[CoD Ghosts] General News and Discussion

Man... i miss WW2 shooters ! CoD should go back to that ! UO and CoD2 were the best call of duty games imo.

Headshot wrote: »

Me too

WW2 guns are so much better too

I dont think I ever again want to play a ww2 shooter, between all the medal of honor games on the ps1 / ps2 and up to call of duty 3 I've had enough. I didnt even buy world at war.

we could have an american civil war or french revolution shooter. 1 shot muskets that take 30 seconds to reload - hit x, take out your powder bag, tamp it down the barrel, get your next bullet, tamp that in, set up the fuse, take aim....
The tension would be unreal. scorestreaks include maggots in the enemys rations for reduced health and trench foot for reduced mobility.

Thank god tis friday, I'm being terribly unproductive....

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

The tension would be unreal. scorestreaks include maggots in the enemys rations for reduced health and trench foot for reduced mobility.

I lolled.

And a 25 kill streak gives the enemy team the plague/consumption and rats start suddenly flying around the map?

Half the battle is getting to grips with the maps, I find there's always a few hot spots and "go to" high traffic areas where most of the action takes place, once you get to know them the size of the maps seems less daunting imo, it just serves for more annoying hiding spots for campers > : |

But if anyone is playing later give us an add/invite? RS Ramza is my xbl gt

MarkY91 wrote: »

not at all. but there should be a different thread for people to moan about it and one for fans to chat about the game in general. i read all of your posts about the game this week and they were very informative and i agreed with alot of it.

Well lads I did create a megabitch thread so wouldn't that be the appropriate thread to bitch and moan about the game?

Anyway I think the thread should move towards discussing gameplay, Clan ops answering general questions about the game, rather then constant slagging from moaners, I agree with you Mark all this negativity where it might be justified for this game we have it now and we might as well get on with it for the next 12 months.

Just an FYI Double XP should be live now for the weekend lets all level up as much as we can, as it's going to be a slow climb to prestige all 10 Squad players

I wanted to sign up and give my two cents on this whole debate because gaming, and specifically FPS's, are close to my heart. It seems to me and the friends who've I've been speaking with over the last number of days that it is the younger generation that like Ghosts more or less and that it is the older crowd that dislike it. This is entirely understandable.

To the younger people out there that like the game and cannot understand the reasoning behind the hatred, I say this. As someone who has been playing Call of Duty for 10 years now, I, as have my friends, seen the game change considerably. Now I understand that games must change to a certain extent but I am not referring to innovation etc. I am talking about the direction to which Call Of Duty is going in. The original COD took the title from Medal of Honour. It was a piece of art, a masterpiece for it's time. COD2 followed, one of the best shooters to ever see the light of day. COD4 revolutionised the FPS genre. I have put well over 300 hours into that game. The COD franchise depicted, quite beautifully, the emotion and atmosphere of the WW2 time-period. That was Call of Duty. Today, the game has become an arcade shooter you'd pay a few cents into the machine to play for five minutes. It has become like this to appeal to the lowest common denominator in our gaming world. And it has done so at the sacrifice of what made it great in the first place.

Consider this: you love this band and attend their shows every night. You and your friends laugh, shout, joke and have a great time. One day you show up to hear the band and everything seems the norm. Suddenly, you close your eyes for a moment to really take in the lyrics and the sounds of your favourite band and when you open them up again, to your utter horror and disbelief, your friends have disappeared, and you're now surrounded by the shouts, insults, immaturity and screams of a million kids. What has become of your band?! Bob Marley on the stage has morphed into S Club 7! They're telling us to "wave our arms in the air like we just don't care", but my arms are not moving. Not even a little.

My nephew watches wrestling. The first thing he does when he walks through the door on a Saturday morning is turn on the TV for WWE. He's 12. I remember when I was his age and watched WWF. Instead of John Cena prancing around, our generation had Steve Austin sticking up his middle finger and telling everyone to "fvvck off!". The product has changed.

The reason I make these two examples is that Call of Duty has changed for us older guys. It's fine, I can accept that. But does this change automatically equate progress? Is it better? I would argue that it isn't.

I think the majority cling to COD for fear. Fear of what else is out there. Fear of actually enjoying another experience. Indeed, I would go so far to say that a lot of people that play COD perhaps don't play anything, if much, else. I can understand wanting to stay within the moment but I've been playing FPS for the best part of 20 years and I can honestly say that this is not an unusual occurrence by any means. It happened to Quake, it happened to Counter-Strike, it happened to Halo and it will, inevitably, happen to Call of Duty. At one point, a games time will come. I am not going to sit here and feed you some BS story about how COD is dying because it would be both true and untrue to some extent. The primary reason why a lot of people are negative about this franchise is because we expect the best. It's as simple as that. A poster earlier said something along the lines of "well, it's COD, what did you expect...you knew what it was going to be like"....I believe that poster, by defending COD, single-handedly created a fire-proof argument as to what is wrong with the series. It's an absolute indictment that this publisher and developer see it fit to refrain from giving us the absolute best when it comes to their product.

Battlefields' animations - that should be COD, Blacklights customisation - that should be COD, Skyrims skill-tree - that should be COD, Crysis' photorealistic graphics - that should be COD. The people that are negative towards the game don't hate COD for the sake of it. We're gamers just like you that have been playing COD for years and whom have witnessed the product stagnate. That's the basis for our negativity; frustration. It's genuinely insulting to us for a company to ask us to hand over cash for, what we know for a fact, is not their blood, sweat and tears, their heart and soul. It's simply "going through the motions". Kind of like buying a cool Rolex watch don't some laneway in the city. It's shiny and you look like a million dollars. Then on the bus home, some guy get's on and sits next to you. He, too, has a shiny Rolex watch. And it's shinier than yours. The difference being, his is the real deal and yours is some cheap, fake rip-off made in Taiwan. Which leads me into my last point as this is longer than I imagined it to be (when I start, I can't stop). Vince Zampella and Jason West are our Rolex watches. Robert Bowling, David Vonderhaar and Mark Rubin are the cheap, fake, imitating, made in Taiwan rip-offs that you bought off the back of that truck. An amalgamation of sycophantic "yes-men" installed in a position to churn out a near carbon copy of a product year in, year out in a bid to mislead investors and keep Activisions billionaires on the gravy-train with a game that is less than deserving of it's once rich history.

So next time, you shout "troll" at someone or rubbish someone elses opinion that may or may not conform to mainstream attitudes or trends, keep in mind that there is a lot of politics at work on the internet. Most things are not what they seem and more often than not, you are manipulated, even when you're not aware you are.

To those that are enjoying the game, I hope you have a great time. Gaming is awesome no matter what you're playing. It doesn't matter what you find enjoyable, as long as you do...because at the end of the day, isn't that why we're here? And to those that miss the old days of Call of Duty, I've a feeling there are a lot of great, honest people out there already well underway in bringing us that next big thing.

Thanks.

I caved and picked it up. I was in tesco and it was sitting beside battlefield 4. Had both them in my hand but I didn't really play bf3 that much so got ghosts.

I have to say its not the worst cod I've played. Comparing to others its either 2nd or third worst.
Positives: It's playable which is nice for a launch cod title.
Sound is pretty good. You can make out where someone is coming from.
Maps are nice and open not all closed and confined.
Connection seems good, when I die its not completely based on connection.
Could only break even in TDM and barely get 8 kills coming last but back to about 20+ kills on top.
I like the new game modes.

There's plenty of negatives and all of my positives have bad points too before people start point them out, but I've been saying it for years on here and they've never been fixed..

I'm enjoying it so far for what it is. It's in no was a great game or even a good one and like the majority of CoDs is broken but its nice to have it just for some mindless fun now and again.

new patch out. cant find out on google what its for but lets hope it sorts out the spawns

JamboMac wrote: »

And some people are lagging and cheating I want a patch that kicks them.

ive come across 2 people with mad coloured names dnd have every perk equipped. havent seen one since wednesday but i report all that ive seen. losers like that ruin the game!

Wasnt going to get this but decided I would, the campaign is crazy short. Missions are really boring and the story is terrible. Lets hope MP is better but Im not holding my breath.

MiCr0 wrote: »

Bump - we're now up to 4 people :-)

15 of us now, up to level 5, and once we get to 6 we get 2 hrs double xp