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Infinity Ward on CoD: Ghosts -- "Everybody thinks we're going to kill the dog"

Despite Infinity Ward releasing no information that would suggest one way or the other, the consensus is that Riley the dog will die during the Call of Duty: Ghosts campaign, according to executive producer Mark Rubin.

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Neonridr4600d ago

Who cares to be honest. How many dogs did you kill in MW2? That was ok because they were bad dogs? But because this is a dog from the "good guys" it has to be invincible? It's a fake dog...

-Foxtrot4600d ago (Edited 4600d ago )

"It's a fake dog..."

It's a gameplay gimmick. Something small which is added to try and change things up and also something you can talk about during the lead up to the games release instead of talking about stuff which has been in the game for years.

@below

"Why is it that whenever somebody doesn't like an idea, it's a GIMMICK?"

It's not about liking something, it is a gimmick...something to add more of a spotlight on the game so people will like it more instead of actually doing some hard work and to make the game look different from previous games.

malokevi4600d ago

It's a gameplay "element". Why is it that whenever somebody doesn't like an idea, it's a GIMMICK?

YOU'RE A GIMMICK!

pedrof934600d ago (Edited 4600d ago )

@makolevi

A non physical gimmick.

I certainly wouldn't call it INNOVATION.

Tbh I tought that the real mockery here was the AI on fishes.

LOL

-Foxtrot4600d ago (Edited 4600d ago )

@pedrof93

Thank you you've just pointed out another thing which IW used to try and make the game look amazing yet because of what it is (Fish A.I) they made themselves look silly I mean it's not something to brag about.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

They've come to a point where they need to add stuff like this to try and keep the franchise going and have something to talk about leading up to it's release. If they didn't have the dog most of the interviews would just be repeating themselves over and over with the same "new" information or stuff we've seen from past COD games.

Oh and I say "hard work" in my comment above because from past experiences and past games from IW they don't seem to work very hard do they. I mean if they did COD would be a very different game.

EDIT: @Below

I've been licked....by a NintendoDog back in 2005

malokevi4600d ago

Come on, now. Dogs are innovative. They're like little furry people that lick you and stuff.

Eonjay4600d ago

I thought EA killed that dog earlier today.

iamnsuperman4600d ago

It isn't a gameplay gimmick but it might be a story gimmick but that remains to be seen. It seems the dog aspect is very heavily integrated with the story (something that is highlighted by this article)

Yep4600d ago (Edited 4600d ago )

Please God, let the word "Gimmick" die. It only servers the purpose of aiding fanboys in petty internet arguments by replacing what actually is a gameplay complement/enhancement.

INB4 it get's assumed that I love COD, let alone even own any version of the game. Please, I'm more of a Star Wars Battlefront/Republic Commando/Battlefield type of guy. ;)

-Foxtrot4600d ago (Edited 4600d ago )

@iamnsuperman

Aren't you allowed to control the Dog...like not actually controling it but you can give it orders to follow with the D-pad or something

sAVAge_bEaST4600d ago

@Machiavelli.

A GIMMICK?? Kinect's a GIMMick, Riley is a $et Piece, a Playable Character, an ESSENTIAL persona to the story. /s

MWong4600d ago

Who cares about the dog they killed Soap.

Reverent4600d ago

Infinity Ward thinks that the dog has a "cult following"... Lol, wow IW. If the CoD dog has ANY sort of cult following, it's among the same as the cult following for the movie, "The Room".

badz1494600d ago

at first, I thought that they would kill the dog too but on second thought, I think you'll die saving the dog!

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MysticStrummer4600d ago

I never thought about it at all.

Hellsvacancy4600d ago

I did, it kept me up all last night

famoussasjohn4600d ago

They're going for the emotional attachment that the writer has been known for, like he did for Crash.

OrangePowerz4600d ago

I guess the difference is that you interact with the dog throughout the campaign unlike enemy dogs. But hey hating everything about Cod is the new cool.

s8anicslayer4600d ago

The purpose of the dog is to give us a character from the campaign that we can have an emotional attachment to since IW is going for a deeper story in Ghosts. People just take it as a joke since the character happens to be a dog.

assdan4600d ago

You don't get the point of why it's funny. They're playing up this god dang dog so much about how emotional it is, so you just know that it's going to die. That's the joke behind it. And I really hope it doesn't die because it would actually be a surprise at this point.

s8anicslayer4599d ago (Edited 4599d ago )

For years animals have played an important role in "American" cinema in the likes of Lassie, Mr.Ed, Bethoven, etc etc. I get the point, I'm afraid it's people outside of America who don't get the narrative. Infinity Ward is an American company and I guess they feel they can pull of a compelling story with the inclusion of the K9 that they couldn't do with it's predecessors.

ritsuka6664600d ago

I really hope the dog not die. =/

Black Block, We are the Resistance.

hiredhelp4600d ago

Fake dog lol made me laugh lol

bromtown4599d ago

They'll kill the dog. It'll get them press, they'll probably have you do it in a really traumatic way too haha like strapping it with c4 and making it run at a load of entrenched enemies.

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Mikelarry4600d ago

memo to IW no-one cares about the dog, well apart from PETA

lsujester4600d ago

I'd take the dog over the majority of people I know, real and virtual.

BattleTorn4600d ago

Exactly. And them saying this makes me think they will even more.

Cause if they don't, they've kinda spoiled it with this statement now.

Salooh4600d ago

The dog will kill you then . :)

Gazondaily4600d ago

Do people actually care about the COD dog? I thought it was only relevant because it was something we could poke fun of after the X1 reveal.

I'm still of the opinion that when it comes to the 'COD Dog':

http://galeri7.uludagsozluk...

black0o4600d ago

i bet it'll be in slow motion as well

BattleTorn4600d ago

while in free fall,
in space,
under water!!!!

dun dun dun!

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All Call of Duty Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Call of Duty has to be the most recognizable franchise on the planet. They didn’t get that way by only making a handful of games.

COD has a long and storied career. Launching as a PC WW2 first-person shooter, Call of Duty has gone through numerous makeovers and been on just about every system. The series has gone through some serious highs and tragic lows. I’ll be looking at each Call of Duty game, the good the bad, and the ugly."

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UnSelf1561d ago

Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking

Minimoth1561d ago

Yeah, it's close to the bottom. There are a couple of worse ones. Infinite Warfare definitely deserves its place.

KyRo1561d ago

There's a number a lot worse than Vangaurd. It's also a lot better than that car crash Treyarch released before it.

XbladeTeddy1561d ago

World at War is my favourite. Didn't know the N-Gage had a Call of Duty.

MadLad1560d ago

Same for me.
I was never huge into Call of Duty, but I sunk a lot of time into WaW.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer are on point. Wouldn't mind a remaster.

I quit on CoD for a long while. Though I'm the odd man out that actually really enjoyed the campaign for WWII, being I got it through Humble monthly way back when.

TheLigX1561d ago

I really enjoyed the Infinite campaign. Multiplayer... not so much.

Yppupdam1561d ago

I agree, The Infinite campaign feels more like it's own thing that they slapped the CoD name on. If it stood on it's own, (sans the CoD name) I think it could have been it's own scifi franchise. And a damn good looking game, to boot. I never bothered to play the multiplayer.

victorMaje1561d ago

MW 2019 apart from the desastrous file sizes is way better than AW.

MadLad1560d ago

That was one I grabbed for Playstation because it pretty much just came out during the Redbox purge of videogames, and I got it for dirt cheap.

It was great coming home to an update every night, and watching one game eat up almost half my console's memory.

Amplitude1561d ago (Edited 1561d ago )

Will get disagrees but Infinite Warfare campaign was really good. Decent story, set pieces were amazing and if it didn't have the CoD game on it I'm sure people would have been more into it. Advanced Warfare was alright too. Titanfall 2 was just 1000 times better than both but I enjoyed them for their campaigns. I literally barely gaf about the story I'm in it for the set pieces and 5 hours of being stoned watching cool nonsense happen if I'm in the mood to play a CoD campaign. If I'm looking for a deep plot I'm gonna go somewhere else.
Ghosts was the worst story-wise though lol that cliffhanger ending was so bs.

Also MW 2019 was sick and is one of the best CoD games in yeeeears not sure why it's so low on this dude's list. Campaign was great, multiplayer was great and Warzone was fun for a while. Over it now but shrugs.

Beat the Vanguard campaign too but I can't even remember a single thing about it other than that it felt like it was 45 minutes long. Might be the most forgettable thing I've ever played lol just fully erased from my brain

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Call of Duty Multiplayer This Decade Ranked (2010-2019)

Call of Duty multiplayer ranked from worst to best! 2019 is coming to a close and MP1st ranks the best COD multiplayer games this decade.

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Ray Tracing in Monster Hunter World, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Watch_Dogs 2, COD: Ghosts & more

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members Benchmark PC Tech, Jose cangrejo, WillTalksTech, Zetman and MissinInAction have published some videos, showing Monster Hunter World, Black Mesa Xen, Watch_Dogs 2, Call of Duty Ghosts, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, The Sinking City, Remember Me, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Dishonored 2 with the ray tracing/path tracing effects that Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod introduces."

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Pyroxfaglover2522d ago

Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine

MarkyMark892522d ago (Edited 2522d ago )

Agree, but this gives me hope that one day Ray Tracing can be a software based feature and not require some type of proprietary hardware to achieve. Software will always outpace Hardware so it could happen, but I feel like its going to take a lot more time to achieve the same level that RTX has already shown glimpses of so far. Really just waiting for Cyberpunk to see if RTX is actually something viable. I think if anybody can truly showcase RTX Features it would be Projekt Red.

zeal0us2522d ago

Too bad it doesn't make Mankind Divided a better game.

starchild2522d ago

It doesn't need to, the game was already fantastic, imo.

zeal0us2522d ago

Human Revolution was a better game and not to mention longer.

isarai2522d ago

Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"