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COD: Ghosts has an exact same cutscene from MW2
- Thread starter ThaneKrios
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BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
There was a damned good reason for this though...
Also, the MW thing seems like fan service to me.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
Bring back Cpt Price.
Penguins&PolarBears
Member
The real Infinity Ward is busy making Titanfall.
The Mana Legend
Banned
I don't want Fake Infinity Ward having anything to do with MW1 and 2 (MW3 does not exist).
Wasn't this because a stunt car driver
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Fan service...
Saintguine
Member
Reusing assets isn't the biggest crime for me but this on top of many other things is really showing what a cynical rehash Ghosts is.
I mean Black Ops 2 did try and succeeded in freshening up the formula a bit. Ghosts just seems so safe and despite Infinity Ward saying Modern Warfare 4 would be a safe thing, this pretty much feels like Modern Warfare 4 only with a different subtitle.
I mean Black Ops 2 did try and succeeded in freshening up the formula a bit. Ghosts just seems so safe and despite Infinity Ward saying Modern Warfare 4 would be a safe thing, this pretty much feels like Modern Warfare 4 only with a different subtitle.
Everyone reuses content, code, effects.
It's good development practice. It should be actively encouraged
Don't reinvent the wheel for the sake of reinventing the wheel.
Well, an extra died on set while shooting the intended action-scene for Transformers 3, so they have a pretty good reason to re-use footage.
MarkMclovin
Member
It's obviously fan service. Do people really think they would make a whole new game, apart from the very end?
dark_inferno
Member
Respawn too? I mean they are IW now.
Guys it's so obvious that this is a meta-statement criticizing the never-ending stigma attached to the Call of Duty franchise. "It's just the same thing every year", you hear people say. Now, with one fell swoop, Infinity Ward takes a pot-shot at the naysayers and actually recycles an element creating a conflicting paradox within the eyes of the beholder.
What unparalleled genius. Truly Infinity Ward are developers of our time.
What unparalleled genius. Truly Infinity Ward are developers of our time.
Robot Pants
Member
How pathetic is this?
TacticalFox88
Banned
Nah, man they're on their hate train. Logic climbed out of the window the moment it was boarded.
CambriaRising
Member
Which is fine when you aren't pumping $60+ out of people year over year with minimal engine upgrades, and sloppier work every year. The hyperbole in past years that COD is just a rehashed, cynical cash-in every year is almost completely true at this point.
Correct.. Someone actually died during a stunt on Transformers 3. So they removed the scene and had to use footage from The Island.
This has nothing to do with recycled content. It's out of respect for the departed.
Triggerhappytel
Member
All I'm getting is a 'this video is unavailable' sad face. Anyone else?
The bit I'm finding most infuriating is that I'm arguing in defence of modern CoD. And I *really* don't want to do that!
Triggerhappytel
Member
And yet they're still getting screwed by publisher backroom decisions.
so the game only worth full price if the engine is new/heavily updated? Fuck artists, game designers, level designers, music creators, art directors and lots of other people who pour soul and hard work into a game, creating new games. Yeah, fuck these people, only thing that matters is a gameplay and engine. How dare thee use already established engines and gameplay formula people loved all these years. What a nerve.
I think at some point it becomes a bit much when we're talking about one of the biggest game series of all time.
I hope to god you aren't implying anyone poured their soul into this trash and they worked hard? It's one of their laziest, sloppiest and worst performing games they have released to date.
I thought she died as well but it looks like she survived but is now paralyzed in half of her body:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_accidents#2010s
I will pick up on sloppier work; that's a valid criticism. Cutting down on reuse of stock elements wouldn't un-sloppy (uh, it's a word, I swear!) things, though.
You've never worked in the games industry, have you?
Its so obvious that this is what they tried to do though.
I dont appreciate the cod series much at all anymore either, but im not going to throw logic out of the window myself.
They reused the asset, but did it in such a way the community wont really mind.
They attemped fan service of one of the most iconic scenes in the series whilst reusing assests, its a win-win. (For them) or ( in their eyes)
(Im saying this is what i think they were going for, not how i portray it just for clarification).
ComputerMKII
Banned
Infinity Ward in name only.
CambriaRising
Member
We are talking about the highest grossing series of all time here, not some grassroots indie upstart. It wouldn't kill them to use some of the money they make on some decent improvements to the franchise.
It's the exact same scene with different characters, even the animation is identical. Its pretty shameless. We aren't talking about a reused texture or helicopter model, we are talking about them reusing an entire animation set so that they didn't have to pay for the mo-cap work again. On one of the highest grossing series of all time.
XANDER CAGE
Member
It's hard for me to react to the "it's smart recycling!" angle with anything but incredulity when this is one of the biggest franchises of all time. When CoD is already (perhaps sometimes unfairly) heaped on for pumping out relatively similar games, anything that can be construed as corner cutting probably will. It just looks bad.
But shit, this series has been using the same crappy weapon sound effects for nearly eight years, so who even knows.
But shit, this series has been using the same crappy weapon sound effects for nearly eight years, so who even knows.
I don't think Titanfall looks anything like Call of Duty.
They did not die, and they were just a extra.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/transformers-3-extra-injury-settlement-328757
Single player campaign felt inspired and was pretty awesome to play through, I even consider it among my top 3 CoD campaigns, up there with Blops 1 and Blops 2. It's a very impressive 6 hours of gameplay. Just because the game is undercooked, doesn't mean that people didn't try their best to deliver a great game.
Quixz
Member
You don't need to have worked in the game industry to point out sloppy!
totalbiscuit (yes we don't like him in the these parts) with his SLI Titan setup and 32GB of ram can't even play the game at acceptable frame rates.
Did that scene need a different animation?
So I need to work in the industry to see it's a recycled engine yet again, with poor texture work, recycled assets all over the place, poor multiplayer map design, poor performance, so far an underwhelming single-player campaign, lots of bugs from what I've seen. Not a single element so far, feature, gameplay or story wise has made me go "Oh, that's neat". This entire game reeks of "That's good enough".