Yes, but all of them had 3+ years dev time and low profits.

When CoD came out and revolutionized the FPS genre, FPS developers can now just copy CoD and make tons of money.

Instead of 3+ years of development, it's now only 6 months. Sales are also higher because CoD made FPS mainstream.

This means higher sales + lower budget = higher profit.

CoD saved the FPS Genre.

So please tell me, what FPS game was there before CoD that made tons of profit for devs?

CoD inventors made it possible for us to have the FPS genre today. Back then, there were very few FPS games and all of them were garbage. Now everyone can copy CoD and makes tons of money. It saved the FPS genre.

Let's be straight here. Love CoD or hate it, CoD has REVOLUTIONIZED the FPS genre.

Before CoD, all we had were lousy FPS that no one wanted to play. Then CoD came along and garnered TENS of MILLIONS of sales per installment and generated billions of dollars. It set a successful blueprint on how to make profitable FPS games. It saved many devs from bankruptcy, because it saves them lots of money. Instead of 3 years of R&D and lots of downtown, devs can now just make a CoD clone in 6 months and rake in millions in profit without anything in R&D.

Battlefield is a copycat game of CoD that's riding on the coattails of CoD's success. Without CoD, battlefield wouldn't even exist.

CoD is one of the greatest game series ever made, and people should show it some respect.

Plus the media loves MS and hates SONY, so that 84 Halo 5 score should actually be a 64 and the 86 R&C score should be a 91.

LOL... Nintendo games are held to the same standard as indie games. A 90+ meta isn't impressive.

A 90+ meta for a Wii U exclusive is like a 60 for PS4/Xbone.

Sony just has too many smart people working for them.

According to my friend, Nintendo and Microsoft are nepotistic when it comes to hiring so they can never create exceptional hardware like the ps4 SoC and exceptional games like Uncharted 4.

What bullshit.

The media are so blatantly pro-Xbox and give undeserved inflated scores to Xbox exclusives.

If Uncharted 4 were an Xbone exclusive, reviewers wouldn't have given anything lower than a 9.7/10 and it would have a 99 on metacritic.

The fact that MS exclusives still fail to get anything higher than mediocre scores despite the media bias advantage they have is a testament to their weak game dev skills.

Bloodborne?

LOL back up to 94 at 57 reviews.