BoringSupreez wrote:AznKhmerBoi wrote:personally i dont mind cod, its the fanboys that annoys me.
THIS THIS THIS
I don't get everyone's blind hate of COD here. A few years ago, you guys couldn't let any opportunity to hate one Halo pass by, and now you do it to COD. I think you just resent things that are popular for merely being popular sometimes. I, for one, enjoy both the Halo series and all of the COD games except for the console-exclusive ones.
It all depends on what you enjoy playing.
For me, COD epitomizes nearly everything I hate in modern day gaming -- but I'll focus on the bit that gets me the most. Let's use Modern Warfare 2 as an example, since it's the most recent one I took a shot at. I get the game, and immediately go for the single player campaign. After all, I enjoy single player more than multiplayer, and from the trailers for the game, I'm expecting a pretty good experience over the next few days.
Without ever getting up from my chair, I beat the single player campaign in just a shade over five hours.
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Five hours.
For $67.19CAD, I got five hours of game time.
Sure, I could replay it I guess, but considering it's very linear and scripted, I'm not sure I'd enjoy it at all. Anything that's that heavily scripted tends not to be enjoyable the second time around, unless there's a long enough gap between play times to make it viable. (i.e. I've forgotten what happens.)
Now, I'm expected to jump into the multiplayer if I want to get any more value for my dollar. However, I don't want to do that for a variety of entirely obvious and already very well covered reasons.
I feel a little cheated.
Some people would tell me that I should have known that it was all about the multiplayer. It's the curse of the modern day FPS, maybe I should have. However, there's an advertised single player campaign. It may as well be the tutorial for how to play in multiplayer for all the good it does though. Not only is it short, it's not even particularly good! It feels tacked on because it "had" to be there. It's not quite as bad as say, MGS3 or MGS4, where you spend more time clicking through cutscene after endless cutscene with little tastes of gameplay thrown in between to pull them together, but it's close. It's almost as if I feel I'm barely participating, I just have to click my mouse to fire my gun a few times to progress the story. There's no real sense of accomplishment or achievement. Heck, my health even regenerates for me. Where's the enjoyment supposed to come from?
For something that's supposedly in the (barf) class of "AAA" titles, I find it to be not only a gigantic disappointment, but nowhere near "AAA". It's really pretty, especially when you crank up that resolution, AF & AA. So what though? Lots of games these days are really pretty. Just because my eyes are somewhat dazzled doesn't make me forget that the actual game being played is a steaming pile of poo.
My extremely simplistic take on the matter is that is comes down to what one enjoys in a multiplayer shooter, as opposed to the merits of the game itself. It seems these days as long as a game has multiplayer, is fairly balanced, and manages to expel cheaters, people will play it. Whether it's dressed up as Call of Duty, Halo, Battlefield, Serious Sam, it doesn't matter. Just because we can connect up and shoot each other a few times, to me that does not a game make.
