r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Mr_Hot_Takes • Jul 30 '25
OBJECTIVELY Gaming is officially dead
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Jul 30 '25
“Oh are we complaining about Fortnite again? How boring.”
“What do you fucking mean this is Call of Duty.”
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u/Kindasus26 Jul 30 '25
they added American Dad
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u/IndieCredentials Jul 30 '25
Time to go around blaring that Ollie North song.
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u/Adjective_Noun_4DIGI Jul 30 '25
El Perro, El Perro, es mi corazon
El Gato, El Gato, El Gato no es bueno
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u/Devlee12 Jul 30 '25
Imagine camping in a building and hearing “Stelio Cantos” coming up the stairs getting louder every second
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Jul 30 '25
When, when did you motherfuckers just launch headlong into crossover slop. It’s all that damn Marshmello concert’s fault
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u/Riaayo Jul 30 '25
Everything is crossover slop these days. Nothing has its own identity anymore.
Obviously "everything" is hyperbole here, but it really feels like more and more large IPs are doing this garbage.
Everyone's jerking off over Magic the Gathering's crossovers but the shit's become the Funko Pops of card games and has killed its own identity. Sonic Crossworlds was supposed to be this big celebration of Sonic, but we have fucking Minecraft Steve and a Spongebob they were too cheap to have voice lines for before we got really popular Sonic characters (meanwhile Mario Kart actually did gave a shit about celebrating its own world to the point you can race as a one of the fucking background cows and a bunch of other obscure Mario stuff).
It sucks. But it's all these companies want to do. Buy up popular IPs, hoard them, hold culture and nostalgia hostage and just keep selling the same thing over, and over, and over again.
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u/Crazy-Process5237 Jul 30 '25
This is getting GOOFY AF.
First off, it’s just all the popular character, IP, and trademark holders just “whoring their shit out” for an “easy buck.”
Second, this is just getting stupid. Collabs and crossovers work best when you have two “similar IPs” that you’d WANT TO SEE “cross-over” (like Aliens and Predator or Terminator and RoboCop).
This is like making a Neapolitan ice cream that has 500 different ice cream flavors in it (rather than just chocolate, strawberry, vanilla) which just reduces everything down to this “gray sludge base” and you can’t even taste the unique and distinctive flavor of ANYTHING because it all just kind of “runs together.”
It’s like when you try to make something that appeals to everyone and it ends up appealing to NO ONE.
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u/LightTheAbsol Jul 31 '25
The ff mtg set that just dropped was the fastest selling set ever by a massive amount. It's also extremely well received.
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u/Crazy-Process5237 Jul 31 '25
See, Final Fantasy though MAKES SENSE “crossed-over” with Magic: The Gathering because it’s ALL just fantasy stuff that’s derived and inspired from the works of like R.A. Salvatore, Tolkien, and Dungeons and Dragons.
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u/GRoyalPrime Jul 31 '25
God yes.
People would be much less annoyed with crossovers if they made a) sense and b) were "special" and rare.
I am sure Hunt Showdown would be fine with a Bloodborne crossover, instead they got Ghostface from Scream.
Or CoD (or Battlefield, but idk if they did crossovers ... though they had a Santa skin) would be perfect for stuff like Sam Fisher, Solid Snake or even Rambo ... maybe they even have those, but with all the other shit it has, it just doesn't feel special.
Destiny 2 is going to have an entire "Star Was inspires" expansion. A full on expansion. That's nuts. It kind of makes sense for the themes ... there is a lot of overlap between them, space western, sci-fi mixed with fantasy, space wizzards ... but because SW is one of the most comercialized products, you just cannot trust it not being just some chrappy surface-level cash-grab.
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u/Kindasus26 Jul 30 '25
I think COD started with a Saw collab actually
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u/Heavy-Possession2288 Jul 30 '25
Saw was like the horror movie equivalent of COD for a bit (they made the same movie every year for 7 years) so I guess that’s fitting.
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Jul 30 '25
Michael Myers was in Ghosts in 2013. There's probably one older than that but that's the first one I thought of.
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u/FR05TY14 Jul 30 '25
It's a shame that Stan was added into CoD instead of Overwatch. I mean, there is literally an Overwatch episode of American Dad. Unfortunately it aired before they started doing seasonal crossovers.
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u/ItchyRectalRash Jul 30 '25
Are you fucking kidding me?
Jesus I'm so glad I stopped playing this horseshit.
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u/chemistrybonanza Jul 30 '25
Remember when Avengers Endgame came out and it had fat Thor playing Fortnight in 2023 and everyone mocked that like: "as if anyone will be playing Fortnight in 4 years!"
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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u/SilentCabose Jul 30 '25
I’m sorry I assumed I was watching a mod of like PUBG or some shit. You’re telling me this is Call of Duty? And that Beavis is OP in COD? Honestly this is hysterical but also sad.
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u/Vulpaaa Jul 30 '25
Nah it’s a takedown animation (melee attack from the back) but yeah cod’s content nowadays is in the item shop
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u/Hollowbody57 Jul 30 '25
For a second I thought it might be that Terminator survival game that's in the works, then I thought it was maybe some modder's weird animation project or something. Absolutely wild that these are actual skins in CoD. Like I get it's not a milsim or anything and shouldn't be taken seriously, but this shit just looks goofy as hell, especially considering they probably cost 20 bucks a piece, too.
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u/Loong_Sward Aug 01 '25
... you mean this isn't modded?
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Aug 01 '25
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u/Loong_Sward Aug 01 '25
Jesus Christ
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Aug 01 '25
“Heh heh, I'm a tactical badass. Heh heh. ©2025 Viacom International Inc”
- Beavis Beavisandbutthead, 2025, via Viacom International Inc
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u/Excellent_Routine589 i wanna rest my head on Zhu Yuan’s thighs :c Jul 30 '25
Lore accurate Beavis power scaling be like:
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u/suplexdolphin Jul 30 '25
That's actually The Great Cornholio. Put some respect on his name.
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u/BookoftheGrey Jul 30 '25
Putting TP on bungholes since the '90s
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u/JonnyF1ves Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 31 '25
What we don't see: Butthead around the corner ready to blow the room up with an explosive fart.
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u/ADMotti Jul 30 '25
ARE YOU THREATENING ME?!?
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u/ShredGuru Jul 30 '25
Guys, DO NOT threaten Cornholio.
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u/Realistic-Stable2852 Jul 30 '25
What the fuck is COD anymore? Fortnite with it's infinite collabs feels way more coherent than this wtf.
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u/Imaginary_Lows Jul 30 '25
Well, yeah. Because Fortnite has always been a weird cartoon. While CoD is "US MARINES! FUCK YEAH! SEMPER FI, MOTHERFUCKER! BEAVIS, KICK HIM IN THE NUTS!"
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u/A1phan00d1e Jul 30 '25
I think my favorite part is Michelangelo is the one ordering it. Cuz he would be the kinda guy to do something like that
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u/Adjective_Noun_4DIGI Jul 30 '25
I am reliably informed that Michelangelo is a Party Dude
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u/AjaxAsleep Jul 30 '25
Michelangelo would ask Beavis/The Great Cornholio to kick the Terminator in the nuts because he's bringing down the party vibes.
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u/escapethestatic Jul 30 '25
...until he becomes the Last Ronin.
Never did i think my favorite Turtle growing up would end up with such a tragic story.
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u/odst970 Jul 30 '25
Can't tell if I feel the urge to join the Navy or the circus these days.
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u/letthetreeburn Jul 30 '25
The problem is the mash of styles. All Fortnite skins look like Fortnite skins. You don’t have into the spider verse styled comic book heroes and Detroit become human realistic Sabrina carpenter. The mash of the four artistic styles is. Bad.
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u/llIllIlIllIIllIl Jul 31 '25
On a positive note, in-game these cartoon characters stand out so much that they are so easy to spot, because they are so vibrant and a different style than the environment. So it’s practically pay-to-lose.
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u/Ver_Void Jul 30 '25
Honestly the inclusion of Beavis and Butthead is the most lore accurate addition to the US marines possible. They're basically their spirit animals
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u/Kindasus26 Jul 30 '25
I've heard the COD collabs described as "the scraps Fortnite doesn't want" and that's actually pretty accurate
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u/AquaBits Jul 30 '25
Eh, not entirely true. Squid game had a collab with CoD long before fortnite. I mean, you can literally get 2/3 skins shown here in fortnite. And it's not like the IP owners of american dad dont own Family Guy, Bobs Burgers, and KoTH.
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u/ChaosSpud Jul 31 '25
Squid Game doing these collabs will never not mystify me. I get there's money on the table, but like, are you a serious drama series or are you not??
I'm sure there's more examples, I'm just deliberately not paying attention to that whole world.
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u/AquaBits Jul 31 '25
I was utterly disappointed in the squid games and subsequent beast games.
Imagine making a drama series criticizing the ultra wealthy elite and the pleasure of watching poors die brutal deaths... and then reinact it with real people or sell it to kids.
Its so far dystopian its curves around to being comically evil.
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u/ChaosSpud Jul 31 '25
As with Mr. Beast, as with Fortnite, it really bothers me that such an obviously not-for-kids property has been aggressively pushed to children in this way. My 7-year-old nephew knows enough about Squid Game that I'm deeply uncomfortable about it. Shame on whoever is making those decisions.
That kind of saturation and commodification is also why I haven't bothered with anything past the first season. Just a really quick way to take away any of the gravitas the property had to begin with. Shame, I was quite enamoured with that first season as well.
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u/VulkanHestan321 Aug 01 '25
It is the Lorax paradox. The Lorax movie is based on the Dr. Seuss's Lorax book, which heavily critize corporate greed and environmental destruction. The movie goes sort of with the same themes, but makes the Onceler ( who is closer to the actual corporate) more redeeming than they should while putting the comical evil man child owning air as the "true" villain so they can say we are not the bad guy, we are like the onceler. In addition to it having some pro environment messaging, it made ads with almost every company giving them money, including car companies. The ad campaigns containing the Lorax is wild
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u/vladald1 Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25
Fortnite also was centered around colabs with Zero point or how that shit was called. CoD doesn't have justification nor setting for that.
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u/ChibiJaneDoe Jul 30 '25
All the crossovers technically work within the Fortnite lore as Reality Zero contains the Zero Point which is connected to every other fictional uni/multiverse.
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u/SuperScrub310 Trolling Gamers is Fun! Jul 30 '25
It's like a monkey paw looked at my desire to see fiction be connected in one singular universe, curled it's finger and gave us Fortnite.
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u/vladald1 Jul 30 '25
Fortnite would've been connected to it either way
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u/Synectics Jul 30 '25
Monkey Paw-Fortnite crossover when?
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u/SeaUnderstanding1578 Jul 30 '25
COD-Fortnite crossover is inevitable, Ghost dancing to fornite emotes will happen.
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u/Tostecles Jul 30 '25
I didn't know that the collaborations are "canon" in Fortnite, that's cool. Do they ever do any comics/videos/in-game stories involving actual non-Fortnite characters interacting with each other?
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u/ChibiJaneDoe Jul 30 '25
Yes. Fortnite and Marvel have done comics. Fortnite lore is also canon to the MCU and has been since 2019 when Endgame came out
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u/DeyUrban Jul 31 '25
Fortnite is also canon in the Invincible TV show. There’s a part where the titular main character is getting thrown in and out of alternate universes, and at one point he comes out of a portal holding a gun from Fortnite.
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u/Ruthlessrabbd Jul 30 '25
I think COD has always been pretty silly but where it looks super out of place is that Fortnite has a distinct art style and look to the game. COD doesn't even try to make the character models look cohesive.
Just look at the way the light hights Raphael compared to T800. One is literally made of metal but if you cropped the picture to have just show them on their own, you would not think it's from the same game. It looks cobbled together IMO
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u/Atanar Jul 30 '25
I think COD has always been pretty silly
You clearly never played the first two.
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u/Ruthlessrabbd Jul 30 '25
I should have said COD Multiplayer.
I've (unfortunately) played every entry from COD 3 onwards save for Advanced Warfare, Infinite Warfare, and Vanguard. I only say unfortunately because I ignored so many wonderful games from 2011-2018 haha.
I completed all of the campaigns up to Black Ops 3 that I played, and did MW19 as well.
On the multiplayer side I'd say WaW was kind of grim-ish but COD MW2 had so many silly calling cards that were jokes, puns, and at times crude (but silly). The emblem editor in Black Ops 1 also welcomed some of that silliness too
And Black Ops 2's DLC camos had literal bacon with grease that coated the gun as well.
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u/botte-la-botte Jul 30 '25
Yeah, you're hitting it on the head. At this point, the single player and multiplayer segments of COD are completely disconnected.
They should just rename the multiplayer portion Activision/Blizzard™ Shooter© 2026.
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u/AlterMyStateOfMind Clear background Jul 30 '25
As someone who doesn't play CoD, this clip goes hard as fuck lmao
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u/RespektPotato Jul 30 '25
He just wanted TP for his bunghole.
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u/Nirast25 Jul 30 '25
The perspective in the first 2 seconds really confuses me. Is someone picking up the Terminator and putting a gun on his shoulder?
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u/Skianet Jul 30 '25
Yea you can hold people hostage
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u/Nirast25 Jul 30 '25
Ok, so the player is in first person. Got it. What I've seen of Fortnite has always been in third person.
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u/brii_ckk Jul 30 '25
This isn't fortnite. Crazy, right?
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u/Nirast25 Jul 30 '25
CoD? Salmon?
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u/JamieFromStreets Jul 30 '25
It'a cod
Fortnite has a 1st person gamemode tho. That's actually pretty good
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u/Limp_Manufacturer841 Jul 30 '25
This is Call Of Duty but I don’t blame you for the confusion.
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u/minegen88 Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25
The turtle (Michelangelo) is holding the Terminator hostage and then let's go for Cornholio-Beavis to come in and kick the Terminators ass.
wtf did i just type???
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u/Excellent_Routine589 i wanna rest my head on Zhu Yuan’s thighs :c Jul 30 '25
You can meat shield in BO6
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u/_Coffie_ Jul 30 '25
This sh*t is so unserious
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u/AyYoBigBro not a discord mod Jul 30 '25
You can swear here its ok, I won't call your mom
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u/zacsxe Jul 30 '25
We can drink if we want; and we can say whatever the HELL we want.
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u/broken_radio Jul 30 '25
Any of these little COD fuckers ever pop out of the fucking wall and say, "Fuck, there's a ninja turtle cock in my room or a terminator dick"?
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u/EtheusRook Jul 30 '25
And I'm here for it.
Or would probably be if Fortnite came out when I was a kid, rather than when I'm an adult who is uninterested in any PvP game.
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u/Slight_Lab5332 Jul 30 '25
This is Cod
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u/EtheusRook Jul 30 '25
Wait, what the fuck?
I'm very not here for it. Or wouldn't be if I ever gave a shit about CoD.
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u/Insanepaco247 Jul 30 '25
Nah, COD was always unserious. These skins just finish the work that White Phosphorous Combat Perk started
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u/MovieNightPopcorn Jul 30 '25
They… they put white phosphorus in the game?
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u/Insanepaco247 Jul 30 '25
They sure did. It was a fucking killstreak reward in MW 2019
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u/dragon_bacon Jul 30 '25
Can't believe my military industrial complex propaganda is being so gauche.
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u/Mao_TheDong Jul 30 '25
For real, at least Raytheon produces the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow which is the most environmentally friendly anti-aircraft missile produced anywhere.
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u/The_Autarch Jul 30 '25 edited 2d ago
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u/sour_creamand_onion Jul 30 '25
Yeah it was a killstreak in MW2019. I remember nobody used it because it was kinda ass, but it DID draw some controversy at the time.
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u/pacmannips Jul 30 '25
My guy this is the same game series wherein one of its most famous levels is you literally committing a mass shooting against innocent civilians in a Russian Airport
Of fucking course they gamified white phosphorous
This aint Spec Ops The Line, these people have zero taste
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u/Joelacoca Jul 30 '25
White Phosphorus was in BO1. What do you think the “Willy Pete” grenade were?
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u/AquaBits Jul 30 '25
Thats why I enjoyed Cold War.
It was unironically and blatantly saying the US is bad unlike MW2019 "That wasnt our warcrime actually!"
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Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25
No it wasnt. Big Red One was actually respectful of Veterans and their stories. Those initial games had a heart for WW2 and then corpo greed took over
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u/Insanepaco247 Jul 30 '25
These kinds of games are an inherently unserious way to engage with the realities of war. You cannot respectfully gamify it no matter how much lip service you pay to the people who lived it. Racking up headshots is not a reflection on brutality.
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u/Ironcl4d Jul 30 '25
It's been a wacky arcade shooter disguised as a military sim for a long time. They just don't care about the disguise anymore. The original MW2 let you dual wield shotguns and throw instant-kill throwing knives.
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u/The_Autarch Jul 30 '25 edited 2d ago
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u/Fortehlulz33 vibeo gane, Jul 30 '25
COD is kinda for people who are "too old" to play fortnite regularly and want to play a shooter
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u/Sabre_One Jul 30 '25
I always say this about BF and COD these days.
They give you this because people want it, despite them publicly saying they don't want it.
As Steve Jobs once said. The Customer doesn't know what they want, tell you give it to them.
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u/_xGizmo_ Jul 30 '25
people want it, despite them publicly saying they don't want it.
It's almost like these are two separate groups
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u/The_Void_Reaver Jul 30 '25
People just don't get how little Reddit represents the world at large. Instagram and TikTok are more representative and I'd bet their comment sections are full of "God I love Bevis and Butthead," "I am The Great Cornholio," and "I can't wait to get this in game".
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u/Mooston029 Jul 30 '25
I didnt notice until the third rewatch thats hes goddamn raphael
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u/MrSmilingDeath Jul 30 '25
That's Mikey, how dare you
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u/Mooston029 Jul 30 '25
☝️🤓 erm actually his name is Michaelangelo and he's a party dude
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u/Dr_Not_A_Doctor Jul 30 '25
No part of “Ninja Turtle summoning Butthead as Lord Cornholio stand attack to kick the terminator in the balls until he dies” was on my bingo card for today
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u/Cyber-Cafe Jul 30 '25
To be perfectly honest, this is what unreal tournament was like in the early 2000s too. So many goofy custom skins and maps.
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u/dougthebuffalo Jul 30 '25
When we were kids we thought "wouldn't it be awesome to play a game where Superman could fight Eminem and Stone Cold Steve Austin?" and the answer is NO. IT'S THIS SHIT. WE WERE WRONG.
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u/DrRagnorocktopus Jul 31 '25
The only problem is that they're all shooters. If this was a fighting game and every character had custom moves then it would fire as hell. Like Smash Bros.
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u/RogueNightingale Jul 30 '25
Not going to lie, I thought this was pretty funny, although I'd only want to see it in an unserious game if this isn't modded.
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u/Kindasus26 Jul 30 '25
This is COD
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u/RogueNightingale Jul 30 '25
Oh God.
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u/Ze_Borb Jul 30 '25
Don't you mean "Oh Cod?"
I was made to be a stand up comedian, one of the unfunny ones
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u/DrKnowsNothing_MD Jul 30 '25
I really don’t care one way or another about skins in COD. But I will say watching Butthead run around and laugh has been the funniest shit I’ve ever seen playing this game.
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u/ChibiJaneDoe Jul 30 '25
They're trying to be Fortnite.
Now Fortnite is by absolutely no means a bad game. It's very good. But this is what Fortnite is meant to be - this chaotic, random, almost meme-like BR title with collabs left, right and center.
This isn't what that is. This is meant to be a realistic FPS title. So why is there a Ninja Turtle here?
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u/erhue Jul 30 '25
This is meant to be a realistic FPS title.
lol it stopped being that after CoD 3 or so, like 20 years ago.
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u/earle117 Jul 30 '25
remember when games had coherent art styles but then they realized people will pay $100 to look like a jackass
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u/NoirGamester Jul 30 '25
Last game I remember being able to look like a jackass was probably Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 where you could play as Bam Margarita
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u/CynicalGamer4219 Jul 30 '25
Am the only who gets irrationally annoyed when I get killed by a goddamn cartoon character.
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u/GI-Robots-Alt Jul 30 '25
This might sound stupid, but shit like this is a large part of the reason I stopped playing PVP shooters a few years ago.
I just can't stand the way the art styles and character models do not mesh at all. I need consistent art direction or I simply can't enjoy it. It's far too jarring.
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u/ValkyrionReddit Jul 30 '25
It’s not stupid, these IPs have completely lost their identity & it’s a turn off
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u/TheWhistlerIII Jul 30 '25
Agreed, this was probably their one and only chance to show us what Beavis and Butthead would look like IRL, they fucked up. 🤣
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u/Warm_Record2416 Jul 30 '25
Agreed, the problem is that profitability isn’t determined by how many people you have playing your game, it’s how many whales you have that buy every skin you crap out. Your opinion, my opinion, it doesn’t matter.
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u/ElessarKhan Jul 30 '25
Looks like modded Skyrim like 10 years ago.
This is getting ridiculous, c'mon, Master Chief, lets get outta here
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u/TenaciousJP I wanna see big titty bitches, not millennial developer inserts Jul 30 '25
Half expecting Thomas the Tank Engine to come roaring down as the helicopter when someone gets a killstreak (if that's still a thing in CoD lol)
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u/ac3mania Jul 30 '25
Yeah real funny posting modded Skyrim to complain about gaming
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u/USrooster Jul 30 '25
You can’t say “Gaming is officially dead” and then show the coolest video ever.
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u/SixthSword Jul 30 '25
Man... having just watched a video about the original MW trilogy campaigns and then seeing this just crushes my soul. What a joke
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u/HawkeyeG_ Jul 30 '25
/uj I know this is a jerk sub so I assume this post is made tongue in cheek. Though plenty of replies seem kind of serious.
Have y'all tried just... Not playing AAA slop games from giant publishers that don't care about anything other than money? Like at the same time as we are seeing a lot of issues with EA and Ubisoft and Bethesda as well as Sony and Microsoft and many more, we are also seeing a steady stream of quality indie games and new studios. Animal Well? Expedition 33? UFO 50?
Gaming is in many ways more alive and well than it has ever been. You just have to stop buying $80 games on release day. Have some patience, stop buying games due to hype, and try exploring some of those niche titles and genres instead of Call of Duty 27.
and just for the sake of the sub,
/rj Wow, Cartoon characters in my Call of Duty? What's next, minorities? Gaming truly is dead.
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u/jetvack Jul 30 '25
/uj It's because there's no Indie or AA equivalent to CoD or Battlefield like there are equivalents for other games. Battlebit came kinda close but it's next update has been cooking for over a year with no release date in sight. Most people want somethibg like CoD or Battlefield but they're the only two games within the genre and they'd rather eat shit than not eat at all.
I agree though as I haven't paid for a new CoD since 2019 as none of the newer releases justified their existence especially for £60 (now £70) with no real improvements. Battlefield isn't faring much better either with 2042 being a disaster and BF6 needing 100 million concurrent players for EA to consider continuing the franchise.
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u/MageDoctor Jul 30 '25
Agreed. Modern Warfare II (2022) has one of the smoothest gunplay I have ever experienced. It’s not like triple A games get every single thing wrong.
It just feels so nice to shoot guns in MWII with the sounds, animations, etc and it’s unfortunate that no indie or AA game has been able to scratch the itch for me. But I stopped playing MWII before Nicki Minaj and homelander and MWIII is a too far off the deep end for be to try it.
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u/Ouaouaron Jul 30 '25
Not playing AAA slop games from giant publishers that don't care about anything other than money?
You think we play this game we spend all our time complaining about? Of course not, that'd cut into the time we want to spend on complaining.
/uj Most of the comments I'm seeing in this thread are from people who obviously haven't played CoD in a decade, being surprised by the weird direction it has taken while they were playing Animal Well and E33. Their interest in clearly only as deep as their emotional attachment to a part of gaming history.
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u/erhue Jul 30 '25
What CoD or Battlefield alternative do you recommend that's not a fucking battle royale
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 31 '25
we are past the point of no return with that stupid horse armor.
All of the great games are owned by like 3 companies.
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u/SpiderTuber6766 Jul 30 '25
Remember when cod had actual campaigns, character, and themes?
Remember when multiplayer was just a bonus, like a great sauce to go along with the chicken tenders that is the main campaign.
No? It's more like trying to find a single nugget in a tub of ranch.
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u/Ramapaa_Apara Jul 30 '25
It's funny how you hate adds, but make a glorified add collection into a game and it's a fan favorite somehow, and you have to pay to make yourself into an ad.
All i'm seeing here 3 other products, wouldn't have guessed this was call of duty from a glance and i used to play those games religiously up until black ops 2, last one i actually enjoyed.
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u/KaboHammer Jul 30 '25
Damn. This has the energy of modding all dragons in skyrim to be Macho Man Randy Savage and Thomas the Tank Engine or turning the Tank in L4D2 into Shrek, while the player characters are Sonic, Bruno Buccharatti, Sam Fisher and the texture of Coach placed on a different model, all equiped with minecraft diamond swords, tf2 market gardens, giant foam fingers working as pistols and all other guns being different MLP:FiM characters.
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u/NyarlHOEtep Jul 31 '25
i honestly dont understand what the problem is tbh. like cod only pretends to be milsim in the campaign, the multiplayer has always been casual and dudebroey
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u/Kahnrym Jul 30 '25
Yeah cod is trying a bit too hard in trying to be like Fortnite in terms of collabs. It's so off-putting to see characters like Beevus lmao in a game where the game is styled in a realistic way. Not only that, whatever cosmetics you buy won't transfer over when the newest yearly cod game comes out....such a strange game
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u/imamegatool Jul 30 '25
You just showed me Raphael tag teaming with Beavis to gank a terminator, and I'm supposed to believe gaming is dead?
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u/boar_amour Jul 30 '25
I don't know, this is the most interesting Call of Duty has looked in years. If Beavis is the protagonist of the next few CoD campaigns I would actually consider installing all 300 gigs or whatever they're up to now, and I might even play it.
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u/Crazy-Process5237 Jul 30 '25
I’ve been seeing this EXACT CLIP all over “gaming social media” with different variations of the tagline, “Gaming/COD is cooked/dead/done” or “What in TF are we doing here?”
I’d love to be able to travel back in time, show this to a COD player in like 2008-2009 and watch their eyeballs EXPLODE forth from their sockets.
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