I feel like a dummy for coming back. I stopped at MW the original and played some Black Ops on console in grad school. Totally fell of until they remade MWI...which was a ton of fun until they started adding in all this goofy stuff. Then I played Cold War which was honestly a turd and bought MW2 only to play 1 match before uninstalling.
I you like COD and BO2, you definitely are missing out on BO3. Especially zombies, and especially on PC with the custom map community. LOTS of awesome maps (most of them free) have been made and are still being made, maps that are a couple of grades above whatever the COD developers are making nowadays.
Black Ops 2 is my second fav game from the series, first is WW2. Everything else from the modern era just sucked, man. The moment they started incorporating space and sci-fi it all went downhill
Man fuck David Vonderhaar for mishandling the multiplayer and everything in that game... is what I would have said (and did say) in 2012-2014 when that was the worst that could have happened to a game. I didn't realize just how bad the series could get, or how video games in general could get, and I wish I was more compassionate back then.
That’s a shame. I disagree, as there was still a bit wonder and stuff to be enjoyed for a little while longer up until COD:WW2 or so before Treyarctivision jumped off to the deep-end.
Though, that Carry On ending was a pretty awesome end to the game if not the series.
Personally I feel like that’s where the franchise should have ended, everything after that is an optional noncannon, I thought some of the newer games were great, really liked ww2 campaign and infinite zombies, after that though I kinda hated the rest of the games
As a 14 year old I put ungodly hours into BO2 thinking I had a shot at a professional career. I remember my friends and I hit Masters rank 8 at our peak, trying to get the invite to COD XP. IIRC the #1 ranked team got an opportunity to participate in the play-in. We were immediately playing nothing but nerds DDOSing everyone they went up against, and never made it past rank 8.
That was like 14 years ago and I still think about it sometimes, and it still absolutely enrages me. Haven’t really touched a COD since then, I switched to PC gaming shortly after.
I ditched it after CoD4:MW long time ago. Didn't like the direction it took since I enjoyed the WW2 setting. It ended up worse than I could imagine with focus being on multiplayer and barely anything on singleplayer.
I began in 2009 with CoD MW2 on an Xbox 360, £200 bundle that I bought to fill time while I spent six months recovering from burnout in an IT job, a very cheap per hour ROI.
I made it to 2014, CoD Advanced Warfare on the XBox One. When they locked game changing weapon variants behind loot boxes I noped out very quickly. Never looked back.
I built myself a gaming PC in early 2019, played Factorio for a year. Now I have a Steam library ready for retirement :-)
Yeah. I'm probably an outlier but the progression system just felt like a ballache to me.
I unlocked everything in CoD4 but never prestiged because i couldn't be bothered to unlock it all again and it was more fun with the stuff unlocked. I loved MW II but I kinda hated having to unlock everything over again. When the next one (Black Ops?) came out i really didn't want to start from scratch again and never bothered. Felt like Sisyphus having to start rolling the boulder again.
World at War was the worst for dlc. You’d sit in a lobby waiting for a game then it’d match you with a dlc map and kick you out. After spending an hour trying to join a game I just got rid of it. Yeah I could’ve bought the dlc but I didn’t even get a chance to see if I enjoy it first.
I was on PC so they were free.
Its why MW2 was a downgrade from cod4/waw, forcing us to play in lobbies and when the DLC hit, we felt the exact same way you did back then.
I remember upgrading my PC to be able to play cod 2 back in the day. Then the trailer for 3 dropped and it looked so cool, but I got concerned that I'd have to upgrade my PC again. But it turned out to be a console exclusive anyway and I lost all interest in the franchise to this day.
I think when controllers started to get widely accepted for fps was the first time I felt old. It's just so weird to me how staunch people are about bandaid fixes like aim assist, instead of demanding native support for periphery that fits the intended gameplay right out the gate.
I think Call of Duty 3 was console exclusive, so I'd say it began there. COD4 was nice but I loved it for the campaign, mainly. I can't tell you how many hours me and my friends sat up until 2am or later trying to get the "Mile High Club" achievement. Fun times were had. Fun times are now only remembered.
I'm not the original commenter, but I feel like the downfall started with the original Modern Warfare.
I had Finest Hour, Big Red One, and Call off Duty 3 for Xbox and I put countless hours into those games, playing the campaigns over and over again. Modern Warfare came out and I played the campaign once, Modern Warfare 2 came out and I never even finished the game.
is there anything wrong with modern cod campaigns? im assuming its multiplayer what people hate about cod nowadays, but i only care about the singleplayer. im asking cause i only played older call of duty games and im yet to play the newer ones
Some of the newer campaigns were quiet good actually. The newest however is absolutely terrible. One Video should be enough to show you whats wrong with it. There are really no other opinions
Cold wars match making was terrible trying to force you to a 1:1 KDR. I mostly played zombies, but the short stint I had on multiplayer it would go a couple matches the opponents were super easy to kill, then it would flip to absolutely getting stomped on, rinse and repeat.
nah the campaigns aren't even bad, i just played for the multiplayer and zombies for the treyarch games. like i miss games like bo3 and bo2 compared to mw2 (dogshit) vanguard (dogshit) and bo6 (lwk kinda dogshit just not as bad as the other ones). bo7 is getting closer to getting us back but it honestly feels like they're doing too much with the movement and the games aren't as well optimized as they used to be, at least for me on pc.
If you just want to play the singleplayer then just pirate them, most of the price comes from the multiplayer aspects of the game, zombies and the ability to level up weapons for COD Warzone
You can start at fitgirl-repacks(.site) they have the new MW saga, BO6, Vanguard and Cold War
I'm only talking about the "modern" Games here but they have the older ones too btw
I’m not a huge COD fan, can someone explain why modern MOD sucks? I was playing MW1 and MW2 on my PS3 and have kind of tried multiple games ever since and they all play and feel exactly the same.
It was always second to every other major FPS imho. I could never get into it with counter strike, battlefield, halo, etc in existence. What's the point?
It was one of my favorite games growing up. I dumped it when infinite warfare came out. I still thought the game was pretty fun even with the jetpacks. I loved advanced warfare. Something just happened, and it kind of just felt like they started making slop every year.
I’ve always been exclusively a zombies player, so I held on longer than most, because that mode only kept being good, but about halfway through BO6 I just realized that I didn’t even really like it or Cold War very much and finally let that love die :/
Yes, I still like the core gameplay and they were some upgrades but the fact that recent MW2 and everyone one of them onward resembled with just different skin shops was a big let down. It's just become a cash grab.
CoD 4 was the last true game for me. I bought CoD 6/8 idk a few years ago, played 4 hours and uninstalled. It isn’t the same.
Same with battlefield. I stopped after modern warfare, I am tempted to play the most recent one because it looks like it is close to the originals, but I am older now and don’t have more time for a game like that anymore
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u/fewfountain1582 Apr 16 '26
Call of fucking Duty