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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redevil22Posted:

-Harrison
triksta2k11
Cent He says they know what we want, yet Black Ops was a massive disappointment.

Treyarc Y U MAKE COD?

The reason why they make CoD is because they are good at making CoD.
At least they don't copy and paste their games like Infinity Ward has done with all their CoDs.
Black Ops was good, in my opinion. In you're opinion, it wasn't. That's ok because that's life. We'll all get over each others opinion's.

No bro, it's a fact that Black Ops was a bad game.


Much agreed

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triksta2k11
Cent He says they know what we want, yet Black Ops was a massive disappointment.

Treyarc Y U MAKE COD?

The reason why they make CoD is because they are good at making CoD.
At least they don't copy and paste their games like Infinity Ward has done with all their CoDs.
Black Ops was good, in my opinion. In you're opinion, it wasn't. That's ok because that's life. We'll all get over each others opinion's.

No bro, it's a fact that Black Ops was a bad game.

AuraPosted:

ITzZCraigxX
Cartledge1996
Tiny-Wings how about they stop making Cods until the next generation of consoles come out? how about that!? then all these ****** can stop **** about Cod and they can make a completely different game with all the new fancy resources they are give with with new generation consoles!
what then we have to play MW3 until 2014 when the new consoles are coming out probably


why would we wait till 2014 to play MW3 its already out.

derp


Thats not what he ment to say. Of course, its out already but we would have to play it till 2014. (not wait till 2014 to play it)

ITzZCraigxXPosted:

Cartledge1996
Tiny-Wings how about they stop making Cods until the next generation of consoles come out? how about that!? then all these ****** can stop **** about Cod and they can make a completely different game with all the new fancy resources they are give with with new generation consoles!
what then we have to play MW3 until 2014 when the new consoles are coming out probably


why would we wait till 2014 to play MW3 its already out.

derp

triksta2k11Posted:

Cent He says they know what we want, yet Black Ops was a massive disappointment.

Treyarc Y U MAKE COD?

The reason why they make CoD is because they are good at making CoD.
At least they don't copy and paste their games like Infinity Ward has done with all their CoDs.
Black Ops was good, in my opinion. In you're opinion, it wasn't. That's ok because that's life. We'll all get over each others opinion's.

Cartledge1996Posted:

Tiny-Wings how about they stop making Cods until the next generation of consoles come out? how about that!? then all these ****** can stop **** about Cod and they can make a completely different game with all the new fancy resources they are give with with new generation consoles!
what then we have to play MW3 until 2014 when the new consoles are coming out probably

Tiny-WingsPosted:

how about they stop making Cods until the next generation of consoles come out? how about that!? then all these ****** can stop bitching about Cod and they can make a completely different game with all the new fancy resources they are give with with new generation consoles!

uid-545891Posted:

He says they know what we want, yet Black Ops was a massive disappointment.

Treyarc Y U MAKE COD?

sw4gPosted:

"Thing you don't yet know you want," really? He acts as if he knows what we want. Call of Duty 4 wasn't my first COD game, but it's the best game in the entire series. Sure it had it's cons like spawns and so forth but overall? Every perk individually outweighed a perk other(s) disliked, for instance Juggernaut was eliminated if you used stopping power and vice versa. The guns were all balanced but that's my opinion, others may have different views. I do however believe it's the best game in the series, but to "remake" it would be a horrible idea. They just need to update it, the servers. Patch the mods, and possibly create something to make it appealing to their audience that wants a "remake."

dannyblackops1Posted:

just because mw3 is like mw2 everybody hates it so if they made another cod game what was alot like cod 4 would everyone love it then or something im sorry but i think cod 4 is overrated its a good game but no where near as good as the way people describe it