because the casual gamers don't realize it's shit, and the gamers who are actual gamers that expect good quality out of 60 bucks would rather play something a bit more classy and with good writing.
When did Call of Duty become an insult to gamers?
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It became an insult when it went mainstream. Modern Warfare or CD4 started the downfall in my opinion. Its when all the annoying gamers started realize that Halo was getting old and needed a new game to play. I used to work in a game store and it amazed me how the average gamer buying Call of Duty was 9-14 years old with parents just okaying it. I love how useless ESRB rating are with carefree parents. Once MW2 came out it was over saturated and lost its legit fandom.
Thank God Battlefield has been a safe haven ever since. Fingers crossed MW3 takes all the noob-tubing, double shotgun sprinting, broken perk stacking players. Give me a FPS that involves team work and some skill any day!
Thank God Battlefield has been a safe haven ever since. Fingers crossed MW3 takes all the noob-tubing, double shotgun sprinting, broken perk stacking players. Give me a FPS that involves team work and some skill any day!
Meh, even if 1 percent of billions of people are intelligent and the rest are dumb that is still a lot of people and thus even if only 1 percent of the humanity was intelligent it wouldn't be that crazy that they would have friends. Especially with the internet it would be easy for someone of that one percent to meet others.Littlee300 said:
My guess is because it's like Halo back when it came out, it's the game that launched a hundred clones.
While I do play CoD, and mostly online, I reFUSE to buy MW3 or any more CoD games new, because I want to "stick" it to the developers. I have yet to buy any map-packs, and don't have plans to because I personally think they've been twisting what was once a vibrant, wondrous masterpiece, a true work of art and one of the strongest single player experiences there still is to date, by adding the sludge of repetition and copy-paste to water it down like a huge glass of ice does to soda
People use it as a target because it's become a target. It launched the 'Realistic' shooter game, and the online is currently as big as Halo, and it's mainstream appeal is enormous.
Same thing will happen to the next big game that starts having it's ice melt, it's an easy target because it's no longer pushing envelopes, it's polishing the same shoes and occasionally coloring on it with markers, and permenting the marks when people think they look cool.
While I do play CoD, and mostly online, I reFUSE to buy MW3 or any more CoD games new, because I want to "stick" it to the developers. I have yet to buy any map-packs, and don't have plans to because I personally think they've been twisting what was once a vibrant, wondrous masterpiece, a true work of art and one of the strongest single player experiences there still is to date, by adding the sludge of repetition and copy-paste to water it down like a huge glass of ice does to soda
People use it as a target because it's become a target. It launched the 'Realistic' shooter game, and the online is currently as big as Halo, and it's mainstream appeal is enormous.
Same thing will happen to the next big game that starts having it's ice melt, it's an easy target because it's no longer pushing envelopes, it's polishing the same shoes and occasionally coloring on it with markers, and permenting the marks when people think they look cool.
it became an insult after it became the same game year after year and after it was just a way for activision to make more money.its an insult becuase its an insult to the gaming industry as a whole because it the last 3 of them were bland and overall average yet it continous to sell more than games that actually deserve it
a. They're immensely popular.
b. They're console-simple, even for the PC.
c. They're rail shooters. Meaning anyone CAN be good at them once they learn to follow the directions they're explicitly given by the game.
d. Multiplayer is a fairly mindless fragfest where kills = perks = advantage = more kills = more perks = more advantage in an endless loop. Eventually the only distinction between players is how well they know the good camping spots and can get there first, thereby getting ahead on the killstreaks, thereby getting the perks for the map, thereby getting more ahead - you get the idea.
All of the above put together = "easy-mode FPS" to people like me that grew up on ones that punished us hard for failing (lose all your stuff and do the entire map over! And give me 20 before you start, n00b!). Hard games teach better, I think, and I credit the ones I learned on for teaching me to be a decently smart player either solo or as a team member.
So I played MW1, but didn't get 2 by choice, then a friend gave it to me for Christmas, then I played that too, and it's all the same. Then I played BF2-BC which was touted as "different" and THAT'S the same too! So I gave up. The End.
Edit: oh and the same goes for ME1&2. Rail shooters just don't do it for me, I need to be handed a problem that'll kick my @ss if I can't fight smart, and I need the freedom to be able to fight smart.
b. They're console-simple, even for the PC.
c. They're rail shooters. Meaning anyone CAN be good at them once they learn to follow the directions they're explicitly given by the game.
d. Multiplayer is a fairly mindless fragfest where kills = perks = advantage = more kills = more perks = more advantage in an endless loop. Eventually the only distinction between players is how well they know the good camping spots and can get there first, thereby getting ahead on the killstreaks, thereby getting the perks for the map, thereby getting more ahead - you get the idea.
All of the above put together = "easy-mode FPS" to people like me that grew up on ones that punished us hard for failing (lose all your stuff and do the entire map over! And give me 20 before you start, n00b!). Hard games teach better, I think, and I credit the ones I learned on for teaching me to be a decently smart player either solo or as a team member.
So I played MW1, but didn't get 2 by choice, then a friend gave it to me for Christmas, then I played that too, and it's all the same. Then I played BF2-BC which was touted as "different" and THAT'S the same too! So I gave up. The End.
Edit: oh and the same goes for ME1&2. Rail shooters just don't do it for me, I need to be handed a problem that'll kick my @ss if I can't fight smart, and I need the freedom to be able to fight smart.
No, I think it's below me because the developers have gotten lazy with it, the publisher has turned it into the Madden of shooters and they haven't done anything truly new since Modern Warfare came out and had a campaign set in modern times, something we hadn't really seen a shooter do before.bdcjacko said:
After that we had Treyarch with WaW, yet another WWII shooter. Then MW2, which was passable. BlOps, which was yet another Treyarch outing that I wasn't impressed by at all. And now we have MW3, where the trailer shows an engine that we've seen since 2007, with re-used art assets, the whole 9 yards of lazy cash grab development.
The CoD series is a ghost of it's former self. It's disgusting and depressing at the same time. I desperately want to like the series, but between one of the most immature online communities (and I've played my share of WoW and play LoL really frequentlyly) and paint by numbers development I just can't anymore.
Also Elite was a huge middle finger to gamers. A veritable, "Hey, lets see what these dumbasses will throw money at now, they already ate up our $15 map packs! Idiots!"
Around Modern Warfare 2, with all the balance issues, huge sales (with lots of young kids), and loss of dedicated servers. It tarnished the series reputation and has become the new "go back to Halo, noob" insult. This isn't new in any means, it just has a slightly different target.Kevlar Eater said:
It only pisses me off when people say "HERP DERP, I ARE HARDCOR GAMUR, BECAUSE I OWN COWADOOTY 4 2 BLACK COPS! LOL, WUT'S COD 3 OR CS? TF? THAT'S CARTOONY SHIT. RPG'S? YOU MEAN LIKE THE RAWKET LAWNCHAIR?"
And by that, I mean people who think COD's the only game in the world. To paraphrase one of the posters here, there's nothing wrong with enjoying a Michael Bay movie, the problem comes about when all of one's movies are Michael Bay Flicks.
To answer the question though, when MW2 came out.
And by that, I mean people who think COD's the only game in the world. To paraphrase one of the posters here, there's nothing wrong with enjoying a Michael Bay movie, the problem comes about when all of one's movies are Michael Bay Flicks.
To answer the question though, when MW2 came out.
Love Homefront and Battlefield but.... im really used to call of duty lol its hard to adjust to those games as well as coming backSteewpidZombie said:
Well hey you know whats funny is that when you look at the size of the disks and iso's and stuff its like 60 percent of the disk... use all of the disk that you can.... dont give us map packs that you desided that you wanted to chop up and give to us later.... if your going to make us do DLC atleast make it fun... more weapon camo's or something. Im sure that people would eat that up so much that you wouldnt need to sell map packs give us something useful that doesnt mess with the game.Frostbite3789 said:
And hey if the CoD series is in need of idea's how about outerspace lol thats like the only place that it can go... or the future really that would be ok if they did it right how about we are fighting against something other then russians
%&$%# please pirate the game and save yourself 60 bucks... you think its good then buy it legit and help the developer out or if you think its crap delete and move onJegsimmons said:
Well damn it OP you can't post a question and then answer it, OP ninjas are not allowed!
And yes they became insults the moment devs made them for the slow kids, and being the fastest in the slow lane as some people like to boast is not much of an achievement.
And yes they became insults the moment devs made them for the slow kids, and being the fastest in the slow lane as some people like to boast is not much of an achievement.
