To tell the truth, I never finished BlackOps.I thought the B.Ops story was cool by COD standards, but I'd support anyone who'd say that kind of story can be told in a better medium than COD. The earlier CODs were cool, they only pushed the envelope enough for us to think 'Hey, this is preeeettay cool man'. Nowadays they seem to be bent on developing the whole game whilst inserting pure adrenaline into their veins, which starts to decay beyond a certain point which they crossed with MW:2. I hope make this one fun to play through.
Gah, that plot looks like it's just excuse after excuse to add random scenery changes.
Would anyone else prefer it if this installment focused on the conventional war between the U.S. and Russia? That could be pretty *****in, done right.
no chance, i understand that Guitar hero was dropped to give them more resources to develop CoD
Gah, that plot looks like it's just excuse after excuse to add random scenery changes.
Would anyone else prefer it if this installment focused on the conventional war between the U.S. and Russia? That could be pretty *****in, done right.
battlefield 3
Gah, that plot looks like it's just excuse after excuse to add random scenery changes.
Would anyone else prefer it if this installment focused on the conventional war between the U.S. and Russia? That could be pretty *****in, done right.
battlefield 3
DICE's stuff has always felt too... shiny, if that makes sense. I prefer the feel of a Call of Duty game to a Battlefield game. I would GLADLY play a game that had the CoD engine and feel but a Battlefield story.
I really did like CoD4 (the first MW) quite a bit. I will argue for that game's narrative worth at length.
All I remember from 4 is infinite enemy respawns. Ugh.Black Ops suffers from this as well. It's obvious and lazy... I didn't see it in Modern Warfare 2. Thankfully. I'm a tactical player who spends his time pushing forward and clearing out a place. If the enemy just respawns it gets silly for me.
I enjoyed the Michael Bayness of MW2. I admit I haven't played MW1 so I assumed that was how the first one was as well. I felt like I was playing in a big action movie like The Rock for example. Everything was definitely turned up to 11 and that seemed to be how it was supposed to be. It's also very cynical and kind of depressing at the same time... but I thought it was compelling for that sort of dark cinematic flair. I take it the first MW was a bit more realistic and less over the top?
Having come into Call of Duty very late on I can say that I really enjoyed MW2's single player and multiplayer but with Black Ops only the multiplayer aspect was compelling along with maybe the last 1/3rd of the single player. Prior to that I was more of a Rainbow Six: Raven Shield sort of FPS player. Battlefield 2 served me pretty well too. I like the spec ops tactical missions the best.
Yeah, CoD4 was kind of dark and ****ed up in all the right ways. MW2 was just... tacky.
Pretty sure BF3 is doing NATO vs. ChinaGah, that plot looks like it's just excuse after excuse to add random scenery changes.
Would anyone else prefer it if this installment focused on the conventional war between the U.S. and Russia? That could be pretty *****in, done right.
battlefield 3
Yes, let us park our whole damn fleet in the harbor of the city our enemy is invading, well within surface weapon range, what could possibly go wrong?
It scores rather high for me on the coolness scale, I think I'm just about done caring about the story in COD games. Just give me some explosions and cool stuff to do, and I won't give a **** if it's fighting the Chinese in New Zealand with thermonuclear weapons powered by monkeys on bicycles. :P
My point is it's not even very good Michael Bay, it was all basically a rehash of what we've seen before - as opposed to previous Call of Duty titles which at least promised some style and enthusiasm with their bombast. It was boring, the explosions looked bad, and the environments and action were dull.Mate, everything after COD4 was a rehash to me. :P But yeah, I see what you're getting at and I acknowledge it, this'll be the last COD game I'm buying, if that.
I think we're probably seeing the effects of having one gutted, demoralized studio being forced to work on a game, assisted by another hired gun studio (Raven) which has worked on every mediocre FPS in the past ten years, assisted by yet another studio formed in panic to help finish the next Call of Duty game.
There's talk of a subscription system.
I'm shaky on details, but it may not be for online play.
My interest in CoD has actually dropped to zero. Never finished Black Ops. I'm only posting in this thread because I want to whine about how bad it's become.