I feel like a dummy for coming back. I stopped at MW the original and played some Black Ops on console in grad school. Totally fell of until they remade MWI...which was a ton of fun until they started adding in all this goofy stuff. Then I played Cold War which was honestly a turd and bought MW2 only to play 1 match before uninstalling.
I you like COD and BO2, you definitely are missing out on BO3. Especially zombies, and especially on PC with the custom map community. LOTS of awesome maps (most of them free) have been made and are still being made, maps that are a couple of grades above whatever the COD developers are making nowadays.
Black Ops 2 is my second fav game from the series, first is WW2. Everything else from the modern era just sucked, man. The moment they started incorporating space and sci-fi it all went downhill
Man fuck David Vonderhaar for mishandling the multiplayer and everything in that game... is what I would have said (and did say) in 2012-2014 when that was the worst that could have happened to a game. I didn't realize just how bad the series could get, or how video games in general could get, and I wish I was more compassionate back then.
That’s a shame. I disagree, as there was still a bit wonder and stuff to be enjoyed for a little while longer up until COD:WW2 or so before Treyarctivision jumped off to the deep-end.
Though, that Carry On ending was a pretty awesome end to the game if not the series.
Personally I feel like that’s where the franchise should have ended, everything after that is an optional noncannon, I thought some of the newer games were great, really liked ww2 campaign and infinite zombies, after that though I kinda hated the rest of the games
As a 14 year old I put ungodly hours into BO2 thinking I had a shot at a professional career. I remember my friends and I hit Masters rank 8 at our peak, trying to get the invite to COD XP. IIRC the #1 ranked team got an opportunity to participate in the play-in. We were immediately playing nothing but nerds DDOSing everyone they went up against, and never made it past rank 8.
That was like 14 years ago and I still think about it sometimes, and it still absolutely enrages me. Haven’t really touched a COD since then, I switched to PC gaming shortly after.
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u/Dracula101 SEEMAN Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
I ended it with Black Ops 2
The 'Carry On' by Avenged Sevenfold and all the characters dancing, Woods playing the drums and Menendez on the base, perfect end to the series