It's more of a tried and true practice than a trend. Been happening in film for especially long.
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COD 2019 is called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare; "soft reboot", reveal May 30
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It's more of a tried and true practice than a trend. Been happening in film for especially long.
As a fan of single player campaigns in shooters, who only buys a new FPS every two or three years, this is exactly what I want to hear =)
I mean....I'm pretty sour on the series these days. I could barely play this one with any notable level of interest....I only played it when I had literally nothing else. So I feel like a soft reboot of some kind, going back to the MW roots and all that jazz can't be worse than another different one.
I hope they cool it on the extraneous shit. There's so much going on in this game, in the menu UI, so many options, loot boxes, something about coins, etc etc like fuck there's just way too much.
I hope they cool it on the extraneous shit. There's so much going on in this game, in the menu UI, so many options, loot boxes, something about coins, etc etc like fuck there's just way too much.
And regardless of those names I still say new *insert game* when I want. Yall gonna bust yall brains over this lol
So you'd have no issues with those names going forward?
Cool, you do you, champ
You also have Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered
What are they thinking lol.
Actually it's just Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. It dropped the 4.
Yeah literally call the new sonic racing the "new sonic racing" only say the full name when im on here.
Goofy, but as many have said, Prey (2017), God of War (2018), Doom (2016). People seem to be able to differentiate, And have multiple games abbreviated to TF2 or GoW. I highly doubt too many people are going to buy a 360 version of CoD 4 by mistake.
Also it's activision who are clearly spooked by market conditions for their franchises and aren't going to take too many chances this year and next.
Also it's activision who are clearly spooked by market conditions for their franchises and aren't going to take too many chances this year and next.
I don't see it as being any different than God of War (2005) and God of War (2018)
But this is a reboot specifically of the Modern Warfare timeline. So I don't see why it doesn't make sense that the same naming conventions would apply.
the difference is that Modern Warfare was the subtitle, not the name of the game.
It's like if the next Mortal Kombat is called Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance again.
This, pretty much. It's just reinforcing the idea of a soft reboot for the MW series
No, it's more like if the new one was called "God of War: Ghost of Sparta", the same as the 2018 PSP game.
A subtitle is meant to be a unique identifier for an entry in a series. Here, the subtitle just gives it almost exactly the same name as TWO other entries in the series.
They should have just called it "Call of Duty".
Interesting title choice lol.
I'm actually kinda glad they're not making an actual "MW4". The story from the first three games doesn't need to be continued IMO. There's nowhere left to take it really. Everything was resolved and came to a fairly satisfying end in MW3. I'm glad they're making a reboot instead.
Hopefully it'll be good, but no clue if it's going to live up to COD 4. That game was amazing.
I'm actually kinda glad they're not making an actual "MW4". The story from the first three games doesn't need to be continued IMO. There's nowhere left to take it really. Everything was resolved and came to a fairly satisfying end in MW3. I'm glad they're making a reboot instead.
Hopefully it'll be good, but no clue if it's going to live up to COD 4. That game was amazing.
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•4 Player Co-Op Campaign Spec Ops is Back
•Mixture of MW2/MW3 Maps
•No Exclusive Marketing This Year
•Reveal in a week or two followed by live gameplay at E3
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I don't get the issue with the name, would it have been better if they called it Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.
No one had issues with God of War or Need for Speed: Most Wanted
No one had issues with God of War or Need for Speed: Most Wanted
At this point CoD basically has multiple different series under its umbrella. Even the one-offs like AW and IW feel totally disconnected from the others. Like, what would it mean for Black Ops 5 if MW was just called Call of Duty and signified a complete franchise reboot? The title thing doesn't really bother me tbh. Yes, it's dumb in the context of Activision dropping the 4 from MW Remastered, but its specifically a reboot of the MW subseries. I think it has to be looked at as its own thing.
Miguel has a long track record of providing accurate information for Call of Duty.
I don't see a problem with that. It's slightly more confusing I agree, but it's very minor in my eyes.
All over again.
Difference being that SONY waited 2 gens before rebooting which seems appropriate.
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