Poll: Did you skip COD's Single Player?

[brunothepig]

I've barely played the multiplayer of any COD game. Played the shit out of COD4's campaign, still do. Still haven't played MW2, bit of multiplayer on my mates PS3, but I hate console controls. BlOps remains unplayed by me, except that arcadey mode a couple of times at a different mates.

 

[GeorgW]

I was given BLOPS as a gift, never even watched the first cinematic. I played through all of MW2, but there was absolutely nothing appealing in BLOPS campaign to me. CoD campaigns are really poorly made.

 

[NormalityImpaired]

i've only played WaW and MW, and i skipped multi-player entirely. No, that's a lie, i played the WaW online co-op campaign a little and the online zombie bit just as much, but i did not care for it for the most part. If i play multi-player on any game it's almost always split-screen with a buddy.

 

[Rhymenoceros]

I usually play the campaign before the multiplayer to get an idea of how to play and how the guns work. But since every CoD ever plays exactly the same I only played through the campaign on the last 2 for the 'chievs

Annoyingly at some point Black Ops lowered my difficulty from Veteran to Hardened without telling me so I didn't get all of them. Any one else have this happen to them actually?

 

[Puzzlenaut]

I prefer the campaign to the multiplayer. I am sure I'm not the only one, but even if I didn't, I would still play the campaign through because, goddammit, I pay £40-ish for these titles and I'll be damned if I don't get my money's worth...

 

[Alade]

Played through single player, skipped Multiplayer.

 

[Kargathia]

The single player is all I played my brothers the multiplayer guy

This exactly. In this case he also buys the games, since even though I thought the single player was good I certainly wouldn't pay ?60,- for the 5 hours it took me on average to finish a game on hardened.
"Good" did not apply to the Black Ops single player any more though - it was predictable up to the point where I was surprised that the helicopter you miraculously learned to fly halfway did not explode, and actually landed safely.

And while we're talking about Black Ops: am I the only one to be hugely frustrated by the exploding barrels in the Tet Offensive level? I like explosions as much as the next person, but the animation was relatively long, and in full view of enemies respawning like rabbits breed. It might not be an issue at Normal or lower difficulty levels, but on hardened and veteran I still would like blowing up stuff to be a viable course of action.

I actually occasionally replay missions from MW2 though; I find it relaxing to play something so scripted and polished that you don't even really have to think about it any more.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Of the ones I owned, I played the campaign. Personally, I think the CoD1 campaign was one of the best campaigns ever. The ones that I've played with friends (CoD4, MW2, BlOps) I only did the multiplayer because, let's be honest, your friends don't want to sit there watching you play through a single player campaign.

 

[Gaiseric]

In CoD4 single player was the only thing I played.

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

the way i see it games like call of duty are only about their mechanics and seeing as i experience all the game's mechanics in multiplayer as well as the tension and excitement of active competition the single player never really held any interest for me

 

[Dogstile]

I play single player all the way. I actually want to punch people in the face when they tell me they went straight to multi, considering black ops was their best attempt at a story yet

 

[AshuraSpeaks]

I dutifully played through Black Ops' single player and though it was fairly good up to the Gulag escape, it really got bad after that and the ending was complete tripe.

Wasn't the Gulag escape like the second mission in or was that a different prison escape?

In MW2 the gulag is about midway through, setting off a chain reaction of twists.

In Blops, VORKUTA is the second mission, and yeah that's sad.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

I'm going to play the Yahtzee card here. Lately I tend to not playing online much anymore, i'm much more of a single player guy now. I rarely play online multiplayer, but when I do it's usually with friends.

 

[GundamSentinel]

I always finish the singleplayer at least once. They're fun to play and give you a bit of a feel for options and weapons for multiplayer.

 

[Treblaine]

In Modern Warfare 1&2, I played the campaigns all the way through. I liked the first, and I loved the story in the second, but it was too short.

But Black Ops... Disappointment. As OP said, everything up until the great escape is... Not even okay (though I did like the escape scene), and shortly thereafter I stopped playing. Overall I was disappointed, but really, what did I expect?

Still can't help but feel that the devs should be punished for this, the singleplayer was SO below standard.

"It's a multiplayer game dude!" - Then remove the singleplayer alltogether and don't make the game pretend to be anything else than a multiplayer cashcow. Honestly, by this point, the only reason that CoD has singleplayer is to excuse the setting and the weapons used in it, which is not even good in Black Ops.

THIIIIS!!

I'm a pretty big gun geek, and it infuriates me that they try to claim that this is all set in 1968. Buuuullshit:

FAMAS: prototype not ready till 1971, not in production till 1975. NOT a "deniable" weapon, plus they are using a variant is from 1994
AUG: 1977
G11: the worst offender, this was ONLY EVER a prototype weapon and was not even functional till 1990. This is like flying a jet fighter over the trenches of the First World War!
Galil: 1972
MP5K: this is what I don't get, the MP5 was designed in 1964 but the K variant not till 1976
AK74u: as the name clearly implies, this weapon was not designed till 1974, and the 74u variant not till 1979
MAC-11: 1972
Spectre: 1985
Kiparis: 1991
WA2000: 1982
L96A1: 1982
PSG1: 1972
SPAS: 1979
KS-23: 1981
CZ75: 1975
ASP: 1975
Strela-3: 1974
Valkyrie Missile: 100% fictional, no weapon like it exists or has ever existed

Why set a game in 1962-68 when almost half the weapons of the game are way WAY out of that time that the prototypes that would ever be available.

It's like having an M16 rifle in World War II when IT WON'T BE INVENTED FOR ANOTHER 15 YEARS!!!

Also there were some very conspicuous absentees from a game about covert ops in 1960's:
-Carl Gustav M45 "Swedish-K": a legendary submachine gun for deniable ops. It looks like junk but shoots like a dream with almost zero recoil, it makes perfect sense to have this as an ACR type weapon in the game.
-QSPR 'Silent Revolver': basically a pocket shotgun that is completely silent - without a silencer. It used self-contained cartridges that act like a piston.

 

[kahlzun]

Finished Single Player, never played multi.

 

[BoredDragon]

Why else buy a game if you're not going to use half of the content? Besides, I completely agree with Yahtzee that all fully priced games should come with an at least decent single player. That way if the mutliplayer gets abandoned (Deadrising 2) or becomes insufferable because of the fanbase (Halo in my opinion) there is still something to fall back on.

CoD is no exception, especially since prolonged exposure to campers, tubers, and all other dicks that inhabit that area of cyber space is harmful to all breakable objects in my immediate vicinity.

 

[Tdc2182]

I usually exercise self control and play the Single Player first.

Most of the time I beat it before I even start the Multiplayer.

Black Ops was an exception because the moment I started it I realized that it was gonna be a lot like World at War and I immediately dropped it for a good week. Honestly guys, I don't know how some of you thought that WaW was an actual good Singleplayer.

CoD4 has been the best, because it wasn't really restrained by multiplayer like Modern Warfare 2 was.

Putting on Slow Motion Legitimately made it feel like a brand new game.

 

[Xaio30]

Single Player is the only reason I play cod. It's like watching an interactive 4-6 hour action movie!

 

[Pegghead]

I always play through the single-player (or at least a fair amount of it) before getting into multiplayer. Mostly for the fact that I like single player games, partly for practice.

But yes, despite the fact that I only own a few (I bought 2 and 3 as well as WaW and Black Ops) I've played through the single-player on each. Heck, Black Ops is the only one yet where I've significantly played the multiplayer.