Call of Duty Thread - Potential return to form? Or nothing but cope on the horizon? You decide!

More specifically, Black Ops 1 is where I’m coming from with my previous post.
The SMG fights were a lot more tactical and the AR battles were all about precision of movement and aim. Everything was slowed down.
I haven’t played the last few releases so this one’s a bit jarring I suppose.
 
The Last Stand said:
I love how open-ended Cold War's missions are through its dialogue choices and scattered collectibles
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It's honestly shocking how quickly they made an insanely good open world game. On par with Deus Ex. It shows that if they bothered we could have been having quality games and a yearly output this entire time
 
just watched a bit of the blkops6 campaign. the game is set in the middle east, main enemies are a group called 'pantheon' made up of european and american mercs. in kuwait of all places. white people are once again the bad guys. the two main characters are a black dude and a white female. which is perfectly in line with recent woke dei initiatives we have been witnessing lately, you can't make this shit up.
 
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Hermione Granger said:
BlkOps6 went from straight dude bro to non binary ghey shit
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Game set during desert storm. The Nonbinary freak even uses an L85, a failure holding a failure. Saddam Hussein did nothing wrong. He would’ve won desert storm if Woke culture and DEI were a thing during the early 90s.
Hermione Granger said:
Call of Duty adds they/them to Black Ops 6
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Just like what Battlefield did before, DICE is on the brink of getting shut down by EA games. Don't forget call of duty gets funding by the DOJ.
Mike Matei's Penis said:
The campaign is already so fucking bad compared to even Cold War. They are basically doing the Vanguard thing again of interrogating all the characters and playing flashbacks (even starting as an out of place nigger like you do in Vanguard).
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From what I see from the Black ops 6 campaign so far. They are trying to rewrite history to damage control Iraq not having WMD during the second Iraq war. Modern warfare reboot has already had historical revisionism with the Highway of death.
 
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I have not played anything CoD related since BO2 zombies, what's the current lore synopsis of that gamemode between then and now?
 
I subbed to Game Pass to play it.

I beat it about 12 hours ago, been sitting on it, and I've decided that either I'm stupid as fuck or the campaign is stupid as fuck.

What was the relevance of Case? Like, you could have just played as Marshall and absolutely nothing would change in this story. Case being experiment on with The Cradle has no significance to the story and is only there to seemingly have a Black Ops Zombies campaign level. The group never finds out he was experimented on because he's brainwashed to not tell them and it never comes up until the final scene, but it really doesn't change anything.

Why the fuck would the US government create a bio weapon that just makes everyone imagine they are in Black Ops Zombies? Why was the secret lab that developed it a 1950's retro-future fallout lab? Seriously, it was like I was in the Institute from Fallout 4. Is it just so they can repurpose it as a Zombies map next Season? Was the environment itself a hallucination?

I get that Harrow and Marshall were lovers, but why was it told in such a vague and implied way? It has absolutely no relevance to the story other than to make her betrayal *kind* of a bigger deal I guess?

Sev annoys me. I don't care if they have a female assassin in the game, but for fucks sake why is she a brown person but with a bull dyke blonde haircut who dresses like what a Gen Z thinks 90 girls dressed like? Why is it that whenever you have to play as her they make an obnoxious point to point out she has painted nails? Like you're infiltrating Pantheon inside Vorkuta, it's already weird she's the only woman seemingly in this unit, but they make it a point to have her walking around this snowy soviet prison base WITHOUT gloves on to show her nails?

What the fuck was up with the final mission? I get they wanted to do another "break on through" from Black Ops Cold War, but it's done so half assed. And what the fuck was supposed to be the revelation? Her big reveal is that it was Adler that murdered her parents, but then Woods is like "Nah, Adler wouldn't do that." even though we're talking about a guy who does MK Ultra experiments to POW's and murders them once they're usefulness has run out. Then they have a scene where she's like "Maybe it wasn't Adler" and the assassins voice changes, only for it to then rewind and be Adler again. So what the fuck was it?

Speaking of which, was the implication supposed to be that Adler was involved with The Cradel/Case? He's the one who knows about the secret base, says "something happened" and he hasn't been there in 10 years. Then you find out Case apparently escaped 10 years ago...

And I think the thing that confuses me the most is the final scene. The whole catalyst of this game was that Livingstone seemingly hated Adler. He was trying to get rid of Adler even before Adler was framed. I get it, they wanted you to think Livingstone was the traitor. But then at the end when Livingstone is like "You know, I was wrong, the world needs you" he's saying it to Marshall and Woods. Woods even makes a snide comment about being "the last of the cowboys" or whatever but Livingstone said that about Woods and Adler, not Woods and Marshall.

Why isn't Adler there for this apology? He's just like chilling in the van? Like all of the promo for this game made it seem like Adler being a loose canon was going to be a big deal, but he's treated as a fucking side character for 95% of the game

Edit: I just remembered. The casino heist. Everyone trying to act like they're in a Steven Soderbergh film was lame.

IDK, there's probably more but those are the big issues I had. The story feels very half baked and like there was some weird pivot halfway through.
 
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Jack Hoffman said:
More specifically, Black Ops 1 is where I’m coming from with my previous post.
The SMG fights were a lot more tactical and the AR battles were all about precision of movement and aim. Everything was slowed down.
I haven’t played the last few releases so this one’s a bit jarring I suppose.
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I will say, it sucks that there's none of the older games that're available on PS4/5; the oldest CoD is Ghosts, and I'm a bit torn on whether to like that one or not. I mean, Extinction was fun, Multiplayer was at least solid, Campaign deserved a follow-up... but I do feel like it's where the rot started to set in, given some of the customization options in Multiplayer. Granted, even BO2 had some weird customization stuff by the end, but Ghosts felt like it started to get creative with stuff like weed outfits.

Technically, there's Modern Warfare Remastered, but I haven't really dug into that one yet; there's the ability to play and women and blacks in Multiplayer, though how "woke" is the game really? I don't think I noticed any pride flags off the top of my head, but I'm practically blind at points, probably missed something,
 
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Scream Aim Fire said:
I will say, it sucks that there's none of the older games that're available on PS4/5; the oldest CoD is Ghosts, and I'm a bit torn on whether to like that one or not. I mean, Extinction was fun, Multiplayer was at least solid, Campaign deserved a follow-up... but I do feel like it's where the rot started to set in, given some of the customization options in Multiplayer. Granted, even BO2 had some weird customization stuff by the end, but Ghosts felt like it started to get creative with stuff like weed outfits.

Technically, there's Modern Warfare Remastered, but I haven't really dug into that one yet; there's the ability to play and women and blacks in Multiplayer, though how "woke" is the game really? I don't think I noticed any pride flags off the top of my head, but I'm practically blind at points, probably missed something,
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MW: Remastered is the last fond memory I had with the series.
I have no idea if anyone still plays it.

Black Ops 3 was the last great release for me.
I really enjoyed that game and the matchmaking system was perfect.
Each team had a carry, there were two 1.0-1.5 k/d players, and the remaining 3 were shitters.
It seemed like 80% of match ups followed that formula in BO3, and it was good for everyone in the lobby.
 
I am so happy not to care about the latest upcoming Call of Duty game that will save the franchise once again, like it's supposed to every year. Having a backlog and playing mostly fan created content instead of new AAAA slop is such a liberating feeling.


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I have not played anything CoD related since BO2 zombies, what's the current lore synopsis of that gamemode between then and now?
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BO3 continues the Origins storyline and BO4 finishes it. Last Aether map in BO4 also resets the entire COD multiverse and this is why MW2019 and everything onwards is rebooted. Aether story(2008-2019) continues in "Dark Aether" in Cold War(Vanguard is technically a prequel to Dark Aether but it's so shit I don't recommend playing it, you're not missing out on anything since the game is incomplete). MW23 is...connected somehow? It's always online bullshit nobody played so I wouldn't recommend it. Oh, and BO6 supposedly continues from Cold War story but I heard the newest mode is terrible.

Yeah, maybe stick to BO3/4 and maybe Cold War instead. Despite being made by other studios, Exo Zombies in Advanced Warfare and Zombies from Infinite Warfare are also a blast. Don't sleep on Extinction mode in Ghosts either, but that's a whole new beast, kinda similar to Zombies but moreso to something like Left 4 Dead.
 
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Muta doesn't care much about the campaign and multiplayer although he's more into zombie mode. Charlie on other hand seems to enjoy his campaign run in veteran difficulty.

Hermione Granger said:
BlkOps6 went from straight dude bro to non binary ghey shit :story:

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Is this Rainbow Six Siege?

Hermione Granger said:
just watched a bit of the blkops6 campaign. the game is set in the middle east, main enemies are a group called 'pantheon' made up of european and american mercs. in kuwait of all places. white people are once again the bad guys. the two main characters are a black dude and a white female. which is perfectly in line with recent woke dei initiatives we have been witnessing lately, you can't make this shit up.
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And all the
“Who cares?!”
“Of course they did this, it’s modern times!”
“How does this effect you?!”
“I’m still gonna buy it, it’s just one thing!”
crowd will see no issue in how they got us here.
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You will love DEI propaganda and you will be happy.
 
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Jack Hoffman said:
MW: Remastered is the last fond memory I had with the series.
I have no idea if anyone still plays it.
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MW: Remastered is still decently active; I mean, you'll mostly find TDM and the occasional Search match, at least. That said, the game's dominated by supply drop weapons; just about everyone that does well uses the BOS14, or occasionally the Honey Badger. Snipers sometimes as well. Also, the balancing a bit fucked; spawning into a match with unbalanced teams and going 14-75 isn't uncommon. Helicopter spamming everywhere and getting one-tapped from across the man by people with suspiciously good aim is frequent. Don't want to say hackers, but...

On the topic of other CoDs; I'm curious as to whether or not any of the CoDs available on PS4/5 - from Ghosts onward, basically - are universally liked. I mean, it seems that the only games that are consistently liked by everyone are the origianl MW trilogy and BO1 and 2; any of the games after BO2 loved as much? I know BO3 has fans, but...

I will say that I want to enjoy Ghosts; aside from what I mentioned above, the plot still makes all of the DEI fucks screech - people still trying to portray the Federation nuking and invading America as the "real good guys" and the Ghosts being "fascists" or some shit. That said, there just a bunch of little bits in the Multiplayer - Snoop Dog voice packs, multiple crazy skins like weed armor and kitty camos, maps where you can play as Michael Myers and the Predator, etc. - that remind me too much of Current Year shit.

Anyone else think so? Or am I just being an autist again?
 
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@Scream Aim Fire, you're not sperging. I think that was less about being woke and more about trying to find new revenue streams after BO2's bacon camo back sold like gangbusters. BO2 was really the beginning of the end. When it comes to MTX, silly gimmick shit will always sell better than Serious Military Man #304. The problem, of course, is that when every single player has a wacky gun and crazy skin, it's not a gimmick any more.
 
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Hermione Granger said:
just watched a bit of the blkops6 campaign. the game is set in the middle east, main enemies are a group called 'pantheon' made up of european and american mercs. in kuwait of all places. white people are once again the bad guys. the two main characters are a black dude and a white female. which is perfectly in line with recent woke dei initiatives we have been witnessing lately, you can't make this shit up.
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I was going to sub for a month to play the campaign. While i enjoyed the multiplayer of the BOPS6 Beta, i was let down that not all the maps had 90s GenX aesthetics. And also, the music has modern day terrible tracks

But how much they changed the story of the gulf war made me decide to not even do gamepass for a month. Instead, just “bought” Yakuza 0 and Balatro on Steam Sale.
 
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@Scream Aim Fire, you're not sperging. I think that was less about being woke and more about trying to find new revenue streams after BO2's bacon camo back sold like gangbusters. BO2 was really the beginning of the end. When it comes to MTX, silly gimmick shit will always sell better than Serious Military Man #304. The problem, of course, is that when every single player has a wacky gun and crazy skin, it's not a gimmick any more.
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Yeah, that's where it all went wrong, isn't it? When the devs started getting a bit too greedy; I will say, Ghosts at least had some skins that still looked fairly realistic - the Extinction gear and Resistance sets looked quite fitting for the post-apocalyptic setting, the campaign characters like Price, Makarov, or Hesh still looked generic enough to work, and game's feature of camos changing colors depending on the map meant that nothing looked too out of place - no hot pink Nicki Minaj on Whiteout or Warhawk, for instance. That said, both it and BO2 was where the "le quirky" stuff started appearing, like bacon skins and dragon skins on BO2, as well as the whole "combat exclusion rules lifted" bit from Ghosts.

Of course, Advanced Warfare is probably the game where it swung for the fences, with stuff like the Leviathan sets and clown outfits available in the supply drops. When the DEI stuff really started taking off is when the series became insufferable; I'm tempted to say it was WWII was where it really began to degrade - playing as a black woman on the Axis, and the multitude of faggot flags in Multiplayer - though I swear there was some fagshit in Infinite Warfare, wasn't there? I don't remember seeing any "pride" stuff in BO3 at the very least, despite just how far the game's insane customization went, though I do think there was some anarchy-inspired customization on some characters, so make of that what you will.

Anyone got anything to add or correct?
 
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