Black Ops 2 Confirmed

[MattStar]

Here we go again. It was supposed to be announced later tonight, but I guess info came in early.

Check it out: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...ack-ops-2.aspx

Seems like it's modern or even futuristic. What do you think?

[Pleiades]

This one has drones.

Innovation.

[super-mega-hyper-sonic]

[Pleiades]

The box art is reminiscent of the 2010 edition.

[Leegion]

Character has his head down because he's ashamed of being on the cover. XD

[HalfSwiss]

I'm buying it.

People hate COD way too much. It's not this terrible, evil game. It's a fun game to play with your friends.

[Throavium]

I'm buying it.

People hate COD way too much. It's not this terrible, evil game. It's a fun game to play with your friends.

The argument here is that people treat this like the Madden of first person shooters.

[Pleiades]

I'm buying it.

People hate COD way too much. It's not this terrible, evil game. It's a fun game to play with your friends.

The quality of the games themselves is personal preference. I, for example, find them to be fairly mediocre examples of the modern shooter. The main reason people dislike the games is because they've failed to evolve beyond the formula introduced in the original Modern Warfare, which was five years ago.

[HalfSwiss]

The quality of the games themselves is personal preference. I, for example, find them to be fairly mediocre examples of the modern shooter. The main reason people dislike the games is because they've failed to evolve beyond the formula introduced in the original Modern Warfare, which was five years ago.

To be honest there's not a whole lot they can evolve on. Since zombies came they've pretty much had everything they need. But about releasing on every year, don't lie; if you make a video game that spawns millions of dollars in sales and breaks multiple records every year, you're going to make one every year.

[ZombieDeadpool8]

To be honest there's not a whole lot they can evolve on. Since zombies came they've pretty much had everything they need. But about releasing on every year, don't lie; if you make a video game that spawns millions of dollars in sales and breaks multiple records every year, you're going to make one every year.

I agree with this totally. I although the reason I believe it gets attacked so harshly is exactly because of how large the franchise has become.

[Pleiades]

But about releasing on every year, don't lie; if you make a video game that spawns millions of dollars in sales and breaks multiple records every year, you're going to make one every year.

Oh, I know. From a business standpoint, it'd be utterly stupid of Activision to cease what is essentially a license to print money. The games just have this air about them. The entire series comes off more as a factory production line, churning out yearly releases with the absolute bare minimum in creativity and design, guaranteed to sell millions.

[RAiDeN-209]

To be honest there's not a whole lot they can evolve on. Since zombies came they've pretty much had everything they need. But about releasing on every year, don't lie; if you make a video game that spawns millions of dollars in sales and breaks multiple records every year, you're going to make one every year.

The thing is that the games aren't just evolving less, they're getting worse in most people's eyes.

For me, it goes something like this - CoD4 > MW2 > Black Ops > WaW > MW3

Notice that if you put WaW (which, to be fair, I didn't give much of a chance) after CoD4, it's chronologically backwards? That's not a good sign. Plus, MW3 was a sloppy mess imo. The maps sucked, the online was too complicated, and the singleplayer took no more than 4 hours to complete.

Don't get me wrong, I'll probably buy BO2, but the series is going down the drain imo. Also, when the hell will they make a European WW2 game? It's been long enough.

[Throavium]

but the series is going down the drain imo.

The series will remain to go nowhere as long as fans like you and HalfSwiss continue to buy each installment.

[RAiDeN-209]

The series will remain to go nowhere as long as fans like you and HalfSwiss continue to buy each installment.

I said I'd probably buy it. If it doesn't look good, I won't get it.

Besides, no matter if I buy it or not, the series is still gonna sell more than any other. And for the record, I still enjoy the games, just not as much as the older ones, which weren't purely focused on the online portion of the game.

[HalfSwiss]

The thing is that the games aren't just evolving less, they're getting worse in most people's eyes.

For me, it goes something like this - CoD4 > MW2 > Black Ops > WaW > MW3

Notice that if you put WaW (which, to be fair, I didn't give much of a chance) after CoD4, it's chronologically backwards? That's not a good sign. Plus, MW3 was a sloppy mess imo. The maps sucked, the online was too complicated, and the singleplayer took no more than 4 hours to complete.

Don't get me wrong, I'll probably buy BO2, but the series is going down the drain imo. Also, when the hell will they make a European WW2 game? It's been long enough.

I found kind of a repeating process with he COD games. They're awesome for the first month or two, then they start to get boring. A few months later they're fun again. Once the next game's boring, the old one becomes fun again.
Also WaW was a great game, it's almost impossible to find a non-hacked game.

[RAiDeN-209]

I found kind of a repeating process with he COD games. They're awesome for the first month or two, then they start to get boring. A few months later they're fun again. Once the next game's boring, the old one becomes fun again.
Also WaW was a great game, it's almost impossible to find a non-hacked game.

Yeah, like I said, I never really gave WaW a chance. When I finally thought I should, it was too late.

I just wish CoD made some effort to maintain their old servers.

[Spiderpig24]

Yeah, like I said, I never really gave WaW a chance. When I finally thought I should, it was too late.

I just wish CoD made some effort to maintain their old servers.

I think they intentionally lets their old servers go to shit, so legit players are forced to buy the next game. Just me, but it seems like they would do something like that.

[MattStar]

I think they intentionally lets their old servers go to shit, so legit players are forced to buy the next game. Just me, but it seems like they would do something like that.

I agree.

[HalfSwiss]

[MattStar]

At least it's different. Trying to tap into the fanbase of Crysis or other shooters like that, I guess. This could be good, but I think Treyarch could easily fail hard with this.