Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Greatness Gone]

Black Ops II has two timelines and the later games are related to that. III and IIII (both hero shooters) are set in the future, Cold War and 6 (regular COD) are in the past. They're connected by some conspiracy that starts during the Cold War and goes into the far future or something, I don't think even Treyarch exactly knows but there are nuts online who really love that shit. The Wiki entries about the plot are like ten pages long.

The WWII relaunch is most likely over, Vanguard was a bomba. And it integrated poorly into Warzone.

Hopefully Microsoft does what Activision refused to and that's finally allow a year gap between the games now that they have Warzone. Cold War got rushed because Raven/Sledgehammer couldn't fill the gap year and then MWIII was a disaster because of basically the same team trying to fill the gap year again.

Blops is basically the only consistently good part of the franchise. People dismissed IIII because of no campaign but Treyarch has kept the innovations in that because they were game changers. Cold War and 6 are so much better because of the heal and movement. IIII also had some of the only good usage of the heroes because they let them be hilariously stupid.

Firebreak is the greatest hero ever in any hero shooter:
    

IIII originally had a campaign, it was a dynamic 2v2 thing about completing objectives. But test groups were too confused by it or something, so they dropped it for Battle Royale Blackout since they could stitch together all the maps and stuff already built for the game. That also provided a testing ground for Warzone. The reason they labeled the game IIII instead of IV was because that was supposed to represent the IIvII. IIII was probably my favorite COD since II, even despite WWII's hilarious incendiary shotgun, but they're so ashamed of it they didn't even put it back on Steam when they came back to it.

Kara said Infinite Warfare has a hilarious campaign and I meant to play that but I stalled out in my COD playthroughs in the middle of the first Black Ops.

I just find it hilarious that people play CoD campaigns these days. Why?

They are big budget, action packed, funny story wise, and short. I like all of the CoD campaigns, even the “bad” ones. I’d recommend Infinite Warfare if you have played in the last several years.