How do you feel about Call of Duty at this point?

Another year, another Call of Duty as they say. But is that really a good thing?
 
To be honest, i have no clue how i should feel about Activision and their eight-hundred pound guerilla shooter series, Call of Duty. 
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best shooters i have ever had the pleasure of playing, and it's a game that means so much to me--mainly because it was the first game i had when i bought an Xbox 360 back in June of 2008-- and it's sequel, Modern Warfare 2 was great too...Until the whole Infinity Ward exodus thing got off to a start and the hackers took over the game, and while Black Ops was great, i did little to overhaul the formula and i dont often find myself going back to any of these games anymore. Mainly because it's all starting to grow a little stale.
 
So what about Modern Warfare 3 then? I cannot fully stress enough how much i want Infinity Ward to redesign the series in the vein of Call of Duty 4. I really hope that they can freshen up the formula and prevent it from being another glitchy, unbalanced mess of a multiplayer experience and that story does NOT goes into some sort of crazy action movie overdrive with implausible events and story twists, and that they instead focus on the kind of dramatic and gritty tone that Call of Duty 4 had. If the game delivers on these aspects, then i will buy it. If not, i think im gonna give up on the series indefinately. 
 
What do you think?

I don't care. 
 
To elaborate: I'll probably play the single player campaign to wrap that shit up, at some point, but I have no interest in the multiplayer what so ever. 

still gonna buy it if it reviews well.  but i do think this will be the worst year for cod in terms of reviews, so we'll see. 

Call of Duty 4 was good because it was fresh. It was a standard setter that revolutionised the genre. The way the guns felt, the multiplayer system, all of it was top nothc. What Activision have done over the next 3 games is put too much pressure on the developers to produce another game that instead of taking their time, refining and tweaking and balancing the game like Bungie got to do with Reach, they put in some new guns, new killstreaks and new HUD and send it off. Sure, there are other things like Zombies and Spec Ops that come along, but all of the games since 4 feel really half arsed and stale. The single player campaigns are forgettable albeit entertaining, in that popcorn movie kind of way, but nobody is spending 200 hours playing the single player. In this series, since 2 especially, the multiplayer has been all that has mattered and the last multiplayer I played properly was MW2 and it was annoying as hell, you die too quickly, the guns have no recoil and the kill streaks are overkill. I still play Cod 4 multiplayer. On the PC where you can have massive lobbies, it's great fun. 

I still play Call of Duty 4, I have WaW on my shelf just in case I get in the mood for Zombies, I traded in MW2 for Bad Company 2 and I have played Black Ops once, at a friends house. I really couldn't care less about this franchise any more.

I felt COD went down a bad path after Modern Warfare. I haven't played any of them after that.

Don't really care about it. A bit pissed however that it has a monopoly on the gaming industry. Seems like all people buy these days is that lone game! Come on guys, there are other fine games out there if you give them a chance!
Anyhow. I really enjoyed call of duty 4. It was a really well made shooter. World at war, I was a bit disappointed with. Felt a bit like call of duty 3, and it was inferior in every way to 4. Modern warfare 2, was literally the same. It's one of those few games, that I had to stop playing, because it felt to scripted and comparable to a Michael Bay movie. Online is fun though. Black Ops... well lets just say I'm done with the franchise. Hopefully there will be a re haul of it, but at this point... really? Releasing it every year there is no way of doing so.

My feeling is neutral. I mean, I would get MW3 this year, but I saw how amazing BF3 is, and how MW3 is going to be developed not only by IW.

Still haven't finished Black Ops and Starcraft killed the notion that I'll ever put effort into Black Ops multiplayer more than I've done. But, they are fun games and would probably be even more fun if I didn't insist on always playing them on the hardest difficulty because they are not impossible, just frustrating, at that level. Anyway, as long as the quality is there, who cares. It's when it's a noticeable amount of diminishing return in those games when I would argue it's time to slow down.

I never really cared for it in the first place. I played Call of Duty 2 on a demo Xbox 360 when those were just hitting shelves & it seemed totally alright. Never played 3, went to 4 and thought that game was ok. Same with WaW, MW2 & Black Ops. I don't think those are great games, but for the audience they're made for, they're perfectly fine. 
 
I'm just much more interested in Battlefield, that's all.

I really enjoy the Modern Warfare series, WaW and Blops were extremely meh in my opinion and the mess Treyarch made with the PC port of Blops means I'll probably never buy a game from them again. People complain about the length of the SP campaign but it certainly took me a lot longer to complete it on Veteran, which was a challenging and enjoyable experience, than it did for me to complete Portal 2 yet I never hear complaints about the length of that game. 
 
The MP is an arcade shooter, if you're expecting realism then you're a damn fool for thinking CoD is the game for you. I'm not saying that MW2 was perfect in MP, far from it. There were some game breaking issues like duel 1898's and sprinting knifewhores that totally spoiled the game for me and were one of the main reasons I don't play it anymore. Killstreaks are overpowered but the game gives you a way to counter the vast majority of them so it's down to the player to deal with them.
 
MW3, who the hell knows, it's probably going to be the same as MW2 but with some added Spec Op's stuff and some tweeks to MP. I'll still buy it for the SP and a hot steamy, shouty affair with the MP before I leave it and go back to my wife BF3.

I don't care anymore.

I'll probably always remember CoD4 as my favorite first person shooter campaign on 360 (maybe second only to Half-life 2 of all time for shooters across all platforms).  I'm not much on multi-player, so I'll probably enjoy MW3 well enough for the single-player.  I thought 2 was OK.

I feel good about Modern Warfare, other than that, I can't care less really. A lot of people hate the Michael Bay stuff they started in MW2, but I don't mind it since I find it exciting, and as long as they have cool characters, fine locations, Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balf's music (yes indeed), the gameplay I know with an exception for slight tweaks, and etc, I'll probably like it.

i hate it yo

I think they should not leave gamers in less populated countries in the dark when they make decisions. Giving PC server exclusivity to gameservers.com left my entire country struggling with a 100+ ping, it's impossible to get into a good game. But I know that will never happen anymore our numbers are just too low for corporations to give a damn.

I don't particularly think much of it, I think it's really damaged superb games chances in a way such as Battlefield BC2. However, I may eventually buy the new one, just not as soon as it comes out.

I like it. I don't like the multiplayer aspect so much, as it is riddled with stupid morons who care more about griefing and making your experience as painfully annoying than about having fun... But I really like the single player.I don't see it as this force of evil many people think it is, nor a terrible game. To be honest, I think it's actually quite a good game, but being so popular means getting a lot of flaming, obviously.

They're fine, but what I really despise Call of Duty for is it removing all of the originality of shooters anymore. It seems developers are too afraid to do anything unique with their shooter anymore in hopes of attracting at least some of the Call of Duty audience, and it's ruined the genre for me.
 
Thanks a lot Activision. First you over-saturated Tony Hawk, then Guitar Hero and now Call of Duty (even though I actually understand why you did: they sold/sell a ton of copies). What can you possibly ruin for me next?

I thought the campaign in CoD4 was great, but I haven't played a CoD game since then. I don't really care for the series' multiplayer, and the fact that they churn CoD games out annually just makes me not want to support them.

The series isn't on my radar and never has been, but I suppose the reason why is I just have never been a guy who buys a lot of shooters. The only shooters I've spent a lot of time (over 100 hours) with in the past 10 years have been: Tribes: Aerial Assault, MAG and Halo 2.  
 
The whole World War III thing does intrigue me though, I must say. I'm thinking I want to play through the single player just to see it, but in reality I know I never will. I did the same thing with Medal of Honor.

I don't care.  To elaborate: I'll probably play the single player campaign to wrap that shit up, at some point, but I have no interest in the multiplayer what so ever. 

Call of Duty 4 was good because it was fresh.   

Before Modern Warfare I thought it was a big piece of crap because I was done with WWII games after playing through Medal Of Honour on the first playstation. I played through Modern Warfare's campaign about a year after it came out and thought it was ok. I haven't really played any since as I am increasingly sick of any kind of first person shooter, I would like it if they stopped. I don't like multiplayer games so I've never played them online. 
 
Overall I'd say my feeling is one of fatigue and boredom.

Lost all interest

You know what, it seems a lot of people have gone off the series but I do enjoy the story. It's short, focused and crazy-energetic. I never really touch the multiplayer so CoD games are no more than a rental for me so I don't suppose I'm too bothered by the problems as others. I think, on a whole, I'm a little burned out on FPS games. Every other game seems to be a shooter. I don't think its a problem with CoD, but more a problem with shooters. 

I'm more interested in how it turns out than actually playing it.  I don't think it's CoD that's bland to me but the First-person-killing-dudes-roller-coaster genre that I'm bored of.