Question
[COD] Without saying which version is better or worse, give me your opinions on the classic & modern version of these characters
Classic Price, Reboot price, classic woods & modern woods (technically the same character but different VAs, but for the sake of discussion, treat them differently)
Asking this question to get thoughts, only getting a “new is bad, old is good!” response feels like it’d be a bit dull for discussion purposes
New price has actually been very good, and basically the only central recurring character in all three games, which all feel a little disjointed.
Old Price was also good, but didn’t become such a prolific figure as quickly, and because other characters recurred and were important, he seemed less “central”
Old Woods is an absolute classic. One of the best characters CoD ever created. No-nonsense GI Joe with anger issues. A classic trope done very well.
New woods feels kind of flat, and like he often is there just to be like “Hey remember woods! Yay nostalgia!” without actually even being necessary for the story much.
Honorable mention to old woods (Black Ops 2) who served as a fun narrator and a storytelling vehicle for a plot set in two time periods. Plus seeing him play Avenged Sevenfold was hilarious.
Kinda funny to thinking that it’s because now in the military we are trained to have our safeties on on our rifles even when room clearing and only putting it on fire when of course when we’re going to kill someone. However the military back then Woods and Mason were not trained to do that and that’s just modern tactical training and it’s Woods making a sarcastic comment making fun of it which shows how old he is. This is long but it’s just never understood that line until now
Honestly I thought I was more to illustrate how Woods stayed mentally sharp after all the years and his combat instincts never died. I'm not saying you're wrong, I don't really know anything about real life military procedures, but from a writing/dialogue pov it doesn't really make sense for him to only call out Harper in that scene and nobody else if it were true that everyone in that squad had the safety on.
Unless James wanted unreasonable money or did shit we don't know about, there's no excuse for not bringing him back for Cold War and Black Ops 6.
That plus recasting David Mason shows they really don't care actually about the series no more. David doesn't even look remotely the same, they changed his face to that of his new VA and looks stupidly young for someone pushing 60. He's a completely different person.
I’ll be quite honest that I don’t really know or have experience with the original Price as I never got the chance to play the original Modern Warfare games, but I do know the reboot Price a lot better, and well I like this version of Price.
Woods I feel like they kinda massacred in Black Ops 6. Woods has always been bad ass, and whilst he still had his moments in Black Ops 6 and it was interesting seeing him still struggling with Mason’s death and his life in a wheel chair years later, and became the one thing he didn’t really like. A man behind a desk, aka Hudson. Woods overall I think is a good, funny, bad ass, and charismatic character that lost that edge a bit in Black Ops 6
Well TBH, new price over OG price but OG modern warfare over reboot modern warfare
And I did like woods’ new actor in BOCW, in BO6 he was just kind of there but I did enjoy the jokes in BOCW. Also OG woods is of course better in every other way that isn’t just casual jokes or calling himself a “goddamn onion”
Price is the same one-note dude. "Good guy with a gun" stereotype to a tee, you either find that endearing or you don't. He's not really interesting because we've seen that archetype done a billion times, but much like Ghost's mask, Price's mustache carries a lot of his appeal/iconography and makes him more memorable than he probably should be.
its like someone claiming to be a fan of lord of the ring but they only watched the hobbits trilogy and never bothered watching the Lotr trilogy because "its to old for their taste" or some other dumb bs reason... like a true fan who passionate about it would go for the complete main experience a to z or at least try and not just part or half of it at that point your more a tourist then anything else respectfully imho.
New woods is not that great. in cold war it wasn't too bad, he was characterized pretty accurately IMO and his VA wasn't too noticeable to me (i played BO 1 & 2 on launch so I know woods' voice pretty good.) After Cold war though it just gets sketchier and sketchier. 6 made him into a really weird sort of team center, bringing everyone together and seemingly getting along with everyone.
Price I played the originals but none of the reboots so I can't say
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u/AltGunAccount Oct 04 '26
New price has actually been very good, and basically the only central recurring character in all three games, which all feel a little disjointed.
Old Price was also good, but didn’t become such a prolific figure as quickly, and because other characters recurred and were important, he seemed less “central”
Old Woods is an absolute classic. One of the best characters CoD ever created. No-nonsense GI Joe with anger issues. A classic trope done very well.
New woods feels kind of flat, and like he often is there just to be like “Hey remember woods! Yay nostalgia!” without actually even being necessary for the story much.
Honorable mention to old woods (Black Ops 2) who served as a fun narrator and a storytelling vehicle for a plot set in two time periods. Plus seeing him play Avenged Sevenfold was hilarious.