AI would love some numbers, cause the campaigns always felt like a 4 hour tutorial. Not worth 60+. Maybe Infinity War's if it was longer, cause it was really good
What's likely to die or exist less are AAA SP only games that can't reach the 90+ Metacritic rating.
Call of Duty single player sort of turned into a tradition for me every November. Like a Michael Bay type action movie that you go see once a year because fuck it, it has explosions and its big and loud.
Plenty of people have played COD campaigns in the past. Like 1, 2, MW1, MW2
Millions of people do. In fact, more people play Call of Duty campaigns each year than play most AA singleplayer titles. People who talk about the games "only" having 25-40% completion rates seem to forget that 25-40% of a game that sells 10-30 million copies is a lot of people.
Think about it this way. They could make more money paying Toys for Bob to make Call of Duty content, but they chose to allocate them to make Spyro instead. Spyro and Crash Bandicoot are significantly less lucrative than multiplayer games, but diversification of a portfolio is ideal. It's not about raw copies sold. It's about reaching different demographics to maintain a strong hold on the market. It's the reason why EA started putting campaigns in Battlefield games. They sold extremely well without them, but they could sell more copies to a wider audience if their games had story-driven content.
Black Ops 1 has an amazing campaign. What didn't you like about it? Excellent mindscrew plot, Gary Oldman giving the performance of a lifetime, spectacular set pieces, and more. It's arguably David Goyer's best work.
Yup, and it's bigger than ever. Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer have also adopted Zombies as the coop mode in their games, all games get at least 4 Zombies maps as DLC (Black Ops 4 has already gotten 1 as a Season Pass bonus and will get another 4). And for Black Ops 3 Treyarch released a 5th map pack containing 8 Zombies maps remakes a year and a half after release at 30 bucks, and it was a massive success, becoming the best selling DLC of 2017 on PSN and they've already hinted that they'll be doing the same for Black Ops 4. Black Ops 4 launched with 3 maps on disc as well, more than any other CoD game.
Black Ops 4's campaign was canned, according to rumours, because it was terrible. Some claim that Activision stepped in directly to kill it because they were not pleased, others claim it was not up to snuff and Treyarch killed it themselves. (And based on the sound of what was scrapped, it would have particularly pissed off singleplayer fans.) There's no indication Activision have any plans to discontinue Call of Duty plans at any point in the near future. The troubled sequel to an near-universally disliked campaign was snuffed out during development. That doesn't indicate all that much for the future other than that Treyarch seem to have severe internal issues. (Black Ops 3 reportedly had a train go boom development cycle where the game's entire plot was changed during development.)
My impression is that the game seriously struggled to ship a working product at launch. They were in a panic because in 2017, playtesters were responding extremely negatively towards Black Ops IV's multiplayer modes. The Battle Royale was developed by Raven, IIRC, and I think it was originally commissioned because the game was perceived as lacking in content and they were worried that the content they did have wouldn't carry the game. The campaign was beyond saving. The game's multiplayer was getting extremely negative feedback. They had to try and salvage the game in a very short span of time, and admittedly they did a pretty admirable job. They took a frantic disaster of a game and transformed it, Bungie-style, into the best selling game of the year with solid reviews.
