Infinity Ward says its most dedicated players aren't gamers. So what does make a gamer -- and does it even matter?
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."
Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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."
Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine
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.
Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"
For me a gamer is someone who is passionate about games
Those who would make accounts to gaming websites like this one
Those who would probably sell their kidney to scrape enough cash together for the next big release
Those who don't let fanboy crap get in the way of games they want to play on
Those who can see when a company is screwing them over and can see the probably outside the box despite it being a favourite developer/company
Those who talk and play on games whenever they can
Those who actually know what they are talking about
However I hate when people who you know isn't really a gamer thinks they are one these days (thanks to how casual/mainstream gaming has become) because they played on some PS1/N64/NES games when they were younger, who just buy big most talked about blockbuster games because they are currently "in" or who keep saying they are a gamer because they play on one or two games
For me being a gamer isn't about just playing on games willy nilly, it's about actually having an interest and having the knowledge of the gaming industry. If I went to someone and said something easy like "Who is Gabe Newell" or "Who is Ken Levine" for example and they didn't no then I'm sorry but your not really a gamer are you.
I think we are all gamers as we all enjoy playing games. some on different levels than others.
the great divide is when someone does not play the same game or allot the same amount of time and dedication to the games then we assign labels.
thus the animosity between factions of gamers over the labeling of casual and core when the most basic understanding is we are really all members of the same hobby.
We should enjoy the fruits of the labor instead of throwing the fruit at each other.
Someone that likes videogames and plays them. That's it.
Funny I made a comment to this effect this morning. Gamer (core and casual included) is completely self-defined and has no real concrete definition. That won't stop people from constantly using the term as law when arguing of course. This was a great topic for gamescoop, and hopefully some people will learn from this discussion.
I can tell you what a gamer isn't, and that is a fanboy. Fanboys are so narrow minded they only see their console as being capable of having great games. A fanboy is not a gamer period. Oh, and its a constant pissing match about specs.