Why i think call of duty is shit.

[Kreekakon]

I can't believe I haven't voiced my opinion in this thread yet. I haven't read all of the previous comments so forgive me if I tread on old ground.

I think Call of Duty's main trademark gameplay style has a ton of potential. If you mix a good motivation for a "mission", and a good gameplay feel of the "mission", Call of Duty can be a truly adrenaline pumping game. Remember in COD 4 when you were up in the sky shooting support fire in the airplane? It shouldn't have been, but it was totally awesome. Another example is in MW2 where you can control a missile mid-flight every short while. The pace of that level was great, because you could shoot, finish missile recharge, fire the missile, own everything, then listen to your kill count. The pacing is perfect because it presents an appealing "rounds/cycles" sort of play.

It shows that if Call of Duty thinks itself through, and minds its pacing, it can make you excited, and you'll feel great playing it. But over 70% of the time, probably even 80% they fall short. There's great potential, but they fill it up with generic point A to point B shooting. This will drag down a game, but I can buy that to a degree if the plot, and motivation behind my actions are good enough to make up for the gameplay pacing. A lot of the time though, the mission (Not the plot, they're different) will be about something I couldn't care less about, and that will just make it boring...as where my hands are in the game, but my mind, and heart isn't. I'll be just blindly following the game without emotional reaction. Thankfully though I have yet to encounter a COD title which induces this effect for over 50% of the game. Similar to what I said earlier, there are shining moments in the gameplay which are really awesome, and I have to give the series credit for that.

A reason I dislike the series, which is similar to many other people, is that while the gameplay can be fun at times, I do not want to have fun with almost the exact same things every time. It's fun sometimes I'll admit, but I do not want to pay 60 dollars to have fun with something I've already had fun with last year.

Now I'll head over to the actual plot, and storylines of the games. It's hard to judge the whole series in general, as there have been varying quality in the plot all the way up to MW3 in my opinion. I'll just say my most loved, and most dislike of the series.

For me, Black Ops was completely EPIC. The Cold War background made for some really interesting gameplay elements, but what impressed me most of all was the plot. It was executed so well, and intrigued me in a way I had not thought COD could ever do. The plot was able to push the game forward, and keep me wanting to play, to find out what was happening. I have to say Black Ops had single-handedly made me like Treyarch more than Infinity Ward, which is also why I'm looking forward to Black Ops 2 to see if they can produce another sleeper hit.

Contrastingly, I absolutely hated MW3. The plot was boring, and I mean really boring. The whole thing just felt dragged on through, and they didn't do Soap's character justice in the way they wrote him off. The gameplay is representing all the bad aspects I've come to expect out of the series. The only emotional point for me in the game was when the Eiffel Tower fell over. That's gotta count for something.

So my verdict of the series? I'll say that COD has had its high, and lows, but it's undeniably a series with great potential. But if it wants to truly win back the gaming community, it needs something more inventive out of it soon.

Before anyone kills me for anything though, I'll just say that most of what I've written above is only my personal opinion.