First Foray into Multiplayer: Part Two - Call of Duty: Ghosts

In Part One, we covered Blacklight: Retribution and Assassin’s Creed. Now, we’ll move onward to COD.

Call of Duty: Ghosts

This is the Big Boss of multiplayer games from what I hear.

I’ve found that the people here do talk more than they do on the other games. At least that’s the case on the Free-for-All servers I’ve been playing.

However, no one has ever said anything nice. I’m sure there are tons of wonderful, friendly COD players out there who aren’t full of hate, vitriol, racism, and misogyny, but I’m having trouble finding them.

I used to be a hospital corpsman many years ago, and I’m no stranger to swearing – it can be an art form. I also understand that a deathmatch game can call for some trash talk, but there’s a difference between trash talking someone with style and just dropping racist words and F-bombs. It’s an interesting and somewhat disturbing look into human nature.

It isn’t usually kids talking smack here either, which was what I’d initially heard. It was grown ass adults. Let’s look at some of the things I’ve heard.

I heard one father (who may have left his microphone on by mistake) teaching his child racist terms).

I heard one adult woman calling people names that would make a pirate blush.

I heard a man with a French accent claiming that he was a DJ and that he was horny.

More people telling me about Leetle Beach. Again, more on that in a later post.

Now, the game itself is fun and frenetic, a fast-paced. You need fast reflexes and a faster trigger finger. Also, stay the hell away from the damned dogs in that game. They’ll tear you apart.

Of course, the game does have some issues with campers, some of whom camp near spawn spots and others that camp prone near dead bodies. At first, it can be frustrating, but once you realize it’s part of the game and you can’t do anything to stop someone from playing the game the way they want to play it, you can have fun.

I do.

I’m terrible at it, but I still have fun. As soon as I increase my skills a bit more, I’ll branch out into the other game modes as well.

What’s been your experience with the COD franchise? Have I just been unlucky in finding players that like to spout off rotten things about race, religion, and sexual preference, or is this par for the Call of Duty course?

In the next post, we'll look at Battlefield 4 in Part Three.