IGN: Call of Duty is Boring and Needs to Change

Best IGN artile ever written? It's hard to disagree with anything here. I'm glad a big media outlet called out Call of Duty for what it is. Sorry if it was posted already.

http://games.ign.com/articles/121/1217539p1.html

If they change anything they will piss off fans. CoD will be the same until the game series finally dies out, which at this rate could be 20 years.

A fanbase like CoD's or any game that has a dedicated following doesn't want major changes or innovation. They want their game to be exactly how they know and love it.

This is why small game developers have a hard time expanding their games. They end up making a game for a small audience that is faithful but cannot change anything about the game without potentially losing their current fanbase and hoping that they pick up new players.

And yet they still gave MW3 a 9.

IGN is boring and needs to change.

f**** hypocritical dumbasses.

And yet they still gave it a 90. :roll:

Search call of duty on ign.

all receiving over 9+ in score and receiving editors choice...

And yet they still gave MW3 a 9.

Link3301

My thoughts exactly. IGN sometimes expresses halfway provocative opinions in its articles, but when there's a review to be written, it's back to the good old suck-up fest and the inevitable 8.5-9.

Yet nothing will change in the next installment.

Inb4 Black Ops 2 scores a 9.0.

good one IGN.

Maybe they should go back to CoD 4 mechanics of online multiplayer.

aren't they always giving CoD high scores? and are they just now realizing this?broeing

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is an editorial from one writer.Ravensmash

They gave MW3 a 9? WTF?DragonfireXZ95

This is from one writer FROM IGN, not IGN in whole.

So it would make sense for another writer to keep giving the games 9.0+..... over and over....

Watch them give CoD:Blops 2 a 9+ score, saying it doesn't need to change sh!t.

Glad more people are acknowledging how stale CoD has become

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is an editorial from one writer.Ravensmash

But the major gaming sites put so much effort into presenting themselves as one monolithic entity that I don't think that argument really holds water (GS even decides on their scores as a collective, IIRC).

[QUOTE="Ravensmash"]Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is an editorial from one writer.WilliamRLBaker

lol, 9GN.

They gave MW3 a 9? WTF?DragonfireXZ95

lol IGN is now one collective being with a hive mind, and no one can write opinion pieces.

People who work for IGN aren't forced to all have the same opinions or burn for their heresy. Get over it. Everyone that responded to this thread with something similar is being pretty dumb.

[QUOTE="Ravensmash"]Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is an editorial from one writer.WilliamRLBaker

Because you're lucky to have a job, maybe?

I'm not going to fully support that argument, but in reality I don't think IGN employees are going to protest and quit over a score for A VIDEO GAME. Real life =/= system wars/a video game forum.

I think everyone would have figured it out by now. CoD and that particular playstyle/ridiculousness are connected, one and the same. It's like FIFA. While FIFA does make more changes than CoD, it caters to a very specific demographic of football fans. It's a big demographic, but people who don't like football don't play FIFA. CoD caters to the demographic that likes....CoD. If they made CoD more like Battlefield...wouldn't that be like making a FIFA game about basketball?

Anyway, the smart people that like CoD still play CoD 4, since it's the same thing. But if it changes, the fans are gonna stop following.

[QUOTE="Ravensmash"]Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is an editorial from one writer.WilliamRLBaker

I have never seen a website, news paper, news program in which every single person in the organization had the exact sime opinion on everything. (Well except Fox news) Just because someone writes an OPINION piece does not mean that everyone on the site recognizes that same opinion. Look at CNN and you can see tons of different OPINIONS in their opninion pieces. That doesn't mean they should all quite and get a different job. Journalistic integrity has nothing to do with having an opninion that was different than another person giving their opninion.

I'm not trying to start an argument, just pointing out that this same thing is seen everywhere due to there being tons of different contributing authors in every form of news.

That's not what they're reviews say. :|

Game Informer said something similar prior to MW3's release, and when I read it I thought "they'll still give a 9.0 or higher". And of course, they did.

IGN is no different. Black Ops 2 will also recieve a AAA score no matter what.

N30: IGN is Boring and Needs to Change. True story.

Tell that to the tens of millions of drones who buy it yearly.

Glad more people are acknowledging how stale CoD has become

BPoole96

It needs some fresh new changes. the Franchise is becoming bland

especially americans are stupid.BigBoss255

If cod is stale and boring according to IGN then their must be one or more editors on that site that think that to, but I doubt it.I don't like the FPS genre a lot and only a couple of FPS games have ever interested me.

Apparently you're drone/idiot if you like cod.

This is from one writer FROM IGN, not IGN in whole.

So it would make sense for another writer to keep giving the games 9.0+..... over and over....

TrapJak

You took the words right off my mouth. Everyone has different opinions and tastes, including writers. On gamespot as well each writer has differing opinions which is one reason why deciding for a GOTY can be really hard within gaming journalism.

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Glad more people are acknowledging how stale CoD has become

Mr_BillGates

More or less agreed. This gen has been completely oversaturated in FPS games

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"][QUOTE="Ravensmash"]Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is an editorial from one writer.vtbob88

I have never seen a website, news paper, news program in which every single person in the organization had the exact sime opinion on everything. (Well except Fox news) Just because someone writes an OPINION piece does not mean that everyone on the site recognizes that same opinion. Look at CNN and you can see tons of different OPINIONS in their opninion pieces. That doesn't mean they should all quite and get a different job. Journalistic integrity has nothing to do with having an opninion that was different than another person giving their opninion.

I'm not trying to start an argument, just pointing out that this same thing is seen everywhere due to there being tons of different contributing authors in every form of news.

simply put its hypocracy you cant sit and write an article about how call of duty is old hat, boring...etc..etc then work for a publication or website that constantly and no matter what gives it editors choice and 9+
Divergent opinions are one thing but I can bet you a major liberal will not work for fox news because of differences in opinion.

especially americans are stupid.BigBoss255

[QUOTE="Mr_BillGates"][QUOTE="BPoole96"]

Glad more people are acknowledging how stale CoD has become

BPoole96

More or less agreed. This gen has been completely oversaturated in FPS games

FPS games in general are oversaturated and the fact that they sell the most of out any other genre of game is a sad truth. Pretty soon RPG, Sports games, Platformers, puzzle games etc will all be gone and all that will be left is Call of Duty........... I shutter to think of a gaming world like that.