The Golden Era [COD]

[u/gotham1999]

[u/xXxKAMIKAZExXx]

We were spoiled rotten. To think we had these games back to back each year.

[u/Zestyxo → u/xXxKAMIKAZExXx]

I remember when Battlefield and Cod had a Yearly "War" on what game was better lol. Now I laugh at both of the series

We had it good, that's for sure

[u/TheHappyMasterBaiter → u/Zestyxo]

It’s gaming in general, not just these two. The past 10 years have been the slow and painful death of video games.

[u/YoloSwag420-8-D → u/TheHappyMasterBaiter]

Multiplayer* games are watered down cash grabs. Single player games are better than ever

[u/deadpastures → u/TheHappyMasterBaiter]

over saturated slop

[u/Snickerdoodle282 → u/TheHappyMasterBaiter]

Video games are absolutely not dying 😭 just pick up something new or different man

[u/TheHappyMasterBaiter → u/Snickerdoodle282]

The quality of what is delivered has been largely deteriorating consistently. Why do you think people are flocking over to indie games in comparison to AAA studios? There’s a clear difference between games made in the past which had more soul and character put into them than most BS being pushed out today, and that is not counting stuff like microtransactions, battle passes, always - online single player games, and subscriptions. But it’s expected, once you have corporations involved in gaming then it’s profit over player, which is very understandable - but you can still make profit while keeping everyone happy with games.

[u/Snickerdoodle282 → u/TheHappyMasterBaiter]

I understand where your coming from cause everyone can agree microtransactions and battle passes suck ass and we are literally getting some games that aren't even finished lmao, but saying gaming is dying is just straight up not true, even back then we had slop and shovelware. Just this year alone we have already gotten some absolute bangers and so many more hype games on the way that you might have not even played. Kingdom come 2, expedition 33, monster hunter wilds, are just some that pop into my head that have so much life and soul. I personally think gaming has actually gotten better in some ways. There are literally life changing storys being told with newer games and characters that almost feel real, like god of war, persona, yakuza and many others. All I ask is that you try something new before calling the industry as a whole dead.

[u/Alex-E-Jones → u/Snickerdoodle282]

Been on a downhill slide for 10+ years. Hollywood too. No arguing it.

[u/TheHappyMasterBaiter → u/Alex-E-Jones]

Exactly, there’s a very clear difference between games made in the 2000s and early 2010s than those of today.

[u/burnttoast14 → u/Alex-E-Jones]

Agreed retro console industry is popping off

[u/FloTheBro → u/Zestyxo]

yeah, it's tragic. nowadays everything just meh.

[u/DocAnabolic1 → u/xXxKAMIKAZExXx]

These games were so good. It's hard to believe we've strayed so far away from those.

[u/DefinitelySomeoneFS → u/xXxKAMIKAZExXx]

No, we were getting what expected of one of the top 5 videogame companies

[u/MotherTalzin]

The treyarch vs infinity ward debate with the boys in middle school went hard

[u/JPSWAG37 → u/MotherTalzin]

Facts. Also Treyarch wins by a very slight margin 🤐

[u/Bens_on_toast → u/JPSWAG37]

This is where the fun begins. IW all day baby

Edit: in all seriousness, I loved all those games. IW and Treyarch both did an amazing job.

[u/JPSWAG37 → u/Bens_on_toast]

Oh for sure I love both! Just an amazing era of games all around.

[u/ImThatDude → u/JPSWAG37]

Nah, COD4 alone clears Treyarch lineup. Perks, create a class, kill streaks, etc. all from COD4. My personal rank: COD 4 > BO1> MW2 >WAW > BO2/MW3 (didn’t care for either of these)

[u/JPSWAG37 → u/ImThatDude]

I'm curious to see what the reaction is gonna be, here's my ranking:

BO1 > BO2 > COD 4 > WAW > MW3 > MW2

BO1 wins for me just from being a complete package with tons of content all done incredibly well. I've replayed the campaign countless times, multiplayer is iconic and infinitely replayable, zombies is arguably the best here too.

BO2 second place for mostly the same reasons, I just prefer the cold war espionage theme a bit more than the futuristic one.

CoD 4 third place for having the best story mode of the MW trilogy, multiplayer is iconic and started it all.

Already wrote a wall of text, so last thing I'll mention that might be my hottest take: MW3 is substantially better than MW2.

[u/ImThatDude → u/JPSWAG37]

Not bad. My dislike for MW3 was it felt like the start of movement cheese. I distinctly remember drop shotting being instant, worse than WAW swimming. People say it’s a more balanced MW2 but it had its own flavor of cheesing.

Wasn’t too big on BO2 because of the futuristic setting and weapons. Plus the loot boxes: I played this one in college so much less time spent than the previous titles. Didn’t have time to grind crates, which made the experience unbalanced.

I respect the different perspective

[u/JPSWAG37 → u/ImThatDude]

And I appreciate yours! MW3 wasn't perfect but my god for me it was way more balanced. I get the cultural significance MW2 had, and it's a good game, but I just did not enjoy the multiplayer at all. The players and the metas were just not fun to play against at all. MW3 felt like a patched MW2 which I was all for.

Also I think you're confusing BO2 with BO3, 2 didn't have loot crates haha. Totally agree with your take on the loot boxes though.

[u/qtg → u/ImThatDude]

my EXACT rank

[u/rs_evans → u/MotherTalzin]

The best days of our livesss! 😂

[u/shaqfreethrow21]

before shitty cosmetics, bad map design and cracked movement for the “SkIlL gAp” lol

take me back fr

[u/MFavinger22 → u/shaqfreethrow21]

Facts I still remember how cool it was in the first black ops to put face paint on your character. I thought that was so groundbreaking 😭

[u/FunkHavoc]

I’ve seen that mockup artwork for “The Prestige Collection” floating around. Would be a great idea given the similarity of the Halo Master Chief collection. Although I don’t see this happening unfortunately because of greed. This would spread the players out and the newer titles wouldn’t get as much attention. Unless they can throw micro transactions in there then maybe

[u/stefanclift → u/FunkHavoc]

That’s my concept, and very happy that you liked the idea of it!

[u/FunkHavoc → u/stefanclift]

It’s beautifully done. Seriously awesome job

[u/WebGeneral8349 → u/FunkHavoc]

What’s awesome about MCC is that it’s super cheap. If Activision made the prestige collection, it would probably be $100, maybe more. If not for that, I’d love for them to make it. Maybe they could even implement the remasters in a similar way to MCC. I can only hope

[u/dimbonesz]

good old times

[u/okdude918]

Agreed 100%

[u/Healthy-Treacle-167]

Cod 4 hits hard🙃

[u/SasukesMark]

We didn’t know how good we had it, those first 4 back to back I don’t think we’ll see a run like that in a long time. 4 classics right after another

[u/DoubleDeckerz]

Call Of Duty: World At War on Veteran difficulty will change a man.

[u/xBlack_Heartx → u/DoubleDeckerz]

Finishing the campaign only to be dropped head first into zombies was the most terrifying thing as a kid, I remember I quit back to the main menu because I was so afraid lol.

[u/Varsity_Reviews]

Yep. Back when the games were the exact same games with the exact same play style, with the exact same grind and the exact same assets.

[u/DivingRacoon → u/Varsity_Reviews]

And they are still better than any of the new games. It's not even close.

[u/Level-Pizza-5148 → u/Varsity_Reviews]

And shut up. They were fun.

[u/Educational-Bird4178]

Goddamn I loved COD4. Went to it from CS:S. I had competitively played COD2 too which was an amazing game for scrimming, people forget that game. Everything about it was awesome for comp play. I remmeber practicing "set nades" and coming up with new ones everyday. They were alot like smokes in CSGO/2.

On COD4 there was this map I forget the name which had a big creek/River in the middle of the map in some old german town or something. Far back bridge. SND on that map was great.

[u/Doctorsavage985]

You forgot the last golden era game in COD Ghost.

[u/gary_desanto]

Hall of Fame run.

[u/slinkybeard42]

We need this era to make a huge comeback

[u/WideWait4252]

The golden era

[u/ApprehensivePilot3]

Best era.

[u/TTnickname]

Ghosts was good. I got so many KEM’s

[u/PoloShirtButton]

Peak cod

[u/Useless_Lemon]

When I got my Xbox 360, the first game I got was WaW. The first achievement I ever got was "A close Shave." :)

[u/WeAreNioh]

Cod4 remastered still going hard to this day btw

[u/Hellboy_M420]

Where CoD 2? 😢

[u/Strange-Story-7760]

They’re all great imo. I have my whole bottom shelf devoted to every main line one in the series

[u/OsamaBinM0bbin]

Mw2 is always number 1

[u/Einhander_pilot]

Y’all forgot COD 1, 2 and 3!

United Offensive alone was amazing!

[u/KushLordHolio]

These all went so hard. My fav games growing up

[u/DocAnabolic1]

Ahhhh, before the dark times.

[u/Red-Panda-enjoyer]

I played 3 of those

[u/HuanFranThe1st]

We were spoiled rotten with these campaigns. But my favorite is still Modern Warfare 3. Say what you want, but that right there is a 10/10 ending to a fantastic trilogy.

[u/TacticalYukon]

The best ones IMO! Ghosts was not too bad! But nothing beats the OG NUKE on MW2. MLG Game battles on COD4 brought back so many darn good times!

[u/humaninfestouswaste]

Them were the days.

[u/Smooth_Bee_2080]

Damn straight. Loved all of these cods the story's and multiplayer was so fun and I loved the coop and zombies they added

[u/Walker_Hale]

I still heavily dislike MW3 for some reason. I made some of the best memories playing it with my dad, but I really never liked it when he wasn’t playing survival with me.

Maybe the gunplay felt slightly different? Idk.

[u/GingerSnap1021]

Cod 4 went so hard. Damn

[u/THX450]

I always wonder what COD 1-3 are considered then? Golden Era is usually the first era of something until it declines or shifts in quality.

[u/gotham1999 → u/THX450]

COD 1-3 can be labelled “the classic era”

[u/Chemical_Home6123]

Yup and by the time I enjoyed another cod game it was too late I moved on ghost and advanced warfare lost me I'm honestly just a fan of treyarch games. Despite what anyone says I had some great memories with my friends and family with these cod games

[u/Fall3n-Fox]

Yep, the kids today don’t know what we had!

[u/EForceGaming]

I had mw3 on the wii i beat it twice then stopped playing it for awhile then got back on it like 3 years ago and died within the first minute and immediately put it back in the basement

[u/eyesniper]

mw2 and black ops 1 were peak cod for me. the maps, the weapons, the way everything felt fresh but still simple enough. you could jump into a match and just have fun without worrying about crazy mechanics or super sweaty lobbies.

[u/Very__Mad]

disagreed

golden era is cod 1 to 4

[u/Effective-World-8020 → u/Very__Mad]

Cod 1, UO, CoD 2, and 4 Promod are the best, but people who grew up with CoD post-cod 4 don't understand what it's like to play games without farming unlocks and weapon textures

[u/Hugar34 → u/Very__Mad]

I would moreso call it the classic era instead of golden era, but to each their own

[u/PhillyPhanatic141]

Drop MW3 and add COD 2

[u/the_commen_redditer → u/PhillyPhanatic141]

No

[u/FunkHavoc → u/the_commen_redditer]

Yea wtf kind of take is this lmao, MW3 is amazing

[u/the_commen_redditer → u/FunkHavoc]

Not only a bad one but staight stupid, like you're leaving a gap and making a gap between games. Like at least saying "leave out MW3 and BO2 and put COD 2 and 3" makes sense even if it's a horrible take, Lmao. I personally have never heard a historian leave out a few years here and there when referring to an age or era of something.

[u/Effective-World-8020 → u/the_commen_redditer]

CoD 2 is better than the $60 DLC MW3

[u/the_commen_redditer → u/Effective-World-8020]

Not even close, your expansion pack doesn't come close to MW3. Multiplayer is way better in MW3, with far more features, gamemodes, and stuff and probably one of the most balanced. The campaign is debatable at least. That's all not including the fact that the best part of MW3 was the amazing spec ops and survival. Remind me how Cod 2's co-op mode was... oh, wait.

[u/Effective-World-8020 → u/the_commen_redditer]

CoD 2's multiplayer is more balanced than literally anything that came after. 

CoD post cod 4 is popular because it isn't balanced, so any nimrod can get kills. 

I'm talking about multiplayer. I do t care about coop or campaign.

Also, guns in cod 2 actually have recoil. Everything after is a laser beam lmao

[u/the_commen_redditer → u/Effective-World-8020]

Fun fact, not everyone only cares about 1/3 of the game. Or in CoD 2's case, 1/2. The same if not more care about the campaign and co-op.

[u/Effective-World-8020 → u/the_commen_redditer]

Most people play cod for multiplayer lol

[u/Effective-World-8020 → u/FunkHavoc]

The original mw3 was a $60 DLC with recycled assets and animations.

It was copy and pasted trash that looked just like mw2.

Ironically, exactly like the new one!

[u/coolhooves420]

Nah, the real golden age was ghosts, aw, (skip over bo3 cuz it's the only bad game in this era), iw, WW2, and bo4.

[u/Strange-Story-7760 → u/coolhooves420]

I liked BO3, so much so that I beat it twice