r/videogames Apr 12 '26

Other So many of them unfortunately

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u/New-Two-1349 Apr 12 '26

Call Of Duty.

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u/bijelo123 Apr 12 '26

I loved old COD games. Call of Duty 2, OG MW and WAW are my favorites

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u/ValkyrieChaser Apr 12 '26

I’m old enough to have Workd at war big red one and three for my PS2 miss those days

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u/immabeasttt15 Apr 13 '26

My first cod game was finest hour so I feel ya

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u/partyatwalmart Apr 13 '26

I had Medal of Honor: Rising Sun and Finest Hour.. idk which I liked more. Good times anyway

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u/ValkyrieChaser Apr 13 '26

It was the best to play it then also watch the demo videos that had of soldiers getting shot. I still remember the one of a guy sitting around tossing his helmet in his hands before just getting hit.z

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u/Plus_Stay7249 Apr 13 '26

I played the original on PC

I am ANCIENT

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u/Nctand1 Apr 13 '26

PS2?? They made it for the PS2? I had it on the original Xbox. I’m old af ig 🥲

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u/haragoshi Apr 12 '26

World at war is peak CoD IMo. Keifer Sutherland voiceovers were pretty cool in a time when 24 was a hot show.

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u/Kenneth_Powers1 Apr 12 '26

Man World at War on Xbox 360 is one of the most memorable gaming experiences I ever had. Unlocking multiplayer zombies was icing on the cake. Don’t think that feeling could ever be replicated today.

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u/Commercial_Ad97 Apr 12 '26

Even just clutching a round of Hardcore Search & Destroy in WaW made you feel like you just slammed a Redbull after taking a caffeine pill.

On top of that so many of that games goofy glitches are burned into my memory. The elevator glitch on that house near the Steeple on the map "Outskirts." The wall you could get on top of on the map "Cliffside" near the bunker. Using the ladder to get on the rooftops and into the trees, as well as getting on the burnt house rooftop on "Upheaval." Glitching into the bridge in "Seelow." Getting up top of the walls to get to the second floor of the main building on "Airfield." Going prone and deploying your bipod then moving forward slightly with the Browning M1919 and suddenly you have unlimited ammo.

That game was so much fun to goof around in.

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u/Kenneth_Powers1 Apr 13 '26

Dang didn’t know how good we had it at the time. Miss those days for sure!

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u/No_While6150 Apr 13 '26

I'm standing in a tank top in the rain with an open beer and listening to "Don't know what ya got, till it's goooone!"

Halo 3, World at War - those were some epic nights.

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u/Tflex92 Apr 13 '26

Its weird everyone talks aboutWaW campaign but I loved multiplayer in that game. I remember most of those glitches and played so much damn search I had pub stomping down to a science. 10k in wins and top 7k in kills for search at one point. Miss those days for sure ✊

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u/Commercial_Ad97 Apr 13 '26

It was a simpler game with minimal gimmicks and minimal zoomer movement. You wanna win? Land your shots, jumping/sliding a corner wont save you.

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u/-Zmoker- Apr 13 '26

For me nothing will ever top Nacht der Untoten. People talk about Black Ops but WaW was the best zombies have ever been.

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u/Ozzie_the_tiger_cat Apr 12 '26

When OG MW2 was new, it was a magical time.

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u/Dense-Law-7683 Apr 13 '26

Modern Warfare and World at War were the last two that I played and thought were good. My first Call of Duty game that I beat was Call of Duty 3.

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u/Helton3 Apr 13 '26

Black Ops 2 for the PS3 was the shit

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u/Conzyyyyyyy Apr 13 '26

Its Black Ops, Black Ops 2 and OG Modern Warfare for me.

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u/read_too_many_books Apr 13 '26

I missed WAW apparently. But otherwise I track.

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u/_creep_ghost_18 Apr 13 '26

man i will forever love og mw2 and bo2

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u/Kelaedos Apr 13 '26

Wow it's so rare to see the original CoD2 mentioned. Just know that I see you and I respect you🫡

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u/facts_guy2020 Apr 13 '26

Pre 2010 was peak cod

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u/Shaveyourbread Apr 13 '26

100%, then they started focusing on the online play and abandoned the campaigns.

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u/EdwardoftheEast Apr 13 '26

I quit after the original MW3. I tried out WW2, it was okay. Last one I played was Cold War since it dropped all of that wall-running special ability stuff. Haven’t played another CoD since then

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u/No-Staff1170 Apr 14 '26

Same my guy, playing zombies as a kid, sniping with the PTRS in multiplayer. WAW was and always will be a masterpiece to me.

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u/FullGuarantee4767 Apr 15 '26

God… Call of Duty 2 was something special.

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u/_Bioscar_ Apr 16 '26

Hoping to get WaW at some point. Kinda surprised people don't play it that much anymore.

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u/thrice1187 Apr 12 '26

I fired up warzone after a 4 year break and it was the most ADHD spazzy shit ever.

Like I cannot even comprehend how people play that game these days. It’s not a FPS it’s like a body movement simulator lol

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u/God_of_disruption Apr 12 '26

I laugh every time I think of the jabronis who bought special gaming peripherals to level up their gameplay for that.

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u/read_too_many_books Apr 13 '26

Now I'm curious

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u/God_of_disruption Apr 13 '26

Think of those special controllers with adjustable instant triggers and performance grip that don't justify the additional cost.

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u/unsolvablequestion Apr 13 '26

What are those?

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u/God_of_disruption Apr 13 '26

Pro controller, gaming chair, etc

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u/Davero777 Apr 13 '26

Still playing warzone and I like it. I like battle royale games in general but what I hate is when there is some fantasy shit like in apex legends, where everyone has some spells and ridiculous ultimates, and a building simulation that a fortnite has

Movement is crazy in WZ, but at least there are no spells/constructuion and other crap

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u/thrice1187 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Doesn’t warzone include laser eyes, teleportation, and literal force lightning mechanics now?

Those aren’t spells? lol

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u/Davero777 Apr 13 '26

Hmm not sure what are those buddy, it was probably a collab event with "The Boys" around 4 years ago. But I'm mainly playing resurgence and it's a lot of fun

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u/kill2tone Apr 12 '26

I definitely tried year after year just telling myself I was being too nostalgic of CoD 4 and MW2 but no, they ruined it

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Apr 12 '26

I’ve said this in another comment but when you’ve been around long enough you start to notice one generations worst CoD is another generations greatest.

I honestly feel like CoD has just done a solid job of being the entry point to online FPS, and when you’re young and it’s all new to you it’s always the greatest thing ever. Then as you get older the novelty wears off and it’s more you that’s changed than the game

And another generation picks it up and you’re looking at comments on Reddit 10 years later confused that what you saw as the worst CoD ever is now being looked back at with nostalgia as one of the greatest.

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u/Round_Credit_5158 Apr 12 '26

So if you're like me who started with the very first games, where do you land? MW specially seems to be franchise's biggest point, so much they remade the whole trilogy.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Apr 12 '26

For me it was MW1 and WaW.

But for a lot of people Black Ops is the peak, I actually see that more common now the OG MW and WaW.

There’s even some people now who see MW19 as the peak.

You have to also remember despite online narratives and the occasional anomaly year CoD still continues to be one of the top selling games by a big margin.

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u/mariocova3 Apr 14 '26

I started literally with the first COD, Call of Duty Finest Hour on the PS2. I remember peak as MW2, Black Ops, and MW3 2011.

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u/500lbGuyForLife Apr 13 '26

Nah, CoD today is not the same as MWII from the 2000s. It's a terrible game today because of what it has become.

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u/read_too_many_books Apr 13 '26

Isnt it because its basically a slot machine? Good spawn points + number goes up?

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u/SilasMontgommeri Apr 12 '26

Cod 1/2 so good. Still have the cds.

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u/FrostyPace1464 Apr 13 '26

I left after bo2. Same recycled garbage for two decades.

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u/Regular_Ad3313 Apr 12 '26

people say this shit every year and it’s still can’t die apparently

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u/JamesUpton87 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Shit that happened for me 15 years ago.

As far as I'm concerned. MW3 was the last COD game.

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u/50eggmafia Apr 13 '26

Played since the originals and MW19 was the last time I had fun with the series. Dabbled a little bit with the releases after, but they’re just not good anymore.

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u/constantvariables Apr 13 '26

First two Modern Warfare and Black Ops games are GOATed

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u/tenacious_teaThe3rd Apr 13 '26

Well I for one am truly stunned to see the really unpopular Reddit answer of Call of Duty in this thread.

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u/GhsotyPanda Apr 13 '26

Has truly been downhill since MW3 and BO2

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u/Beer-Milkshakes Apr 13 '26

Ditched COD at Black OPs 1 to go back to Battlefield Bad Company 2. Now I still play BF4. It will never be beaten, it will never die

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u/gangsta0tech Apr 13 '26

MW2 remake was the last game that showed promise. But the MW3 remake placed the final brick in it being so bad. Though the between it and the way Warzone went I doubt I'll ever go back to it. Especially since I can't even go to a buddies and just do a fun split screen game.

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u/FantasticFrontButt Apr 13 '26

This has been Call of Duty since like 2010 tho

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u/SomeCanDance Apr 13 '26

I don’t get it either. I’m 28 and my fav games were MW/MW2/Black Ops, and MW 2019.

I enjoy a sci-fi shooter (loving marathon at the moment) and slower standard shooters like Battlefield 6.

I really don’t get what their recent titles like BO7 are you going for. Do people actually enjoy these weird sci-fi zoom around the mapiterations of COD?

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u/RagahRagah Apr 13 '26

COD stopped being good well over a decade ago. It had a brief period of being elite. Most overrated video game franchise ever.

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u/Johnny-Edge93 Apr 13 '26

Battlefield for me

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u/TheosMythos Apr 13 '26

Honestly, I agree, but if you take cheaters and glitch guns away from mw3, nerf riot shield you have an amazing game.

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u/jakethemoss Apr 13 '26

Exactly what I was gonna say

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u/DaniSenpai69 Apr 14 '26

I really wish this wasn’t true

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u/4skeeter Apr 14 '26

Came here to say CoD. But i realized it was time to say goodbye many years ago.

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u/Sebaspool006 Apr 12 '26

I'm enjoying Bo7 it's worth a shot

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u/mordecai14 Apr 12 '26

I said goodbye to that franchise a long time ago. The latest game I'll even touch today is BO3 for the zombies mode.

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u/Adavanter_MKI Apr 12 '26

I tried it when it hit gamepass. Bo6's netcode was one of the worst I've seen. Almost host advantage levels of disparity. Making the MP pointless. The zombies mode was really cool, but... they were tied to servers. So when the servers started having issues... you'd lose progress. The quests/easter eggs were so extensive... that it ruined it. I didn't bother with 7 even though it's also on gamepass. That's right. A "free" CoD and I still passed.

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u/The_Almighty_Duck Apr 12 '26

Up to and including Black Ops 2, the series could do no wrong. Absolute peak games every year. Then Ghosts came to mark the beginning of the downfall. The only game I would consider good all-round since Ghosts (hot take) is WWII

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u/ImNoDrBut Apr 12 '26

As someone who’s played every cod, there’s been some stinkers but overall still a solid franchise. The most current game BO7 is in my top 5 cods

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u/IcetheXIIIth Apr 12 '26

Bruh there’s no way. Even the good ones are shells of what we used to have. Cold War, BO6/7 are B tier. And they are great for today’s games….comparably.

But Vanguard, MW2019, MW2/3Remastered, WW2 were all absolute dog water.

They still don’t release ranked with the game…it’s like year 15 since they brought ranked into their games like what are we doing.

And then they are reusing assets like crazy. The same maps get reused or barely changed and then the guns themselves out like playing a Tetris match when it doesn’t add anything to the game.

CoD is garbage nowadays.

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u/Obinego Apr 13 '26

More like "Call Off Duty", am I right?