Why does COD get crapped on every year but not NBA 2K?

[Wingznut]

Does anyone here remember NFL2k5?? It was released for $20, but then EA bought the exclusive rights to the NFL.

Yes... And it was so much better than EA's offering.

 

[Sulaco]

Yes... And it was so much better than EA's offering.

And was for years afterwards, especially in the presentation department, which EA lags seriously behind in.

 

[Bman123]

That 2k5 was awesome, way better then madden

 

[ProchargeMe]

COD gets 90% of it's sales due to the online multilayer crowd. And they almost never improve the multi player experience. Hit boxes are awful, laggy games can make you quit or rage, the kids on mic are obnoxious, the games are full of glitches and exploits that don't seem to get fixed, people use cheap tactics to win/kill, and over all the COD experience is nothing but a joke now, especially with the new snoop dogg announcer dlc.... come on seriously? The 2k games are disposable each and every year and most people only play the games when the season for whatever sport is ongoing. Multilayer is not as important as most people play the career mode from what I've seen. I liked the COD series until ghosts but it's just not a serious FPS anymore. Titanfall has been more competitive than cod has been in years and I can play it for hours on end, whereas I get tired of COD in less than an hour.

 

[Lil Frier]

Does anyone here remember NFL2k5?? It was released for $20, but then EA bought the exclusive rights to the NFL.

Of course I remember, even though I had no interest in it. It led to that Maddenrights deal, then 2K followed with the MLB license. Of course, that's now why there is no baseball game on the Xbox One, and the only sort-of solution coming is that mobile game, RBI 14, which has no release date on the One anyway.

 

[A5]

Of course I remember, even though I had no interest in it. It led to that Maddenrights deal, then 2K followed with the MLB license. Of course, that's now why there is no baseball game on the Xbox One, and the only sort-of solution coming is that mobile game, RBI 14, which has no release date on the One anyway.

You wouldn't want it even if it was coming to the XBO. It is awful.

 

[Lil Frier]

Depends on your perspective. As a full-on baseball game, I'm sure it's terrible. As a $20 arcade game, it's probably passable. It IS coming to The Bone, and I'll probably end up getting it. I didn't buy MLB 2K13last year as a protest against the laziness behind its release, and I can't just skip baseball entirely for 2 years. I might actually die.

 

[codyray10]

You must have missed those threads then. Sports games are a constant source of frustration given that you're forced into getting a brand new game every year just to keep your roster current. It's mostly EA games that are blamed for this, but sports games have been ripped on for a while now.

The big difference though is that there isn't as much in a sport to change as there is a shooter. Sure you have to get the animations down for the new players, and you have to make sure you have all of the rosters right, but there isn't much you can change. The arenas are the same, the game is the same, the camera angles remain the same because they're usually based on watching it on TV, etc. It's refreshing to see a new mode or a tweak to the controls but in general they don't NEED to change as much.

Shooters are different. The only constant is that you're in 1st person view and you have a gun. Everything else can be changed... the environment, the type of guns, whether or not you get to use vehicles and what vehicles you use, etc. So when things feel stale in the shooter world, it's because the devs didn't branch out. There's no rules to stop them... Call of Duty was a WW2 shooter until CoD4 when they decided to branch out, and it's been absolutely dominant ever since. CoD4 showed that you can radically change the environment, weapons, time period, and multiplayer setup to give a boost to the series. There hasn't been anything like that since so it feels stale.

Sports don't have that freedom, so they're excused a bit for recycling. The last huge change I remember in a sports game was when NHL09 broke the mold and used your right analog stick for deking and shooting. The result was so intuitive and different it changed how hockey was played on the consoles. Nothings really changed since then though.

This. I cant even believe you made a thread asking the question.. Sports games are based on a real life professional sport in which there is a new season every year, that has the same rules as the seasons before. Call of Duty throws a fresh coat of paint on the previous years game and changes little to nothing at all.

And as someone else said, both franchises were put out on next gen consoles. You would be hard pressed to make much of a difference between Ghosts on last gen vs next gen. While NBA 2k14 on next gen makes the same title on last gen look like original xbox/ps2 graphics.