The biggest irony to this is that the first Call of Duty's intro cinematic before the main menu quotes, "War isn't won by the actions of one person, but through the lives of many".
Call of Duty 4 still felt like old games, they translated the old formula into the modern day perfectly. The bombastic story telling didn't even start with MW2, it started with Nazi Zombies mode and the complete 180 it made for everything COD stood for at that point in time. MW2's campaign simply solidified the new direction with how successful the games were.
"No Russian," Makarov specifies that nobody in the crew speaks Russian so that it wouldn't be linked to Russia. I'm thinking the dead body meant that somebody was able to ambush him, with Makarov's team being undercover with the ambulance. Now that you think of it, there is a plot hole when you use logic, but compared to MWII/MWIII, it was diabolically clever.
Or that CoD3 was rushed and released amidst a see of other World War II shooters at the time? I don't remember much from CoD3's campaign itself.
You guys and you inability to give the modern warfare reboots some props are so odd, yet even in this thread Treyarch are being considered the gods of cod still they arent even writing the campaign they just got Raven to do it again.
Didn't know that existed now. I did a janky setup with leaked boiii and steam tinker launch for steam deck.
If you like the MW reboot trilogy, more power to you. I CAN give credit to where it's due for the MW reboots.
Shadows of Evil was a good map.
Is liking BO3 really that unpopular? Other than the story being fucky and all over the place, it seems generally well received. If anything, the mod support gives it an unrivaled amount of content no CoD will likely ever have again, especially in the zombies department. BO4 would seem like more of an unpopular opinion, that's the one that generally seems to be the Treyarch CoD with the worst/most mixed reception.
People got filtered out by the story since it wasn't the exact same thing as it always is, they got filtered out by the multiplayer because they suck at it(this goes for literally every other game mind you, 95% of the time someone hates a certain COD game it's because they aren't very good at it. BlameTruth with his autistic hatred for MW2019 is a perfect example, he got filtered out by DoorGODS), and zombies fans sometimes get filtered by it too because they also suck(they will cope with it one way or another but that's what it always comes down to)
"I didn't like it so it sucked"
Sorry, I only read "I suck at the game and therefore it is bad" and didn't really read any further. BO4 was a fantastic, overlooked game that was only mired by it's many controversies, from no single player to being the first game with a battle royale mode to the awful microtransactions and of course, the developers leaving the game midway thru it's yearly cycle to clean up after Sledgehammer when they fumbled Cold War. BO4 at it's best is peak advanced movement era COD with a very unique set of twists thanks to how it differs from other games(150 health, no health regen, very OP weapons and scorestreaks that make it easy to gain momentum for good players ect.)
