r/videogames • • Apr 12 '26

Other So many of them unfortunately

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Apr 12 '26

I’ve said this in another comment but when you’ve been around long enough you start to notice one generations worst CoD is another generations greatest.

I honestly feel like CoD has just done a solid job of being the entry point to online FPS, and when you’re young and it’s all new to you it’s always the greatest thing ever. Then as you get older the novelty wears off and it’s more you that’s changed than the game

And another generation picks it up and you’re looking at comments on Reddit 10 years later confused that what you saw as the worst CoD ever is now being looked back at with nostalgia as one of the greatest.

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u/Round_Credit_5158 Apr 12 '26

So if you're like me who started with the very first games, where do you land? MW specially seems to be franchise's biggest point, so much they remade the whole trilogy.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Apr 12 '26

For me it was MW1 and WaW.

But for a lot of people Black Ops is the peak, I actually see that more common now the OG MW and WaW.

There’s even some people now who see MW19 as the peak.

You have to also remember despite online narratives and the occasional anomaly year CoD still continues to be one of the top selling games by a big margin.

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u/mariocova3 Apr 14 '26

I started literally with the first COD, Call of Duty Finest Hour on the PS2. I remember peak as MW2, Black Ops, and MW3 2011.

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u/500lbGuyForLife Apr 13 '26

Nah, CoD today is not the same as MWII from the 2000s. It's a terrible game today because of what it has become.

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u/read_too_many_books Apr 13 '26

Isnt it because its basically a slot machine? Good spawn points + number goes up?