I know it's somewhat gauche to even suggest one might like
Call of Duty around here, but I gotta say...the gameplay trailer for
Infinite Warfare looked fucking amazing. (if you'll pardon my language) The seamless transition from boots-on-the-ground, to air combat, to zero-G space combat both in the Jackal and in suits on the hall of a large vessel, to on-foot combat
inside that same vessel, left me in awe. And from what I've been hearing, none of it was 'scripted'. The events panned out based on the player's actions and choices.
Yeah, I dunno. I know everyone's all aboard the
Battlefield 1 hype train, but DICE's 'gameplay' trailer did nothing for me. It essentially looked, at least what little one could glean from those quick cuts, like
Battlefield 4 with a World War I veneer smeared on top. It looked like more of the same. I can't say I felt at all the same way with the
Infinite Warfare trailer. It looked....dynamic, and fresh. Something I can rarely say about games of this sort.
As a quick experiment I approached a few friends and associates, all of whom had joined in the chorus of calling
Infinite Warfare garbage after the first trailer hit Youtube, and, without the context of letting them know it was for the new game, I showed them the trailer. They were all really impressed with the trailer. They thought the game, whatever it was, looked fluid, slick, epic, and downright cool. Some even asked if it was from
Star Citizen.
The look of shock on their faces when I told them it was for
Infinite Warfare made my day. Some felt legitimately silly that they had jumped so heedlessly onto the hate bandwagon without first seeing what the game was. Others, so staunch in their revulsion to anything COD related, immediately began backpedaling on their statements and began trying to find faults with the trailer. One even tried to undercut the trailer by saying it was, "Just trying to copy
Titanfall 2" and claimed it was "All prerendered" and "Contained no gameplay".
It's truly fascinating.
Call of Duty, not as a franchise or even a concept, but simply as a
name, garners some profoundly strong, narrow opinions and reactions in people, regardless of the context.
It's a phenomenon unto itself.
votemarvel said:
[If EA is still the publisher then it will remain Origin exclusive.
Look on the brightside though, if you don't like Origin it could have been a lot worse. If the game was still Microsoft exclusive then it would be coming out on the Windows Store instead.
I'm sort of ambivalent towards Origin. It's not
bad, in the sense that it's "the devil disguised as spyware trying to steal my porn stash", but it's not really good either. It's just sort of....there. A marginal resource hog disguised as a DD storefront with limited content and limited features.
I use it when I have to and ignore it when I don't. So
Titanfall 2 potentially being 'exclusive' to it doesn't really bother me
that much.
Would I prefer access to the game on Steam? Absolutely. I'd get more use out of the platform and easier access to Steam's wealth of features, including the community and friends list. But I'm not going to avoid what could potentially be a fantastically fun game just because it's on Origin.
