I remember playing BO3 back then and feeling it was a step in the wrong direction, then, BO4 released and now i regard BO3 as a masterpiece. This game is straight ass and was pretty much a test of what could CoD/Actiblizz could get away with before people would stop playing their game.
First, they scrapped the whole campaign, and although they tried to run a story with the FortniteIsTotallyNotEatingOurMarketShare™ gamemode, the inherently chaotic and non-linear nature of a battle royale doesn't work and delivered a very vague, ridiculous story.
Then, they added a live service-esque system to the game, locking very competitive weapons behind a paywall or a 300 hour investment, after that the gun was either nerfed to the ground or the next shiny broken weapon was already available in the next battlepass.
Gameplay felt... off? While playing this game there was this weird feel to the aiming, like it was delayed or the input lag was very high, I don't really know how to describe it. Also, the aim assist would constantly bug out and push the reticle outside of the hitbox.
Multiplayer was very unbalanced, at some point of the game's life cycle the first crash to get the first killstreak-ultimate-ability thingy in a match would chain poinstreaks from their team and absolutely dominate the other team, no way of coming back.
Finally, zombies came out in a very weird state, with many technical problems (Every zombies match would disconnect for at least one of my friends by round 20) and a very fragmented story because leadership wouldn't know what to do with the old lore while creating a new story, giving the players a half assed end to the main zombies timeline while creating a new timeline that got no end.
I hate this game and this was the worst $60 I have ever spent.
First, they scrapped the whole campaign, and although they tried to run a story with the FortniteIsTotallyNotEatingOurMarketShare™ gamemode, the inherently chaotic and non-linear nature of a battle royale doesn't work and delivered a very vague, ridiculous story.
Then, they added a live service-esque system to the game, locking very competitive weapons behind a paywall or a 300 hour investment, after that the gun was either nerfed to the ground or the next shiny broken weapon was already available in the next battlepass.
Gameplay felt... off? While playing this game there was this weird feel to the aiming, like it was delayed or the input lag was very high, I don't really know how to describe it. Also, the aim assist would constantly bug out and push the reticle outside of the hitbox.
Multiplayer was very unbalanced, at some point of the game's life cycle the first crash to get the first killstreak-ultimate-ability thingy in a match would chain poinstreaks from their team and absolutely dominate the other team, no way of coming back.
Finally, zombies came out in a very weird state, with many technical problems (Every zombies match would disconnect for at least one of my friends by round 20) and a very fragmented story because leadership wouldn't know what to do with the old lore while creating a new story, giving the players a half assed end to the main zombies timeline while creating a new timeline that got no end.
I hate this game and this was the worst $60 I have ever spent.