Poll: Poll: Does Call of Duty deserve all the hate it gets?

[Odysseous2]

Call of Duty was a good game.

Then they re-released it seventy-million times, and at that point, it really makes you wonder why people are still buying it every year.

Call of Duty as a concept is pretty good. But it can't retain its value and appeal after being pumped out for the fourth year straight with no significant changes or improvements. Clearly, someone in development has never heard of the Law of Diminishing Returns.

 

[Gregg Lonsdale]

I don't mind it, I don't own any but I play it online splitscreen at my friends house every so often. It's alright, but it doesnt have the variety and fun of Team Fortress 2, and it definitely doesn't deserve the high review scores or nine-figure profits. The reason it's so hated is that it represents the ability of developers to make games with little or no innovation and earn massive profits, which causes producers to restrict creativity on other projects to ensure the most profit, because a lot of people are morons who get scared by new things. And whether you like cod or you dont, at this point it's definitely not anything new.

 

[kortin]

Its cool to hate on CoD. Thats why people do it.

There are people who don't like the game legitimately, but I'd say majority of them are just hopping on the bandwagon.

 

[HyperDalek]

The franchise has fallen into idiocy. Modern Warfare was good. As was World at war. I should clarify I'm talking about campaigns here, Modern Warfare 2...ludicrous and the trend continued with Black Ops. I'll relinquish my hate when the story actualy makes some sense or comes out as a blatant parody.

 

[Agayek]

Not really, most COD games are fairly solid and can be pretty fun if you get lucky and don't have to deal with the screaming retards that populate it.

It is incredibly overrated though. There's very little innovative, original or at all worthwhile in it. Every game since COD4 has simply been a rehash with slightly updated graphics. They're the FPS equivalent of the Madden games. Can be fun, but once you buy one, there's absolutely no reason to buy any others, and there's really no reason it should be making nearly as much money as it does.

 

[flamingjimmy]

No, but nor does it deserve all the love it gets either, it's just that people's views get so polarised.

 

[lacktheknack]

It really depends. I don't really like it, but some do. On the other hand, I'm at a loss for how something can be both overated and hated like hell.

This. I'm of the mind that it's both undeserving of all the hatred, yet simultaneously it's overrated.

It's kind of like Rush Limbaugh.

 

[C_Holmes]

The two main reasons I see for all of the Call of Duty hate, is 1. because people blame it for any bland 1st person shooter that come out, and 2. there are people that will jump on the bandwagon and hate on it without a reason of their own.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I don't think anything deserves the hate it gets.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Nope. Single player and co-op modes have always been great, the multiplayer has been...spotty. At it's best in COD4, hasn't been as good since. Black OPs is at least playable, unlike what MW2 eventually became. *insert rant about dual wielding shotguns*

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I don't think anything deserves the hate it gets.

George W. Bush. You think wrong.

I meant anything entertainment related.

 

[KingFall]

Nope. Single player and co-op modes have always been great, the multiplayer has been...spotty. At it's best in COD4, hasn't been as good since. Black OPs is at least playable, unlike what MW2 eventually became. *insert rant about dual wielding shotguns*

On that note, did you know there's a shotgun you can dual-wield on Black Ops? I've seen one person use it. He sucked. Not as in it worked. He sucked and died. I tried it. I also sucked and died.

CoD doesn't suck. It's a good game. Sometimes you just gotta stick with it. Innovation is good to a point. To a point. I can innovate a smaller, rapid fire gun to help me in close fighting (SMG) or I can 'innovate' a gun that shoots larger guns. That shoot knives. That explode on stab. Into funfetti. That catches on fire...

If we could do something like the halberd with Modern weapons, that'd be your ONLY fucking option.

The only things I don't like about COD are two things.
1) Named after a fish that I wish would die.
2) Why you so fucktarded, 75% of CoD players?

Neither of which are The Sucky Fish's fault.

 

[Deadman Walkin]

After what they did to the PC version of MW2, I say yes. No dedicated servers, plenty of hacker issues, plenty of lag, no mods/user maps and ontop of that they expect us to pay for DLC. This is PC we are talking here....

 

[Flailing Escapist]

I'm not a fan of the rest of it but Zombies will get another thumbs up from me.
That said, you wouldn't have to look far to find an "actual" zombie game thats better.

 

[ediblemitten]

Nope. Its fast paced, addictive, well-made and an overall an excellent shooter. Unfortunately, Activision is basically running the series into the ground after CoD4 (The best of the series, and I've been playing them since CoD1.) Really, I would much prefer a CoD every 2-3 years but with more innovation between each installment.

 

[ediblemitten]

Nope. Single player and co-op modes have always been great, the multiplayer has been...spotty. At it's best in COD4, hasn't been as good since. Black OPs is at least playable, unlike what MW2 eventually became. *insert rant about dual wielding shotguns*

On that note, did you know there's a shotgun you can dual-wield on Black Ops? I've seen one person use it. He sucked. Not as in it worked. He sucked and died. I tried it. I also sucked and died.

CoD doesn't suck. It's a good game. Sometimes you just gotta stick with it. Innovation is good to a point. To a point. I can innovate a smaller, rapid fire gun to help me in close fighting (SMG) or I can 'innovate' a gun that shoots larger guns. That shoot knives. That explode on stab. Into funfetti. That catches on fire...

If we could do something like the halberd with Modern weapons, that'd be your ONLY fucking option.

The only things I don't like about COD are two things.
1) Named after a fish that I wish would die.
2) Why you so fucktarded, 75% of CoD players?

Neither of which are The Sucky Fish's fault.

Erm, he's talking about the 1887's in MW2, not the duals in Black Ops.

 

[jamesworkshop]

it's odd to me when it is perfectly possible to avoid discussing it, listening to it, seeing it, or playing it.

It reminds me of the stupid hate beiber and R.black get from adults saying how much they dislike music made by and for children, news flash people you are not the intended audience, it would be like me hating "A Is for Apple, Z Is for Zebra"
Because i find the book infantile and unchallenging to my might adult brain, ignoring the fact that the book is intended for pre-schoolers.

 

[danqaz]

What hate? Call of Duty is worshipped.
Personally, not a fan of the game, a tad over rated.
But yea, I'm the only person in my town who thinks that way.

 

[repeating integers]

What hate? Call of Duty is worshipped.
Personally, not a fan of the game, a tad over rated.
But yea, I'm the only person in my town who thinks that way.

It's hated here practically every second of every day... This place has a lot of people who are what game critics WOULD be if they behaved like film critics. Also, welcome to the forums.

OT: CoD gets so much hate here, I find it hard to be believe any game could be deserving of it... I have played it, I don't like it much, but hey, it's not CoD's fault every other shooter is copying it. Blame the unimaginative idiots who think that duplicating the highest-selling phenomenon will result in them overtaking it...

 

[Vrex360]

No, I don't much care for it but it's design is solid and plenty of people seem to enjoy it. They shouldn't be picked on or bullied for liking it, and it existing is not a curse to the video game industry.

And while I'm here:
NEITHER DOES HALO DESERVE THE LEVEL OF HATRED IT GETS!