User blog comment:AndImBatman/Why Call of Duty: Ghosts does not deserve it's unwarranted hatred/@comment-78.97.184.212-20131108103613

2. Regarding graphics, CoD is mainly criticized because it never really improves that much between releases. It's been running on the same engine for 5-6 games now with incremental changes, and Ghosts had a big chance to take advantage of next gen tech and significantly improve...but it didn't. On PC at least, the game doesn't look special whatsoever, not even compared to the previous games.

3. I think it's silly to defend CoD at the innovation chapter. The franchise hasn't introduced anything innovative for a long time. And the fast food comparison is incredibly stupid. You don't consume a game, you still have it there so you can play it. Even the MP in older games is very popular, heck MW2 is still on the most played xbox games list....so if you already have another working and popular game (or in cod's case, multiple), why release another one, with incremental changes? Just why? For profit of course.

I'll also disagree on the game feeling new, for me it doesn't. Far from it.

I don't particularly enjoy the formula either, I liked the earlier games, but after WaW everything became pure garbage. The MP became more and more unbalanced (just look at the number of patches, rising from game to game), and the SP became absolutely HORRIBLE. I can't even tell you how much I hate the campaigns in these sort of games, half arsed, made with minimal effort and only in there to justify the price tag.