I saw Jericho's new vid and i liked it a lot. He spoke of an opinion (which i agree with) that caught my eye. This commentary has been done 9000x over. It has been done for many games. In where the commentator speaks of why he is not enjoying the game anymore. Well let me sum up the video. COD has lost its glory not because challenge lobbies, over powered weapons, etc. It has been lost because their is not much left to learn. Seriously, some of us when we play this game we play it like zombies. I will give you an example for domination or search and destroy players. Find 5 games in your theater, where you start off in the same area (and of course the same map) the first 10s are similar. Most of us when we bought this game we tried to juice up as many hours as we could to play it. Honestly, for the call of duty vets, the only thing that keeps us going is the competitive aspect. What i mean is, most of us know how to drop shot, quick scope, and all that jazz. Really the only thing keeping us going is the competitive aspect. Such as getting high stats, challenges completed, etc. Many former call of duty players say that x game is more fun. I say that x game is more fun because they are learning about x game, and have not learned everything. At the end of the day, every cod is just about the same. This is life, we lose lust for things we love doing. Anyways, i just felt like sharing this opinion. Feel free to discuss your respectful opinions.
I think COD isnt as fun cause its got to easy, i mean a person who has never even Played any game before could get a kill, just hold R1 and look at person.
I like to be able to get shoot at, turn around and kill them cause your a better player rater than first to hit 3 bullets wins!!
COD4 was so simple, i mean assassin now does,
1)immune to UAV
2)Immune to equipment
3) immune to attachments
4) immune to EMP
5) immune to CUAV
6) immune to perks (marksmen)
7) no red name
Thats 7 benfits from 1 perk, while COD4 it was just immune to UAV, simple does one job not 7 its got completely rediculouse
Another thing the game would be better if there was no grenades, no special grenades, no tube, no underslug shotgun, no explosives, no killstreaks (except specialist).
And was based on gun on gun only, if you do good (get a killstreak) you unlock bonus perks which give you a boost but you still have to work for the kills.
Also the map design... I have yet to see a map that really blew me away. The only good maps were in CoD4 and Mw2. W@W maps were all right... but Black Ops and MW3 maps are shit.
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i remember the cod4 times, boosting/hacking didnt even really exist and nobody gave a fuck. no raging in pregame lobbies and shit. I used to sit in the back of the map with a sniper everytime I played until I got the gold dragunov, cause people thought when the gun was gold it gave you more power lol. Those were pretty good times tbh.
Wait wut?
Gold gives you more power?
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I saw Jericho's new vid and i liked it a lot. He spoke of an opinion (which i agree with) that caught my eye. This commentary has been done 9000x over. It has been done for many games. In where the commentator speaks of why he is not enjoying the game anymore. Well let me sum up the video. COD has lost its glory not because challenge lobbies, over powered weapons, etc. It has been lost because their is not much left to learn. Seriously, some of us when we play this game we play it like zombies. I will give you an example for domination or search and destroy players. Find 5 games in your theater, where you start off in the same area (and of course the same map) the first 10s are similar. Most of us when we bought this game we tried to juice up as many hours as we could to play it. Honestly, for the call of duty vets, the only thing that keeps us going is the competitive aspect. What i mean is, most of us know how to drop shot, quick scope, and all that jazz. Really the only thing keeping us going is the competitive aspect. Such as getting high stats, challenges completed, etc. Many former call of duty players say that x game is more fun. I say that x game is more fun because they are learning about x game, and have not learned everything. At the end of the day, every cod is just about the same. This is life, we lose lust for things we love doing. Anyways, i just felt like sharing this opinion. Feel free to discuss your respectful opinions.
I think its boring because people over play it. Ex. A new song comes out and you listen to it 30 times a day. Its not as good as when it first came out cause you over played it and you know everything. Oh wait, wtf am I saying, this is basically exactly what Jericho just said. But, a way to fix is, maybe change it up a little bit, such as, don't play Mw3 for 6 hours a day. Get off and watch a movie, or play a different game, or work out. Something.
I saw Jericho's new vid and i liked it a lot. He spoke of an opinion (which i agree with) that caught my eye. This commentary has been done 9000x over. It has been done for many games. In where the commentator speaks of why he is not enjoying the game anymore. Well let me sum up the video. COD has lost its glory not because challenge lobbies, over powered weapons, etc. It has been lost because their is not much left to learn. Seriously, some of us when we play this game we play it like zombies. I will give you an example for domination or search and destroy players. Find 5 games in your theater, where you start off in the same area (and of course the same map) the first 10s are similar. Most of us when we bought this game we tried to juice up as many hours as we could to play it. Honestly, for the call of duty vets, the only thing that keeps us going is the competitive aspect. What i mean is, most of us know how to drop shot, quick scope, and all that jazz. Really the only thing keeping us going is the competitive aspect. Such as getting high stats, challenges completed, etc. Many former call of duty players say that x game is more fun. I say that x game is more fun because they are learning about x game, and have not learned everything. At the end of the day, every cod is just about the same. This is life, we lose lust for things we love doing. Anyways, i just felt like sharing this opinion. Feel free to discuss your respectful opinions.
The immense repetition of the game series with online play has made it boring. When I first started out playing Call of Duty on Mw2, I only got to play occasionally on my friends Ps3. I was decent, ended up with a 1.3. I got my Ps3 and was able to buy Black Ops, although prior I was borrowing MW2. Black Ops, I came out at 1.7k/d and found that I got good enough to where I entered matches and went 30+ with 10- deaths.
I play MW3 now, I experience good service connection and then bad connection. It's annoying really, I can't snipe unless I have 4 bar connection and I love sniping. The maps are all so simple, there is so little I can do, I can't hide anywhere, blend or wedge myself into object. There is so many invisible walls all over the place that I trip over them and die because I got stuck and I was then exposed.
The game modes are so easy, I know where everyone goes, I know how people act. I know the routes that people go and if activity is low, then they must be here or there and that people hide there or here because that's all they can do and will do.
I mess around, 1.62k/d ratio, without that, easily 2.4-2.8. (I do a lot of weapon testing/fun rushing).
Anyways, the fact that it's just a solid map with me running around is boring. I think it would be a ton more interesting if there was more interactions with the map, bring back the tanks or bring armored cars. Get rid of some of these kill streaks, spice things up. 3rd person is what I miss most, there is nothing tactical about the new games, something tactical would be great. Mission modes with a group of 3-4 people would also be awesome. I think the limitation of Survival with 2 people was a bad idea, 4 would have been awesome or maybe making it 8 and if you die, you are dead. Then add a ranking system and if you ditch, you lose experience. (This would create a whole new side to the idea of online play).
They just keep doing map modifications and redrawing then sticking up with the realistically the same programmed coding for weapons, just a selector that identifies and changes range/damage values.
Call of Duty is essentially the same game yearly, just under a different skin which includes minor changes to satisfy the fans and earn profit. I was one of those who denied that at first, but now I've come to see the light. I've played it so much, and it has served as such a major influence in my life, that it's pretty much defined an entire part of who I am. In retrospect, I see how foolish I was to allow gaming to consume such a large portion of my schedule; I've squandered so many non-gaming opportunities and relationships just to pursue goals in an entirely virtual world that was intended to be purely for entertainment.
What most gamers fail to realize is that their hobby accomplishes nothing; every achievement only provides temporary gratification. Gaming will not last forever, so it is far more wise to invest time in something fulfilling, and lasting. I don't understand why humans attach themselves so strongly to things that can be taken away from them instantly, instead of focusing on things of permanence. Those individuals who spent 500+ hours on the game, and were reset; what have they truly accomplished? Temporary fame? Their names and reputation will soon be forgotten, and in a few years they'll realize how naive and careless they were for investing so much time in gaming, when they could have worked towards something more socially and mentally beneficial. This is why I "quit" PS3. I've abandoned leaderboards, stats, recognition and competitive gaming totally, all that remains is regret and a haunting feeling of emptiness.
I honestly find it sad that whenever I join a voice/text chat on PSN these days, the conversation is always about who's more known, who's better at the game, or about who has a better history of fame. It's pathetic, I don't want anything to do with it any longer.
You know I do agree with you I agree with almost everything you said in that whole post in fact. Except for the fact that basically what that post was pointing at is that Video Games are completely pointless, useless, and will lead to nothing later in life. To some extent this is true but when people are truly enjoying the game for days of playing time on in I don't believe that is a waste of time.
Think about it like this, if you go play say like Mini-Golf is that going to lead to anything later in life? Hell if you play Mini-Golf close to everyday and compete in small tournaments in your town or paintball. If you go play paintball which I know from personal experience is a very expensive sport once you get into it. You play in tournaments every weekend. Is it going to lead to anything later in life? No most likely not it will lead to absolutely nothing. But the thing is while your doing it you're having fun you're enjoying yourself.
It is fun. It won't always be fun though just like Call of Duty you just can't really do something for ever and have fun with it for 10's of years. It's just not hardly possible. Humans need change they don't want to do the same thing their whole life but while it is fun to you, you might as well take advantage of it. That is just my take on the whole thing.
Think about it like this, if you go play say like Mini-Golf is that going to lead to anything later in life? Hell if you play Mini-Golf close to everyday and compete in small tournaments in your town or paintball. If you go play paintball which I know from personal experience is a very expensive sport once you get into it. You play in tournaments every weekend. Is it going to lead to anything later in life? No most likely not it will lead to absolutely nothing. But the thing is while your doing it you're having fun you're enjoying yourself.
I wasn't trying to make gaming seem as an aimless, destructive hobby. My point was that it should not consume your life and rob you of opportunities which could have lead to a greater future for you as a whole. And apart from that, I wasn't playing Call of Duty because it was "fun" for me. Otherwise I'd be playing role-playing titles and other action games. That fun factor died after Black Ops.
I played Call of Duty because I was pressured to by the majority of my PSN friends to do so; I needed to focus on leaderboards, clans, clan battles, PGL, Gamebattles, etc. So in a sense, my reputation came with something of an obligation. I wasn't gaming for fun, I was gaming because I thought I had to- it became a responsibility. Now, I'm just cutting ties with all of that and just living- sometimes gaming- independently. No pressure, I'm free to do whatever I please, whenever I want.
Now I can say that I am at the peak of my gaming career. I'm actually enjoying myself with the games I currently play- haven't had such an enjoyable time gaming since the Black Ops era. Gaming is entertainment, not an obligation as I previously thought. If I'm not enjoying myself, why play?