This year's Call of Duty is set in space, Eurogamer reports
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[QUOTE=gudman;50027846]But it's call of duty we're talking about. It can't into something new. It's the basic formula that makes CoD a CoD, and that one's pretty restrictive, one wrong step and you lose the target audience. "Playing it safe" is their motto.[/QUOTE]
They already had a space section in one of the call of dooties though.
In the shitiest COD. Ghosts.
If this newest COD is made by the same guys that made Ghosts, you can bet your bum that they'll use the same space tech.
[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;50027863]They already had a space section in one of the call of dooties though.
In the shitiest COD. Ghosts.
If this newest COD is made by the same guys that made Ghosts, you can bet your bum that they'll use the same space tech.[/QUOTE]
Oh they'll reuse that all right, no doubt. That won't fly with the multiplayer though, and the majority of players don't buy CoD for it's SP. And even then... it's hardly unique too, it's the same as the underwater section from the same game. And it wasn't all that different from regular gameplay, same kind of shooting gallery, zero new mechanics introduced.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;50027522]To be fair AW was really good and BO3 is also good in other ways, but I hardly trust IW to make a good game anymore.[/QUOTE]
Only good thing about these games is the multiplayer.
Singleplayer isn't even worth playing anymore, especially BO3 which felt half-assed as shit (I mean for god's sake they just named the player character "Player", gave him no personality and everything felt rushed i barely realized what just happened in the story)
t. someone with no PS+
I was really hoping the next game wouldn't be another future one, but instead they're going even farther into the future.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;50027257]Damn, no Call of Duty: Primal Warfare yet? I want them 360 no-tool kills
It's gonna keep going into the future until its setting is so vast into the reaches of time you battle in a white void and killstreaks give you the ability to jump to another dimension.
They should just make a Call of Duty Time Panic!!! or something where elements of each of the games are mashed together so I can snipe someone with a scoped 98k while they are in their mobile armor suit.[/QUOTE]
i could do with viet nam and wwii
We'd been joking about CALL OF DUTY: SPACE WARFARE since before Ghosts, looks like it's finally a reality beyond the brief intro in Ghosts. But either this will basically be not-Halo / not-Killzone (which would be hilariously ironic), or they'll try to shoehorn low gravity / zero-G mechanics in, and I don't imagine that blending well with CoD gameplay.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;50027625]Just let it die, it was uniformly going downhill since CoD4, that's almost 10 years now[/QUOTE]
Black Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare are good.
Also it's not "going downhill" if the sales are going up, in the eyes of the company making the games.
CoD:spacewars
Starts in 1960 with the US launching mercury astronauts to fight Vostok cosmonauts, proceeds to Gemini era with MOL and Salyut/almaz spystations duking it out, culminating in soyuz-L vs Apollo CSM fighting in low lunar orbit and on the surface of the Moon. Bonus shuttle vs buran level and shuttle invading Mir stage
Mid level shooting minigame where you have to use the salyut's AA cannon to blow up invading American astronauts
Or they do some bullshit future space warfare that's full of junk
[QUOTE=ThePanther;50027300]Does "in space" mean on a different planet? Or will it literally be all in the vacuum of space?[/QUOTE]
My guess it's going to be based off of resource mining the Moon, asteriods, and the like. Where you battle space pirates and such.
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;50027270]I can't be the only one that wants to go back to WW2. I'm tired of firing "futuristic" AR and shotguns.[/QUOTE]
WW1 for me
does that mean we're eventually going to get timespilters by proxy?
[QUOTE=RzDat;50027918]Only good thing about these games is the multiplayer.
Singleplayer isn't even worth playing anymore, especially BO3 which felt half-assed as shit (I mean for god's sake they just named the player character "Player", gave him no personality and everything felt rushed i barely realized what just happened in the story)
t. someone with no PS+[/QUOTE]
Pretty much nobody has played COD for the SP since COD4. Even then that was the one that started the trend of primarily MP focused COD games.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;50028059]Pretty much nobody has played COD for the SP since COD4. Even then that was the one that started the trend of primarily MP focused COD games.[/QUOTE]
I stopped caring about the story at BLOPS; MW/MW2 were so stupidly fun it was hard to resist. Black OP's branchline ehhh story kinda turned me off at that point. I would be willing to give a Space Story regarding CoD a go.
I'd love WW1 in a cod tbh. Bolt-actions for days, yo.
[QUOTE=Keychain;50028036]Black Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare are good.
Also it's not "going downhill" if the sales are going up, in the eyes of the company making the games.[/QUOTE]
This. People just complain because it's CoD. They're fun and somewhat creative for what it is.
[QUOTE=RzDat;50027918]Only good thing about these games is the multiplayer.
Singleplayer isn't even worth playing anymore, especially BO3 which felt half-assed as shit (I mean for god's sake they just named the player character "Player", gave him no personality and everything felt rushed i barely realized what just happened in the story)
t. someone with no PS+[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;50028059]Pretty much nobody has played COD for the SP since COD4. Even then that was the one that started the trend of primarily MP focused COD games.[/QUOTE]
As someone who owns and has played every single CoD game, I feel the opposite. The only reason I get CoD games is for the singleplayer and co-op elements. The multiplayer doesn't hold my attention anymore, but I always love blasting through npcs.
I just wish there was a game similar to Shattered Horizon but not completely dead.
[QUOTE=RzDat;50027918]Only good thing about these games is the multiplayer.
Singleplayer isn't even worth playing anymore, especially BO3 which felt half-assed as shit (I mean for god's sake they just named the player character "Player", gave him no personality and everything felt rushed i barely realized what just happened in the story)
t. someone with no PS+[/QUOTE]
Black Ops 3's campaign felt like it wanted to be a lot bigger than it really was. There's a whole thing in the loading screen of the first mission [sp]about how Taylor experienced the mission you play over the course of the game, what you see after said first mission is your character's dying dream due to Taylor mind-linking to you while dying mid-surgery and thus re-appropriating his memories into your own self-insertion experiences, with an added AI antagonist due to your fear of robots and everything breaking down near the end due to your mind itself breaking down.[/sp] It'd explain why everything jumps around and is completely nonsensical at times or contradictory, but it all felt like a half-assed attempt at pretending to be something grandiose and thought-provoking. When only [sp]the early game and rogue agent parts[/sp] actually happened and not even as you saw it, it makes the entire plot basically pointless.
Honestly the CoD hate doesn't really make as much sense anymore, because each game has a 3 year development cycle. I have no doubt Infinity Ward will make something as crap as Ghosts again, though. But Sledgehammer and Treyarch have really got their heads in the game.
In the vaccum of space= yes
On a new planet=no
this velcro patch seems relevant
[img]http://milspecmonkey.com/store/303-large_atch/shuttle-doorgunner.jpg[/img]
Would be nice if we could get a semi-decent Korean war game one day, they missed a good chance to have it in one of the Black Ops series, but no dice there.
Will there be space doritos and space mtn dew
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[QUOTE=Dejarie;50028601]Would be nice if we could get a semi-decent Korean war game one day, they missed a good chance to have it in one of the Black Ops series, but no dice there.[/QUOTE]
There's a reason we call it the forgotten war
Why haven't they looked at Cold War era stuff yet? I'm sorry but WW2/Vietnam/WW1/Modern are all overdone as fuck. Cold War is at least something different.
Cold War era is exactly what Black Ops is
This series has just been done to death no matter where it goes, I haven't bought a CoD since black ops and probably won't again
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;50027270]I can't be the only one that wants to go back to WW2. I'm tired of firing "futuristic" AR and shotguns.[/QUOTE]
Every thread about CoD there's a post that says go back to WW2. People moved away from WW2 for a reason and there's a reason the same thing is happening to the modern military setting. WW2 was exhausted back in the day and so is the modern war
Also fictional settings allow for more creative freedom like seen in advanced warfare and Black ops 3
Call of Duty: 40,000?
I'd also like for them to go back to World War II, maybe one before the US got involved?
[QUOTE=icarusfoundyou;50028758]Why haven't they looked at Cold War era stuff yet? I'm sorry but WW2/Vietnam/WW1/Modern are all overdone as fuck. Cold War is at least something different.[/QUOTE]
They have. Twice.
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;50028570]When you look from consumer/industry point of view, as in capitalism, CoD is one of the most successful series we have ever seen. Consumer is happy since gameplay is fun, producer is happy since it sells.
However, when you look at the games as a medium of art and technology, and not pieces of "work" produced to be "consumed", the lack of innovation and creativity becomes bothering. They try new stuff but hardly ever widen their scope away from the original formula. They stick to it like Mr Krab sticking to Krabby Patty formula, and it is annoying.
Modern Warfare 1 was special because it was brave. Just like BF2, BF2142, Red Orchestra etc.. They werent completely unique, but they tried something, small or big, new.[/QUOTE]
But why is it annoying? There's thousands of games out there if you want to explore new games. And every game doesn't have to be a work of art. I agree with you on the fact that CoD games are not exactly fantastic culture killers, but they don't need to be.
Hell, again, for what it is, Black Ops 3 and AW tried something new and still stuck with the popular CoD formula and did something cool that still sold. Hopefully with the new "Space" version they proceed in that direction and make something cool.
To be fair on the Cold War stuff, it ultimately was more of a backdrop to the thriller action storylines of the first two Black Ops games rather than the focus. Although the whole 'russian bad guys make sleeper agents in america' thing was the crux of the first game, the conflicts like Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War were basically glossed over as "isn't this a cool setpiece mission?" None of the pseudo-authenticity realism stylings of the older CoD WWII games were present, and even those tended to be more like a gallery of highlights from both historical and movie WWII given the sheer number of recreations and shout-outs to popular war films.
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