KungLaodoesntsuck Wrote:Nouns Wrote:
Why do people only say this about call of duty. There are other games such as battlefield that make only a few improvements. But really, i like cod and bf, but why does everyone has to bash it. The improvements they do make are good, and usually not ever for the bad.
They say that because COD has grown stale. They have stuck with the same thing since COD4. But Blops was a good COD. They really did a great job on that one.
I don't think it's grown stale so much as the changes they've made each game have sucked all kinds of balls. WaW was never really playable because of hackers, and it had a very similar problem that BO has, and is one of the main reasons why I won't be getting BO2; the weapon balance is absolutely awful.
Seriously, think about it. You could probably count on one hand the number of viable guns in each game, and said guns are so overpowered it's ridiculous. In WaW it's the Thompson, MP40, M1A1, and perhaps the Springfield as well. In BO, it's the AK74u, FAMAS, and really that's about it. No other gun comes close to those two in BO. There are other decent guns, like the Commando, Enfield, and Galil, but they all have damning flaws.
Moving to MW2, I think the reasons why I hated that game for so long are related to the maps being terrible and ability to make incredibly dickish classes. OMA-DC-anything, M-L-C, Bling-SP-Ninja (so you could tube and still have your favorite attachment, doing max bullet damage since DC wasn't all that necessary to succeed with the tube, while not being heard either), etc. The weapon balance in MW2 is the best in the entire series, and I know this because I took the time to master every primary weapon in the game. Definitely held my K/D down a bit, but I don't care about that. Every primary gun in the game is viable against any other gun if used right. Getting back to perk balance real quick, I think the main problem with perk balance has been the reduction of the total number of perks. I know this is due to death streaks and the want to outright remove some perks (Stopping Power, for one), but having so many choices in CoD4 and WaW allowed for better variety in the community.
I finally started to appreciate MW2 once I played BO. BO's maps were better, but sniping was impossible unless you were a quickscoper, and as I said above the weapon balance was fucking awful. Perk balance wasn't great either, as there wasn't a reason to use anything besides Ghost in the first slot (unless you're afraid of the RC-XD, then Flak Jacket). The issue is the removal of Stopping Power. It gets taken out and the obvious next best perk is not being seen on UAV, so everyone flocks to that and the game becomes a campfest. It also didn't help in BO that all of the other good perks were in the second slot and nothing in Tier 3 was anywhere near useful. Wager matches were cool though.
So MW3 comes around, and after hearing all the complaints about camping and other issues, like the perk balance in MW2, what does IW/Sledgehammer do? Make a bunch of maps that are absolute clusterfucks, in the name of ending camping. I can't think of more than a few maps that actually have some semblance of flow to them. Hardhat, Bootleg, Outpost, and Village come to mind, but even then the stupid revenge spawns screw all of that up. IW smoked some of Treyarch's crack when it came to weapon balance, as the few viable guns (Type 95, MP7, PP90M1, ACR, M14) once again dominate. And, just like BO, there are definitely second tier guns (SCAR, USAS, Striker, M4A1, P90), but they all have fatal flaws that prevent them from being nearly as useful, and just about every other primary is horribad other than the specialized guns (i.e. snipers). Also, the spammable snipers need to stop. First it was the M21 in MW2, then the Dragunov in BO, and now it's the RSASS in MW3. Takes no skill, but then again, neither does anything else in CoD.
Perk balance is again terrible. There is no reason to regularly use anything other than Recon/SoH in the first slot, Assassin in the second slot, and Stalker/Dead Silence in the third slot. Recon also makes SitRep Pro totally worthless, since you don't need to listen for footsteps if a stun or flash reveals the enemy, much less bullets. Scavenger is now worthless because it doesn't replenish equipment, and unless you're a tryhard you aren't staying alive long enough to run out of ammo. Blind Eye is only good to take down aircraft. ExCon... lol ExCon. No perk 2 is good enough to warrant using instead of Assassin. They're decent enough in special situations or gametypes (Hardline especially... use Hardline Pro on Dome with a Support setup and watch your killstreaks pile up), but none are as all purpose as Assassin, Overkill being especially awful. No reason to use it when there are a good number of secondaries that are better than many of the primaries. Perk 3s... Marksman sucks because the maps are so harshly geared against hardscoping, Steady Aim has really never been a viable perk, and the aforementioned SitRep.
What this all adds up to is that not only has CoD gotten progressively worse since CoD4, but it's now at a point where neither IW nor Treyarch has to put any effort into the game (IW clearly doesn't, that's for sure) to get sales, because it has the Call of Duty name on it. They could literally be selling a bag of shit, and people will still buy it because it says CoD on the bag.
I can do nothing but shake my head at this generation of gamers.
