My Theory on why COD may always be popular

[fighter]

mchaza said:

fighter said:

Your theory is flawed at several levels :

 

If the game below average why does it get top critics and popularity ?

The fact "everyone" has it does create inertia for both the title itself and the franchise, but it doesn't explain how it got there.

There weren't many realistic & successful shooters before COD, and since COD4 the genre has become THE genre. How do you explain a below average game would develop a genre almost by itself ?

by believe on how it came so popular was 

1. Hype, everyone was caught up in the massive Hype surrounding the game, and it was hyped up to believe it was the greatest thing ever when it came people had been hoping it was so good that they just believed it. Its like if Jesus came back and he was an ugly horrible person but people would believe he is the greatest anyways. 

2. It takes a while to discover majority of its flaws: to understand the multiplayer flaws you would of had to have played it for a while which the reviewers never did. Also you dont take notice that much of the story first time but second time you discover how F'ed it well towards the end, the beginning made sense tho.

MW2 was a beautiful looking Pie, the crust is delicious which the critics only ate but once you dig into the core you discover that its a big pile of S***. 

1. Haha --> MAG ? Haze ? Killzone 2 ?

2. hardly makes sense :

if the majority of flaws takes a while to be discovered that must be a damn good game with relatively insignificant flaws

now reviewers have played it extensiveley (after all it's almost been a year) and COD2 still stands as #1 realistic shooter in pretty much every aspect

had it been truly flawed the game would have ceased to be so much played online a long time ago

 

Thanks for trying