2. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
The worst way to show your disdain for a series is to actually buy it, yet this is what I do every time a new Call of Duty is released. My fingers are controlled by some other worldly being as they click onto steam and purchase the game on the day of release, my mind becomes numb after I plough through the single player, my fingers switch over the to the multiplayer and ears ring from all the abuse I get. If you sit in one spot with a sniper rifle you're accused of being a camper, if you run around the map hunting people you're accused of being a "noob", you just can't win. After a few matches I exit out of the game and sit there, guilt ridden as I think of all the things I could've bought with the money I'd wasted. What makes me angry about the Call of Duty series isn't just that they're good awful games but that they're not different. Sport games can be forgiven, albeit grudgingly, as you can't exactly improve a football game. However with Call of Duty there's just so much more that can be done with a FPS series, especially with the money they make off the series. Yet here we are, year after year, subjected to a game that never changes bar having new maps and guns added. What's even more insulting is that these games blow every other game out of the water, every year they make more than any other game, sometimes making more in one day than other games have ever made. The fans make the game even worse, claiming that the Call of Duty series is outstanding and no other game or series comes close. The fans can be forgiven, no matter what they've said about my mother, because they're teenagers who know no better. They didn't grow up playing any other sort of games, they didn't grow up playing in park with their friends over the summer; CoD was thrust upon them. What can't be forgiven though are the major article writers who claim the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was a "good example of how to evolve an annualized franchise" as commented by Anthony Gallegos, IGN's editor. If he means Activision success in milking an appalling game for every penny then yes, he's right. If, however, he's talking about how the games become increasingly better each year than the language I'd like to use to describe my reaction is far too colourful for here.