For me it peaked at MW2. BO1 Was okay but after MW2 came out every single person on xbox live was playing it.
https://youtu.be/R_99e0qsdik
>>342214468
It was always shit.
Literally the target demograpic for that game was puberty-going-through pimply faced scrawny kids.
No one likes that shit.
>>342214468
Modern Warfare 3 was the last one I enjoyed. Blops1 I played the shit out of and got to 8 or 9 prestige. The PS2 Cods were fun, as were 2 and 3 on the 360. Blops2 ruined it for me, and it's been getting progressively worse. Effectively done with the series as a whole.
>>342214468
World at War
that campaign was GOD-TIER
>>342214468
Black ops 1 was the last Call of Duty I played.
Everything after that just looks stale
Arguably MW3 but Black Ops 2 was good tho.
>>342214468
>after MW2 came out every single person on xbox live was playing it.
So that makes it automatically bad, right? Fucking hipsters.
>>342216328
This f a m
>>342214468
Black Ops 1 was the peak of CoD for me. MW3 is where it started to go crap honestly.
>>342216718
No what I'm saying was that was the peak of CoD
>>342217406
CoD 4 is great but I think I would lose my shit if they remade WaW
Can't say much about multiplayer, but the last good Call of Duty single player was Modern Warfare 1. The last game that understood the idea of a war game, where you relive the experience of a soldier, and not a superhero/James Bond one man army taking on Saturday Morning style super villains. The campaign had great pacing, felt grounded, personal, the whole nuking business was actually a piece of very subtle and clever story telling (for a war game at least).
MW2 was where the spectacle and instant gratification become more important than the actual original subject matter: War. I tried the following games for a while, but my god was the whole series just getting more and more fucking silly and dumb.
Jetpack in Advanced Warfare was kinda fun though.
>>342214468
MW2 was the first game on the downward slope.
It's the point where the focus shifted from good mechanics to flashy bullshit for the casual audience.
Also its the game they started to fuck with the netcode, pretty much eliminating player skill from the equation.
>>342214468
With CoD 1. You can't tell me that any of these games feels different. It's all the same shit.
>>342214468
CoD 1 with United Offensive was when the series peaked for me.
MW1 was great. WaW was better.
>>342216718
>So that makes it automatically bad, right?
What made it bad was also what made it so successful. The two correlate, though they are not necessarily in a causal link.
>>342217786
>It's the point where the focus shifted from good mechanics to flashy bullshit for the casual audience.
Actually, the mechanics were never really good with CoD. But MW at least presented an interesting narrative where atmosphere mattered more than set-pieces themselves.
Call of Duty 1 was eye-opening. UO was bretty gud.
Then came 2 and it was amazing.
Never played 3.
4 was alright.
5 was great.
I haven't played the rest but the videos of gameplay didn't really convince me.
>>342218094
What FPS's do you play now?
>>342217948
I disagree. The gameplay was always really simple but it works perfectly for what it is and feels good.
And what are you on about, narrative?
You gay son?
>>342214468
>xbox live
>shooter
Yeah kill yourself.
Cod 4 had the longest life so it probably peaked then
>>342218261
I'm actually replaying 2 and 5 at the moment and I'm almost done with FEAR (which I'm playing for the first time). Then I'll continue with its expansions.
I've also been thinking about replaying Bioshock and completing 2 since I never bothered to complete it. I also have Ultimate Doom and Jedi Outcast waiting for me; I used to play both but never got too far in.
>>342218430
I can tell you Bio 2 is fucking awesome. Playing as a Big Daddy switches things up but doesn't change the mechanics too much
>>342218604
My favourite part of the game was that underwater walk in the beginning, when you see the city in the distance. Walking around Rapture for the second time was quite enjoyable but I had some sort of graphics problem which made the game unable to be played in higher resolutions and left me with the most pixelated game possible. I'm not one to care too much about muh gfx but I really wanted to play the game as it was meant to be played and I couldn't find a fix at the time.
Do people still not understand that COD was good because of infinity ward and only infinity ward?
>>342214468
Never played multiplayer in 1, but the singleplayer was bretty gud.
I really liked 2 singleplayer and mutliplayer both, one of my favourite games when I was younger. It introduced regenerating health though, mechanic that contributed to death of FPS's for the next decade.
Never played 3, I think that came out only for consoles?
Modern Warfare is the best CoD game, revolutionary in its time, but sadly the features it introduced later became overused to the point of contributing to killing FPS. Great singleplayer, atmoshpere, very good soundtrack, goat chernobyl mission. Multiplayer introduced unlockable gear and killstreaks, but in moderation so it wasn't as game breaking as in later CoD's.
WaW had great campaign, but shit sound design. Introduced Zombie mode which is pretty fun I guess.
MW2 is probably the first step to destruction of the series, but I also had the most fun playing it. I liked the overpowered weapons/perks and killstreaks. It was a great game for just mindless fun, running and gunning. Fucked up big time with p2p networking and no dedicated servers, fucking dying behind walls constantly and shit. Singleplayer was very good, I'd say the same quality as MW1.
Black ops started the trend of extremely cheesy action hero/thriller shit that I didn't like that much. MW3 multiplayer was shit and I dropped the series there.
>>342219156
>WaW had great campaign, but shit sound design.
What about the sound design would you say is shit?
when CoD2 came out and introduced shit like regenerating health, hordes of infinitely respwaning enemies and constant nadespam by them
Cod 4 promod and earlier > everything else
>>342219225
Gun/explosion sounds are shit, 3D sound is bad so you don't know where the sounds come from and probably some other things, I just remember thinking that game had shit sound (the gunshot sounds really stand up in my mind though, shittiest out of any cod game).
Only the music was good, but thats true for any CoD I played (though MW series is the best).
>>342218094
>4 was alright
Objectively wrong.
>>342219042
I dont think you appreciate the fact that the majority of people who play CoD today didnt even start with CoD4
They grew up and started playing more complex, better games. Thats why Treyarch gets so much praise, kids picked up one of their games first.
>>342219519
First CoD I played was WaW
>>342216328
>tfw WaW campaign on veteranwith a controller
Hands down one of the most bullshit things I've ever completed
>>342219519
IW should get their due credit as the pioneers of cod, and should have been nurtured more by Acti. Treyarch should have been used for making dlc for the MW games
>>342214468
That hurt to watch
>All the crutch weapons
>Doesn't understand what's going on
>Death streak
>Reload after every kill
>Walks forwards out into the open when spraying
>>342219787
kek
>>342219787
>Reload after every kill
you should reload every time you can and are safe for few seconds
It picked up thought with BOs, BO2 was GOAT.
BO3 was a little worse but added enough new stuff to sort of make up for it.
>>342219478
The campaign felt short to me but it was a bit of a change from the WW2 setting we were used to.
>>342214468
From the meeting where they initially decided to try to make another boring FPS.
>>342214468
It peaked with WaW, MW2 was the start of the bad.
>after MW2 came out every single person on xbox live was playing it.
It was pretty mellow the first month and half, but after Christmas it became flooded with kids.
It started getting very slightly worse after black ops 1 but it fell to the floor after black ops 2.
Cod 4 = 9/10
WaW = 9/10
MW2 = 9/10
BO1 = 9/10
MW3 = 6/10
BO2 = 5/10 SP but 9/10 MP
Ghosts = 3/10
AW = 4/10
BO3 = 3/10
>>342219719
Blowtorch and Corkscrew on Veteran can eat a dick, the nonstop nades from Japs throwing them downhill and the MG nest in the bunker made that first part of the mission nearly impossible.
>>342220560
>BO2 = 5/10 SP
literally how, it topped 1 in every way.
>>342219950
No, it's a very bad habit.
>>342219719
BO1 and MW1 was even worst
>>342220560
>all those nines
Hardly, compared to 1(+UO) and 2.
>>342220789
>BO1
No way, black cops was east
>MW1
Only three parts were frustratingly difficult
>that entire level where you storm the village to find the sandnigger
>the nuke hangar room in the level where you're racing to turn off the missiles
>Mile High Club
With the last one being one of the most bullshit things to ever complete.
>>342220675
Every level was just goddamn awful
>>342220678
I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much as I enjoyed bo1's single player. The whole resnov and the numbers plot was epic. BO2 was so boring to me that it tool me a year to finally get down and finish the campaign.
It had the GOAT MP of all the games though. So refined and smooth.
>>342220937
Wssn't that downhill mission in BO1, where you had to go down and to the right. But there were a fuck ton of enemies nad BO1's gimmick at the time was INFINITE ENEMIES.
I remember that being a god damn nightmare on veteran.
>>342221156
>INFINITE ENEMIES
Which games do that? I remember going from 2 to WaW and the others would slowly advance without me actually moving forward in some sections.
>>342221384
I'm pretty sure it's the first mission when you get to the courtyard and there's MGs and tons of ground troops
MW2 was where it turned to shit instantly, when they decided to pander to nationalistic americans who want to fight righteous war against evil invaders.
CoD patrician reporting in.
Cod4 and WaW were both amazing.
MW2 went slightly downhill, but overall very fun, and the netcode was still pretty acceptable considering it was P2P.
BO1 is when the trash started. The netcode was almost unbearable. This was Treyarchs first "solo" CoD game, and by that I mean they actually made a lot of changes themselves to the engine rather than just taking it and creating assets for another game like WaW. They proved they don't know dick about the technical aspects of the engine and still don't to this day. Design wise the MP was fine, with Blackbird being the only real stupid addition.
MW3 is hated by most people but I enjoyed it. It had the same vibe as MW2 with OP weapons, explosions everywhere, etc. Specialist was a neat addition. Only huge flaw is again the netcode, although they did eventually patch it to a decent level.
BO2 is a mixed bag. The overall game design is really good. Only a few flaws like EMP grenade spam and the uncounterable VSAT. The bad part is once again the horrendous netcode and matchmaking system, which often matches US players to Canadians and Mexicans, further exacerbating the lag. For me the great design outweighed the lag problem and I was able to have fun with it for years.
Ghosts is an inverted BO2. The lag was more or less decent again, but the game design was terrible. Extremely low TTK and shit spawns combined with maps with 5 billion hiding spots means slow, boring, frustrating gameplay where everyone's just shooting everyone else in the back. The UAV might have helped alleviate it but they cut its balls off and turned it into some drop on the ground shit version.
AW had an interesting idea with the dashing, but ultimately poor map design and most importantly the awful netcode returning turns the new feature into a negative rather than positive. Later on, they decided to have the best weapons come from an RNG loot system that could only be sped up by paying real money. More shit on shit.
>>342222009
>CoD patrician reporting in.
>
>Cod4 and WaW were both amazing.
you tried
>>342222009
>CoD patrician
>doesn't mention 1 and 2
>>342222009
>CoD patrician
That's like being a mtn dew sommelier
>>342221713
I have to admit the Task Force 141 thing lead by Shepard run by SAS soldiers was a bit forced
>>342222273
I didn't play 1 or 2. Maybe patrician is too strong of a word but I do have pretty extensive game time (thousands of hours) on 4 and up.
I was going to put something about BO3 but there's not much to say. Its just a continuation of all the bad shit from AW with some new garbage piled on top. The main problem with the series is netcode and going too far in the casual direction. Yes the series has always had a casual slant, but I feel it maintained enough of a skill ceiling to remain interesting for more hardcore players. BO3 especially is more luck than skill at this point.
>>342222620
>I didn't play 1 or 2.
>>342222620
kill yourself my man
>>342222726
>>342222741
>not an argument
>>342222620
>>342223143
Not playing the first two games certainly does make ones arguments invalid.
>>342216328
Last truly good COD IMO. It's so unfortunate that the darker, edgier, more realistic take on WWII coincided with the gaming audience's final rejection of traditional WWII themed shooters. If they ever make another WWII COD game it's going to have forced diversity and stupid flashy crap.
>>342219519
>most people today didn't even start on COD4
Don't say that anon, you make me feel old. My first COD game wasMedal of Honor Allied Assault
>People saying MW2 was good
MW1 was the last decent call of duty game they have produced and its been shit since.
What the fuck is wrong with you people
I played CoD competitively back in the day
Never played Cod1. Played Cod2 only years after it was released but never during its prime so cant really comment
Cod4 was the shit modded on PC as >>342219472 alluded to with promod (though I was never a huge fan of promod proper even though it became the staple for all competitions). I sunk literally thousands of hours into that shit. Won a holiday across the country and an alienware pc at a lan aswell, which was nice
Cod5 was a personal favourite of mine but it was broken at release (Treyarch were a joke dev back then) so it never took off.
Everything from that point was doomed. Mw2 and all the successors were just console ports without mod tools so the competitive community was obliterated. I think the only remaining competitive FPS community is CSGO/CSS
>>342216328
>Standing in a bunker alone
>Grenade spawns under ass
Okay that was bullshit, that game sucked.
>>342222036
Cod4 and W@W were the last real CoD games. Everything from that point is a parody and just a shitty console port (W@W was aswell but atleast Treyarch tried, after that both IW & Treyarch just gave up)
>>342222620
>anything after W@W
>requiring ""skill""
kek
KEK
K E K
MW2 was indeed good.
>>342221384
Most of them do it when you have to advance, like;
No fighting in the war room
Heart of the reich
The silo
Downfall
The enemy of my enemy
Executive order
>>342225005
>Not a single OMA setup.
Not even trying.
Obviously MW2 where you realize that Activision literally make an expansion but disguise it as a sequel and it's all downhill from there
>>342216328
There quite a few eerie points in that game.
>>342225694
That's kind of what makes it great.
>>342216328
WaW a shit.
A SHIT!
https://youtu.be/AvN51r1o1Nc?t=36m40s
>>342225774
I agree. The depiction of how brutal WWII was, was quite haunting.
I recall there was a track, in the game, that sounded like something that belonged to a horror game.
>>342226329
The multiplayer main menu theme
>>342226329
The whole soundtrack was pretty swell but this one was probably my favourite track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeWUjNh4d7g
Especially the part that plays when you leave the building and go down the street towards the metro.
Ok I'm only going to talk about multiplayer because I could care less about single player
The tail end of MW1 was when cod took off, people were sick of floaty spongy ass halo. Then WAW came out and everyone complained that it wasn't modern and a lot of people just stuck with MW1. I myself loved WAW albeit it was pretty slow in comparison but made up for it with the gore and sounds
Then MW2 hit and that shit blew the fuck up it was the modern game everyone waited for, honestly I think the biggest cancer of cod was YouTube people making fake nuke videos were all the rage and it started to change the way people played cod. Camping became way more of a thing and everyone using the scummiest tactics to try and nuke or get a great KD.
Black ops 1 dropped and tried to incorporate modern weapons but keep the old war appeal, was pretty meh overall. Same could be said for BLOPS 2 and MW3 the series was becoming stale.
The final nail in the coffin for me was GHOSTS total trash imo, shit maps shit kill streaks challenges you had to rotate to do? So fucking stupid and don't even get me started on this Jet pack shit. Straight garbage if I wanted to play halo I would play halo
>>342214468
MW2 was the last straw.
>>342220678
Weakest main villain senpai
>>342214468
Call of Duty was always shit, but i was a normie teen so obviously i had shit taste. Then there are probably those fags who were adults when it came out and just like the game and do gay shit like go to work and get married to girls and have stupid babies.
