Call of Duty Ghosts

Technology and Gaming
#221

I always like to compare COD to Michael Bay Movies: Action and Explosions non-stop, great visuals and enactment, however poor script, dumb dialogue, undemanding for the mindless consumerist. If that’s what thrills you, go for it. I for one don’t want that.
Can’t talk about Multiplayer, because I don’t play it.

And I say that as a long COD Fan.

COD 1, COD UO, COD 2 and COD IV Singleplayers were all awesome, I used to play the heck out of the multiplayer (LAN, not so much an online guy like I already said), it was all awesome. However, I feel that anything that came after COD IV, which was really “new” in setting and anything else for COD back in the day, was just the same shit recycled. So I missed out on any COD since COD IV.

And I watched a few Let’s Plays of Ghosts, it looked, played and feeld almost like all the COD’s before. I don’t care for graphics but for gameplay, and guess what… still no innovation, who would’ve guessed!

#222

Great visuals? The visuals are shit.

#223

Is it me, Or is it the Michael Bay’s movie studio Platinum Dunes is the new LJN, that holds the monopoly of crappy movies he made?

Edit: If you guys don’t know who LJN is. They formerly known for publishing toys before becoming a game company. Wish they well known for majority bad games they publish. Until they want out of business in 1995.

Oh by the way, more CoD Ghosts from Total Biscuit.

#224

They’re talking about actual zero-g shootouts, not just sci-fi games.

#225

Yeah, maybe by todays standards, but I’m not that of a graphic whore, the other aspects of the game are a lot more important to me. The last games I played were SS2 and Cry of Fear so I guess you can impress me pretty easy with graphics.

Edit: Compared to BF4 the graphics are really shit I have to admit.

#226

So did I.

#227

Since when does Mass Effect have zero-G fights?

#228

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/11/08/activision-admits-call-of-duty-ghosts-didnt-outsell-black-ops-2-at-launch/

Denied

#229

And hovercraft, really? I don’t think those have been cool since like the 90’s.

#230

Err…

In ME1, while trekking outside the elevator on your way to stop Saren (post-Ilos)? Bodies just float away if hit by biotic/something with a lot of force, indicating it’s Zee-Gee.

In ME2, Legions loyalty, the Geth station pretty much only has you hanging on by magboots? The Geth are left hanging in the air when killed.

And in the Geth Dreadnought in ME3? (Not sure about that one, since Joker tells you something about a “Loss of gravity”)

#231

The fact that it has sold lower than Black Ops 2 at launch must be a sign!

#232

When I think of Zero-G fights, I’m really thinking about the sort of fights where you have full d-dimensional freedom of movement, not just weird physics.

#233

Alright, you win.

#234

I just played a little bit of singleplayer, and here is what I have to say:

MY EYES, GOOD GOD MY EYES. THE FOV, IT’S HORRIBLY LOW! MY HEAD IT HURTS, MY EYES THEY BLEED. WHY IS IT HARDLOCKED TO 65? AAAAAARGH.

#235

I don’t understand. Honestly, you get what you pay for. You all know what experience you can find within the game (and, presumably, so does anyone else who’s interested). So you can either pay for the game (and the experience) or not and forget that it even exists.

All this COD hate is turning into a useless circlejerk everywhere I see it. There’s a market for it, and those players will probably enjoy what they get. On the converse, if you did not like the previous few installments of COD, you probably won’t like this one.

Personally, I’m not sure I would spend money on it, but the game makes you feel like a goddamn hero, and as long as a COD game can instill within me that feeling with minimal work on my part, I think it’s done its job. I can alsways play GTA or AC4 for the knowledge that I actually accomplished something.

#236

I don’t think people hate CoD because it’s CoD, people hate CoD because of the way Activision is treating the franchise. Annual releases are simply not a good idea for any franchise outside of sports (and even then, that could still be argued for sports games) and it shows.

Each new release of CoD is worse than the previous one in some way or another and they keep adding more and more content to the package while still only having the same development time. It eventually piles up and you simply do not have enough time to polish it properly or come up with really innovative ideas to shake up the franchise.

Assassin’s Creed is also suffering to a certain extent from this.

Big franchises like this simply need more breathing room between sequels and milking them to death not only devalues them to the eyes of the gaming public, it also degrades them in a literal sense.

#237

Never really said I payed for it. I have a friend who is probaly the biggest CoD fan ever, and he let me try a bit of singleplayer (wouldn’t let me ruin his multiplayer stats rofl)

#238

I’ve had trouble applying for loans and depositing checks ever since my MW2 KD went beyond 1:4. Cops harass me in broad daylight and my job moved my office into the basement

#239

The COD franchise started off about as awesome as you could get. when modernwarfare came out, folks were skeptical but a big nuke and a cool sniper bit, not to mention the Ac-130 part turned folks around. When MW2 came out there was sooooo much hype but the game was pretty awesome, it had a pretty good scripted ending and the multiplayer introduced tons of people to the experience of repeatedly being called a fag by pre-pubescent junior high students.

#240

Good thing I never played with people with microphones. Even if they did I’d just mute them.

I really believe COD took a very bad turn in BlOps 2, with wasted gameplay mechanics and a somewhat troubling campaign.

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