MW3: The Gaming Public Reaches new Levels of Stupidity

With the recent news of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 earning over $775 million" many video game journalists have wrongly anticipated for the steam behind the Cal of Duty series to have long gone out, yet the studpidity of the mass market has proven for this to still not be the case. Year-in, year-out, people come in like droves to their local Best Buy, Gamestop, Walmart, Target, etc. Modern Warfare games boast a community of players that is so volatile that it quite literally wants to tear itself apart. But for some reason, the band is so enduring as to want to play a virtually reskinned game over, and over, and over, and over (four "overs" for each Call of Duty since 4).

Call of Duty finds its fanbase from the shallowest of players. Such players enjoy the brutal sensation of dominating their opponents, and have come to expect instant gratification for every perceivable action that is performed. I would not be surprised if Call of Duty nurtures a gaming community with the single lowest collective IQ score. I say this as inevitably no player seeks to cooperate with his or her teammates, will constantly use voice chat to curse and use racial slurs at said teammates in a supposed pursuit of "motiviating" the team, and use no tactics whatsoever in order to get the best of his or her enemy. And when each match ends, up starts a new one, and the monotony that Call of Duty players are seemingly oblivious to begins again. For one, I cannot possibly stand a gaming community in which it is natural to be rude to one another. However, I can in fact get behnd a gaming community where the enjoyment is shared, people cooperate, people are fully willing to show one another how to play, and people behave in a non-violent, friendly manner towards one another.

Through my extensive experience playing Call of Duty games, this has not changed the slightest bit, iteration to iteration. And the lowest-common denominators buy this game this year again. Activistion may as well publish a game titled "Call of Duty X" each year to see if the brain-dead masses are even paying attention to the slop they are willing to shell out $60 for.

I am only slightly extremely flustered with the willingness of the gaming industry to buy the same game every year.

Tags: Call of Duty, douchebaggery, cod, modern warfare 3, Modern Warfare, MW3

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Tristan Damen

November 20, 2011

I’m getting pretty sick of this anti-CoD brand of elitism, especially given that most of us probably own or have owned every instalment since CoD4:MW.

The CoD games may be a little simplistic, but they're fun and allow for a great variety of strategies in terms of both weapon load-outs and play style. The CoD games also still offer splitscreen multiplayer: http://bitmob.com/articles/why-ill-always-choose-call-of-duty-over-battlefield

Bottom line: these games make millions of dollars because they offer no surprises. They consistently deliver fun to gamers of all skill levels. Stop slagging the majority of gamers and join a match already!

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Jonathan Oyama

Actually, I'm more sick of the people who are number-crunching the critics to death. Gads, I just bought Battlefield 3 because I thought it was fun. I didn't want to join into all the flaming and trolling wars.

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Michael Lenoch

For me, I feel I've exhausted the franchise as a whole for all the fun it has to offer. Tthe possible outcomes with regard to enemy encounters and enemy behavior (both single player and offline) have become so rote, by-the-numbers, and so dreadfully boring and predictable that consequently I have very little reason to go out and purchase it. And I think it is an earnest request for games in a franchise to innovate from one iteration to the next. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has animations, textures, assets, and effects from 2007, and I don't think I'm being unreasonable when I say that that's outrageous.

Danny Concepcion

I'm sick of CoD, and haven't played a game since MW2, but admit that they're still fun and extremely playable.

Is it that hard to believe that many people still find the games fun?

It's just hard to believe people haven't noticed nor cared how similar the formula is from game to game, and yet they still insist on purchasing every single one.