a new one. It'd be give up and play that game or smash xbox and find something else to do, which may include socialising.

 

[Vanbael]

Easy, destroy all Call of Duty games and make him play games that are either E or T like any other good boy before letting him play M when he hits 17 years old. Hell, some good shooters are T.