Why do Many Gamers Hate COD?

Different reasons for different people. I personally like the franchise but I skipped playing BO simply because I was tired of shooters in general, the market is oversaturated with them

You happy now TC? I kinda hope you are trolling, cause even the most hardcore, the bro'est, the most twelve-year-old'est COD fan would get depressed reading through this thread.

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

SecretPolice

lol jk, it did become fishy as time went by though didnt

I only hate treyarchs COD which is pretty much all of COD now since infinity ward pretty much left.

Extremely linear, invisible walls, small maps, dumb AI, spawnpoints suck both in campaign and online, killstreak system only annoys and isn't well thought out, low maximum player limit, very little variation in gameplay or ways to approach a game, the community is downright frightening, half the unlocks are weapons you never want to use/the ones you want are unlocked within a day, no teamplay, high pricepoint and high map prices, overrated by critics according to the users even when it was taking steps back from its predecessor, has an insane amount of marketing which somehow created an enormous amount of sales, has way too much coverage on gaming sites (mappack reviews?) and is starting to influence other games with its mediocrity, and its designers/publishers are complete ****s.

It is a very expensive meatgrinder made by people you don't want to ever touch a game again, let alone make one, with extremely straightforward shootouts from the 90's. The games are OK, maybe GOOD, but definitely not GREAT. Yet they are treated as such by basically every critic that I know of. The only likeable aspect of the new direction of COD games, is that it is a very cinematic shooter and has some interesting features like the perks that, sadly, in practice are completely unbalanced. We've seen that 4 COD's ago, and all reviews since have been a waste of bandwidth and asskissery.

Because Dude-bro gamers are a slight against humanity

The reason gamers hate Call of Duty is not so much because we despise the terrible campaign, the unbalanced cheap multiplayer, or the pure mediocrity of the game. We hate it because other developers try to copy their formula that we hate in favor of actually innovating and trying something new with the genre. A lot of us also think that CoD is casualizing the genre.

It's only here I encounter COD hate.

Lots of gamers I talk to outside SW love it.

Lto_thaG

nope...i know of cod hate outside this place.My mate hates the game with a passion someone mentioned it in passing at the pub and he just replied with that recycled garbage that you buy every year?

Me and him would rather play CoD4 which was the last excellent game of the series, the perfect balance of a good story and good multi.

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It's only here I encounter COD hate.

Lots of gamers I talk to outside SW love it.

razgriz_101

nope...i know of cod hate outside this place.My mate hates the game with a passion someone mentioned it in passing at the pub and he just replied with that recycled garbage that you buy every year?

Me and him would rather play CoD4 which was the last excellent game of the series, the perfect balance of a good story and good multi.

The games just get a lot of love for apparently no reason. It seems everything they do is gold but if some one else does it it's crap. I loved how the original acted as a pimp for MoH:AA that was the epitome of WWII shooters at that time. The expansion was more of that awesomeness. With the second I even convinced myself to look the other way with the bloody screen-regenerating health but it was still a blast. CoD4 was again awesome but I could no longer convince myself to look the other way and ignore all the flaws and how the fanboys treated it as their golden god. Didn't even bought WAW, MW2 or BLOPS.

ITs a rehash every year and has just become boring. Plus I hate playing with all the frat boys and young teens who think being racist and obnoxious is funny. I used to play from time to time because I thought it was funny that I barley play the game and I get matched against people in the highest prestige and still destroy them

I almost fell asleep during that MW3 gameplay footage at the MSpres... the most exciting part was when his controllergot disconnected.

There is a simple answer. If a game is really popular and has a lot of people that like it, it also has a lot of people that dislike it. All the people making remarks about how they don't like it is just a testament to how popular it is. A few years back Halo was in the same position until COD overtook it as the most popular fps on consoles.

There is a simple answer. If a game is really popular and has a lot of people that like it, it also has a lot of people that dislike it. All the people making remarks about how they don't like it is just a testament to how popular it is. A few years back Halo was in the same position until COD overtook it as the most popular fps on consoles.

ShyGuy0504

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There is a simple answer. If a game is really popular and has a lot of people that like it, it also has a lot of people that dislike it. All the people making remarks about how they don't like it is just a testament to how popular it is. A few years back Halo was in the same position until COD overtook it as the most popular fps on consoles.

BPoole96

And I would agree. I don't like COD. But I was just pointing out why there are so many people that voice there dislike for it.

It's cool to hate what is popular? The game can't be all that bad. It sells millions, gets high scores from critics and it's fans play the heck out of it.

"Jealousy comes with success you can't escape it." Wiz Khalifa

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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

short and long

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.

It's not so much that I hate it personally, more so that I'm tired of it. They've really exhausted the hell out of COD4 formula to the point where I cringe whenever I even see other games' multiplayer being so much as similarto it. The boring Michael Bay campaigns don't help, as well as the fact that the games honestly feel shallow as puddle sometimes.

Because it's been the same thing every year, for four years straight, and the formula wasn't all that great to begin with.

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

The game has been rehash after rehash. It is made for quick thrills. It is all flash. Activision is more or less in charge of the consumer and is leading the industry down a dangerous path. 5 hour campaign? Okay, let's deal with that for a minute. You pay $60 for a five hour campaign, but oh, you get countless hours of multiplayer, right? Wrong, tack on another $30(plus now a subscription fee). How they sucker kids into this is beyond me. The game ISN'T EVEN BALANCED. You'd think that once they have SURE SALES from the fans, they'd at least listen to them and correct the problem. Instead, they treat the consumer like kids in slave labor camps hungry for food. It is quite sad, really.

no idea.... personally I think COD4 on the PC is one of the best games of all time. The rest of the COD titles dont quite compare, but were still good, with MW2 being the worst of the bunch. Do agree the series needs to evolve and stop taking steps sideways and in some cases backwars.

wanna know why? ill tell you why

since cod4 its been the same engine every year with no changes what so ever. overpriced mappacks and now this elite subscription

if i played cod4 then basically i played all the new cod's

they hateses it cuz they are so cool and everyone that likes things they don't like are fistbumping 12 year old foul mouthed soccer mom frat boys.

oohhhhh they sooooo upset!

How many things have changed in the last four years?

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

[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. rollermint

Oh you play CoD. That other thread you made practically insulting people makes so much more sense now.

I liked MW1 and MW2 but, black ops killed it. Too many re hashes of one game leads me not to like it anymore. I could play bf3 instead of new cod re hash. Least the battlefield series is worth buying. I think I played bad company 2 more than I played cod. But, when my friends were online they were all playing cod so I played cod when they were on. I only cod due to the popularity of my friends playing it. Nothing more.

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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.

deadlyabdus123

I never said I hate casual gamers, i just said i dislike casual games. I actually do play COD with friends simply because it's so accessible, even though my reason to play COD is because I have friends playing it, not because i like it.

I agree that going in the COD/skill debate is pointless but it remains a fact that many elements in COD are simplyfied to make the game more action packed. It's not odd that there are quite a bit of gamers who have a grudge against that kind of gameplay.

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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.

rastotm

I never said I hate casual gamers, i just said i dislike casual games. I actually do play COD with friends simply because it's so accessible, even though my reason to play COD is because I have friends playing it, not because i like it.

I agree that going in the COD/skill debate is pointless but it remains a fact that many elements in COD are simplyfied to make the game more action packed. It's not odd that there are quite a bit of gamers who have a grudge against that kind of gameplay.

COD is as casual as it gets. It is one of the most simplified pick-up-and-play games on the market.

So you're other thread bashes people who play core games more than once and this one defends purchasing a new CoD every year. I hope you see the problem with this.

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

No silly, you're supposed to buy every CoD game up to 4 (excluding 3), not every game starting with 4.

I miss when CoD was good:(