Treyarch dropped Black Ops 4 solo campaign in attempt to “evolve”

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Treyarch’s decision to avoid a standard Black Ops 4 campaign is credited to its “culture of adaptation”.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has made quite a few smart choices so far, but the decision to axe the single-player campaign remains controversial. While few players ever finished the story mode, campaigns are often the most-talked about and remembered features long after multiplayer fans have moved on.

And yet, Treyarch is sticking to its guns on this one, and justified the decision in a new Gamespot interview (thanks GamesIndustry.biz). According to Treyarch heads David Vonderhaar and Dan Bunting, the series simply needed to change.

“The most important aspect of game development is being able to adapt,” Bunting said. “If you can’t look at something that you’re doing honestly and say, ‘This thing isn’t good enough’ or ‘This isn’t what we want,’ and ‘We need to make a change.’ If you can’t do that yourself, then you’re not adapting. You’re not going to evolve in a way that’s going to constantly deliver exciting experiences for your fans.”



Meanwhile, Vonderhaar reiterated that Black Ops 4 was never going to have a typical campaign to begin with, largely because Treyarch wanted a multiplayer-based social experience. Black Ops 3 arguably tried to integrate the two approaches with a co-op compatible campaign, but it was generally ignored by players.

“Development is a journey,” Vonderhaar said. “We try a lot of different ideas and a lot of different things. The game that we are making has evolved over time, and that’s just a part of development. I can’t remember a single game that we’ve made that hasn’t had a dramatic change in the prototyping stage.

“That’s what prototyping is for. You prototype ideas; some of them work out great, some of them don’t work out great and you pivot. You find a new idea [and] focus on that. We follow the fun.”

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 recently held its Blackout beta, and credit where credit’s due, the reception is largely positive. We’ll see how the full game handles when it launches on October 12, 2018.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2018/09/17/treyarch-dropped-black-ops-4-solo-campaign-attempt-evolve/

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JastyPosted:

I don't blame them, I use to grind the campaigns before multiplayer but I'm always interested in the multiplayer over campaigns in games like cod now.

JimboPosted:

I enjoy playing the single player in Call of Duty so another reason to not buy it.

CraigPosted:

Bullshit, they stopped the SP because they needed more man power to make the MP not shit for once.

TikToK_LavishCODPosted:

Petite I think they probably made the right step for them but not the right step for the fans.

Regardless if youre a fan of COD storylines one thing has always remained an that was call of duty had awesome cinematics and and graphical differences on SP now we wont be able to see what they did. I always felt the story was kinda just to "Show off" the game working at its best way but now we don't even get to see the potential that they had with this cause it'll be covered uo by mainly just everyone constantly blasting away. Its hard to soak up the beauty in something when you dont get the chance too.


Couldn't agree more but they have to move with the times but i would of still loved to have seen what they could have done

TimeSplittersPosted:

LebronIs6
Maze I don't think this is a step in the right direction for "evolving"
Creating a new game mode that completely follows a trend and get rid of something that is in every cod game. Crazy


LMAO, they made a decision to push the cod franchise forward and blackout did incredible numbers so seems to be going in the right direction atm


I agree with you. Not everyone wants them to keep on reciprocating the same nostalgic experience, because it's not gonna feel the same again without getting a rest. Treyarch is resting that (campaign), to rest assurance that we all rest when we r.i.p. do you got the rest?

Still badass to have all the black ops characters and to get that black ops 1 feel again in blackout.

kimPosted:

I think they probably made the right step for them but not the right step for the fans.

Regardless if youre a fan of COD storylines one thing has always remained an that was call of duty had awesome cinematics and and graphical differences on SP now we wont be able to see what they did. I always felt the story was kinda just to "Show off" the game working at its best way but now we don't even get to see the potential that they had with this cause it'll be covered uo by mainly just everyone constantly blasting away. Its hard to soak up the beauty in something when you dont get the chance too.

MotioncoreyPosted:

Oh well. Campaigns were cool, but I honestly prefer the battle royale. It has more replay ability. Most of the Call of Duty community jump into multiplayer first anyways and to be honest they haven't been as connected to a story as they were in Black Ops 1-2 and the MW series.

coolbunny1234Posted:

This game continues on it's quest to be the largest steaming pile of crap since AW.

Black_BiroPosted:

"While few players ever finished the story mode"

23% of players isn't a "few players" but you tried.

VodkaPosted:

That's a load of crap, we know that someone got leaked emails and showed that treyarch was more than half way finished with the campaign which involved time travel but Activision didn't like the idea and forced them to scrap it, given it was well to deep into development there was no time to make another story they removed it completely and focused on multiplayer.

Remember the tag line

Forget everything you know.

They were going to play with time travel, that would have been awesome


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