How about those new threaded comment boards! wooo!

It seems like there are people who actually think this was copy pasted out of laziness, rather than being an intentional reference, and thematic repetition.

I mean call it creative laziness all you like, but they didn't literally copy the code to put in less effort, and some people seem so swept up in video game nerd rage that they miss that. There are plenty of actual grounds to criticize the game on.

Isn't every new game a ripoff of the previous game?

At what point does your character die?

The outrages me! I demand that my expensive, brown FPS be ALMOST the same as all the other brown FPS games I play, not EXACTLY the same. How else am I to appreciate the marginal improvements in the brown graphics that I conflate with quality and 'fun'? GAMER CULTURE IS VALID AND IMPORTANT

It's clearly a gritty reboot paying homage to the scenes and characters we know and love.

This is really what the public wants. Stuff we've seen before with more smoke added.

The devs ripped a page out of Michael Bay's playbook.

You want to stop being a programming slave and actually get to go home while this game makes quadrillions and you make absolutely fuck all?

Reuse the damned animations. Neither the studio nor the gamers deserve better.

I'm not a fan of the CoD games mainly because they are breeding grounds for what is easily one of the shittiest gaming communities on Earth, but at this point there literally is no way these games can get any better or different. Black Ops 2 and Modern Warfare 3 pretty much have all the features and combined aspects that anyone could ever hope for from this game, and that's from someone who really isn't too crazy about them anyway. (although I do like Zombies, which at this point they really should just make into a separate fucking game already)

Ghosts is pretty astonishing to see in action and just what a HUGE step backwards it is for the series and the ultimate shit result of what happens when your design philosophy is to just keep making a yearly version and don't give your audience ANY opportunity to add more life into the game with level editors or anything like that. In a nutshell, what they did with Ghosts is basically turn CoD into an in-app purchase kind of gameplay thing, although you can't actually buy anything with real money. They're trying to extend the gameplay by making it so that you now have to have multiple characters, then re-earn everything with each character to unlock more shit that's essential. These games already had balance issues, but this pretty much kills the multiplayer. What the hell ever happened to Unreal? Holy shit, we need a new Unreal Championship.