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Call of Duty: Why Sledgehammer's Vietnam Shooter Was a Good Idea

New ideas aren't always money ideas, but in this case of Call of Duty, something new is just what the Vietnam medic ordered.

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60FramesPerSecond3593d ago

Honestly i think sledgehammer's advance warfare is a better idea. people would have wrote off the vietnam game as another generic cod, regardless of its actual story and gameplay

XboxDD3592d ago

theyre doing the same with aw anyways, haters gonna hate

Immorals3592d ago

Modern day is far more generic than Vietnam.

AW is even more so

USMC_POLICE3591d ago

I disagree i think a vietnam game would have been welcomed as only a few were ever made and AW looks the same as every cod since cod4 just reskinned. I know im writing off AW and wont buy it but I would have bought a vietnam title

iDadio3591d ago

People were tired of WW2 and wanted something modern, now people are tired of that and want something different, we are going full circle.

yezz3591d ago

What I want is diversity. Now we are only getting one thing for 6 years and then the circle starts again. Why can't we have a mix of all these different time periods so we don't get bored to them one after another...

Hazmat133591d ago

back in my days everybody was sick of WW2 and Vietnam shooters. now they want them again? i know space warfare will be played off like a bad ripoff of (popular space shooter here) or a modern shooter like (popular modern shooter here) its too the point of why bother with it if its been said and done? alright gonna step off my (captain) soap box

SouthClaw3591d ago

Vietnam would be a hard game for COD to focus on. Since it was a war America never won.

iceman063591d ago

True. But, IMO, that would make for some of the greatest fodder for plot and story. Much like the reality of the real war, it would be about the cost of war. As opposed to the idea of winning a war. Of all of the wartime scenarios, I think that Vietnam just oozes that since of defeat and insurmountable challenge that would prove excellent as a plot device.

SpinalRemains1383591d ago

No America didn't win the war, but those who lobbied for the war won big time! Tons of money to be made when boots are on the ground, and that's all that matters......to them.

PsylentKiller3591d ago

It was never declared a war. Vietnam was a police action. But as iceman06 said, it would be a great place for a story. There so many great Vietnam stories and movies to pull inspiration from.

SonyStyled3590d ago

Shouldn't have been there to fix Frances problem in the first place

SonyStyled3590d ago

Politically the Vietnam War was a loss. However if you are one that bases wins and losses off of bodies, the US KDR was like 20:1 or something ridiculous like that

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Master-H3591d ago

Vietnam would be cool, sorta like black Ops. But what would be awesome like COD4 was is probably a Desert Storm COD with similar weaponry to COD4, trying to capture Saddam and stuff.

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Please, can Call of Duty leave awful Netflix-style menus behind

Call of Duty games used to be streamlined experiences, but COD 2024’s UI could be another nightmarish clutter of streaming tabs.

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BlackCountryBob5d ago

If we’re beating that drum, can we also stop forcing anyone who wants to play only the single player to download Warzone and all updates BEFORE they are then able to do another download from the menu of the single player campaign. I don’t see why I need 150gb of downloads in several ways to play the single player mode only from a bloomin disk which should have that campaign on it already.

DefenderOfDoom25d ago (Edited 5d ago )

The UI is confusing to me because I have not purchased a Call of Duty iin like 8 years .Only bought CoD MW3 because 3 of my friends I have known since to 70s are playing zombies . But I am used it now .

smolinsk5d ago

The UI is the least of the franchise many problems these days. But yes the UI is also terrible.

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.

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GoodGuy0917d ago (Edited 17d ago )

Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.

Tacoboto16d ago

The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.

It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.

Cacabunga15d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo15d ago

As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.

The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all

franwex16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?

Inverno16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.

jjb198116d ago

I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.

PRIMORDUS16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.

StoneTitan15d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut8516d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra303015d ago

100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!

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Massive new COD Black Ops Gulf War leak lifts the lid on loadouts

The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.

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