In recent days, Michael ‘shroud’ Grzesiek, one of the most popular streamers in the world, has spent a lot of time playing Escape from Tarkov. He has taken advantage of the boom in popularity around the hardcore extraction shooter following a massive update that was applied to the game. However, he has also been playing a lot of The Finals, a brand-new, fast-paced first-person shooter that has proven to be a monumental success since being released at the start of December 2023.
In a recent clip that was uploaded to TikTok, shroud was captured talking about The Finals and its pacing and mechanics. He was recorded making a statement that was off the cuff but quite damning, stressing that The Finals is ‘too much’ for the ‘COD brain’. Admittedly, The Finals is a more complex, tactical title than the average Call of Duty game, but some COD fans are understandably irritated that shroud thinks they’re not intelligent enough to handle it.
Is The Finals Harder Than Call of Duty?
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Call of Duty is one of the most popular first-person shooter franchises ever concocted. It has a legacy stretching back more than twenty years and boasts hundreds of millions of fans. It’s a hugely valuable franchise that’s essentially a household name at this point. By contrast, The Finals is the first game – a free-to-play arena shooter – from Embark Studios. It’s a month old and has pulled in more than ten million players in that time, but it’s by no means a suffocating competitor for Call of Duty.
The Finals is hectic, I’ll make that clear off the bat. It’s a fast-paced, high-octane game that features massive levels of destruction and verticality, and some elements of ‘hero mechanics’ have also been written into it. It’s more complex than a Call of Duty game, that’s for sure – but does that mean that the average Call of Duty fan couldn’t handle it?
That’s what shroud seems to think in this recent TikTok clip:
What do you think of that? I honestly agree with him #fyp #clipthatbroski #thefinals
If you’re going to invest any time in The Finals, you’ll quickly come to learn that it requires tactics and team play to win a match. It’s not like most Call of Duty modes where being the most accurate shooter or having the best movement is enough to win a round. That’s likely what shroud was alluding to in his statement, but it came off as a slight against the Call of Duty community.
Shroud, who is a former CSGO pro player, has typically had very little to do with Call of Duty over the years. His most-streamed Call of Duty title is Black Ops 4, which he last played in 2019. He has streamed a little Warzone, but only 88 hours in the four years that the game has been live.
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