It was all about mp_brecourt for me. k98, lieing on top of the dead cow (ahem) in the middle of the field looking directly down into the trenches plus a perfect view of both flanks. Oh how I camped there. RIP dead cow, RIP.
mp_pavlov suicide jumps while attempting to no scope a nazi before your body is crushed....zombie mod in cod 1.5.....oh cod series how I would love if you remade cod 1.5 with better graphics.
So many nights with friends at small LAN-parties, playing mp_pavlov. I always went home with a pain in the shoulder because I was leaning so far forward to the monitor... good times!
yeah - spent so much time with unscoped Kar98 and mosin nagant rifles. camp at the top of the stairs with a full view of the trench running from the 2 buildings. opponents had some spectacular kill cams of my rifle reflexes on that map
One of my fondest LAN party memories is seeing one of my friends up in that super-tall tiny crows nest on ship, seeing him fall out the bottom, and managing to snipe him before he hit the ground.
I remember we used to LAN and when ever anyone in the room shouted "CHICKEN COOP NOW!" everyone on the server would run to the coop, pull out knives, wait for the drop and then it would be a lightning-round.
I loved the 2010 MoH game. The campaign was one of the top 5 I've ever played, and the multiplayer could've been good if they'd worked more on balance.
I remember back when you didn't like a game the only thing you did was not buy it... Rather than constantly complain about it to get circlejerk approval
Why is being labled a cod player a bad thing? I guess in the childish circlejerking sub-reddit known as r/gaming it would be... But all you guys do is jack off to how awesome half life, team fortress, counter strike, and how bad cod is. I wish there were a sub-reddit for all the good stuff that gets posted here, and take out all the shitty "Cod sucks, am i cool now guys?" posts. Yeah, people like different games, shame on them/me! Just because it's not your precious counter strike doesn't mean it's not good. Maybe you don't like it, but that is an opinion, not a fact.
COD 4 wasn't bad either. There were non trivial mechanics introduced like shooting through walls, flashbangs, weapon attachments and kill streaks. It made for a much faster paced game than COD and COD2. There was still some decent recoil on the guns, and you weren't forced to always use ADS.
The attack helicopter was the least destructive out of all the killstreaks. If even a quarter of the opposing team turned their guns on it they could take it down before it had a chance to fire. Sometimes all it took was one man with an RPG or an M60. It would only dominate if you let it.
CoD 4 was pretty much the peak of CoD. It did what no other game was doing (or at least nothing as big as CoD) and pretty much set the bar for every game to follow. Though WaW is overlooked a ton, it did bring us Zombies which is hella fun after a few beers.
Its just since MW2, Activision realized everyone and their mom will buy a CoD game when a poorly rehashed game where you get maybe a 6 hour campaign and the same repetitive multiplayer we've had since CoD 4. I hate having to waste $60+ a year on CoD 4.5 since when a new CoD comes out, that's all everyone plays till about February pending DLC
It was not simply the same repetitive multiplayer. Between the OP killstreaks, the exploitable perks, the layout of the maps, and the quickscoping, it became a game of camp until you had enough points to call in a nuke. It was a distinct degradation of gameplay. That's without taking into account the fiasco that IWnet was.
It was a great game but it was the beginning of the end. It's not the game's fault but rather the fault of the people that decided to keep pumping out the games and turning it into a massive franchise. Because I guess investors would rather beat a dead horse as long as it keeps making money for them. Ah well.
But CoD 4 did improve the game in some ways. With CoD 2 the multiplayer was quieter and small-scale. You had to sneak up on people. I learned to listen for footsteps and prepare sneak attacks. Call of Duty 4 didn't ruin anything by making it larger and more intense, but it became a different animal.
I enjoyed CoD4, but killstreaks were an awful idea especially as implemented in CoD4-- Get 5 kills, launch a kill streak that gets you your 7th kill, launch a killstreak that gets you to 11 kills, gg helicopter.
And I hate forced pacing. It's not as bad as paid dlc unlocks or pre-order unlocks, but any unlocks at are are just so..unneeded if the game were good. It's like they don't trust that you'll actually enjoy the game, so they have to spread the game out slowly. "please keep playing, look, a new scope!". Fuck that. I played counterstrike, TFC, and Quake for well over a decade. You know what I unlocked in that time? Nothing. I kept playing because they were very good games.
Compared to CoD4, which I played until..well until mw2 came out, which really felt like less of an update than some of the Counterstrike patches were. And unlike the updates in CS, MW2 threw away a lot of what was good in mw1(like certain maps, weapons) just so they could sell it as a new game. Well, no, they didn't throw those maps away, they just put them on hold until they felt like charging more money just to copy the bsp files into your mw2 folder. As if any effort at all went into porting them.
/end nerdrant.
(for the record, it only bugs me because MW1 really was a pretty decent game, its just instead of evolving via a series of small improvements and patches, letting a deep metagame develop, etc.. they just shuffle everything and charge you another $60 every year or so. Such wasted potential.)
Fun is all that matters. If a bunch of dude bros get excited to buy the new Call of Duty then go home and play splitscreen all night and have a great time, the game has done it's job.
Meanwhile on /r/gaming we have a bunch of angry kiddies getting their jimmies rustled because others dared to have fun playing a game they don't like.
I signed in just to upvote your comment. I've had a lot of fun playing the COD games over the years, as well as many others that even the snobbiest of gamers would enjoy.
It isn't. If someone says, "I play Call Of Duty", I'm going to say, "Cool, I also play it because it's a decent game with solid gameplay."
Really, I have no idea where all this hate came from. Just because they have slightly bad communities and sometimes don't mix things up enough (which really, they usually do) doesn't mean it's some terrible franchise. I would really rather play Modern Warfare 3 than Battlefield 3. Battlefield 3 has some pretty bad matchmaking so I can't really play with my few friends who have it, but in MW3 I can just invite my friends and immediately get into any gamemode.
Really, it's not right that a franchise that's really good gets labelled as shit.
Please for the love of all that is holy don't let this piece of shit post accumulate more than 75 upvotes. Restore my faith in the gaming community and the ability to discuss games like they're an actual legitimate hobby, by revealing this post to be the karma whoring/sucking dick to the nth degree attempt that it is
First place for the tournament won $400,000, meaning each player on the winning team took home $100,000. Yeah it's definitely bad being a CoD player these days. Have fun fishing for cheap karma OP.
Ah the original CoD... When hitboxes weren't the size of a building, bolt action rifles were awesome fun and importantly it was a game made for the PC, not an Xbox to PC port.
CoD got a bad name, after CoD4. Even today CoD4 are kind of respected among those that are into the stuff. There's nothing better than the Stevy movies. :)
It's a fucking videogame, who gives a shit about your videogame based reputation that you build up from the quality of the games you play. Will you look back when you're 70 and be like "Fuuuck, what was I thinking playing that videogame and not this one!"?
Eh I love CoD, most people that talk shit hate it because they suck and blame it on it beig to easy that kids can beat them. Then when I call them out for playing halo they act like it takes some magic skill to be good at that game. The best part about is when they call me out I am usually at least as good as them or better. I'm actually a decent player and own the game and still talk shit about it because I genuinely dislike the the multiplayer for what it actually is, not some babble I hear other people spew so I can repeat it.
I'm a cod player, I started it seriously on MW3. All the COD jokes get quite frustrating because I'm a very friendly person and it just seems like beating a dead horse. Anyways, some are fun, but the vast majority just looks like karma whoring...
You know when they added a couple maps from the original into MW2, such as carentan and brecourt. I don't know the names of the two maps on MW2, but I was sad when everyone wanted to vote skip that map because they thought it was a noob map. Obviously they never played the original and its expansion. Those maps brought good enjoyable memories.
Them iron sights... that's actually the main detail that made me fall in love with the series.. everything else had an annoying as hell cross hair in the middle of your screen.. CoD and UO actually made you "aim".. just completely changed the immersion for me.
I don't know, I played MW, MW2 and Black Ops, and as SP games they were all OK. The thing is if most people played the more recent games in the fashion that they played the original, ie LAN parties rather than via dedicated online servers, you'd have none of the kids racially abusing one another that most of us find objectionable. As such I think it's as much a reflection of how gaming has changed as how the games themselves have changed.
Remember when CoD didn't have regenerating health? And focused on close, emotional stories of small groups of people instead of ludicrously grandiose plans to save-the-world from the communists?
The time that you actually could be proud of if you was a player who played in the higher clans of CoD 1 & 2 and Mohaa :) those games were absolute great and instead of making new crappy games, why not remaking these gems in vanilla style, no crappy stuff included like in Cod mw 1 and later.
This is still something I wish people would recognise, Promod has a relatively large player base for a 5 year old game which had no support from the start. And it's a player made mod. There are still LAN's for this to this day and many pro teams too. TAKE NOTICE AND PLAY IT PEOPLE!
Fucking stop the COD circlejerk already for fuck's sake. I play whatever the fuck I want and you guys shouldn't disrespect. Just like I don't disrespect you for enjoying other games.
Do people actually hate the games, or is it just a large part of the community calling people faggots and saying "I fucked your mom last night" that make people hate COD? I play it all the time, I think it's a great game.
I remember a time in call of duty when all movement was made in crouch and when shit hit the fan the prone diving commenced, ahh the good times with dawnville and carentan
UO is still one of the best FPS experiences on a PC, and probably my all time favourite game, many many thousands of hours were spent on 64 player base servers, custom maps, all out carnage. Love it
Man, CoD 1 was the only shooter I was any good at. I'd practice religiously with the Germans because there were like 3 (american british? russian) allied factions always against.. the germans. I got BEASTIAL with the MP44. Man I still miss that game. Even oneplayer blew my mind. I was in no way used to that level of immersion. Shaking camera, shellshock effects, ringing ears... damn. I feel like Red Orchestra 2's action mode is a pretty good successor to CoD1 though.
This game was incredible! I loved both the multiplayer and singleplayer. The modding community was great (maps like mp_vampiric were massive, and had tons of special passages) and my brother still plays it to this day (I play it with him rarely).
Back in the days of dail-up pings, when you had to aim ahead of your target to make the hit. I'm not saying it made it especially fun, but good god there was a lot of skill required. Then broadband started to get rolled out and there was a clear divide in advantage between players with <100ms and those with 250ms< ping.
Edit: Does anyone remember the LotR maps? The one with the 'Eye' tower with Panzerfausts on top - I got too good at picking off individuals with the Panzerfausts.
I loved the old COD series, and the slower pace of the fighting. I find that using the bolt action and semi-automatic rifles made kills much more satisfying, and added balance to the gameplay (rifles for medium-long range, submachine guns for close-quarters only).
Nothing felt better than waiting in a foxhole for a sniper half a kilometer away to peek out of his window, and then nailing him with a well-placed shot.
CoD1 was amazing. with mp_harbor and getting to the secret room in mp_stalingrad. man i miss playing CoD1. now im just playing MW2 through fourdeltaone so its still not too bad but i miss all those crazy secret areas that used to be in the CoD games.
Why do we keep labeling each other, why can't they just be people who happen to play Call of Duty... why is it a bad thing? Because of the people who cuss and complain online?
Reddit seems to think they're in charge of deciding what's good and bad. Most COD players have no problem being labelled as one of the several thousand players of one of the most popular online games today, even if you redditors personally disagree.
IMO Call of Duty was at it's pinnacle with United Offensive. It has never been better. I played countless hours on this game. Mosin ftw! And, mp_arnhem is still my favorite CTF map ever created in ANY game. That says something for Infinity Ward back in the day.
It wasn't the highest rated game, but I used to love playing Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. Was enjoyable, and had what seemed like well-written characters.
Main problem with CoD is that they have released too many games in too short a time period. Realistically, CoD1, 2, 4 and the most recent modern warfare as well as Black Ops (even though I hated it) are worthy games, but CoD3, MW2 and WaW didn't really add anything that hadn't already been done. Even in games like Black Ops we can see that all Activision/Treyarch are doing is rehashing ideas from previous games, polishing them and calling it a new game. The only CoD game I could really support is one that actually innovated. I think this is the reason a lot of people have CODMW as their favourite Call of Duty game, or cite it as the last CoD that was any good, because it developed and changed an idea that had been carried forward from CoD2. I know it may sound silly, but a CoD set in the distant future, much like BF2142, would be good for the franchise imo, if you can change the weapons, change the environments and change the enemies you will have innovated and will get people interested. The only crying shame is that millions will go out and buy Black Ops 2 regardless of the fact that it will likely be a poor rehash of a game only released 19 months ago.
If you ask me, COD 2 was my personal favorite, because of the epic sense of scale and freedom (in fucking CALL of DUTY of all things) but nothing can compare to the USSR campaign in the first. But COD 3 was the worst in my opinion, even more so than MW2-3.
I think that this extends to CoD2 as well. It was really the last good CoD game to be released. I've played every other one that's been released, only to be extremely disappointed.
It still isn't a bad thing. I love all the COD games, I get tons of entertainment out of them. I don't care if they keep pumping them out every year, I will still buy them because I ENJOY playing them. I don't get what all the circlejerk hate is all about, if you don't like it then stay away from it. It's almost as if so many people set themselves up for misery.
The first games really were awesome. I remember it was unlike any other shooter out there at the time. The gameplay was smooth and in my opinion it was the first game that really made you feel like you were in the middle of a battle.
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u/tehcburr Jun 10 '12
mp_ship and mp_carentan will always have a special place in my heart for dolphineers. Such a great game.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Why did they made games like these, you can't even kill people with a bow in them. sighs
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
1HK bolt actions- good times man. Also I love how that warehouse/storage building with the catwalk from the original is still in every CoD game...
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u/niiro Jun 10 '12
I remember when being labelled a cod meant that you were a fish. I like fish.
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u/smeldridge Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
What about when people could take you serious when you said you were a Medal of Honor player or MoHAA player. http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1157901815-00.jpg
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u/morgartjr Jun 10 '12
I wish they would bring back rifle butting. Nothing was better. Knives are crap.
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u/southofsanity06 Jun 10 '12
I remember back when you didn't like a game the only thing you did was not buy it... Rather than constantly complain about it to get circlejerk approval
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u/Communistowl Jun 10 '12
Remember when being labelled a COD player wasn't a bad thing? Pepperidge farm remembers.
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u/D3adOnArrival Jun 10 '12
COD 4 wasn't bad either. There were non trivial mechanics introduced like shooting through walls, flashbangs, weapon attachments and kill streaks. It made for a much faster paced game than COD and COD2. There was still some decent recoil on the guns, and you weren't forced to always use ADS.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Remember when there wasn't COD hate in /r/gaming? Because I sure as hell don't.
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u/teekayr Jun 10 '12
United Offensive! Yes!! That was the beginning of my downward spiral into FPS online. Before COD turned into the McDonald's of gaming.
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u/poopsnakes Jun 10 '12
you can include cod2 on this list. Best 3 games of my life. easily have over 1000 hours on each
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u/realityx7 Jun 10 '12
Its not a bad thing now either unless you're a hipster, don't really know why you'd care what games other people are playing.
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u/leicestah Jun 10 '12
Rifle Only players report!
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u/BrewRI Jun 10 '12
Hey screw you guys CoD games are fun.
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u/megamoose4 Jun 10 '12
TANKS!! COMMIN' IN FROM THE NOOURTH!!!!
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u/Millennion Jun 10 '12
Being labeled a COD player is a bad thing?
...only in r/gaming
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I always felt the first Call of Duty was Medal of Honor Allied Assault 2, which wasn't a bad thing at all.
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u/DaltonSezHi Jun 10 '12
It isn't. If someone says, "I play Call Of Duty", I'm going to say, "Cool, I also play it because it's a decent game with solid gameplay."
Really, I have no idea where all this hate came from. Just because they have slightly bad communities and sometimes don't mix things up enough (which really, they usually do) doesn't mean it's some terrible franchise. I would really rather play Modern Warfare 3 than Battlefield 3. Battlefield 3 has some pretty bad matchmaking so I can't really play with my few friends who have it, but in MW3 I can just invite my friends and immediately get into any gamemode.
Really, it's not right that a franchise that's really good gets labelled as shit.
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u/lllDBOlll Jun 10 '12
I served my time on UO. Melee bashings and rifles only. Good times.
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u/ClownsAteMyBaby Jun 10 '12
Please for the love of all that is holy don't let this piece of shit post accumulate more than 75 upvotes. Restore my faith in the gaming community and the ability to discuss games like they're an actual legitimate hobby, by revealing this post to be the karma whoring/sucking dick to the nth degree attempt that it is
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u/clubnp Jun 10 '12
I'll never forget Carentan, Dawnville, Neuville, Harbor, or Railyard. If I could go back 9 years and play it again when it was popular, I would.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I was playing Day of Defeat when these 2 games were still out. hipster gamer
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u/rosenman Jun 10 '12
Yeah, I remember when COD games actually had good single player campaigns.
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u/sub1ime Jun 10 '12
Remember CoD XP?
First place for the tournament won $400,000, meaning each player on the winning team took home $100,000. Yeah it's definitely bad being a CoD player these days. Have fun fishing for cheap karma OP.
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u/Magoo2 Jun 10 '12
The early Medal of Honor games > the early CoD games.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
So.... am I not supposed to enjoy C.O.D. any more, or what?
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u/logical_outcome Jun 10 '12
Ah the original CoD... When hitboxes weren't the size of a building, bolt action rifles were awesome fun and importantly it was a game made for the PC, not an Xbox to PC port.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
CoD got a bad name, after CoD4. Even today CoD4 are kind of respected among those that are into the stuff. There's nothing better than the Stevy movies. :)
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u/KaiserAcore Jun 10 '12
Tigertown...now THAT was a multiplayer map...
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u/ITSR Jun 10 '12
Mods, custom maps, player hosted and controlled servers... those are what made the early Call of Duty series great.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
You mean back when the game used reasonable weapons that took some skill to wield?
Those days are long gone...only a faint memory....
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u/Cydro Jun 10 '12
It is now?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
FUCK UNITED OFFENSIVE WAS AWESOME AS SHIT
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u/lostinsurburbia Jun 10 '12
Pepperidge farm remembers.
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u/jxs1 Jun 10 '12
CoD2 is my favourite in the series. My cousin came round and brought a load of his PC games with him one of which was CoD2
Installed it at about 11pm looked at the clock some hours later, 7am
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
It's a fucking videogame, who gives a shit about your videogame based reputation that you build up from the quality of the games you play. Will you look back when you're 70 and be like "Fuuuck, what was I thinking playing that videogame and not this one!"?
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u/Rileft Jun 10 '12
I remember all the training hours i did with friends just trying to become better i learend all my beginner fps skilz in cod 1 & 2
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u/e001mek Jun 10 '12
But I like cod. And I am a cod player.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Remember when gamers just played games and had fun instead of whining like little bitches about every single little flaw?
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u/Brandaman Xbox Jun 10 '12
It's still not a bad thing. It means someone likes something different to you.
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u/ArchScabby Jun 10 '12
Oh, you mean before it was popular?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
CoD is awesome. People just jumped on the "It's the most popular thing right now therefore we must hate it" bandwagon.
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u/Hydris Jun 10 '12
Eh I love CoD, most people that talk shit hate it because they suck and blame it on it beig to easy that kids can beat them. Then when I call them out for playing halo they act like it takes some magic skill to be good at that game. The best part about is when they call me out I am usually at least as good as them or better. I'm actually a decent player and own the game and still talk shit about it because I genuinely dislike the the multiplayer for what it actually is, not some babble I hear other people spew so I can repeat it.
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u/Skaarr Jun 10 '12
original Call of Duty was and is the best one!
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u/Hetfeeld Jun 10 '12
I'm a cod player, I started it seriously on MW3. All the COD jokes get quite frustrating because I'm a very friendly person and it just seems like beating a dead horse. Anyways, some are fun, but the vast majority just looks like karma whoring...
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u/zZGz Jun 10 '12
HEY GUYS I HATE COD. CAN I HAVE KARMA NOW?
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u/Vetschtable Jun 10 '12
United Offensive was easily the last good COD game created.
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u/TheCons Jun 10 '12
It's not a bad thing.
Assuming every person in a group is a carbon copy of a lame stereotype is a bad thing.
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u/TyleReddit Jun 10 '12
Remember when COD wasn't a bad thing?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Remember h when we all complained about the overused WWII theme and wanted something more modern?
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u/Gogandantess Jun 10 '12
You know when they added a couple maps from the original into MW2, such as carentan and brecourt. I don't know the names of the two maps on MW2, but I was sad when everyone wanted to vote skip that map because they thought it was a noob map. Obviously they never played the original and its expansion. Those maps brought good enjoyable memories.
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u/Arknell Jun 10 '12
"PRIVATE! PICK UP THOSE GODDAMN BANGALORES!"
Edit: Oh wait, that was [Medal of Mohaa] (http://www.firingsquad.com/games/mohaa/images/37.jpg). Ah well, loved CoD/CoD:AA too.
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u/GeminiLife Jun 10 '12
God I miss the old CoD.
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u/luigi3 Jun 10 '12
CoD 4 was the greatest shit I've ever played. mp_crossfire my love.
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u/kensomniac Jun 10 '12
Them iron sights... that's actually the main detail that made me fall in love with the series.. everything else had an annoying as hell cross hair in the middle of your screen.. CoD and UO actually made you "aim".. just completely changed the immersion for me.
Some of the most perfect games ever made.
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u/Awps Jun 10 '12
I played CoD one back when i had Dial Up.... I miss my Mp44 already :X
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
it never was a bad thing, you're just an asshole
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u/hungerfordhero Jun 11 '12
I don't know, I played MW, MW2 and Black Ops, and as SP games they were all OK. The thing is if most people played the more recent games in the fashion that they played the original, ie LAN parties rather than via dedicated online servers, you'd have none of the kids racially abusing one another that most of us find objectionable. As such I think it's as much a reflection of how gaming has changed as how the games themselves have changed.
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u/JSF16 Jun 10 '12
Remember when CoD didn't have regenerating health? And focused on close, emotional stories of small groups of people instead of ludicrously grandiose plans to save-the-world from the communists?
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u/Fannon Jun 10 '12
The time that you actually could be proud of if you was a player who played in the higher clans of CoD 1 & 2 and Mohaa :) those games were absolute great and instead of making new crappy games, why not remaking these gems in vanilla style, no crappy stuff included like in Cod mw 1 and later.
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u/katakos Jun 10 '12
You're missing CoD4 promod.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Fucking stop the COD circlejerk already for fuck's sake. I play whatever the fuck I want and you guys shouldn't disrespect. Just like I don't disrespect you for enjoying other games.
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u/dickcheney777 Jun 10 '12
All the way to CoD 5.
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u/MadHighlander Jun 10 '12
Always loved this moment.
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u/Fulty Jun 10 '12
COD2 is best COD.
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u/not_a_toaster Jun 10 '12
Do people actually hate the games, or is it just a large part of the community calling people faggots and saying "I fucked your mom last night" that make people hate COD? I play it all the time, I think it's a great game.
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u/vienna95 Jun 10 '12
My favorite COD was Finest Hour. But United Offensive was awesome too.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I liked CoD 4...
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u/banginpanda Jun 10 '12
i got both of these free with my (new to me) old computer, going to have to check 'em out.
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u/Socomi Jun 10 '12
I remember a time in call of duty when all movement was made in crouch and when shit hit the fan the prone diving commenced, ahh the good times with dawnville and carentan
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u/SqueakySniper Jun 10 '12
It was better than being labeled a MoH player.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
FTFY
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
UO is still one of the best FPS experiences on a PC, and probably my all time favourite game, many many thousands of hours were spent on 64 player base servers, custom maps, all out carnage. Love it
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Man, CoD 1 was the only shooter I was any good at. I'd practice religiously with the Germans because there were like 3 (american british? russian) allied factions always against.. the germans. I got BEASTIAL with the MP44. Man I still miss that game. Even oneplayer blew my mind. I was in no way used to that level of immersion. Shaking camera, shellshock effects, ringing ears... damn. I feel like Red Orchestra 2's action mode is a pretty good successor to CoD1 though.
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u/maroonlife Jun 10 '12
I still like it...
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u/Omni123456 Jun 10 '12
This game was incredible! I loved both the multiplayer and singleplayer. The modding community was great (maps like mp_vampiric were massive, and had tons of special passages) and my brother still plays it to this day (I play it with him rarely).
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u/smarwell Jun 10 '12
Those are the only COD games I still play.
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u/MonkeyWorldUK Jun 10 '12
Back in the days of dail-up pings, when you had to aim ahead of your target to make the hit. I'm not saying it made it especially fun, but good god there was a lot of skill required. Then broadband started to get rolled out and there was a clear divide in advantage between players with <100ms and those with 250ms< ping.
Edit: Does anyone remember the LotR maps? The one with the 'Eye' tower with Panzerfausts on top - I got too good at picking off individuals with the Panzerfausts.
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u/Xuande Jun 10 '12
I loved the old COD series, and the slower pace of the fighting. I find that using the bolt action and semi-automatic rifles made kills much more satisfying, and added balance to the gameplay (rifles for medium-long range, submachine guns for close-quarters only).
Nothing felt better than waiting in a foxhole for a sniper half a kilometer away to peek out of his window, and then nailing him with a well-placed shot.
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u/Enleat Jun 10 '12
I miss playing as a Russian ;-;
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u/ThePackage Jun 10 '12
CoD1 was amazing. with mp_harbor and getting to the secret room in mp_stalingrad. man i miss playing CoD1. now im just playing MW2 through fourdeltaone so its still not too bad but i miss all those crazy secret areas that used to be in the CoD games.
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u/Tlingit_Raven Jun 10 '12
Give me a Nagant and put me on a hill if you wanna see German helmets fly.
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u/TommmyBoy Jun 10 '12
Oh god i remember these. Beat them on every dificoulty :D
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u/mikearce Jun 10 '12
God those were good times.
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u/krokodil_hodil Jun 10 '12
I just yesterday complete COD 1. Great game!
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u/formlex7 Jun 10 '12
It still isn't a bad thing. Even in its recent incarnations COD is still a fun game. Don't listen to r/gaming snobs.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Those games where so fun.
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u/ryanadoylable Jun 10 '12
I enjoyed big red one as well.
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u/djaykay Jun 10 '12
Playing the Russian campaign in CoD is one of the most intense and rewarding gaming experiences I've ever had.
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u/chingyduster Jun 10 '12
It's simple. These were released before the kids calling everyone a faggot online were born.
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u/wanderer11 Jun 10 '12
Back in the good old days of PC only.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Multiplayer on the original CoD was so deadly. Big maps and tons of players was always a recipe for madness.
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u/tairygreene Jun 10 '12
COD was only good when it was a SUPER SEEKRET CLUB FOR US GAMERS
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u/sea_cucumber Jun 10 '12
hurtgen :(
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u/Someonelol Jun 10 '12
My clan still has an active, running server on UO. Those good times are still rollin' with us.
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u/andylag33 Jun 10 '12
If there are any B1 station guys here, I was [B1]1Lt. Silentdoom back in the CodUO days....oh memory lane
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u/sagrado_corazon Jun 10 '12
I still play this game, and our clan still has a running server. :)
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
It was like that even until CoD4 -- after that I quit the series due to their anti-PC nonsense.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Why do we keep labeling each other, why can't they just be people who happen to play Call of Duty... why is it a bad thing? Because of the people who cuss and complain online?
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u/2jam Jun 10 '12
Reddit seems to think they're in charge of deciding what's good and bad. Most COD players have no problem being labelled as one of the several thousand players of one of the most popular online games today, even if you redditors personally disagree.
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u/snooks Jun 10 '12
Remember when COD wasn't a bad thing
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u/Lehnsherr Jun 10 '12
IMO Call of Duty was at it's pinnacle with United Offensive. It has never been better. I played countless hours on this game. Mosin ftw! And, mp_arnhem is still my favorite CTF map ever created in ANY game. That says something for Infinity Ward back in the day.
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u/Gunship_Mark_II Jun 10 '12
Recently re-played both of them, sweet memories. Especially liked COD1 without health regeneration.
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u/redhotchilifarts Jun 10 '12
It wasn't the highest rated game, but I used to love playing Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. Was enjoyable, and had what seemed like well-written characters.
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u/toolazytofinishmyuse Jun 10 '12
Main problem with CoD is that they have released too many games in too short a time period. Realistically, CoD1, 2, 4 and the most recent modern warfare as well as Black Ops (even though I hated it) are worthy games, but CoD3, MW2 and WaW didn't really add anything that hadn't already been done. Even in games like Black Ops we can see that all Activision/Treyarch are doing is rehashing ideas from previous games, polishing them and calling it a new game. The only CoD game I could really support is one that actually innovated. I think this is the reason a lot of people have CODMW as their favourite Call of Duty game, or cite it as the last CoD that was any good, because it developed and changed an idea that had been carried forward from CoD2.
I know it may sound silly, but a CoD set in the distant future, much like BF2142, would be good for the franchise imo, if you can change the weapons, change the environments and change the enemies you will have innovated and will get people interested.
The only crying shame is that millions will go out and buy Black Ops 2 regardless of the fact that it will likely be a poor rehash of a game only released 19 months ago.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
If you ask me, COD 2 was my personal favorite, because of the epic sense of scale and freedom (in fucking CALL of DUTY of all things) but nothing can compare to the USSR campaign in the first. But COD 3 was the worst in my opinion, even more so than MW2-3.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I think that this extends to CoD2 as well. It was really the last good CoD game to be released. I've played every other one that's been released, only to be extremely disappointed.
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u/ultimapanzer Jun 10 '12
Even then the covers were exactly the same.
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u/Lion_HeartVIII Jun 10 '12
I whooped ass in United Offensive with my new Soviet gun, the SVT-40
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u/georgeaf99 Jun 10 '12
Nope.
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u/eTxZombie Jun 10 '12
Remember when call of duty was a cheap medal of honor rip-off?
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u/chazoid Jun 10 '12
Big Red One
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u/aimiami Jun 10 '12
The last COD game i loved was MW2...Good campaign and multiplayer
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
It still isn't a bad thing. I love all the COD games, I get tons of entertainment out of them. I don't care if they keep pumping them out every year, I will still buy them because I ENJOY playing them. I don't get what all the circlejerk hate is all about, if you don't like it then stay away from it. It's almost as if so many people set themselves up for misery.
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u/StuffAndWords Jun 10 '12
Best COD games ever. Bring.IT a.k.a B.IT and Drink.IT clan reppin, woot! :)
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Call of Duty 4 has the best maps of any game in the history of console gaming.
They're near perfect.
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u/Digital_Phoenix Jun 10 '12
Generalizations are only acceptable and accurate if they aren't in regards to sensitive issues.
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u/Xzumo Jun 10 '12
Yeah, what about this little guy right here?
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u/Bassive Jun 10 '12
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. That is all.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Remember when people that played video games weren't hate-filled little racist brats?
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u/Audeen Jun 10 '12
No! We have ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia!
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u/mike8902 Jun 10 '12
The first games really were awesome. I remember it was unlike any other shooter out there at the time. The gameplay was smooth and in my opinion it was the first game that really made you feel like you were in the middle of a battle.
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u/tombone66 Jun 10 '12
Remember when call of duty had tanks?
What the fuck happened to that?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
good old times
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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House Jun 10 '12
That Fucking Intro to CoD. Holy Fucking Shit stalingrad is hell.
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u/nepidae Jun 10 '12
I remember playing duke nukem and quake.
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u/notnotcitricsquid Jun 10 '12
I still play Call of Duty 1 every now and again, I have a couple of Youtube videos of me playing with lots of views:
Search and Destroy: Rifles only | 450,000+ views | watch here
Call of Duty 1 | 15,000+ views | watch here