“We will drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental.”
What ya’ shoulda been doing the whole time.
After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series
Submitted 4 days ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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tonytins@pawb.social 4 days ago
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Meanwhile if CS players have ANYTHING change in the game they throw a fit… “innovation” does not enhance FPS franchises, it breaks them.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
CS players aren’t having to pay for a new game every year either.
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org 4 days ago
The real problem is that Call of Duty is completely drained from any replay value. Why is this series still going? Why?
It isn't even a joke anymore.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Because it’s been the best-selling game of the year almost every year for 20 years.
tobz619@lemmy.world 3 days ago
and even when it’s bad, it’s still better than 95% of what the rest of the market can put out
i do think the franchise is on borrowed time though
DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It was absolutely insane that they decided to do it this way in the first place. It wasn’t perfect before, but at least having multiple teams on rotation gave them some time to cook their own game.
But now Treyarch had to help with vanguard zombies (and also mw zombies I think?) while developing their own game, while also developing their own game for the next year
I’ve enjoyed playing cod since I was a kid but this shit has been a clown fest for years now
hateisreality@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I quit when they added fucking dabbing and dumbass skins for money. I just wanted to play like back in the day on my 360
warm@kbin.earth 3 days ago
Problem is, Treyarch were the only competent studio after all of IW left. So they have been constantly called in to help to clean up the mess the other studios keep making.
Now development on the games is split across Activision studios all over the world, so the chance of there ever being a coherent self contained experience again is basically zero. Their scope got too big and they couldnt find the right people to take it on.
DaMummy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
CoD4 came out in 2007. There’s more than one series in Cod lineup. Nothing will change, there will still be a CoD per year.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think it may be time to install CoD4 again. Damn was that campaign good.
frongt@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Why not CoD2?
MW3 was the one where Russia invades the US, right? That one was good. I think the next one, BO2, was the last one I played. After that, they really fell into the rut of minor iteration.
I might get around to playing some of the others that aren’t in the “high tech” genre. Apparently there was one set during Desert Storm.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
How about let’s not do yearly installments?
warm@kbin.earth 4 days ago
Back to back releases isnt the problem.
Remember the "Call of Duty games are DLC" jokes? Well that is literally what they have become. There's no soul in them anymore. They are just a vessel to sell skins.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That… That’s not the issue lol.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The new MW3 was literally just an expansion pack for the new MW2 sold for full price.
Same as BO6/7. People are only willing to be milked so much. It’s why when people say what their favorite CoD is, the oldest game mentioned is Black Ops 2
warm@kbin.earth 3 days ago
Depends what generation you ask, because a lot of the CoD audience now, never even played Black Ops 2. Which I agree, was the last good game, I'll give credit to BO3 for it's amazing zombies experience, with mod tools on PC, which was a surprise.
UnPassive@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As a huge zombies fan who has skipped every game since BO3; I kinda hope they never make a good game that I feel like I want to play ever again… Because it won’t run on Linux and I don’t want to dual boot or get a console 😅
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Go buy Vein on Steam.
Yah it’s nothing like CoD Zombies, but it IS a zombie game, and it’s made by just two people trying to make a quality survival game and it’s obviously a work of passion worth supporting.
I haven’t bought a big company release in years at this point. There are so, so many good indie games being made right now, this will be a nostalgia point for kids someday, back when there were was a flood of games and half were huge, bloated AAA wastes of money that nobody liked, and the other half were amazing, weird, experimental concept ideas produced in low fidelity and released for $5 - $20.
UnPassive@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Seems sweet! I’ve been enjoying Sker Ritual lately
network_switch@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
This year competition excuted well in the same launch window. Arc Raiders and Battlefield, I have played neither, people seem happy with. Looking at Steam charts, Delta Force looks popular too and CS is always popular. It’s taken like 15 years but the not Call of Duty and not sort of weird gunplay in modern times/military shooters compared to Counter Strike (I play counter strike and I know it’s gunplay and movement are weird and harsh for newcomers) are hitting their strides. Call of Duty is facing the best most suitable amount of competition since the first modern warfare
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I saw it had robots and shit and noped out of even thinking about buying it.
I can’t keep up with what the current cod game is, they’re wannabee super hero babes which bear zero resemblance to the original games. It’s a characature at this point.
frongt@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
*charcuterie
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Anything that pisses off milsim obsessed manchildren is a win in my eyes. You have hundreds of games at your disposal, go play them.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Huh?
I just think the game looks and plays bad. I’m clearly not the target demographic, but the older COD games I grew up with are a completely different tone/style/game to the modern arcade shooters.
I said I noped out of it, not that everyone should.
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Lol now gamepass is going to be $40/month in 3 months.
Look what you all made Microsoft do!!
IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
"“We will drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental.”
Gotcha, so same time next year? What do you mean innovate? I played BO6’s campaign and it was clear to me that the devs would rather do anything else than a CoD campaign.
You can’t really innovate, CoD is creatively bankrupt it has been for years, are you going to go back to WW2 again?
Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah sure you are. You said that shit before.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I tried to play it on GamePass and got bored immediately.
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
huh, reminds me, i should get around to playing some over-detailed probably-not-actually-fun Arma-like sometime
natecox@programming.dev 4 days ago
From the company that brings you the same fucking game year over year, with paid dlc to get the same maps from old games again.