Is there too many call of duty games?

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How many call of Duty games are there now? and I think there's another one on its way. OMG can't these developers do anything original anymore? I played the first two and that was enough for me. It feels like they release one every couple of months. If they stopped producing them for a couple of years and focused on something new and original I'd be a happy bunny.

I'm not saying people shouldn't buy them if they enjoy them. Oh Geebuss I wish the same old stuff would stop being rehashed over and over again.

This is why you'll find me often buying games no one else has herd of as I'm always trying to find something new and fun.
 
One a year is too many IMO. But activision are greedy so they won't stop releasing something that makes them $1billion every year.
 
I think they'd probably point to the fact that the developers are alternated each year justifies a new 'COD' being released each year as in their eyes Modern Warfare have branched out into it's own franchise now

TBH though MW was ground breaking, WAW was pretty rubbish IMO but the zombie mode got it a lot of fans, MW2 whilst the single player was obviously an after thought the multiplayer is still insanely popular and Black Ops IMO had the best single player since MW so as long as they're churning out great games I dont care if 1 is released every year

Plus no one complains when the yearly wwe, Fifa or PES games are released and come the first footage of this years Modern Warfare everyone will be jizzing themselves :p
 
To be honest, I think they're releasing too many too soon.

COD 4: Modern Warfare and World at war. Both great games.

Black ops and MW2 both fall short. So instead of releasing 4 games inorder to rake in the cash and flood the gaming market with the COD franchise, I feel they should have held off on these 2, took the time and released a better game overall, They can do so. But both these games just felt rushed unlike the other 2 I mentioned.
 
I disagree about WAW being rubbish, it took MW and improved on it, added new killstreaks, vehicles, zombie mode of course and the single player campaign was good (in my opinion).
 
They should have just kept it to Infinity Ward and released games when they were actually finished instead of just churning out one per year. Okay each CoD game does have a 2 year development time but when they are so similar to each other it gets a bit stale. Hopefully now with the fallout between the heads of Infinity Ward and Activision we'll really start to see the Modern Warfare franchise come into it's own and start bringing some new thinking and new ideas to the genre which is starting to become a little stale.
 
Yeah WaW was a good game imo. Both SP and MP.

I read in Edge this month that Black Ops took something like $650m in it's first five days retail. It's a no-brainer for Activision, really. Most people on this forum are long standing active gamers and because of that we'd all like to see something new and refreshing in our games; possibly only Heavy Rain has come close to being that recently (on console) and hats off to Quantic Dream and Sony for coming up with that little gem. Everything else is a cash cow and meh so what - if I get some entertainment out of it I am happy. You can't re-invent the wheel every week.

If you buy into it (and millions do just that) you can't really complain, can you? If you don't fancy playing another Call of Duty, buy something else, or don't. The choice is yours to make.
 
These games sell because after 5 years the only games that have a lobby system that works where you can get a game in 30 seconds after putting the disc in are COD, Halo and PGR in my experience. (x360).

It makes them user friendly to have a few games in minutes with friends.

I've overdosed on them, I'm hoping other games I like actually sort the online out this years (Gears and Graw) so I can play something else for a couple of years.

Black ops is a great game I'm just bored of the format, mine will be turned into dead space 2 if lovefilm don't sent me it :D
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
They should have just kept it to Infinity Ward and released games when they were actually finished instead of just churning out one per year. Okay each CoD game does have a 2 year development time but when they are so similar to each other it gets a bit stale. Hopefully now with the fallout between the heads of Infinity Ward and Activision we'll really start to see the Modern Warfare franchise come into it's own and start bringing some new thinking and new ideas to the genre which is starting to become a little stale.
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You must be thinking of a different publisher :p
 
I haven't even touched the MP in Black Ops and I'm not sure I ever will - MW2 MP was such a disappointment as it seemed like a step back from MW1 (which I enjoyed). Got half way through the BO SP but the most I've played is split screen Nazi zombies. I'll probably go back to it at some point and no doubt I will still buy the next CoD.

BFBC2 is what I still enjoy. I like the Battlefield format and have done since BF1942. Fingers crossed for Battlefield 3, then :)
 
Yes and it's having a terrible knock on effect for other developers who work with Activision. Games like Singularity which was a brilliant FPS mixing elements of Bioshock, Half Life 2 and the element of time travel was not advertised at all by Activision. Though the CoD brand offers an easy to play FPS it is not a cash cow that can go on forever.
 
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