NPD: Call of Duty: Black Ops is the US's best-selling game ever

@SquallRinoa89

The sheep are the people who try to seem elitist by hating a franchise that helped give the gaming industry more validity among all other forms of entertainment. It's amazing how some people miss the bigger picture.

@David Landrum

Thank god: a voice of reason among the hate. Agree 100%

@eat it

Pretty much this. The comments in this thread are possibly the most hypocritical, childish comments I have ever read.

@eat it

Thats probably how some people feel. However, lots of people like myself bought the game and became extremely frustrated because of how broken the multiplayer was (still is) and in general feel the series has went straight downhill since the original modern warfare. I don't think you can shoe horn everyone with a negative opinion into the "hate it because its popular" crowd. I also feel its sad because of the number of games that released last year that were actually amazing AND didn't get near the same amount of recognition from gamers. Games like Red Dead Redemption and Assassins Creed Brotherhood come to mind.

@Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell

something needs to be said about the online element of blops. It's not just the gameplay it's the lobbies full of trash talking with your friends. it's the videos that you can brag about. it's all very competitive. much more than most other games. you can play a game in 15 minutes with 15 other people and come out screaming or laughing or cursing... that's part of the game. I mean look at all of the emblems and titles. they definitely designed the game with the social part of it as one of the main elements. for a CoD game that is more important than a lengthy SP campaign. it is.

some game designers don't think about that. BF:BC2 was incredible but you could only talk to 3 people in your squad. The trash talking aspect was gone! that took a lot of fun out of it. plus with 4 player squads I couldn't play it with all of my friends. so we didn't play it.

yeah it ain't the best gamers game out there but it's not trying to be. a "gamers" game isn't going to appeal to 15 million people because there aren't that many gamers

@Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell

All this talk about "broken" multiplayer, and I still haven't had the pleasure of witnessing any of it. Maybe I'm just more adept at COD-style play after all these years, but Black Ops felt like a comfortable pair of shoes after all the pain MW2 gave me. Now THAT was a broken game.

@gumbie7

It's nice to see some rational thought on this board. Personally, I didn't like MW2, but the Call of Duty Franchise itself is fantastic, and this kind of feat is something to be appreciated. Black Ops' multiplayer is much more fun than it's predecessor, and the single player is actually memorable and not trash.