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Anyone else getting tired of the Call of Duty formula?

Definitely. I was already tired of MW1's multiplayer when MW2 came out but I thought I'd get it anyway since I found it cheap.
I played the multiplayer for about a month until I got tired of it and didn't even finish the single player because of the annoying Favela level. I'm done with the COD series and it only took two games to do it to me.
 
Played it over at a friends house recently and what they need to change is this stupid respawn shit (that you need to get to a certain point or the enemies just keep on coming) and tone it down a bit, it was just too much, let the player breathe for a second...
 
OMG Aero said:
Definitely. I was already tired of MW1's multiplayer when MW2 came out but I thought I'd get it anyway since I found it cheap.
I played the multiplayer for about a month until I got tired of it and didn't even finish the single player because of the annoying Favela level. I'm done with the COD series and it only took two games to do it to me.
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I never played MW2, but I saw Youtube videos of the Favela level. Holyshit!! I'd be ripping my hair out if I played that. And the red jelly screen every time you're hit is just retarded.
 
Averon said:
I never played MW2, but I saw Youtube videos of the Favela level. Holyshit!! I'd be ripping my hair out if I played that. And the red jelly screen every time you're hit is just retarded.
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Oh, that was the level I started with (cause my friend didn't wanted it to play it anymore) so maybe thats why I thought the overdid it with all the enemies shooting at you from every angle..

Yeah, it was kinda hectic and intense but not that hard, hated the end of the sniper mission in the first one more.
 
mescalineeyes said:
MW2 is still the most satisfying realistic shooter around, and as long as every other game feels amateurish in comparison I will stick with Infinity Ward.
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Yeah. It's almost as realistic as Transformers 2.
 
mescalineeyes said:
MW2 is still the most satisfying realistic shooter around, and as long as every other game feels amateurish in comparison I will stick with Infinity Ward.
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You might not like it, but it certainly isn't amateurish, in fact it has far fewer glitches than the supposedly 'professional' MW2.
 
Not really burned no. Just tired of Activision's bullshit milking of the series. Well into BF:BC2 now. Enjoying that. I enjoy the pace of CoD MW but I'm sick of the maps and didn't like them as much as the originals anyway, and now with the new ones costing 1200pts, they can stick it up their ass.
 
Salacious Crumb said:
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You might not like it, but it certainly isn't amateurish, in fact it has far fewer glitches than the supposedly 'professional' MW2.
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I love BC2, but something about the weapon handling feels so terribly off. I put way too much time into the demo and the beta though, so that's a game I am burned out on, ironically. :lol
 
I've been much more of a fan of Battlefield and DICE's way of going about multiplayer since Battlefield 2. But I guess my answer to the OP's question would be "no" because there's no real reason for me to be burnt out on it.

I still play CoD4 and MW2 in between my Bad Company 2 playing, and I enjoy them all (especially CoD4). But my heart belongs to DICE :D
 
I wonder what the OP means by the "Call of Duty" formula?


mescalineeyes said:
MW2 is still the most satisfying realistic shooter around, and as long as every other game feels amateurish in comparison I will stick with Infinity Ward.
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You're no Astrolad
 
Feindflug said:
Well that was harsh..:P

I really liked the new additions in the SP - the reduced enemy spawning, the improved AI and the much better-less cheap Veteran mode - MW2's SP was really great IMO, definitely the best overall campaign in the series along with CoD4.
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yeah, in those respects it was the better campaign, but there was just something about the way COD4 hit its big 'holy shit' moments that just felt so masterful to me, whereas MW2 was all 'oh, people responded well to these moments? LET'S HAVE A FUCKING NON-STOP BARRAGE OF OH SHIT MOMENTS'. It was the most unimaginative way of developing what made COD4 great. I was under the impression that, based on COD4, IW were really on the pulse of what made a good single-player campaign, but MW2 was just so clumsy as far as scenario design was concerned.

Hence the whole 'COD4 seems like an accident now' thing. Rather than being a series of really well planned moments, post-MW2 it now seems to me to be exposed as being kind of... lucky. Great, but lucky.
 
Rez said:
yeah, in those respects it was the better campaign, but there was just something about the way COD4 hit its big 'holy shit' moments that just felt so masterful to me, whereas MW2 was all 'oh, people responded well to these moments? LET'S HAVE A FUCKING NON-STOP BARRAGE OF OH SHIT MOMENTS'. It was the most unimaginative way of developing what made COD4 great. I was under the impression that, based on COD4, IW were really on the pulse of what made a good single-player campaign, but MW2 was just so clumsy as far as scenario design was concerned.

Hence the whole 'COD4 seems like an accident now' thing. Rather than being a series of really well planned moments, post-MW2 it now seems to me to be exposed as being kind of... lucky. Great, but lucky.
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it's hard to disagree with this, but I'll still say that Cliffhanger was better than anything in MW, I feel.
 
Nope, I'm not getting tired. I have purchased every PC release of the series around or on day 1 and I plan to do so for the next entry. The single player campaigns have always been a guilty pleasure for me, the way that a Michael Bay movie is. I have replayed every campaign at least 3ish times and have played certain levels many more times than that. Call of Duty 2 definitely has my least favorite campaign of the series though. I look forward to Treyarch's next entry this year.

mescalineeyes said:
it's hard to disagree with this, but I'll still say that Cliffhanger was better than anything in MW, I feel.
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So true, Cliffhanger is one of my all-time favorite levels, not just in the series.
 
I never liked them to begin with :lol I love how smooth they control, and I can see why people are so addicted by the MP. But I just don't like WW2 and modern settings in FPS, they results in boring weapon and generic unengaging story. I never liked the solo of these games for many reasons, I don't mind linear levels and scripts, but CoD is taking the things too far, you have absolutely no freedom, it feels like playing Guitar Hero, whenever you feel like doing stuff the way you want, you're fucked.

As of the MP, I can understand the appeal, but I never liked CoD's MP either. The loadout system is brilliant and the XP/stats stuff makes it really addictive. But I just hate the combination of very low health and killing streak. It just encourages camping. The one team that has the edge, will end up dominating the other by abusing these systems, for the winning team it's not fun to completely obliterate the others, and for the losing team, it's just frustating. In the end I'm never really having fun...
 
I love both BFBC and MW but I don't want either franchise to disappear (not that they will anyway). The ModernWarfare series has one of, if not THE, smoothest and most satisfying gun controls so I tend to come back to MW2 after long bouts of BFBC2. Plus nobody else does ridiculous yet awesome, over-the-top, MichaelBay-ish singleplayer campaigns like Infinity Ward guys. Bring on the Price/Soap/Nikolai trio!! :D
 
But Activision just formed an entire dev team around the CoD brand. You can't be tired of it yet!

Think of Activision's profits before you hit the 'new thread' button.
 
Absolutely not. I like quality products(!..). MW2 SP was a great experience, and online not half bad. ...And that's also why I enjoy playing Bad Company 2 (And Halo 3 for that matter..) - for the opposite reasons.
 
TF2 is the only online FPS that has held my attention for more than two months.

CoD4's single player is remarkably re-playable where MW2 was instantly forgettable.
 
wonder what were gonna do when we run the modern era fps into the ground, people dont really like futuristic arena shooters anymore (well other than halo, but im talking quake/unreal/etc).
 
I played my friends copy of MW2 until you got to that American neighborhood that's getting all bombed and shit, Holy crap, what terribly designed mission objectives, and map in general.

Never bothered to complete it, or try the game again after that.

Really, really sick to death of military shooters.
 
Finished the MW2 campaign on veteran yesterday and it wasn't frustrating and hard as I expected it to be.
I like the single campaign and spec-ops , whish IW would bring DLC for those. Something like the Pit would be great. Anything basically with a time/score attack would be awesome.

Give me an alien/zombie invasion-mode please.

Multiplayer is too fast for me, I prefer UC2 or BFBC2.
 
I was tired of Call of Duty games after Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.

edit: MoH:AA also has better MP than any CoD game has, from what I remember. And it didn't have any of that unlocking, killstreak, level-up bullshit.
 
TheVampire said:
I got tired of MW2 once reaching rank 70

Now i dont play it anymore
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This.

Hopefully the new Medal of Honor lives up to expectations so I can make it my new modern combat game of choice.
 
I usually get tired when a 'formula' makes itself apparent.

I only play single player, but after COD4, both of the others are so drab in comparison.
 
Boring ass, linear, scripted tripe for a single player game, and a buggy, lag-ridden, exploit-rife, balanceless, cheap peer-to-shit multiplayer game.

Yeah, I'm tired of that formula.
 
MW2 was actually the first of the series that I had ever played. I bought it so my roommie and I could play together since usually I'm hogging the tv with my single-player games. The campaign was moderately easy on the second-to-hardest difficulty (forget what it's actually named) and I only had to attempt a few sections more than two or three times. As for the multiplayer, I'm absolutely addicted. It's taking me back to my CS glory days and I love it.

On the other hand, I can definitely see where if this is the third game of it's kind and nothing's really changed how that can be tiresome and annoying. In that way, I am sort of glad I held out until now to start up with the CoD series.
 
OMG Aero said:
Definitely. I was already tired of MW1's multiplayer when MW2 came out but I thought I'd get it anyway since I found it cheap.
I played the multiplayer for about a month until I got tired of it and didn't even finish the single player because of the annoying Favela level. I'm done with the COD series and it only took two games to do it to me.
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annoying or challenging?
 
Rez said:
yes, but I never stick with online shooters for long.

as far as single player campaigns are concerned, MW2 makes COD4's great single player campaign seem like an accident.
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I think CoD4's campaign is the worst in the series. It honestly felt insulting to me. You could distinctly feel the game deliberating your fun at every moment. Which, at least for me, makes it not fun. MW2 tweaked the gameplay and pumped up the drama just enough that it wasn't quite so intrusive. There were some really awesome, dramatic moments in MW2's campaign that CoD4 doesn't touch. Those made it worth playing, imo, and CoD4 wasn't.
 
I've been bored of all FPS in general, but they sell so they still swamp the market. It's amusing when games like Assassin's Creed are called repetitive then the same reviewer gushes over the next CoD release.

I miss the golden days when the platformer was king.
 
Nope. However, now that other companies have begun lifting the formula and putting it in their games, maybe it will become a little stale. I wonder how long it will be before other games start seeing their own versions of kill streak awards.

That said, all five CoD games released this year have been really good (yes even CoD3, if only for the MP). These are games that will still be played bu hundreds of thousands of people years from now while the latest flavor of the month like a BC2 or down the road the new MoH will come and go.
 
Salacious Crumb said:
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You might not like it, but it certainly isn't amateurish, in fact it has far fewer glitches than the supposedly 'professional' MW2.
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The presentation is actually a lot more professional than MW2. The GUI has a consistent and appealing style to it that fits the game perfectly, and it is more advanced and thoughtful than MW2's. The HUD is far less tacky as well.

BC2 definitely feels more professional to me. Then again, maybe that has something to do with MW2 looking so ass-ugly on consoles. The lowered resolution looks unprofessional to me. Not sure what BC2 looks like on consoles.
 
Bumblebeetuna said:
Nope. However, now that other companies have begun lifting the formula and putting it in their games, maybe it will become a little stale. I wonder how long it will be before other games start seeing their own versions of kill streak awards.

That said, all five CoD games released this year have been really good (yes even CoD3, if only for the MP). These are games that will still be played bu hundreds of thousands of people years from now while the latest flavor of the month like a BC2 or down the road the new MoH will come and go.
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I will weep profoundly if that's the case.
 
illeaturfamily said:
annoying or challenging?
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Annoying, there are enemies all over the place and you can't just hold back and shoot them because they will infinitely respawn until you pass an invisible marker. Meaning that you have to advance while enemies are still shooting and throwing grenades at you and if you so much as get hit then your whole screen is covered in jelly. At that point you can either run back to where you were before and do this over and over again or you can try to advance/shoot the enemies that are shooting you but oh wait, you can't see a thing so you will just die anyway.
 
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