# It's already time to think about giving up on COD Black Ops for Sanity's sake. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488 "2010-12-01T00:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488/21 "2010-12-02T22:44:27Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > I know this is me beating a dead horse here, but I really don’t get what the allure of single-player campaigns are anymore. There’s no real longevity, no real replayability. I don’t buy these games for the campaigns. I dislike the fact that you are ‘on rails’ for the entire thing. You’re playing at the game’s pace, not your own. It’s like an annoying boss constantly pushing you and prodding you to keep moving. As soon as you stop to look around you are prodded harder. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488/22 "2010-12-02T23:39:14Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I don’t buy these games for the campaigns. I dislike the fact that you are ‘on rails’ for the entire thing. You’re playing at the game’s pace, not your own. It’s like an annoying boss constantly pushing you and prodding you to keep moving. As soon as you stop to look around you are prodded harder. Right, but that was me responding to **RandMcNally**. I don’t even care about the “on rails” part, it’s almost like _The Most Dangerous Game_ to me. Who cares about being able to beat the AI? Beating other people is better, and to me, more rewarding. Hell, it’s what I wanted out of a video game even before the Internet existed to me. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488/23 "2010-12-02T23:55:57Z")
Personally I don’t consider gaming to be a social activity. I game to pass time and for a bit if escapism. Normally I game to get _away_ from people. There are exceptions but overall I don’t find internet multiplayer to be a very pleasant experience. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488/24 "2010-12-02T23:59:04Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > This is correct. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen videos of aimbots, so I know what they’re capable of, but I’ve never seen one in the wild. > > Scratch that. I think I saw one or two in Halo 2. I’ve seen definite hacks on the Xbox version of COD:MW2 one that comes to mind was some guy who had a hack running that would let the cobras and pave lows target people who had “Cold Blooded” and “Ninja” on. I usually get suspicious when I’m playing in a match, and out of the 12 or so people, 11 have kill/death ratios no better than 15-9, and then there’s some dude with a 32-2 or some other absurd kill ratio. They’re usually inhumanly fast, and don’t even have to be facing you to kill you. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488/25 "2010-12-03T02:12:25Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > Personally I don’t consider gaming to be a social activity. I game to pass time and for a bit if escapism. Normally I game to get _away_ from people. There are exceptions but overall I don’t find internet multiplayer to be a very pleasant experience. My feelings exactly. Online gaming isn’t fun for me (and a lot of other people) and it’s either not a consideration- and can indeed be an active deterrent- when looking for games to purchase. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488/26 "2010-12-03T06:39:00Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I’ve seen definite hacks on the Xbox version of COD:MW2 one that comes to mind was some guy who had a hack running that would let the cobras and pave lows target people who had “Cold Blooded” and “Ninja” on. > > I usually get suspicious when I’m playing in a match, and out of the 12 or so people, 11 have kill/death ratios no better than 15-9, and then there’s some dude with a 32-2 or some other absurd kill ratio. They’re usually inhumanly fast, and don’t even have to be facing you to kill you. Those are soft mods. Those aren’t also very widespread because they get pelted with the banhammer. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488/27 "2010-12-03T07:09:59Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > I know this is me beating a dead horse here, but I really don’t get what the allure of single-player campaigns are anymore. There’s no real longevity, no real replayability. That’s pretty much exactly how I feel about multiplayer. Video games, by their nature, tend to be very repetitive, but online multiplayer takes it to a whole 'nother level for me. I do two or three maps in multiplayer, and I’m done. The idea of running those maps over and over and over and over… Jesus, I can’t think of anything more tedious. I’m always disappointed when a previously single-player game adds a multiplayer component, like _Bioshock 2_ or _Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood_. It bugs me that I’m buying a game that has a significant amount of content that I know I’m never going to be interested in accessing. I’d much rather buy a game that spent its whole production cycle on making the single player experience as rich as possible. Also, it means that I’ll probably never get 100% achievements on the title, and I’m enough of an achievement whore for that to really bother me. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488/28 "2010-12-03T07:31:53Z")
No multiplayer for me either thanks. When I play a game I like to immerse myself in the story and the role, which I haven’t been able to do (yet) in multiplayer, not enough anyway. Although it was fun to play battles on Iwo-Jima on a Japanese server. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-already-time-to-think-about-giving-up-on-cod-black-ops-for-sanitys-sake/562488.md?page=1)