Dear Infinity Ward,
Remember when I sent out that extremely long and detailed letter containing my thoughts on COD4? I thought you did. So, remember when you asked what I would like to see in the future of the Call of Duty franchise and I said, “Please, whatever you do, do not make the next one take place in the future?” Remember that? Well, if these rumors are true, you’re doing the exact opposite of what I asked.
As your #1 fan (and by far most skilled player), I beg you to not go into the future with the next game. There are already so many of those games, and the vaaaaast majority of them totally suck. It’s so easy to make up sci-fi storylines like “aliens destroying the human race,” or “humans destroying an alien race,” and say things like, “these guns are just like the ones we have now, except these one shoot lasers!” So trite. So boring. So disappointing.
Why can’t you make a good Vietnam or Korean War game? Even better, make a game that has nothing to do with the U.S. How about the Irish Civil War? I don’t even care if you go back to WWII, there remains plenty of unexplored territory (Iwo Jima, anyone?).
In conclusion, please don’t make a crappy future-war game. We already have too may Halo clones.
I’d be okay with a game set in the near-future, like 10 years from now.
Yeah, maybe, but as soon as they put in anything that looks even remotely like some kind of mech, I’m out.
Does Metal Gear (Metal Gear?) count as a mech? And if it does, why is it the only mech I like? Because you never play from inside the mech?
Yeah, exactly, because you don’t actually have to get in and play it and level it up and crap like that.