| Talon |
05-03-2013 06:54 AM |
They're both awful games in my opinion, but to pick the lesser of two evils, I'd have to go with Halo 4. Like Xenthic said, the community in CoD is just horrific and appalling. Back when I used to console game, I literally could not play a game of CoD without pre*****cent children screaming at other children with disgusting racial, sexual and homophobic slurs. It's incredulous and unbelievable. Adding insult to injury, the gameplay is barely acceptable as a playable and enjoyable game aside from the community. The matchmaking and ranking system is awful, and the gameplay is incredibly repetitive, frustrating, and feels like too much pointless grinding for too little reward. The two respectable games in the series - CoD4 and WaW - are infested with hacked lobbies, while MW2 (the only other game I saw halfway-decent) is also infested with obnoxious trickshotters (why do people still do this?) who have taken over Ground War and S&D, who get really angry if you don't set up for them while they record for their 17 subscriptions on YouTube and throw the same insults at you as the aforementioned pre*****cent kids. It really just makes for a terrible gaming experience.
To be fair, Halo 4's in-game community is terrible as well, but I don't think it's on CoD's level yet. It seems to be more relaxed and turned down a notch from CoD's community, but there are still the bad seeds in the community, but they tend to be more annoying than anger-invoking. Also, I do meet nice people in Halo that are willing to party up and just have fun, while in CoD, I very, very rarely meet anyone that isn't a total prick to everyone else, let alone someone that's actually nice. But, the gameplay in Halo 4 isn't at all that much better than Black Ops 2's. They're both sub-par in terms of gaming quality, and I was really disappointed in H4's multiplayer. Halo had much better gameplay in the likes of Halo 2 and Halo 3, but from Reach onwards, I felt like the system had gotten much worse and more geared towards casual gamers rather than serious, competitive gaming – which I thought was a core aspect of the Halo series.
Ultimately, I don't like either of the games for personal reasons. If you like them and you have a fun time with them, great – that's what games are for. I just think there are better games out there with much better communities, and I'm going to keep playing those games rather than these two.
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