omega_peaches said:
Gee, I was just curious, I said other things, but you decided to be a jack ass and take what I said, and make it look like I'm bashing people who dislike a game that I like.
Get your head out of your ass and try reading my post next time, thanks.
Alright. I may have been a little harsh in my wording. I'll be nice and dig out my laundry list of problems with CoD and address each of your own reasonings as the why people hate even though they read like a child puzzling over an ant's reason for existing. You even admit you disagree with it being the same game every year, which begs the question why you brought it up if you're just going to disregard it anyway?
Let's begin, if only because I have nothing better to do today.
"... it seems that a lot of the hate is because it ushered in a new era of shooters..."
Okay.
"But, how is this Call of Duty's fault?"
You know, I have no honest idea. Why should something be responsible for something it did? It just baffles me...
Sarcasm aside, I see what you're getting at. Sure, it started a trend, but why should it be disliked because everyone else jumped on the bandwagon? Well, you'd be right, but unfortunately it's CoD itself that keeps jumping on it's own bandwagon. MW3 will mark the fourth game in the CoD franchise alone that takes place in the modern era. And MW1 came out in 2007.
Come to think of it, CoD wasn't even the first game to get the modern shooter ball rolling. Battlefield 2 came out in 2005. But as I said, it's not so much that it "ushered in a new era of shooters", because it didn't, it's more truthful to say that it's its OWN era of shooters. Four games in four years with the same general setting and the exact same gameplay? Yes, I know I'm counting Black Ops perhaps unfairly, but visually it looks no different than MW1 or 2 and many of the guns in Black Ops are present in MW1 and 2.
"I see where most of the other hate comes from, that it's the same game every year"
They've been reusing the same engine since CoD2. They have many of the same weapons, perks, and whatnot. The gameplay is EXACTLY the same. The controls are the same... yeah, I don't see how anyone can miss the fact, not opinion mind you, FACT, that these are the same games every year. Each one feels more like an over priced expansion pack than the last. Now true, this is based solely on the multiplayer aspect of these games. But the single player campaigns are so worthless, I have no idea why they bother putting them in the games year after year. I never want to meet the person who plays CoD for the single player.
Now, you can argue that the maps are different or that this gun is different or these perks aren't the same, but that's only because they're tweaking the game ever so slightly each time try to make it better. For example, going into MW2 they went, well, people really seem to like those kill streaks. Let's add in a whole lot more and even have one that wins you the game completely nullifying the purpose of the objective in the game modes where the object isn't to kill everyone. Now with MW3 they went, well, people didn't like how easy it was to play every game type like it was TDM, let's make it based on some sort point system this time and take out some of those more annoying perks.
So, no, they're not "exactly" the same game year after year, but honestly, Madden makes more changes each year. And no, I'm not talking about the roster. One year they gave you the option to control you're lead blocker with the right thumb stick. Another time they gave the QBs a moveable vision cone that dictated the accuracy of their throwing. Each of those changes, taken separately, changed Madden's gameplay way more significantly than anything they've done in the recent Call of Duty games.
"that apparently it's about how America is FUCK YEAH"
This is a sad staple of modern setting FPSes. Granted, it would make just as much sense if Russian developers made games where they fight off the oppressive, capitalist dogs of American, but we're the only ones doing it and it's already gotten old.
Mind you, CoD seems like it's taking steps in the right direction most of the time each year, but they've barely moved from where they started. This is a far cry from, say, bungie, who went, well that Halo game sure has come a long way considering it started out as an RTS. But I think we can do it way better. Then they left it alone and made Halo 2, a game that had way more differences in how it played and felt. A game that wasn't just a carbon copy of it's predecessor with tiny bits changes here and there to give the illusion that's it's different and forgive my fan boy-ism here but Halo 2 had the best multiplayer of any console FPS I've played in recent years and is proof of what CoD developers could accomplish if they tried.
So to summarize, it's ugly and if you've played one, you've played them all. I've had my fill of it so now I'm going to go sit at the Battlefield table where they'll let me fly a jet around.
