The demise of Call of Duty

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI

All hale Grand Theft Auto 5. CoD is now experiencing its final downfall!!

[A.G.]

I've never been a fan of either series. But I can't argue the amazing accomplishment that GTA5 is. These guys own open world. Even Kojima is afraid MGS5 can't compete.

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Most of my issues with CoD stem from:
-The multiplayer being f...cking unbalanced, unpolished bullsh*t with terrible netcode, horrible and inconsistent hitboxes/hit-detection, and garbage map design. How the games hold your hand with all these recoilless-railcannons that allow you to spray and somehow get auto-headshots across the map with LMG's, and the hand-holding aim-assist, it just makes the whole game a joke to me, especially because people do well in these games and think they're suddenly FPS masters. Then they go to other games, get owned, and wonder why.

-MW2 introduced so many things that just removed any reason to try to get better by your own personal skill. Like how in CoD4 and WaW, the only way someone would appear on the map is if they fired their gun (unsuppressed) or if your team called in a UAV and they didn't have UAV Jammer/Camoflague. In MW2, they introduced the Heartbeat Sensor, which was a friggin' attachment for the gun. This did nothing but aid campers, just like how they let you put suppressors on LMG's and Shotguns (LOLWAT), how they let you use even more equipment for camping like multiple claymores, soundwhore perks, etc. Probably the most infamous things about MW2 were: the rampant camping (and how the map design and the game itself blatantly encouraged it), the aim-assist-based "quickscoping" which turned sniper rifles into shotguns, the ridiculously overpowered explosive spam thanks to OMA and Danger Close, and the stupid Commando knifing bullsh*t.

-MW3 by comparison just felt uninspired and empty. I tried to give that game a chance, even wound up borrowing my friend's copy and playing until I hit level 70 or whatever the max rank was, and even played a free weekend on the PC for it. No matter what, the game was just boring as hell. It didn't do much to fix the unbalanced aspects, replacing the overpowered stuff in MW2 with new overpowered stuff. Akimbo FMG9's, anyone? Every assault rifle once again being insta-gib railcannons across the map, anyone? The sh*tty netcode, especially when the game first launched, didn't help anything.

-Black Ops' zombies was mediocre to me. Only including only one map from the get-go was pure BS, because they knew they could just design some more sh*tty maps and make you pay for them later. I tried out all the DLC maps (via gamesharing) and they were all terrible. The main things that pisses me off about zombies is how there's no shove button (L4D's melee functions as this), and you literally can't win. Since you can't win, every single zombies match just devolves into you farming points until you can get Juggernaut, Pack-a-Punch, then just run around in circles for two hours. f...ck that sh*t, I don't see how people can just worship that all day. I guess I'm just weird, lol.

-Modern Warfare 2 is the most offensive game in terms of campaign and everybody should know it. Who else could you trust to allow you to participate in a terrible airport massacre except Activision? The 'oh, so fantastic US invasion' that they ripped from Red Dawn? Then there was the HORRIBLE plot twist when Shepherd betrays you and sets you aflame? Not to mention the part later when he rams his knife into your chest. These missions are so bloody and they should NEVER have been included.

-I don't know if you guys remember, but there was a f...ckin' hard mission, high explosive, in mw2, where you had to kill 10 juggs in the favela with nothing but explosive weapons. Apparently everybody forgot the nike motto that 'impossible is nothing' and skipped to the part where they just knifed the juggs/ revived the downed player. The general consensus was that nike thought everything possible, and thus that was evidence they never tried this mission.

-Then mw3 took things to a even more unbelievable level with another mission, flood the market. With invulnerable teammates (in the campaign), the mission black tuesday was doable even on veteran, but when you tried the spec ops version (flood the market), you only get 2 players, undefeatable enemies and 60 seconds to revive each other. The part that was ridiculous was how you faced multiple snipers, RPG-brandisher's and helis on the rooftop. Not to mention how an apparently 'indestructible' helicopter could move in as and when it decided to and dropped moar enemies on yer rooftop.

-Oh, and there was the 'throwing knife/ combat axe' spamming that always had to happen with multiplayer douchebags. Ever since mw3 modified scavenger to 'never replenish explosives', people just used the blade 'cos it was refilled by said perk. And what happens when they do? It's not just modern warfare, even in black ops everybody hacked the bloody system.

-CoD is sh*t because a sh*t company generates one game every year with the excuse of how it's a madly lactating cash cow. Despite it being a giganotosaurus that dominates the gaming industry (totalling a billion dollars in revenue a year for Activision and selling over 20,000,000 copies in that same time frame) the companies in charge are totally blind to what its fans want and give no changes. Even if there ARE changes, they're neither ground-breaking nor setting some new record. LOL, we've seen a lot of crap before.

-It's truly time for Activision to f...ck themselves. The demise of CoD is nigh with the realisation of many people that it's a LONG CRY from what usual shooters are like and they're correct. Ever wondered how ridiculous it is that many weapons need a good number of bullets to kill a single target, except shotguns, yet no matter how much armour you wear, a KNIFE STAB up close will instantly decomission your pathetic multiplayer idiot? Infinity Ward is experiencing what it should have experienced a long time ago. BF is a lot more realistic in the engine mechanics. When aiming for enemy heads, allow your bullet drop and gravity to be factored in. The knife is a lot weaker. I ain't saying that CoD WILL fail, but I feel that it's time people move on and the company in-charge generate better genres.

-The problem with Activision is that they can never get their ideas right. CoD is just becoming so stale despite the promises of futuristic, environment-interactive multiplayer. Spiderman: Edge of Time is another pathetic example of games that could have been good going down. With 2 Spidermen, 2 time periods, and infinite locked doors, the game gave everything-looks-the-same-in-Alchemax. Even worse was the bickering and whining that eventually became as moaning as a woman giving birth.

-CoD is encouraging way too much real-life violence and America in general has suffered enough. Obamacare better BAN guns for good. And BAN CoD. It's because of this bloody multiplayer that people in reality shoot others...In a way, the Seals are also to blame. Why the f...ck can't they catch Osama and have him stand trial?? Their execution of him really inspired civilians to kill civilians for no reason.

-I hated most of the characters from MW. There has been a Captain Price in just about every CoD made by IW. We might see a Corporal Price or something, and some vague allusion will be made where we find out he is Capt. Price's younger cousin or nephew or some sh*t.

-Prestiging is pretty stupid. I don't know why people enjoy doing the same thing, except doing it 10+ times in an endless cycle. I guess it's representative of the way people regurgitate the games every year -- stuck in an endless cycle, they will "rank up" over & over, thinking it means anything.

-Surprisingly, I've seen CoD-wankers who actually have girlfriends...Some even have the gf's that actually play with them. If nothing else, it's just more proof that the world is a f...cked-up place, and CoD worshipers need to be eradicated.

-I think there was an article on game informer magazines where a girl gamer stood up and tried to speak on behalf of the female gaming community. I believe it had something to do with sexism. Especially in CoD, but undoubtedly in many other games, it would be girls on the negative end of message-spamming. Some sh*t like 'Vagina or GTFO'. Gals really need to band together to show us dudes that they CAN kick our arses in CoD's k/d ratio.

-One problem is that games like CoD will always have cesspit communities, filled with basement-dwelling maladjusted socially-inept scumbugs who abuse the power of their anonymity for their scumbaggish needs.

-I always made a point to my friends about how the EMP goes off, yet it gets announced over the radio...and magically only affects one of the teams and the other(s) are completely unaffected. Makes sense. Not to mention how it makes your eyes all distorted and whatnot, as if you're a cyborg. WTF is this, Ghost in the Shell?