[quote name='GBAstar']Hate. Hate. Hate. I know their are no dragons, talking vegetables, or ninjas in Call of Duty but I still don't understand why people hate so much on the franchise. It is very profitable; who knew? I mean most young boys grow up playing army, cops and robbers, war, etc. Sounds like a good formula to me.
I have seen thread after thread of people calling this game crap, the hardened edition crap, worthless and that'll be on store shelves for months to come.
Okay
way to show your intelligence.[/QUOTE]
It's because:
- It's the cancer killing the video game industry. You might like ONLY shooters, dumbed down ones at that which remove anything that requires thinkings & rewards camping, but most of us play other games & genres as well, & we don't like it when established genres are suddenly changed by the publishers to attain CoD's audience. Rainbow Six Vegas? Skyrim? Splinter Cell Conviction? SOCOM 4? Hitman Absolution? Resident Evil 4 & after (I'm aware that came out in 2005 but honestly it gave way to this whole trend in the first place).
Them & many other series are dumbed down to pull in an audience they themselves do not give a crap about & what happens? These sequels end up being forgotten by fans who felt betrayed, pirated en masse & the CoD audience doesn't even know they exist because they don't play anything else besides CoD. Then there's the occasional dumbed down sequel that actually pulls in all the morons & the series is forever changed, a shadow of it's former self. I'm not touching an RE where it's far more action than horror & ammo plus health are crapped out every few steps.
- The "fans". I've seen the worst fanbases due to the internet & the CoD crotchsniffers rival Sonic furries & Kingdom Hearts yaoi landwhales. But this isn't just kept on the internet oh no, I unfortunately see this idiots in the middle school near my house. It's even impossible to talk about video games outside niche fan sites now because every single game is compared to CoD even if the genres aren't even related "Hurr dem gfx suck cod much betta, dat shit is gay son play blops lol y you play dat counter strike etc. etc" they act as if this once great series turned into yearly Michael Bay garbage is some kind of ultimate achievement, some kind of everlasting trophy of game design; it isn't, you're just playing CoD because all your friends are & most people don't want to be left out of the loop, you couldn't care less about what problems & glaring issues pop up because everyone on your friend list is playing it & you'd look poor or "hipster" to not have it.
- All the military clones. Yes we all know of all the Mario & FF 7 clones in decades past but at least they weren't this prevelent, now every 5th-10th game is something; modern, shooting up terrorists who are either muslim or russian, linear shooting gallery, use the M16 & AK47 & use some type of perk system. Where's the imagination of trying something vastly different? Oh right that'll be ignored too just like these, even the shooters that are actually fun unfortunately fall into obscurity like Vanquish & Prey.
- & about your cops & robbers argument, we've had plenty of successful shooters back then which weren't all the same as each other & required reflexes, intelligence & didn't pat you on the back just because you sat in a corner all match. Quake, Doom, SOCOM 1 & 2, Counter Strike, Team Fortress classic, Tribes & that's just a handful. Heard any of these? I doubt it.
- The abuse of DLC but I guess Microsoft is the main blame here. Still, due to them & Activision every single map pack is just "$10 for 3". Gee, I don't know about you but that sure sounds like a huge ripoff, I ain't paying for taht but unfortunately little timmy & his friends will get their mothers to pay for it, all the college jocks will use their McDonalds paychecks to pay for it & taunt those who "are too poor hahaha" who refuse to fall for this crap.
That's why it's hated. Feel free to ignore because I bashed your precious CoD & continue to fondle Activision's greed with your wallet. I'm sure Post-Modern Warfare will be even better.