The "cod killer"

halo aka the cod killer

What? Cod was the halo killer.

nothing can kill a game with military conditioning in it doesnt matter how much money you make as a shooter publisher

Bungie and Microsoft killed halo. The cod and halo fanbase wasn't too overlapping people always preferred one over the other

Let's turn this into an arena shooter idea thread that could actually displace cod

mech enhanced soldiers

body parts serve as cosmetics and your class

parts effect your speed and damage output

WHO?

XDefiant

Literally fucking who?

xdefiant sounds like a third party spyware anti cheating software program with a 1 paragraph section on wikipedia

The cod and halo fanbase wasn't too overlapping

This is untrue, there was huge overlap. Absolute fuck tons of people went to mw2 when it released and never went back, it also happened to gears 2 and vegas 2. Cod pulled so many people away from other games that it still makes me sad to this day, more fun games died for cod. Even reach had the curse of being released only 2 months before black ops 1 which forever sucked in even more halo players after the disappointment reach MP was. Cod after 4 vacuumed up a lot of the people still playing other games like far cry 2, bad company, frontlines, brothers in arms, etc.

To add, I think I wanna attribute cod camo grinds to its success. Back then console MP shooters didn't really have any grinds, like the only ones that existed on console fps were ranked for halo 2-3 and elo on rainbow six. MP games didn't usually have stuff to grind for, people played them for fun and the novelty of online gameplay at the time and that was it. Cod added levels and prestige then also the camos and all these other early dopamine rushes you can see that lead into what games are today, so it made it infinitely more repeatable than the other console fps games at the time. Reach then tried to sort of copy this with the cR grind but it didn't land because the rates were miserable and weapon camos were all the rage back then, which reach didn't have. Tons of dedicated halo fanboys unironically turned into people who became obsessed with getting gold camos, quickscoping and doing rust 1v1s.

It's kinda funny how people attribute the dumbing down of the FPs genre to halo which is probably true when cod basically did that but 10x and was 10x as successful on top of psychologically training masses of people to accept grindy video games.

I was there for day 1 Black Ops 1, and COD deserves its success for just being flat out better than other games.

ubisoft's brief answer to cod warzone
very brief.

Didn't even know this game existed.
Battlefield existed one year before COD. It was never a 'killer' because it was a combined arms game, completely different genre and game idea. Which COD tried to replicate on MW 2019. But i would say didn't match Battlefield.

It's a shame. I actually enjoyed and it's death spells the end for any chance of a classic CoD revival.

It does, most console FPS games honestly played like shit. They mostly had either awful movement, awful UI, awful gun shooting/reloading/swapping feedback etc or all of that at once. They'd have some odd features like far cry 2's map maker or fear's sliding and roundhouse kick gimmicks, or rainbow six's ability to have a bunch of equipment despite the clunky ui interactions it had, but not enough to keep playing after cod 4. Cod 4 was the first well-rounded and smooth fps games controller users ever had access to. After the beta the hype for that game was unimaginable, and they kept knocking it out of the park for years afterwards.

another failed Ubislop live service

out of all the companies banking on this shitty trend Ubisoft is the one that really should just give up at this point

The Division 2

Ghost Recon Breakpoint

For Honor

Steep

The Crew Motorfest

Riders Republic

The Division: Heartland

Skull and Bones

Xdeviant <your here

this company had one success with Siege and that game had its moment of fame and is now losing more players than gaining for years on end
Ubisoft should get the fucking memo

wishing you a happy birthday anon

For honor is quite popular

Halo predates CoD.

mfw i have that skin in CoD

mfw i always use him

There's something hilarious about people constantly bitching about SBMM and then the second a game basically advertises itself as COD but with no SBMM nobody actually wants to play it.
Everybody just likes being a performative faggot on social media.

a game basically advertises itself as COD

bitch it was a hero shooter

xDefiant still had matchmaking, the "skill based" part is not the problem.
COD continues to dominate because Infinity Ward fine tuned the idTech3 engine and the several teams constantly iterated upon it. Despite whatever issues it may have, no other shooter feels as tight as COD.

COD: BO3 and 4 are also hero shooters despite also playing like COD, you are being pedantic for no reason. Either way it was impossible to ignore how much of its early press was just talking about Mark Rubin's involvement.

Movement niggers claimed this game would kill COD

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

its currently sitting at 1300 active players and that is after having gone F2P 6 years ago
its doing alright

you are being pedantic for no reason.

k cooldown babe

CoD will kill itself with ads and microtransactions.

in the end, the only thing that could kill Doom was...Doom The Dark Ages.

send straight white men to die for Israel

trannies stay at home free to didle orphaned lgs

The game died because it was bad

speaking of multiplayer shooters, I played a bit of pic related when it was f2p but I know that it's dead now, has anything similar come out ever since?

Two more weeks

For honor is not f2p but they did give it away on Uplay and epic, so maybe the numbers are skewed

has anything similar come out ever since?

Battlefield used to be super good. It's never coming back, but it used to be the best.

that's a shame, it was such a fun concept and it felt so different from everything else.
It seems like pvp FPS players only want games that play like Counter Strike nowadays

if you look at the Anon Babble cod thread (god help you) half the posts are bitching about the camo grind
and they look so gay now, there's no fucking point

/codg/ mentioned!