You Think You Want a CoD4 Remake, But You Don’t – Treyarch

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Recently, David Vonderhaar, Game Design Director at Treyarch, opened up a dialogue with fans revealing what kind of thinking goes into developing a Call of Duty game.

It goes without saying that the Call of Duty franchise has millions of players who play online, 0ver 30 million, to be more accurate. With as much praise as these developers are receiving for building such a popular game, there is most likely an equal if not greater amount of criticism they must face every day. With this many CoD fans, there is bound to be more than a few who are likely to share what they think the game should be like, legitimate or not, in an extremely vocal matter, negative or positive. Vonderhaar, who recently directed last year’s Black Ops, admits that when building a CoD game, it takes much more than just implementing what the fans want.

Vonderhaar put it very nicely while quoting Henry Ford: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Simply put, fans don’t always know exactly what they want. It’s the job of developers to figure out precisely what they are trying to express. Vonderhaar states, “I always ask you what you want and the problems you have so I can always put in context. And I always will.” He continued, “if we aren’t trying every day to give you the thing you don’t yet know you want, then I don’t deserve this job.” It sounds like a daunting task, but Vonderhaar believes in innovation.

If we are to be completely honest here, we know what a good number of Call of Duty fans always “say” they want the “next” CoD to be like: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. “COD4 was a great game; we stand on the shoulders of giants. Some of you want to relive that,” said Vonderhaar. However, he truthfully added that “it would be neither innovation or evolution.” It can be speculated that the reason why fans request such a thing is because for many, CoD4 was their “first” CoD experience. Your first experience in almost anything tends to be the most memorable. However, Voderhaar reminds us that “you can make new ‘firsts’ and if don’t go for that as hard as possible then we shouldn’t be here.”

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Source: http://mp1st.com/2011/12/08/you-think-you-want-a-cod4-remake-but-you-dont/

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MobbdeepKB77Posted:

GetFreakyy Wow, Well that just goes to show us Vonderhaar isn't listen to a word the community is saying. Trying to Say What we want Isn't Really what we want, i guess that's why Black ops was such a failure.

That's very Reassuring to know he is working on our next CoD, Yeah... the sarcasm was intended.


Well thank god Treyarch aren't the ones who remake CoD 4, I wouldn't even want to buy this game.

MobbdeepKB77Posted:

it would be neither innovation or evolution.
It seemed to me that CoD 4 had better graphics than Black Ops, and the best thing about it was how there was just 1 golden gun per gun type, and you had to bust your a** off to get it. But now they try to "innovate" too much and it can't be done anymore because you have way too many guns for each gun type.

MightyMitchPosted:

Elite49 I hate all you people that buy CoD after 3. "4 was my first" oh well **** I'm sorry you had to play such a bad game. 2 is the only good CoD ever made, hell CoD got out of WW2 because they couldn't touch MoH Frontlines and that was YEARS before. You people have turned CoD into a beginners game that is comparable to social networking games.


Agreed its been dumbed down to the single most noob friendly game ever created. Obviously it's so popular - anyone with 2 thumbs can be good at it. People can flame all they want, everyone that isn't delusional feels the same way.

VectorizingPosted:

All I can say is I hope they make a cod 4 remake, better graphics, But keep the SAME multiplayer experience... Simple.

kind of like how they are remaking halo combat evolve. Just my opinion.

xxEpicxGamingxxPosted:

i need someone that is good at cod mw3 message me on xbox xxEpicxGamingxx

Elite49Posted:

I hate all you people that buy CoD after 3. "4 was my first" oh well shit I'm sorry you had to play such a bad game. 2 is the only good CoD ever made, hell CoD got out of WW2 because they couldn't touch MoH Frontlines and that was YEARS before. You people have turned CoD into a beginners game that is comparable to social networking games.

c0dm0dzPosted:

Treyarch is the anti-Christ incarnated as bad programming.

RealLosoPosted:

Im gonna be honest i f u c k i n g hate all you IW FANBOYS How could you say MW2is the best CoD and lmao MW2.5 is the same crap i dont understand why IW is trying to add all this bullshyt to multiplayer soon it will turn into a halo/cod crap and only you 13 year old idiots will like it All the real CoD fans know cod4 & WAW are the best cods just cause it was a simple game and didnt have too worry about all these killstreaks crap That IW started if it wasnt for them Treyarch would of kept a 3-5-7 and maybe might of added two more kill streaks..CoD is going to be dead in 4 years Little kids will buy anything that says Modern warfare... get fcking real you dumb fagets & for all you QUICKSCOPERS no one gives a shyt about your lucky 360 no scope

TheRyan231Posted:

Yeah
Remake MW2 with theater mode
DLC for campain instead of buying a whole new game

XxGummibearxXPosted:

what cod4 was great simple and plain cod4 is the way to go