Not only the Vanguard writers pushed the "muh dick" stuff but they also rewrote history. Black soldiers weren't "marrying" german women, they were raping them.
The most pathetic thing about it is that the original leaks for Vanguard back like a year ago claimed it would be a World War II game that went beyond the 40's. People theorized this meant it would be an alt history game or something, but now it looks like the idea was always what they're doing and it's just being done in the dumbest and least thought out way possible.
It could have worked if it was only a decade or less beyond WW2's original end. Alt history was the only concept that might have saved BFV, and Resistance had some weird alien Japs story iirc.
Good game, hope Microsoft can get it playable on Xbox once the Activision acquisition goes through.
They could make a special case and add it to the backwards compatibility program, Big Red One was released for the OG Xbox.
I wanna tell him that he's got the wrong door , that the leather club is , in fact , two blocks down.
What the fuck even is Vanguard supposed to be anymore? I know Cold War got a little screwy with its cosmetics, but that game at least stuck to the 1980s with the guest star characters. Vanguard had somewhat period adjacent shit like King Kong & Godzilla (from the 30s and 50s, so it's not as fucky as the other shit), but then it had anime characters, Krampus, a time traveling rapper, T-800s and T-1000s from Terminator, this BDSM looking motherfucker, and now seems tied to the 1970s. Am I wrong to suspect Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader to drop by at some point?
It's content for contents sake, I'm pretty sure.
That was just marketing. There's no actual cyborg arm cosmetic in single player or multiplayer.
I never understood why Warzone needed a lore. It's just watching long cutscenes while you wait to spawn or hunt down the next enemy.
I know it didn't make it to the final product, but they planned on it until the backlash got to be too much for them to handle. The fact that DICE even considered such a thing showed how little they cared for the setting, so for Sledgehammer to somehow manage to make them look respectful in comparison is astounding.
It's the same logic as Saturday morning cartoons in the 80's. It helps promote the battle pass/operators/weapons/skins so they can hopefully sell more. Think of Call of Duty seasons as seasons of GI Joe, Transformers or He-Man.
I wouldn't mind a remaster of the multiplayer and the ability to have more than 2 players for the spec ops mode.
If the rumors of them taking COD off the yearly cycles is true, there's a chance Sledgehammer could go back to being a support studio.
I mean, they're not remakes, so who is to say they will ever "finish" them?
I'm pretty sure the only reason they would take 2023 off is because the Cold War debacle screwed the whole system up. It's also why Vanguard got pushed out in the sorry state it was in. They were not going to take IW off Modern Warfare II to fix another Sledgehammer mistake and Treyarch couldn't fix Vanguard because they were already working on Cold War.
I thought it was either Cold War or Vanguard that got cobbled together to make up for Sledgehammer & Raven's breakup?
