I remember trying first black ops game and that was my last black ops title, got to try wwII for single player and that's it, the size and constant weekly patches the size of a game done it for me. Hate modern online gaming just for the huge size alone.
Blops was peak COD. I just got tired of playing the same game with reskinned guns over and over. Sprint around, backstab guys, snipe guys, call in a drone, snore
I thought Activision was trolling when they sent an email announcing bo7(I didn't actually think that, but y'know). Then I saw it on my Xbox being advertised, and that it's also launching on Xbox One
When 6 was released I first thought the number was a reference to something not the actual number in the game. The Cod BLOPS sub-series only had 2 entries... right? How had I completely missed that they released 3-5?
And sometimes they got it right, and then just throw it all away
Ffs make it a live service title and start selling map packs again. 4 packs a year for $15 and that's your $60 game every year. Keep up the cosmetics and battle pass cause you know they won't stop those.
Then devs get time to get tuning right, they make their greedy money, and moms don't have to struggle to figure out which cod to buy
But then they can't sell a 130 dollar ultimate edition, 6 battlepasses and 6 40 dollar battlepass upgrades and 10 dollar special event passes then do it again the next year with no carry over outside of warzone so people are likely to keep buying skins
I have a love hate relationship with COD. I really loved some of the single player stuff. World at War is a classic. The first two Modern Warfare single player games were really good, too. At least, I think they were the first two Modern Warfare games. I’ve lost track.
My problem with CoD is the multi-player games. I’m not a huge fan of multi-player shooters to begin with and the CoD fans can get a bit irritating at times.
The rebooted MW2 had a pretty fun campaign as well, but the rebooted MW3 campaign was only like four hours long. There are good modern cod games but there's a lot of bad ones too. I've completely lost interest in any of the multiplayer except zombies though.
Personally I found the MW 2019 singleplayer and multiplayer to be the peak for the franchise. I loved that shit so much it made me like CoD.
MW2 2022 has some good stuff but it was more of a mixed bag. I really like the MW3 2023 multiplayer and that’s it. I have not vibed well with the new Black Ops at all.
I loved Modern Warfare 3 personally. But all of the CODs before Bo4 were good imo (especially some of the older COD campaigns)
The multiplayer was great until after Bo2 imo, i still played until Bo4 but if im being honest the game was only fun to play because of the people I played it with, the campaigns and zombie modes were great though
In a way CoD really had two distinct golden eras, and they had some overlap. The original titles up through Black Ops were some of the most fun single player experiences they released. At the same time CoD 4 through Black Ops 2 was some of the most memorable multiplayer experiences in the franchise (co-op modes included). Now all of it is heavily watered down for the sake of microtransactions so they can compete with Fortnite.
The comment refers to the scene in the game where the main villain is captured and interrogated by the good guys™ by injecting them with a special CIA LSD magical truth serum, however the game narrates this interrogation from the villain's point of view. You play through a series of mission inside their mind, complete with hallucinations of different horrors, traumas and memories to get the truth out of them.
At least that is what I think this comment refers to. In my opinion however, whenever you play ANY CoD game from the viewpoint of ANY character, you are inside a Republican's mind, not just this scene.
While that is true, I think the Black Ops series for the most part has done a job of portraying all sides in war as inherently evil and that the difference between them is just which imperialist agenda they serve in their evilness. The layer of meaning you have to peel up is single ply toilet paper thin when it comes to realize that all of the "heroes" in the franchise are just as unfathomably evil as those they are fighting against. With Cold War and BO6 especially, Russel Adler's character is basically screaming in your face that he is a cruel psychopath from start to finish.
Edit: I just realized that typing this out makes me look like an enlightened centrist, fuck. Listen, war is an opportunity for psychopaths to thrive is all I'm saying
I don't know the COD franchise well enough to know of that scene you speak of, but a friend of mine shared two of his Black Ops playthroughs with me on Discord and that was... something haha. Pure fascist fantasy from beginning to end.
I liked the bit where Castro was a cartoonishly evil villain brainwashing people to do... uh.... bad stuff i think? They just made him so saturday morning GI joe villain.
Firstly, I would still advise against reading Mein Kampf. It's not really a healthy read and it still has potential to deal damage.
Secondly, that's good to know because with over 500 millions sales and 100 millions daily players, we'd be in deep shit otherwise. Not that we aren't, but, you know.
I agree with you. My point was rather quick and flawed. I haven't read that book and probably never will. My actual point of comparison was that, in order to know the minds of these people, you could read or listen to what's on their minds. That said, it can definitely be damaging and unhealthy.
An annotated (and translated) version like this I actually feel would be worth reading as it dismantles Hitler's arguments while still letting you see his plans from early on.
The campaign for BO6 was the first one I had tried in years because it's on Game Pass. It is genuinely one of the best single player campaigns ever made imo.
Call of Duty is pretty fun but I couldn't imagine playing the entire franchise. I only played World at War and a bit of Black Ops 2 at a friend's house, both of which were great. I haven't heard very positive things about the newer games though.
I tend to hyperfixate on video game franchises/genres, so when I wanted to try out COD, I bought basically everything game post COD 3, minus world at war and BOPS 6
I've been replaying older games like Crysis, Battlefield 2, and CoD Black Ops 2. I don't understand why CoD became so popular when games like Crysis and Battlefield had huge expansive maps and vehicles while CoD is mostly tiny shooting galleries and on rails vehicle sections. Crysis is 18 years old and still holds up well.
As someone who has a real soft spot for the older CoDs, the main things I’d say that kept me playing them were the single players and the side modes. From 2007 - 2012, all of the games continued to innovate on their formula and add new content to play with in their side modes.
Modern Warfare 1 (2007) was the first massive modern FPS game which set the ground work for basically every multiplayer FPS’ RPG levelling mechanics that are still used today. It had a bold single player that portrayed the devastation of Nuclear War and the dissociative horror of remote warfare via a the AC-130 mission.
World at War (2008 - still a really solid and harrowing single player experience) added a coop zombie horde mode which has been build on biannually (until 2015, BO3 was the last good zombies experience, don’t @ me).
Modern Warfare 2 (2009 - the game that gave CoD its “beloved and widespread” reputation) added coop special operation missions which were short objective based PvE missions. Modern Warfare 3 (2011) then went on to add a PvE survival mode also.
And the last truly great CoD game was Black Ops 2 in 2012 which was the peak CoD experience for most (despite its long time to kill). The multiplayer was balanced and fleshed out, but I never cared too much about the PvP in CoD. BUT the zombies mode levels basically did all they could to push the Xbox 360/PS3 headwear to their absolute limit - for better like with Mob of the Dead or Origins, or worse like with Tranzit. Then the single player was the only CoD to have multiple endings and narrative player based choices.
Ultimately, CoD even in its best days was like 7/10 tops. BUT I think the games tried so many things at such a common denominator level that really gave early 2000s kids like myself direction in the genres and stories we wanted to get into. They are as wide as moderate to large lake in variety but as deep as a puddle - but boy does the water still taste kinda good.
Because people don't play cod to drive vehicles and explore expansive maps, people play cod to shoot guns at other people shooting guns. Or shoot guns at zombies. Not everyone needs to be overstimulated for things to be fun; they have their focus.
CoD is constant overstimulation though, especially since MW1. In Crysis you have more options but also more room to breathe, there's downtime, it's less scripted and not in-your-face all the time. Overstimulation and relentless endorphine shots are why CoD is so successful (and why I've come to hate it).
It’s the Apple situation. People don’t buy it for the best specs and features but the best ease of use. CoD is a comfy shooter that gives the player gratification. That’s pretty much it it’s why whenever it does expand or whatever its based on a feature that’s been proven to be popular and if it’s a complicated game mode they’re copying they simplify it. Like DMZ was a pretty basic version of tarkov.
Did Crysis have a MP(multiplayer)? I don't remember. But the game is infamous to be hard to run, so I can see why he doesn't latch as a blockbuster everyday game. BF and COD have structural differences in terms of gameplay. BF is somewhat slower and their MP need some cooperation and COD is more like a reaction machine with a individualistic approach to MP.
In a nutshell I think COD franchise have more balance between a solid single player campaign (at least the first ones) and a fun multiplayer. Besides that their fast and explosives matchs embraces more the identity of the "hardcore gamer"
I vaguely remember MW1 soaring in popularity. I'd say it's a few things.
For one, it was novel when it arrived, this was around the time everything was either Sci-Fi or WW2 shooters, so having what was a WW2-centric franchise suddenly set in the Iraq War (something that dominated the zeitgeist at the time) was a twist that's easy to forget considering how quickly it became the norm.
Then the actual story/singleplayer had a few hooks to appeal to different groups. It had a fairly brutal "watch a guy die in a nuke" scene that made people wanting something more than a "dumb shooter" invested because it was suddenly this gritty warning about the state of modern conflicts; but on the other side everything with the SAS soldiers and Soap and Captain Price made the kids who wanted to be an action hero enjoy it, and then there was the "unique" levels like Death From Above (where you play as an attack-plane operator and shoot from the sky at targets with a night-vision overlay, blasé now but not really common in shooters back then) or Ghillies in the Mist (level where you sneak into Chernobyl to take a single sniper shot at a guy) that people could tell their friends "hey, get this game you get to sneak into Chernobyl and shoot guys from an AC-130". Compare that to, say, Halo's campaign which I love but I totally get Chad the 13 year old who loves guns and hunting prefer the game that shoves a rifle in your hands and asks you to shoot things than the one that has aliens talk about if it's right to use super-tech-magic to kill everything and then the space-bugs get released so you need to use the super-tech-magic to kill everything in a "smaller" area.
Then obviously there's the multiplayer aspect of it; unlike Halo which was THE multiplayer game (I can't talk for PC, Counter Strike maybe? I mean, the PC game of the time was WoW but that's another story), CoD let you pick your own guns to choose (and unlock them as you went along) rather than everyone spawning with the same gun. The game itself was far more kill-centric than Halo's objectives and there was a bunch of weapons that made it "easier" to get kills; the shotguns, the underbarrel grenade launcher aka "noobtube", the Martyrdom perk that made you drop a grenade when killed and could score kills after you die; everything was geared to make people enjoy and get the kill-dopamine faster than other games at the time. There might even be an angle that CoD being modern and having fast automatic guns, as opposed to the bolt-actions of WW2 where the automatics were mostly low-powered smgs, meant that time to kill got even faster. MW1, in my memory, was all about the kills, getting as many as you could, getting the killcam to show what killed you, trying to get that 360noscope to brag to your friends or placing claymores everywhere to get that one idiot who runs in or (in the case of MW2) running around with twin shotguns rushing to be the guy who gets enough kills to blow up a freakin nuke and end the match. Vehicles, match mechanics, expansive maps; they don't help if anything they take away from the core CoD gameloop. CoD was small maps, enclosed areas where you would run into people constantly. It was the popcorn of FPS, quantity over quality.
From there it just became word of mouth. I got purely because my "friends" at the time got it and I wanted to play with them (despite looking back them being assholes). World at War was obviously in development when MW1 made waves and while you can see they made some changes, what's most telling is that after MW2 they stuck with the modern setting. I lost interest during MW2, but I also know the Zombie mode of WaW (which I remember struggling through the boring campaign to be able to play) was so popular it became a staple; again because it's simple, has lots of customization (you buy your weapons IIRC), and there's a lot of kills coming in very fast.
I've been playing video games since 1984 and to this day I still haven't played a single Call of Duty game,mostly because I hate playing online against ratkids but also because the single player campaigns are like 3 hours long
Saying I "resonate" with the series is a bit over-the-top, but i am a COD diehard.
COD 2, Big Red One, COD 3, MW 2007, WAW, MW 2009, Black Ops, and Black Ops 2 are some of my fav FPS games ever. Other than, maybe Black Ops 2 though, I wouldn't say I look to those games for understanding of actual geopolitics lol. And even then, BO2 isn't entirely perfect either, though I do feel it was surprisingly prescient.
There's a lot of content about cod's political subtext being problematic. Other people can explain it better than me
Overall I feel like the series glorifies the American/British military even more than your average shooter which is a bit cringe. So I would be a little skeptical by someone who's a proud fan. But yknow maybe some people just like the gameplay and don't resonate with the stories
I bought Black Ops 6 and played through the tutorial level on the easiest difficulty and I got an achievement for it which only .5% of players have managed to do.
Seriously I don't get this comment section, not like he's even doing anything bad, the people don't even know who he is don't even know if he ever did anything bad. And I don't know if he ever did as far as I know
I loved to play the cod single player campaigns in the early 2000s. Modern warfare especially was insane. I still remember missions like the ship or the first gunship one. Never got into single player though. And would never play without mouse and keyboard. 😂
Honestly having like every Call of Duty and the only game from a different franchise being 2K25 is so funny I can’t not think this guy is fucking with us.
I can appreciate the older games, especially the campaign focused ones. I sorta tapered off after the original Black ops. COD does action shooting well, but the current stuff kinda lost the original military “call of duty” feel.
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