User blog comment:Bovell/Opinion: We don't want Black Ops 2/@comment-1372828-20120219215329

Call me crazy, but I actually enjoyed Black Ops... A LOT. IMO I think it has one of the best campaign modes out of all the Call of Duty games, I can’t decide between this and COD 4, both had great campaigns. The reason why people don’t/won’t enjoy the sequels to these games is because they have so much to live up to. Black Ops and COD 4 are original stories that had a definite beginning and ending. When you’re starting a new story line, the creators (IW AND Treyarch), can pretty much can do whatever they wish with that first game, and more likely than not, it will turn out good (See the original Star Wars movie (A New Hope) for example). That’s why everybody says “COD 4 will always be the best” etc etc, well sure, when you’re setting high expectations for the sequel, it can really take a toll on the developers (which is why maybe Actvision you should give them like 3 years to develop a title). Long story short, when your expectations are so high this could cause a game to not be as great as an achievement (not in terms of money), and this is what happened exactly to the Phantom Menace However, like many people have said so before, the problem is that in the sequels, way too much focus was put on the multiplayer, rather than creating a good, solid story. And when you keep on doing this each year, it’s like you’re buying the same game with just a few new things after a couple of titles pass (BO and MW3). I actually wouldn’t mind is they just released a cod game with like 50+ hours of story only. At the end of the day though all we can really do is not buy the new games or go along with it