Why exactly was the multiplayer so fucking good?

Why exactly was the multiplayer so fucking good?

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Just because it was an innovation

>m16 simulator

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>cod4
>innovative
How?

>tfw i was 13 when modern warfare came out
>tfw nothing has changed then
>tfw still no gf

>playing S&D with randoms friday nights in high school
fuck bros

yes it was very innovative. simply put, no other game released at the time combined ease and polish in a multiplayer experience combined with super streamlined arcady and casual gameplay that anyone can pick up and be good at instantly that had such high production values. CoD is the definition of mediocrity but for what it is it is extremely polished, simple and easy to pick up for newcommers.

It often seems like the best games are the best because they were the first
Game aftewards people don't feel the same towards, because it's not a novel experience anymore

Why was the Campaign the best to date though?

Because the war in the middle east was still fresh and the Chernobyl mission was just really great.

How was that description any different than Halo 2?

This

My first CoD was MW2 and it was the game that got me to branch out of just playing Nintendo and old-school consoles like Sega Genesis, Dreamcast, etc. I stumbled upon some streamer playing MW2 just today with lots of viewers and it made me feel nostalgic hearing the old announcer lines and weapons from a decade ago. Made me reinstall and start playing again (on PC this time). I feel like there's a revival of sots going on.

Is MW1 any different from MW2? Better or worse. I see it has way less players on PC than MW2.

So close Mr. Diablo

really? COD 4 was the definitive multiplayer experience that kickstarted a whole generation of bro shooters

I don't like CODs anymore myself but to deny COD4 wasn't a huge game is silly.

Perk system was new. Huge assortment of actual guns with relatively good balance and gunplay. Some classic maps. First game with the prestige system. etc.

I was a huge COD player back in that era. COD 4 was a better experience to me. MW2 was far less balanced. Not to say it wasn't good but COD4 was just special. MW2 felt like a step down to me at the time. MW2 also had a shit ton of cheaters that cod4 didn't, when it was still the game to play

It wasn’t. It was always an autistic shitfight. You have fond memories of it because you were a child.

>Started
No it just got there first for some people. BF: BC had been in development for years by that point. Starwars Battlefront had online. Halo 2 was the one that actually brought the online bro shooters to fruition.
No one believed online would ever sell until then.

U mad?

I wasn't categorizing Halo or StarWars Battlefront as bro shooters.
I guess you could in a broader sense.

And to be honest, this may not be a popular opinion but I didn't think BC for all it's praise people give it in hindsight was that great of a game. I thought Battlefield hit it's prime with 4, personally.

Halo 2 was good in it's own right and all, but I consider it a very different experience than cod4 was.

I hated the balance of MW2, but I loved how chaotic and arcadey it felt. The only CoD that recaptured that feeling for me was Blops 1.

Previously I mainly played cs, so cod brought many new things for me.
Unlocks and progression so every game you got some kind of reward, guns werent just model and crosshair but you could use its sights and addons, tall grass and hiding, many gamemodes, 64players madness.
And I liked all new things.

I enjoyed black ops but none of the COD games after COD4MW1 gave me the same addiction i had with that original. I eventually, release by release just got fatigued and left the series altogether. It's obviously still a massive series. Different strokes.... as they say

you may have forgotten but cod4 at that time, was also considered to have one of the better single player campaigns in quite a while for a military FPS.

Sci fi shit games turn people off

halo is such a different experience than MW1. Halo you shot enemies in multiplayer and could tank some shots. Cod4 you would die quickly with realistic guns. Completely different games. Especially so if you were a hardcore mode player in COD where you would practically instantly die.

I still remember the sniper mission

...

It had the right amount of options and features, yet it was simple enough.
Also the gunplay is satisfying, something they already nearly made spot on with original CoD1.

Is Modern Warfare Remastered any good? I miss playing CoD 4 Online for PS3, and I've wanted to try the remaster but it's never on sale.

>Tight gunplay
>Didn't overload itselfneith features so it stayed focused
>Genuinely good map design
>A lot of people's first experience with online gaming
>Matchmaking kept things simple for console kiddies
>Exp/level up and unlock system kept people hooked
>One DLC pack so you felt you were getting value in the base game
CoD4 really was a spectacular manifestation of just the right features at just the right time in gaming. I don't think any game will define a generation like it did.

decent selection of fun weapons
good perk system which allowed you to customize your dude further. Iron Lungs + UAV Jammer and you could sneak past the enemy team and hunt them down Predator style
had some great maps to be quite honest with you my family member

Good remaster. I dunno about other platforms, but on PC it's dead stuttering mess.

I never bought it because to be honest, as much as I loved Cod4 back in the day, I didn't want to ruin my memories and kill the nostalgia.

That and, I didn't want to support the practice of having to buy a COD i didn't want to get the remaster. Obviously that has been rectified. So I almost bought it then was informed that they included some drop packs for microtransactions and also didn't include the map pack (separate purchase). In the end, that was just too much for me to bother with. It will stay in my gaming memories, intact as a great shooter I played for years. And that is that.

>not MW2
bitch what

This is similar to me. As soon as I saw the loot box/DLC shit I dropped any interest. Don't need to spoil my nostalgia.

mw2 while good was easily the inferior game.
not sure how anyone could possibly disagree if you played both when they were actually released

I play it on xbox often. Its pretty good

The grind for gold guns just made me play like a fucking nerd almost half my kils are probably headshots by now.
God why did the gold guns look like poop in every other game

Played the shit out of Halo 3 and Cod 4 when they came out, they were both the bomb dot com back then. Man i had so much fun, every day after school id play both of them for hours. I hope this mcc update they're doing soon makes the game not a pile of shit

This and WaW
Flamethrower perk my nigga
Also tanks. And one of the first HD shooters that you could blow peoples legs off in, i think you could just shoot body parts off with some of the stronger guns.
Some great games with great campaigns and great guns

i remember when cod 4 came out and everyone praised it, then people started shitting on it and after it already became old people accepted it as a good game despite the abomination the COD series became

reasons it was good:
> atmosphere was top notch, at a time the war in the middle east was still fresh.
> good map design
> graphics were good for it's time
> the singleplayer campaign made you feel like a small solider in a big war
> had an adequate amount of features. not too much to the point the game is bloated with shit nobody needs but not too empty to became stale
> easy games for casuals pro mode for serious players

in it's first few months it was popular enough to the point you could discuss it with normie friends without being weird but not so popular it became cancer. that goes for a lot of things that happened in the 2007-2008 era

people started shitting on it once it became popular*

W@W is still my favorite multiplayer shooter and nobody can convince me otherwise
It was devoid of everything that makes call of duty trash and it had lots of nice big open maps

> came after cod 4
> was less polished in every possible way
treyarch were a mistake

>Big open maps
>A good thing

Best CoD4 maps were about tight confrontations. Even the bigger maps had lots of covered corridors for SMG/Shotgunners to get about safely. W@W was too open imo.

How?
The only problem in CoD4 was the grenade spam and WaW fixed that.

Not him and it's been so long since I played either that I'm struggling for detail but

>Maps were too open so sniping was kiddy mode easy
>WW2 setting was stale and weapons felt like peashooters
>bouncing betty spam was constant

That's off the top of my head

>Maps were too open so sniping was kiddy mode easy
This doesn't make any fucking sense, "sniping" on shitty CQB hallway maps isn't sniping. If you don't like sniping, just say you don't like sniping.

> graphics were somehow worse
> badly done weapons
> overused setting

I don't mind it but it didn't fit in to CoD. The smaller close quarters maps were more balanced cos there was the ocassional open area that Snipers could watch but they had to keep moving and it kept the fast pace of the games. W@W could slow to a crawl one some maps.