Call of Duty Vanguard Was WORSE Than You Remember

"We...are the Vanguard" Has to be the one of the worst endings i heard to a call of duty game Holy Fuck 😐

The issue with the campaign is that they essentially tried to make an avengers movie with a WW2 coat of paint.

I miss when you could beat the campaign of a WWII Call of Duty game, see the message "This game is dedicated to the brave men that fought in the Second World War" and legitimately feel good

Gotta love how in the campaign, the black officers in Wade's chapter are the most stereotypical black characters, it's almost comical. They literally talk about how they can't wait to go home and play the saxophone and bet on baseball like bruhh

I’m just waiting for the “i miss vanguard “ some of my best moments were playing vanguard with my friends” . Then seeing the comment get a bunch of likes and then the cycle continues

I took a bullet for the boys, bought this game, and told them don't waste your money. Even today I can't see myself ever playing it again. It was that bad.

A lot of Vanguard's shortcomings can be explained with one word: Warzone. The reason Vanguard feels so lifeless and drab, as well as the horribly out-of-place weapons as cosmetics, was that it was used as a vehicle and excuse to add both WW2 and new, wacky content to Warzone. Adding Godzilla and Snoop Dogg to a WW2 game sounds stupid, but adding them in a BR? Sure, why not? Because of Activision's inability to let go of Warzone, Vanguard suffered.

Battlefield 1 did the multiple stories thing SO much better. I know that game was WW1, but it was miles better at telling multiple short stories in lesser known conflicts.

Something I wanna say: Irl, the British officer who served with the Australians had grown up in Australia, which inspired him to join the military, had nothing but good things to say about the Australian unit, and visited the surviving members of the Australian units he served with after the war. Far cry from how they're portrayed here

What's interesting...if they wanted to talk about untold or undertold battles and events here's a rough idea (not a WW2 nerd) - The Siege of Singapore - The Long March - Iwo Jima/ Island Jumping - The Razing of Tokyo/Kyoto - Battle of the Bulge (German perspective) - Battle of Leningrad - Raj's counter offense - The Battle of Papua New Quinea - German Encircled in Koninesberg/Memel Post more if you can think of any Edit: Thank you all for contributing

It’s insane that Activision has all the resources to get all these talented groups of people when it comes to animation, marketing, coding, and cinematography but never when it comes to writing. They hire the most inexperienced, unqualified, and ungrateful people to write for what essentially is a blockbuster and fail miserably to Activision’s surprise. Why Activision has been doing that lately is a greater mystery than the pyramids.

a "totally new take on ww2" would be showing the gruesomeness of the conflict on battlefields that actually happened but were never put into an fps (mostly the eastern front where the red army was pushing forward alone after "general winter" forced germany to retreat). and mentioning the war crimes the russians did would also shake up the story a bit, and give us back the ability to play as the bad guys in multplayer

I was able to get attached to the many mute player characters in cod campaigns more than anyone in vanguard. I care more about Pvt. James Ramirez from MW2 and Frost from MW3 as two examples, because I saw them struggle through intense missions

The most frustrating thing with the campaign is that there's so many people out there who have studied the war for years and could've helped make it a much more authentic and respectful representation. I wish we could get a good AAA WW2 game in the modern era.

I remember one of the developers said that Call of Duty doesn't have any memorable characters. That's ironic, because everybody who plays Call of Duty remembers Cpt. Price and Soup for being good characters, but the only reason we will remember the characters from Vanguard is because they aren't really characters. They're, more than likely, products of the diversity tool Activision/Blizzard was at least using back then, and it is quite obvious.

"it is a cardinal sin to have cutscenes so long you have to put down your controller" nobody tell him about metal gear solid lmao

Few things I’ll give Vanguard: 1. They added ninja as a perk after the community voiced their feedback 2. They added a trophy system after everyone got tired of grenade spam 3. It did launch with 16 maps, but had poor content drops each season (map wise) 4. They did keep the game fast paced. There were campers, but gameplay speed was pretty quick But it still sucked 😂

My mate only tried the open beta (He's a recently converted gamer btw) and a couple days ago he told me he missed Vanguard and tried to convince me to buy it so we'd play together... I didn't say a word to it, he knows my stance on Vanguard and the recent CoDs in general. He wasn't around during the golden age of CoD, BF and many other series to know better and he now gets wow'd by many subpar titles and trailers; He along with the newer gens of gamers are the target audience for these games and companies, completelly oblivious to what actual quality looks like and willing to be parted with their wallet for a tiny bit of entertainment however muddy it may be.

I’ll never in my life be able to forget the broken look on milo’s face, it was the greatest expression of vanguard and one of the saddest point’s in zombies history…. You wanted to laugh but the pain was real! “ how did we come to this?”

The crazy thing is that sledgehammer and raven were pulled from Cold War after working on it for more than a year after having disagreements on the direction of the game/plot. Then they get put to work together again on a game that was glued together in like a year and a half, while also still needing treyarch to do their ranked play and zombies. Now treyarch is even doing MW2s ranked play and somehow they have to make their own game. If anything CW-MW2 just showed that treyarch need a raise.