How do you think this generation of CoD games will be viewed 10 years from now?

I certainly look back at games like Quake 3, Goldeneye, Halo, Perfect Dark, Halo 2 and the like in a very high regard. I know that the CoD series has a major online multi-player draw, and when the user base dies down, that could be detrimental to the way the games are percieved, but I think that the single player campaigns are solid enough in their own right to solidify their place in gaming history. I like to collect games, so I am definitely going to hang onto all the Call of Duty games. How do you think this generation of CoD games will be viewed in 10 years from now? Will any of them be worth owning, even for nostalgia purposes alone?

Fun games that sold a lot and people enjoyed.

I know I'm just going to look at it as the series I ignored because it wasn't fun to me but that's just one opinion.

I certainly look back at games like Quake 3, Goldeneye, Halo, Perfect Dark, Halo 2 and the like in a very high regard. I know that the CoD series has a major online multi-player draw, and when the user base dies down, that could be detrimental to the way the games are percieved, but I think that the single player campaigns are solid enough in their own right to solidify their place in gaming history. I like to collect games, so I am definitely going to hang onto all the Call of Duty games. How do you think this generation of CoD games will be viewed in 10 years from now? Will any of them be worth owning, even for nostalgia purposes alone?

arkephonic

The thing you said about the MP is what I've been saying for a while. Also, I'm thinking that MW will be viewed as great (I will admit the campaign was awesome) and maybe WaW as good, but they will probably be seen as dumb.

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I doubt they'll even be thought of. People basically stop talking about a Call of Duty game when the next one or two come out(with the exception of 4)

Probably be the starting point for the death of gaming. From a historical perspective. "It was thefall of 05 when COD4MW came out. If only they knew the horrors that awaited them with COD MW 423. 80 dollars for a three hour SP and 4 map MP. Two weeks later the rest of the game would be sold as DLC for 49.99."

The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash that are successful because they market to people who don't know any better.

Pug-Nasty

Modern Warfare: AAA. CoD4: 50 GotY awards. Cry more? CoD: 80 GotY awards.

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The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash that are successful because they market to people who don't know any better.

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Modern Warfare: AAA. CoD4: 50 GotY awards. Cry more? CoD: 80 GotY awards.

No offense but when I look at games that game out 10 years ago, number of GOTY and AAA scores is not what I look at and really it isn't what most people look at.

Haters gonna hate!

The beginning of the 2nd video game crash.

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The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash that are successful because they market to people who don't know any better.

ActicEdge

Modern Warfare: AAA. CoD4: 50 GotY awards. Cry more? CoD: 80 GotY awards.

No offense but when I look at games that game out 10 years ago, number of GOTY and AAA scores is not what I look at and really it isn't what most people look at.

I reacted to: "The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash".

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The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash that are successful because they market to people who don't know any better.

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Modern Warfare: AAA. CoD4: 50 GotY awards. Cry more? CoD: 80 GotY awards.

COD4 and MW are the same game. And that was a long time ago.

The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash that are successful because they market to people who don't know any better.

Pug-Nasty

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The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash that are successful because they market to people who don't know any better.

Pug-Nasty

Modern Warfare: AAA. CoD4: 50 GotY awards. Cry more? CoD: 80 GotY awards.

COD4 and MW are the same game. And that was a long time ago.

Referred to that Modern Warfare is an AAA franchise.

Modern Warfare: AAA. CoD4: 50 GotY awards. Cry more? CoD: 80 GotY awards.

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Modern Warfare and CoD4 are the same game..

The beginning of the 2nd video game crash.

Renegade_Fury

Market saturation is getting to a critical point at the moment with all the constant sequels and rehashes.

Luckily indie games are helping to stave off an inevitable meltdown in the US and Europe.

I give gaming another gen before someone like Miyamoto has to come along and re-invent the whole gaming process.

Preferably with interactive virtual worlds ala the Holodeck.

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Golden_Boy187

Nostalgic Person: "Ah yes, I remember CoD. My friends and I would play that game a lot back in the day. Oh, how I miss my childhood."

[spoiler] I'm just playing around. This is not a threat. [/spoiler]

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Seriously though, I believe it's just going to be a game series people remember playing often.

Considering how THPS and GH crashed and burned, I'm not too sure.

As a joke and a fad.

Average games (except for MW) that had mass appeal.

They will be forgotten just like most FIFA and NHL games. Its stuff that is fun to play for many people, but its basically just another shooter that prints money on year to year basis, nothing memorable. Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2, Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime, Mass Effect 1, The Witcher, etc. - those are the games that will be remembered as classics, because unlike CoD they are unique, hold their own story and had enormous amount of work and dedication invested into them.

I certainly look back at games like Quake 3, Goldeneye, Halo, Perfect Dark, Halo 2 and the like in a very high regard. I know that the CoD series has a major online multi-player draw, and when the user base dies down, that could be detrimental to the way the games are percieved, but I think that the single player campaigns are solid enough in their own right to solidify their place in gaming history. I like to collect games, so I am definitely going to hang onto all the Call of Duty games. How do you think this generation of CoD games will be viewed in 10 years from now? Will any of them be worth owning, even for nostalgia purposes alone?

arkephonic

"i cant believe they paid every year for that recicled garbage"

I dunno about everyone else, but I'll always see it as the series who successfully rehashed the series by releasing (soon to be) 7 CoD games in one generation (in 6 years!).

Seriously though, CoD 2, 3, WaW, BO, MW, MW2, MW3. Beginning at the end of 2005 ending a the end of 2011.

Don't you people think this is a little excessive?

^ my post was said in the wrong way, but you get my point

Cod4 changed the genre for good. After game after it hurt the genre, and caused the cod effect.

To the 'casual' gamer, Call of Duty will probably be forgotten in 10 years time. To the more 'serious' gamer who looks back, Call of Duty will be remembered as a game which sold incredibly well and became very generic.

A Fad.....basically what pokemon was in the 90's

it's a fun series tbh, alot of laughs and rants...mostly rant

I don't know how it will be viewed in ten years, but I bet that the new cod games will still run on the same game engine they do now...

As great games by the majority, and trash by the few. You know, the way it is now.

Cod4 changed the genre for good. After game after it hurt the genre, and caused the cod effect.

James161324

What's the CoD effect?

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Cod4 changed the genre for good. After game after it hurt the genre, and caused the cod effect.

RRTTWAAA

What's the CoD effect?

Where other developers abandon innovation to make CoD clones so they can sell medicore.

A Fad.....basically what pokemon was in the 90's

it's a fun series tbh, alot of laughs and rants...mostly rant

eboyishere

Was? You do realize that Pokemon Black and White are selling like crazy right?

It will be remembered that they sold really well and were popular for a stretch, then crashed and burned (if things go like that, which I'm sure they will). I think the intense hatred for them will mellow out in time, once they stop being the bro games of choice.

But the people who didn't like them will remember them that way, and the people who liked them will remember them fondly. Just like with any game.

A Fad.....basically what pokemon was in the 90's

it's a fun series tbh, alot of laughs and rants...mostly rant

eboyishere

Pokemon is still the best selling series ever :|

The latest game is around 10 million already.

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The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash that are successful because they market to people who don't know any better.

Pug-Nasty

Such an Ignorant Comment. I see the qualities in CoD and because of that I enjoy it very much. I buy them cause I know better, I know what to expect when I purchase them.

The reason the game sells so well is because they market to an ignorant crowd. The reason everyone else buys it is because all their friends bought it, and games are more fun with friends. The games themselves don't do anything better than any other game, other than being popular.

This.

It won't be remembered as one of the great series of this gen that's for sure :)

Will any of them be worth owning, even for nostalgia purposes alone?

arkephonic

One of the best games of all time.... at least COD4 :P still have fun playing it today.

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The same way they are viewed now, like piles of trash that are successful because they market to people who don't know any better.

Pug-Nasty

Such an Ignorant Comment. I see the qualities in CoD and because of that I enjoy it very much. I buy them cause I know better, I know what to expect when I purchase them.

The reason the game sells so well is because they market to an ignorant crowd. The reason everyone else buys it is because all their friends bought it, and games are more fun with friends. The games themselves don't do anything better than any other game, other than being popular.

It would be another trend looked back upon with warm hearts for those who loved this generation of games if Activision was to actually quit making them. In all honesty, I look back on the first two with a very warm heart. Everything after, not so much.

Halo was a big trend for the first three games and the Xbox, but after CoD4 came out, FPS developers moved on either trying to go after CoD, or something altogether different. CoD really is the series that made this next gen what it is, even though it took two years post-360 launch to make that happen. When someone asks me, "what do you think of the 3rd 3D System Generation?", the first thing I will think of is FPSs, and CoD will be the first one I think of. Halo had it's limelight, now CoD has it.

I will also argue that while CoD is the series of this generation, it's not like Halo where the Xbox was about and only Halo throughout the generation. CoD just happens to be the most successful of many awesome, hit FPS/shooters on this generation of systems. There is very good competition for "best shooter" among many games and series including, Gears of War, Uncharted, Halo, Crysis, Killzone, Battlefield: Bad Company, Bioshock, Left 4 Dead, Resistance, etc.

This is a generation where it's very difficult to play favorites.

some of the best FPShooters to come out in history. They redefined the genre

Golden_Boy187