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Which is the best COD series: Modern Warfare VS Black Ops ?
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Zombegoast
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Blops. Even Blops 2 was successful on PC because it was actually good. I hated all the dumb things Mw2 added and 3 was the worst.
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
I'm glad as time goes by more people recognize BLOPS 1 as one of the best CODs. I remember people hated it back at launch.
IceBringer
Banned
WaW is still the best cod ever made
Sparrowhawk
Member
Black Ops, if only for the memes.
SoundPulse
Banned
CoD:UO > CoD1 = CoD 2 > CoD4 > Rest of them.
joecanada
Member
I may have revisionist history but mw1 was the last one i remember without crippling lag so it wins by a landslide.
I seem to remember bops1 was like so so as well .
PinkCrayon
Member
Blops easy. Especially if you throw out 3 for WaW.
J_ToSaveTheDay
Member
Black Ops. I feel like their perk/killstreak/map design balancing is way better in general, and Black Ops III hopped aboard the high-mobility trend pretty nicely, and I really like that trend in FPS games. I think Black Ops II is probably the most interesting campaign in the entire franchise as well, although I do still think it falls short of the incredibly impression the first 2 COD games and COD4 left on me as a game player.
Modern Warfare 2 certainly got a lot of hype from me but the final product felt a bit too bombastic and imbalanced for my liking. I gave it up after about a month of play. I wouldn't call it a massive disappointment, as I mostly did have fun the first couple of weeks, but at some point it just kind of felt like the multiplayer was style over substance, and Black Ops later corrected the course in my eyes.
Modern Warfare 2 certainly got a lot of hype from me but the final product felt a bit too bombastic and imbalanced for my liking. I gave it up after about a month of play. I wouldn't call it a massive disappointment, as I mostly did have fun the first couple of weeks, but at some point it just kind of felt like the multiplayer was style over substance, and Black Ops later corrected the course in my eyes.
Everyone knew BO1 was one of the best at launch, they just didn't want to admit it because of the underserved hype MW2 had before and after release. They didn't want to say on record and get shit from other people. But they knew.
That trippy plot was great and the actual levels in the campaign were way more interested than anything in modern cookie cutter futuristic COD, the modern COD could be exchanged entirely and i would never tell whether it was AW, IW or BO3
KingdomHeartsFan
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MW4>Blops
Blops 2=MW2. Can't pick, Blops2 was more balanced but MW2 was so much fun.
Blops 3>MW3
If your including WAW then Blops wins, WAW is my favorite cod.
Blops 2=MW2. Can't pick, Blops2 was more balanced but MW2 was so much fun.
Blops 3>MW3
If your including WAW then Blops wins, WAW is my favorite cod.
Jack Scofield
Member
COD4 and Modern Warfare 2 are two of the best games ever made, so yeah, no comparison. World at War and the Black Ops series were always "me too" and so derivative.
Super Stardust
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Mors_Verigo
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MW1 is my favorite Duty, but then I'd rank Blops 1 and 3 ahead of the other MW's, so overall I'd go with Blops.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Modern Warfare easily.
MW > BO > MW2 > MW3 > BO2 >>>>> BO3
MW > BO > MW2 > MW3 > BO2 >>>>> BO3
+MW1 and 2 are amazing games.
+MW2 had the best gimmicks in the entire cod series (OMA, Riot shield, Other combos)
-MW3 was supposedly awful. I never bothered.
-MW1 Martydom
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+Black Ops 1 is an amazing game.
+Zombies in BL1 is amazing and BL2 zombs is mostly good.
+Theater playback/movie maker mode.
-Black Ops 2 is meh competitive
-Black Ops 3 is meh overall
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Secret challenger: W@W
+W@W had the best guns and maps
+Best zombies. Great zombie online community.
+Coop story.
+At the time, best value per price. There was tons of stuff in this game compared to its predecessor. Sad it gets lambasted as a 'reskin' since it was the first of the series clones.
+Mortars and Dogs are way better/stronger/more fair than MW killstreaks.
Overall the highs are close and the lows are too. All 3 have respectable moments. Keeping strict to the thread, I'd have to go with Black ops only because it has zombies. I've spend more time in zombies than competitive at this point, but I like MW competitive more.
+MW2 had the best gimmicks in the entire cod series (OMA, Riot shield, Other combos)
-MW3 was supposedly awful. I never bothered.
-MW1 Martydom
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+Black Ops 1 is an amazing game.
+Zombies in BL1 is amazing and BL2 zombs is mostly good.
+Theater playback/movie maker mode.
-Black Ops 2 is meh competitive
-Black Ops 3 is meh overall
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Secret challenger: W@W
+W@W had the best guns and maps
+Best zombies. Great zombie online community.
+Coop story.
+At the time, best value per price. There was tons of stuff in this game compared to its predecessor. Sad it gets lambasted as a 'reskin' since it was the first of the series clones.
+Mortars and Dogs are way better/stronger/more fair than MW killstreaks.
Overall the highs are close and the lows are too. All 3 have respectable moments. Keeping strict to the thread, I'd have to go with Black ops only because it has zombies. I've spend more time in zombies than competitive at this point, but I like MW competitive more.
FinalStageBoss
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MW1 alone craps on everything else COD tbh
I'm only speaking for campaign here, but I just played through all the current-gen COD games for the first time. I still think the MW games have the best campaigns.
The key difference is that, in my opinion, Infinity Ward puts more variety into its campaigns. Each mission always has something new or novel going on to slightly switch up the gameplay and keep the pace going. It's not often that you're only shooting guys from behind cover. Black Ops on the other hand (I didn't play BOII) I feel rests on its gameplay base a lot more, with longer stretches of just normal gunfights, though BOIII's cyborg gimmicks keep this somewhat more interesting. Advanced Warfare felt a lot more like an IW campaign, and I guess Sledgehammer learned from IW when working on MW3.
My personal list of COD campaigns (which I played):
MW1
>
MW3
>
MW2
>
COD2
>
Ghosts
>
AW
>
BO3
>
BO1
The key difference is that, in my opinion, Infinity Ward puts more variety into its campaigns. Each mission always has something new or novel going on to slightly switch up the gameplay and keep the pace going. It's not often that you're only shooting guys from behind cover. Black Ops on the other hand (I didn't play BOII) I feel rests on its gameplay base a lot more, with longer stretches of just normal gunfights, though BOIII's cyborg gimmicks keep this somewhat more interesting. Advanced Warfare felt a lot more like an IW campaign, and I guess Sledgehammer learned from IW when working on MW3.
My personal list of COD campaigns (which I played):
MW1
>
MW3
>
MW2
>
COD2
>
Ghosts
>
AW
>
BO3
>
BO1
User 463088
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I'm not sure if you mean this sarcastically, but I actually think it is. I've got over 800 hours in it.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
Modern Warfare. How could you even compete with old Infinity Ward?
ShadowFox08
Member
Overall, I like the BO series more a bit. I've only played BO3 a handful of times(multiplayer) and I've never played MW2, so I won't count those.
COD4 stands out a lot for the Modern warfare series as among the best, but I think part of that reason was because for many--it was their first series into the franchise. The weapons and perks in this game are really not that great, mostly due to imbalancing. Claymores, M16, ak47u/mp5, m40A3 Stopping Power/Juggernaut. Everyone used those, particularly M16 and SP.
I will say that this game IMO had the best map out of the entire franchise by a wide margin, followed closely by WaW.
MW3 was fun, but a bit of a mess at launch. Ridiculously imbalanced weapons(machine pistols with crazy fire rates, accuracy, and ammo replacing handguns and being better than most of the weapons in the game in most situation), but better at the end via patches. Story was awful though.
Black Ops series overall has the better weapon and perk balance, as they took out juggernaut and SP and after some patches they got some pretty good weapon balances.
Also, better campaign overall.
COD4 stands out a lot for the Modern warfare series as among the best, but I think part of that reason was because for many--it was their first series into the franchise. The weapons and perks in this game are really not that great, mostly due to imbalancing. Claymores, M16, ak47u/mp5, m40A3 Stopping Power/Juggernaut. Everyone used those, particularly M16 and SP.
I will say that this game IMO had the best map out of the entire franchise by a wide margin, followed closely by WaW.
MW3 was fun, but a bit of a mess at launch. Ridiculously imbalanced weapons(machine pistols with crazy fire rates, accuracy, and ammo replacing handguns and being better than most of the weapons in the game in most situation), but better at the end via patches. Story was awful though.
Black Ops series overall has the better weapon and perk balance, as they took out juggernaut and SP and after some patches they got some pretty good weapon balances.
Also, better campaign overall.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
MW just because of CoD4. Only CoD I've really enjoyed.
Blops 2 > Blops 3 > MW 2 > MW = Blops
Didn't play enough of the other two, but if I had to rank them, I'd put WaW equal to MW and Blops and put MW3 below them. Blops 3 might've been top but for it's lackluster campaign and bad supply drop policies.
Never was crazy about MW or the first Black Ops. They're good but don't have much variety when it comes to gameplay styles. Some weapons just plain sucked too. Later games had better balance and variety. Earlier games did have the better maps though. I nearly puked when I heard "classic three-lane design" in the infinite warfare in-depth trailer.
Didn't play enough of the other two, but if I had to rank them, I'd put WaW equal to MW and Blops and put MW3 below them. Blops 3 might've been top but for it's lackluster campaign and bad supply drop policies.
Never was crazy about MW or the first Black Ops. They're good but don't have much variety when it comes to gameplay styles. Some weapons just plain sucked too. Later games had better balance and variety. Earlier games did have the better maps though. I nearly puked when I heard "classic three-lane design" in the infinite warfare in-depth trailer.
Single player wise, BLOPS2 and MW2 have the only real entertaining campaigns. OG MW1 plays like dogshit these days and doesn't really offer anything outside of the initial setpieces and the less said about BLOPS 1/3, the better.
Multiplayer wise, my heart is still with MW2, but all of the BLOPS games are way more consistent in terms of quality than either of the MW games.
There's pretty much nothing redeemable about MW3 outside of the final level.
Multiplayer wise, my heart is still with MW2, but all of the BLOPS games are way more consistent in terms of quality than either of the MW games.
There's pretty much nothing redeemable about MW3 outside of the final level.
GravityInsanity
Member
MODERN FUCKING WARFARE
MW2 the best Cod game.
MW3 has a better campaign than any of the Black Ops games... and it's not even that good.
Black Ops MP is great in all three games, while MW3 MP sucks IMO.
SP - MW easily
MP- MW for COD4
Modern Warfare wins, but Black Ops is more consistent.
Advanced Warfare is my favourite COD if anyone is wondering.
Black Ops MP is great in all three games, while MW3 MP sucks IMO.
SP - MW easily
MP- MW for COD4
Modern Warfare wins, but Black Ops is more consistent.
Advanced Warfare is my favourite COD if anyone is wondering.
Well, tied for MP for me at least. Was never into black ops campaigns so I can get behind that.
Black ops 1 and 2 had superb campaigns and very fun multiplayer modes.
BO1: 9.5/10
BO2: 9/10
Black Ops 3 was shit. Multiplayerwas decent but eventually it got really boring and campaign was a joke.
BO3: 6/10
Modern Warfare 1 was a masterpiece, both SP and MP. MW2 wasn't as good as MW1 but still awesome.
MW1:10/10
MW2:9/10
MW3:8/10
MW3 was a step down from previous games but campaign did a good job ending the tilogy and multplayer was very fun back then.
Black Ops 1 and 2 had MUCH better campaigns and multiplayer modes than MW2 and Mw3.
So i guess MW is better as a trilogy.
BO1: 9.5/10
BO2: 9/10
Black Ops 3 was shit. Multiplayerwas decent but eventually it got really boring and campaign was a joke.
BO3: 6/10
Modern Warfare 1 was a masterpiece, both SP and MP. MW2 wasn't as good as MW1 but still awesome.
MW1:10/10
MW2:9/10
MW3:8/10
MW3 was a step down from previous games but campaign did a good job ending the tilogy and multplayer was very fun back then.
Black Ops 1 and 2 had MUCH better campaigns and multiplayer modes than MW2 and Mw3.
So i guess MW is better as a trilogy.
I was serious. Wiimote ftw. Haven't played a CoD game since they stopped supporting Wiimote
CertifiedFP
Member
Black Ops.
It had two good games.
Modern Warfare had a good game.
It had two good games.
Modern Warfare had a good game.
Hands down Black ops. Multiplayer was always far superior IMO and even the little things like actually having a region filter (like seriously IW how fucking hard was it to implement one). I was super hyped for MW2 after having a great time with W@W only to give up withing weeks because of always being matched with overseas hosts.
I loved the Campaign for BO1 and IMO its the best in the series. The moon zombie map is also the only true great zombie map. Everything else after that has been very very average.
I loved the Campaign for BO1 and IMO its the best in the series. The moon zombie map is also the only true great zombie map. Everything else after that has been very very average.
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
Is this in terms of multiplayer? Or the whole package?
multiplayer only
BO2>MW>MW2>BO3>MW3>BO. <--- admittedly, I had it on PS3...and almost all of my friends played on the 360, so i played very little of BO multiplayer
campaign only
MW>BO>MW2>BO2>MW3>>>>>>>>>>>>>BO3
If we are looking at the game as a whole package
MW>BO2>MW2>BO>MW3>BO3
I REALLY liked the campaign of the original Black Ops...and Black Ops 2 was my favorite of the multiplayer games...but Black Ops 3's campaign is something nightmares are made out of its so god awful...
As a trilogy, Modern Warfare is the better series...when it's good (MW) there is nothing better...and even at its worst, there is nothing even approaching as bad as Black Ops 3's campaign...
multiplayer only
BO2>MW>MW2>BO3>MW3>BO. <--- admittedly, I had it on PS3...and almost all of my friends played on the 360, so i played very little of BO multiplayer
campaign only
MW>BO>MW2>BO2>MW3>>>>>>>>>>>>>BO3
If we are looking at the game as a whole package
MW>BO2>MW2>BO>MW3>BO3
I REALLY liked the campaign of the original Black Ops...and Black Ops 2 was my favorite of the multiplayer games...but Black Ops 3's campaign is something nightmares are made out of its so god awful...
As a trilogy, Modern Warfare is the better series...when it's good (MW) there is nothing better...and even at its worst, there is nothing even approaching as bad as Black Ops 3's campaign...