Modern Warfare 3 in development?

[Servo]

By Sledgehammer games apparently, according to... a research analyst.

http://www.psu.com/Modern-Warfare-3-in-works-at-Sledgehammer,-says-analyst--a009877-p0.php

As the article says, it was known that Sledgehammer were supposed to be working on an action/adventure CoD title, but now it seems they may be taking up the Modern Warfare mantle from IW.

Thoughts?

 

[Skywalker]

Not really a surprise. But I think Black Ops is going to be my last Call of Duty game, anyway.

 

[Servo]

How come? If you don't mind me asking.

 

[clint g]

Ugh. Kill it. Bleh.

 

[Servo]

^ Yes, I can understand how you came to that conclusion without knowing anything beyond the title and developer.


Not.

 

[Dac]

Well, I loved MW 1&2, so I'll probably pick this up as well. Although, purely from...some, random, obscure part of me, I wish Infinity Ward hadn't been screwed by Activision and they were still working on it.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I got COD2(360), Call of duty 3(360), Call of duty 4 MW(PS3), Call of duty WAW(PS3) and Call of Duty MW2(PS3)......Im all codd'ed out.

 

[captcalhoun]

i'll prolly get MW3...

dunno about Black Ops, yet. i've still got plenty of challenges left in MW2 and i haven't even got the DLC yet...

 

[Servo]

I have Black Ops pre-ordered, and I'll admit I'm pretty hyped for it.

As for MW3, I can't see any reason why I won't be picking it up, if and when it's released. Putting aside the fact that I loved MW 1 & 2, I'd get it just to see how another dev does with the property.

 

[TheBrew]

Black Ops looks better than MW2 to me. The last COD I got was MW1.

 

[captcalhoun]

it'll be interesting to see whether it follows the story of Soap or if it's something new and if it does feature Soap whether you're playing as him on the run or as someone hunting Soap...

 

[clint g]

^ Yes, I can understand how you came to that conclusion without knowing anything beyond the title and developer.


Not.

Can't piece it together? Market saturation and franchise fatigue.

 

[Servo]

^ Yes, I can understand how you came to that conclusion without knowing anything beyond the title and developer.


Not.

Can't piece it together? Market saturation and franchise fatigue.

What, one game a year? Hardly.

 

[clint g]

^ Yes, I can understand how you came to that conclusion without knowing anything beyond the title and developer.


Not.

Can't piece it together? Market saturation and franchise fatigue.

What, one game a year? Hardly.

Err most definitely. One game a year is FAR more than is needed. On several occasions it's been even more than that.


EDIT: Just checked, since 2003 there have been 13 Call of Duty releases. That's an average of 1.8 games a year. That's too much for me.

 

[Servo]

Err most definitely. One game a year is FAR more than is needed.

By what definition exactly? I don't get how one release every 12 months is considered far more than is needed.

On several occasions it's been even more than that.

EDIT: Just checked, since 2003 there have been 13 Call of Duty releases. That's an average of 1.8 games a year. That's too much for me.

Yeah, if you include expansions/ports/handheld device/last gen releases. If we're talking core titles, which I was, there have been 7. That's 1 a year.

 

[clint g]

Err most definitely. One game a year is FAR more than is needed.

By what definition exactly? I don't get how one release every 12 months is considered far more than is needed

By the only definition that counts as far as my enjoyment is concerned: my own.

On several occasions it's been even more than that.

EDIT: Just checked, since 2003 there have been 13 Call of Duty releases. That's an average of 1.8 games a year. That's too much for me.

Yeah, if you include expansions/ports/handheld device/last gen releases. If we're talking core titles, which I was, there have been 7. That's 1 a year.

I'm talking about over saturation and franchise fatigue. The franchise fatigue doesn't change just because a game is on PS2 versus 360. Seven titles in seven years is alot by any definition. Close to two distinct titles each year (with distinct levels) is even worse.

 

[Servo]

I'm talking about over saturation and franchise fatigue. The franchise fatigue doesn't change just because a game is on PS2 versus 360. Seven titles in seven years is alot by any definition. Close to two distinct titles each year (with distinct levels) is even worse.

I fail to see how you can suffer from franchise fatigue unless you're actively buying all these games, in which case you have no-one to blame but yourself.

And no, I don't consider the PS2 or Wii versions of World at War, for example, to be different games. They're simply scaled down or altered versions of the main game, but they're essentially the same release.

I also disagree that seven titles in seven years is a lot, especially when there are seperate devs working on the titles so there's no real drop in quality (despite the whining of the "CoD/Treyarch/Activision sucks!" brigade). I look forward to a new CoD title every year. In fact, recently they've been perfectly timed, with a new game coming out not long after I've got bored with the last one.

I get that you personally may have had enough of the franchise, but that doesn't mean that one title a year is too much for everyone else.

 

[FordSVT]

^He never said that though, or claimed to be talking to "everyone", or claimed that it would be a failure and that no one else would like it. You chose to read that into his statement, which was, essentially, "Yuck, I won't be buying it, could care less if it got made".

 

[Servo]

^He never said that though, or claimed to be talking to "everyone", or claimed that it would be a failure and that no one else would like it. You chose to read that into his statement, which was, essentially, "Yuck, I won't be buying it, could care less if it got made".

Not that I give a shit anymore, but I quote (emphasis mine)...

Seven titles in seven years is alot by any definition.

That's what I was responding to. A statement that was directly contradictory to first statement...

By the only definition that counts as far as my enjoyment is concerned: my own.

Since neither one of us has bothered to continue derailing the thread for the last 3 days, I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate you for bumping the thread for no other reason than to get in on an argument you weren't even part of to begin with.

 

[FordSVT]

I'm sorry for responding in a front page thread a whole THREE DAYS after the last post. I wasn't aware this was TNZ, please pull your panties out of your ass and keep the sarcasm to yourself.

And seven titles is a lot, quantitatively speaking, I'm not sure how you could make a plausable argument against that. He said he was burned out on CoD because they've released so many games over the years and you basically said he was wrong. Besides games like Madden, how many franchises get new releases once or twice a year?

Oh, and half the CoD games (especially 3) suck, so maybe releasing a game a year, different developers or not, was a bad idea.