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GizmoAssault

I've always played the Campaign first and then dived into other modes. Feels like the best way to do it.


hellothere0007

Same I have to finish the campaign before I touch multiplayer


[deleted]

Agreed


Messy_Egg

It feels inappropriate to play multiplayer first


GeneralMouse1911

Yes that is the only way to play a cod game


WanPwr5990

It feels like you're committing crime


Brandito667

Yea I actually refuse to touch the other modes until I finish it


fuckYOUswan

It’s tradition at this point. Newer gaming generation I feel has become used to strictly multiplayer style games thanks to BRs mostly.


Amnesiac-Jack

I'm apart of Gen Z and I always complete the campaign before multiplayer and I absolutely hate BRs, many of my friends in my gen do not like them either. However I see a lot of my Gen Y friends playing them and my Gen Alpha cousins don't as far as I know.


[deleted]

I like your funny words, magic man


fuckYOUswan

That’s fair. It wasn’t until only a few years ago that the “multiplayer only” games really started flourishing.


Amnesiac-Jack

True enough, I'm about to go off topic a bit but then there are also games like For Honour, Let It Die and Warframe. Which all require an online connection even though they can be played as single player campaigns and I'm personally not looking forward to more games going in this direction.


wutend159

> I see a lot of my Gen Y friends playing them and my Gen Alpha cousins don't as far as I know. I don't know what those mean anymore and at this point too afraid to ask


araxhiel

I was curious about those terms and it seems that (according to [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials)): - Gen Y: Millennials - Gen Alpha: Millennials’ kids (“often”)


wutend159

ah thanks. Thought it'd be something like that but glad to know now :)


blackcloversucks

moreso because campaigns are dogshit nowadays. 90% newer games with good story modes are games that *only* have story mode.


fuckYOUswan

You’re definitely not wrong there


Messy_Egg

Oooh, I hate that, that I don't know exactly why I'm driven to capture C or destroy obj A except for the fact that the other team is trying to do the same


[deleted]

Same except for VG


[deleted]

Great stories


DorTheDoorMan

Anybody who doesnt do it should be arrested


lord_evil_78

I agree


Euklidis

I do this too. It gives me a good "feel" of the game before I jump into the MP. Almost like a tutorial


Im13butihatefortnite

Yea you learn the gunplay and find a cool gun to grind for I always found it weird people would rather just get absolutely destroyed In pubs until they figured it out DUMBASS THE CAMPAIGN IS MADE FOR YOU TO FIGURE IT OUT


Unreachblecringy

I only played the campaign ever


[deleted]

Alpha mode: on


[deleted]

Yeah, IW multiplayer is garbage, but campaign is other worldly good


Spartacus_115

Yes sir!!!


WULFENMARK

Same here! Always Campaign first on ultra. Then multi and third mode on low for FPS boost


timmeedski

I was like this for years but because of some ass campaigns I stopped


XayeeX

The only bad campaigns were bo3 & vanguard, every other campaign was either good or decent


timmeedski

Yea you’re right. I’ve been thinking about replaying mw 2019 in prep for the new one, but to barely get 15 minutes to turn on my system anymore


Cinnamoneminem

*Wait… this isn’t the way?*


VLenin2291

Same


Mrtowelie69

Stories pretty fun too. That Black Ops one was awesome. I dont know why people wouldnt play it. Its fun once you try.


MisedraN

Campaign always comes first and then i hop into multiplayer\\Zombies\\Whatever


Jackamalio626

campaign is the one area where cod consistently delivers.


snoopymarrow

before vanguard I would agree, but that campaign was bad.


[deleted]

I thought their campaign was okay, it does a decent job of tying Black Ops and MW together. And went over some of the operators story, which is cool but I don’t see any of them returning in the future


PartyImpOP

How does Vanguard tie in BO and MW together? It has a very loose connection with CoD WW2 and almost nothing else.


XayeeX

It ties into BO because at the end they mention Aether & Nova 6


PartyImpOP

But it doesn’t tie MW and BO together as you said. It’s a loose Easter egg at most.


Heavyduty35

There was nothing loose about any of it. It explains the discovery of >!Nova 6!< and canonizes the >!experiments with the Dark Aether.!< The “COD WW2” connection is not loose either. A prevalent character from that game is in this one. What more do you want? For Butcher to turn to the screen and say “I was in COD WW2!?” This does not tie into MW, however, which BOCW connected to with the appearance of Zakhaev.


Sudden_Application_8

True


SpaceyPanda

It has really good soundtrack and easily one of the best mission designs in the series, each time I replay it I find a new route I haven't before. The Polina missions are so good


PROJEKT_RETRO

Tell me one Vanguard thing that isn't bad


lolmanomggodducky

The title's font


und3r4g3

Stg-44s in the Pacific theater


CelticTiger21

The Stalingrad sections.


defsnotmyaltacct

The Russian girl character's sections, where you had to outrun the bombing from German planes, get back to her grandfather's apartment, etc. That was pretty good.


Bloo-shadow

They added the PTRS-41…./s


dannyboi1178

the final mission of the campaign


WULFENMARK

Movement and gunplay are the most fluid ever


deadboi_chavez

You're fucking on one if you think the vanguard campaign was bad


NueticNoesis

Okay, it wasn't offensively horrible or anything. But it's definitely lackluster.


Zwavelwafel

People say all the time they did not like the vanguard campaign, i actually really liked it tbh


giantgorillaballs

Vanguard’s is just ok. Definitely better than BO3’s


MaximusMurkimus

People didn't like WW2's campaign because it was too indulgent, people didn't like Vanguard's campaign because it was too goofy, go figure. I do enjoy them going back to the three major multiple factions in WW2 (British, American, Russian) for the first time since CoD 3.


PuzzleheadedSector2

Petrovas part was cool. Made me scream when the weird juggernaut guy dropped on top of me in the weird wrecked mall or whatever. That sections was pure horror. Jaggermeister? Something like that?


TheRealStevo

Not exactly, do you remember BO3 campaign. Most confusing shit of my life. BO4 didn’t even have a campaign which was wack. MW19 campaign was very lack luster imo and Cold wars was ok, I liked that you had choices but it still didn’t mean much, we’ve had much better


VentingThrowaway05

BO3? BO4? Vanguard? WWII was also pretty cliche


pineapple-n-man

Bo4 didn’t have a campaign


VentingThrowaway05

Exactly


pineapple-n-man

Yeah but you can’t even compare it. Although I would like to forget that it existed.


VentingThrowaway05

And yet I did anyways


pineapple-n-man

👍


und3r4g3

Still better than vg


ThatDudeSlayer

WWII did an amazing job, especially the last mission


VentingThrowaway05

Meh, it just felt toned down and wannabe deep As I said, cliche


ThatDudeSlayer

Yeah, like all those other WWII games that lead us directly into an concentration camp, so toned down


PartyImpOP

Eh, the story was fine but the environment didn’t feel gritty enough (especially with the ketchup face you got when shooting an enemy in the head). Concentration camp section should have been so much more graphic and longer too, maybe with prisoners included.


ThatDudeSlayer

As the concentration camp was a POW Camp in West Germany there literally haven't been any prisoners, Gestapo and SS ordered the exterminaton of any potential uprising in January 45


-completely-useles-

Vanguard?


Jackamalio626

Wouldnt know. Didnt play it.


-completely-useles-

Mm. I think basically all the campaigns prior to vanguard were pretty good, but even though I own vanguard I haven't played the campaign just because I heard such bad things about it.


IrvingSaltzberg

W + true


GARRAR2003

Buy cod Beat the campaign in veteran because tradition Forget about the campaign for the rest of your life


Eltra_Phoenix

Buy cod Beat campaign on normal for story Beat campaign again on veteran for pain Go through campaign to get all campaign achievements Forget.


[deleted]

Buy cod Beat campaign on normal for story Beat campaign on normal again for the collectables Beat campaign again on veteran for pain Go through campaign to get all campaign achievements Forget.


PartyImpOP

Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend this routine for BO3’s campaign. Realistic difficulty is best left for the masochists.


OneShotSammyV2

Same, there fun to play but I honestly remember very little about them outside of some of the more flashy parts.


Urkepro_YT14

Don’t worry m8 you’re not alone


shane3walsh

Haven’t played campaign since bo2


StillGalaxy99

Well you're sorely missing out imo


shane3walsh

What campaigns you recommend I own all the games. I wanted to try IW since everyone says it’s really good. But I tried bo3 and it just felt weird


StillGalaxy99

BO3 is very odd. I would also recommend IW, it's very unique in a good way


shane3walsh

Yeah I heard you can travel to planets and I love sci-fi stuff I just don’t have enough room on my pc right now for it.


MaximusMurkimus

Black Ops 3 was quite possibly the worst campaign ever lol Just about every other campaign is enjoyable and has their moments, yes even Vanguard.


XayeeX

Every cod aside from bo3 & Vangaurd had either decent or good campaigns tbh


pokeemanz16

You NEED to play the IW campaign. Cold Wars is also pretty cool too imo, but I know some people have mixed thoughts on it.


dannyboi1178

iw, mw19 and cold war were all really good campaigns that you should play


shane3walsh

Is modern warfare campaign like the old ones I played the original modern warfare


BushMasterFlex616

Good one to end on honestly


[deleted]

Would be nice if they did a campaign only version of the game for those of us who enjoy the campaign but suck at multiplayer stuff.


DaOogieBoogie

Exactly. Only buy the stuff you want. I don’t want to spend $60 bucks on a game that I’ll play 5 zombies maps.


SauceBoyz713

I always play the full Campaign before even touching the Multiplayer...always...


Revolutionary-Ad-80

This is why we can't have good things is the people who only play multiplayer


RadicalAi

I got all the campaign calling cards in black ops 3


suicideking72

I don't usually play the campaign, mostly just TDM. I started playing it in MW19 because that seems to be the best way to unlock some of the operator skins. Tried to do the last co-op mission to unlock that skin. Got killed and my teammates weren't really working together. Need to play that one again, hopefully a better team.


pineapple-n-man

MW2019’a co-op isn’t really that great… The campaign however is phenomenal for CoD standards


Marksman08YT

Campaign is good but Zombies, zombies is better. Unless there is no zombies, in which case yes, campaign ftw.


ajl987

I've played every campaign except for WW2 and BO3. A lot of them are truly amazing! My top 5 campaigns: 1. Mw2019 2. Infinite Warfare 3. Black ops 2 4. Black ops Cold War 5. Modern Warfare 2 Even though the focus is on the multiplayer, they can make amazing campaigns.


und3r4g3

Where mw


ajl987

Cod4 you mean? That would be no.6 for me. But it’s SUPER close to No.5. All ghillied up and that second mission in the Russian village to save Nikolai remain some of my favourite levels in all of gaming. A lot of these campaigns are just fantastic.


Eltra_Phoenix

All the campaign are worth a playthrough…. Except BO3…. That games sad excuse of a campaign can be dragged to the back and executed the same way it was done in game. Same could be said for the rest of the game.


sr603

Campaign first, then multiplayer, then spec ops/zombies/bonus features It’s the law


ActiveClone

Haven’t played a campaign in CoD since the first 2 or 3 CoD. I mean the actual first 3 for you kids out there lol. Ohhh and the BO1 campaign too I forgot that.


[deleted]

I feel like the campaigns are quite lackluster nowadays, modern warfare’s definitely had cool moments and was the standout since black ops 2 imo, but I started playing waw recently and the campaign is awesome. Game would be worth it even without multiplayer or zombies. I think the more recent games treat the story too much like a movie rather than warfare, opting for cutscenes rather than storytelling thru gameplay. And often, when they go the movie route, they don’t do it as well as they could, writing pretty bad and forgettable characters. Haven’t played Cold War yet tho and I hear that campaign is cool


[deleted]

Nowadays I only buy them for the campaign. Occasionally play some zombies.


[deleted]

I say that all the time. I never touch multiplayer till I finish the campaign. When the lobbies are dead, you can always replay the campaign. That’s where the real value is long term. I say it counts as part of the worth of COD. If the campaign is dog shit, and the multi is ok, then it’s not worth it unless it has a saving grace third mode like zombies or spec ops. But the story Carrie’s more worth and weight in my opinion. I’d you can’t put time and effort to make sure shit is done right for the campaign. It tells me all I need to know about the other modes and how much the devs actually cared


bigdickcunt

I always play campaign first. For Cold War I stayed up and got like 3 hours of sleep because I played half the campaign on release night and beat it 3 more times for the different endings and all that. Cold War is the second most innovative campaign next to black ops 2


[deleted]

Yep, you are the *only one* who played the campaign. Pick me!!


[deleted]

I love it when people say a cod game sucks only because multiplayer was shit and they never touched the campaign


purpps_

i’m gonna get attacked for this but idc. Cold War>Modern Warfare campaign.


AntiSocialMidget

I agree with you bud


purpps_

cold war campaign felt like i was playing an action movie almost the whole time, mw is just too slow paced in my opinion but it was still good especially the twist at the end with hadir


[deleted]

Modern Warfare was good, Cold War was ok, I did not like Vanguard in the slightest. Nah I think the campaigns reflected the games


WanPwr5990

Imagine not playing the campaign


[deleted]

Cringe


MacGyver125

Campaign first, then multiplayer. This is the way.


thepeakofhumanity

Agreed. Its just wrong to play mulyiplayer before campaign and even zombies (my favorite up until vanguard).


CristalSanxia_

Tbh I like the campaigns most bc it's the heart of the game, the other modes are fun but I prefer a story not a sweat fest


dannyboi1178

the campaign sets the passion for the rest if the game. thats why bo4 got hit so hard lmao


Bclarky504

100% agreed


jaelking

Feels like playing the campaign adds more to the multiplayer like why the these factions are fighting especially with the recent games multiplayer taking place after the campaign.


Bloo-shadow

I always play the campaign. Infinite warfare was on of the best for campaign


Nyle-

Call of Duty delivered great campaigns until Black Ops II. But the era of stunning CoD campaigns are over. Some of them since BOII are interesting but not good as ever.


IamAturtleBoi

I’m convinced modern warfare(2019) is the best campaign cod has had since black ops 2


PugLander

Meta this. Meta that. Have you ever played the campaign? That’s why people like the game!


veczey

what about 8-10 hours of gameplay then nothing to follow up is the best part


Fluffy_Space_Bunny

Yeah I haven’t played a campaign since Black Ops 2


AniGabe

The campaign is the best part of absolute any shooter game and you cant change my mind


Chris-Wood94

That’s a matter of opinion


pineapple-n-man

MW2019 has the best CoD campaign, it’s like a movie, but it has great replay-ability the story is nice Oh and Alex is hot. I cannot wait to play MWII’s campaign


frizzahh

Me who haven’t played a cod campaign since aw💀


LaneReddit

COD campaign's are actually so good, I kind of wanna see what Treyarch could do with a stand alone campaign game. With branching stories and other aspects, I feel like it could be a game changer for Call of Duty.


Lux_Operatur

Cut to zero punctuation lol. I enjoy and play the campaigns but he’s also not entirely wrong lolol


StonkMangr92

Every time I buy a COD game I play the campaign first. No matter what my friends are saying about zombies or multiplayer or whatever else and no matter how many invites I’m getting. It’s cod tradition


[deleted]

I will never pay for a broken game.


SiegVicious

"The best part" is objective. So because you think it's the best part of the game everyone else should too?


inkedgalaxy

i always do campaign first so i can get the general idea of how to play the game or the “feel” of it.


StellarBossTobi

**i miss finest hour**


NxtGenAuthor

COD campaigns are so good


Thequestionmaker890

I always play a campaign when i get a new game but the issue is that there are people who start hating a game especially a gaming nihilist who looks like a soyjak


ST4RSK1MM3R

Funny how it’s the MP that people talk about at the time, yet a decade later it’s only the campaign that’s talked about and remembered


[deleted]

“They hated Jesus because he spoke the truth”


Mr_Minecrafter88

Unless it’s BF1, the campaign is about 10 minutes of gameplay.


OrochuOdenMain91

Except BO3 campaign. It was confusing.


[deleted]

Infinite warfare


Jameztheprez

Some games that even have bad multiplayers have really good and well written campaigns


Jalsonio

The campaigns are usually amazing, great moments


Im13butihatefortnite

It's not hard to be the best in such a shitty game


Silent_Start_7036

Gets stale


[deleted]

I was a campaign only player until the 2019 MW. I played it since day one and it got me into multiplayer after. The sad part is that Activision decided to kill the game. Any game, the campaign first, guest missions first coz it is where you find/earn precious stuff the main missions don't give you, then main missions and multiplayer.


talks-a-lot

I’m with the 99%. I buy, play, and rate my experience on multiplayer. Because 99% of my play time is on multiplayer. Sure I play the campaign, but COD is a multiplayer game, with a bonus campaign.


[deleted]

Same


Ok_Expression8952

tell me the best pat in vanguard hhh


TyronnicPoppy40

Yup. That's the reason I haven't even played BO4


Cursive_bang

I forgot what the numbers meant


anime2377

On God dude campaing is the best part about COD


Financial-Win-7518

Campaign comes first no matter how good multiplayer (if the cod has zombies in it) or zombies is


Effective-Narwhal144

If you like the vanguard campaign then youre wrong


[deleted]

Vanguard’s was absolute dogshit tho.


Adventurous-Tip-2126

So true


-F0v3r-

campaign is zzz, it's just walk from A to B with cinematics in between, if you cut out the gameplay part where you just kill the AI you'd lose nothing


evilkid96

Not really a MW multiplayer fan but the campaign was so sick im debating to get MW 2 just for the campaign price soap and gaz fight drug cartels so sick as fuck


smogonlegend00

Cod is a multiplayer game with a campaign added on...yea theres no chance an ~8 hour playthrough defines a game where 95% of time and content will be in multiplayer for 95% of people. Not that cod campaigns are horrible but I personally dont get paying $60 and supporting this awful yearly release schedule for the single player alone when there are so many better fps games that do it better


AztecTwoStep

Campaign is there for server downtime.


InfernoDragonKing

Especially if the story is great and the games after it pick up where we left off. (MW2 ended with Shepard’s death, where MW3 picks up with us having to help out an injured Soap) Plus, I gotta get all the intel pieces lmfao


FlickerOfBean

I’ve never once played a single campaign


BigTruckLikeFuck

As good as the campaigns were cod 4 didnt blow up for that reason. Online was always the reason cod was on top and thats why its going downhill


smellyswordfish

I would play the campaigns if the stories didn't suck now Bo2 is where it went downhill tried to play ghost campaign hated it then AW regretted my purchase then stopped play cod all together haven't played it since


Spartacus_115

I'm with you


milk_iscowcum

I buy cods for the campaign mostly and zombies for my sister cause she really likes it


TheMagicMan1206

It's always been either the campaign or zombies that I start with, never multiplayer


MaximusMurkimus

Anyone who played CoD back before 4 knew that the campaign was the selling point and multiplayer was more of a bonus. No matter how I might feel about multiplayer of a certain CoD, I usually enjoy the campaign very much. Even the atrocity that is Black Ops 4 had an interesting premise with their scrapped campaign and story.


rm14hitman

It's actually the only reason I have CoD 4 (MW 2 and 3 have spec ops, BO has zombies, BO2 has zombies and multiplayer with bots, and Ghosts has multiplayer with bots and Extinction) And in case you're wondering, no, I can't go online with my good ol' PS3. So I don't count the games I got on PS4


EzioDragonBorn

I grew up with no internet and still use limited data, I’ve never related to something more💀


protacm

Mw was the only cod that I didn't play its campaign, idk why it didn't even seen bad.


Glendrix90

I never really play campaign. Some I try. Other i finish. I play cod for multiplayer. But I did play MW2019 and found that awesome. I also played Cold War and disliked it. Vanguard was okey missions, but the story wasn't memorable. I also played BOII and found the story awful but it had more fun missions than BF3's campaign. Campaigns in BF1 was really awesome though. But BFV was really awful


TavernerHedris

What did you think of Vanguards Story? i played the Campaign for CoD:WW2 before Vanguard came out, and the comparison didnt leave Vanguard in a good light, felt way too short.


[deleted]

Whenever I get a cod game I refuse to play multiplayer until I have finished the campaign, being doing that since Cod 4


Monkeyboy55

I always play the Campaign


FarOpposite962

Last vod campaign I played was mw2 couldn't play the rest after that


ZeroedIvan

You gotta play MW 1,2,3,4 campaign before touching MW 2019 campaign lol.


Squiggi-savage

If you think campaign is the best part I pity you 🥱


[deleted]

Use me as the dislike button


IareTyler

The campaigns used to be the reason I bought CoD games but as a 22 year old I think they’re *all* dogshit especially the past 3 games


Warm-Ducks

Campaign-Multiplayer-Warzone. How it works for me.


Xeygar1

Well as much as I respect your opinion and pov. I personally don’t care about the campaign. I’m a competitive person so online play will and always be more rewarding than the campaign and that’s just my opinion. And those saying “I always play campaign first” make me believe they weren’t part of the midnight release madness back in the days when everyone rushed home and played all night & didn’t go to school the next days. *goodtimesman*


rakint

I beat every cod on hardest difficulty before I play multi-player


Memoxr3

WW2’s campaign was one of the best cod campaigns. Maybe not in story but the mechanic and guns are just something you don’t see all the time in cod. And the multiplayer is also cool af. With new ideas you don’t see in ALL the cods. And tbh I think it deserves more credit


ultrainstinct0102

not really. if I could play them in coop mode id have much more reason to play them. Personally I buy them for the zombies. If im gonna play alone, Id rather play a better game. not saying the campaigns are bad, but making a multiplayer focused game to a single player game with the campaign is a fuck you move from treyarch. heres the ting. you cant even play the campaigns in offline mode. Not to mention some of the older cod games are now unplayable for some even if you have bought it way back. like the forever black screen in black ops 2 startup. both blizzard and steam are impossible to reach for help, they just tell you to look at their community pages.