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[oconnomiyaki]

This OT is amazing. Hope people can take a joke.

I'm so pumped for this game and I laughed my ass off at the OT.

They better not kill Riley, though. I'll be so pissed.

 

[Zalman]

holy shit this is the best OT ever

and I don't even like COD.

 

[TacticalFox88]

Iwanttoseethereceipts.gif

*Raises hand*.

Some People Just Want Campaign
“Who plays these games for single player?” is the common war cry when games like Medal Of Honor: Warfighter, Homefront and so on limp past review stage with less than impressive scores. But the fact is, many people do, for different reasons.

The most obvious one is lack of internet. This doesn’t necessarily mean a complete absence of internet (although this can also be a problem) but rather, internet that’s fast enough to sustain Call Of Duty’s multiplayer to levels where you won’t be screaming at your TV with rage.

It’s especially true for those just over 18, where they’re stuck using internet at uni or internet in shared accommodation. It’s not easy playing anything online when you have one room-mate on Netflix, another on Guild Wars 2 and yet another downloading South Park season 8.

The ultra-competitive environment that boils over into hostility also puts potential players off, as they’re either put off by the abuse dribbling down their headsets or the quick kill nature that sees new players endlessly dying over and over again until they can get a handle on how to play.

So the campaign still has a lot of appeal for those, plus we’d imagine the majority of players buy Call Of Duty for both single player and multiplayer.

But as a final point, consider this. Call Of Duty: Black Ops sold 11.66 million to date. Now if only 10% of Call Of Duty players pick it up for campaign mode – and going by anecdotal evidence, that figure feels quite low – that means Activision is missing out on 1.1 million sales.

So again, would Activision really consider making its series multiplayer only and miss out on those sales? It’s highly unlikely.

According to Treyarch design director David Vonderhaar, every person who plays this year's Call of Duty: Black Ops II should log time in the game's multiplayer mode. In an interview with Activision's One of Swords blog, Vonderhaar said the game's updated Combat Training mode was developed as a means to bring more players into the virtual battlefield.


Treyarch wants Call of Duty's multiplayer ranks to rise.
“As popular as [Call of Duty] is, there are a lot of people who don’t play [multiplayer],” Vonderhaar said. “And quite frankly, this bugs the sh** out of us. They should all play [multiplayer]. And Combat Training helps us get there.”

http://www.nowgamer.com/features/1697940/why_call_of_duty_will_never_be_multiplayer_only.html

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/al...-play-multiplayer-says-designer/1100-6397290/

So, yeah, they're low-balling that figure. It's more close to about 1/3rd of every copy of COD sold never goes online.

 

[J@hranimo]

Holy crap

The OT

Bravo. Almost made me care about the game too haha.

 

[jaydogg691]

This OT makes me want to play Ghost.

Well done.

 

[weekend_warrior]

A terrible, yet silently brilliant OT.

I want nothing to do with this game.

 

[Archpath1]

Legendary OT soo guud
Can't wait to see this shit go down
100 pages incoming

 

[Booshka]

No.



You play as the dog in the end.

It's like the last short in V/H/S 2 where you are in First Person Dog Mode.

 

[Amauri14]

Great OT OP

EDIT:
I enjoy it even more than will ever enjoy a COD game.
(Although 4 and four-two [MW2] campaigns were really good)

 

[Artemisia]

help

 

[rrs]

Yet another reply of the OT being the best thing ever. Sadly, I don't feel like spending 60 bucks on CoD.

 

[NullPointer]

After the events of Call of duty 4 where the nuke went off in a middle eastern country, captain price and Soap Mctavish were Oscar Mike and shot the Arab first name Russian Last name british accent bad guy

I cracked up from the very first sentence, and it only gets better from there.

Hot fucking damn this OT is a work of art. Thank you

 

[CrackPebbles]

Reading the OT is better than playing the game.

 

[dreamfall]

Baha, this OT is so glorious!

 

[Phreak47]

The dopey pic of Eli Manning got me. Heh.

 

[HolyFridge]

The maps are waaaay to big for 6v6.

 

[Koodo]

The OT.

I'm yelling.

 

[nib95]

It's a tiny, tiny bit better than BF3. But with worse characters. Irish is like... the worst character ever, just ugh. Again, makes CoD characters look like they were written by Tolstoy.

This is somewhat amusing to me. Didn't they actually bring in relatively esteemed hollywood writing talent for the characters and story? Lol.

 

[antitrop]

When is the review embargo up?

 

[shungokusatsu]

When is the review embargo up?

Midnight on release day for all platforms sans xbone.

 

[Dukey]

I just love that the banner was made at sparklee.com and he didnt bother removing the text.

Midnight on release day for all platforms sans xbone.

Do we know why Microsoft is hiding review scores for their new console?

 

[Dysun]

legendary op

 

[brokenbeans]

The maps are waaaay to big for 6v6.

Are they really?

That would be amazing!

 

[shungokusatsu]

I just love that the banner was made at sparklee.com and he didnt bother removing the text.



Do we know why Microsoft is hiding review scores for their new console?

720p.

 

[Derpcrawler]

Man, that OP. I laughed hard.

 

[plasmasd]

Dog Calls: Ghost Duty OP beautiful work of art for wonderfully deserved game.

 

[Hesemonni]

I was cracking at OT, but Fallout 3 OT did it for me

 

[NullPointer]

Do we know why Microsoft is hiding review scores for their new console?

When you get right down to it do review scores even mean anything? Maybe for hardcore forum console warriors with their microscopes, but for everybody else?

Whats the difference really?

Its only a single digit difference between a review score of a 4 and a 10, so the difference is barely distinguishable.

 

[Teknoman]

Ok I really want to try the chain saw.

 

[Volotaire]

Great OT OP.

 

[Toa TAK]

This OP owns MGS4's.

Spoiler

Probably.

This will be my first game next gen on the One (sad, really). But as I'm busy with AC and Burial at Sea is out next week, I'll be plenty busy.

 

[yellow submarine]

Awesome OT. I only clicked on it because of the youtube link in the title, otherwise there's no way I would have, and I would have missed out on the brutally honest & funny OT. Maybe there should be something added to the title so people do not miss out on it.

This is the gold standard of OTs for me from here on out. Well done!

 

[I H8 Memes]

This is only the second best Call of Duty OT I've ever seen on NeoGAF. Good try though.

 

[XAL]

Much OT. So humor. Dodge duty. Wow.

 

[Barzul]

This OT is so good.

 

[Lulubop]

Any areas unlocking early on steam?

 

[TheFatMan]

Even though I'm still going to buy CoD: Ghosts, that OT was priceless.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Seriously, just spoil the doge ending. My monies are on the dog being a terrorist in disguise and you have to kill it in epic QTE showdown.

 

[I H8 Memes]

Seriously, just spoil the doge ending. My monies are on the dog being a terrorist in disguise and you have to kill it in epic QTE showdown.

The dog was dead the whole time

COD:GHOSTS

 

[Plasmid]

This is the weirdest OT.

gettin this tuesday. Bf4 crashed my xbox too much

 

[Cramoss]

I don't know why I laughed so hard at the multiplayer banner image.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Seriously, just spoil the doge ending. My monies are on the dog being a terrorist in disguise and you have to kill it in epic QTE showdown.

you find out your dead son's mind is transplanted into the dog.

 

[Mask]

That OT is a thing of beauty.

I may have to pick this up for the PS4 later down the line.

 

[Intheflorsh]

"Compelling yet viscerally intuitive"

Fantastic OT, I think most of this thread is just going to be people complimenting it.

 

[Night Angel]

Off topic: am I weird for loving that the shibe thing is spreading? I know it'll get old eventually, but for now it cracks me up. So humor, much doge, very wow, etc.

It'll be tough for the game to live up to this OT, that's for sure.

 

[makingmusic476]

This OP has me cracking up laughing. If it wasn't for the YouTube link in the title confusing the hell out of me, I never would've clicked it.

 

[MaxwellGT2000]

Literally the best OT I have seen on GAF, good job, the dog is killing me, I love the Treyarch CoD games but I love the jokes at CoD's expense too and this is just full of legendary ones.

 

[Mascot]

Great way to start the day, by laughing my ass off.

Then I remembered: my copy has been dispatched.

 

[BeekleMatter]

The hover hand in the OP has me absolutey dying, my god.

 

[Lé Blade Runner]

Great OT, man! I was stupid enough to pre-order this game even though I'm not that excited about it. Ah well. The call of Call of Duty is hard to ignore.