Fun fact: If you watch the original clip, you can see the precise moment that Chris Judge realizes that he has an absolute banger loaded in the chamber.
Chris Judge has balls to make a joke on such a big event, and he was not even mean, just saying facts :) that has to be inappropriate but still much respect to this man, love his presence
This was probably the most harmless joke I've ever heard and the fact the devs are so tilted instead of just laughing it off kinda tells you they're pretty insecure about the product they put out.
I mean, if a company would lose sales out of one joke. I would say that it's not a harmless joke. Because when companies fail it affects the employees the most. Don't get me wrong, I think the joke is funny and I agree that COD campaign sucks now; but "the most harmless joke" is definitely not it. People definitely get fired because of low sales and decline in budget.
Exactly. It's the fact they can't laugh at themselves that just makes it all the worse. I mean even if it were an unfair stereotype which arguably it's not, what's wrong with having a laugh at a known joke / meme that's been around for what, like 10-15+ years. It's a running joke on COD's even before they were more money grabbing.
"we have been ignoring our player base for over 10 years now, there is nothing you can say to us. hey btw, check out how many 8 year olds give us money"
Ever since Ghosts and the massively disliked trailer for Infinite Warfare on youtube, you'd think they would just accept a mild jab. Weird time to try growing a pair.
Well the difference is, they probably feel they can affect Chris Judge in some way. Employment or public perception. When a random internet nobody tells them Cod is a slop game piece of shit rehashed every year all they can do is get mad. It's already been said but just their response to a mild jab that wasn't even mean spirited tells the whole story.@@eddielombardo
You can tell these developers are really proud and not at all insecure with what they achieved with Modern Warfare 3 (2023) by how they replied to a harmless joke.
Especially when you compare it with others with a sense of humor like Sean Murray, that answered to comments telling him not to overhype his new game like he did with NMS with "Oh, shit", like he just forgot lol.
Man that joke was such a soft ball and they really are pissing their pants about it, how can they not see that their reactions are only making them look bad?
@@goonishereva i don't know about that one chief last time a black dude made a softball joke on stage he got assaulted, were living in a world were the people that should be in padded cells aren't in padded cells anymore
Imagine you are that stupid that you say something like "yeah but we make way more money" while your game is completly build around microtransaction and milking the players vs a one time pay game lol. also admiting that you have the money but you just dont give a fuck about your customers is a really stupid statement but sadly those people have no dignity.
Cod devs uncreative as shit. Not to mention they just now made the choice to port all pre purchased skins to the next games instead of making you buy them all again 💀 that’s the only way they can make money, that and 11 year olds crying about the new one to mommy every year
1. That burn was *historical* 2. What makes it even better is the fact that Modern Warfare 3 literally only recently started adding content. They waited until the game was *on its way out* to start doing cool stuff with it , because they knew people wouldn't care
Yeah I think it's very rich that a cod dev can talk about retention rates of a singleplayer storydriven game whilst cod has to implement battlepass systems and seasons to keep people playing their same games.
I don't like CoD and I don't play it much anymore and we all know how bad MW3 is but the game just came out last month. They added a new map and other content less than 30 days after release. I think that's soon enough. Also the game wont be on its way out for a few months from now. I don't want to take up for CoD but I felt like a comment was warranted.
@@hellbillyhound There is a maximum lifespan for a call of duty game and it's whenever Activision decides to make another call of duty game. That's when the previous one dies. In terms of playerbase and in terms of content/updates for the game.
And most of that file size is probably wasted on poorly optimised meshes with 100,000 polygons and 4K textures for every blade of grass. The devs are too stupid and passionless to optimise so it makes sense why the file size is so big.
Dude is like the Jason Momoa of the game scene, we love to see it. The man just radiates positive energy, we need more people like that in this space quite frankly. Positive people who actually LIKE their jobs and are passionate lol.
Cod devs are just upset that someone called them out for being lazy and cheap. I'll never feel bad for people like that they deserve to hear it and more
@@FunnyRedemption i mean there is some truth to it, unless you're in leadership you don't have much control over how your work effects the game, you're stuck doing what they want.
Maybe if more bigger personalities in gaming called out CoD, it would really humble them and force them to create what the community actually wants in a CoD game
like actual black ops zombies back with actual real characters like before and an actual story that doesnt feel like they read twitter and got inspired by a twitlonger from a bluehaired 14 year old
@@_oPhanLongsadly you got braindead players that will buy the game on release. Which why their crappy fps game is still in the top games being bought.
What the community really wants is a reskinned cod from 2004. The sum of their collective IQ doesnt scratch the 80s, and the cod devs are a reflection of that
Between the elden ring release salt and this I've come to realize most AAA developers are jealous when something else does well, and are super petty and ultra-sensetive
Short campaigns can be amazing, when done right. Think Titanfall 2 for example; fairly short at about 6 hours, but the entirety is amazing and easily one of the best campaigns in an FPS. A three-hour campaign could've worked, but they really dropped the ball on every aspect of it.
Completely agree, the original 3 Halo games and Halo Reach you could beat in a day and were great campaigns. They just have to create a good story with a compelling reason to finish it.
Agreed there man! Mine is COD Cold war, sure it has rocky launch on that year but the campaign, even though short, is enjoyable and replayability is big :D
Chris Judge was one of the best parts of the event, it's good that the CoD devs are upset, maybe it'll motivate them to make a better game but it probably won't.
Shoutout to the editor for putting all those videos on the background so they immediately reflect what Asmon is saying and I bet a lot of people didn't even notice that was an edit. This man is in another whole level.
It’s funny that the dev mentioned how he expects better from his peers meanwhile he works for a company that pushed a woman to suicide over her nudes being leaked at a holiday party but a voice actor making a joke is over the line
@@arekusu.Tons of articles about it. It was from a few years ago on top of other horrendous working conditions. Just Google Activision blizzard working conditions. You will get plenty of horror stories
@@TS111WASD and and aaaand... hypes up every release with made up sales speak as a "new feature" as though every release is improving over the last one
Me and a mate of mine met Chris Judge at a Comic Con (We are stargate nerds) and we got his autograph. He's such a chill dude, he was having a full blown conversation with us for 10 or so mins and he shook our hands, granted this was before he VA'd for God of War, so no one was really going up for pictures or anything.
Ah, he’s the voice of kratos in the new games. Haven’t gotten to them yet. Honestly I was wondering why Teal’c was at a game convention. Best Jaffa ever!
The same could be said about Playstation studio games, though. The gameplay formula is usually rinse and repeat. Name a Playstation game that doesn't have climbing as a mechanic and heavy in-game cutscenes. Also, I'm not saying cod is any better. I been saying the games trash, but people finally caught on lol
Their life is actually easy as fuck in today age, problem is for the people around them that need to silently deal with their bullshit to maintain their job. We need a revolution.
As someone who has never played a single God of War but still watched full gameplays of it because of the story and lore, I have to agree with Christopher Judge and AsmondGold. If CoD Devs put more time into the campaign and zombies storyline, they wouldn't lose so much player retention every year. Most gamers love a good story and lore.
Same here before they started adding random shit in zombies and a multiplayer that didn't rely on micro transactions to fund the next game as well as a good campaign
Half the customers still only buy for campaign. Don't believe the lies. Look at the achievements and you'll see half the players never even touch multilayer
It sucks that they don’t make them like they used to, but the older ones are still fun to play today. I still play couch co-op survival mode in MW3 2011 with my girlfriend and we have a blast.
Years ago I came to the conclusion that COD developers didn't have a single ounce of self-respect in their entire being. If they did, the state of their game wouldn't be where it is now. I'm surprised they even had the gall to try and clap back like there's anything noteworthy about their "new" game.
any kind of artistic spark or passion is not compatible with developing a game like call of duty. like it was said, "the FIFA of fps", to make production-line games you battery farmed game developer drones who just clack away at a keyboard for a paycheque lilke any other office job.
COD is under activision, a publishing company. And companies have deadlines and quotas to meet for the stockholders that provide the money to keep their games going. Developers have no say so in when they can do things nor any artistic freedom (at least, not in terms of studios like Santa Monica or Bethesda- although starfield is laughably bad, still more creative freedom than infinity ward, treyarch, etc..). The real problem and sad fact of the matter is, people blame developers, when cod makes 1bn from game sales and over 1bn in one quarter from MTX. So who’s to REALLY blame, the dev’s? Or the people feeding into the MTX to keep the cycle going?
I'm confused. On one hand you claim the stockholders provide the money to keep the games going, but in the next paragraph you state the game makes 1 bn in one quarter (1 billion USD every 3 months, correct?). You're telling me the 1 bn per quarter isn't sufficient money to continue financing their upcoming games? I'm no financial expert, but that sounds like an embezzlement or budget misappropriation problem more than anything, if actually true. And to your last point, when a game is bad the only person who should be blamed are the devs. The majority of the people who play COD are kids who have very little or no experience with quality games. What good is it to pass the blame onto ignorant kids throwing their money away when the problem wouldn't exist in the first place if the devs had an iota of dignity? That'd be like blaming the current fentanyl crisis on the meth addicts and not the people producing and selling it. How is pointing the finger at the addict going to change things for the better?
i dont understand how microtransactions are better and more satisfying then those bo3 case opening. only issue with that was its rng to get a pay to win weapon
The most emotional engagement CoD ever got out of me was mild frustration. GOW Ragnarok made me cry at the end. Not just a little. I was a weeping mess. That's what I call engagement.
@@samcarter420 what if he did? Some video games are very story and character driven, and can have this effect. Just like movies can make people feel emotional. Id be more worry about either taste or empathy (or both) of someone who never did
Wait till you see the Nicki minaj skin and other random celebrities that really just look out of place. Oh and Homelander, Starlight, etc. are also in the game.
Cringe crybaby call of duty developers can’t even take a joke also it’s laughable that they say that call of duty is better than god of war which is stupid since the past years they haven’t even made a good game no offence I never was a call of duty person.
@@npc-bl2vw mind me asking who wrote that Activision joke for him anyways he had the ba## to say that joke whilst the activation devs were at the game awards also your the type of person to ruin a comment like why what’s the point.
God of war was a single player story that was fully made to be consumed and then put down. It’s still considered a hell of a better game than any COD that’s come since 4.
hes not wrong. the new cod was an absolute joke of a release. cod probably has the shortest retention of any game too, like he said they make a "new" one every year
the last cod i played was bo 2 and it was really good. after that i played the free multiplayer demos of alot of their games but nothing got me in again to actually buy their product.
Makes me like GoW even more. COD players saying that revenue doesn't compare to COD like Corollas are better than Ferraris because Toyota sells more of them.
Try asking a Genshit player why it is supposedly so good, and the common responses are that it makes a lot of money, and has had many people download it.
Yeah, I wonder why it has more revenue. It surely couldn't be that it's plopped out nearly every year and sells garbage "micro" transactions. That's what makes a "good" game these days, I guess. It's ironic that this is precisely the problem. All they care for is money, rather than making a good game they are passionate about. The "game" is nothing but a platform(often, for basically gambling) to rob idiots and vulnerable people, and kids. But then they gonna act upset like they are making art and have passion for what they are doing. Something that must be respected lol All the while the corporation does countless incredibly unethical and shitty things. The sadder thing is that most people don't care and still throw money at them.
@@Someone--Else Who said that? Genshin players said game is fun, because of combat, characters, story or gacha. They never said "hur dur number is bigger than yours". Like imagine getting free game with free content and this content is.... good? This is why genshin player loves it. Summeru quest was 10/10 and people already saying that fontine is even better. (i have a break from genshin until 4.4 to play all of it in one package)
@@PentaHousen I've had a number of people explain it to me that way when I question how they could play that trash. I played for the first year, then quit, there's no way in hell I'd return, ever. The combat, sucks, as in the first year, they made pretty much everything in it, brain dead easy, even if you claim the system behind it is good, when the content is that easy, you can't do anything with it. Magicka had a better, and more robust elemental interaction system, and that was released about ten years before Genshit. The vast majority of its content is just there to get you emotionally invested in the characters, in the hopes you will spend in the gacha, meaning it's not a game, it's just an interactive ad for the gacha, I'd rather play a game. The story was shit, as they're just ads, and the writing was another example of pointless walls of text, which is why most tended to hate those side quests, or world quest, whatever they were called. Then who in their right mind would list its gacha as a good point about it? Most in the gacha community always regarded the Genshit gacha as being pretty bad, the best thing people would tend to say about it, was that at least it's better than the gacha in Fate Grand Order (FGO), which is a really low bar. People who get themselves invested in something, will all insist it's great, even if most say its garbage, just look at Diablo Immortal. Then a game really would need to be really bad, really early, or just completely abandoned for it to score less than four out of five on Google Play, or the like, but since Genshit used to score around 4.7, and is now a 4.2, Genshit is getting there. At the same time, if you look at say Metacritic, it scores less than a five, out of ten when you look at player reviews. Meaning more, and more people are getting fed up with it, not that it's only getting better, as you're trying to claim.
2 things i loved about old call of duty (mw 2, mw3, black ops 1 and 2) was how militraristic and real it was. People throwin mags at each other and reloading in cinematic parts of the campaign and helicopters raining fire on enemies and all that stuff plus the multiplayers actually being fun and there being something to work for like level progression and gun unlocks. But now its as asmondgold says, a microtrash action that has to much meta building as sweatiness trying to stay relevent. there is a reason the old ones were the best.
0:42 That's like comparing a 35 year old bottle of scotch to your daily bread. Sure, you consume a whole lot more of that bread but that does not make it more of a luxury item to be enjoyed. User retention is the concern of those who make games that aim to have people grinding like it's a second job or paying like the game is a part of their rent.
It’s been getting really bad year after year. Game devs are becoming increasingly hostile and toxic towards other devs I’ve noticed. And what’s worse is that this ends up multiplying within thier fanbase.
@@zeedude8026some people are just too stupid or arrogant to admit the thing they worked on sucks. It might not be their own fault but the fault of people in charge and devs might do best they can and props to them but they gotta admit everything ppl say about cod, fifa, nba etc is true. I got nothing against the devs they just do their job but ppl in charge are just milking money forcing em to rerelease every year i dont see why devs feel personally attacked
The saddest part is how easy it would've been to make an amazing campaign. Hire some good story tellers and make basic set pieces. We didn't love our favorite games because they had the biggest explosions, we loved them because they had good characters.
Its so true that its hurt! But at the beggining with "Bravo 6 going dark" and all that cinematographic gameplay I believe that campaing will made it a nice saga.
It used to have some iconic campaigns, but like he says that was when they cared about making a good game, not a release to milk skins and battlepasses. FIFA being basically the same, they are the pringles of computer games, but people keep buying this shit in their millions so they won't stop.
The first cod game is still the best to me. Many of the guys who made it(infinity ward?)were part of the team that made medal of honor allied assault and its expansions, together with steven spielberg and tom hanks.. One of if not the greatest shooter ever made. the console version as frontline. The music, story, gameplay, maps, multiplayer etc.. in those games are legendary.. And cod one and its expansion + multiplayer was almost equally good in its own way, multiplayer maps with tanks, jeeps with mgs etc..
@@jesuszamora6949cod ww2 was so bad holy. Sad to see battlefield also fuck shit up. Battlefield one is the last great bf game to me, i loved bf2/3/4/bc2/1942 ofc. But bf1 with the sounds, music, maps etc... holy fuck it was amazing
The user retention thing is so stupid to me lol. Reason why is because a game like COD is built to use every trick in the psychological book to keep people playing the game. It's a live service. A game like God of War is built to tell a story, and that's it.
it's crazy when you really think about it. they already made a modern warfare 2 remake, then they made a 2nd modern warfare 2 and modern warfare 3 is just all the maps from the original mw2 running on the engine with the mechanics & guns of the 2nd modern warfare 2. so really, modern warfare 3 is the 2nd modern warfare 2 squared! the company/devs being proud of that is find if you put it into perspective. it's like when i was proud of my 3rd drawing of a sunset as a toddler. it's objectively ass but i was still proud as hell of it & me and my parents would've defended it against anyone talking bad about it!
Damn imagine if they had more of this roasting behavior at the game awards...maybe some devs would clean their act up (fear of being roasted is serious)
The difference is every single god of war game so far remains a treasured memory to all who experienced it, but every call of duty barring a precious few entries is nothing more than a passover experience of meaningless borderline numbing sludge of content till the next instalment before it becomes a fading memory. It's like comparing the godfather films with the marvel franchise respectively, yeah the latter certainly made more revenue and has its moment but only the former has an actual enduring legacy and is a series of cinematic masterpiece.
This is the game that added Snoop Dogg, Michael Myers, and the Predator all in the same game. Which came out 11 years ago mind you. They’re trying to say they lack gamer attention?
COD devs missed an opportunity to gain some respect by laughing at their own expense and just take the joke. Instead, they chose to go with the "must be fun at parties" response and get offended like bunch of snowflakes.
This might not happen, but if this somehow lead to better campaigns for CoD then Chris Judge has already done his job for Activision without even "working for them". Yeah it was a joke and it's sad to see cod people didn't see it that way but I do hope this lights a fire under their asses and make a great cod campaign.
It probably won't happen. While there are devs acting defensive and salty, there are probably even more devs at the company that actually wanted to make a longer, better campaign but weren't allowed to because the product managers / someone even higher up didn't think it was worth the time / money invested. It's not like the CoD devs aren't talented enough or driven enough to make a good campaign, they just aren't being allowed to.
Facts. I used to be the biggest CoD fan. It was pretty much all I played, until Infinite Warfare came along. WW2 should have been my favourite game because of the setting, but it was the last CoD I bought. They ran out of drive to tell good stories and make fun and fair games.
Love Chris, also love the fact he called them out about it. If CoD wants to be taken serious again, they need to start focusing on single player campaigns that are in the 15-20 hr range. Give the consumers a proper reason to buy the product..
Guys, hear me out. I have been ruminating on this, and it is not just a gaming industry problem. We are basically dealing with female social norms here; norms that are being applied across most industries. Actual men would hear Teal'c's words and just shrug them off or use them as fuel to beat him. Women want to destroy his reputation, spend 3 weeks talking it over in meetings, and then agree to just bitch about it for another year. A feminised workplace also helps effeminate men rise through up the ranks, so we have this horrible situation where everything has to be 'talked out' and/or cried about constantly. If they don't like Kratos' speech, they should prove Kratos wrong.
What breaks my heart is I actually really liked MW 2019. It was gritty and visceral. It took risks with how brutal it let the story be, with how grey it allowed you, the player, to be. It put you, the player, in deeply uncomfortable, morally difficult situations, from the perspective of a man who at the start of the game is talking big about 'taking the gloves off', and is then continually forced to face the harsh reality of what that actually looks like. It put civilians in the middle of active firefights. It didn't punish you if a stray bullet caught a civilian or if they sprinted across your field of fire; you were expected to keep fighting, because the mission comes first. It didn't punish you if you shot someone unarmed during one of the house raid segments, because, in a 'gloves-off' theater of war, shit like that happens. Sure, it wasn't above the odd 'action-hero' style setpiece, but those were few and far between compared to the brutal firefights you mostly got involved in. I loved it because it went so against the grain of the typical cookie-cutter CoD campaign we've been spoonfed for a long while now. In one of the MW2 missions, can't remember which, a firefight broke out and a civilian sprinted across my field of fire and took a bullet, and the game INSTANTLY kicked me back to the last checkpoint. And those 'action hero' setpieces were dialed up to 11, especially with the UTTERLY ridiculous highway pursuit mission. Was it fun? Yes, but it went completely against the tone established in the previous game. I haven't even played MW3 yet because I already know it's going to disappoint me, and it breaks my heart that they started this "remake" trilogy SO WELL and then instantly went back to the same cookie-cutter formula.
@@theanchorshat585 This has been the overwhelming consensus, and it legitimately breaks my heart. CoD had a chance to reinvent itself, become a hard-hitting franchise that REALLY addresses the moral uncertainty in the way modern wars are fought. Proxy wars, deniable ops, terror groups, torture, prioritizing the mission over anything else, INCLUDING innocent lives. The top three moments in MW 2019 that still stick with me as POWERFUL storytelling, to this day? 1. Price throwing the bomb-vested civilian over the railing. It set the tone for the rest of the game, and it underlined the terrible necessity of the formation of 141 at the end; in the world of CoD, someone needed to engage terror cells on their own terms, with no rules of engagement. 2. The entire embassy raid was gut-punching and brutal. No regard given to any civilian beyond the ones you're sent there to save. If that means a civilian panicking and running for their life catches your bullet because they sprinted into your field of fire, that's not your fault, and the game continues on. 3. Bringing the Butcher's family in to interrogate him. Giving YOU the chance to simply refuse to take part. In addition to making the player either complicit in the torture, or underlining their willful ignorance and hypocrisy, it once more underscored that if you do not meet a foe with nothing held back, you will lose. Honestly, each of these three segments hit me harder than No Russian did, because No Russian would have happened with or without my character being there. And then MW2 shows 141 basically being action heroes and the villains are all cartoonishly evil, with the moral grey area almost completely washed out. Shadow Company going full genocide on that random town was so jarring and pointless, and there's no world where the Price I saw in MW2019 doesn't simply execute Hassan in that desert with an untraceable weapon, maybe even bury his body.
@@perrycarters3113 from what I've seen, Sledgehammer developed MWIII and most of the games they've taken the lead on are baaaad. Treyarch is coming back with Gulf War next year. They are our only hope.
Fun fact: That Christopher Judge joke had more positive reactions from gamers than all of the COD Devs reactions combined.
ofc they're being butthurt over a simple joke , basically the dude memeing
they're a bunch of losers.
Fun fact: If you watch the original clip, you can see the precise moment that Chris Judge realizes that he has an absolute banger loaded in the chamber.
Chris Judge has balls to make a joke on such a big event, and he was not even mean, just saying facts :) that has to be inappropriate but still much respect to this man, love his presence
Dont know why he has Ajinkya Limaye on his thumbnail. He works for PlayStation.
The joke also had more retention than the latest COD game 😂
He went from god-killer to cod-killer
Noice.
Makes his Cod of War skin even more ironic
underrated
Goa'uld-killer too
This is the most underrated comment
This was probably the most harmless joke I've ever heard and the fact the devs are so tilted instead of just laughing it off kinda tells you they're pretty insecure about the product they put out.
"DON'T SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT OUR TINY PRODUUUUCT!!!"
@@JoshSweetvale”my wife says it’s big!”
@@jeremytitus9519 "Huge actually..."
I mean, if a company would lose sales out of one joke. I would say that it's not a harmless joke. Because when companies fail it affects the employees the most.
Don't get me wrong, I think the joke is funny and I agree that COD campaign sucks now; but "the most harmless joke" is definitely not it. People definitely get fired because of low sales and decline in budget.
Exactly. It's the fact they can't laugh at themselves that just makes it all the worse. I mean even if it were an unfair stereotype which arguably it's not, what's wrong with having a laugh at a known joke / meme that's been around for what, like 10-15+ years. It's a running joke on COD's even before they were more money grabbing.
"Honestly, as COD developers, we've heard way worse"
And no one is surprised
"we have been ignoring our player base for over 10 years now, there is nothing you can say to us. hey btw, check out how many 8 year olds give us money"
Yeah from inside their own company too never forget the "milk" incident
Ever since Ghosts and the massively disliked trailer for Infinite Warfare on youtube, you'd think they would just accept a mild jab. Weird time to try growing a pair.
Well the difference is, they probably feel they can affect Chris Judge in some way. Employment or public perception. When a random internet nobody tells them Cod is a slop game piece of shit rehashed every year all they can do is get mad. It's already been said but just their response to a mild jab that wasn't even mean spirited tells the whole story.@@eddielombardo
@@clintshidwood45118 years old kid? did you mean entire american?
You can tell these developers are really proud and not at all insecure with what they achieved with Modern Warfare 3 (2023) by how they replied to a harmless joke.
Especially when you compare it with others with a sense of humor like Sean Murray, that answered to comments telling him not to overhype his new game like he did with NMS with "Oh, shit", like he just forgot lol.
Its also funny how they only react when a popular person says it, but when we do we arent even acknowledged.
@@voltus20 It was funnier because he just said "fuck" lmao
"Achieved" LMFAO
It sounds like the, are really success full with modern warfare 3 I could have sworn I'll heared the same shit 10+ years ago with modern warfare 3 😂
Man that joke was such a soft ball and they really are pissing their pants about it, how can they not see that their reactions are only making them look bad?
Plus it’s SO common for other media award shows to make jabs at the nominees. It happens at the Emmys and the Oscars all the time
@@goonishereva all in good fun it was, but cod devs hate fun
@@captainflowers748 I would say its more so that their publisher hates their games being fun which is why the CoD games haven't been fun since MW2.
@@goonishereva i don't know about that one chief last time a black dude made a softball joke on stage he got assaulted, were living in a world were the people that should be in padded cells aren't in padded cells anymore
The fact he made cod developers feel some type of way makes me like christopher judge even more now
Imagine you are that stupid that you say something like "yeah but we make way more money" while your game is completly build around microtransaction and milking the players vs a one time pay game lol. also admiting that you have the money but you just dont give a fuck about your customers is a really stupid statement but sadly those people have no dignity.
Watch Stargarte: SG1 but just for him...and maybe OG MacGyver.
Cod devs uncreative as shit. Not to mention they just now made the choice to port all pre purchased skins to the next games instead of making you buy them all again 💀 that’s the only way they can make money, that and 11 year olds crying about the new one to mommy every year
1. That burn was *historical*
2. What makes it even better is the fact that Modern Warfare 3 literally only recently started adding content. They waited until the game was *on its way out* to start doing cool stuff with it , because they knew people wouldn't care
Yeah I think it's very rich that a cod dev can talk about retention rates of a singleplayer storydriven game whilst cod has to implement battlepass systems and seasons to keep people playing their same games.
I don't like CoD and I don't play it much anymore and we all know how bad MW3 is but the game just came out last month. They added a new map and other content less than 30 days after release. I think that's soon enough. Also the game wont be on its way out for a few months from now. I don't want to take up for CoD but I felt like a comment was warranted.
@@hellbillyhound There is a maximum lifespan for a call of duty game and it's whenever Activision decides to make another call of duty game. That's when the previous one dies. In terms of playerbase and in terms of content/updates for the game.
@@hellbillyhound you mean they added stuff that should have been in it , on release?
@@sya2711on release they just fix things that mw2 make it dirty and Seems better than nothing also there's not too long for ss1
Cristopher Judge :
"Dont be upset. Be better"
Consumers: "So that 235Gb install size means it has a complete campaign, right?"
Activision CEO:
Bosses at Activision: What is this "complete" you speak of? 🤔
@@DubberRucks😂
And most of that file size is probably wasted on poorly optimised meshes with 100,000 polygons and 4K textures for every blade of grass.
The devs are too stupid and passionless to optimise so it makes sense why the file size is so big.
It's complete just like Helman's sells 'real' mayonnaise.
@@willchurch8376 🤣 as if using "real" somehow validates it as such
Christopher judge is amazing, i want to see him so much more at game awards.
Yeah, dude should see if he can keep outdoing himself each year lol
Dude is like the Jason Momoa of the game scene, we love to see it. The man just radiates positive energy, we need more people like that in this space quite frankly. Positive people who actually LIKE their jobs and are passionate lol.
He should Host one
@@TiddiousJWickensseconding this, he has such a great vibe
I would prefer seeing him in a new Stargate Series but ok...
Cod devs are just upset that someone called them out for being lazy and cheap. I'll never feel bad for people like that they deserve to hear it and more
The devs aren't the ones that are lazy and cheap the execs are
@@quintonwinton7210 cod player spotted
@@FunnyRedemption i mean there is some truth to it, unless you're in leadership you don't have much control over how your work effects the game, you're stuck doing what they want.
@@quintonwinton7210then they should not defend the game
@nima__mim they weren't defending the game, they were defending themselves
Chris Judge is legend! Tealc doesn’t joke around. 😂
How did I never saw it? He is actually Tealc? From Stargate SG 1?
@@matosz23 yes
lol :D
@@matosz23
Kree!!!
INDEEEEEDDDD!!!
COD Developers are always mad no matter what😂
As Zoidberg would say, your game is bad and you should feel bad
I would be mad too if I worked for Activision and my boss was always trying to finger pop my ass hole.
_Eez jus' Game! Why you heff to be Maaad?_
Definition of "mad cuz bad" 😁
Same with COD players, a match made in heaven
They care more about a joke than they do about providing a good game for their fans. Shows you where their priorities are.
Maybe if more bigger personalities in gaming called out CoD, it would really humble them and force them to create what the community actually wants in a CoD game
like actual black ops zombies back with actual real characters like before and an actual story that doesnt feel like they read twitter and got inspired by a twitlonger from a bluehaired 14 year old
Nah the only way is for people to stop buying them.
@@_oPhanLongsadly you got braindead players that will buy the game on release. Which why their crappy fps game is still in the top games being bought.
What the community really wants is a reskinned cod from 2004. The sum of their collective IQ doesnt scratch the 80s, and the cod devs are a reflection of that
@@omdano6432 didnt even bother buying the newest cod games, but still enjoying bo2 zombie mode lol
Between the elden ring release salt and this I've come to realize most AAA developers are jealous when something else does well, and are super petty and ultra-sensetive
don't forget about baldur's gate 3 release being a disaster for AAA companies!
It is probably because this show their flaws. So they have to leave their confort zone.
You read a few tweets from some insecure children that doesn't even remotely translate to "most"...
@@JK-jw3po Don't bring logic to Asmon comments :D
and the bg3 salt
Short campaigns can be amazing, when done right. Think Titanfall 2 for example; fairly short at about 6 hours, but the entirety is amazing and easily one of the best campaigns in an FPS.
A three-hour campaign could've worked, but they really dropped the ball on every aspect of it.
Well said here. If done right, It works. If not. Well this happens.
Completely agree, the original 3 Halo games and Halo Reach you could beat in a day and were great campaigns. They just have to create a good story with a compelling reason to finish it.
Surely man. But I don't think you can say that about a "campaign" that has the duration of a trailer
I defo agree. There's nothing wrong to make the multiplayer aspect the main feature of the game, but they could at least pretend to care.
Agreed there man! Mine is COD Cold war, sure it has rocky launch on that year but the campaign, even though short, is enjoyable and replayability is big :D
Chris Judge was one of the best parts of the event, it's good that the CoD devs are upset, maybe it'll motivate them to make a better game but it probably won't.
Why change something that will still sell like hotcake to the ignorant masses?
Shoutout to the editor for putting all those videos on the background so they immediately reflect what Asmon is saying and I bet a lot of people didn't even notice that was an edit. This man is in another whole level.
ikr thought it was a clip from the stream then realised asmon ain't putting this much effort
I gotta say, I never thought MUCH OF Christopher Judge PRIOR to him becoming Kratos but I’ve begun to REALLY LIKE HIM MORE AND MORE as time passes.
He was Tealc in Stargate SG-1 for years.
It’s funny that the dev mentioned how he expects better from his peers meanwhile he works for a company that pushed a woman to suicide over her nudes being leaked at a holiday party but a voice actor making a joke is over the line
Hold on, explain that 🤨
And Blizzard will still try to preach from their pulpit about how their players should act 😅
@@arekusu.Tons of articles about it. It was from a few years ago on top of other horrendous working conditions. Just Google Activision blizzard working conditions. You will get plenty of horror stories
Plz tell me it's not true wtf 🤢.
@@vk-eg3roit’s true. Try searching for “Activision Blizzard sued over the suicide of an employee who was allegedly sexually harrassed”
"its FIFA of FPS" damn, thats quite accurate
Based take fr. 👍
FIFA makes good changes unlike recent call of duty games
@jakeroly2593
What you meant to say was, FIFA makes NO CHANGES just like the call of duty games. Same slop every year.
@@TS111WASD and and aaaand... hypes up every release with made up sales speak as a "new feature" as though every release is improving over the last one
FIFA doesn’t exit anymore. How ever EA football have women teams this time round which is a change unlike call of duty but with the same play
Me and a mate of mine met Chris Judge at a Comic Con (We are stargate nerds) and we got his autograph. He's such a chill dude, he was having a full blown conversation with us for 10 or so mins and he shook our hands, granted this was before he VA'd for God of War, so no one was really going up for pictures or anything.
Ah, he’s the voice of kratos in the new games. Haven’t gotten to them yet.
Honestly I was wondering why Teal’c was at a game convention. Best Jaffa ever!
"Dont ask questions, just consoom product & get excited for next product"
Here is game you buy now thank you please come again 😂
Christopher Judge is right! COD is like Madden a rinse and repeat game.. Judge is a boss!🤣
The same could be said about Playstation studio games, though. The gameplay formula is usually rinse and repeat. Name a Playstation game that doesn't have climbing as a mechanic and heavy in-game cutscenes. Also, I'm not saying cod is any better. I been saying the games trash, but people finally caught on lol
you must be new at playing games. go play fork knife for a while little one
wtf is madden
@@bugsnax4145bro climbing stuff in games wasnt invented by Sony lol like its a pretty common mechanic in games
@@mikakubro wtf?? 😂 it’s American football
He made a joke that a campaign is short. They acted like he actually talked about the true bad stuff about the game.
Christopher Judge is on the path to become the Game Awards' Rick Gervais, and I love it !
Except that he's actually funny
@@ThatSamoanGuyRicky Gervais is hilarious and so is Christopher Judge. Not sure what you’ve been smoking my guy.
@@omegaplays1666he can be, for me its hit or miss but when his jokes are directed at egotistical actors its hilarious.
Imagine being offended by a joke. Life for those people must be such a chore.
Oh what a society we live in, huh? Remember when we could take jokes without using words like "triggered" and "safe spaces"? 🤔
Their life is actually easy as fuck in today age, problem is for the people around them that need to silently deal with their bullshit to maintain their job.
We need a revolution.
They are offended because they know it's true and that they are shit.
perfectly said
@@DubberRucksall in the name of inclusivity🤪
As someone who has never played a single God of War but still watched full gameplays of it because of the story and lore, I have to agree with Christopher Judge and AsmondGold.
If CoD Devs put more time into the campaign and zombies storyline, they wouldn't lose so much player retention every year. Most gamers love a good story and lore.
I miss the old CoD games 😢. From the campaign, side contents, simple menu UI, multiplayer and good ol' zombies mode.
Same here before they started adding random shit in zombies and a multiplayer that didn't rely on micro transactions to fund the next game as well as a good campaign
Half the customers still only buy for campaign. Don't believe the lies. Look at the achievements and you'll see half the players never even touch multilayer
@@johndodo2062 facts and im one of them. Barely touch Multiplayer and only sticked to campaign and/or Zombies
It sucks that they don’t make them like they used to, but the older ones are still fun to play today. I still play couch co-op survival mode in MW3 2011 with my girlfriend and we have a blast.
@@talaris-uk yeah that and those Spec Ops missions as well. I loved the Juggarnaut one in MW2. It was hard to beat on Veteran, but fun as hell.
whats even funnier is the devs of cod are the only ones who got upset
All the devs can do is cope and seethe, cuz this was literally Kratos stomping on their necks and saying "Boy!" in their faces
the comparison between good devs being humble and hilarious to bad devs being bitter and salty will never not be funny
Years ago I came to the conclusion that COD developers didn't have a single ounce of self-respect in their entire being. If they did, the state of their game wouldn't be where it is now. I'm surprised they even had the gall to try and clap back like there's anything noteworthy about their "new" game.
any kind of artistic spark or passion is not compatible with developing a game like call of duty. like it was said, "the FIFA of fps", to make production-line games you battery farmed game developer drones who just clack away at a keyboard for a paycheque lilke any other office job.
COD is under activision, a publishing company. And companies have deadlines and quotas to meet for the stockholders that provide the money to keep their games going. Developers have no say so in when they can do things nor any artistic freedom (at least, not in terms of studios like Santa Monica or Bethesda- although starfield is laughably bad, still more creative freedom than infinity ward, treyarch, etc..).
The real problem and sad fact of the matter is, people blame developers, when cod makes 1bn from game sales and over 1bn in one quarter from MTX. So who’s to REALLY blame, the dev’s? Or the people feeding into the MTX to keep the cycle going?
I'm confused. On one hand you claim the stockholders provide the money to keep the games going, but in the next paragraph you state the game makes 1 bn in one quarter (1 billion USD every 3 months, correct?). You're telling me the 1 bn per quarter isn't sufficient money to continue financing their upcoming games? I'm no financial expert, but that sounds like an embezzlement or budget misappropriation problem more than anything, if actually true. And to your last point, when a game is bad the only person who should be blamed are the devs. The majority of the people who play COD are kids who have very little or no experience with quality games. What good is it to pass the blame onto ignorant kids throwing their money away when the problem wouldn't exist in the first place if the devs had an iota of dignity? That'd be like blaming the current fentanyl crisis on the meth addicts and not the people producing and selling it. How is pointing the finger at the addict going to change things for the better?
i dont understand how microtransactions are better and more satisfying then those bo3 case opening. only issue with that was its rng to get a pay to win weapon
The most emotional engagement CoD ever got out of me was mild frustration. GOW Ragnarok made me cry at the end. Not just a little. I was a weeping mess. That's what I call engagement.
Thats pretty sad because both games are giant steering piles of dog shit
You cried over a video game? 😂
@@samcarter420 what if he did? Some video games are very story and character driven, and can have this effect. Just like movies can make people feel emotional. Id be more worry about either taste or empathy (or both) of someone who never did
@@samcarter420It's called being immersed. You know how that works, right?
really? Trolling in 2023?@@sabotagefate69
Chris Judge knows what's up. Jesus... there are cat player models in CoD now? Yikes.
That's gotta be a joke right? What the actual fuck.
Wait till you see the Nicki minaj skin and other random celebrities that really just look out of place.
Oh and Homelander, Starlight, etc. are also in the game.
Wait till you see Nikki Minaj in full bright pink with dual pistols with a glowing pink camo so bright that they look like a texture glitch.
Buddy, check out the NEW anime skin 😂
All started with the AOT collaboration lmao
Judge being funny as hell and then asmond just spitting was tough but so true to hear
Chris Judge has that chad troll face
I will always take Christopher Judge's side. That man is incredibly BASED.
The God of War!!
Cringe crybaby call of duty developers can’t even take a joke also it’s laughable that they say that call of duty is better than god of war which is stupid since the past years they haven’t even made a good game no offence I never was a call of duty person.
Indeed.
Never played God of War so the second I clicked this video I was like "Wait is that fucking Teal'c??"
You have to give it to them. The CoD devs are incredibly brave. Why would ANYONE want to try and anger Teal'c and Kratos?
Judge based as fuck; what a legend
He is truly based till the point he made grown as# adults cry about his speech.
He's just reading out a joke someone wrote for him. Hardly makes him a legend.
@@npc-bl2vw mind me asking who wrote that Activision joke for him anyways he had the ba## to say that joke whilst the activation devs were at the game awards also your the type of person to ruin a comment like why what’s the point.
God of war was a single player story that was fully made to be consumed and then put down.
It’s still considered a hell of a better game than any COD that’s come since 4.
I'm never ready for a good Asmon rant, he always catches me off guard lol
Another fun fact: his 8 minutes speech was longer than all Teal'c's dialogue of all 3 Stargate series combined
Indeed?
Yep and i would add another one : Teal'c dialogue were still longuer than COD last campain.
Last year we had Modern Warfare 2 2
This year we got Modern Warfare 2 2 - Episode 2
hes not wrong. the new cod was an absolute joke of a release. cod probably has the shortest retention of any game too, like he said they make a "new" one every year
He seems like a calm and reasonable person.
the last cod i played was bo 2 and it was really good. after that i played the free multiplayer demos of alot of their games but nothing got me in again to actually buy their product.
Man is a legend and continues to destroy those who think themselves to be Gods.
Like Kratos
@@BloodBathhhh He was a god slayer before Kratos my friend.
@@zdude0127 Indeed
Makes me like GoW even more. COD players saying that revenue doesn't compare to COD like Corollas are better than Ferraris because Toyota sells more of them.
Try asking a Genshit player why it is supposedly so good, and the common responses are that it makes a lot of money, and has had many people download it.
Well, Corollas are more reliable, though.
Yeah, I wonder why it has more revenue.
It surely couldn't be that it's plopped out nearly every year and sells garbage "micro" transactions.
That's what makes a "good" game these days, I guess.
It's ironic that this is precisely the problem.
All they care for is money, rather than making a good game they are passionate about. The "game" is nothing but a platform(often, for basically gambling) to rob idiots and vulnerable people, and kids. But then they gonna act upset like they are making art and have passion for what they are doing. Something that must be respected lol
All the while the corporation does countless incredibly unethical and shitty things.
The sadder thing is that most people don't care and still throw money at them.
@@Someone--Else Who said that? Genshin players said game is fun, because of combat, characters, story or gacha. They never said "hur dur number is bigger than yours".
Like imagine getting free game with free content and this content is.... good? This is why genshin player loves it.
Summeru quest was 10/10 and people already saying that fontine is even better. (i have a break from genshin until 4.4 to play all of it in one package)
@@PentaHousen
I've had a number of people explain it to me that way when I question how they could play that trash. I played for the first year, then quit, there's no way in hell I'd return, ever.
The combat, sucks, as in the first year, they made pretty much everything in it, brain dead easy, even if you claim the system behind it is good, when the content is that easy, you can't do anything with it. Magicka had a better, and more robust elemental interaction system, and that was released about ten years before Genshit. The vast majority of its content is just there to get you emotionally invested in the characters, in the hopes you will spend in the gacha, meaning it's not a game, it's just an interactive ad for the gacha, I'd rather play a game. The story was shit, as they're just ads, and the writing was another example of pointless walls of text, which is why most tended to hate those side quests, or world quest, whatever they were called. Then who in their right mind would list its gacha as a good point about it? Most in the gacha community always regarded the Genshit gacha as being pretty bad, the best thing people would tend to say about it, was that at least it's better than the gacha in Fate Grand Order (FGO), which is a really low bar.
People who get themselves invested in something, will all insist it's great, even if most say its garbage, just look at Diablo Immortal. Then a game really would need to be really bad, really early, or just completely abandoned for it to score less than four out of five on Google Play, or the like, but since Genshit used to score around 4.7, and is now a 4.2, Genshit is getting there. At the same time, if you look at say Metacritic, it scores less than a five, out of ten when you look at player reviews. Meaning more, and more people are getting fed up with it, not that it's only getting better, as you're trying to claim.
2 things i loved about old call of duty (mw 2, mw3, black ops 1 and 2) was how militraristic and real it was. People throwin mags at each other and reloading in cinematic parts of the campaign and helicopters raining fire on enemies and all that stuff plus the multiplayers actually being fun and there being something to work for like level progression and gun unlocks. But now its as asmondgold says, a microtrash action that has to much meta building as sweatiness trying to stay relevent. there is a reason the old ones were the best.
i love this guy ...
i hope he can crack a joke like this again on game awards :D
If they are mad, make a better freaking game.
Yeah and then people might actually take them seriously lmao 😭 notice how nobody disagrees with what chris judge said except the devs
0:42 That's like comparing a 35 year old bottle of scotch to your daily bread. Sure, you consume a whole lot more of that bread but that does not make it more of a luxury item to be enjoyed. User retention is the concern of those who make games that aim to have people grinding like it's a second job or paying like the game is a part of their rent.
I was more impressed with Chris Judges stage presence, flow and comedic timing. He seems like he can be a good stand up comedian if he wanted to
Not sure why game developers have become so sensitive that they cannot take a joke that is true to begin with.
Didn't some devs get mad about Baldurs Gate 3 success initially as well? So weird.
It’s been getting really bad year after year. Game devs are becoming increasingly hostile and toxic towards other devs I’ve noticed. And what’s worse is that this ends up multiplying within thier fanbase.
Game Devs believe they matter more than their product.
@@zeedude8026some people are just too stupid or arrogant to admit the thing they worked on sucks. It might not be their own fault but the fault of people in charge and devs might do best they can and props to them but they gotta admit everything ppl say about cod, fifa, nba etc is true. I got nothing against the devs they just do their job but ppl in charge are just milking money forcing em to rerelease every year i dont see why devs feel personally attacked
0:21 😂😂😂😂oooh CoD got beta burned
The saddest part is how easy it would've been to make an amazing campaign. Hire some good story tellers and make basic set pieces. We didn't love our favorite games because they had the biggest explosions, we loved them because they had good characters.
Wise words I heard from a NCO of mine. "It's a joke, not a dick. Don't take it so hard."
Oof! 😂
Its so true that its hurt! But at the beggining with "Bravo 6 going dark" and all that cinematographic gameplay I believe that campaing will made it a nice saga.
Respect to christopher judge. Someone had to say what he said, even if it was a joke
It's crazy because CoD campaigns actually had some insanely good stories. They had some serious talent behind them.
That was back when they made games, now they make yearly content
It used to have some iconic campaigns, but like he says that was when they cared about making a good game, not a release to milk skins and battlepasses. FIFA being basically the same, they are the pringles of computer games, but people keep buying this shit in their millions so they won't stop.
Seriously. I saw the writing on the wall with CoD:WW2 and haven't bought one since. It's clear they're just coasting until Warzone falls off.
The first cod game is still the best to me. Many of the guys who made it(infinity ward?)were part of the team that made medal of honor allied assault and its expansions, together with steven spielberg and tom hanks.. One of if not the greatest shooter ever made. the console version as frontline. The music, story, gameplay, maps, multiplayer etc.. in those games are legendary..
And cod one and its expansion + multiplayer was almost equally good in its own way, multiplayer maps with tanks, jeeps with mgs etc..
@@jesuszamora6949cod ww2 was so bad holy. Sad to see battlefield also fuck shit up. Battlefield one is the last great bf game to me, i loved bf2/3/4/bc2/1942 ofc. But bf1 with the sounds, music, maps etc... holy fuck it was amazing
Your honor, is he wrong, though?
Using MP retention metrics as a method of defense is hilariously missing the point about Judge’s joke being about SP
I love it when asmon just delivers this shit... Just like that... No script... When you're right you're right... 😂
dude went hard! :D
Yo that last joke 😂😂😂😂
The cat skin made me laugh 🤣
The user retention thing is so stupid to me lol. Reason why is because a game like COD is built to use every trick in the psychological book to keep people playing the game. It's a live service. A game like God of War is built to tell a story, and that's it.
Dev's is such an over used term for corporate video games, the actual compaint about Judge's comment would stem from their marketting department
The balls to be mad about being called out for a fact about your trash practices and trying to deny the guilt about it
it's crazy when you really think about it. they already made a modern warfare 2 remake, then they made a 2nd modern warfare 2 and modern warfare 3 is just all the maps from the original mw2 running on the engine with the mechanics & guns of the 2nd modern warfare 2. so really, modern warfare 3 is the 2nd modern warfare 2 squared!
the company/devs being proud of that is find if you put it into perspective. it's like when i was proud of my 3rd drawing of a sunset as a toddler. it's objectively ass but i was still proud as hell of it & me and my parents would've defended it against anyone talking bad about it!
the fifa of the fps catagory. dam as a exfifa and excod player that hits man so true
Damn imagine if they had more of this roasting behavior at the game awards...maybe some devs would clean their act up (fear of being roasted is serious)
Damn, huge respect for Chris
The difference is every single god of war game so far remains a treasured memory to all who experienced it, but every call of duty barring a precious few entries is nothing more than a passover experience of meaningless borderline numbing sludge of content till the next instalment before it becomes a fading memory. It's like comparing the godfather films with the marvel franchise respectively, yeah the latter certainly made more revenue and has its moment but only the former has an actual enduring legacy and is a series of cinematic masterpiece.
Dude tealc can do nothing wrong that dude entertained my childhood to no end.
Judge... What a legend!
This is the game that added Snoop Dogg, Michael Myers, and the Predator all in the same game. Which came out 11 years ago mind you. They’re trying to say they lack gamer attention?
I laughed so hard at this one during the awards.
COD devs missed an opportunity to gain some respect by laughing at their own expense and just take the joke. Instead, they chose to go with the "must be fun at parties" response and get offended like bunch of snowflakes.
"FIFA of FPS" is insane, yet true
This might not happen, but if this somehow lead to better campaigns for CoD then Chris Judge has already done his job for Activision without even "working for them". Yeah it was a joke and it's sad to see cod people didn't see it that way but I do hope this lights a fire under their asses and make a great cod campaign.
Doubt it if their replies are anything to go by. Skins are less effort for them to code than a proper campaign. 😂
@@DubberRucks Yeah that's true. But it doesn't cost anything to be optimistic right? Anyways Chris Judge is awesome for doing this. 😂
@@akashj8204 agreed dude. It just saddens me when devs finds a cash cow and get addicted to that forgetting there's supposed to be a game there too
@@DubberRucks Yes yes exactly.
It probably won't happen. While there are devs acting defensive and salty, there are probably even more devs at the company that actually wanted to make a longer, better campaign but weren't allowed to because the product managers / someone even higher up didn't think it was worth the time / money invested. It's not like the CoD devs aren't talented enough or driven enough to make a good campaign, they just aren't being allowed to.
Facts. I used to be the biggest CoD fan. It was pretty much all I played, until Infinite Warfare came along. WW2 should have been my favourite game because of the setting, but it was the last CoD I bought. They ran out of drive to tell good stories and make fun and fair games.
"at an event that supposed to be celebrating this years achievements in gaming" what the fuck did they achieve????
Just another reason to love Christopher Judge ❤️
Love Chris, also love the fact he called them out about it. If CoD wants to be taken serious again, they need to start focusing on single player campaigns that are in the 15-20 hr range. Give the consumers a proper reason to buy the product..
i love the response in the vein of:
"well my baseball cards sold way more than the sistine chapel"
yeah... comaparing CoD to GoW...
I just love that the man actually plays games
Thank you for telling it how it is!! And thank you Chris Judge!!
Guys, hear me out. I have been ruminating on this, and it is not just a gaming industry problem. We are basically dealing with female social norms here; norms that are being applied across most industries. Actual men would hear Teal'c's words and just shrug them off or use them as fuel to beat him. Women want to destroy his reputation, spend 3 weeks talking it over in meetings, and then agree to just bitch about it for another year. A feminised workplace also helps effeminate men rise through up the ranks, so we have this horrible situation where everything has to be 'talked out' and/or cried about constantly. If they don't like Kratos' speech, they should prove Kratos wrong.
COD is a cash grab, GOW just released a free DLC.... enough said
What breaks my heart is I actually really liked MW 2019.
It was gritty and visceral. It took risks with how brutal it let the story be, with how grey it allowed you, the player, to be. It put you, the player, in deeply uncomfortable, morally difficult situations, from the perspective of a man who at the start of the game is talking big about 'taking the gloves off', and is then continually forced to face the harsh reality of what that actually looks like.
It put civilians in the middle of active firefights. It didn't punish you if a stray bullet caught a civilian or if they sprinted across your field of fire; you were expected to keep fighting, because the mission comes first. It didn't punish you if you shot someone unarmed during one of the house raid segments, because, in a 'gloves-off' theater of war, shit like that happens. Sure, it wasn't above the odd 'action-hero' style setpiece, but those were few and far between compared to the brutal firefights you mostly got involved in. I loved it because it went so against the grain of the typical cookie-cutter CoD campaign we've been spoonfed for a long while now.
In one of the MW2 missions, can't remember which, a firefight broke out and a civilian sprinted across my field of fire and took a bullet, and the game INSTANTLY kicked me back to the last checkpoint. And those 'action hero' setpieces were dialed up to 11, especially with the UTTERLY ridiculous highway pursuit mission. Was it fun? Yes, but it went completely against the tone established in the previous game.
I haven't even played MW3 yet because I already know it's going to disappoint me, and it breaks my heart that they started this "remake" trilogy SO WELL and then instantly went back to the same cookie-cutter formula.
As someone who played MWIII, don't. It actually sucks.
@@theanchorshat585 This has been the overwhelming consensus, and it legitimately breaks my heart.
CoD had a chance to reinvent itself, become a hard-hitting franchise that REALLY addresses the moral uncertainty in the way modern wars are fought. Proxy wars, deniable ops, terror groups, torture, prioritizing the mission over anything else, INCLUDING innocent lives.
The top three moments in MW 2019 that still stick with me as POWERFUL storytelling, to this day?
1. Price throwing the bomb-vested civilian over the railing. It set the tone for the rest of the game, and it underlined the terrible necessity of the formation of 141 at the end; in the world of CoD, someone needed to engage terror cells on their own terms, with no rules of engagement.
2. The entire embassy raid was gut-punching and brutal. No regard given to any civilian beyond the ones you're sent there to save. If that means a civilian panicking and running for their life catches your bullet because they sprinted into your field of fire, that's not your fault, and the game continues on.
3. Bringing the Butcher's family in to interrogate him. Giving YOU the chance to simply refuse to take part. In addition to making the player either complicit in the torture, or underlining their willful ignorance and hypocrisy, it once more underscored that if you do not meet a foe with nothing held back, you will lose.
Honestly, each of these three segments hit me harder than No Russian did, because No Russian would have happened with or without my character being there.
And then MW2 shows 141 basically being action heroes and the villains are all cartoonishly evil, with the moral grey area almost completely washed out. Shadow Company going full genocide on that random town was so jarring and pointless, and there's no world where the Price I saw in MW2019 doesn't simply execute Hassan in that desert with an untraceable weapon, maybe even bury his body.
@@perrycarters3113 from what I've seen, Sledgehammer developed MWIII and most of the games they've taken the lead on are baaaad. Treyarch is coming back with Gulf War next year. They are our only hope.
_"As COD developers, we've heard way worse."_
Not yet, not on our watch.
This was so unbelievably satisfying. Activision was crying about it, too. Perhaps if they made better games then they wouldn’t get roasted 😂
Cod has been trash for years
They wouldn't be nearly as pissed if there wasn't any truth to it.
Well, COD devs never said Chris was wrong.