The funny thing is that despite all our protests, we are ultimately responsible for the CoD titles we're getting. Case in point: how Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is overshadowed by the hype for a remastered version of Call of Duty 4.
FPS (First Person Shooters) have become a staple of a gamer's healthy diet. But where did it all begin?
The minimal effort of any genre is being FPV. And shooter is even less. As example COD, Skyrim, Destiny etc. They are pure casual and flat. Of course there are exception like Doom and Bioshock. But in general not as decent.
It became the default and began to foster safety and laziness. The FPS genre probably peaked before the late 00s and has been mostly repetitive since.
For me, early Halo represented the last stand of the arena shooter. With the online becoming more competitively focused, I doubt that's going to continue.
It would be great to see iD and Epic bring Quake and UT to consoles, even if it's in a FTP capacity and in beta.
I miss arena shooters, The first DooM had a brilliant death match multiplayer. Why it wasn't carried into Eternal I have no idea!
Games like DooM and arena shooters are the key to making FPS great again. Although I'm not going to lie, I'm biased as hell for Halo!
Andrew says: "The intrinsic values of COD are the following: memorable campaigns, meticulous multiplayer marathons, and lobbies populated by screaming 12-year-old kids that think puberty is the evolved form of Jigglypuff."
What makes a game eligible for such a prestigious honor as being seen as the greatest of all time? There are four criteria: the game must be widely recognized and remembered, it must exhibit longevity (remaining popular over time), it must enjoy international recognition and success, and it must have exerted significant influence on other games or the industry generally. Some historic titles that deserve credit that aren't just Mario and Sonic.
Fallout 76 should be on the list for quickest price drop, $59.99 at launch to $35 ten days later.
You're sheep and deserve to be robbed that's what it says.
Good read. Like everything under the sun, it will cycle. COD players want to get back to the roots of the series again. Tired of the circus it's become.
No it tells me that they strayed too far from the forumla that made CoD so good in the first place. Back in 2007 I never wanted jet-packs/exo-suits in a Call of Duty. I never wanted over-the-top guns and a long list of killstreaks/scorestreaks.
The reason CoD4 is hailed as one of the best FPS games to ever come out is because it changed the landscape for console shooters in a similar fashion to Halo CE. The game was simplistic but with a deep multiplayer component that had you hooked from the get-go. The graphics were good, gameplay was buttery smooth, and had the 60fps advantage on consoles at the time over games like Halo and Battlefield.
It was also the first game to really push the modern war setting into a mainstream market that was saturated with WW2 shooters. The games always featured a realistic aesthetic a long with fun simple arcade-esque gameplay.
MW3 was technically the last game to use that forumla because Black Ops 2 was the first to add subtle near future sci-fi and that's where it stopped looking like CoD and lost it's simplicity.
As someone who started playing CoD around the time Call of Duty 2 came out as a 360 launch game, I shouldn't be overwhelmed by the logistics of a new Call of Duty.
I always thought they should've treated the series like Counterstrike where the base gameplay remains the same but with a few new additions here and there. Those games have a huge following because the community knew what they were getting each time.
Games like CoD 4 and MW2 could have had legs for years without a new game and it would've done fine. Instead, we get one every year so the market got saturated with them a long with the sentiment that it's "too much of the same".
People claim "CoD is cut and paste every year" but if that were true, I wouldn't have dropped the series after Black Ops 2.
It's Remastered not Remake.
That gamers love some good ole blasts from the past from time to time.