Call of Duty is "this generation's Star Wars"

This guys an idiot, however it wouldn't be a stretch to say something like Halo is this gen's Star Wars, which has a huge fanbase AND a deep mythology to it, and I doubt theres anyone who doesn't know what Halo is.

 

Yeah, while some would dispute Halo's claim, it AT LEAST is more likely than Call of Duty.

 

All 3 have pretty huge followings really.

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Call_of_Duty_Wiki

And of course, http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

You sure? I'm pretty sure most non-gamers would be completely clueless.

 

Call of Duty did get a name drop in The A-Team movie, and most of the audience I was in reacted to it. I've never heard Halo referenced outside of the geek/gaming culture.

 

That's pretty meaningless, IMO. I recall one movie that showed a guy playing the first Halo, one scene in Die Hard 4 that showed this hacker playing Gears of War just before he was blown up. I'm sure some geeky scriptwriter will eventually throw in a Halo reference in a future flick.

 

Personally, the only thing I can think of that even comes remotely close to The impact of star wars Is The Mass effect Series. It's the single closets thing my generation has to the Star Wars fever, and it will never be as Massive in size. I love both series' with Equal respect. COD is just a pain the arse. The spam, the crap, everything you have to deal with and the fact you have to cheat just to be remotley good makes COD look like bantha fodder

 

I would've thought Harry Potter was really the only thing that came close to Star Wars as a cultural phenomen recently. Maybe Twilight. Ugh.

 

It all boils down to personal preference. Period.

 

I really think Harry Potter is the closest thing to come to the same type of significance that Star Wars brought about. The main thing would have to be the multi-generational fan-bases and a story that resonates with those same fan-bases.

Harry Potter's not Twilight, whose fan-base is limited to a certain group (mainly women and young girls).

That and add the cultural significance of Harry Potter getting kids to start reading books again, and showing other Young Adult Authors that kids do have an attention span long enough to pay attention for the whole book.

I don't think any game will ever have the same impact that Star Wars had, I know that a single game hasn't achieved that yet. It needs to be able to be accessed by everyone (Mass Effect's only on xbox) and it needs to touch an audience of all ages.

 

He just disgraced the Star Wars name.

 

This is a Star Wars site so the die hard fans are going to be thurderously vain-bursting angery by comparing anything to Star Wars. I mean, I love Star Wars but lighten up guys.

 

It would be if it didn't have such a compressed timeline. I'm still at a loss as to why they moved it from early 23rd to late 22nd Century.

 

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Call of Duty certainly wasn't seen as popular enough to recieve bloody great big billboards like this though.

I don't know about the USA but Halo 3's release even made it's way into to news in media coverage that, for once, didn't paint games as Satan's play things.

 

Actually now if I think about it, and the information I have on South Korea is correct, Starcraft there would probably be even bigger than Star Wars.

 

Yea it may not of spawned a movie but Peter Jackson (I think) directed awsome, eerie, high budget, realistic, commercials about veterens from the human-covenent war seemed so real.

I like C.O.D, but these fan-boys need to stop idolizing it.

P.S. Search something like: "Halo 3 enemy weapon commercial" on youtube, it should lead you to the other commercials as well.

I dunno, maybe I just like Halo because it combines the best of both worlds of COD, and more importantly Star Wars.

 

To me it doesn't matter. I love all of those franchises.

 

Same here.

 

Are you talking about the commercials directed by Neil Blokamp, the man that directed District 9 after the Halo movie tanked? Because they were the best part of what was probably the best advertising campaign I have ever seen!

 

I know right!