Lots of gamers remind me of domestic abuse victims in a way, no offense intended to those who deal with the very scary reality of domestic abuse around the world daily, but there is no other way to explain it. Year after year, we as a whole mobilize ourselves to buy games in series that we sometimes swear off, sometimes promise that we’ll never buy into again or just flat out don’t like. I look at some of the recent titles on my shelf and chuckle to myself, as I’ve fallen into that trap myself as I look at copies of Assassin’s Creed 3 and WWE ‘13 after being nonplussed with some of the last iterations of those series.
I’ll admit it, I’ve owned every Call of Duty game since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came out. There is actually nothing, nothing at all wrong with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, actually, it is a great game. CoD4: MW was the right combination of gameplay, an enthralling single player campaign and some incredible online multiplayer that started this whole fever pitch for the Call of Duty games to become one of the highest grossing game series in history. After the original MW, it felt like the games in the Call of Duty series were starting to get complacent and quite simply weren’t as good. Modern Warfare 2 was still a good game, but didn’t have the same magic that the original Modern Warfare had.
Then came Treyarch’s first jump into the world of modern shooters with Call of Duty: Black Ops. Once again, I’ll admit it, I played the hell out of Black Ops, but I’ll readily admit that I didn’t really like the game all that much. It felt like a natural progression as gamers were leaving behind Modern Warfare 2 in droves for the latest Call of Duty installment, and even if there were only a few maps that I actually liked, I played it, a lot. The next year, Infinity Ward looked to come back into prominent with Modern Warfare 3 and, well, I’m not sure there is a lot of good you can say about Modern Warfare 3. I own a copy, which I received as a present, and I’m not sure that I spent more than a few measly hours playing it compared to EA and DICE’s offering from that year, Battlefield 3.
Today marks the release of Treyarch’s latest, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and I keep telling myself that I won’t buy it or even ask anybody for it, that I’ll just let it pass me by and not get sucked into it. I’m just not sure that I trust Treyarch to put together decent maps or to balance a game after Black Ops, and with Halo 4 coming out just a week prior, there is no chance that there will be a gap in buying a yearly shooter game to play online.
My question to you, Explosion.com readers is; are you buying or selling on Black Ops 2, or is it just not worth it?
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