Despite major setbacks, stagnant yearly releases and predatory monetization, Call of Duty remains one of the most played, most successful and most sold videogame franchise of all time.
How do we realistically cope with this? Do any of you even play CoD still?
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Same way as we cope with existence of sports games
No, I exclusively play Timesplitters 2 for multiplayer shooters.
my guilty pleasure
i buy each game every year
dont weep for me, for i am long gone
It still boggles my mind how they put out something as good as 2019 and then just go on a two game streak of making nothing but shit. At least gulf war will probably be decent.
>At least gulf war will probably be decent.
Lol.
Lmao even.
I'm not hopeful. They seem to be perfectly happy to let their full-priced entries be sidenotes to fricking Warzone.
Every "new" engine game is bad. Kys.
When I was younger I played a lot purely because that's what all my friends were into at the time - mainly MW3 and BO2 when they were released. Didn't pick it up again until MW 2019 and was pleasantly surprised at how solid it was.
Looks like it didn't last though and it's back to absolute slop for the franchise.
COD and FIFA are kept alive solely by UK wagies with Tommy Shelby murals.
Eh not really.
CW was okay.
Vanguard was absolutely terrible.
MW2 was pretty good.
MW3 is fine but only the multiplayer.
this is wrong.
2019 was good and on the right track
CW sucked hard
Vanguard was moronic
MW2 was a lazy cash grab with most content held back for the "expansion"
MW3 was another cash grab for nostalgic morons that wanted the maps that were supposed to be in MW2
I've been playing since the first COD way back when and I'm grateful that this and Resident Evil still get games and haven't died like Silent Hill or Medal of Honor.
COD haters are cucks, nothing else has shooting mechanics this smooth.
Even when COD stumbles, it wins.
the competitors are all dropping down like flies
cod is slowly becoming the mainstream AAA pvp shooter experience again
I liked COD prior to Ghosts, although Black Ops 2 was alright.
At this point, the only thing that could kill COD is a Mad Max style apocalypse wrecking civilization.
Do you fricking blame them?
Siege is stuck in Esports hell, CSGO killed itself with the rebrand, Battlefield hasn't been relevant since 2013, and PUBG/all those moronic battleroyales are singlehandedly funded by paypigs.
Call of Duty still has a shitton of MTX, and very expensive too.
But at least we get a new campaign each year.
>CSGO killed itself with the rebrand
i mean......
I agree with the mechanics but I think Halo 2/3 are close seconds if not better. H2/3 had simplicity in gunplay and movement yet a very high skill gap. Wish those games weren't dead.
the games are overwhelming now, from the UI to the number of guns and attachments, challenges, etc. never know if my build is decent or not but I just get knifed in the back by some kiddy sprinting around in a pink cape anyway
thats the appeal
the gunsmith is what made MW the best selling game in the history of the franchise
I get that the demographic they're targeting loves it. I just don't have the time. Feel like I need to watch YT tutorials just to put a build together that can keep up.
>the demographic they're targeting loves it.
Retired boomers, veterans and milsim wannabe cadets?
Who do you think plays CoD in 2024, anon? Hello?
I actually don't know. I just assume the majority age range is 14 to 20 or something like that because the kids telling me I suck sound young.
Kids play Fortnite nowadays.
Cod is full of boomers or millennials/normies that pretend to be milsim operators.
>milsim operators
never really thought of this way but made me kek. CoD seems like one of worst FPS for this, though
I still buy CoD AT A DISCOUNT for the campaign, but there hasn't been a good campaign in years.
Why did they change the campaigns so much for Remaster 2 and 3? Remaster 1 was mostly the same, seems like they rewrote that stuff just for the hell of it.
Because those are remakes. MW2 got a proper remaster, but I doubt MW3 will. That said, apparently, IW didn't even want to make a remake trilogy. That's why the story for the 2 and 3 are messy.
>proper remaster
Lmao, they couldn't even be bothered to do the multiplayer out of fear people would play it more than the reboot slop.
>closed beta last year
>everyone unironically excited to have an alternative to cod
>same closed beta last week
>no one cares anymore
What happened?
Imagine a game so bad that it didn't pass a certification with both Sony and Microsoft.
You can fail certification for stupid shit like showing an xbox logo in a playstation build
If you want a straightforward brainless rooty tooty point and shooty with an active playerbase it's hard to think of any better options with gunplay that feels anywhere near as good. I wouldn't buy every release though, just whatever the current one is and stick with that for 2-3 years since they do retain players pretty well.
>Do any of you even play CoD still?
Played it for a couple of years since 2019. That was a genuinely good game, and the top of the bellcurve in hindsight. Everything else after was a hard downgrade. I quit after MW2 (and skipped Vanguard. I will not accept wokeshit in WWI and WWII-oriented games)
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call of duty is just that good. The core gameplay is way too good. There's no reason to play the competition.
this
FPSs with good gunplay stay dominant no matter how much shit is tacked on. COD perfected the arcade gunplay TWENTY years ago, there's literally nothing else.
Titanfall was a good contender (since it was made by ex COD devs) but EA killed it over and over.
>there's a popular game out there and people are enjoying it
>How do we realistically cope with this?
What went wrong in your life, honestly?
I play the first CoD and its expansion UO from time to time. They still have communities and leagues almost nonstop, though obviously the skill floor is really high since most of the players have been playing those games for 20 years by now.
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>here's the special operators I was telling you about
Al Simms was black ops in life, so that tracks. Not sure where the lizard or the motocross dude enter into it.
The same place Snoop Dogg, Cheech and Chong, Lara Croft and Ash Williams fit into it
It’s one of those series that you know will at least have solid movement and shooting mechanics along with a constant player base and updates. The skins are annoying but you can always ignore them, but I have a few from series that I never expected to be in modern media like the Alucard skin
MWIII's entire advertising campaign was basically "hey you know all those problems with MW19/MWII what if we just got rid of them and made the game faster" and then they just announced that MWIII has more players than MWII did at this point in its life. Even something like Vanguard which Activision admitted was a dud still apparently sold 30 million copies over its life, which is a fricking insane number to wrap your head around.
COD has stayed dominant because it has no viable competitor as far as premium multiplayer experiences go besides maybe Counter-Strike and that's really only on PCs, and has stayed generally enjoyable. Even the sluggish MW19/MWII are still faster than a lot of other FPSs and the games still control smooth as frick.
Pretty sure pokemon is the biggest franchise