Showerthought: There will come a point in time where the CoD series can no longer go back to WW2

Think about it. WW2 ended in 1945. It's already been 77 years.

All of the technological advancements in the past 77 years already make WW2 tech feel completely obsolete and too slow to care about.

Most WW2 veterans are already dead. Whatever generation that comes after the zoom-zooms will be able to relate to WW2 about as well as you and I relate to the American civil war.

CoD has never gone further back in time than WW2. It is likely it never will. As the passage of time moves ever onwards it is likely that the newer generations would find even WW2 to be too outdated, which means CoD would be forced to choose a war after WW2 as their newest fallback point.

So where will the next old school CoD be set.

Here is the list:

1. Vietnam - They set it in Vietnam as it is the next major famous war involving the US. They have the invasion and the story about how you are part of the one heroic platoon in Vietnam and you find out how everybody else le bad. You get a personal victory in the end as you happen to be the squad that only ever ends up fighting the le bad Vietnamese troops. All the villagers are happy to see you.

2. US invasion of Grenada (1983) - Story of how the US brought democracy (tm) to Grenada and saved its people.

3. The Gulf War (1991) - The next major conflict that the US won. They beat the evil Iraqi regime.

4. The Afghanistan war (2001) - The initial winning part. Not the ending. Maybe they write a para about how the Taliban won in the end before the end credits play.

Of these four options Vietnam war will most likely not be the one as US is trying to economically develop Vietnam right now. Grenada invasion will also not be the one as not as many people know about it.

Which means the oldest candidate available is the Gulf war. It is already 31 years ago. By 2040 Generation Alpha would be old enough to start playing CoD games, WW2 will be almost a hundred years old, and the gulf war will be in the perfect range where it is 49 years old ago and seems like an old event for the Alphabet teens.

Conclusion - The Gulf War is where the future CoD games will take place after the WW2 setting becomes too outdated.