the solution is to use the COD mobile engine which does everything the COD engine does but is built on Unity and does not have 20 fucking years of tech debt.
minimaps and healthbars, double damage and camo unlock, +30 Critical Kill popups on headshots, teammates that talk to you like they’re standing next to you but they aren’t there because you aren’t playing the campaign co-op, 8 minutes of the worst acted cutscenes you’ve ever seen in a call of duty before the game even starts
yeah call of duty is washed from a design perspective all the way down, it’s got nothing to do with the engine or the time in which they have to make these games, they’ve been trending into fortnite shit for a while now. mw3 had maybe some of the ugliest fucking skins i’ve ever seen in a videogame and they cost extra money somehow, yet you would see every idiot in the weird zombies dmz mode in awful glowing outfits, not to mention the actual other ip slop in cod now too
who among us will resist the urge to standup and clap (or cheer!) when, on opening day, in a late scene fighting against many enemies link releases his charged sword attack and spins shouting his classic hiiiiyeeaah…? i doubt very many of us to be honest.
Personally, I’m going to reserve my standing ovation for the .05 seconds when Link walks by a temple wall with a frieze depicting the Windfish on it. Also will be rolling around in the aisles screaming out loud when the post credits scene shows the skull kid picking up Majora’s Mask. Popcorn’s gonna be flying out of me like rings out of Sonic the Hedgehog.
It would be nice if Zelda turned out to be the third decent video game movie adaptation ever (the other two being Detention and Fatal Frame) but looking at other things the director and writers have done there doesn’t seem to be any hope.
(To be fair, I know nothing about The Maze Runner. Maybe it’s good but I doubt it.)
they look like staged pics from a vgame-themed gender reveal party that will end up immolating several acres of woodland after she fires that bow into a box full of tannerite. which is the most zelda thing of all :^)
i saw some of it on tv once - it wasn’t too bad of YA b-movie version of The Hunger Games or something like that. not something exactly high quality but certainly not terrible. but also seeing stuff on tv lowers your expectations generally lol. i think it’s probably fair to not expect much from a Zelda movie, but given how safe the Mario movie was i don’t know how anyone would expect anything different.