The #1 BEST COD Campaign. The Weird Genius of Call of Duty: Black Ops
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Everybody hates Call of Duty: Vanguard right now but maybe in 10 years' time, people will mellow out. That's how things usually go. This is an analysis and retrospective of Call of Duty: Black Ops - not Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. This is the first one, from 2010. Things can get confusing with the callbacks to older games. The Modern Warfare 2 remake got announced just there, and that just straight up has the same name. Anyway, enjoy this video essay. I poured a lot of love into it.
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00:00 Intro
02:58 Meat and Potatoes
05:42 Fidel Castro
08:36 Vorkuta
13:15 Mason are you OK?
15:25 Last level of the first act
18:43 Woods! You look like hammered sh*t
20:42 Return of the King
21:52 Hudson's favourite activities
24:15 Reznov's darkest day
27:35 Reznov's greatest deed
30:24 He was so young...
31:53 The best vibe in Black Ops
32:33 He was so young Part II
34:50 Blackbird jumpscare
36:06 Steiner's bargain
37:35 You can't kill ME!
40:42 The real Rebirth Island is even more interesting
42:24 My name is Viktor Reznov
44:14 My name is Viktor Reznov Part II
44:58 Dudson
45:45 Mason is not OK
47:28 Viktor Reznov
50:48 Where? Cuba.
52:01 Nikita Dragovich
52:47 Friedrich Steiner
54:16 Weaver the butt monkey
54:41 The home stretch
56:10 Oswald compromised
57:03 Final thoughts - เกม
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Watched the whole thing from start to finish. This was really well done.
My brother... This is an excellent video. I really hope this blows up before Black ops 6 comes out at this point
That Dmitry mission pretty much sold me on the fact that those three bastards had to die. Man deserved so much more than what he got.
I feel like it never gets mentioned that Project Nova uses the classic WaW soundtrack and gun sounds. Good video, could you make one about my beloved WaW?
thought you had like 100k+ subs because of the video's quality.
this video deserves to blow up bro.
cheers!
God this game definitely has the most balls out approach to the campaign that Call of Duty will ever achieve. The use of real major political figures made this campaign unforgettable by Call of Duty standards. The use of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald would never pass in a game today. This campaign is definitely a relic of its time.
You asked in the video if there is any character more interesting than Reznov in the Call of Duty franchise and I don't think so. However, in terms of shock moments I still think the nuke scene in MW1 reigns supreme. The absolute helplessness and despair that came with that scene and the following mission made me shudder as a young lad. It took the player out of the game for a minute to say "Hey, don't forget this shit happens in real life. War is not something to fantasize".
In the end you did a fantastic job with this video! I never got bored or felt the pacing dragged out too long. I would definitely love to watch more of these "The Weird Genius of" video essays. I only have two small nitpicks with the video. First is you were talking pretty fast at the beginning of the video but it wasn't a problem for long. Second is I feel the Multiplayer/Zombies section at the beginning could've been cut/moved to the end. This is because they were short and could give a viewer the false impression you were reviewing the whole game in depth rather than the meat and potatoes of the video, the campaign. These are very small nitpicks though, and are 100% outweighed by the quality of the rest of the video.
Great job definitely worth the hype build up on stream lol :). To anyone reading this remember to drop a follow at twitch.tv/kazmord ;)
Finally, there was no in depth analysis on the philosophical complexity that is the Sticks and Stones multiplayer mode. 0/10 unsubbing + ratio. Sadge.
Thank you for this comment man, glad im not the only one who gets passionate about retrospective videos and esp w/ smaller creators. Hope life treats you well man 💙
21:17 Least interesting? OUR BOY REZNOV IS BACK!!!!!
Love the video tho
I find it funny that in the spanish dub, Dragovich says "What makes you think you didn't?" Instead of "tried?".
this got to be the greatest video ever made about black ops 1.
i completely agree, i never cared about a character as much as i cared about Victor Reznov. funny thing is i was about 7 playing this campaign. my english was bad and i was genuinely making what i could out of the story just by the visuals, still didn't see that Reznov was dead, i remember playing bo1 again when i was 14 and being so sad that Reznov was actually dead. only reason i looked back is that i didnt see him anywhere in bo2. i remember being so sad about it though playing it for the second time made me see more than just the action which im happy about.
This is an amazing video bro 🔥
I know I’m pretty late but dang man this is an awesome video I assumed you would need millions after watching this and your Melendez retrospective. Well earned sub
Thanks mate. The algorithm works in weird ways. I would have liked these videos to get some traction when I made them 2 years ago, but I'm glad it happened at all. Good timing too, because I'm dropping something massive pretty soon :)
TWO YEARS AND SO FEW VIEWS??? This feels like a Steak Bently video, you should be EXPLODING in numbers
Heh, Steak was my #1 inspiration for branching into longer form content, starting with this video. Thanks man.
@@Kazmord Hell yeah, it shows and it's great!
Phenomenal video earned a new subscriber. Also I loved black ops 1 it’s my favorite COD. I like to find videos of people explaining my favorite games thoroughly I always learn something new.
Man this video was so good. I enjoyed the summary of BO1 because genuinely remember nothing from its campaign. Very well paced video aswell shit felt like 20 minutes rather than an hour.
Certified hood classic
Stellar pacing and editing throughout. The introspection into Reznov at the end was a great touch
I await the inevitable LittleBigPlanet Anti-H4H documentary
Thanks my guy. I wouldn't be opposed to making an LBP video in the future
Super duper wish you could do a neat story overview for Cold War which is a severely underrated modern CoD game.
Woah the video was so good i didn't realize it was almost a hour long
Holy shit just saw that you have only like 160 something subs
This and the Menendez videos are amazing
Great high quality content
Wow, amazing video! I am really enjoying it. Really great stuff!!!
Definitely should do this kind of video for black ops 2 great video
Watched this like 6 times my dude this is a fantastic deep dive !!!
Thanks m8!
I'm pretty sure my grandpa said 31:08 at one point in his life
Best retrospective of bo1 ever!, gj mate
Thanks, my man
Great video! If you have the time you should totally make one on black ops 2
Awesome vid bro
This campaign was always confusing to me as a kid. I never understood a single thing going on but it sure was fun. Imo this was the most well rounded Call of Duty game ever made. Every single mode just felt worth your time and was great to play. After watching both your BO1 and 2 vids, I'd assume if you're still into making COD content you'd do the MW original trilogy or cover the most forgotten COD single player experience of all time Black Ops 3? I'd be interested in what you'd have to say about MW3 since still to this day it's reception is pretty mixed as well as BO3 because I don't remember a single thing from that campaign lol
Thanks for the comment! I actually do have a MW2 (2009) video out now, though it's a bit less in-depth.
I have thought about doing vids on MW3 and BO3, though they are just not very exciting games(especially compared to BO1/2) imo so there's nothing in the works currently.
AMAZING VIDEO!
Subscribed good vid
Great video, when is the lbp retrospective?
14:41 where is Nixon in cotd??
Not in the works yet, I'll have to find a good time to do it
Nixon AND the CoTD crew
Mason is a badass
Cold War has a really good campaign. Might be better than BO1
Less jump cuts please, I enjoy normal human pace talking.