Why do Many Gamers Hate COD?

I don't hate it at all. I'm sure a lot of people dislike the series, but I would just chalk it up to opinion and be done with it.

Instead of going on a rant like my other post, Ill ask you guys and then counter the argument. I feel all this COD hate going around the gaming community is alienating us from most gamers and fails in logical reasoning and would love to hear your thoughts. deadlyabdus123

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cause its rehash city,crappy engine,meh gameplay and animations that looked good last gen but now just look horid,robotic and generally reek of rehash.Not to mention an engine older than time itself.

because it gave devs a lazy formula for making games... short, same ol campaign, add in multiplayer, release map packs and tack-ons... profit

COD gets hate because it lowered the quality of games all around

[QUOTE="deadlyabdus123"]Instead of going on a rant like my other post, Ill ask you guys and then counter the argument. I feel all this COD hate going around the gaming community is alienating us from most gamers and fails in logical reasoning and would love to hear your thoughts. razgriz_101

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cause its rehash city,crappy engine,meh gameplay and animations that looked good last gen but now just look horid,robotic and generally reek of rehash.Not to mention an engine older than time itself.

I have bought every COD game since COD4. I don't hate it, I'm just tired of it... MW3 looks more of the same.SaltyMeatballs

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[QUOTE="deadlyabdus123"]Instead of going on a rant like my other post, Ill ask you guys and then counter the argument. I feel all this COD hate going around the gaming community is alienating us from most gamers and fails in logical reasoning and would love to hear your thoughts. deadlyabdus123

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cause its rehash city,crappy engine,meh gameplay and animations that looked good last gen but now just look horid,robotic and generally reek of rehash.Not to mention an engine older than time itself.

new vegas made massive improvements over FO3

Deeper crafting,not feeling overpowered,better sequel in terms of gameplay but not story it was a good improvement over FO3 despite some parts being disjointed.Trust me if you played new vegas you would know what im meaning its a much much much deeper game in terms of character developement and various other aspects, despite its flaws.

Madden i only buy every 3 years cause i dont bother bout players and unless the change was big enough from one year to the next then i might consider it.Over the past 2 gens i've only bought Madden 2003,2008 and 2011.

BF is way more fun than cod if you find the right people to play with and not a bunch of lone wolf bush wookie tank beasting idiots.

I duuno, there just something fishy about Cod. :twisted:

I've never been much a fan of the series and in fact the last one I purchased was CoD 2. :o

7 sequels over 8 years, and they're reinventing the wheel. There is no need for them to keep making annual releases, other than to milk money.

But do games like that need evolution? deadlyabdus123

1. Overly short campaigns
2. The worst online community in the history of gaming (maturity-wise)
3. Auto-aim makes it too easy

These are the reasons I don't like it anyway

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cause its rehash city,crappy engine,meh gameplay and animations that looked good last gen but now just look horid,robotic and generally reek of rehash.Not to mention an engine older than time itself.

razgriz_101

new vegas made massive improvements over FO3

Deeper crafting,not feeling overpowered,better sequel in terms of gameplay but not story it was a good improvement over FO3 despite some parts being disjointed.Trust me if you played new vegas you would know what im meaning its a much much much deeper game in terms of character developement and various other aspects, despite its flaws.

Madden i only buy every 3 years cause i dont bother bout players and unless the change was big enough from one year to the next then i might consider it.Over the past 2 gens i've only bought Madden 2003,2008 and 2011.

BF is way more fun than cod if you find the right people to play with and not a bunch of lone wolf bush wookie tank beasting idiots.

[QUOTE="deadlyabdus123"]But do games like that need evolution? foxhound_fox

Overly short campaignsThe worst online community in the history of gaming (maturity-wise)Auto-aim makes it too easy

These are the reasons I don't like it anyway

donalbane

I do not hate CoD, I dislike Activisions idea of "yearly installemnts" of it, I hate how all games since MW1 basicly resembles expansion packs (they are overly low on content, and alot of recyceling) I hate the idea of 15 doller map packs.

I hate how the sales of THAT one game has fueled the gaming industry to demand higher prices, and I hate how it pretty much started off the 60$ for pc version of games for real. I hate how the game was designed to allow lesser versitility, how they removed alot of things that was considered standard.

And I hate how alot of people buy it soley based on commercials. It pretty much shows that if you throw enough money at adverts, people will buy it, and think it is the best thing since sliced bread.

Now, when ive done with what I dislike about it? The game itself? I have no problems with, it is good, mp is not exactly the biggest leap farwards in online gaming ever as some people would have belive, but it is quite good, and it has a good fel to how it controls. In short: the game itself? pretty darn good ^^ its all the Overly bad ideas fuled by Activision I dislike about it.

And those negatives? Holy... those ARE negative, 15$ for a mappack? you know.. not long ago they were consideredobvious to get free with a games updates, 60$ forthe pc version (since the pc does notdemand royalties likethe consoles does, those 10$are pure profit, for no cost). The overly shallow and unflexible online structure (no dedicated servers,and so many things taken out to remove any control over the game as gamers usually have) is not a step backwards, its a jump back to the beginningof games...

Most of these points are ofcourse only a problem if you are a PC gamer ;)

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[QUOTE="deadlyabdus123"] Isint Fallout: new Vegas more of same, isint, every madden more of the same? Why lose a winning formula, Fallout is boring as hell, im very impatient with it. COD I can pick up and play any time. BF is a better game and much more tactical, doesent make it more fun. deadlyabdus123

new vegas made massive improvements over FO3

Deeper crafting,not feeling overpowered,better sequel in terms of gameplay but not story it was a good improvement over FO3 despite some parts being disjointed.Trust me if you played new vegas you would know what im meaning its a much much much deeper game in terms of character developement and various other aspects, despite its flaws.

Madden i only buy every 3 years cause i dont bother bout players and unless the change was big enough from one year to the next then i might consider it.Over the past 2 gens i've only bought Madden 2003,2008 and 2011.

BF is way more fun than cod if you find the right people to play with and not a bunch of lone wolf bush wookie tank beasting idiots.

please black ops has bout as much balance as a drunk coming out a Wetherspoons at 2 in the mornin.Also the multiplayer has the overall depth of a paddling pool.

Thing is those improvements in black ops are fairly cosmetic and basically pimp my gun, was expecting at least decent player customisation the way the blew on bout it at E3 like actually be able to change your guys model and what he looked like including what gear he wore making it more persistant.

BTW i do own black ops dont believe me add look thru my raptr, decent SP campaign i'll give it that but only the odd game of zombies is when i dust it off and fire it up.

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[QUOTE="deadlyabdus123"] Isint Fallout: new Vegas more of same, isint, every madden more of the same? Why lose a winning formula, Fallout is boring as hell, im very impatient with it. COD I can pick up and play any time. BF is a better game and much more tactical, doesent make it more fun. deadlyabdus123

new vegas made massive improvements over FO3

Deeper crafting,not feeling overpowered,better sequel in terms of gameplay but not story it was a good improvement over FO3 despite some parts being disjointed.Trust me if you played new vegas you would know what im meaning its a much much much deeper game in terms of character developement and various other aspects, despite its flaws.

Madden i only buy every 3 years cause i dont bother bout players and unless the change was big enough from one year to the next then i might consider it.Over the past 2 gens i've only bought Madden 2003,2008 and 2011.

BF is way more fun than cod if you find the right people to play with and not a bunch of lone wolf bush wookie tank beasting idiots.

[QUOTE="deadlyabdus123"]Instead of going on a rant like my other post, Ill ask you guys and then counter the argument. I feel all this COD hate going around the gaming community is alienating us from most gamers and fails in logical reasoning and would love to hear your thoughts. razgriz_101

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cause its rehash city,crappy engine,meh gameplay and animations that looked good last gen but now just look horid,robotic and generally reek of rehash.Not to mention an engine older than time itself.

Plus no dedicated servers

all you do, is cover your eyes and pull the trigger

or

you snipe, and nothing else

I don't hate CoD. I just hate that it attracts so much attention that people often overlook other great games. Oh, and because my XBL friends never seem to play anything else.

Truth be told, I've played tons of games for years, but not a single CoD title until Black Ops, which I actually liked a bit. Granted, I did not purchase it, nor do I plan on buying a title in the series anytime soon, but I did not find it to be a 'bad' game in any way. I can't stand the whole "3 bullets and you're dead" thing, but that's most likely from my years of Halo multiplayer.

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[QUOTE="deadlyabdus123"]Instead of going on a rant like my other post, Ill ask you guys and then counter the argument. I feel all this COD hate going around the gaming community is alienating us from most gamers and fails in logical reasoning and would love to hear your thoughts. sami117

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cause its rehash city,crappy engine,meh gameplay and animations that looked good last gen but now just look horid,robotic and generally reek of rehash.Not to mention an engine older than time itself.

Plus no dedicated servers

There's nothing wrong with hating a game, just don't hate a person for liking it.

Nothing has been done to progress the series , its the same thing every year. DavidianMH

^ This.

It's already been stated, but it's true that Call of Duty is rehash city.After CoD 4, every CoD game feels the same.And it's just plain boring.

A better question is why does it sell millions when people hate it on websites.

I guess we're the minority.

It's only here I encounter COD hate.

Lots of gamers I talk to outside SW love it.

A better question is why does it sell millions when people hate it on websites.

I guess we're the minority.

mitu123

Exactly, people who dislike Call of Duty are the minority. Back at school, all the bros love to play CoD. A lot of casual gamers like CoD because it's simple, the learning curve isn't very steep.

1. Games these days are plagued by short campaigns, at least COD offers action packed every second, even if it gets a tad tedious. deadlyabdus123

Most gamers don't hate. System Wars does. mrmusicman247

Wrong.....Most PC gamers hate.

I have bought every COD game since COD4. I don't hate it, I'm just tired of it... MW3 looks more of the same.SaltyMeatballs

This, I'm just not gonna pay for the same game every year. And I've never bought one of their overpriced map packs, just not worth it to me. Fun games, and I did enjoy them, but it's just more of the same every year. For those who enjoy it, and find it worth it, more power to you! :)

The games are lacking in graphics, sound, physics, and polish of most other areas. The engine looks like crap, yet the netcode they use in combination with their p2p network make for a laggy online experience surpassed by every other online title I've played.

Acti directs the budget of the game towards marketing and voice actors. If they didn't go with Ice-T for BO, they could have used that money to pay for dedicated servers for the whole series.

Because it dserves the hate. Overhyped, over-appreciated, overpriced, over too quickly.... Nothing more to say on the situation.

Oh there is.... By next gen CoD as a franchise will be killed off like Tony Hawks and Guitar Hero. Both over done and the public got severly bored.

I hate it because i find it to be the epitome of casual gaming, i'm not a casual FPS player so i can't stop feeling 'what a crappy noob game' whenever i play call of duty.

I hate it because i find it to be the epitome of casual gaming, i'm not a casual FPS player so i can't stop feeling 'what a crappy noob game' whenever i play call of duty.

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