COD had two solid games: 2 and 4. The rest have been money suckers, riding 2/4's coattails.

You're position on a game you haven't played has been made crystal clear.

Anyways, I just got a 360 yesterday and have been playing the hell out of it already. Specifically Black Ops, which I think is definitely worth the hype it's received (even if it's not a major break from MW2, but hey people would complain if it was). The single player story was engaging and awesome, zombies is fun with friends (not as good as WaW though), and the multiplayer is awesome as usual.

After I beat that, I moved on to ODST. Though after getting about halfway through the game and shutting off the console, I realized my progress hadn't been saved. How stupid is the game anyways? It was autosaving throughout and at any point I can pick a single mission and play it, but for some retarded reason I can't continue my file as a whole. Looks like I might be forced to start a new file. :bringit:

In the meantime, it's Assassin's Creed II!

I think the first one definitely earned its stripes, I mean before that your only World War II FPS experience was the Medal of Honor series... Well you also had Battlefield 1942 but that was more strictly a multiplayer game, I can't even remember if it had a single player mode. I played both Medal of Honor: Frontline and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the original Call of Duty completely wiped the floor with them. Rather than be the lone American soldier who wins the war you actually get to experience different sides of the conflict and you always had AI controlled buddies to help you out, actually making it feel like a combined effort. I will definitely say that the second and fourth really stand out in the series as the major innovators but the original shouldn't be ignored just because it's 7 years old now.

and the original was the first game I played that had aiming down the sight.

I just can't stop complaining! The COD series is such crap! In all fairness, I've played CODs 2, 4, and 6 thoroughly, and 5 limitedly.

I liken it to how this forum views pop music. People who are rather casual about videogames find the COD series fantastic in satisfying their limited desire to play videogames, just are people who are rather casual about music find this as satisfying in their limited desire to listen to music.

People who actually give a damn about videogames see COD for what it is. Or maybe I'm just a blind COD hater. Shmeh

^that's like the artsiest game ever. I really want to get it but I have so many other things to play.....

urgh dilemmas. How are you liking it?

It's awesome, expansive, and completely addicting. I was turned on by a friend who lent me his info so I could play the Alpha version, totally blows the pants off the free version. I'm still getting the hang of things, I've learned how to make tools, doors, torches... all things you need before nightfall if you wanna survive the zombies. You can pretty much do and make whatever you want in this game, you get free reign over your world. Greenhouses, mansions, jack-o-lanterns, lava moats... you can do it all!

I highly suggest picking it up when you get a chance. It's good for an all night gaming binge or if you need something to do for 5 minutes before class.

could have just said - the Call of Duty series is the Nickelback of videogames. whether the fans like it or not, the claim is FAR easier to prove than disprove.

I think it's mostly just a matter of people not digging the hype. Call of Duty : Modern Warfare was, in my opinion, a brilliant game and I honestly didn't think I would have that much fun playing a completely linear war-FPS when I started. No CoD has been as good since, maybe there's some coattail riding, but in no way could I agree that the series sucks. The engine is good, the graphics are fine, the gameplay is smooth, the pace is good and the action is great.

If you hate CoD and think the series stinks, to me that tells me you either haven't played them or you hate them because the hype they cause and the money they spend on marketing. Both translate somewhat to blind hater. I've been tempted to think of the last CoD games a bit like the movie Expendables. It gives you nothing new, but presents an old and tested formula which has been polished to a shine and has a big budget. Like Expendables isn't One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, CoD is not Fallout 3. It's a fun fix. However, the quality of a game like Modern Warfare in the gaming world far surpasses the quality of Expendables in the movie world. With any luck Black Ops does the same and either way, I look forward to it because I know I'll be entertained.

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By the way, Minecraft is completely awesome! I especially like the multiplayer version which is slowly getting there. Beware with large public servers though, they tend to reset their maps every now and then!

Me and my friends from back home have our own server where we build. :)