Why do people call the singleplayer mode in western games a "Campaign"

shooter games started doing it and so it stuck
there's lots of stupid marketing speak jargon that just stuck into gaming vernacular because gaming journalists kept using it.
Terms like "media consumption", "SKUs", "titles", etc.

"Campaign" usually refers to a single-player mode with a story. A clear beginning, climax and end.

A game like Tetris, Fifa, etc, can't really be said to have a "campaign".

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>Now

>>385129418
Because of Halo/CoD

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>>385129418
Because it's nothing new and you never knew it because you were too busy playing weeb games.

>Now

Have you ever played a Command & Conquer game in your life?

>>385129842
This
Fuck off weeb. take your shitty weeb games with you

>now

8 year olds whose only experience vidya was cod started it. There was the campaign, and then the actual game. People thought the main campaign of skyrim was a bit lacking, so because people are retarded, campaign can also mean main quests

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>>385129631
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>>385130024
Shit loads of games do it these days where as before it was restricted to FPS stuff like CoD where the term actually made sense. Why is the singleplayer for nuDoom labelled as campaign? It only really makes sense in the context of a war game like CoD.

>>385129842
nice one newfriend

>>385129418
Because Call of Duty 4

>>385129418
>now

It's all FPSbabbies.
It's an easy way to tell whether or not you should discard a post

>>385130282
cam·paign
kamˈpān
noun
1.
a series of military operations intended to achieve a particular objective, confined to a particular area, or involving a specified type of fighting.

If you don't think doomguy's one man demon genocide isn't a campaign you're wrong kiddo

>>385131467
what military are we fighting for in nuDoom?

>>385129627
How young are you? The single player 'season' of sports games was almost always called a campaign mode.

>>385129418
>now

>>385129418
Because they're campy and a pain.