2. Call Of Duty
Infinity WardIn fairness, there are a large portion of casual gamers who will unashamedly admit their love for the Call of Duty franchise: these are primarily the sorts of players who only buy CoD every year, spend 3 hours per day playing it, and hit Prestige 10 before you even managed to cross it once. To gamers who play a healthy, eclectic mix of titles per year, CoD is something of a dirty word, a symbol for the medium's creative stagnation, where churning out similar fare year after year is not just acceptable but tremendously successful, helping CoD to be one of the highest-selling video game franchises of all time. As much as we whine about the series' lack of innovation, though, how many of us still bought a copy of Ghosts last November, hoping that the next-gen leap might've resulted in a distinctly different experience? And with how visually impressive the upcoming Advanced Warfare looks, how many of us will end up buying it on release? The thing about CoD is that though it in many ways represents what's wrong with the gaming industry, and the single-player campaigns are for the most part utterly useless, the online play is ridiculously addictive, and it's something you can dependably guarantee most of your buddies will also end up buying, so you'll always have someone to play with. CoD games aren't too far away from the aforementioned "mindless mayhem" titles we mentioned earlier: they deliver basic thrills and have kept us glued to our consoles for hundreds of hours over the years, even as we spend each passing year decrying the latest installment.