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My Dad the Casual Gamer - When Call of Duty Is King

Sean Halliday of Gamer Euphoria writes:

''You know those games that are so generic, so dull and one-note? Well, my father loves them. I’ve tried many times to introduce quality games to him that go beyond just shooting nameless enemies. I gave him Journey. His verdict? “It’s like a boring dog walk without the dog.” I tried to push forward the likes of Dark Souls, Dishonored, and Catherine, but he merely laughed them out of the park. Every time I try to expand his video game horizons, he ends up narrowing them.''

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n4gusername3728d ago

Sounds like his dad should be the blogger. Rating games based on his enjoyment, not riding the media wave or which system it is on.

GamerEuphoria3728d ago

Funny you should say that, I've tried multiple times to get him to review a bunch of stuff, but his interest in anything but FPS is pretty limited lol

Sidewinder-3728d ago

My Dad used to game on the Mega Drive. Sonic, Road Rash, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, that kinda thing.

When we got a PC it was all C&C, Dark Reign, and Total Annihilation. Between that were fixations on some Infinity engine games like Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dale. Finally, Dad got hooked on the Cossacks games pre-Cossacks 2.

He was pretty much stuck on Cossacks because...I don't have a clue. He would just never expand beyond that, and was still playing it well into 2007.

Every game that I played on the same rig was "rubbish" and accused of causing Cossacks to crash. haha.

It was only on the off chance I inquired in 2007, "Would you like to have a go of WoW?" I myself had only been playing it for a few months and was 'hooked' myself. He struggled with the controlls, but he definitely got a sense of something new. He got a taste of a NEW game.

Wasn't untill after Lich King, he started playing himself. He now plays it a lot. He's WAY better than I ever managed to get.

I got my Dad hooked on WoW.

:'(

GamerEuphoria3728d ago

I've met a lot of family's who play WoW, it's a pretty amazing concept to see a family spend time together in that way

Gamer-403728d ago (Edited 3728d ago )

I like CoD series, not all. But very cool military FPS.
Entertainer, and this essence of a video game. Casual Game? Yes, maybe. But their days already little the true hardcore games, DS 1-2, and The Witcher series.

Many of his idiotic opinions though absolutely i don't care, and more million players. That's the point.
New CoD (2014) only on next-gen, it'll be fun, and 100% successful. Let for who he hates it not buy it. That's it.

But the writing of many spiteful men against CoD in all years, already very boring, and uses nothing. Stupid, because it is not noticed that this is irrelevant. Many million players like it CoD series.

Master-H3728d ago

And this kids, is what CoD does to the brain..

Gamer-403728d ago

My friend, i under the long years not only CoD I played with a series, and not I like this only.
Entertaining military FPS is a video game, this essence for me.

The Witcher series my other favourite game. We are not alike, and our taste different. They develop a game because of this in more styles.

This very simple, and somewhere everybody counts as a child, is playing video game.

SageShinigami3728d ago (Edited 3728d ago )

I keep saying CoD doesn't just sell to a bunch of people that hate it. People buy the series because they like it, for the most part. If you DON'T like it, the only thing you can do is buy something else. No company has ever listened to anything except sales, and if they did they went broke.

And no, I don't like CoD. I don't even like FPS. So I just buy the stuff I DO like.

Gamer-403728d ago

I agree, you're right. This is a good player mentality.

ShaunCameron3728d ago

And that's all there is to it. People buy what they like and move on from there.

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All Call of Duty Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Call of Duty has to be the most recognizable franchise on the planet. They didn’t get that way by only making a handful of games.

COD has a long and storied career. Launching as a PC WW2 first-person shooter, Call of Duty has gone through numerous makeovers and been on just about every system. The series has gone through some serious highs and tragic lows. I’ll be looking at each Call of Duty game, the good the bad, and the ugly."

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UnSelf840d ago

Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking

Minimoth840d ago

Yeah, it's close to the bottom. There are a couple of worse ones. Infinite Warfare definitely deserves its place.

KyRo840d ago

There's a number a lot worse than Vangaurd. It's also a lot better than that car crash Treyarch released before it.

XbladeTeddy840d ago

World at War is my favourite. Didn't know the N-Gage had a Call of Duty.

MadLad839d ago

Same for me.
I was never huge into Call of Duty, but I sunk a lot of time into WaW.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer are on point. Wouldn't mind a remaster.

I quit on CoD for a long while. Though I'm the odd man out that actually really enjoyed the campaign for WWII, being I got it through Humble monthly way back when.

TheLigX840d ago

I really enjoyed the Infinite campaign. Multiplayer... not so much.

Yppupdam840d ago

I agree, The Infinite campaign feels more like it's own thing that they slapped the CoD name on. If it stood on it's own, (sans the CoD name) I think it could have been it's own scifi franchise. And a damn good looking game, to boot. I never bothered to play the multiplayer.

victorMaje840d ago

MW 2019 apart from the desastrous file sizes is way better than AW.

MadLad839d ago

That was one I grabbed for Playstation because it pretty much just came out during the Redbox purge of videogames, and I got it for dirt cheap.

It was great coming home to an update every night, and watching one game eat up almost half my console's memory.

Amplitude840d ago (Edited 840d ago )

Will get disagrees but Infinite Warfare campaign was really good. Decent story, set pieces were amazing and if it didn't have the CoD game on it I'm sure people would have been more into it. Advanced Warfare was alright too. Titanfall 2 was just 1000 times better than both but I enjoyed them for their campaigns. I literally barely gaf about the story I'm in it for the set pieces and 5 hours of being stoned watching cool nonsense happen if I'm in the mood to play a CoD campaign. If I'm looking for a deep plot I'm gonna go somewhere else.
Ghosts was the worst story-wise though lol that cliffhanger ending was so bs.

Also MW 2019 was sick and is one of the best CoD games in yeeeears not sure why it's so low on this dude's list. Campaign was great, multiplayer was great and Warzone was fun for a while. Over it now but shrugs.

Beat the Vanguard campaign too but I can't even remember a single thing about it other than that it felt like it was 45 minutes long. Might be the most forgettable thing I've ever played lol just fully erased from my brain

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Call of Duty Multiplayer This Decade Ranked (2010-2019)

Call of Duty multiplayer ranked from worst to best! 2019 is coming to a close and MP1st ranks the best COD multiplayer games this decade.

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Ray Tracing in Monster Hunter World, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Watch_Dogs 2, COD: Ghosts & more

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members Benchmark PC Tech, Jose cangrejo, WillTalksTech, Zetman and MissinInAction have published some videos, showing Monster Hunter World, Black Mesa Xen, Watch_Dogs 2, Call of Duty Ghosts, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, The Sinking City, Remember Me, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Dishonored 2 with the ray tracing/path tracing effects that Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod introduces."

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Pyroxfaglover1801d ago

Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine

MarkyMark891801d ago (Edited 1801d ago )

Agree, but this gives me hope that one day Ray Tracing can be a software based feature and not require some type of proprietary hardware to achieve. Software will always outpace Hardware so it could happen, but I feel like its going to take a lot more time to achieve the same level that RTX has already shown glimpses of so far. Really just waiting for Cyberpunk to see if RTX is actually something viable. I think if anybody can truly showcase RTX Features it would be Projekt Red.

zeal0us1801d ago

Too bad it doesn't make Mankind Divided a better game.

starchild1801d ago

It doesn't need to, the game was already fantastic, imo.

zeal0us1800d ago

Human Revolution was a better game and not to mention longer.

isarai1801d ago

Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"