How In God's Name Is Call Of Duty Still Popular?

Been saying this about Nintendo games and systems for years now. Everyone here either knows this and just likes to troll, or is a dumb fanboy who has tunnel vision and only comes here to fight for their system of choice.

That's all this place has ever been. There are posters here who mistakenly believe that their words are the Holy gospel, but nobody really cares about what anyone else says out of both sides of their mouth in a place called "System Wars". It's all just random drive-by brain cancer.

I work a lot, and I'm usually exhausted at the end of the day. I enjoy playing Call of Duty because it is a game that I can pick up, and enjoy lightly for 30 minutes.

Pretty much, I like being a snob about my games, not necessarily out of some perverse joy on finding a game to be dull, more so because I'm never going to apologize for having my brain turned on when I play a video game. It's just the shit that comes with age, and knowing that I was, I can, and I will be getting better. That said, it's not some crime that people like CoD, or shitty things like Dynasty Warriors (you are aids though, truly), it's a video game, it's entertainment, if it makes you happy, more power to you.

because they are fun pick up and play titles maybe? i've enjoyed them all since cod2, and i fully intend to keep buying and enjoying these titles as long as they are fun. quit being such a snob and or jumping on the hate bandwagon.

This

It's a damn good value.

$60 gets you a shitton of content. Every year.

If you only buy a few games per year and like shooters, CoD got you completely covered.

Because it has surplanted Madden as the game of choice for many casual gamers. I don't really understand the mystery. It's like The Transformers movie franchise: lots of people are looking for a shallow, brain dead experience with many pew pews and IP familiarity goes a long way in appeasing the masses hence the yearly releases.

I guarantee that most of the people that complain about it here buy it.

Bro gamers. Brogamers everywhere!

I've never been on the cod train until recently. Used to play mw2 with my friends at lan cafés back when the game was new and that's about it. One of my friends started playing ops 3 and pested me to play it. After a month I caved in. Didn't like it at first but now I'm almost prestige 6 and getting top 3's alot. Sliding and wallrunning is kind of a throwback to the old school quake days for me. Never thought I'd become a cod dudebro, but I did :p

CoD games are beyond fun and probably one of the few games out there that actually are worth $60 because you get your moneys worth literally in one week (unless you suck at PvP and rage quit by selling it after beating the story)

This!

Simple answer, because there's a huge community with tons of Clans that play, and like COD. I'm not one of them , but I get it.

I'm not a huge fan of COD but that has mostly been my changing tastes in games over the years. I remember playing COD around 8 years ago and thinking "YEAH!! This is awesome!!", I guess there are people still discovering it and feeling the same. It lost it's shine to me when I started to play more complex stuff. But it's still a fun arcade'y kind of shooter.

Its still popular because people enjoy it. Whether you like the game , or not nothing quite plays like COD. It has a certain feel people love.

You might as well be asking why Coca-Cola is still popular. It all comes down to having a winning formula.

Because people still very much enjoy playing them. They've been making Mario games since the 80s, why doesn't anyone say "hey it's a another Mario game, why are people still playing that"? Mario games are pretty much the same and not much as changed game mechanics wise.

Why does it even concern you anyway? People enjoy all sorts of games.

Cause they're good

I stopped buying em but they're still solid games.

People still like em and the dumb jackasses can't understand or accept that.

Don't like em? Fine, but ur just a jackass if u think it's some defect that drives people to buy said game.

That's why I hate SW, it's just jackasses being jackasses.

Sure, it's the "Xbros" or "stupid gamers" or maybe it's a solid shooter that has a loyal fan base

I reminds me of modern art where artists have disappeared so far up their own asses they can't tell what's actually good anymore.

I dont get it only because why would you play a game that makes you rage. I can be in a 12 person party and you can always tell whos playing COD because they are usually yelling profanities about the connection and how they shot someone but somehow they didnt get the kill. Look I like games as much as the next gamer but I refuse to raise my blood pressure over shotty hit detection.