Call of Duty (2003) - the first one, it had sprint and ADS. Also two primary weapons and a handgun slot.
Call of Duty 2 (2005) - the first one with regenerating health. This might also be where prone and the true two weapon limit was introduced (but I’m not sure).
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) - At this point people are criticizing the game series for being propaganda for the military industrial complex, for bland mindless gameplay, for being generally bland and uninteresting as a piece of art, for cranking out the same game over and over again, and for spawning so many imitators that creativity was choked out of the AAA development space.
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014) - the one with that actor in it. People were surprised that it actually changed up its gameplay by adding jetpacks.
From 2014 onwards: I have never heard of these games before. I was vaguely aware that they kept making COD games but never cared to read about them. I think one of them was 150 GB, which some people think was a conspiracy to fill up your hard drive so you couldn’t play other games (considering how much a repack was able to reduce its size).
I actually kinda liked Infinite Warfare as well, at least the single player campaign. It also tried something different (futuristic space scifi setting) and had John Snow as the villain. Underrated.
Its so bizarre seeing this.
For me the chart goes:
Call of Duty (2003) - the first one, it had sprint and ADS. Also two primary weapons and a handgun slot.
Call of Duty 2 (2005) - the first one with regenerating health. This might also be where prone and the true two weapon limit was introduced (but I’m not sure).
…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) - At this point people are criticizing the game series for being propaganda for the military industrial complex, for bland mindless gameplay, for being generally bland and uninteresting as a piece of art, for cranking out the same game over and over again, and for spawning so many imitators that creativity was choked out of the AAA development space.
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014) - the one with that actor in it. People were surprised that it actually changed up its gameplay by adding jetpacks.
From 2014 onwards: I have never heard of these games before. I was vaguely aware that they kept making COD games but never cared to read about them. I think one of them was 150 GB, which some people think was a conspiracy to fill up your hard drive so you couldn’t play other games (considering how much a repack was able to reduce its size).
At some point in the “slop” era they turned the multiplayer into a standalone thing also and the campaigns truly became second thought.
I haven’t played since Modern Warfare 2 or Black Ops one ish because of the exact reasons you listed though.
I actually kinda liked Infinite Warfare as well, at least the single player campaign. It also tried something different (futuristic space scifi setting) and had John Snow as the villain. Underrated.