So NOW it's cool?

[kittii-chan 300]

they make fun of my friends for mentioning halo but everyday im walking down the road ill hear: whats ur best killstreak? i got 80000000 points on icezone, black ops is really realistic its story mode makes the most sense ever! (yes i know thats not a real map...)

and i think people loved BLACK OPS the mot for one reason: when halo reach came out i thought it was taking a lot from MW2, the loadouts, all maps from campaign, sprinting, realistic movement, grittyness. ect. and then black ops took halos theatre, credit system for buying things, slightly more customizable games and a little bit of character changing. everyone likes black ops the best cuz it takes lots from halo. whenever i ask someone why halo sucks they all say i dont know or i havnt played it. people also say that black ops is better than reach because it has better graphics(you can lie down inside people!), better plot(hahahahahaha) and more realism(i dont care how stupid the military is you wouldnt send an AC-130 to fight 6 guys).

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Call of Duty has become a "non-gamer game". It's a very enjoyable game, that you can play without the stigma of being a gamer. "Yeah I play call of duty, but i'm not a gamer."

Didn't stop me from smugly calling a guy at college a nerd for pulling an all-nighter playing Black Ops. He tried to say it was different but I just went "Dude, you had a video game marathon session, welcome to the club." I laugh at these people who desperately try to disassociate themselves with the gaming crowd like there is something wrong with it, but still want to play games.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Call of Duty has become a "non-gamer game". It's a very enjoyable game, that you can play without the stigma of being a gamer. "Yeah I play call of duty, but i'm not a gamer."

Didn't stop me from smugly calling a guy at college a nerd for pulling an all-nighter playing Black Ops. He tried to say it was different but I just went "Dude, you had a video game marathon session, welcome to the club." I laugh at these people who desperately try to disassociate themselves with the gaming crowd like there is something wrong with it, but still want to play games.

There a a few "non-gamer" game franchises, mainly Call of Duty, Rock Band, Madden, Halo, Guitar Hero, and anything by Pop Cap games. These are games that anyone can play without being called a gamer by non-gamers. It's like people are in denial. Maybe they think that if they admit that they like to play video games that they'll suddenly change into an uber nerd that goes to Star Trek conventions and argues whether Han shot first.

 

[VanQ]

Call of Duty has become a "non-gamer game". It's a very enjoyable game, that you can play without the stigma of being a gamer. "Yeah I play call of duty, but i'm not a gamer."

Didn't stop me from smugly calling a guy at college a nerd for pulling an all-nighter playing Black Ops. He tried to say it was different but I just went "Dude, you had a video game marathon session, welcome to the club." I laugh at these people who desperately try to disassociate themselves with the gaming crowd like there is something wrong with it, but still want to play games.

That's absolutely brilliant. I wish I could have seen that conversation and the look on his face when you said "welcome to the club." I haven't met many people like that, but I'd love to give that line a try sometime.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

Call of Duty, since it went more modern, has been wildly popular.

Halo is sci-fi.

That should pretty much explain it.

 

[Armored Prayer]

These are middle school teen boys were talking about, they do this kind of thing all the time. They go crazy for the latest fad and go on about it until the next big thing.

I'm just glad I can now talk about a game without having everyone looking at me.

 

[subtlefuge]

I don't know where you live, but Halo's been mandatory dorm gameplay for years.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I've come across the same line of thinking in some people I know. They play hour upon hour of Call of Duty, and only Call of Duty, yet seem to question me when I play other games, such as Halo. Confusing...

 

[Ramare]

Call of Duty, since it went more modern, has been wildly popular.

Halo is sci-fi.

That should pretty much explain it.

Yes, but what happens if those rumors that there's a sci-fi Call of Duty in the works are true...? Will they refuse to play it, even though it's CoD? Will they just be hypocrites, and say it's "Not the same thing!"? Will their heads explode? Who knows.

 

[ph0b0s123]

*Internet tough guy voice* 'Cause Call of Duty is so much more hardcore.

Who cares? They're just opinions. They're less harmful than ants, even. Not even going to speculate on that.

This. Really there is no rhyme or reason to what is cool. It is whatever the people who are percived as cool say it is. And if you are not percived as cool then whatever you are doing is not cool. Even if you are doing the same thing as a someone who is cool. When they are doing it, it is cool. When you you are doing it, it is not cool. Follow?

This was never a problem with games until cool people started sticking their noses in and bringing their stupid coolness rules with them....

 

[Shoelip]

I've come across the same line of thinking in some people I know. They play hour upon hour of Call of Duty, and only Call of Duty, yet seem to question me when I play other games, such as Halo. Confusing...

Just remember. You're better than them.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I've come across the same line of thinking in some people I know. They play hour upon hour of Call of Duty, and only Call of Duty, yet seem to question me when I play other games, such as Halo. Confusing...

Just remember. You're better than them.

Hah, well I certainly hope so. They tend to be the kind of people I wouldn't really want to be worse than...

 

[ReservoirAngel]

CoD is a game that anyone can be good at.

I stand as living proof of that statement being bullshit.

OT: It's because Black Ops is about 'cool, macho guys running around, saving the world from evil dudes' whereas Halo is still seen as 'that sci fi game'. There's your distinction.

 

[DiscountSkill]

I've personally seen Halo and MW/2 as both main stream and or enjoyed by those outside of the typical gamer culture, Combat Evolved and the entire series included. Opinions always vary, of course, but where I stand and what I see, I don't understand the CoD is " cooler " then halo mindset shared by some here. As mentioned somewhere in this thread, they're both " bro " status games, brah.

 

[zehydra]

It doesn't matter what's "cool". It really doesn't.

 

[DustyDrB]

They changed their minds? Isn't that what we were hoping people would do? And now you're complaining about it.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Didn't movie Bob do a segment on something like this with D&D nerds versus Sports fans?

The best reason I can think of is that Halo is in a made up universe so it is dismissed as juvenile while Black Ops is the more "mature and edgy" game that talks about real events and therefore is more of an "adult" game. I personally think its hilarious that a super soldier set in the Cold War is somehow more unrealistic than one set in the far future.

 

[TheTaco007]

CoD is a game that anyone can be good at. Halo you need to be a certain kind of gamer to do well. Assholes, especially in early school (middle/high school) hate everyone who's good at things they aren't. Why do you think smart people get picked on? The bullies don't like them, because they get good grades and the bully doesn't. Same concept for video games. Bully is bad at Halo, therefore Halo sucks. Bully is good at CoD, therefore CoD is awesome.

by that logic... Prototype is the best game ever made (now i love prototype, but even i have to acknowledge how easy it was, even on hard)

But it wasn't a mainstream FPS.

 

[Nomanslander]

Don't know, don't care, I play KZ3.

=)

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Watching Red Vs Blue wasn't cool wasn't cool when I started watching it.

Now every gamer in my class spouts lines and jokes from it. Something I did a few months ago >_>