If you’re sick of massive AAA developers running cash grabs, my suggestion is stop patronizing their games until they get their sh*t together. An excellent alternative if you’re looking for a fun FPS game is Battle-Bit Remastered. I personally love this game, and there is a long running joke that the three guys that made this basically shat on the AAA developer world when they released a full featured FPS for $15 that is enjoyable and has 0 micro transactions.
I totally respect what they’ve done, and I admittedly am not a Call of Duty player, but Roblox graphics are an instant turn off for me and I really don’t think the general CoD player base is going to be drawn in by it either. If there was a graphics pack that made it look modern and zero percent like Roblox I might be able to get into it, but not as it is.
I’ve played some surprisingly good games with untextured polygons.
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Star Fox
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Race the Sun
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Carrier Command 2
That’s not to say that you couldn’t take the same games and make a flashier version that I wouldn’t like more, but I do kind of think that it forces the developers not to use glitz as a crutch. Like, if you’re going to make a game with untextured polygons and sell it, you are going to have to have solid gameplay.
Another benefit is that it’s easier to revise a game if you haven’t committed a lot of expensive assets into particular game design decisions. I think that a long, iterative development process with gameplay revisions is probably a good thing for gameplay.
I kind of wish that one could more-frequently get commercial “HD” DLC for small-budget games, like indie pixel-art games. I think that low-res pixel art is a good way to reduce asset costs, let the player’s brain fill in a lot of the detail, but if a game does turn out to be successful and I like it, I’d like to be able to also get a more-detailed version. That way, I’m only paying for assets on games with good gameplay.
I’ve seen a small handful of games do that, but it’s definitely not the norm.
Maybe AI upscaling will help.
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It’s funny because it’s true.
Okay I’m seeing tons of comments from people about Battle Bit, but is there something good like it that features more realistic graphics? No disrespect to that game but the Roblox style instantly kills it for me.
Will probably get down voted to heck, but Battle Field 2042 goes on sale pretty regularly and is a good bit of fun since they fixed a lot of the issues from it’s atrocious launch.
I’ve had it on my wishlist, but I hesitate to buy anything from BF or CoD only for it to be replaced a year later and no one to play with. I mean, CSGo/CS2 has been going strong for years and in that time there have been like a dozen of each of the other franchises released.
Battlefield 1 is solid and still has decent NA community servers. Semi modern, but not much of a cash grab with good stories and a fun multiplayer experience. Especially the naval battles (imo!)
I’ll give it a shot. I admittedly have never played a single BF game since BF Vietnam, lol, and I somehow own on PC like 7 BF games including BF1. So I’m going to take your advice and give it a shot!
I have 1942, Vietnam, 2, 3, 4, 1, and 5 (I Believe that’s release order), is BF1 a better choice than 5 to try out?
I mean, I’m biased, but I refunded BFV and put well over 500 hours into BF1, haha. It feels better than V imo.
It’s kind of crazy how it’s really just CoD, Halo, and battlefield after all these years. There’s some more mil-sim type shooters out there that are great, insurgency, hell let loose, squad, for example. It doesn’t seem like there’s much out there though in terms of the less serious team death match shooters. The only other one I can think of is maybe titan fall.
I’m itching for a good single player arcade-y/soldier-y FPS. Anyone have a suggestion? Haven’t played CoD (nor BF for that matter) since the one with the No Russian level.
BattleBit, if you want a BFBC2 multiplayer feeling!
3 days late but, seconded on battlebit! expecially for that arcade feel. it’s all the best parts of battlefield in a package that can run on basically any modern hardware.
Yep this one’s in my wishlist, I’ll get it next time it’s on sale!
I stated playing battlebit and I don’t even consider bothering with mainstream titles anymore. This release is garbage, the last 5 releases have just been progressively worse and worse, like hey even bother?
It feels like I have more fun in 1 game of battlebit than I did over the entirety of my 200+ hours of BO2, which was the last mainstream shooter I played that didn’t feel entirely like a waste of money.
Battlebit was one of my faste fastestest refunds. Such a bad game.
As someone enjoying it tremendously, why?
The gameplay is smooth, there is a plethora of maps and modes, teamplay is encouraged but not strictly needed. Mapsize ranges from 16v16 to 127v127.
The only arguement i could see is the low poly graphics and that’s like, what did you expect?
Bad graphics, bad gun balance, bad gunplay, bad community, too many unaddressed bugs, reporting system is very bad.
Did you play like, AT launch? Battlebit has by far the best gun balance of any FPS I’ve played in recent memory. Every single gun I’ve used is viable, it just depends on playstyle. After the SMG nerf it’s a wildly even playing field.
What’s your problem with the gunplay? It’s the same as every other FPS game out right now. Staged reloads, handling that makes sense, bullet drop + travel time… literally what is there to complain about here?
I could go on but this is turning into a rant, and I have a sneaking suspicion that you’re some rogue COD stan and I might as well be yelling into a void. Either way it’s valid to like what you like, your tastes just heavily confuse me lol
The majority of the videos on the game are about how bad the game balance is. There should be no surprise that only 2/3s of the reviews are positive.
That’s just not true, the game is at 89% positive. The game has gun balancing problems, but so does every shooter ever. They regularly release patches to shake up the meta.
Why are you using youtube videos and not actual game reviews as a metric for how good the game is? The videos stay up forever, reviews are MUCH more likely to change to reflect changes to the game.
The videos are recent and show issues with the game.
Reviews tend to be put up and almost never changed.
I really have no sympathy. These people have been buying the exact same game on repeat for at least a decade. Same with people who buy the exact same sports games every single year even though almost nothing has changed. Stop supporting this bullshit, there are millions of games out there. I’m absolutely tired of every fucking 16-35 year old male asking me if I’m playing the new call of duty.
I tried the beta a couple weeks ago. Right off the bat, I got windows firewall popups when launching the client which crashed the client. And it’s slow to launch too. The menus are terrible. It actually launches a 2nd client from the first one, which prompted another Windows firewall popup which crashed it again, so I had to go through launching both clients again before it actually got around to launching the actual game (I don’t think that one actually prompted firewall again).
The gameplay was ok. It was pretty smooth and I saw no obvious bugs or crashes. There were some balance problems, but it is a beta so I wrote those off. At the same time, nothing really stood out to me as new, novel, or innovative. I’m assuming this is what the article means by it feeling like a DLC of the last game. I didn’t play the last one but I can see it not being any different. Maybe just new maps. Those kinds of things used to be released for free in games (and many games still do) in order to keep the game alive and retain players so they keep paying those microtransactions.
The biggest problem I had was that I noticed some guns are unlocked just by playing the game. But some guns specifically said they had to be unlocked in the shop. Literally pay to win weapons. I’ve played CoD games in the past with microtransactions and they always only sold cosmetics so I didn’t mind, but weapons now? That’s a no from me dawg.
Lastly, I prefer playing games with friends. But due to the nature of randomized respawns in most of the game modes, you don’t really experience coordinated gameplay. You could play battle royale but I’m over that now. So I’m back on OW2 instead. While it has stupid expensive skins that used to be free, at least it’s not pay to win, and I can enjoy actual team play.
I had the feeling that every CoD since MW was more like a DLC with some new features rather than a fully fledged new game. Unfortunately Battlefield went a similiar route.
I mean if it would be 30 € or you could either purchase a full price standalone or an expansion at half price of your existing standalone game it would be fine.
I have basically been addicted to CoD for the past couple of years, but recently finally cracked and got annoyed enough that I don’t play nearly as often, or nearly as long anymore. Expensive and overly monetized, absolutely, but there are so many other issues. This is my way-too-long rant that I always go on about CoD:
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Camo that is always intentionally very dark so that people will buy it, and then it will get nerfed once sales die down
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Same with OP weapon blueprints-- sell the new OP blueprint, then nerf it eventually, and then take the PR stance of claiming that you listen to fan feedback.
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Feeling like I’m playing Pokémon with all the swords and shields… I hate shields. Shields making someone practically invincible on almost half of their body, and them having zero movement penalty when they are on someone’s back is absolute horseshit. Swords, where people can run faster because it’s a light weapon, and you can have the Double Time perk to move even faster, so that they can just rush you and slap you with an instant kill is also absolute horseshit. I DO love sticking a shield person with Thermite, but so many other things should work against them and they just don’t.
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The game crashing, and crashing often. Which for MWII was only fixed in the last couple of months, in my experience.
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The incredibly annoying “Restart Game” prompt when you load up CoD, it downloads the stupid store bullshit, and then the game needs to be restarted before you can continue
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The stupid UI. Let me get to Quick Play, IDK, quickly, maybe? I should not have to click through a million stupid tiles just to get to Quick Play
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Oh, and stop fucking changing my playlist filter to include some random game mode every now and then. If I have my filter set to just TDM, don’t you damn dare any other mode onto that filter.
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Night maps. Fuck night maps. MWII has one night map, and there’s zero options in these games to filter out night maps or any other map you may despise (like Border Crossing).
Despite all of this (and so, so much more) I still have 600+ hours into MWII alone, but the more I play it now, the more I find I just get angry at how shitty the entire experience actually is. The parts of it that are fun and addicting are not worth all the other bullshit. I do not intend to purchase MWIII.
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The people who care enough to complain are also largely the ones who keep buying it, so they train companies to realize that complaining is something that can be ignored because it’s all bark and no bite.
I’m old. I miss the WW2 CODs.
Well, you vote with your wallet. This is what happens when gamers pre-order incomplete games and scream about the state of the game on social media: you get crap products like this.
Money is the only thing that appeals to companies. If people would just vote with their wallets, we wouldn’t have this situation.
I remember the days of the OG MW3, some people mockingly calling it Modern Warfare 2.5
I guess it will be a similar situation, or the same, all over again, maybe it already is
As opposed to the original MW3, which was a totally unique experience from CoD MW2 because…well don’t worry about that part, it was its own disk!
Modern Warfare III is not a remake of MW3. It’s a remake of the second half of MW2.
That’s the most confusing thing I’ve ever heard.
Wonder what they will do when they remake the third game?
If you bought horse armor back in the day, you directly caused this problem.
They need to recoup those 70 billions dollars somehow.
Microsoft just closed the purchase. They had no hand in this. Weird take. This was all Activision
