That wasn't my point - maybe we reserve judgment until we see the game?
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COD 2019 is called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare; "soft reboot", reveal May 30
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As far as we know it does not.
It does have a massive MP mode thing but not BR.
The only way in which this new name makes sense is from a marketing one, and that's only if you believe people are so stupid as to get confused over a game being called CoD:MW4
If you do believe that, and also believe people won't get confused by CoD:MW coming out in 2019, 3 years after CoD:MW Remastered came out, and 12 years after CoD4:MW came out, then I don't know what to tell you
It's aggressively uncreative and gives anyone talking about video games in the future a headache
The fact we found a workaround for X and everyone does X doesn't make X acceptable. They could bake in the number like FIFA does if that was what they wanted.
Person 1: Wanna play some Call of Duty?
Person 2: Call of Duty 2?
Person 1: No, the new one.
Person 2: Oh, Call of Duty 3 on Wii? Did that even have multiplayer?
Person 1: No, the newest ONE
Person 2: Call of Duty Big Red One?
Person 1: Modern Warfare!
Person 2: You mean the remaster?
Person 1: FFS, lets just play Overwatch.
Person 2: Paladins?
Person 2: Call of Duty 2?
Person 1: No, the new one.
Person 2: Oh, Call of Duty 3 on Wii? Did that even have multiplayer?
Person 1: No, the newest ONE
Person 2: Call of Duty Big Red One?
Person 1: Modern Warfare!
Person 2: You mean the remaster?
Person 1: FFS, lets just play Overwatch.
Person 2: Paladins?
Great - first CoD i'm interested in since MW2. Nice hot takes about the title but it's better than Call of Duty 12 - Modern Warfare.
Just make each game have a new story. At this point CoD should be a service anyways, not a new experience every year. Just run it like Fortnite. Constant updates.
Put out a campaign DLC for $30 each year along-side the ongoing service, if you must.
Activision for some reason always keeps prices on old Call of Duty games and DLC quite high. MW2's DLCs are still €13,59 in Europe.
We've had quite a few of those this gen. Prey, Tomb Raider, Doom, Thief, you name it.
I have always called the original MW, CoD 4 so it's not too confusing. Still the most annoying trend in the games industry. I simply can't stand different games with the same name.
So what at the title? I'm confused by the "outrage". Who cares? I don't see how the masses could be confused. As some have mentioned, GoW hasn't suffered because of it's title and COD is a MASSIVE franchise. So again, so what?
It's not really outrage. It's just incredulity at Call of Duty's bizarre naming conventions.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Which one is the sequel?
Incredulity, is the better word, lol. Damn me and my hyperbole! It's been YEARS since the last modern warfare. I don't think they'll be even a hint of confusion. This is coming from someone who only plays the COD games (or any game) for the single player experience, lol.
They take the Nintendo approach. They believe that allowing their titles to have a massive price drops would devalue their product. This approach also encourages day one purchases with the thought being what's the point in waiting a 1 or 2 to save $15? I can honestly say that this strategy works on me. Publishers like Ubisoft, 2K, and Bethesda have taught me that if I wait a few months, I can likely get the game in the $20-30. Nintendo has taught me that there is no point in waiting cause this shit ain't dropping for a few years at least.
Don't forget Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered which also dropped the 4 from the title.
In the UK CoD would always end up in second hand shops (Game and CEX) on mass, so you can generally pick up last years game for a few quid, and older CoD titles for even less
I only ever play SP CoD campaigns and I've never bought a game new, or on a sale, because I can get them for under a fiver at CEX if I wait a year
If they had sales, maybe I would buy from them, and actually give them some money
Not sure why some people take the thing as a personal insult. What's wrong to be confuse or ironic about it? :/
I'm sorry but like everybody else thinking like that, yall thinking way too hard. Unecessary worrying lol
I mean, yeah, I lost track of the titles five games ago, so it's pretty much just "Call of Duty" to me anyway.
They could call it Call of Duty 76 and it wouldn't faze me.
Not the same. Modern Warfare 4 is called Modern Warfare, and Modern Warfare 1 is called 4: Modern Warfare. It's bizarre. Like Battlefield bizarre.
It's an enthusiast forum, this is where this kind of debate can take place
It's fine to be fine with it, but it's still dumb, just like it would be dumb if the next Star Wars film was called Star Wars Episode 10: The Phantom Menace
The next one could be called "Modern Warfare 5: The Call of Duty" and people on Era would be like "Seems fine to me"
Right lol. Like somebody gonna go in the store in release date and the gamestop dude give them cod 4
Infinite Warfare is legit some of the best single player the series has put out, top 3 right alongside MW1 and Black Ops. Big Lops 4 is a balancing fuckhouse but it's the strongest MP the series has been since 2.
And I'm sorry but Ghosts was great
Yeah, so why did it need to have a name that is almost exactly the same as another entry in the series?
They could have called it anything else and no one would be confused, so if no one is going to be confused anyway, where is the logic in using a name that on paper looks like it might be the same game as another?
Why not call every CoD game from 2019 onward "CoD:MW"?
Why not call every Assassin's Creed game, "Assassin's Creed", or every Zelda, "Zelda"
It's not like someone will walk into Gamestop and ask for Zelda and be handed Skyward Sword
I mean, it's a soft-reboot like God of War....
I dont like it, but I don't see how it's any different.
Xbox 360 to xbox one...
Wii to Wii U....
God of War to God of War....
Stupid names is part of this industry....
Wii to Wii U....
God of War to God of War....
Stupid names is part of this industry....
It's an order of magnitude sillier because it's a reboot of a subtitle, but it was lame when God of War did it too, more so as it continued the story from 3
In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter, but it's still a really bad name for the game, and shows a complete lack of ambition or creativity from the publisher
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