OldJadedGamer
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They will get a lot more respect once they make a top quality game with their own IP.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 trailer (the real one) [Up: Roll Call video]
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They will get a lot more respect once they make a top quality game with their own IP.
Smiles and Cries
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why do some of you guys believe Horses are no longer on Earth in 2025?
EdibleExplosives
Member
Yeah, it's a bit of a weird inspiration to have for a game like CoD. Speaking of which, I really need to complete Human Revolution.
Yeah I really loved black ops maps. I played mp all the way until mw3 came out. I stopped playing mw3 and cod games a week after mw3 came out. Those maps were terrible IMO.
-Pyromaniac-
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I'll quote this again for new page only because it makes me giddy:
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amen. Number one reason I troll IW and praise Treyarch. They get maps.
Relax... Jeez
Who says good graphics and 60fps can't be done together? Please don't buy into the Activision nonsense. They just don't want to put money into a new engine because well..they're greedy
That money that goes into a new engine that isn't older than the CEO himself could be used to buy that new diamond plated jet they've been saving up for.
I wonder if this and the non-linear (if true) gameplay is part of why the game doesn't look as good as people were expecting. If it isn't 100% scripted, going from A to B to C and knowing where every single player will be forced to look and what they'll have to destroy, wouldn't you have to sacrifice something for the somewhat random nature of the gameplay?
Little Old Man
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Thoughts from the other thread:
It looks pretty bad to me, worse than MW3 in a way. It just reminds me of an ambitious mod (that actually got completed due to being a proper game). Maybe it is because I expect the same old crap from Activision- reskinned game, few new mechanics, same old stuff.
I liked Black Ops, so I suppose well done to them for trying something different. However, I'd rather they'd set the game during the late 70s and 80s. You have the oil crisis, the Iranian Revolution, the Iranian Hostage Crisis/failed rescue, loads of third world revolutions and break downs, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (could link up to Cod4 by working with a future terrorist as a US spec op- that'd be the controversy sorted), the Falklands War, Iranian Contraband scandal, the Iranian Embassy Siege in London, the final money escalation of the Cold War under Reagan (Star Wars program for example), Chernobyl, the USSR beginning to break down and fall apart, and anything else I've forgotten. Plus all the completely 'made up' scenarios they could use.
Would have been far better.
Edit: shit, they could have even had a Rambo rip off segment at the start of the game in Media Res where you kill loads of national guard in a blood filled rage, shoot up a small town, only to be stopped by your 'Nam commander.
And yeah, the engine is really showing its age now. A lot.
It looks pretty bad to me, worse than MW3 in a way. It just reminds me of an ambitious mod (that actually got completed due to being a proper game). Maybe it is because I expect the same old crap from Activision- reskinned game, few new mechanics, same old stuff.
I liked Black Ops, so I suppose well done to them for trying something different. However, I'd rather they'd set the game during the late 70s and 80s. You have the oil crisis, the Iranian Revolution, the Iranian Hostage Crisis/failed rescue, loads of third world revolutions and break downs, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (could link up to Cod4 by working with a future terrorist as a US spec op- that'd be the controversy sorted), the Falklands War, Iranian Contraband scandal, the Iranian Embassy Siege in London, the final money escalation of the Cold War under Reagan (Star Wars program for example), Chernobyl, the USSR beginning to break down and fall apart, and anything else I've forgotten. Plus all the completely 'made up' scenarios they could use.
Would have been far better.
Edit: shit, they could have even had a Rambo rip off segment at the start of the game in Media Res where you kill loads of national guard in a blood filled rage, shoot up a small town, only to be stopped by your 'Nam commander.
And yeah, the engine is really showing its age now. A lot.
GeekyDad
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Wait 'til you've played the multiplayer again before saying that.
The collective cry of CoD fans: "Please, Activision! Please put my balls in a vice and crush them! I can't get enough."
mysticwhip
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Branching story lines and some non linear gameplay confirmed in the Roll Call video.
Vulcano's assistant
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What the hell did they do to the textures?
thunker 9000
Member
How many more years do you think this trend is going to last?
Bayonetta and DMC4 look pretty good.
They're hanging out with the numbers.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
You think they skimped on budget for the game to market it more? I'm pretty sure they are pushing this old engine about as far as they can...
Everybody knows all horses should be dead by then...
I will buy it, you'll probably buy it too...
-Pyromaniac-
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aren't they "smaller" games though? Like norlak said, memory limitations are probably the big thing here.
Looks pretty cool, love me some "Future" Sci-Fi inspired stuff, really looking forward to what they are doing with Zombies too.
Well luckily we are nearing the start of a new generation, which hopefully means Activision has some developer somewhere working on a new engine that they can carry forward and can scale properly to different hardware.
Well luckily we are nearing the start of a new generation, which hopefully means Activision has some developer somewhere working on a new engine that they can carry forward and can scale properly to different hardware.
Washed_Out
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If Halo 4 wasn't coming out the week before this, I would sadly be all over this.
2025 must be on expensive world considering the vehicles they have would cost billions each. I hope to see SOME current stuff because a lot of the Air Force jets will still be in service then. I don't mind a future setting as long as there's some reality based stuff in there too.
I couldn't tell on my small screen but was that and F-35 going into SVTOL at one point?
I couldn't tell on my small screen but was that and F-35 going into SVTOL at one point?
grimshawish
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Looks dreadful. Basically they've tried NOT to do a rehash...and in the end we've seen this type of thing before.
In no way is this 'Black Ops 2' its much more a new spin off, so am confused its being put in this part of the series...
Waste of time, I'd rather they went further back in time with some gameplay innovations, this just takes current CoD and adds some shiny things. I don't get how this is 'black ops'...
The textures are muddy. Really dreadful. I've seen this kind of stuff on the PS2 quite frankly (in fact a lot of tech based games were, so robots running around just draws attention to this) - seems to me everything that would brand this as 'COD' has been thrown out the window.
In no way is this 'Black Ops 2' its much more a new spin off, so am confused its being put in this part of the series...
Waste of time, I'd rather they went further back in time with some gameplay innovations, this just takes current CoD and adds some shiny things. I don't get how this is 'black ops'...
The textures are muddy. Really dreadful. I've seen this kind of stuff on the PS2 quite frankly (in fact a lot of tech based games were, so robots running around just draws attention to this) - seems to me everything that would brand this as 'COD' has been thrown out the window.
Love the PEWPEW and SPLOSION part! LOL
Looks cool. At least it isn't staying modern day like MOH.
I'm not really one to defend CoD, hell I didn't even play blops or mw3, but you're making a ton of assumptions based off a trailer with no gameplay. I agree that the engine is dated though. I could care less about sacrificing graphics for framerate since im on PC anyways.
Dark_AnNiaLatOr
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And here I am again. I know I will enjoy the campaign, always have for cods. Very very cool setup, hopefully this multiplayer delivers where blops and mw3 did not. Call me hyped!!
Latter stages in nayo are comparable to big setpieces on COD, I know they're different beasts but still, they have like infinite money
la flama blanca
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All the budgets and decisions that affect the game are set in stone before Treyarch even touches it. Which is sad as shit for them, but that's Activision for you.
This is a game designed by suits, Treyarch just does the work.
grimshawish
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There are horses
and obviously the normal tech is reasonably unchanged. I think just generally its going to be that specific technologies become so advanced that they beat conventional weapons.So if the enemy controls them, the rest of the world and your conventional resources arn't effective against them.
shungokusatsu
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CF_Fighter
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Seeing that a number of major cities were fucked by WW3 in MW3 are they going to acknowledge anything like the rebuilding efforts or how much damage Markarov's campaign caused?