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| This was the best ever. |
Remember 2007? I do. I made some awesome friends that year. Why? Maybe because of a little something maybe you've heard of it.....Call of Duty 4. Yea, I know right, the very thought of it would make any person drool. Remember how fun it was? Was, yea, not so much now. Besides the fact that the game is fastly approaching the 5 year mark, but hackers and what not have ruined the game that was, fun.
Today fun is a loose, loose term. Somewhere along the way, fun was somehow replaced with crap, and crap being the community that came over to the Call of Duty series from Halo. Do they have the right? Yes. Did companies like Infinity ward and Treyarch see the potential that could be gained from this? Yes. Did Activision want to make more money? Yes. Did any of these companies care what they were doing to the fans. NO!
Year after year Call of Duty franchise series makes more and more money and breaks records upon records. While doing almost nothing different. They keep releasing the same game, and we keep buying it. "Not this year god damn it." You bought it, I bought it. We all buy it on the grounds that this one might capture that feel we got from Call of Duty 4 and relive the magic once again. Lets be honest though, it isn't going to. For that matter it really isn't even going to come close. We could argue and blame the community for the things they have done while playing the game. Blame them. You can't. The Call of Duty developers are the ones that put all that stuff in there to make them do the things they do. Please show me a man that can run around with a Barret .50 Cal sniper rifle and fire it with hardly any recoil, and I will produce to you the front door keys to the Bermuda Triangle, as well as the body of Jimmy Hoffa. It wont happen.
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| Modern Warfare 2. Quite horrible online play. |
Fun, doesn't exist anymore, and I thought Battlefield 3 would be a breath of fresh air and be fun, but it isn't. Getting shot at the spawn, I will play call of duty if I want to be hosed that bad. Thats another beast entirely its own.
Where will the fun come from again? Sadly, I don't think there will be any online games that are fun anymore. Co-op games are a blast, but working around schedules to play with certain people lets the game sit on the shelf for awhile, then its back to Call of Duty, because there is nothing. I want to be happy, but all I feel is anger. If I'm not playing that, I'm playing something else that just doesn't hold my attention span. Remember my rant about Ghost Recon? That had the tools to be great, and not so great. If the game wasn't broken, there may have not been a problem.
The future of gaming may be done for me. As I am perhaps just getting too old to give it a thought. I look at my Xbox 360 and sigh, I want to have fun again, but I cant. Gaming has become ruined. People and the game companies just turn the cash cow into a bore.
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| Blackops 2. The future never looked so bad. |
What will Blackops 2 do? The multiplayer trailer was released and I was excited for the first watching of it, but then the second and third time got me thinking. Its the same game. The same damn game all over again. New maps, new guns, same game modes. Thats another thing too. Why cant people play objective type games the way they are supposed to be played. They don't help you half the time, I have many ideas for fixes for this, but will we see them? Nope. Will I still buy the next Call of Duty which is Blackops 2? Probably. Will I complain about it? Yup. I'm only human, and bored. Bring on NHL '13!!!!!
~Thanks for stopping by~
Luke
