10 Video Game Franchises Nobody Admits To Liking

What Everyone Says: "It's just the same s*** every year."

Even as Call of Duty attempts to change the game with a heavy focus on sci-fi this year, it's fashionable to pile on the series for its perceived lack of innovation and creativity.

Over the last few years, the series has gone from being a beloved shooter franchise to a reviled commodity, with 2013's CoD: Ghosts in particular making it easy for fans and critics alike to declare that the series has run out of steam.

Even as more recent titles have introduced unique traversal elements, the online hate campaign against the series is now more vocal than ever, to the point that the first trailer for the upcoming Infinite Warfare became the second-most disliked video on YouTube (behind Justin Bieber's song Baby).

And yet, a good portion of these dislikers will probably still be faithfully buying the game in November, because while it's a popular series to rag on, there's something to be said for its addictive shoot 'em up gameplay, overly familiar though it arguably is.

Your friends will judge you for buying into the franchise year in and year out (and essentially being "part of the problem"), so you play the more acceptable Battlefield out in the open and confine CoD to your gaming shame closet.