SDCowboy
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Why would that bum you? COD is a MP-focused franchise.
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Call Of Duty WW2 reveal 26 april, website up [UPDATE: Leaked screenshots]
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Why would that bum you? COD is a MP-focused franchise.
It kind of wasn't in the WW2 games though.
Uh, it was?
Welp, I misremembered - you're right, it was.
I must've assumed it was handled the same way as Black Ops 3's.
Welp, as I said I don't expect a trailer, but I also can't see them setting up an event to talk about the single-player alone and head home.
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
I'm not so sure. I jumped in at Call of Duty 2 and played the shyte out of MP. It seemed a pretty strong focus.
Deckard Chapel
Banned
The season pass is just going to be for multiplayer content, right?
Yeah and whatever the third mode is, just like always.
They must be really proud of this game.
Can't wait for the reveal.
hype <3
Eh, its more of a 'it's me, not you' kind of sentiment. The nostalgia of loading up some of the originals and candidly having more chunks of time on hand to drink in the set pieces on launch day is strong. Some of my fondest memories of COD aren't the great MP matches I've had, but the fond memory of those tanks rolling over my head when in the trenches of COD2, or the surprise when you got to take control of the AC130, or the high I felt when I first nailed the mile high achievement.
Now, I take the wrapping off (or load up the install more accurately), hop into MP, feel the familiar controls in my hands and set off to explore ten new MP maps and left trigger/right trigger. It's great, and arguably the best 60 bucks I spend each year, but realizing that what originally drew me into these games and dominated those launch weekends has taken a back seat to something that is fresh yet almost always predictable is a bit of a bummer.
I remember wanting to watch the newest campaign trailers over and over, drinking in the details. But now, its as if I could care less about what the reveal will bring tomorrow unless it focuses on MP elements. Not sure if that makes sense, but I miss that draw the SP had all those years back.
When the first cod came out almost everyone was raving about the single player, the expansion United Offensive was more multiplayer focused as it had larger maps and vehicles. To me 2 was a step back compared to UO while the single player was the best yet. 4 is where they went MP crazy
More_Badass
Member
Nine years after Saving Private Ryan, a game just might capture that intensityYo that's in-game.
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SDCowboy
Member
Yeah I'm kind of the same. I used to play the single player in the first three. From COD4 on, though, I just go straight to the MP and never touch the single player.
Yo that's in-game.
How great would it be if, after booting up the game and getting to the title screen, pressing start throws you right into the thick of it like this image seems to imply. Could be intense as hell.
Fallout-NL
Member
Nineteen years?
More_Badass
Member
Sorry, forgot the 1
But yeah, almost 20 years. I guess the early WW2 shooters felt groundbreaking at the time, but nothing in gaming has really come close
PhazonBlazer
Member
So the reveal isn't being streamed on Twitch?
Deckard Chapel
Banned
Yo that's in-game.
I'm actually watching Saving Private Ryan and it's bonus features as I write this!
If they can make the Omaha Beach Landing as intense, gritty and realistic as it was in the film - I would be beyond ecstatic because I've been dreaming of that since walking out of the theater in 1998 after watching Saving Private Ryan.
Godspeed to you, Sledgehammer Games!
Savantcore
Unconfirmed Member
Just seen the big poster they've got on the BFI. Haven't played COD for years but I'm actually quite excited about this event tomorrow.
They need to capturet the sound just right. I need to hear and feel that MG-42 shooting at me.
Brothers in Arms 4 could be it...if that ever came to be...Gearsbox.........
But yeah: Call of Duty is an arcade shooter through and through. Finesse, octane action is it's DNA. The closest resemblance of that with horror would be F.E.A.R.
Yu Furealdo
Member
Yes and less attachments too plz
RedAssedApe
Banned
website shows 10am PDT for me...so Central time...oops 12pm
SDCowboy
Member
It's a WW2 game. lol
-Pyromaniac-
Member
That pic..........pls be gud.
More_Badass
Member
It's hard to do in games because the act of shooting at digital enemies is inherently an enjoyable one. Strip everything away and you're just blasting projectiles at objects, which, as seen in various shmups and dual stick shooters, is fun. Even with context and a Spec Ops: The Line approach, taking on enemies can feel distanced from whatever emotions a game wants to convey when it's set up as a you vs them battle
The only way it works is when the "enemy" is presented from an empathetic view. For example, having to face survivors just like youself in This War of Mine. By needing to struggle in your own shelter, you understand that the people of the places you're sneaking through aren't just faceless evil enemies, and it can feel wrong when you do kill someone.
Deckard Chapel
Banned
Agreed.
I play all of my games in surround sound and I still demo the first 28 minutes of Saving Private Ryan on Blu-ray to friends, just to showcase how essential a surround sound setup really is to fully immerse yourself into your entertainment. I really hope that their sound design is at least on par with Saving Private Ryan.
Yu Furealdo
Member
Lol true, but I should have clarified that I meant less than would be expected for a new WWII CoD game. Would rather there not even be an aperture sight.
AW had excellent sound design so I expect that'll carry over here.
I agree. Sound has always been lackluster in COD games when compared to what DICE puts out, but luckily Sledgehammer is working on this one, and their sound design in Advanced Warfare remains the best in the entire series.
SDCowboy
Member
I'll never understand why the gun sounds in COD typically have been so bad. Is it that hard to have realistic gun sounds? The guns in Battlefield games sound amazing.
I've always wondered the same thing. It's like their audio engine never made the leap to the HD era. The first two games sounded great for their time, but everything after that has always sounded super weak in comparison to everything else. To be fair it's hard for any developer to have to compare to DICE in sound design, but COD trailed just about everything in that department. It's like their afraid to use low frequencies or something.
There is no remaster this year. Had there been there would have been a leak of it already.
SDCowboy
Member
Why would they have a WW2 COD remake when we're getting a WW2 COD game?
AlexFlame116
Member
That looks amazing. I need it.Yo that's in-game.
Funny enough I asked that same thing when someone suggested there might be a WAW remaster with WW2.
Funkybee12
Member
Lmao this has got to be a troll post.
Futuristic setting aka the most easily forgettable cod series i've ever played. Cod2? Still remember it like day 1!
Rbk_3
Member
This is a valid point.