MrCookiepants
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Dat franchise fatigue.
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Black Ops II Gets To $1 Billion In Sales in 15 days
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Killzone 2 is pretty damn good. At least I find it to be.
Messofanego
Banned
And yet I've never bought a CoD game, since a friend is bound to have it. Makes for a fun youtube movie-like playthrough 
They always do it.
It's so the press can make it easier for people who don't follow games.
Halo series
Far Cry series
Crysis series
Basically any FPS that has actual AI and enemy variety. Some of the Call of Duty games on Veteran are pretty challenging as well but that's because of a variable change as opposed to carefully designed encounters, placements and the composition of obstacles and enemies.
Yes it is the best at cashing in, which is fine for the people making the money but not for what it has basically done to the industry.
LowParry
Member
Ohhhh, for single player. Yeah, completely agree. I thought MP was in question. Dur.
"Entertainment industry"
What's it done to the industry?
FalsettoVibe
Member
Where does this CoD rank in comparison to the others?
CadetMahoney
Member
Indeed, I don't know what the butthurt is about. It's not even a exclusive game.
Were you asleep when every FPS tried to become COD4 in an effort to gain some semblance of financial success?
That's the fault of shitty developers, not CoD4s fault it was so godlike.
sixteen-bit
Member
ballin'
Not trying to take anything away from CoD4 but the series thereafter became a parody of itself.
In any case I have said all I care to say on this.
snoopeasystreet
Member
You can't blame Call of Duty for that, though. It's a combination of the developers copying them and the market dictating that this is what they want.
phosphor112
Banned
Kill it with fire.
SugarDaddy
Member
Oh, I don't blame them for milking it.
I'm just dismayed that it keeps selling.
Anyway, in response to another dude that I'm too lazy to hit the back button to quote: Last 12 months would be BF3. And Crytek Warfighter (or whatever that one is). But the influence doesn't have to be just in modern shooters... it's more pervasive than that.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Can anyone else back that up? CoD4 had one of my fav FPS campaigns. Might have to pick this up
excaliburps
Press - MP1st.com
Black Ops 2 is definitely a better game compared to past CoD efforts. However, interesting here is that Activision hasn't revealed how many units have been sold, nor are they thumping on how it's the best-selling CoD in history, etc. Maybe because it's not?
Up to now, I don't think Acti has released the sales figures for MW3's overall sales figures broken down per platform, no? Analysts are saying that it is lower than Black Ops 1. So, the franchise money train is getting a bit slower, I expect, but we won't see it get affected much until BF4 or Respawn's game, Destiny, take a big chunk out of it.
I can already tell next year's MW4 vs. BF4 sales war will be very interesting. Yes, chances are MW4 will beat it, but seeing as BF3 already hit 17 mil shipped, it's the closet any game got to CoD sales, right?
Up to now, I don't think Acti has released the sales figures for MW3's overall sales figures broken down per platform, no? Analysts are saying that it is lower than Black Ops 1. So, the franchise money train is getting a bit slower, I expect, but we won't see it get affected much until BF4 or Respawn's game, Destiny, take a big chunk out of it.
I can already tell next year's MW4 vs. BF4 sales war will be very interesting. Yes, chances are MW4 will beat it, but seeing as BF3 already hit 17 mil shipped, it's the closet any game got to CoD sales, right?
Neuromancer
Member
Well deserved. They brought a lot of enhancements to their bot matches which is what I cared about most.
I dont get it. Even if my favorite franchises get released every year I would prob get tired of them. Hell if Portal/Half Life/UC/GTA etc get released every year I would get bored eventually. How the hell does this franchise still make people buy it every freakin year. It just does not make any sense..
PoweredBySoy
Banned
Amazing production, the the gameplay is mind numbing. I had to stop playing it after a few hours in.
I would think sales would have to be way up to beat it considering they're not getting another $50 from people buying Elite.
Mr. B Natural
Member
Their least deserved money yet. Good job!
AHA-Lambda
Member
This. There is definitely a decline going on in CoD now.
Elite was not considered a success.
I can, loved the campaign in this instalment.
The series started to plateau with Black Ops. MW3 sold quicker at the beginning, but ultimately failed to sell as many copies as Black Ops by a decent margin. I expect the same sort of thing for Black Ops 2. Still, I don't think Activision cares much when that plateau is 25-30M copies an entry.
SomeOneInaHat
Member
So much drive-by trolling, disgusting.
Good on ya' Treyarch.
Good on ya' Treyarch.
That is irrelevant. It sold something like 2 million subs at launch and I'm sure at least 1 million of those were stand-alone subs which would be another $50m in revenue.
And on the same day they released a "Black Ops 2 Connection guide" that basically tells everyone it's not their game, its your console connection.
http://www.examiner.com/article/act...lack-ops-2-on-line-connection?cid=db_articles
http://www.examiner.com/article/act...lack-ops-2-on-line-connection?cid=db_articles
Well if we are talking shooters in general, Gears of War has a pretty nice skill progression. It's not as crazy has the arena shooters of old, but there's definitely a learning curve in place. With a heavy focus on team work.
LowParry
Member
Because it's a fun game that probably fills up on you friends list each year?
Gears. It did have some learning curve behind it. The whole wall bounce thing. Hip fire with a shotty. Missing that game already. If only Epic went back to the ways of Gears 1...
If you're talking about individual games, GTA4 sold 20+ million copies iirc. Mario Kart Wii easily destroys any CoD game (32+ million copies).
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Reaching a billion this fast! COD seems unstoppable.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
While its def better than MW2 and 3 its kinda on par with BO1 and not even close the feeling I had when I played MW1.
MW1 has something about it. It had movie style set pieces, it had stealthy bits, it had full gun fight bits, it had a sense of urgency and it had a story that while wasn't high quality writing, was simple and action movie like enough to give it a great feeling over all.
All the COD games after feel like they are trying to top it by replacing the things that made MW1 great with more splosions and CRAZY plot twists.
This game has some good bits and some really dumb bits. The choices you have are OK I guess and a nice extra but some bits feel really forced and don't really give you an option when you think it should have one. Bad guy hulking out was dumb and so on.
However the story wasn't as much a mess as some of the others and that helps it rise above them. But still not even close to MW1. Stuff like the AC bomber mission and the sniper mission just havn't even come close to being matched. Those seem to be the best bits about MW1 that the following games got rid of for more splosions and CRAZY plot twists.
Il prob go back and play MW1 again at some point. (played it on all difficulties on xbox and later got it for PC and played it again). I had no desire to replay MW2 apart from to get the achievements. BO1 I didn't bother replaying (I guess I had got over achievement lust or something) and MW3 I just played some round my mates house and decided to skip it. I might replay this one because of the choice system but I don't exactly have a strong pull to do so.
The multiplayer is kinda fun still. Already stopped playing but thats a combo of getting kinda bored and the annoying stutter I cant fix on my PC version (common problem). Fix the stutter and Il prob start playing again. The spawn system assures that kill streaks are harder to achieve and can be annoying....flip side is that high score streaks are not as common as BO2 which is kinda nice.
I can see why people love the online..... I do for about a week or 2... I just personally get kinda bored of it quickly and move on but go back and have a blast now and then.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Thanks bud, I'll wait till it's around 20-30 bucks.
FAL + EDI Tech + Select Fire + Suppressor.
You will thank me later.
Game is great. If the games were not fun, they would not sell. Good for them.
HigherLevel
Member
Say what you want about Call of Duty, but they give the fans what they want every year. I don't have Black Ops 2 yet but from what I've played of the MP at a friend's house it is the best one since 4.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
yeah it would prob be worth it for that I would agree.
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Deleted member 81567
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Pretty much.