Is Call of Duty a 'Casual Game'?

[Fez]

I've been debating with myself and a writer friend of mine over the course of the last few weeks, whether or not Call of Duty has become a casual series.

It started out as a hardcore PC gamerz only and quickly debunked down to the console generation, its more than fair that MW2 PC gamers feel cheated by the dedicated server brap tings.

Thing is, my real life friends just banter about Call of Duty all year, don't play anything else. They don't buy any other games, and three of them bought 360s just to play COD.

They're all on 'such a tight schedule', that they only game twice a week or whenever their 'busy' lives can take the strain. I imagine this is how casual gaming happens, just a quick buzz of pixelation to soothe the mind after work or on the train to work.

It can be said then that Call of Duty has become hugely accessible. A four hour campaign, short but sweet and a Spec Ops mode you can jump into at any time with a buddy. What really sets it apart is the fact you can get into a multiplayer game in seconds and me shooting bad guys for half an hour or an hour or for as long as you like. There's no connection issues (well...), there's no long loading times, theres no bickering or plugins...

It's the ultimate casual game.

Thoughts?

[Ontario]

I would say not.
It does not really seem like a game that you could pick up at the store play the campaign and a little multiplayer then just not play again. If you really want to get a good experience of COD then i would say you would need to complete the game of the hardest setting and play a fair amount of multiplayer online.

Having said that i'm now getting a little fed up with MW2 online.

[Kyle]

Nobody plays COD casually, almost everyone takes it too seriously. 'I'm a higher prestige than you', 'haha you don't have this gun'. It's one big competition.

[Fez]

I would say not.
It does not really seem like a game that you could pick up at the store play the campaign and a little multiplayer then just not play again. If you really want to get a good experience of COD then i would say you would need to complete the game of the hardest setting and play a fair amount of multiplayer online.

Having said that i'm now getting a little fed up with MW2 online.

Well I know for certain that more people have played just multiplayer and haven't played the campaign at all, in COD4, and this trend is continuing with MW2.

I doubt people want the 'best experience', some of them just want to hop online with peeps.

Nobody plays COD casually, almost everyone takes it too seriously. 'I'm a higher prestige than you', 'haha you don't have this gun'. It's one big competition.

I don't, if people quiz me on my level or whatever I'll tell 'em but I don't see any point in bragging about anything really. It's a videogame, we're all hear to have fun and if some people think 'fun' is bragging about how big your e-penis is then they're really just overcompensating.

[PaulMacC]

Call of Duty is a casual game. Modern Warfare 2 is catered to noobs. Deathstreaks, give me a break. I hopped on CoD4 last week and man, it was so fun.

[[Chris]]

Call of Duty is a casual game. Modern Warfare 2 is catered to noobs. Deathstreaks, give me a break. I hopped on CoD4 last week and man, it was so fun.

Agreed.. its so much more.. MATURE.

[Black_Apalachi]

I would have to say yes. I'm probably one of those people you described; I've pretty much only played COD4/MW2 since the Summer holidays. Gone back to COD4 now as the MW2 disc scratched a while back.

Anyway, I'm no hardcore gamer yet I pretty much always do fairly well on COD. Even though MW2 is catered for noobs, I'm somehow a lot better at COD4 I think. Since I've gone back to it I pretty much win most of my games. If you look at other games of the genre like Killzone 2 for example, I've only played that a couple of times and I was OK, but I wasn't winning matches or anything.

I don't know about any others, but COD4 and MW2 are pretty casual games.

[Jord]

Nobody plays COD casually, almost everyone takes it too seriously. 'I'm a higher prestige than you', 'haha you don't have this gun'. It's one big competition.

I agree so much there,


I Don't class casual as camping back waiting for 2 people to pass you the hole game, Or saying whats your gb rank..

[Jahova]

@The thread title: Depends how you play it. Sometimes I play casual with friends but when you play gamebattles, it becomes serious.

[Andeeh]

i think its pretty casual as i just hop on it with my mates i cant stand playing it alone as it loses a lot of fun i feel.