Call of Duty, why the hate

[Hooahguy]

I think it has more to do with the fact that they churn out a new game every year. Its a high price tag for not that much change year after year. Maybe this one will be different but I doubt it.

[Fragony]

I think it has more to do with the fact that they churn out a new game every year. Its a high price tag for not that much change year after year. Maybe this one will be different but I doubt it.

But you get a lot,COD-games are really generous. They aren't my thing, neither are the excellent Gears of War games, but they are undiniably expertly crafted games. I just wonder why people outright hate these games while they could just dislike them. I think their popularity is trespassing emo-territory

[easytarget]

There are so many reasons to hate COD it's tiresome to even bother attempting to list them all. The best I can say about COD is it's not really all that unique in the fact it's utter crap, a good 90% of everything made by the game industry is crap. So take comfort in the knowledge COD is not being singled out, least not by me anyway.

I'm pleasantly surprised in any given year if I find even one game I consider pretty good, and quite happy with the prospect of finding what I consider a real masterpiece of a game every say 5 years or so.

[Beskar]

It is basically a death match game, virtually no SP or Co-OP, and it is reskinned turd shovelled out every year. The "differences" are because there are more than one company on the CoD gravy train, and they do alternative years for releasing their version of the game. If you follow the same company basis, the similarities are obvious.

Only people who play it a lot are generally those who have a social network who play the game, and they all buy it, and feeling forced into the new one, because everyone else in their network has it. I hear the arguments such as "it is just a reskin, the new one isn't so great, going back to the old.." then next day, they are back in the new one as no one is on the old one, especially not their COD friends.

COD has limited replayability for me, and I know a few who are obsessive about it and tried to 'convert' me repeatably with fail.

Thing, is, because of the years of polish, there are some actually good features in a game itself, but the dislike is directed against the franchise for simply rehashing/polishing these concepts and overcharging people every year for the new one.

[easytarget]

I'm still waiting for the sequel to Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, easily the best objective based MP I've ever seen. TF2 was a good time as well, initially anyway, until the hats and 50 weapon variations ruined the balance.

We wore out DM style MP early on in Quake, which is why we switched to CTF and LMCTF in order to make it interesting. It is really completely impossible for me to understand how 20 years later anyone could still find anything remotely engaging about DM in any MP game.

[Fragony]

Deathmatch is the only thing I am interested in in a fps really, I really dislike objective-based modes

[Husar]

As for Call of Duty, I can list the reasons I don't like it a lot, but note that I only had MW1 on PS3 and MW2 on PC:

- too similar every year
- weird scale, you have platoons that call carpet bombings on cities etc.
- cheesy weapons such as the dual Glock 18 in MW2, where twitch and spray beats any kind of tactics
- reduction of any realism it may have had in favor of "fun" weapons and faster, twitchier gameplay, not everybody's cup of tea
- trying hard to be "cool", like a lot of "gaming" hardware does too, red dragon design and the likes were cool when I was 12, I'm 30 now... I basically can't identify myself with people who think nicknames like "=/666~EV1L~666\=" are "cool".
- yes, I'm just too slow for the MP unless I can also win with tactics, never touched Doom 3 or Unreal Tournament either
- small map packs for 30 bucks that are quasi-obligatory...

[easytarget]

Deathmatch is the only thing I am interested in in a fps really, I really dislike objective-based modes

What can I say, I was bored with that 20 years ago.

[Csargo]

I'm still waiting for the sequel to Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, easily the best objective based MP I've ever seen.

It's been so long since I've played it, but it was definitely my favorite fps MP game. I had so much fun in that game, and spent a lot of time playing it. Really wish they would make a sequel that would be amazing, I'd play that for ages.

[easytarget]

Yeah, that one was really quite brilliant imho. Objective based with a series of them somehow forced both teams to work as a team, which as we all know is a really rare experience in pub MP. When the server was loaded with a team balancing script to keep things even it was a thing of beauty.