TGC writes: In a recent interview with Eurogamer, managing director of Nadeo Live! Anne Blondel-Jouin (Nadeo being the studio responsible for upcoming FPS ShootMania) claimed that console shooters that focused on cinematic campaigns were largely responsible for the death First Person Shooter’s in the Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament mould. She believes that as a result games series’ such as Battlefield or Call of Duty focus on entertainment rather than player skill, and try to compete with movies. Has the rise of cinematic storytelling led to the dumbing of a genre? As someone who is more of a casual player of FPS than a dedicated follower, my take is the storytelling is only one element in the shift in gameplay style.
Call of Duty games used to be streamlined experiences, but COD 2024’s UI could be another nightmarish clutter of streaming tabs.
If we’re beating that drum, can we also stop forcing anyone who wants to play only the single player to download Warzone and all updates BEFORE they are then able to do another download from the menu of the single player campaign. I don’t see why I need 150gb of downloads in several ways to play the single player mode only from a bloomin disk which should have that campaign on it already.
The UI is confusing to me because I have not purchased a Call of Duty iin like 8 years .Only bought CoD MW3 because 3 of my friends I have known since to 70s are playing zombies . But I am used it now .
The UI is the least of the franchise many problems these days. But yes the UI is also terrible.
Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.
Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.
The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.
It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.
That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece
As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.
The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all
Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?
Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.
I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.
Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.
I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?
100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!
The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.
It got better, then worse.
It depends on which game you look at today. CoD is on the Worse end while Halo and Borderlands are on the Better side.
Well, they've gotten more complex, more refined, and overall a more polished genre.
On the downside, it seems that the market is flooded with them, and very few are good enough to stand out among the others.
The only reason this conversation is happening is because of the oversaturation of FPSs in the market, which causes complacency, which irritates gamers who enjoy the genre, as it makes them feel like they're spending a decent amount of cash for something you feel you already have.
Most games have certainly lost their skill gap since the ushering in of COD4, there only a select few titles out there that can give you that old school feel.
Im indifferent, I enjoy casual shooters like BF, COD etc as much as the next guy but I findthey dont offer any real satisfaction after a while.
I mean wow you seen a guy first and blattted him on a predictable traffic point on a map wow well done....such exhilaration....
Basically its always good to play a shooter with high health which allows for long tense drawn out battles, nothing gets adrenalin pumping like that. The transformers fall of cybertron demo offers such gameplay and its great.
The same can also be said for realistic shooters, your enemy could be anywhere (part of the magic of Dayz, its that sense of not knowing whats out there), even watching you from a secluded spot in a forst outcropping (arma II) then after all the quiet shots erupt out of nowhere and your pinned down prone trying to find the shoter and you know if you stick your head out its gone.
Those games offer a level of tension and in certain situations can give the player an adrenalin rush.
In a way I miss that instead of the insta reward shooter like BF3 + COD, I dont get any satisfaction from either or any adrenalin rush at all.
single player sucks these days, but MP has improved ten-fold. CoD is to blame for the interactive movie style. The Dice followed on EA's orders. BFBC1 was the last good SP BF game. CoD has always stuck to this style since day one. just can't play that style anymore, bores the shit out of me