Infinity Ward

So it's like...

If this was MW4 and it had all these issues, Infinity Ward would be on Twitter blaming you for not having a graphics card or a graphics driver update or all these little things that don't matter when it was their fault.

Right.

That's what a shitty developer would do.

This game was released October 25th, 2019 for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and your Windows personal computer.

Developed by Infinity Ward, this game is coming off of Infinite Warfare as sort of a response from fans at the time begging for a return to the sub-series that made Call of Duty mainstream.

Now, when this game, when it came out, let's see, 2019, I was getting back into gaming more consistently than I had because I took a pretty decent sabbatical in the 2010s just because my life was going in other directions.

So most of the Call of Duty stuff that we had played in the couple episodes before this, I had very little knowledge of.

And this one, I mean, I think I was maybe slightly aware of it at the time.

I obviously didn't play it until this episode, so there is that.

But I do remember people begging for the Modern Warfare moniker and everything to return just because the few experiments Infinity Ward had done with brand new stuff hadn't gone super well.

And it feels like now we're almost kind of in the 180 response to that.

I'm definitely optimistic about this Call of Duty.

Infinity Ward proved me wrong.

Welcome everybody to episode number 290 of the Cod Casuals Podcast.

We're your host, Mike.

So, yeah, I think tax sprint's going to be here to stay, unfortunately.

But...

If Infinity Ward can switch it on and off like that, I think other developers should look at it and be like, all right, if this has to be in the game, just make it a perk.

It doesn't need to be in multiplayer.

You admit that the person who gave Vince Zampella your number is the person who's suing you.

So maybe that's a little scandalous, but also just like a complicated story because Vince Zampella, who died, as people may know, in December, he had founded Respawn and previously had run an Infinity Ward and created Call of Duty with that team.

Zampella had been in contact through Allison Kelly, the co-founder of the studio, giving him Greg's number.

He'd been in contact hearing they wanted to make a tactics game, and then Forge is telling sort of like, okay, well, what respawn IP are you interested in? And I wasn't able to completely unpack if by that point there's already an Apex pitch ready, and like Forge goes to them.

That's going to be September 8th.

Number four is Call of Duty Modern Warfare from Infinity Ward, October 23rd.

Number three is Onimusha, Way of the Sword from Cap Gods.

That is September 4th, this Friday.

The first weekend, the game comes out.

This is an Infinity Ward game.

They did it.

And again, I wonder if they did some of this stuff on purpose.

Aim assist, you know, that's only a controller thing.

I don't use controller, but I'm getting killed by people that are using controller that are probably 12, whatever.

So like, but so they're bitching and bitching and bitching and Infinity Ward comes out and says, okay, for the second weekend, we're going to make a slower time to kill.

Okay, so it takes more shots.