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IGN: 5 Innovations Introduced or Streamlined by Call of Duty.
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Rebel Leader
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mik83kuu said:
So we ban..., neogaf?
Overreaction huh? hmm....
It didn't have far to fall. Same bullshit leveling up, same shitty gunplay where you can't walk and shoot bubblegum at the same time, same bullshit 'give the guys who scored kills more free kills for getting those kills' killstreak crap, same adherence to 'real-world' weaponry precluding the game from having any good weapons or particularly interesting combat situations, and the same bullshit 'every fight is over by the time one person lands two or three proper hits' ultra-short kill-times so that you don't need to be good at the game to do well in it.Rebel Leader said:
If it's gone stale since its last reinvention, it's only because the foundation the games are built on is too weak to stand the test of time.
mik83kuu said:
I would argue that posting non-news articles from IGN generally leads to 60% Trolling/Flaming posts and 40% "IGN sucks" posts. Either way, they don't strike me as very constructive or entertaining. IGN has been the ass-end of Gaming News for as long as I can remember.
Digital-Hero
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"Killstreaks have always been a part of the Halo series"
No.
No.
I hate killstreaks... If you're not that good in a game it's really frustrating to get killed by that stuff. I liked what we did when we used to play UT99 in school: We always had that big head mutator running that made your head bigger the more kills you got. The better players always had these huge heads and were easily visible and much easier to hit.
I also hate that leveling up crap... You're getting punished for not playing the game enough. It's so stupid when your running around as a noob and just get creamed on by everyone who has these amazing weapons and perks. Fuck that shit.
I also hate that leveling up crap... You're getting punished for not playing the game enough. It's so stupid when your running around as a noob and just get creamed on by everyone who has these amazing weapons and perks. Fuck that shit.
jim-jam bongs
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mik83kuu said:
I'd agree with that too, I mean personally I just laugh at the silliness of them then go pick some tulips. The thing is though, it's not a wild grizzly's fault when someone baits it into fatally attacking them, so you should probably avoid baiting a wild bear.
The people that complain about the constant killstreaks must not play Hardcore SD, I can't stand TDM in MW because of all the random bullshit going on. The only MW mode that I care about. 1 life, so people are more careful, the most you'll see in this mode is a UAV or care package (sometimes a predator missile).
jim-jam bongs
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Sai-kun said:
ULTRA KILL
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jim-jam bongs
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Gravijah said:
I'm ripping the DVD of the second game right now so I can play it today while I mourn.
jim-jam bongs
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see5harp said:
MY RAGE IS BLINDING ME AND PREVENTING ME FROM READING PROPERLY
AcceptableGhost
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What Call of Duty can learn from Call of Duty.
People posting that other games introduced or improved a certain feature before Call of Duty need to understand that "... or streamlined in Call of Duty" gives IGN a virtually unlimited amount of room to move and essentially makes the article an advertisement for the more popular elements of the game.
In other words, the subject is purposefully loosely defined and the article shouldn't be taken seriously much less be considered offensive.
In other words, the subject is purposefully loosely defined and the article shouldn't be taken seriously much less be considered offensive.
I brought up Halo because it's the only major FPS franchise running that doesn't use the shitty aim-down-the-sights combat model, doesn't have a standard Sprint mode (Reach did, kinda, but still), or otherwise copy Call of Duty's mechanics wholesale. If you're FPS-literate enough to have played FPS games before Halo, or to have played the lesser-known modern titles that actually don't use military shooter mechanics, then I don't think you'd attribute things like sprinting and iron sights to Call of Duty.see5harp said:
CamHostage
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Kermit The Frog said:
It is sad how quickly the mighty Infinity Ward's reputation has been tainted.
I'm not in love with Call of Duty, but I remember going back to Call of Duty 2 on Xbox 360 (the first game got lost for me under the CoD/MoH debate) just how strongly people took to the Call of Duty format and how stunning it was in HD. And then CoD 4, when that nuke went off in the trailer and people were comparing technology to Crysis, it was a huge moment for these new consoles. All along, this series has been setting standards and wowwing crowds, but somewhere along the way the love's been lost.
These really are important games that will be studied for years to come (albeit lots of that study will be about what not to do,) but on any circle outside a CoD fanbase forum, these games are considered a laughing sock despite sales figures and online login counts proving that a good deal of doubters probably are actually playing the game and just trying knock the uncool.
Nymerio said:
This, this, THIS THIS THIS. I swear, back when Modern Warfare 1 came out, I loved playing the game online on my brother's account (I didn't had Gold) but later that year when I got Gold for myself, playing online was awful. You start off with nothing, and the matchmaking system in the game was so godawful. Where's the fun, and more importantly, the balance of throwing players with no perks or levels to their name in matches where everyone has hit Prestige? I have no idea if they ever attempted to fix the online for balance beyond that, but I can only assume they haven't when you had hilarious exploits like the Javelin glitch in the second Modern Warfare game.
And for a series to be innovative, I'm awfully bored with the series in general. I couldn't even finish Modern Warfare 2 because I thought the campaign was absolutely terrible. I think I gave up after the mission where you run from fast food place to fast food place. That's just boring.
The Faceless Master
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"or streamlined by"Darklord said:
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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IGN: 5 memes innovated by GAF for insulting IGN
Joseph Merrick
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ut was so great. what about the awesome stat tracking in original ut. awesome[Nintex] said:
jim-jam bongs
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Joseph Merrick said:
Honestly, you could very easily make the argument that every single point in this article is refuted by Unreal Tournament, and I say that as a guy who preferred Q3A.
jim-jam bongs said:
I just don't understand the need to implicate Halo as some sort of silly modern console shooter that hasn't innovated or put a mark on the genre (which he didn't say explicitly so I digress). In any case I love Halo and COD. I feel like COD was influential for good reasons and bad but that doesn't mean that I didn't grow up playing PC shooters and know what I'm talking about.
jim-jam bongs
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see5harp said:
That's fair dude, I guess it surprised me because he used Halo and COD as examples because they are so popular, and he was making a point about the article writer lacking perspective so they were good examples. Someone who has only played COD and Halo is going to think very differently about FPS design than people like us who grew up playing those PC shooters. It's not a criticism really, just an observation.
TheChewyWaffles
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MW introduced persistent progression in an online FPS. Why all the hate?
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