What are they pissed about? People knew Black Ops 2 was coming when they announced Black Ops one.
UPDATE: Activision (Allegedly) Livid About Black Ops 2 Reveal
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This was my facebook status on the matter, since I have alot of friends who mindlessly purchase each concecutive CoD game It was partially addressed to them.
I'm too tired to re-write it to better fit the forum (said tiredness is thanks to a particularly disgusting video I saw earlier today, unable to sleep because of it).
You know why this is good news in a way? Fu**ing Call of Duty Zombies. I love that game mode, its the best damn thing Treyarch's ever done (Aside from that Spider Man game, that was pretty good too).
Also Black Ops wasnt that bad of a game, if they just made it handle a little more like Modern Warfare 2, but balanced it more, then it would be a definite buy for me somewhere down the line.
Also Black Ops wasnt that bad of a game, if they just made it handle a little more like Modern Warfare 2, but balanced it more, then it would be a definite buy for me somewhere down the line.
Now, before someone starts to flame me, let's just look at Black Ops and realize somethings.
The weakest part of that game was pacing. Each of the other individual elements, even story, were decent enough to meet the expectations of a top-tier title. It's multiplayer was probably the most fun I had had since CoD4 and it felt much more balanced than MW2. And it gave us the video game equivalent of 300's Leonidas in the form of Victor Reznov.
The only problem was that the game in it's entirety just didn't meet the sum of it's parts. Elements, such as the ending image and the characters just felt phoned in and didn't make any sense whatsoever in terms of development. And despite the fact that the game took place over almost a decade, there didn't seem to be any change in the characters whatsoever.
And there is only one character from Black Ops that we would ever want to see again: Reznov.
So why, why would you want to make a sequel to this game that, while decent, is clearly not deserving of a sequel?
The weakest part of that game was pacing. Each of the other individual elements, even story, were decent enough to meet the expectations of a top-tier title. It's multiplayer was probably the most fun I had had since CoD4 and it felt much more balanced than MW2. And it gave us the video game equivalent of 300's Leonidas in the form of Victor Reznov.
The only problem was that the game in it's entirety just didn't meet the sum of it's parts. Elements, such as the ending image and the characters just felt phoned in and didn't make any sense whatsoever in terms of development. And despite the fact that the game took place over almost a decade, there didn't seem to be any change in the characters whatsoever.
And there is only one character from Black Ops that we would ever want to see again: Reznov.
So why, why would you want to make a sequel to this game that, while decent, is clearly not deserving of a sequel?
Hmm, I think you're right; birds fly, dogs go woof and Activision releases another Call of Duty game every autumn, so what are they so upset about? And why would you want to go to a movie game tie in preview/launch thingy anyway??? The game will suck and be forgotten about in six months, except when people bring it up as one of "those games".Fr said:
Aaahhhh, good old Activision, I'm glad they're back to their shenanigans, they were pretty quiet lately.
While I must admit that I agree with you, CoD game releases are incredibly predictable, I found World at War and Black Ops were a lot more involving and generally better than the official CoD games. SO I don't think I'd have a problem with a Black Ops 2, not as much as a problem with MW4 or CoD 5.newwiseman said:
Ill-will? ACTIVISION!? Perish the thought.
What would surprise me is if this was some sort of ploy to dupe those following these posts into thinking its Blops2 but turns out to be a brand spanking new series. Though that would likely result in as much rage. It's activision after all...
What would surprise me is if this was some sort of ploy to dupe those following these posts into thinking its Blops2 but turns out to be a brand spanking new series. Though that would likely result in as much rage. It's activision after all...
What would have been hilarious is if Gameblog actually accepted to take down the original story, only to replace it with a completely different story stating that, along with the French Amazon.com revealing Black Ops 2, Activision also told them to take down the original story.
If this is true allow me to play Activision a song on the worlds smallest violin and QQ moar. I may not like CoD games but did anyone not see this coming? I am fairly sure they said BO was a once off affair but they do have enough time spent on the games to do an actual CoD 5 so all they have are spin offs based around the 1 engine with some changes.
Hey, let's not forget the dark horse candidate for that position, our friends at Ubisoft.RJ 17 said:
Seriously, a major dick move by Activision. If they didn't have Blizzard under their banner, they'd have surprisingly little, yet they act like they are something special. What is it about major publishers that make them think that? They don't even design the games, yet they are the important ones? 10 years from now, when digital distribution has basically destroyed the publishing industry, they are going to be wondering what they did wrong, and they still won't get it.
OMG THERE'S GOING TO BE A BLACK OPS 2?!
Seriously Activision, this is hardly a surprise to anyone. Get over yourselves.
Seriously Activision, this is hardly a surprise to anyone. Get over yourselves.
ben- said:
It won't effect them at all, because those same people later go out and buy it anyway, despite what they said. It happened with the MW2 boycotts, it happened with the LFD2 boycotts, and it happened with origin. Companies keep putting out these things and raising prices because they know that no matter how much the customers complain and claim they'll never buy again, they still do. Sad but true.Waaghpowa said:
