Why Call of Duty may possibly be the best multiplayer shooter.
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Sooo that's the main argument your going for there, that anyone can play it.....Sean Hollyman said:
Not Halo, not Battlefield, not Doom, not even Portal, but Call of Duty. What is it that makes CoD so accessible and not any of those games?
The game that really got me into FPS online multiplayer (and is still my favorite today) is Team Fortress 2.
The characters in that game have something that no other game does. The fact that they're all well aware that they can respawn, and thus do not take death or pain seriously in the slightest bit. I feel like this OP was meant for another thread.
COD's multiplayer isnt fun though, you either are bombarded by twelve year old shreiking voices, campers, snipers, over competitive asshats, noob tubers, spammers, more snipers, more campers, or a combination of any or all of these.
The thing is you can't use actual tactics in CoD. It's a sheer firefight. In Battlefield, one of my Marine friends routinely uses real life army tactics and just sweeps the other players, and those tactics are more or less unusable in CoD because of the different gameplay. So CoD in my opinion would be more akin to junk food; not exactly a bad game, but not sophisticated.
Maybe for the console but on the PC it's pretty much a tie with Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2. Console players might be a little confused by the second but Team Fortress 2 for the console barely resembles the heavily supported PC version. Almost every single gamer that plays shooters on the PC still plays one of these two games if not both. The communities for both are massive and players often talk about the community mods that add even more flavor to these two stables. As far as console games us PC players applaud (kind of like cheering being at the Special Olympics) the Halo series. We on the PC often enjoy custom community made maps and game modes and the newer games in the Halo series gives a rather simple but effective game mode maker and map editor. However no matter how hard they try they aren't going to create something as inventive and in-depth as VS Saxon Hale for Team Fortress 2.
In short, we PC Fascists? think you console players are just adorable.
Also, what happened to the Unreal community? Thinking back on good multiplayer here. I still see a bit of development, a few neat servers here and there. But nothing like it was back with Unreal Tournament 2004, that first year was insane.
In short, we PC Fascists? think you console players are just adorable.
Also, what happened to the Unreal community? Thinking back on good multiplayer here. I still see a bit of development, a few neat servers here and there. But nothing like it was back with Unreal Tournament 2004, that first year was insane.
What about everything that ever appeared in the history of ever in the paramenters of after the Nintendo 64? Like nearly any game from the following series: Tribes, Unreal, Quake, Half-Life, Counter Strike, Halo, Team Fortress 2, Metro 2033, and Killing Floor?Waddles said:
"Best" and "most approachable" are different terms when it comes to multiplayer.
What if an even easier to pick up game existed but sucked more than superman 64? Would easiness to pick up make it still the best multiplayer game ever? If not, it can't do the same for CoD either, if it would, then it would mean nothing since the people would still not be playing something worthwhile.
What if an even easier to pick up game existed but sucked more than superman 64? Would easiness to pick up make it still the best multiplayer game ever? If not, it can't do the same for CoD either, if it would, then it would mean nothing since the people would still not be playing something worthwhile.
I'll second that 100%. BF2 is without a doubt the best game ever made, IMO. A solid multiplayer with mod tools that created an additional 200 hours of gameplay for me. Still play it today. Still love it.GreatTeacherCAW said:Sure, CoD is amazing when it comes to being an online shooter. There is only one problem...
Battlefield 2 already holds the title of best multiplayer shooter ever. It got one of those amazing infinity medals that means that nothing will ever conquer it. Sure, I gave it that infinity medal, but it still destroys every other multiplayer shooter I can think of.
Cod4 would be in second though. The most epic singleplayer I have ever played. Sneaky sniping, AC130 gunship, getting nuked. I can remember running the training run and gun 50 times to try and beat infinity wards time. Multiplayer was good as well.
As for Mw3 multiplayer, I really don't see how people can not get tired of constant run and gun and all those same maps (with extras they pay for). I played Cod4 MP a lot. Enough that Black ops MP bored me. I skipped Mw2 and will skip this one too.
I agree, and I battlefield team work is very important in winning a match. Like you need people you know how to properly use the squad system, tanks/APCs/MAAs.usmarine4160 said:
Also Battlefield has vehicle combat
Why would Halo not be suitable, but CoD would be? That doesn't make any sense. I've actually found Halo to be the more pick-up-and-play friendly game because the regenerating shields don't deplete as fast as the regenerating life in CoD.Sean Hollyman said:
If you honestly think that CoD is more pick-up-and-play friendly than Halo, that's fine, you just don't give a solid reason as to why and I'm not seeing why.
Also this. Just because something has wide appeal that anyone can get into doesn't mean that it's "the best."The_root_of_all_evil said:
Your average McDonald's moves ten times more burgers a day than Five Guys Burgers and Fries because just about anyone can scarf down a McD's burger on the fly and receive some modicum of enjoyment from it. Does that make it superior to the Five Guys Burger?
Hell. Effing. No.
A game shouldn't be considered good if its easy to pick up and play; a game thats easy to master by doing so is even worse. Hard work pummeled into the game should be the defining factor between what makes and breaks a game. Its why fighting games are still around.
I was just linked to this thread by a mate asking if I had a post in here. But with your post, I don't have to.Irridium said:
But fuck it. Let's do this.
Stop right there.Sean Hollyman said:
I'm wondering if we're even playing the same game here. Even the people who are good at the game and enjoy it, absolutely hate it if they're on a losing team. Somehow I don't think someone who just picked up the game for 5 minutes will enjoy themselves.
NEITHER WOULD COD. Have you ever paid attention to the community of that game?
Glad to see we're on the same page there, at least.
A- I- What? Just because it's possible that some non-gamers may be able to enjoy a quick game does not make it have the best multiplayer of all time.
