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Call of Duty is dead. It’s over. It’s finished. There is no second chance, there is no hope, there is no future. Call of Duty is officially trash, and everyone knows it.
I used to love this game. I’ve been playing since the first Call of Duty came out. I was just a young blood back in 2003 and my mom bought it for our kitchen computer. I sat there every day, crawling through the bushes and sniping Nazis with my Springfield. Once I had the courage I would run around and mow them down with my Thompson. I continued to play casually until COD 4 came out, Modern Warfare. Modern Warfare changed my life. I was pretty good, and soon I made some friends online. We would all play together, and sometimes just hangout in Ventrilo or TeamSpeak just to talk. Eventually we were playing competitively, and before I knew it I was making money in high school from winning online tournaments.
Modern Warfare 2 was my favorite, and I know millions will agree with me. Modern Warfare 2 is when Call of Duty really took off to elite status, and then everyone played COD. Activision followed up with Black Ops, Modern Warfare 3, and Black Ops 2. All three of these installments were also great games, but the game was starting to get a little old and bland. Activision did what most companies do and tried to innovate. They came out with Ghosts, then Advanced Warfare, then Black Ops 3, and now Infinite Warfare.
That’s the trailer for the next game. Now look again at the like/dislike ratio. Less than 500,000 likes, but over 3,000,000 dislikes? That’s a 6:1 ratio of people saying “This is shit.” My favorite comments are some variation of “Infinite Warfare? More like infinite dislikes!” The COD community is very unhappy about the next game, which apparently takes place in outer space. One of the main things that has driven players away from Call of Duty is how futuristic they have tried to make the game. The game has gone from simple realistic World War 2 gameplay to unrealistic Halo-esque futuristic play. Many players argue that they first played COD to avoid Halo, and have now all threatened to leave the Call of Duty franchise for a more realistic game, Battlefield.
You can’t hate on Activision’s effort. They brought in Kit Harrington from Game of Thrones to play the villain, and even through all the dislikes on the Youtube trailer, they refuse to back down. Pre-order sales are at an all-time-low for a Call of Duty game, and gamers from around the world are voicing their refusal to purchase the next game. They’re being pretty dramatic about it.
Dear Activision: get your shit together. We have stayed loyal to your franchise for over 10 years. I have purchased every single game that you’ve put out. I’ve put literal days into these games. I can’t even imagine how many times I’ve gone online competitively, gone online for fun, or just dicked around on Nuketown or on zombies with my boys. I’ve talked to my other friends in the COD community, and the feelings are all mutual. My one close friend that plays professionally (like he has sponsors and flies all over the country to play in tournaments) is leaving the game to go play Counter Strike. He’s not the only one. Gamers across the world agree, just go search on Twitter for “cod is dead” and you’ll see.
Infinite Warfare will be the nail in the coffin. Call of Duty is dead..
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They need to either reboot the WW2 series or just call it a day. “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” came out a long time ago, we called it “Halo” back then.
“World at War” was the best.
And while we’re on it, bring back NCAA football for Christ’s sake.
The World War I game from Battlefield interests me
Watch the gameplay from the Beta. It’s incredible.
We need boots on the ground. None of this jet pack crap.
YES LARRY
Last year I told my family that I only use my Xbox for Netflix, when in reality spent most of the time on it playing GTA or The Witcher. But now I mostly use the Xbox for Netflix, unless I get a little stoned and play GTA. There isn’t a single game on the market that really interests me. Is this growing up?
More or less the same. Used to love video games but now I feel guilty in a way that I’m wasting time when I could be doing more interesting things, like meeting women for example.
I haven’t used my Xbox for the past two years, I use chromecast for streaming, but I’m thinking of getting the new Xbox to play video games because lately all I’ve wanted to do is listen to a podcast and kill some bad guys.
Unless you really want to play Halo and Gears of War, the PS4 is a better bluray player and has better games.
The Witcher is awesome, so is Fallout 4. And they are releasing a remastered version of Skyrim in October which is the only thing I’m looking forward to.
Got a bit hard from that Skyrim note
Got really in to Destiny for a while, same boat now though
Rocket League. $20 or $15 on the XBox Store. Consistently difficult, but ruthlessly fun. soccer/hockey/basketball with cars. Definitely worth the cash.
COD 4 was the perfect game. Everything after that just became fucking stupid. Kill streaks at 3 5 and 7 and that’s it. FIFA all day.
I’m not gonna lie COD world at war was probably my favorite one.
Infinity Ward > Treyarch games, but to each their own.
You have to give a little love to MW3. You can’t say the Predator missile, Reaper drone, and AC130 weren’t rad to use in multiplayer.
That’s all in MW2.
If this is the case, Madden is just beating a dead horse
Sports games in general. Bring back NHL Hits and NFL Blitz
“MIDWAY PRESENTS: NFLLLLLLLLLL BLITZ!!”
MW2 was its peak. Still remember everyone in college playing- dorms, frat house, off campus, everywhere people were talking about their KDR. And then, like guitar hero before it, it finally died after much watering down.
This generation of consoles is it for me. DLC has destroyed video games. I’ll just get a gaming PC and rip the games from there.