The latest entry in the call of duty franchise black ops 4 has just smashed in the opening of this weekend , making over a half million dollars sales.
"Black ops is off to a blockbuster start" said Rod cuastic executive vice president and general manager of call of duty to business wire .
This is a huge course-correct for the series after many fans seem to fall off with the annual release franchise with the launch of infinte warfare back in 2016 which received 77 on Ps4 on metacritic.
Last year's COD World War 2 returned the franchise on the 20th century root and fared a little better but only received 79 on ps4 on metacritic.
Thats not to say that COD World War 2 didn't do good , it also made a half million in launch sales which doubled infinite warfare launch.
With black ops 4 doing so well in terms of sales and critical reception currently setting at 85 on ps4 metacritic , This is a big win for activision.
Black ops 4 is also setting new franchise record for most combined players, average hours per player and a total number of hours played on current generation consoles according to business wire.
The game is also most viewed on twitch in franchise history according to business wire which can only further it's popularity, Without less noting the absence of campaign and the addition of the very popular Blackout battle royal mode making the all difference .
The game has still a little way to go before reaching monolithic success of it's Ps3 and Xbox 360 gyro cousins, with modern warfare 2 and black ops 1 and 2 taking the top spots with all three games having around 30 million units sold each as of January 2018.
If the enormous success of World War 2 and Black Ops 4 are recently anything to go by, the franchise does seem to be making a comeback.
This post is much smaller than my normal posts because I'm busy with other stuffs... another post will be coming tommorow .
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Today I'm talking about call of duty black ops 4, I have been playing the hell out of this game since it dropped, I,m gonna bring this down by modes since each is pretty much fully featured stand alone thing.
In this Post I will be talking about multiplayer but tommorow i well continue with the zombies mode.
But overall in the whole package do you hate call of duty?... well you're probably still going to , are you a dye hard fan? well i'm not but the game seems pretty good to me and if you are like me who has been a fan who has been a fan from the beginning but dropped off the multiplayer train for a last few games, Well this feels like a pretty good package except the package is missing a goddamned single player campaign but I will get to that.
Let's start off with your standard competitive multiplayer .
I like having a health bar again...call me old fashioned but it feels good to have something like that to manage , I think that the fact that now it's mechanic that you have to work in your muscle memory makes a big difference in moment-to-moment gameplay, shooting though otherwise it feels like Call Of Duty , love it or hate it, Its really good it's controls are really tight and it's super fast-paced , it also feels the same as usual.
The speacialist work really well this time , the focus on them is just enough to not feel obnoxious but also add a smart level of strategy .
It bums me out that you can't customize them from head to toe clothing items you earn through leveling up ,but seriously learning the ins and outs of them is pretty fun. It takes light elements from hero shooters in terms of mechanics but let me be clear , This isn't like Overwatch or anything don't worry.
But certain abilities work really well for certain wither for defend yourself or to counter or screw up you're opponent, It's just satisfying when you use nine banks thumb gernade perfectly in a room or you let your cool dog do all the work you get a downward slam explosion or you just fortify your shit really well and block off some lanes .
On the other hand maps have a nice kind of standard COD looks to them nothing crazy and over the top futristic with some good close quarters sections and creative areas too , I'm not an expert with maps stuffs so I don't know how they will work out long term but some scenarios and lanes feel creative enough to me .
Now progression is the best in standard multiplayer , building out you class is absolute necessity and there are tons of challenges and tasks to complete to level up a lot to grind through perks and lots of weapon stuff , That pick-ten system is still great i really love that it's here and i'm glad that it's here .
You have a lot of controlls over how play considering you have to choose a specific character and i'm so glad it feels that way, grinding through the ranks is call of duty's style for since the modern warfare and you well probably get addicted.
Body armor is a selectable thing and it is shaking up the thing a lot , it pissed me off on occasions but it makes the game feel a tiny bet diffirent, peoples seem to be kind of divided on it and the game and the community will evovle over time so i don't want to say anything difinitive on it yet.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is a huge game the biggest that Rockstar developers have created , In fact the game have been in production for a full seven years and it's the most anticipated game of the year by a long way,
Regardless of what some internet polls would suggest the script for the main story is some 200 pages long and thats just the main story without side missions and any dialogue included, for context the full script for this years ranching story based Sony exculsive Detroit Become human was also 200 pages .. like the whole thing, The animations in RDR took a total of 2200 days of motion capture work, Thats whole 6 years if you count them consecutively , 1200 Actors worked on the production which 700 of them have dialogue.
Dan Houser Producer Rockstar saying :"We're The Biggest Employers Of Actors In Terms Of Number Of Anyone In New York, By Miles" .
The finished game includes 300000 Animations although it isn't clear how many of these animations are for horse testicles because yeah apparently thats the thing.
The game also features 500000 lines of dialogue, Half a million lines of dialogue with even non playable characters having up to 80 pages of dialogue each.
Not everything produced for the game made final cut, However reportedly five hours of 65 hour game were dumped, The dumping includes the second interest for a protagonist Arthur Morgan and a whole lot of missions were removed due to technical reasons.
One of this areas which featured the most improvement in the additions of the previous installment is the weapons in the game, The game will reportedly have over 50 weapons all of which will be customizable, This applies to revolvers and rifles which can be outfitted with both athletic and practical changes using a variety of materials such as different woods and metals which can be varnished and engraved, The player can customize their arsenal to create a truly unique outlaw in this western .
Scopes barrels and grips can be changed on different weapons to alter their performance and stats, This reinforces what Rockstar have already posted about each weapon feeling distinctive meaning that the players have to decide the right tool for the task, You will have to maintain your firearms this time however as in Red Redemption 2 the weapons will degrade over time and may jam while shooting, Additionaly the players are now able to chose a different ammo types, The examples that Rockstar gave are the split point which probably deals extra damage to unprotected enemies , High velocity which will help out to deal with rapid moving targets and explosives.
These new types of ammo will be purchasable in the in-game store but also can be crafted with certains types of materials.
Red Dead Redemption 2 will launch on October on 26th for PS4 and Xbox 1 , You may wanna clear some space in your hard disks however with the install size for the game coming at 105 gigabytes and 88.5 gigabytes respectively .
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The ps4 and xbox both launched five years ago back in 2013 which means its a high time for a next gen console details to get thrown in the room now.
However these rumors don't come from some anonymous source claiming to have an access to xbox 720 dev kit, Instead the sony themselves who have ignited rumors regarding obviously title to playstation 5, On October the second sony published a patent ... or a patent.... whatever you wanna call it though they described us remastering emulation.
What does that mean this mean exactly ?
the patent involves a form of emulation that will replace textures from old games optimizing them for modern displays , That's right ... it appears that sony are working on backwards compatibility something that xbox1 has had over the ps4 for sometime now .
The pattern also details the remastering of old titles won't just affect the textures but also the game's audio files.
Due to the timing of this pattern being published many have been quick to assume that this will be the technology that will show up in Playsation 5 , There is however a big gap between the date when this was published in October of this year and the date of when it was filed back in November 2016 .
It appears the way this patent works that it takes the textures that are already in the olden days and emulates them and changes them and makes them look like better . Very cool to tighten up those rag edges on those old games and make them look like 1080p as opposed to like the 240 or whatever the hell we had back in days .
So the fact that sony is working on this backwards compatibility by emulation thing they started this back in November 2016 , Will this is when the patent was filed so obviously they are working on the prior to that too.
This is some retaliation to Microsoft in the fact that they have got such a strong backwards compatibility option , Are they doing it to compete for the next generation consoles? is there anything to do the next generation wasn't just they want to compete with Microsoft .
I don't think there is anything that can be gleaned from this and you can't make any assumptions to say that this is for the next generation of consoles , Maybe it is and maybe its not.
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