poser wrote:Can someone explain all the CoD hate to me? Genuine question - I always assumed the games were popular and I though MW2 and World at War were ok, though they're the only ones I've played. I'm not a big first-person fan, though.
It's chav gaming
They are so on rails they might as well be light gun games with QTEs.
It's all about trying to shepherd the player from one Michael Bay set piece to another without the user noticing the AI breaking.
I completed MW2, just out of bloody mindedness. The White House level where you had to snipe the advancing enemy. I never received the "let's go" command and sniped infinitely spawning enemies for 40 minutes until I put the gun down bored, and noticed my team were just stood at the back of the room waiting for me to put my gun down and trigger the next part. <-- utter bollox gameplay
Of course there's the "it's all about multi-player" argument. I got bored of being spam killed by teenagers with nothing better to do but get good at an online game 10 years ago with CS and Unreal Tournament, and if I wanted that, I'd chose Halo anyway.
And of course there's the deliberately controversy baiting indefensible "No Russian" level" - what a bunch of cnuts whoever thought that was defendable in a rational argument about the maturity of video games.