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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-02-06 04:27 pm

[ SECRET POST #1496 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1496 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 12 pages, 293 secrets from Secret Submission Post #214.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 - repeat ].
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[identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com 2011-02-06 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Halo, mostly, as far as I can tell. The little bugger's glued to it. But yeah, I have come across a lot of people that think the highlight of video gaming in the past three decades is Shooting Up People Real Good.

[identity profile] dethtoll.livejournal.com 2011-02-06 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Halo is fucking dire. A lot of that is Microsoft's fault, unfortunately, but Bungie isn't entirely blameless either.

Actually, the main reason Halo and CoD are so popular is because of the multiplayer. Very few people actually play the single player campaigns. A similar situation cropped up with Half-Life and Counterstrike. Counterstrike, the original mod made back in like 2000 or so, required Half-Life to run. I knew a lot of guys who bought Half-Life and never actually played it; they only got it for CS. It's a fucking shame, considering HL is a great game that pretty much changed the entire industry.

[identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com 2011-02-07 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's mostly a social thing for him, I think. He drags home his friends to play. Hoards of sixteen-year-old boys... *sob*

[identity profile] ariseishirou.livejournal.com 2011-02-07 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Just chiming in to say that actually, while the replay value of those games and the majority of the manhours spent playing them is definitely in the multiplayer, Acti studied the audience and found that an astonishing (to them, I wasn't all that shocked, I know several people who only play campaign and co-op) 30% of buyers never go online in Call of Duty.

Which is why Treyarch put the "training" mode in Black Ops, to encourage the huge number of people who only play offline to try the multiplayer.

It's mostly like Counterstrike, but the campaigns are what broke the series open above the rest (CoD4's specifically) and have some levels anyone would consider truly memorable (Prypiat, anyone?). Same with Halo, I think. There are a shitton of Halo fans who love the story, buy the novels, etc.