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After 'Call of Duty', What Will Be The Next Big Thing?

Matt Pettit of VelocityGamer.com tries his best to look into the future of gaming to see what will come after the 'Call of Duty' franchise has run its course. What will be the next big thing? Click the link and find out for yourself!

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Rainstorm814514d ago (Edited 4514d ago )

Whatever it is i just hope its not a FPS..... I loved the days where GTA dominated sales and was actually deserving of the achievment.

In this more simplified age of gaming, if the learning curve isnt simple enough for most, its popularity wains.

I long for the days when the current casual group of gsmers ignored gaming.....in those days the devs didnt cater to them

BitbyDeath4514d ago

Well said.
Luckily we still have devs like Quantic Dream who have flat out said they don't care about making money just good games. We need more like them.

Hufandpuf4514d ago

But uually it's hard for people that focus solely on selling a quality product. If the genre is too niche for the market, there chances of continuing development for other games become slim.
Time = money.
if Time ≠ money, you better call it a day.

WrAiTh Sp3cTr34514d ago

I guess people like you are THAT worried about gaming. If you know your gaming history, it'd tell you about how people making games didn't do it for monetary gain, they actually gave it away to friends and vice versa. I remember playing Dr. jay vs Larry Bird on floppy disc in school and never knew games would soon have a price tag to them. Although that was my introduction to gaming it wasn't long until I noticed software having a price tag attached to it later on. What I'm trying to say is, the worst case scenario for gaming is that people will go back to making games for the love of it and not the financial gain. Gaming isn't going anywhere, and the only problem, is people getting into it for the love of money instead of the love of creating something and sharing it with the world.

GraveLord4513d ago

The funny thing is that many of these devs are casual gamers themselves. They are so busy making games that they have little time to actually sit down a play a "hardcore" game like Skryrim or Dark Souls.

There's nothing wrong with being a casual gamer. Not all gamer are unemployed males living in their parents basements........

Zichu4514d ago

As much as I have enjoyed playing alot of the FPS games this gen, they are starting to become quite stale. I find myself playing more RPG's and single player games. I do hope that there will be more focus on a variety of genres soon.

Rainstorm814514d ago

Thats the genre that needs more attention from devs..... This generation's RPG selection has been paltry, even though there has been some good ones, its not nearly comparable to last gen.

Even the original Xbox had wide variety of exclusive RPGs....with this gen focus being FPS because of the success of games like Halo and COD, RPG releases havent been getting the focus

Game4life4514d ago

FPS"S are overpopulated. Fighting games already had their time in the hot spot but they appear to be making a solid comeback as of recent. Been seeing alot of fighters (more then there used to be the past couple of years) recently. Rpgs do need more attention I agree. It's one of the genre's along with Adventure games (noone seems to make alot of them anymore due to everyone wanting some of the COD pie)But more or less both of the genres could use some more of them. RPG"s , well JRPG's are a dying breed as of late (this genreation)It's oe of the few types of games that i go and look for everytime i go to the store,but alas they never have anything I don't

josephayal4514d ago

Def Street Fighter 5 with ultra Blanka and Evil Dan

Der_Kommandant4514d ago

Another recycled Call of Duty!

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Interview on Fallout 4 with the Actor for Nick Valentine, Codsworth & Mr Handy (Stephen Russell)

Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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Please, can Call of Duty leave awful Netflix-style menus behind

Call of Duty games used to be streamlined experiences, but COD 2024’s UI could be another nightmarish clutter of streaming tabs.

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LucasRuinedChildhood11d ago

Let's just leave Call Of Duty behind.

anast11d ago

The isn't for you anymore.

BlackCountryBob11d ago

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.

DefenderOfDoom211d ago (Edited 11d ago )

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 .

smolinsk10d ago

The UI is the least of the franchise many problems these days. But yes the UI is also terrible.

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

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.

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GoodGuy0923d ago (Edited 23d ago )

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.

Tacoboto21d ago

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.

Cacabunga21d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo21d ago

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

franwex22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

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?

Inverno21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

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.

jjb198121d ago

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.

PRIMORDUS21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

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.

StoneTitan21d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut8521d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra303021d ago

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"!

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