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Infinity Ward can't change Call of Duty too much because it's like a sport

Infinity Ward appears to be making ch-ch-changes with Call of Duty: Ghosts, its vaguely post-apocalyptic and canine-loving Xbox One debut, but there's such a thing as a bridge too far. That's according to the studio's executive producer Mark Rubin, who explained to OXM at Gamescom that the franchise is, to some extent, the victim of its own success.

GarrusVakarian3846d ago (Edited 3846d ago )

Lame ass excuse, we know the exact reason why you don't change that game year in year out.

MONEY. Change brings risk and risk brings potential loss of $.

Grow some balls and make a new engine from the ground up, you lazy, greedy Aholes.

YouTube "Call Of Duty Ghosts team deathmatch gameplay" and tell me if what you see looks next gen to you. Pathetic.

GarrusVakarian3846d ago (Edited 3846d ago )

Yep, ive bought and played every Call of Duty game. Ive waited in midnight launch lines and they are ALL the same. With all the next gen footage im seeing on N4G of other games and being very impressed, this game doesn't impress me in the slightest. Looks like current gen .5

But what do you expect from lazy,greedy developers/publishers like them. They class innovation as being able to play as a low res texture dog and sun-rays that come from multiple sources and laughable destruction.

bumnut3846d ago

Wow, it took you that many purchases to realise that?

OrangePowerz3846d ago

People that buy CoD every buy it because it's CoD.

Also why does BF get a free pass when the main series doesn't change much either?

GarrusVakarian3846d ago (Edited 3846d ago )

Who's giving BF a free pass? I didn't mention BF.

lonz3583846d ago (Edited 3846d ago )

Battlefield actually improves in gameplay. Dice puts in effort to make the game better and not keep it the same because "it's like a sport" lol. COD basically has been the same since Modern Warfare

OrangePowerz3846d ago

The BF4 Beta feels the same as BF3.

CaptCalvin3846d ago

IDK what you're on. BF4 is looking to be a massive improvement over BF3 in terms of gameplay. BF3 feels like a prototype to BF4 actually.

Shane Kim3846d ago

BF4 is BF3 with a falling skyscraper. It doesn't mean that it is bad, but see the game as it is.

lsujester3846d ago

I don't know about massive, but it does fix a couple of BF3 issues, but also introduces some of it's own. Either way, the core gameplay hasn't changed that much, except it does feel a bit faster to me, which is most definitely NOT an improvement.

OrangePowerz3846d ago

BF so far had the adventage of bigger gaps between each game so that makes changes more noticeable especially between BF 3 and the previous main games (not including bad company). CoD comes out every year with smaller changes and tweaks and that makes it very hard to see the differences.

I'm not saying BF4 is going to be bad, but I'm realistic enough to see that not much has changed to 3 and I'm ok with that as I buy BF4 because I enjoyed BF3 and want more of the same experience.

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OverdosedWitDopeness3846d ago

Lol do u guys remember when there was a comparison between blackops 2 and ghosts, only true difference was resolution from what i remember.

MizTv3846d ago

All they do is cut and paste

Palaven3846d ago (Edited 3846d ago )

I won't be getting Ghosts on day one but why should they change it when it works and millions of people buy the game ever year?

I am obviously going to get a lot of disagrees but Killzone Shadow Fall multiplayer looks very similar to CoD multiplayer in gameplay videos. It just shows that the CoD multiplayer formula and mechanics work when other developers are taking inspiration from them.

Soupaman663846d ago

why don't we give this much hatred to sport games. its like were just hipsters to the generic things. I bet after so many people praise bf and how cod is filled with kids, kids will go to bf and people will want another shooter and hate bf. I'm not hating. its just annoying seeing these types of complaining about the same thing for years. their method of making cod games is very different from others. I'm even seeing ea doing the same with bf and medal of honor. if that's the way they do it and many consumers like their games and you don't like it, don't buy it. It just means you have an opinion. I bet somebody is probably going to call me a cod fanboy but its the same for everything. People hate on apple, cod, windows 8, and many other things as if there's nothing else in the world to use. People cant call themselves grown people if they keep complaining about products.

pedrof933846d ago

You are wrong, they are right in not changing the game, what is inexcusable is that they release o ton of Dlcs and make the exact same game every year._

GarrusVakarian3846d ago

"they are right in not changing the game"

"what is inexcusable is that they make the exact same game every year"

Way to contradict yourself.

MidnytRain3846d ago

That video wasn't Call of Duty Ghosts.

GarrusVakarian3846d ago (Edited 3846d ago )

What, the video titled "Call Of Duty:Ghosts multiplayer gameplay" wasn't footage of Call Of Duty Ghosts?

Lol,whatever you say buddy.

MidnytRain3846d ago (Edited 3846d ago )

-_- Perhaps you should have just provided a link. I'm looking at a video with that exact title and it's not CoD Ghosts. On a side note, just because I video is titled a certain way doesn't mean it's real. People fish for hits.

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BobBelcher3846d ago

This is what I've always said. People compare CoD to BF when really it's more like Madden and Fifa. Annually released and competitively based.

Thomaticus3846d ago

Quick scoping is a sport now..... And quick scoping while spinning around fast as hell is a sport now..... Sports change parameters to make the game more competitive or balanced all the time. The devs have got to continue to improve gameplay. Don't let the series get stagnant like madden and FIFA (maybe FIFA ) because you're a video game sport.

obelix013846d ago

I hate quick scoping. Its just as bad as camping.

Brix903846d ago

There's no quick scoping in Ghost they took it out.

CaptCalvin3846d ago

What a lame excuse. Some sports undergo changes EVERY YEAR. Look at F1 for example.

CaptCalvin3846d ago

man why you gotta be hating on f1?

CynicalKelly3846d ago

For me, it's not about the lack of changes, I know what CoD is and I can appreciate it for exactly that. A arcade style fast paced shooter. For me, it's that all the changes they do make, are god awful and terrible.

The map design seems to have hit rock bottom, every map is now what seems like a small maze with three or four ways to go. No longer do we have long range areas for snipers, mid range for assault rifle users and close ranged areas for SMGs and the gameplay mechanics have been altered to suit that.

Snipers don't need to aim, too many dumb perks and attachments, explosives, lag compensation.

It's not about change. It's about bad and lazy development. I would buy the same old crap every year if it was like CoD4 or even MW2 but MW3 and Black Ops 2 were two of the worst games I have ever played... That is a huge deal, I play a lot of crap.

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All Call of Duty Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Call of Duty has to be the most recognizable franchise on the planet. They didn’t get that way by only making a handful of games.

COD has a long and storied career. Launching as a PC WW2 first-person shooter, Call of Duty has gone through numerous makeovers and been on just about every system. The series has gone through some serious highs and tragic lows. I’ll be looking at each Call of Duty game, the good the bad, and the ugly."

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UnSelf792d ago

Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking

Minimoth792d ago

Yeah, it's close to the bottom. There are a couple of worse ones. Infinite Warfare definitely deserves its place.

KyRo792d ago

There's a number a lot worse than Vangaurd. It's also a lot better than that car crash Treyarch released before it.

XbladeTeddy791d ago

World at War is my favourite. Didn't know the N-Gage had a Call of Duty.

MadLad791d ago

Same for me.
I was never huge into Call of Duty, but I sunk a lot of time into WaW.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer are on point. Wouldn't mind a remaster.

I quit on CoD for a long while. Though I'm the odd man out that actually really enjoyed the campaign for WWII, being I got it through Humble monthly way back when.

TheLigX791d ago

I really enjoyed the Infinite campaign. Multiplayer... not so much.

Yppupdam791d ago

I agree, The Infinite campaign feels more like it's own thing that they slapped the CoD name on. If it stood on it's own, (sans the CoD name) I think it could have been it's own scifi franchise. And a damn good looking game, to boot. I never bothered to play the multiplayer.

victorMaje791d ago

MW 2019 apart from the desastrous file sizes is way better than AW.

MadLad791d ago

That was one I grabbed for Playstation because it pretty much just came out during the Redbox purge of videogames, and I got it for dirt cheap.

It was great coming home to an update every night, and watching one game eat up almost half my console's memory.

Amplitude791d ago (Edited 791d ago )

Will get disagrees but Infinite Warfare campaign was really good. Decent story, set pieces were amazing and if it didn't have the CoD game on it I'm sure people would have been more into it. Advanced Warfare was alright too. Titanfall 2 was just 1000 times better than both but I enjoyed them for their campaigns. I literally barely gaf about the story I'm in it for the set pieces and 5 hours of being stoned watching cool nonsense happen if I'm in the mood to play a CoD campaign. If I'm looking for a deep plot I'm gonna go somewhere else.
Ghosts was the worst story-wise though lol that cliffhanger ending was so bs.

Also MW 2019 was sick and is one of the best CoD games in yeeeears not sure why it's so low on this dude's list. Campaign was great, multiplayer was great and Warzone was fun for a while. Over it now but shrugs.

Beat the Vanguard campaign too but I can't even remember a single thing about it other than that it felt like it was 45 minutes long. Might be the most forgettable thing I've ever played lol just fully erased from my brain

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Call of Duty Multiplayer This Decade Ranked (2010-2019)

Call of Duty multiplayer ranked from worst to best! 2019 is coming to a close and MP1st ranks the best COD multiplayer games this decade.

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Ray Tracing in Monster Hunter World, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Watch_Dogs 2, COD: Ghosts & more

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members Benchmark PC Tech, Jose cangrejo, WillTalksTech, Zetman and MissinInAction have published some videos, showing Monster Hunter World, Black Mesa Xen, Watch_Dogs 2, Call of Duty Ghosts, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, The Sinking City, Remember Me, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Dishonored 2 with the ray tracing/path tracing effects that Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod introduces."

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Pyroxfaglover1753d ago

Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine

MarkyMark891753d ago (Edited 1753d ago )

Agree, but this gives me hope that one day Ray Tracing can be a software based feature and not require some type of proprietary hardware to achieve. Software will always outpace Hardware so it could happen, but I feel like its going to take a lot more time to achieve the same level that RTX has already shown glimpses of so far. Really just waiting for Cyberpunk to see if RTX is actually something viable. I think if anybody can truly showcase RTX Features it would be Projekt Red.

zeal0us1753d ago

Too bad it doesn't make Mankind Divided a better game.

starchild1753d ago

It doesn't need to, the game was already fantastic, imo.

zeal0us1752d ago

Human Revolution was a better game and not to mention longer.

isarai1753d ago

Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"