AATG writes:
"Of all the games I’ve spent countless hours playing during this most recent console generation, the Call of Duty games are by far and away top of the leader-board. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and more recently, Call of Duty: Black Ops have all eaten up days/weeks/months of my life. I could probably have even added Call of Duty 2 and 3 to that list if I’d discovered the franchise sooner.
But while I’ve had some of my most memorable moments in gaming playing the aforementioned, and while I could bore you to tears/regale you with tales of when I scored 30-0, took out 5 enemies with one single grenade or when I scored a double head-shot with one sniper rifle round, you know what? I’m not sure I’m going to bother with this year’s Call of Duty game. Which given my past obsession with the series is quite the statement.
What follows is 5 reason why I won't be buying the next game in the series.
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.
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?
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.
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.
1 reason why i won't be buying the next Call of Duty game - There will be nothing new.
Damn, I could have made it 6. :D
The thing is, what's actually left of Infinity Ward? Most of the key staff are now at Respawn Entertainment so what state is the studio in?
....oh but you will.
Oh come on.
We all say we won't buy the next COD but we do anyway.