CoD, ten years on.

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There's an article gone up over at bit-tech that's got me dewey-eyed with nostalgia.

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2013/10/25/ten-years-on-call-of-duty/1

Specifically:
" the ridiculously frantic siege of Pavlov's House, the imposing Russian tenement building listed as a fortress on German military maps. Even on Regular difficulty, the latter is a ferocious tooth and nail scrap that by its end will often see you alone, braced against a wall, fighting off three or four Germans with the butt of your Ppsh submachinegun."

I remember this as a watershed moment in PC gaming for me - the sound design and the way the walls gave off spaffs of dust as they got shot meant at one point I ran away, hid in a corner, and just watched the names of my squadmates rolling up the screen as they were offed.

Brilliant, brilliant game.
 
man cod 1 and united offense were amazing !

fps at its finest. lots of great gaming and memories :cool:

i used to help run dedibox with our clan then >Mugs<

we had loads of great players and very busy servers number one in world in tdm for cod 1 and number one in world for cod uo tdm. thats where my name came from >Mugs< Dg Mug

:)

still quite a few on here who i know who played uo with . still best cod by miles.
 
Amazing game, loved it! just cant believe its been 10 years... damn i feel old now :( got to say i prefer COD2, but saying that i never even played single player of either cod1 or cod2, only played multiplayer, and at one point i was quite good, played for dignitas at one point before i decided it was not for me as it ruined the game everything being so serious and went back to smaller clans/pub hero
 
I actually miss playing the old cods, there was something about them that just made you want to play for hours on end, I don't know if it's just with growing older but it's very rare I'll stay on a game longer than a couple of hours.

The series now though is a joke imho, they're still making millions from it though so it's here to stay.
 
Suarez7 said:
I actually miss playing the old cods, there was something about them that just made you want to play for hours on end, I don't know if it's just with growing older but it's very rare I'll stay on a game longer than a couple of hours.

The series now though is a joke imho, they're still making millions from it though so it's here to stay.
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Got to agree, for me the multiplayer is ruined ever since they introduced all the stupid perks, points ranks etc, just no need for it what so ever imo, the old games were fairly balanced and a lot of it was down to skill of the player, now it seems its just about who ever gets the luckiest or has the best set of perks, not played any cod since the one after cod 2 and don't intend to either unless they go back to the routes of the original game.
 
Was playing BF4 beta the other day, and could not get into it at all, it just seemed pure chaos to me, and the sound in the game was pants, in cod you could hear where you were being shot from, for me in bf4 i had no clue at all, the gun shots did not sound positioned at all.
 
I think the thing I miss most about the WW2 setting games is the bolt-action, or at least single-shot, rifle being the default.

I remember happily running around with a bolt-action (or even better, the mighty Garand) and popping heads while everyone else was trying to use the MP40 at range and dying in a heap.

Now it's all about ROF, every soldier can take 5-6 gunshot wounds before they keel over and as a result, single-shot rifles tend to be pants.
 
I remember CoD2 specifically. A mate of mine bought it and let me borrow it when he'd completed it, felt so realistic at the time, and your squad was awesome :)
 
I liked the first games - the single-player story modes were excellent, I remember well trying to hold the bridge, as well as the boat ride into Stalingrad for the first time playing as the Russians - your comrades in the boat getting shot at.

There were very few (if any?) scripted events, although it was of course still a linear story - and I preferred them to the newer ones.
 
Mockingbird said:
I think the thing I miss most about the WW2 setting games is the bolt-action, or at least single-shot, rifle being the default.

I remember happily running around with a bolt-action (or even better, the mighty Garand) and popping heads while everyone else was trying to use the MP40 at range and dying in a heap.

Now it's all about ROF, every soldier can take 5-6 gunshot wounds before they keel over and as a result, single-shot rifles tend to be pants.
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yeah kar 98 in cod 1 and uo just amazing ! cod one i never even played with a machine gun :D mp44 in uo was imense though and also the bar.
 
I always used to use the MG42 on CoD2 Toujane to draw a **** and balls on the wall next to Axis spawn :) Fun times.
 
Ah yes! Fond memories of this game :)

Sure did love me some original call of duty. Back in those days I'd play games through over and over on harder difficulties until my brain hurt.

"Martin! Get into that hole..."
"Martin! Take out that panzer..."
"MARTIN!"

 
November 2003. I was looking forward to this for months because medal of honor was on it's way out. Remember going to game station to pick it up on day of release.

What a load of crock it is now - sad.
 
I really liked cod 1 but I wasn't much of a cod 2 fan, I dunno what exactly I didn't like but it didn't feel the same.
 
The first FPS I played online was the original COD. Excellent game and I used to mostly play rifle only. Some good times and I loved the simplicity beacuse it just worked. You were good (or bad) purely because of your skill, not because of all the other extras you find in the series these days.

I actually still have it installed and played on a few rifle servers a couple of months ago.
 
Pavlovs house was a right ******* to crack, always seemed to get killed by some random german while using the anti tank rifle. :mad:

The first and last true pc cod game before the regen health elements weaselled its way in.
 
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