Banjo-Kazooie
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Call of Duty is annual, rotating between 3 devs w/ 3 year dev time, Sledgehammer 2014
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Think you are thinking of Raven
Neuromancer
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Thursday War
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There are varying support studios on the different projects.
Owned Support:
Raven
Neversoft
FreeStyle
High Moon Studios
Contracted Support:
Certain Affinity
Nerve
Constant Support:
Beachhead
DemonWare
I might be missing some developers.
I wonder if this will have any affect on whether or not the Wii U will get anymore CoD games going forward?
Treyarch ports all the games to the Wii-U even the IW ones, but now a third dev thrown into the mix makes it seem like that would be harder to manage. They'd have to support with patches the current game, work on porting the next game, while also working on their own 3 year cycled game.
The Wii-U port team at Treyarch is a very small subset of Treyarch as well. With sales of Wii-U not increasing, I can see Activision just dropping this division now.
Treyarch ports all the games to the Wii-U even the IW ones, but now a third dev thrown into the mix makes it seem like that would be harder to manage. They'd have to support with patches the current game, work on porting the next game, while also working on their own 3 year cycled game.
The Wii-U port team at Treyarch is a very small subset of Treyarch as well. With sales of Wii-U not increasing, I can see Activision just dropping this division now.
shinobi602
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Looking forward to finally seeing their next-gen engine proper. Probably not this year's title, likely with Treyarch's next year.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Damn. I never realized how many other studios they had helping... thanks.
Syphon Filter
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The good thing is 3 yr development, the bad thing is the name is still out there every year.
They're annualizing, but with only two devs (DICE and Visceral).
One series is military based (DICE) and one is police themed (Visceral).
Outside of that they have Titanfall and Battlefront, but those aren't on rigid schedules.
I think that's the current sum total of their FPS bids unless BioWare's new IP is a first person RPG shooter, but that's a bit different.
Edit: Oh, you mean "do in response".
Neuromancer
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Truly, this is old man tech to rival David Cage's old man tech.
Difficult to believe that as EA screwed themselves for the future of the franchise a tiny bit with it being relegated to Xbox One's anemic userbase upon release (will it even be 4.2 million by that point? attach rates for games rarely exceed 60%) and a PC release. 360 has to wait 2 weeks now.
So that's three platforms vs. franchises that exist on every PlayStation and Nintendo console on the sun, as well as those that Titanfall exists on. As desperately as Microsoft wants it, the majority of these fans are not going to mass exodus to a platform with inferior hardware that costs $500 bucks. For the most part, this group could give a shit about Kinect as well.
Syphon Filter
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It was fun,maps were all good except two.
SledgeHammer worked on MW3 so if you liked the MW3 campaign then no worries. And I think your referring to Raven and I would assume so.
Dragonborn
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Actually great news. Gives Treyarch more time to deliver something good next year. Less stress for them too. Can't wait to see what Sledgehammer puts out. Funny how Treyarch became the better CoD studio after being in IW's shadow for so long.
You can see him staring into the face of death.
Syphon Filter
Member
That is because the real IW left after MW2. Makes sense the torch is passed.
Hit detection - terrible
Story - abysmal
Maps - stale and unimaginitive
Survival mode - half baked
Looking forward to finally seeing their next-gen engine proper. Probably not this year's title, likely with Treyarch's next year.
Well I don't see a difference...
Syphon Filter
Member
Seems like it will be sledge this year. How is it putting a bullet in treyarch? Treyarch gets more dev time which is good.
It lines up with the schedule they've mapped out. It will have been about three years since CODBLOPS2 when 2015 rolls around.
Seriously. I wanted next gen zombies. Damn you acti!
Syphon Filter
Member
No that was IW. Sledge never did their own COD,this is their first time. Sledge did the multiplayer portion of MW3. WaW is actually the last good COD after COD 4...
I meant me putting a bullet in COD. Last one i truly enjoyed was Blops 1, and Blops 2 was decent. Figured one more decent COD would be enough and I would just stop getting them all together.
Triggerhappytel
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What downtime? There's still going to be annual releases. Just alternating between three different studios now.
I wonder if when those two guys left Visceral with EA to set up a new Activision studio they knew that they would end up as part of the CoD production line. That being said, Visceral are supposedly doing a Battlefield game this year, so it's basically the same end result for both.
He he he.
shinobi602
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"4" instead of 'for' eh?
Stantron
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Wrong. Sledge Hammer did MW3 campaign.
Syphon Filter
Member
They did? So IW did the online?
"4" instead of 'for' eh?
That's how he normally tweets. Not even joking, lol.
No, Raven Software helped out on that one.
IW did work on both the campaign and the multiplayer, but in more limited capacity due to the exodus.
"4" instead of 'for' eh?
Let's not start reading into things more than needed.
120 characters. 4 is 1, for is 3.
AllIsOneIsNone
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My guess is the next Treyarch game will sport the biggest jump in engine modification since call of duty 4.
mangochutney
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What don't you like about Treyarch games?
They usually have some decent ideas and locales for their stories. The hit detection and net code is trash though. Probably because it was a mess when they branched off the IW engine.
For all the shit IW gets theirs is pretty spot on now but they lack the originality.
I think we're not going to see a BO3, I think that sub brand is now dead.
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This is win-win for everyone right?
As long as the extra dev time results in a more polished game more and possibly allow them to vary the gameplay a bit more between titles.
Also Zombies, aliens and ?
As long as the extra dev time results in a more polished game more and possibly allow them to vary the gameplay a bit more between titles.
Also Zombies, aliens and ?
mangochutney
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shinobi602
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Eh, it's most likely MW4 anyway.
http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/c...ent_at_sledgehammer_employee_cv_suggests.html
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Not again =/ so so dull.