Unless you've had your internet cut for a few days, you'll know about the black ops 2 reveal. If not, here's the trailer, looks actually kind of promising.
Now, I've seen a fair few comments from COD fanboys that are slamming the game. "Treyarch ruined cod by making it halo!" "if I wanted to shoot sh**ty robots, I'd play terminator or tron" this sort of stuff. Now, that's put aside the point that people have been wanting change from COD for ages, and now it's being done, people are complaining, and try to, for a second, ignore the massive stupidity of such statements, and think about what this could mean for sales. If the fanboys are serious, black ops 2 could flop, proving in the eyes of developers that people don't want change. I don't think I need say why this would be incredibly bad. A smaller title failing because it dared to change things up a bit is bad, but if such a thing happens to COD, it would suggest that even the biggest franchises with the most fans can fail if they opt for change.
This brings me to an interesting point, because now, I'm thinking of buying it. As much as it looks interesting though, there's one major reason I'd do it, so that these morons don't mess things up BAD by abandoning cod in droves because it changed.
Over £40's a lot these days just to try and make a little change, but I'm seriously considering it, the consequences for the industry could be horrifying.
So, what do you think? Should us COD skeptics and burned COD4 fans rise up and support COD for doing what many of us have asked for? Or is it a massive waste? Could it even be just what activision wants?
Now, I've seen a fair few comments from COD fanboys that are slamming the game. "Treyarch ruined cod by making it halo!" "if I wanted to shoot sh**ty robots, I'd play terminator or tron" this sort of stuff. Now, that's put aside the point that people have been wanting change from COD for ages, and now it's being done, people are complaining, and try to, for a second, ignore the massive stupidity of such statements, and think about what this could mean for sales. If the fanboys are serious, black ops 2 could flop, proving in the eyes of developers that people don't want change. I don't think I need say why this would be incredibly bad. A smaller title failing because it dared to change things up a bit is bad, but if such a thing happens to COD, it would suggest that even the biggest franchises with the most fans can fail if they opt for change.
This brings me to an interesting point, because now, I'm thinking of buying it. As much as it looks interesting though, there's one major reason I'd do it, so that these morons don't mess things up BAD by abandoning cod in droves because it changed.
Over £40's a lot these days just to try and make a little change, but I'm seriously considering it, the consequences for the industry could be horrifying.
So, what do you think? Should us COD skeptics and burned COD4 fans rise up and support COD for doing what many of us have asked for? Or is it a massive waste? Could it even be just what activision wants?
I think it's funny that apparently the most highly anticipated feature (according to the comments from the escapists' official article on the trailer) is "OMG YOU GET TO RIDE A HORSE!"
