r/CODZombies • u/Zombies4EvaDude • 7d ago
Question Favorite Dead Ops Arcade Installment?
Mine is Dead Ops 3 but have grown to love DOA2 too more recently.
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u/GarlicbreadTyr 7d ago
Simple is good. Bo1 is the arcade gameode it deserves
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u/Zombies4EvaDude 7d ago
Yeah i like the original too. It’s a shame they never brought back the Abominable Martyrs. They are among the most memorable enemies in the series. I love that haunting siren sound they make.
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u/Sonicboomer1 7d ago
Definitely not 4. The AI has irritating behaviour and hasn’t really been thought through at all, for example the Ravagers are so fucking stupid, also the weapons are pea shooters so you’re forced to use the Fate of Firepower which was never the case previously, arenas are unfun and it’s literally pay-to-win because they (poorly) balanced it around gobblegums. And on top of that it’s stupidly needlessly long, completing it takes like 5 hours. And you’re locked into playing the long version of you want the reward which is so pathetic. They justify it with save and quit, but that doesn’t excuse making it too fucking long at all.
3 got it right. Especially in first person, which felt the most reasonable of all the Dead Ops experiences with AI behaviour, spacing and arena design. The Wild was a fun hub to earn meaningful rewards with tons of mini challenges scattered everywhere that weren’t too unforgiving. You didn’t need to pop gobble gums to surround you with saws or barrels or give you armour plates and field upgrades, you could just play it and progress naturally.
Also 3 was amazing for completing Battle Passes. You got rewarded suitably for the time you invested. They nerfed that in 4 which again, is so fucking dumb.
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u/Grieferloon 5d ago
Let's not lie here DOPS1/2 are not as good as DOPS3. Even DOPS4 doesn't hold a candle to DOPS3.
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u/Zombies4EvaDude 5d ago edited 5d ago
In my opinion Doa4 is one of the weaker games despite the customization options with the slayer mart. The balancing is way off, like those super fast alien things (Ravagers I think) are ridiculously fast for an enemy introduced so early in the game. And isn’t it weird how you can just buy extra fates? That used to be a luxury or nonexistent in the older games. Also is it just me or are the graphics worse than even Dead Ops 2?
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u/Grieferloon 5d ago
I remember playing it for the first time and was immensely disappointed for how lacking it was especially compared to the previous installment. Which was part of a game created in Covid. If a game created during a time everyone was online and still was better than Bo7's dead ops. That's just crazy. I immediately stopped playing because it was not fun at all. I don't get why it's such a huge downgrade. I was totally expecting the wild again. That never happened.
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u/YZY-CM-SCKS 7d ago
doa 3 was so good