Is Call of Duty the only competent AAA franchise left...

Is Call of Duty the only competent AAA franchise left? Every year they release nothing but polished and functional games that for the most part deliver exactly what the fans want. I know it's easy for people to hate the games, but they never have a major blunder like most other franchises.

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I'm happy that they've always maintained 60fps in MP on consoles, so I'd agree

wasn't the last couple cods dogshit though? MW2019 was the first time I picked up a cod game in a while.

maybe bo4 just because they skipped the campaign and had some shitty paywalls from what I remember. but nothing game breaking that would kill the fan base

>but they never have a major blunder like most other franchises.
Black Ops 4 was a huge blunder, it was so terribly mismanaged that they cut out the campaign altogether and 3's campaign design was seriously hamstrung by having to facilitate co-op.

Also anyone that has played Warzone can attest to how buggy it was and still is, MW itself had a lot of issues with shader corruption for the first 6 months of its life and the way shields work completely ruins SnD

I also don't think there has ever been a call of duty where the in-game weapon and attachment descriptions have matched the stats in the game files, putting a charm on your gun would also neuter your hipfire accuracy for the first 2 months of the game's life.

MW is a really great game but the franchise as a whole is subject to just as much mismanagement and technical incompetence as any other AAA release.

WWII started off on the wrong foot but the devs fixed the issues the community was having over time and the MP has aged like fine wine. Underrated entry in the franchise, and the last CoD that felt like CoD.

how much are you getting paid to post this?

every game after Black Ops 1 and before the newest game was shit

They've all been dogshit other than a few memorable campaign moments
But they're still successful and haven't gone full retard like Bioware, Gearbox, Blizzard, or Bethesda.

the old Battlefield argument:
>any game after was the last good one

Blops 2 and Advanced Warfare were great.

i don't know.... it makes my ps4 sound like a jet engine on the menu

I fucking loved the exo mechanics of advanced Warfare. I really wish they would make a sequel

Advanced Warfare was fun in HCKC. It sucked though because better weapon variants locked behind lootboxes, which is a massive negative.

probably a lot less than the 7R shills all over Yas Forums

I can tell that you're definitely not a CoD fan if you're saying this. Most CoDs are insanely unstable, buggy and unbalanced at launch and for a lot of them, the PC version is just downright unplayable.

There hasn't been one that had a good campaign, good multi and good extra mode since Black Ops 3.

CoD has always been a Console franchise.
MW is probably the fist game with a competent PC port. Crossplay makes it not dead.

obviously there's gonna be issues when they push yearly games. but I can't remember cod having backlash comparable to things like battlefield, final fantasy, metal gear, or pretty much every other top tier AAA franchise. At least nothing to split the fanbase

Blops 2 was peak arcade shooter insanity. Nothing before or since managed to capture the manic intensity of Chaos Moshpit, or Demolition on the small to medium sized maps.

>Is Call of Duty the only competent AAA franchise left?
>unoptimized garbage on PC
>constant crashes
>constant bugs
>cheaters everywhere
yeah, no

you're going to have that with any PC game that is designed for consoles

You weren't paying attention, then. .

>they release nothing but polished and functional games
I guess so if you are used to play on console with 30 fps, but they have always been awful on PC.
nu-MW being the exception now.

I played the free weekend and really enjoyed the multiplayer, I haven;'t played CoD since the original modern warfare, cod 4.

But in the free weekend it puts you in these little game modes and rotates maps and game type, is the full game like that or can I queue what I want, and does it have search & destroy? It's still on sale, might buy it

cod games are also one of the few games that retain their value. basically as well as Nintendo games. most previous games rarely go on sale

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they almost always are locked at 60 on console. maybe some random drops but framerate is the number one reason they got so popular

It has a quickplay feature where you can select whatever modes you want to play from a list and it will search for all of them.

It also has SnD and a variant of it called Cyber-attack where both teams have an objective to attack but the shield meta ruins it.

>framerate is the number one reason they got so popular
Number 1 reason is probably the constant gratification with unlocks and points desu

framerate is good though. You never have to wonder like with e.g. Nintendo.

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im not sure if i would call them competent for doing the bare minimum. the actual gameplay tends to be frustrating because there's barely any consideration whatsoever towards balance.

competent business-wise maybe