Considering it’s not officially announced yet, we were surprised to see Houston Rockets hotshot James Harden dressed in camouflage and sporting a Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (more on that later) cap while en route to an NBA game against Oklahoma City Thunder overnight. Fans picked up on the similarities to Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s logo immediately, and Kotaku has since corroborated with sources that the game is legit.
The thing that’s driving people crazy are the roman numerals, of course. The number four is typically stylised as ‘IV’, but publisher Activision and developer Treyarch have seemingly opted for ‘IIII’ instead. This could be to avoid confusion – after all, we’ve all heard Grand Theft Auto IV referred to as Grand Theft Auto Eye Vee at least once in our lives.
To be fair, IIII is a valid roman numeral, so it’s not quite as dumb as the Internet overreaction would lead you to believe. In fact, Push Square Towers has a clock using this exact same symbol. According to rumours, the title will adopt a near-future setting like its predecessor. Oh, and if you had any doubt about the release’s existence, a bunch of merchandise recently popped up in GameStop’s system.
[source kotaku.com.au]
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What, so they are making more of these?
@kyleforrester87 I know, shocking!
@NintendoFan4Lyf Absolutely!
> IIII
I know it's valid, but it's still dumb. And it reminds me of the fake DS IV leak that became a meme a while back.
I hope the singleplayer is not as terrible as the BO3 one.
Can't wait for GTA IIIIIII.
Anyway...if they come again with the jetpacks and wall running I'm giving this a pass I think! Infinite Warfare's campaign was cool but mp was crap
IIII is still wrong, just forced through by clock makers because humanity is stupid.
Hope this is in development for Switch as well
Wish they made a new sub-series and not another blops as the third one was meh.
@Cassetticons @get2sammyb It's not entirely valid. The Roman numeral is 'IV'. The adaptation of 'IIII' on clocks was a pretty late invention, and it only appears on clocks. Some say it's because it looks better, it creates a symmetry with the 8/'VIII' on the left side. But there's a more reasonable explanation:
"There is a technical reason/explanation for the introduction of the IV to represent 4 o’clock. This is known as Roman Striking invented by Joseph Knibb (1640-1711). With the “Roman Striking” system a large bell or lower tone is sounded to represent “five”, and a small bell or high tone is sounded to represent “one”. For example, four o’clock would be sounded as a high tone followed by a low tone. Eleven o’clock would be sounded by two low followed by a high tone. The reason the IV was substituted for IIII was to conserve the power of the striking train. The striking train is a gear train that transmits power to the hammer mechanism that rings the bell.
Prior to Knibb’s Roman Striking system, striking clocks sounded a number of tones equal to the hour. For example, one strike (tone) for one o’clock, two strikes for two o’clock and so on to twelve strikes for twelve o’clock (or 24 strikes for 24 hour clocks). As you can see this would require 78 or 156 strikes for a complete 12 or 24 hour cycle. Remember, clocks needed to be manually wound –no electric power. Knibb was able to reduce the number of strikes by two-thirds to just 26 or 52 thus conserving the power needed from the striking train by 66%.
For example, VII would be a total of three strikes instead of seven, and XII would be four strikes instead of twelve."
@Octane The more you know.
I doubt Treyarch put THAT much thought into the roman numerals.
They just added another notch onto the previous logo and thought "Meh, good enough".
"after all, we've all heard GTAV IV referred to as Grand Theft Auto Eye Vee at least once in our lives" huh nope
I'm not a COD guy but I actually like that logo a lot.
Great player bad idea lol
I figured that call of duty five would have a slash through the four lines. Kinda fits the rehashing of the call of duty franchise if you ask me.
@AFCC Rumor has it that it will be boots on the ground like CoD: WWII.
@KingSandyRavage:. Another rumor says there will be a Switch version.
I'm still waitin' for a sequel to GHOSTS!!!
@Tasuki awesome. Two versions for me then
@Tasuki awesome! Black Ops 2 was great in my opinion, Black Ops was almost perfect...
Bring back Gary Oldman's Reznov please
@AFCC Further more the rumors.now are saying it will take place between BO2 and BO3
@Tasuki perfection!
Are these people kidding me? We're losing our minds over IIII being used instead of IV? It's clear gamers just love to b*tch about anything these days.
Go Rockets!!!
@Gamer83 Not just gamers, this whole generation really.
@Tasuki
I don't disagree, but we're on a game website so that's why I limited it to that.
I wasn't interested in WW2, but I might be interested in another Black Ops. BO3's trippy campaign was right up my alley.
... still hope this is not true and just a rumor .. please no BO4 .. how terrible
Oh man, I sure hope the next Final Fantasy game has the same numeral logo Final Fantasy IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
My name ends with Roman numeral IV, alot of people through out my life have had no idea of what number that represents! Also sucks filling out forms, applications, etc. I never know where to include the IV.....
I'll only buy if it includes black ops 1 remaster
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