So Call of Duty Black Ops has been out for a while now.. some people love it and some people hate it..
Me .. ? I'm on the fence so to speak .. why..?
I don't know so maybe writing it down in Blog form may help .. and it may not either.
So Black ops was released back In November 2010 .. I was one of those fools that headed out at the ungodly hour of 10 pm at night to try and secure a copy.
Me and Friend make our way to the local excuse that is the Supermarket to stand in line.. we turn up and there is a fair few people in there already about 70 or so and this is at 11pm. By 12am its heaving to about 200 + so we manage to bag a copy and head home with the game Ive been waiting for what feels like a day and an age and Install to the HD ..
It boots up ..so far so good.. I head online ..Nuketown is up 1st.. and the obvious set ups for nOObs is there so I pick the SMG class and proceed to get my ass handed to me.. I think to myself I cannot play this like MW2 so take it slow and do better and laugh at the people who choose the sniper class STILL trying to quickscope .. I chuckle to myself FUCK YOU BIATCHES .. No scoping is dead..
Anyway I keep playing getting used to the mechanics but it just doesn't feel right or look right..is it because of the "Solid" more organic mechanics of MW2 still..the Graphics of MW2 looking good still to this day.
Either way I plod on But the cracks start to show after a week or so ..Horrendous lag.. the maps not being all that great .. Ballistic knife being terrible due to some weird and down right game robbing hit detection and that bastard stuttering this outing suffers from on every occasion along with some weird glitches.. and don't get me started on the sound !
Many a time I have seen a target in the distance and try to track them through ADS for them to just jump about 10 meters in the opposite direction .. or even worse disappear even though there is nothing for them to hide behind etc.
Well seeing as this has turned into a rant of sorts ..lets focus on the positives.. if you can call them that
First up Class selection .. not sure what to think in all honesty as it doeslet you choose what you want but cosmetic stuff like face paint and fancy red dots for you scope just don't cut it really for me along ..although Shotguns as a primary now is a good move.
I was looking forward to hardcore free for all but turned out to be pile of shite .. so CORE modes are the norm for me if i am ever to play .
I decided to trade it at the back end of December due to the frustrations pointed out and didn't look back ..then I seen my friends playing and felt a urge to play it again all the time but they seen the light as well in a sense and have almost gave up on it .. but they do still play now and again but feel the same frustrations as myself and the patches IMO don't seem to have done much except nerf a few guns.
Sure I was supposed to mention positives but not sure there is ..
I think in a sense it does win as I do feel the urge to want to play it but when I do after borrowing a copy ..I just feel all the old frustrations come back and don't want too and then it fails...and comes the vicious circle of wanting to play because everyone else is and then the FAIL that the game is kicks in ..and so on and so on .
Hopefully MW3 if it is actually a reality ..may restore my faith in the COD franchise but as such Black Ops has killed it ..
*** UPDATE***
Earlier today a friend brought the new map packs around .. and in all honesty for 1200 MS points and with 4 maps actually being playable as I'm not a zombie fan or ever been .. after a good play-through it just brought more frustration yet again and in all honesty glad I didn't shell out for them.. as well as the game again.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I agree with what you've said, I was bored to tears of Black Ops within a couple of weeks, to be honest I think the whole franchise has been on a downward spiral since CoD4.
Maybe MW3 will restore some faith, I just can't see it happening, it seems too easy to just release the same old game year in year out, so long as it's got the Call of Duty name it'll still sell by the truckload. Big shame really.
I wasn't planning on getting BO but a lot of my friends were, and after I got rid of MW2 (since I felt it was a really poor game that was just an imitation of CoD4) I had pretty just been playing video-games online solo for a few months, so I thought I'd go for it. The only thing I really enjoyed was zombies though, and even then it can get a tad boring after a while even though the two maps in the game are pretty good and different.
It just wasn't that fun for me. For once I only played it online when I had friends online, I never really had any desire to play it alone, and lots of others since have stopped playing as have I. I'm waiting for my PS3 to return (YLOD, with BO stuck in it, lol) so I can sell it. It's an alright game, but I think when you've played CoD4 and MW2 it's more of a "been there, done that" thing.
I played the new maps today after a friend brought them around and seriously glad I did not pay for them.. not sure if its me but they do seem quite shite and I also experienced yet again ridiculous lag.
So frustration rears its ugly head yet again..
It's..okay Black Opps. Definatly over hyped and personally speaking I've found a couple glitches in thegame for one if you beast it on hardend or veteran you don't get all the trophies..really pain in the ass POS