Will CoD: Ghosts Bring People Back to the Franchise?

[RooksBailey]

^I don't know, I've seen a few Ghosts commercials on during football games here in the US.

I saw maybe three ad for Ghosts in the past three weeks (I'm in NY).  With previous releases, such as BlOps 2, I couldn't get away from the ads, particularly on Spike, USA, and Adult Swim.  This time almost nada.  But, then again, my TV time is also at a all time low.   ;D

And I have only dabbled in CoD games on and off, not a real hardcore fan. I liked what I read about and saw.

Not hardcore either.  I just find them real fun, particularly because of the short match times.

The price of 59.99 is too steep for me for a shooter though.

I am starting to feel that way with most games.  Since Steam spoiled me with their mega-sales, I am finding it harder and harder to pay $60 for anything (and I am still kicking myself for spending $60 on Rome 2  ::) ).

Borderlands 2 GotY is $60 too, but GameFly sent me a coupon for 25% off a Steam key, so it would only be $45.  I can live with that seeing all the DLC you get with it.   8)

[Jarhead0331]

BF4 is is the better game so far in my opinion....at least from the SP perspective.  The first 10 minutes of COD were really impressive, but it has been totally downhill since.  Very disappointed. 

I hope the developers die in a cancer fire. Shame on them.

[Toonces]

Damn, I really like the premise of this game.

I believe I'll just hold out a bit, you know?   8)

[Jarhead0331]

Damn, I really like the premise of this game.

I believe I'll just hold out a bit, you know?   8)

The space mission was really cool, and it was the trailer and screenshots that got me to make the purchase.  Unfortunately, the mission only lasts 2 minutes and the rest of the campaign so far has totally sucked.  I hate COD. They really screwed up a great franchise.

[Gusington]

Space mission...sounds very interesting. Too bad it's 2 minutes.

[jomni]

BF4 is is the better game so far in my opinion....at least from the SP perspective.  The first 10 minutes of COD were really impressive, but it has been totally downhill since.  Very disappointed. 

I hope the developers die in a cancer fire. Shame on them.

Some irony there given that BF franchise has always been MP focused. Campaign must be really bad for you guys.

[RooksBailey]

BF4 is is the better game so far in my opinion....at least from the SP perspective.  The first 10 minutes of COD were really impressive, but it has been totally downhill since.  Very disappointed. 

I hope the developers die in a cancer fire. Shame on them.

Wow, that bad, huh?  Well, that was $60 I saved. 

What is going on with our beloved hobby.... :'(

[RooksBailey]

Ouch!

[Yskonyn]

Lol, if you find the BF4 campaign better than the new CoD one then I have no doubt in my mind the CoD must be utter crap, cause I think the BF4 one is too.

The campaign in BF4 tries to tell a cool story, but it fails in keeping things coherent. It feels like the action scene directors had all kinds of cool ideas (which most scenes are, in fact), but they were also tasked with writing the story instead of an author.
The campaign jumps to and fro, never really explaining in a good way why anything happens now, here or anyway?
I hate the campaign. It's a collection of scenes. Not a story.

I have no urge to try the new CoD at all. SP was the only thing I would try the game for because in the past the SP campaigns in that franchise have been pretty strong.
Calling the CoD one now worse then BF4 makes my eyebrows rise. :D

The release of BF4 is nowhere near as rocky as the internet makes you believe. Indeed, there is an annoying sound issue, server instability was an issue and client crashes are fairly common. The servers have become much more stable as we speak (in fact, since yersterday afternoon GMT I havent had connectivity issues anymore at all) and the game is certainly playable and when it works it works well and is the tried and true BF awesomeness. Not cheap at all.
BF3 had similar growing pains. It'll be sorted soon and the whining disapears as quickly as it came.

[Jarhead0331]

Yes...by saying BF4 has a better SP campaign, please don't misconstrue my message to mean that the BF4 campaign is good. It definitely sucks too. But the SP action is better in BF than it is in COD.

[Skoop]

I wouldn't even play the bf4 sp campaign, but you get a couple decent guns to use in MP for completing it.  I'm running through it on easy to unlock them, something to to do on my lunch hour at work.

[LongBlade]

Yes...by saying BF4 has a better SP campaign, please don't misconstrue my message to mean that the BF4 campaign is good. It definitely sucks too. But the SP action is better in BF than it is in COD.

Are either of the MP games in either BF4 or COD Ghosts worth getting for a team server?

[Skoop]

^ BF 4 MP rocks, it's definitely the better game.  It has COD style game modes like domination or TDM.  It has different modes like Rush or Obliteration that COD doesn't have.  Lets not forget the main franchise mode of conquest or large conquest with all kinds of combined arms vehicles to use.  With BF4 on the market, you really have to be an fps fan or COD fan to play Ghosts.  If you were thinking of setting up a grogheads BF4 server, I would play on it....you could even make it a hardcore server if you feel BF4 is too much run and gun.

[LongBlade]

you could even make it a hardcore server if you feel BF4 is too much run and gun.

That would be a given  8)