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Do they make the kind of shooter I like these days? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by booty@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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When I was a kid, I really liked Modern Warfare 2 and 3. They just have great gamefeel, the maps and movement options feel like they combine well to make all sorts of different strategies work. The progression feels great too, using all sorts of different weapons to unlock their various upgrades and experiment with how they affect your approach to different situations, etc.

I only stopped playing these games back in the day because the playerbase moved on to the newer games and the proportion of cheaters left in the remaining playerbase was too high. So I haven't called a duty in a long time, but recently I picked up MW2 & 3 through IW4x and plutonium respectively, and even today, with just a few weirdos like myself who want to play these games with functioning anticheat, I still feel like these games are great.

Last time I saw a "modern" call of duty game (though keep in mind what I think of as modern call of duty is probably like a decade old) it was all about super high speed movement tech, which also seems to be what other popular arcadey shooters are about these days too. I've never been very good at that sort of gameplay.

Then there's the other side of shooters, the super tactical "esport" kind like Counter-Strike or Valorant. I'm about 20 years too late to start getting good enough at those to have fun with them. I'm glad people like them, but they're not for me lol

Are there any shooters left that sit in this sort of middle ground? Not crazy fast paced, not super slow and tactical, but just a versatile and simple arcadey pew pew?

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[–] SnuggleButt@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Might be a hot take but I also loved and played the crap out of the original cod4 and mw2. Like a lot, and was really good at it with a great group of friends. Closest I got to that feel (and in some ways it even surpassed it) was the mw2 remake (not mw3 with OG mw2, but mw2 from a few years ago). The pace was much slower, maps were solid, and the gunplay and connection all felt like the originals I grew up on. And shotguns were actually viable but that’s just a thing I like

I put in as much time into that game as I did any of the original ones and it brought back a bunch of my friends too. We played for almost the whole year it was out and even met some new friends. It’s a bit of an older title but it’s under the cod umbrella game now and there’s still a player base. Was the highest peak player count cod ever had too, which goes to show how prevalent it was and how many people it probably brought back. There is mtx but it’s generally tame I think, just avoid buying skins