User blog comment:AndImBatman/Why Call of Duty: Ghosts does not deserve it's unwarranted hatred/@comment-737493-20131110101920

1.0 People have a special perimeter of hate? Um, are there fences around this perimeter? Sentry boxes?

1.1 The community has a lot to do with a game; any game. The difference here is that the Call of Duty community is focused wholly on multiplayer competitiveness and that CoD is the common denominator for FPSes...well...it's so easy to twist that into "CoD is for children and MLG wannabes".

1.2 A different engine, but one that still hasn't fixed a lot of very basic and unprofessional errors. For example, friendly AI is still exceptionally poor; preferring to take cover in front of a car as opposed to behind it, not responding to an enemy soldier five feet away, and shooting into walls. While this is more an AI programming issue than an engine one, it still reflects badly on the game's technical side and gives the entire game a very unpolished feel.

1.3 you expect a different kind of consistency from a fast food chain. When I go to McDonalds in London, I expect it to have the same assortment of pulped animal giblets inna bun that their outlets in Birmingham have. Consistency is the model for any company, since you build a brand and provide a consistent service throughout. You do expect consistency from a game series, but in different ways. In Call of Duty you expect to play as the generic good guys, you expect to shoot a lot of dudes with inaccurately modelled weaponry, you expect cringeworthy plot twists. If CoD suddenly decided to become a Cooking Mama clone where you spend 6 hours packing soldiers' lunches back at base, then there'd be massive complaints since it isn't what CoD is. Call of Duty is all about the same shit improved and added to such an extent that it's the shiniest shit in the silver-coated shit store...what a tortured way to say that...

Pokemon hasn't changed at all and is best forgotten, Zelda is for fat people to cosplay as, Left 4 Dead 2 seemed more an expensive expansion pack to Left 4 Dead, Dead Rising is a franchise with releases spaced out enough, and Saints Row is a sad tale of a series becoming addicted to wacky pills.

Call of Duty will always be a silly game with silly dudes firing silly guns at silly enemies. It has all the depth, complexity and emotion of Space Invaders. And that isn't a bad thing!

2.0

Because it was seen as a cop-out? It had no closure? It's a ending in the same way an industrial accident with a salami slicer is foreplay.

3.0

The majority of the arguments I've seen seem to stem from complaints that Call of Duty is stale rather than old.

4.0 MLG is still a thing? Crikey. ___

A lot of ire I've noticed seems to be that Ghosts is trying to be next-gen when it really isn't. For example, the 6 GB RAM minimum on PC is absolute bollocks. Also, the FoV limits can go penetrate themselves with a sharpened pencil...and the head bob...and the irritating reuse of animations...which isn't a bad thing if it isn't totally obvious...

Anyway, sorry this is totally incomprehensible. Lack of sleep and all that.