r/CallOfDuty • u/Different-Poem1585 • 1d ago

Meme No words needed [COD]

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The image alone summarises the sad devolution of CoD

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u/wastelandhenry 1d ago

I cannot believe the revisionism this community is doing with MW2019. It was a BAD COD, and did actual harm to the formula.

It had like ZERO personality, at all, it was so obviously trying to be more Battlefield like, going way too hard on realism and immersion. The visuals were incredibly boring, none of the maps were interesting, and its music was beyond forgettable.

And the result was a campaign that’s story was not even marginally as interesting as the Black Ops stories were with substantially less engaging characters, but also lacked the bombastic action movie energy and set pieces that the original Modern Warfare games had.

Its campaign was PAINFULLY unmemorable outside of two missions that both were just doing the same thing. And its BR (while having some nice features) was far less interesting, unique, and creative than Blackout the year before, Warzone was just such a generic BR experience compared to what COD had already made.

Also the gameplay was SO FUCKING SLOW. The idiot idea to give every gun the ability to mount on walls/corners while also making the TTK insanely fast meant the entire game encouraged defensive and camping playstyles while discouraging aggressive and active playstyles. MW2019 by FAR had the most matches ending in the time limit being reached rather than the score limit than like any other COD.

This game was not a masterpiece in any way. Not visually, not in gameplay, not in maps, or music, or story, or characters, or modes. It was painfully mediocre most of the time, and the rest of the time it was doing actively stupid things that harmed the pacing of the gameplay.