First of all, I love call of duty - or rather I loved it a long time ago before Black Ops. This is just how I feel. You can’t hate it or love it; even hate me or love me - though I’ll just put it out there, that i’m good at giving some luvin. But seriously, I don’t hate the series; though I can’t deny that it has changed from the series I played as a kid. It has become, I believe, the best selling franchise in the history of gaming. Engineered a new genre I dub, Shooter-RPG, and has inspired numerous other contenders and imitators - and caused a lot of other already established series to re-evaluate their design. It’s a good game too. Yes, I enjoy it, though admittedly not as much as my college years - though i’m going back to college so i guess I can’t say that. [Okay, i’m going back to college so I will separate my timelines so that there will be no confusion for future reference. My gaming era’s will be further dubbed: Genesis (my introduction to games; Around the time when the N64 was invented {not actually the Sega Genesis era or the Bible introduction, its just a title i’m using}), Classical (Playstation and Nintendo strong years, Dreamcast is invented) Big Three (Gamecube, Ps2, and Xbox are the big consoles, final years of middle school, label computer nerd in middle school) “When I went to Cass” ( Highschool, Ps3 and XBOX 360 competing, Nintendo “revolution” is rumored) College I ( I own all three major consoles for the first time, College starts, I begin to get into hand held games, Unbuntu begins its corruption) Army Exodus ( I don’t know what happened in these 2 to 2 1/2 years, I know nothing, apparently Call of Duty becomes really fucking popular) College II (Going back to school, I refuse to play Xbox now and disown the system, The Beginning of The End as I believe, current era of my video game life, :))

Now, I know that was long and maybe a little unnecessary, but I don’t really care. Anyway, Call of Duty apparently became really popular while i was away because it had two spin of series and has not returned to the main series - as far as I know. I’m just curious as to how it happened, because I remember a time, years ago, when i could have sworn I was the only person I knew who played Call of Duty games. Regardless, I see now that call of duty is a different breed than the one I used to know (Gotye song has started playing in my head now, dammit). It’s a Online Shooter-RPG and a Super Series. It’s actually reminiscent of sports games in its presentation, updates and often it gets an installation. Now that’s fine and dandy but here’s the problem. Sports games update often and their prices general fall down hill very quickly. With so much of the same content and minor tweaks they are their own worst enemies for their price drops. However, Call of Duty seems to not suffer this fate. Perhaps it is because the series is still young, compared to the sports genre but I’m willing to take the worst case scenario - Call of Duty has become the beginning of the end.

So much of the same content, recycled and with so many imitators arising, these games have begun to outshine and over shadow other less similar games. Not only that, other games have taken to the same format. Same game, with less quality/innovation. Now before people get pissed off, i’m aware that this has existed before call of duty, in other games and forms. But I feel this game has taken it to another level, had has proved that it works and they can pass off on it. So much so that other developers are now giving this treatment a shock. Also, the releasing of games with almost half content in DLC (or the Capcom effect as I like to call it) only adds to the problem. Maybe its because the quality of games today can not be delivered in the time demanded - I don’t know. But I feel it’s wrong. You don’t have to agree with me, I’m just putting it out there - that’s how i feel. All of the lack of innovation, out shinning of new content, acceptance of lower quality products and general disregard of being a competitive industry in favor for being the dominant series/console/supporter/publisher whatever combined with the state of the economy will culminate in what I believe to be the crash of the video game industry - more devastating than the first one. Yeah, maybe I’m wrong, but maybe i’m right? It’s just what I think, but I believe it at least has some basis. And at last, i’m not really blaming the entirety on Call of Duty. I just feel like it took me to take a hard look at a franchise I used to love as a kid and realize that things are not the same as they used to be. Which is okay because things change and change is good. Right?  So… fucking do something new, Call of Duty. 

~fINAL