>this is Call of Duty now
What happened?

>>717885981 (OP)
millenial retards as usual

>>717885981 (OP)
It healed.

I stopped playing this series with black ops 2 and even then I still remember it feeling like a modification or the quake engine. Now everything just seems so different in the worst way.

>>717886010
>Millennials
The last cod we played was black ops 1. This is all fortnite zooms that are addicted to skins and crossover collabs

>>717885981 (OP)
>Paying $20 for a single skin in a game that will only be active for a year or two max
Do CODfags really?

>>717886302
yep, since advanced warfare

>>717885981 (OP)
is this fucking real?

>>717886010
>>717886260
>ITS THE MILLENNIALS
>NO ITS THE ZOOMERS
cant we all just come together this once and agree that its the normalfags at fault?

>>717885981 (OP)
It's called adapting and evolving.

>>717886380
been like that for awhile now

>>717885981 (OP)
is this a kids game?

>>717886010
i haven't played a call of doodle since mw3

>>717885981 (OP)
Is there a term for this kind of art style decay? It happened with Team Fortress 2 as well.

>>717885981 (OP)

>>717886463
this has been their argument since mw2019

>>717885981 (OP)
You sound like Crowbcat.
>but le skins ruin le atmosphere!1!
The game is fun you freak, that's all that matters.

>>717886519
It's in a weird state where the multiplayer is targeted towards kids and teenagers while the campaigns are targeted towards adults

>>717886638
is it fun? is it fun to play a game where you are controlled by an algorithm and have ads shoved in your menus? is it fun to see this retarded shit in a $70 game?

Come home /v/

Brother this shit is so cool and or funny get over yourself and have fun in the video game

>>717885981 (OP)
i'm excited for the modern family collab

>>717886010
>>717886407
>millennials zoomers
It is gen x it has always been gen x doing this shit
>>717886776
look at this shit all gen x slop thrown together

>>717886864
meant to quote >>717886686

>>717886843
remember when /trash/ tried to use this skin to brainwash children? I member

>>717885981 (OP)
There's even the stupid parkinson's shaking while looking at a fucking rollercoaster gun.

>>717886686
fucking CINEMA

these are pretty cool

>>717886863
Gay, give me a Curb Your Enthusiasm crossover instead. You could have a Larry David skin that never shuts up
>Hold on I gotta put the thing in the gun w-w-where does this damn thing go there's too many holes in this thing I feel like a shmuck trying to hook up a VCR here what do they call this thing with the bullets again a magazine? W-what am I shooting people with National Geographic here? What, does the smaller one shoot Highlights or something?

>>717885981 (OP)
kino

>>717885981 (OP)
>LOOK AT ME ARNOLD

The impermanence really kills playing Call of Duty for me. Like, everything you have is outdated by next year, and they game you are currently playing will never have events or anything again.

After a long hiatus I dipped into Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer for the halloween event, and it was super fun, I did buy a battlepass and get the cosmetics... And then it was over. Locked to a dead game. Never to be seen again.

You know? I don't hate that it's a playground now, I hate how temporary it all is.

>>717885981 (OP)
>it's just fortnite
so that's why it looks like shit

>>717886010
I dropped this shitty series after COD 4. I only game on Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 and Steam Deck. Only Xbots and Snoys care about this dumb shit.

>>717885981 (OP)
this is the kind of retarded crap they have to keep coming up with because you cod faggots can’t stop buying microtransactions, if the demand for it wasn’t there they would never waste time developing this shit

Brown zoomers have a 2 digit IQ

>>717886578
This is the epitome of generic millennial creativity.
>whoa! zombie unicorns in space with lasers!
craft beer labels are full of this type of dreadful "art"

>>717886864
>It is gen x
I noticed that every single shitter Snoy and Xbot that enjoy and talk about this shit are all 40+ year olds. I think you're right.

>>717886260
Last cod we played was cod 2 kid.

genz are more grown up now and they hold more conservative views on shit like clothing, games, and what others think of them
millennials are still the ones who jump on a table and floss, have to be recording everything they are doing for the internet, with bright retarded shit everywhere

>>717886557
enshittification

>>717888509
>projecting zoomer

>>717886578
fortnite ruined gaming

>>717887653
nothing new they turned cod into madden 15 years ago

>>717888509
Everybody in their 20's thinks they are God's gift to earth and they are going to fix everything. The media is going to gas you up as trend setters because it is all marketing. 10 years from now your bullshit will be old and lame too.

>>717888662
It was already ruined by Halo 2, Fartnite is just a continuation of the decay

For me, its Call of Duty Mobile.

>Anime girls (Girls Frontline collab on now and apparently also Gundam).
>You keep your shit and don't need to buy next years game and start from 0.
>Play using touchscreen or controller on mobile, or with a mouse and keyboard on PC.
>The best community in video games bar none.

What are you console boys even doing rn.

>>717888615
>>717888761
see
>>717886686
1981-1996
>millennial cartoons
>millennial nostalgia for said era on full display
its millennials, not zoomies

>>717886010
>millenial
The youngest millenials are about to turn 30, man.

>>717886010
It's true although people will blame zoomers.
Boomers and Gen X created kino games and when millenials reached those positions this shit happened.
Apologize to boomers.

>>717885981 (OP)
Damn that's kino.

>>717888837
I don't play this shit though and I haven't played this shit for years. I watched that crap when I was a kid and today, all that crap is just crap now. I want something new, creative, and innovative along with risky. This isn't doing that, zoom zoom. AAA slop is just slop.

>>717888837
CoD is a millennial and Gen X game. Fortnite has all the zoomer slop.

>>717888509
It's actually the opposite. The younger generations hate republiniggers and demofaggots equally. It got even worse because of all this epstein pedo shit.

>>717888889
When we reach those positions they kicked us out, replaced us with activists, and we went independent.

>>717886943
wtf? really?

>>717885981 (OP)
It all started with Guilty Gear Strive

>>717885981 (OP)
this is only in the minigame though right? i played bo6 a little at launch and there was a normal campaign that took itself seriously and the normal MP which was a bit retarded but not on this level, just the usual post-MW CoD.
i assume this is specifically for the mode designed for 15 year olds who are way to cool and grown up for Fortnite, as they are not 14 anymore.

>>717886260
>we
You you fucking retard
The average COD, FIFA and GTA retard is 30-45 you dumb motherfucker.
Zoomoids are playing Minecrat, Fortnite and Roblox, they give no fucks about this trash.

YOU BOUGHT THE HORSE ARMOR
YOU BOUGHF THE BROWN AND BLOOM DUMBED DOWN CONSOLE TRASH
YOU BOUGHT THE GAYLO
YOU BOUGHT THE CONSOLE ONLINE
YOU BOUGHT THE DLC
YOU BOUGHT THE MTX
YOU RUINED EVERY PC IP

NOW DEAL WITH IT SOILLLENNIAL FAGGOT

>>717886686
SOVL

There’s a reason people called it Cock a Dooty

>i-its the opposite because i said so

>>717888814
Man I miss first assault

You're all responsible for the current state of gaming.

>>717888814
>Owns nothing
lol

>>717889092
>zoomer thinks millennial normal faggots are real gamers
We didn't like those faggots back then and knew they were going to destroy gaming. We're happy their empire is falling.
>t. gaming nerd millennial gaming since the NES

>>717889092
>Zoomoids are playing Minecrat, Fortnite and Roblox, they give no fucks about this trash.
CoD put all these gay skins to try to be like Fortnite. Millennials want brown and bloom back.

>>717889246
This
Soillennials killed it and are still killing it.
Look how many bought a Switch 2
Look how many even here are sucking off BF6

All numale consumer whores

>>717886010
>millenial
Huh? I played Call of Duty Big Red one back in 2005 or whatever on PS2. Last game I sort of enjoyed was black ops 1

>>717889286
Normalniggers are mostly Soillenialls you retarded piece of shit.
It's the biggest demographic

>>717889330
Soillennialls will biy the COD no matter the state of it.

>Hey remember this thing from the 80s and 90s???
Yeah, it's totally zoomers that are to blame you retarded faggots!

>>717885981 (OP)
>WOOWIE!!!! IS THAT A HECKIN ROLLER COASTER THUNDERLY JUST LIKE IN MY DISNEYLAND PARK ON MY ASSAULT RIFLE SKIN!!! HOLY FREAKIN... EPIC.. THIS IS A MERGE BETWEEN MY ADULT HOBBY AND NOSTALGIC PREFERENCE (it was not childish, its nostalgic okay?). I WILL PLAY THIS GAME IN MY ADULT MAN CAVE SIPPING MY ADULT BLACK RIFLE COFFEE FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT WAHOOOOO!!! I WILL TELL MY WIFEY THAT I'M GOING TO TAKE 'ABSENCE LEAVE' FROM TONIGHT MEETING ON DISCUSSING HOUSEHOLD STUFF WITH HER (she already have that powerpoint slide on in her macbook air laptop) SO THAT I COULD ENJOY THIS STUFF, AGAIN WAHOOOO!!!

>>717889571
Epic rant bro! Do you watch Rick and Morty too?

>>717885981 (OP)
Only insecure zoomers would hate this

>>717889621
>RICK AND MORTY? I LOVE RICK AND MORTY! PICKLE RICK! HAHAHAHA I LAUGH SO MANY GODDAMN TIMES AT THAT JOKE! IT IS EPIC, NO SERIOUSLY, IT IS... PHENOMENAL. I LOVE HOW WE AS ADULT MAN (see I have a beard) CAN HAVE OUR ADULT CARTOON (no children allowed btw) THAT DISCUSS IMPORTANT MATTER AND LOGIC LIKE SCIENCE AND WORLD. THEY ARE GENIUS, TOP NOTCH

>>717886260
>The last Cod we played was Blops 1
Millennial here, can confirm. Jumped off this train a decade ago and frankly I'm surprised any of us even made it that far.

>>717885981 (OP)
this is clearly AI

>>717889638
>OMG IS ARE THOSE THE TMNT SHOOTING THE TERMINATOR AND GETTING KICKED IN THE NADS BY BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD AND FAMILY GUY?
FUCKING EPIC BRO!!!

>>717889854
https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2025/08/black-ops-6-warzone-battle-pass-blackcell-store-bundles-season-five
You sure about that, retard?

>>717890016
DUDE NOSTALGIA!!!

>>717886782
People like you are so easy to please it's absolutely insane

>>717889854
>we can always tell!

>>717885981 (OP)
Not a fan of all the crossover and silly bullshit.
But at this point I have to admit, having an actual animated mini-rollercoaster as a gun skin reaches the levels of absurdity where I'm mostly just impressed.

>>717886010
Last CoD I played was black ops 2

>>717890016
i think he meant it was made with ai

>>717890173
same, would never buy it but to each their own

people saying this is all zoomer garbage are so fucking stupid it's Millennial garbage, Millennial are the primary demographic now it's why everything is a remake or a sequel to a 90s movie
because they know millennials will eat it up

>>717888837
>the source material is old therefore old people are buying it out of nostalgia
There are children that bought the Star Wars cosmetics in Fortnite that think Fortnite created Star Wars. I'm not joking. Little kids point at pieces of original media and say "it's So-and-So from Fortnite!"

>>717890414
Milennialls are just more left leaning and more coddled and boomers.
Complete retards with zero self awareness, why they blame zoomoids for everything that was their own doing.

Meanwhile they were buying Halo and Season Passes while sucking off the next popular AAA trashpile with dogshit gameplay like Batman and Bioshock.
>t.zilenniall

>>717889450
>millennial normal faggots
You zoomers truly are stupid, it's like you didn't even read my green text post. I called normalfags millennials, dipshit. And I also said they weren't real gamers like us nerd millennials who've been gaming since the NES and know for a fact that Nintendo + PC is the only good combo. I'm sorry that you're retarded and I thought I was calling you zoomers, normal faggots.

>>717890545
Lmao I’ve seen it firsthand. Kid at my cousin’s birthday pointed at Darth Vader and said “that’s the dude from Fortnite.” We’re living in the timeline where pop culture loops get eaten by the younger generation like processed cereal, and they have no idea it came from an ancient dusty myth called… actual media. Next up: “yo is that E.T. from the CoD Halloween bundle?”

Isn't it kinda retarded to try and put whole generations as a singular group?
Like do you think if you get 50 people of same age as you from all over the world, that you all have something automatically connecting each other because you are gen boomer/millenial/zoomer/alpha?
There used to be different subcultures. Now you are treated specific gen/age first

>>717889330
>Millennials want brown and bloom back
I want AAA slop dead and a return to gaming from the 1980s-early 2000s.

>>717890690
I'm from 95
Eat shit faggot

>>717890738
Based

>>717885981 (OP)
people say its zoomers but reminder that aris fucking loves this shit despite being 40 years old and he hates literally every modern game outside souls games and path of exile

this shit is for millenials

>>717890641
I'm a millennial and I'm right of center though.

>>717890793
You're the execption, not the rule

>>717890725
"generations" aren't real

>>717885981 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_jwTqVOjc

>>717890841
>X isn't real/is a meme
You're brown

After all this time, did they finally add a damn dinosaur?
I remember when black ops 2 bombed on pc, some activision spokesperson came here and was driven mad by every anon replying "it didnt have a dinosaur unlike the trailer"
adding a dinosaur is their admission of defeat

>>717890780
Which type, the Snoy ones or the Xbot ones, they're definitely not the ones that came in with Nintendo and PC, that's for sure. These faggots hated video games and bullied us for liking it until they started making their Gaylos, Gay Theft Autos, and Call of Doodoos.

>>717890876
I'm still amazed that glorious Eastwood appreciator predicted the modern state of gayman in 2025 in 2008.
Down to the gore DLC

>>717890841
I know.
That's what makes it even more stupid. Someone just made this shit up to divide people for easier manipulation.

>>717890831
There was a split in millennials, ones that went left and are dying off along with getting booted out, and ones that went right, laughing at constantly winning.

>blame zoomers
>when 90% of the collab shit is random shit from the 80s/90s like Beavis and Butthead
I don't see a Skibidi skin where's the Kai Cenat spray? Zoomers give a fuck about Terminator? Lmao no

>>717888118
/thread

>>717886010
millenial retards falling for the most simple bait, its so sad

>CoD is more turbo gay than borderlands now

>>717890946
Worse than that was ASSFAGGOTS
I had several IRL dudes who barely played vidya pestering me to play that trash while I was playing CoH.

It made by piss boil

>>717889946
>insincere greentext
point proven

>get cs go knife
>it is “woeth” 1000 dollars because real people are willing to pay that much for it, and I can sell it to them

>any other game
>this gun is “worth” 100 dollars because I had to pay that much for it in the cash shop, but I cannot ever liquidate it

This is why the latter is idiotic

>>717891074
I know, that's what Soilennialls love
Meta humour satire where nothing matters, just like their favorite media pieces, Capeshit and Reddit&Mortis!

>>717890876
>Counterstrike for kids was just a comical joke back in 2008
>Now in 2025 every popular FPS game literally looks like the joke video
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?

>>717891130
>That map
Damn, I want to play Neotokyo now

Yeah generational wars is just flamewar bait. Same as with idpol or consolewar stuff

>>717890780
aris is the protozoomer

>>717891176
Normalfag Soilennialls happened and they dragged every single medium down with them.
Music, Movies, Videogames and the Internet.

>>717885981 (OP)
>Forced to compete with Fortnite for Zoomer's limited attention
All games with multiplayer elements have become like this its not just CoD.

>>717891305
Does that mean bf6 is gonna suffer the same fate?

>>717891305
>It's all 80s and 90s shit
This shit is for Milennialls not zoomers retard.

>>717891328
Yes, everyone who says otherwise or that the 6 months before it happens is still worth it is a fucking shill.

EA and Ubisoft send fucktons of them over here.

>>717885981 (OP)
Epic did immeasurable damage to the entire industry on multiple fronts

>>717891305
Zoomers love cartoon skins in their games

>>717891402
I guess it was indeed Epic.... Epic for the win

>>717891403
You bought the Rainbow colored camos, so shut the fuck up.

>>717889417
Bobby kotick is a millinial?

>>717891328
give it enough time and you'll have Deadmau5 tanks with neon undercarriage lights

>>717888889
>>717889015
Both of these are correct. Boomers made those foundations. GenX were hellbent on revolting and being whiny fags so when they climed up the ladder they started to poison the environment with activism. And raised their kids (zoomies) accordingly. Millenials being lazy cunts they are just wanted an easy life like thier parrents (boomers) so they went with the flow.
These days it's some leftover boomer bosses, underneath is the whole upper management obssesed with social justice and related shit and under them are millenials who do most of the work and generally just let themselves be exploited by the other two. Those millenials who were actually rebellious enough left and now make bulk of the indie scene for better or worse.

tldr.: boomers - competent but greedy, genX - competent but vile, genY - incompetent and lazy, genZ - incompetent and retarded

>>717891383
>>717891528
What a shitty timeline for fps gamers.

>>717891263
The main driver I am finding are these companies being driven by outside investment. They aren't actually getting real pressure from consumers to get better. They can just pull out some hedgefund/dei bucks and just ride off of that instead of actual customer demand.

But normies are just adding kerosene to the flames, so they are both to blame.

>>717891454
Watching the internet slowly die desensitized me more than any gore and scat video ever could.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_yThfdrdFL8&pp=ygUQRXBpYyBmb3IgdGhlIHdpbg%3D%3D

>>717886463
Not all evolution is beneficial

>>717891053
I had more fun in the 90s and early 2000s when I was friends with millennials nerds who just played video games. When I made friends with a normal faggot in the 2010s. I didn't enjoy being friends with him and when I played some online console shooters, I found them boring. I felt better when I dropped him as a friend. I hate normalfags, they suck, their taste in games is shit, and I can tell they're fake as shit.

>>717891090
both are idiotic

this happened once before, COD was winning in the FPS landscape, they did the futuristic infinite warfare I think, EA released BF1 and went back to basics no futuristic shit, similar situation is happening again with BF6, game is grounded, realistic, no stupid skins, no fortnite level of cringe, BF6 will use the lack of awareness COD has now and skyrocket in popularity and sales

>>71789154
>shit timeline
Been like that since Halo

>>717891263
>>717891545
This, I hate both, and I'm a millennial

>>717891541
It went to shit once it went from tacticool soldier dudes to overly unique characters and hero shooter slop

>>717891580
same energy as
>Dude bitcoin is not real it’s fake dude

Cod stopped being fun after Modern Warfare 2, the REAL MW2.

After that it just became an obsession with the meta, making the game increasingly schizophrenic, epileptic, with boring modes, increasingly ugly maps and without solving gameplay aspects such as the omnipresent sniper used as a gun.
Those who still play regular Cod play it out of habit, those who play Warzone do so because it's free, updated, doesn't have heroes and it's first person without being a semi-simfps, has no competition in this field.
If you think about it, that's also why COD continues to be successful. There are no more realistic FPS games with online multiplayer.

Battlefield has too long release cadence and kids get bored quickly of playing the same thing, even BF3 at the time lost a lot of console players with the release of the new annual Cod.

COD comes out every year and has an advantage in terms of FOMO and can adapt more quickly to changes.

>>717891578
>they're fake as shit.
That's the issue, they don't have the capability for critical thinking which is why they just like, act and buy shit because everyone else does.

>>717891581
EA will do the samw exact thing you stupid motherfucker
>BF1
>Grounded
Literal a Steampunk game filled with niggers and women
God you're fucking retarded

>>717886519
Always has been chief

>>717891719
>cod stopped being fun when I became 16

>>717886490
you think someone gets off to this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THDcKB4_NJg

>>717889946
>not a single blue haired woman, or woman in general, or tranny in sight
>just a bunch of dudebros who made an awesome game and supported it for years for free
memeing this picture is directly responsible for the tranny woman led trash we have now. fuck all of you.

>>717891742
13 actually
And WaW was the last good COD, MW2 was Michael Bay over the top pandering trash.

>>717891814
All those soibeards defend or enabled those trannies

>>717885981 (OP)
is that bobobobobobobobo

>>717891864
by not employing a single one of them?

I dont fucking care, the gunplay is good and the game is fun. When it isn't fun it sure as hell isn't because of a rollercoaster gun, it's when SBMM fucks with your lobbies too much. I do mostly play zombies tho

>>717886782
Not when the game is 200 GB because of this SHIT

>>717891581
It won't, Age Verification will roll around, hopefully soon and kill it. Not only that, Xbox and PlayStation are on their way out with next gen. Microsoft's is an expensive reference device that will be their last console, cost around or over $1000, only sell on the Microsoft Store, will barely sell anywhere globally and will only exist to push out OEMs which will take over as expensive PC handhelds and prebuilt PCs using the same APU as the home console that will get increments, no generational leaps for Microsoft anymore after this. Sony's PS6 will cost $700+ with a $600+ handheld. These faggots will be out of luck on gaming which is heading back to Nintendo and PC. Better to just get a Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 and leave this trash behind.

>>717885981 (OP)
oh so this is why this game takes 500gb of space

>>717886407
No because we have to fight each other instead of the real enemy

>>717886578
HOLY FVCKING BUTTSTALLIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

>>717891737
>That's the issue, they don't have the capability for critical thinking which is why they just like, act and buy shit because everyone else does.
I hate them so much, feels good that I can call normalfag millennials out. They never liked me because I never liked hanging out with them or joining the popular kids tables. Now I have to keep my ADHD autistic self from punching them out of annoyance as I got older.

>>717885981 (OP)
They are trying to appeal to as many people as possible so they can squeeze as much money out of the game as possible because their at the point the games can't generate them more profit on their own.

>>717886490
>black pawn

>>717892027
That will only happen once every single boomer die out.
Vwey thin walls for Mr Shekelberg at that point.

>>717889092
This. Boomers created the downfall but Gen X and Millennials are completely complicent in it.

>>717886490
As a millennial, I always had this seething hatred for Call of Duty ever since the 4th entry.

>>717892152
I hated that it got so popular on the Xbox 3shitty and with dudebros.
I still liked it.

Too bad it only got worse with MW2 and those faggots.
Fucking Microsoft and their festering cancer.

>COD now has more fake guns than real guns
>Weapon camo's dont work
>Camo Skins dont work
>You are now a discoball playing a military game
>More Fake killstreaks of imaginary weapons of war
>Gay slides since 2015
>9mm Jew Gun UZI is stronger than other 9mm guns because israel paid for publicity despite it being inferior to the superior German roller delay MP5
>Speaking of Jews, Seth Rogan
>Other BS celebrities
>Zero Immersion
>No more big maps
>PDW's and Submachine guns are stronger than Assault Rifles
>Sniper Rifles are still being quick scoped
>Lack of classes
>Just throw 10 attachements on to a gun before its actually "good"
>MY HECKIN FORTNITE EMOTES
cods been dead for a while.

>>717891981
>It won't, Age Verification will roll around, hopefully soon and kill it.

Only this can kill cod and any other game infested with retarded kids who spend and play in the most horrendous way possible.

Seriously, imagine finally having pegi 18/ESRB M games for ADULTS only, without kids spending money on unicorns and shitty skins.
ACTIVISION could fix this by creating a censored version, but even if they did, they would only reach a maximum of PEG 16.

>>717885981 (OP)
It's unironically kino. I'm looking forward to the next CoD as they finally have learned from Fortnite skins. For the most part CoD skins we're looking like shit but now I'll be happily dropping my money on em

>>717889092
This is you

>>717892221
I knew it would, Halo already dumbed down the FPS genre especially with that shitty sequel with the gay alien so I knew that all that was needed to kill Halo was an FPS that was even more braindead than Halo, Call of Duty 4. I also hate Gears of War for ruining the third person shooter genre for many years as well.

>>717892353
User created good
Jewish shekel schemes bad

>>717885981 (OP)
finally, someone managed to make TF2 look tame

>>717892276
God, I can't wait for this shit to happen, it may hurt the internet but killing AAA MP slop is worth it.

>>717885981 (OP)
Nothing. It was always the same demographic.
If you care about them past 20 you are obviously disabled.

>>717892353
I really don't know what it was about old shooters but damn, they were fun and aesthetic. I hate modern slop so much.

>>717892442
Kids will just use their parents ID, this isn't stopping anything. Just like how age ratings on games don't matter.

>>717892353
Yes

>>717888814
>Call of Duty
>best community in video games bar none
not even good bait

>>717885981 (OP)
What am I even looking at, isn’t this a series about modern warfare

>>717892659
Parents will just stop the kids in their tracks.

>>717892372
Microsoft raped the industry and almost killed PC gaming.
Sony already did a number popularizing the hobby, but Microsoft really was the one who helped it reach new cancerous heights by pandering to absolute brownoid Amerimutt retards, charging for every feature (they stole from PC gaming) and wasting all their money on stupidly huge marketing campaigns.

>>717892659
Ratings are useless because no one imposes them. Using a parent's ID is more serious. Imagine a child asking a parent for their ID or other documents to use online features they don't know about. Parents, even the most stupid, do not give their identity to their child.

>>717892442
>>717892659
You can already AI generate fake IDs lmao, kids will figure this shit out faster than anyone can stop them.

>>717886490
Her ass has cubemaps.

>>717892819
Yup, I didn't like Sony and I didn't like how they pushed third parties so hard turning them into what they are today, so they made gaming worse there, but nothing, nothing comes close to Microsoft. Those bastards nearly destroyed the hobby to the point where Nintendo and Valve had to save gaming, again. Sony and Microsoft going third party is pure karma.

>>717892774
If a parent bought their child CoD to begin with, they'll have no problem letting them play it. In this age it's likely dad plays it too so it'll be verified regardless.
>>717892835
I don't know where your from, but stores around me won't sell M rated games to those under 17. Parents give their kids their fucking credit cards 24/7 in slop like fortnight. Taking a picture of their drivers license isn't going to stop them.

>>717892908
They'll find a fix for that, I can also see them creating a new type of ban that bans you until you're 18 and have valid ID.

>>717885981 (OP)
CoD went to shit after CoD2.

>>717888837
No, it's zoomers pretending they know millennial pop culture.

>>717886686
KINO

meh, Gta is worse.

>>717893004
In my country a Pegi 18 game is sold to anyone without any problem, and yes, even in my country, kids are spoiled with gift and credit cards but no parent would dream of giving their child their ID with the risk that they might do something stupid with their identity.
I'm not saying it will solve the situation 100% but it will mitigate it, plus consider this, if you find a kid playing Cod (18+) you could report him as a minor and have him banned.

>>717893030
Alcohol and drugs are 100x more important than video games to the government and they still haven't found a way to make IDs impossible to replicate. Every fucking teen I knew in the service industry has a fake these days.

>>717893284
FUCK!!!!!!! Well, at least we have rising prices of PC GPUs for gaming along with high prices for next gen gaming consoles. Xbox also being dead helps too.

This would be a cool unlockable in killing floor for clearing tragic kingdom on HoE or something. I miss unlocking stuff.

>>717891212
I came here to laugh at CoD but you made me cry instead.

Do you guys remember the tracers

Back up. The year is 2019.
Call of Duty went through a thousand years of pain and misery before they threw the powers that be into a volcano and managed to produce a solid, grounded FPS. They gave it a new coat of paint and called it "Modern Warfare".

Guns acted like guns and people acted like people that were kitted out with 50 pounds of gear.

There was actually a great deal of debate about colored tracers. A lot of people didn't like them because it was unrealistic and they thought it was goofy.
Just to clarify what I'm talking about in case anyone is confused: a tracer round is a round that leaves a streamer in the air behind it. MW2019 had colored tracers locked behind a paywall. They did nothing and they were actually a big disadvantage to you, it's like the TF2 effect where you can pay for a colorful and obnoxious unusual effect, but it just makes you a target for other people.

That's it. That was all.

After that, it took very little time before they started adding tie-ins from movies like Rambo and very little time after that when they started adding guns with pink Hello Kitty anime uwu and then eventually in due time there's a skin of a sloth smoking a blunt with a bandolier made out of joints.

I hate it. I legitimately fucking hate it.
I take zero explaining why. They just call it a "sanity check" in psychology.

There is a team of people that genuinely love what they do and are trying to make a "game" and there's a department of people that are just trying to sap as much as they can out of 8 year olds with stolen credit cards.

>>717891176
Age demographics got flattened into a pancake. You have kids' games pandering to 40+ manchildren, and adult media like shooters/horror games/gacha that capitalize on impressionable minors. Everything is reduced to the lowest common denominator to the detriment of all media.

>>717893584
Tacky cosmetics have a long history. I first noticed them in Korean F2P shooters like Combat Arms or Crossfire (that's late 2000s) and always thought the clown shit and waifus looked awkward. It became a staple feature of poorfag games that was mocked for years but eventually it bled into mainstream games like Counterstrike and at that point players got into it completely unironically.

>>717885981 (OP)
East Asia fps games with their wacky skins got noticed by western publishers

>>717894295
CS still has the right idea because it's another valve game.

The player models are all effectively identical and you know who someone is before you have to think. An average skin is sand-colored and a rare skin is bright pink.

The most egregious thing that they ever did is make a skin with a clown mask where the hitboxes are slightly more slender or have the head slightly more forward. I would not be in favor of this and think it should be removed.

Here's that sloth skin because I can't post 2 images at once. There are no words for this.

>>717891737
Is that the specialist in the image? I played the shit out of that mod back in the day.

>>717886010
FPBP, millenials killed gaming

Isn't the entire appeal of CoD that it allows children and immature people to feel some semblance of being in the "real military"?
Why do this? Fornite kiddies are just going to play Fortnite because it's free, and it's Fortnite.

Anyway, I don't entirely oppose seeing CoD get ruined for the retards who actually bought it every year.

>>717894760
Bro, I like Goldeneye and Half Life, and played maybe one CoD game ever. This is on you, and your weed shlonking Gen-X parents who are running everything.

video games are toys
they don't need to be taken seriously

Zoomers

>>717886010
>>717888889
>>717891024
>>717894760
>least obvious sharty troon
Ah yes... pandering to millennials by... adding Fornite shit in the game!

Why don't you fuck off from this site already. Your retarded brain damaged generation is not welcome.

>>717886686
If this had level ups/downs above their heads, it would just be like one of those fake mobile game ads.

>>717888814
How do you play it on PC?

you ever imagine what it'd be like if vidya was just completely banned?

>>717885981 (OP)
Fortnite

>>717892353
the first half looks fun

>>717889221
Same. It was the last fps I truly enjoyed playing. Don't know why they went and scrapped it...

GenXers once again escaping unscathed.
Never to blame for anything ever.

I still falsely associate COD with D-Day and Pavlov's House.
https://youtu.be/AnH-F7AVMXI

>>717886010
>A literally forgotten Gen-X retard made this post.
Most Millennials stopped playing CoD a decade ago.

>>717894762
Still, it steers the whole industry in a weird direction that masks mediocrity behind irony and mockery. And you can't count on indies to get that sorted out.

>>717886010
rent free, faggot
mw3z was fun on the other hand

>>717885981 (OP)
holy fuck

>>717888814
>The best community in video games bar none.
lol, lmao!
ROFL, even.

>>717885981 (OP)
>>717886578
>>717886686
>>717886843
Is this Borderlands 4?

>>717896692
Randy fucken wishes

>>717896870
Looks like something Borderlands would do. If the OP didn't say it was CoD I'd have thought it was Borderlands or Fortnight.