It’s exactly a DLC that Activision realised they could make people pay £70 for instead of half that. Only a few weeks after MW2 came out it was being floated that there was no COD for 2023, and instead a Ghost focused expansion would come out to fill the void.
Don’t like it don’t buy it but FFS stop with faux shock and horror. COD is of the most aggressively monetised franchises in mainstream gaming, from a company with zero scruples. Facts that have been valid for a decade or more and the regular news cycle attached to it all gets tiring.
Ignore the bugger and maybe they’ll be forced to do better next time when this sell’s poorer (you can hope at least). It’s not like this is some long awaited sequel either, just skip this one. There’s so much more to play this year in particular.
The achievements on Xbox and PS5 even show up as a DLC of MW2. I wonder how late in the development process did they realize that if they could sell almost the same game every year then they probably could literally sell the same game twice.
They realized that in 2012 tbh. I haven’t purchased an MW game since (old) MW2 because I hated their practice of yearly releases while only adding incremental changes.
It was a better package deal when Zombies was at its heyday. It was the only reason I got CODs, though I would play multi as well. Now that Zombies is a pile of steaming shit I have no reason to buy COD.
Leading up to mw2 launch, they were repeatedly saying it was the first 2 year release. They said there would only be a paid dlc at the end of the year. A few weeks into launch they back pedeled and released a statement saying that wasn’t true. Something they could have done before launch, but didn’t, for sales. There are maps in mw3 that have been in the code of mw2 since launch andnwere never released. Fuck them.
I think this is also what happened with AC: Mirage. Ubi originally had planned it as DLC for Valhalla.
At least they had the decency not to charge $70 for it, but still, it’s MBA businessthink in charge of AAA gaming right now. Unless people stop buying them, nothing changes.
At least - and I can’t believe i am defending Ubisoft - they released “hey this dlc, let’s make it bigger and better and into its own game”
My thoughts exactly, we live in a world where content creators have to make content on new releases to stay afloat. Never pre-order and VOTE WITH YOUR MONEY
You don’t have to ignore it just don’t pay for shit. Sail the seas if you have to
If you’re sick of massive AAA developers running cash grabs, my suggestion is stop patronizing their games until they get their sh*t together. An excellent alternative if you’re looking for a fun FPS game is Battle-Bit Remastered. I personally love this game, and there is a long running joke that the three guys that made this basically shat on the AAA developer world when they released a full featured FPS for $15 that is enjoyable and has 0 micro transactions.
I totally respect what they’ve done, and I admittedly am not a Call of Duty player, but Roblox graphics are an instant turn off for me and I really don’t think the general CoD player base is going to be drawn in by it either. If there was a graphics pack that made it look modern and zero percent like Roblox I might be able to get into it, but not as it is.
I’ve played some surprisingly good games with untextured polygons.
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Star Fox
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Race the Sun
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Carrier Command 2
That’s not to say that you couldn’t take the same games and make a flashier version that I wouldn’t like more, but I do kind of think that it forces the developers not to use glitz as a crutch. Like, if you’re going to make a game with untextured polygons and sell it, you are going to have to have solid gameplay.
Another benefit is that it’s easier to revise a game if you haven’t committed a lot of expensive assets into particular game design decisions. I think that a long, iterative development process with gameplay revisions is probably a good thing for gameplay.
I kind of wish that one could more-frequently get commercial “HD” DLC for small-budget games, like indie pixel-art games. I think that low-res pixel art is a good way to reduce asset costs, let the player’s brain fill in a lot of the detail, but if a game does turn out to be successful and I like it, I’d like to be able to also get a more-detailed version. That way, I’m only paying for assets on games with good gameplay.
I’ve seen a small handful of games do that, but it’s definitely not the norm.
Maybe AI upscaling will help.
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It’s funny because it’s true.
wow, just like a certain game that launched twelve years ago, called “Modern Warfare 3”
I stated playing battlebit and I don’t even consider bothering with mainstream titles anymore. This release is garbage, the last 5 releases have just been progressively worse and worse, like hey even bother?
It feels like I have more fun in 1 game of battlebit than I did over the entirety of my 200+ hours of BO2, which was the last mainstream shooter I played that didn’t feel entirely like a waste of money.
I bought battlebit but the audio didn’t work, so I refunded it :(
That’s crazy, I’m playing on linux with no issues hahaha
It is still early access, so if the issue hasn’t been fixed already I’m sure it will be before too long!
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Battlebit was one of my faste fastestest refunds. Such a bad game.
As someone enjoying it tremendously, why?
The gameplay is smooth, there is a plethora of maps and modes, teamplay is encouraged but not strictly needed. Mapsize ranges from 16v16 to 127v127.
The only arguement i could see is the low poly graphics and that’s like, what did you expect?
Bad graphics, bad gun balance, bad gunplay, bad community, too many unaddressed bugs, reporting system is very bad.
Did you play like, AT launch? Battlebit has by far the best gun balance of any FPS I’ve played in recent memory. Every single gun I’ve used is viable, it just depends on playstyle. After the SMG nerf it’s a wildly even playing field.
What’s your problem with the gunplay? It’s the same as every other FPS game out right now. Staged reloads, handling that makes sense, bullet drop + travel time… literally what is there to complain about here?
I could go on but this is turning into a rant, and I have a sneaking suspicion that you’re some rogue COD stan and I might as well be yelling into a void. Either way it’s valid to like what you like, your tastes just heavily confuse me lol
The majority of the videos on the game are about how bad the game balance is. There should be no surprise that only 2/3s of the reviews are positive.
That’s just not true, the game is at 89% positive. The game has gun balancing problems, but so does every shooter ever. They regularly release patches to shake up the meta.
Why are you using youtube videos and not actual game reviews as a metric for how good the game is? The videos stay up forever, reviews are MUCH more likely to change to reflect changes to the game.
The videos are recent and show issues with the game.
Reviews tend to be put up and almost never changed.
The people who care enough to complain are also largely the ones who keep buying it, so they train companies to realize that complaining is something that can be ignored because it’s all bark and no bite.
The sales figures of this might still be ok, but the next might be poorer, but that won’t be blamed on this.
They’ll probably think we didn’t have enough DLCs and microtransactions to make people happy, and out DRM needs to be more intrusive to improve our sales.
I’m done with COD after last year’s. If I don’t buy battle pass blah blah…I spent 70 fucking dollars already, that’s the price of the game not a ticket to continually pay. Fuck off.
I feel like CoD has been a joke for like the past 5-7 years. They just keep rehashing the same thing year after year and players gobble it up. My friend is addicted to it and plays it online constantly, I stopped playing it when they shifted focus from the offline single player and two player story/missions to the online Battle Royale style games. I don’t find getting spawn killed and getting screamed at by 10 year olds fun.
Cod has been a joke since development was taken from Infinity Ward. Infinity Ward worked on the engine for CoD3 but Treyarch developed the game. The last great CoD was the original Modern Warfare.
Do you mean the original MW or the rehashed one? The last one I probably played was MW2. My friend (not the one mentioned above, another friend) loved playing the co-op wave style missions, and the stealth missions.
I remember playing the one that had Christopher Meloni in it and it ran like shit on my PC which was high end. After that, I lost interest. When I moved in with the one that was addicted, I’d play with him just as a “bonding experience”, then he wanted me to play online with him , which I did occasionally. I remember trying to do the “secrets” and then having some asshole bitch me out because I moved an inch off of a platform or didn’t kill someone in time. Fuck that.
The original. With private server support.
Yep, that was a good time. I hate that it’s so difficult to find local two player games now, everything is online.
If you bought horse armor back in the day, you directly caused this problem.
Well, you vote with your wallet. This is what happens when gamers pre-order incomplete games and scream about the state of the game on social media: you get crap products like this.
Money is the only thing that appeals to companies. If people would just vote with their wallets, we wouldn’t have this situation.
Fucking seriously.
You don’t want to support this shit? Don’t pay them for this shit… If you really want to play the shit, sail the seas ffs
We vote with our wallets. It’s the huge majority of the mainstream audience that also voted with their wallet by buying that makes out opinions irrelevant.
We do…the problem is we’re a drop in an ocean compared to the vast majority who do not, or as NightOwl put it, they do too, but they help perpetuate the lazy products AAA companies typically spew out by just buying
Okay I’m seeing tons of comments from people about Battle Bit, but is there something good like it that features more realistic graphics? No disrespect to that game but the Roblox style instantly kills it for me.
Battlefield 1 is solid and still has decent NA community servers. Semi modern, but not much of a cash grab with good stories and a fun multiplayer experience. Especially the naval battles (imo!)
I’ll give it a shot. I admittedly have never played a single BF game since BF Vietnam, lol, and I somehow own on PC like 7 BF games including BF1. So I’m going to take your advice and give it a shot!
I have 1942, Vietnam, 2, 3, 4, 1, and 5 (I Believe that’s release order), is BF1 a better choice than 5 to try out?
I mean, I’m biased, but I refunded BFV and put well over 500 hours into BF1, haha. It feels better than V imo.
Will probably get down voted to heck, but Battle Field 2042 goes on sale pretty regularly and is a good bit of fun since they fixed a lot of the issues from it’s atrocious launch.
I’ve had it on my wishlist, but I hesitate to buy anything from BF or CoD only for it to be replaced a year later and no one to play with. I mean, CSGo/CS2 has been going strong for years and in that time there have been like a dozen of each of the other franchises released.
It’s kind of crazy how it’s really just CoD, Halo, and battlefield after all these years. There’s some more mil-sim type shooters out there that are great, insurgency, hell let loose, squad, for example. It doesn’t seem like there’s much out there though in terms of the less serious team death match shooters. The only other one I can think of is maybe titan fall.
I’m itching for a good single player arcade-y/soldier-y FPS. Anyone have a suggestion? Haven’t played CoD (nor BF for that matter) since the one with the No Russian level.
Insurgency: Sandstorm has a very solid base even if it has been mismanaged of late.
BattleBit, if you want a BFBC2 multiplayer feeling!
3 days late but, seconded on battlebit! expecially for that arcade feel. it’s all the best parts of battlefield in a package that can run on basically any modern hardware.
Yep this one’s in my wishlist, I’ll get it next time it’s on sale!
Trepang2. It’s the spiritual successor to FEAR.
Nice, I loved FEAR 1 and 2, thanks!
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As opposed to the original MW3, which was a totally unique experience from CoD MW2 because…well don’t worry about that part, it was its own disk!
Modern Warfare III is not a remake of MW3. It’s a remake of the second half of MW2.
That’s the most confusing thing I’ve ever heard.
Yeah trying to search information about the new game just brings up results about MW3 that was released over 2 years ago. It’s super confusing. The only reason I found the new game was because it’s in Blizzard’s launcher.
Wonder what they will do when they remake the third game?
I’m old. I miss the WW2 CODs.
World at War remains my favorite in the series. The more modern ones and futuristic 3D maneuvering ones were never my cup of tea
Heh. I was just discussing this with a friend 2 days ago. We surmised that they would half ass it even more than MW2 because this one was already half assed and still sold well, and Battlefield, which is basically their only competitor, is in shambles right now (and was in a an even more sorry state around when they probably started working on MW3).
Sounds like we were mostly correct
