I knew I was in for some shit the minute they referred to their special forces teams as "being black ops" A "black operation" or "black op" is the term for a military operation that isn't meant to b publicized. It's a secret that can never get out for political reasons, if anything goes wrong the government denies that you exist and you're basically on your own. This is why Mason was never rescued from Vorkuta, you were buried the minute you jumped off that plane. In short, a "black op" is a kind of operation and not an organization of task force, but this is COD where nothing is done correctly or logically so I dunno what I was expecting.
Yeah, like everyone in every military and government was replaced by a literal bad actor and left with all their resources to pretend to do the person's job and then end up in the most amazing, ridiculous situations. Pretty much avant-garde art like he said. It's hyper-real or something. Weird stuff.
Metal Gear Solid 1 even explains this in the intro cutscene. "This is a top-secret black op, don't expect any official support." You'd think with how influential that game was the devs would know that.
+Immolator772 I think you've missed my point. A black op is a type of operation, not a group. The game is calling your character and their group "black ops" as if it's a unit designation, which it's not. For example, let's say that we're playing a game series called "Electrical Fires" where you play as a firefighter unit specially trained in putting out electrical fires. In Electrical Fires 3, your character is put into a group and they tell them that they're an electrical fire now. Do you see what I mean now?
The BO3 campaign was one of the most convoluted, depressing, and bland experiences I've ever had playing a video game. You can tell a lot of work went into it, but more work doesn't always get you a better game.
the problem really was that it was marketed as a futuristic Cold War, with a sort of augmentations arms race but it wasnt like that at all. The game didnt know if it wanted to be a cyberpunk-ish story of a rouge AI trying to learn about itself or about the cia and black projects like the original Black Ops
@@OlEgSaS32 And they shoehorned everything in and it was terrible. Rumor has it they originally wanted to do an open-world campaign before it was scrapped. Imagine that. 🤢🤮
Apparently this wasn't even meant to be a Black Ops game, but because Black Ops is the best selling of the CoD sub-franchises Activision forced them into changing it. That along with an early version of the campaign getting scrapped lead to the story being so poorly told. It has cool elements but you have to slow down all of scrolling text at the start of each mission and read it to understand the story's plot twist that's never explained otherwise, and without knowing the plot twist you can't notice a lot of the little details that foreshadow it. It's like they finally figured out how they would fit all of the themes together in a story but didn't have time to execute it properly, so they just left the largest plot point hidden in some fucking text you can't realistically be expected to read.
This game is tied in with the other black ops games, it's just very vague. In the Egyptian Train Station mission (I forget the name of the mission), Khalil talks about Raul Menendez being partly responsible as to why the Egyptian defence has lasted as long as it did, or something like that.
There's only 2 references to previous games of Raul Menendez and Nova 6 Gas in the Singapore. That's it, definitely on a level like Black Ops 1 with the mind fuck
The actual base concept is tied to it, actually. The entire reason the world is in that state is because aircraft and drones became pointless, since Menendez' fuckery with drones led to countries MAJORLY improving their air security. So all the wars are on foot and that's why there's cyborg soldiers. So it's kind of like showing the after effects of BO2. That said, the game does fuck all to explain this as you play it and it's such a huge waste of a neat concept.
@Roniixx nobody is really trying, this is just stuff the game talks about in the background that nobody pays attention to. Really shit storytelling but the base concept is alright, they just wasted it on "hoohoo haha mind games".
The concept of the campaign was pretty cool, the whole Deus Ex-esque mind/machine narrative. The problem is, it was executed super poorly. I should not have to google what happened.
I think it's in part because it was originally supposed to be open-world game (likely a bit like Human Revolution/Mankind Divided), but got retooled into classic campaign shooter halfway through.
I remember they had a weird half assed zombies version of the campaign too that re-contextualized the missions while putting zombies everywhere instead of regular guys
AI gains sentience, murders scientists who made it, calls itself Corvus and begins infecting soldiers that link to it (through Taylor who linked with it first). Slowly develops sapience as it passes from soldier to soldier which drives Hendricks insane. It attains full sapience in PC's brain and after the PC kills themselves, Corvus takes over and calls itself Taylor after the soldier who (inadvertently) freed it. Made sense to me.
The 'technology' that mother gives you allowed soldiers to live on after death, which is essentially the save function in any shootem up. This is why the ceo stand-in npc cannot explain who you are as they have not achieved CHIM. This exec character then gets a gruesome double death punishment for their story crimes, but not before your character is overwhelmed by the revelation of CHIM and commits harrycarry. The true villain 'ai' is therefore a metaphor for the player who fulfils the supply demand transactions of the AAA Industrial games complex. And also drives this player character towards their doom, shame on you! It is also a backhanded insult to the player, delivered via a pithy plot with tropey twists that you presumably have paid for. The secret mastermind behind the AI really just wishes you'd play with their lootbox casinos, season pass timeshares and buy the skins/nfts indefinitely so they have to do less animations, voice acting and no writing for a campaign mode. So the corporate avatar was still the realreal villain, but he couldn't understand why. Or something. White rabbitttttt
@@porkcracklins630 The scrolling text at the start of each mission are mission debriefs from Taylor. It describes the mission you're about to play but with Taylor being the protagonist instead of the player character. That along with a lot of subtle hints reveals that your character dies during the tutorial mission and you're reliving Taylor's memories through your DNI that's linked to his during that training simulation. There's actually a load of really cool foreshadowing that hints at the plot twist, like Taylor talking about Kane in the first mission, Kane's bandanna not being on her during moments that didn't really happen that the protagonist's mind is making up, and the frozen forest poem really being something recited to you by a doctor to calm you as you die, but all of it is sort of purposeless when you can't understand these details without knowing the plot twist which is never actually explained in-game.
This game is literally a fever dream after you died. The games campaign takes place in for some reason someones conscious mind. And you are dead after the events of the first level. So basically its just fever dream the campaign but add some nazis and nazi zombies with a side of futurism and the middle east is at the brink of collapsing and your pretty much good
The "Reznov is dead" twist from the original Black Ops was great because you could actually connect the dots and figure it out yourself. You replay the campaign and start to pick up on clues, like how no one but Alex ever talks to or mentions Reznov. BO3's "you were dead the whole time" just comes out of nowhere. It had no buildup, no foreshadowing, and it doesn't really explain anything.
@@LuvzToLol21 well, it had foreshadowing, only that I don't remember as it was... The Reznov twist really have some plot holes, like the years that Mason spent in Vietnam after he "rescue" Reznov, why he didn't interact with him between missions? Did he not speak with him and show explain him to his squad saying something like: "look boys he is the famous Reznov I was speaking about who saved me in Vorkuta" and his squad be like "with who the hell are you speaking you about, Mason?"
@@LuvzToLol21 It kind of had a buildup but it's not one you'd really understand until a second playthrough. In the 2nd mission, where you're getting used to your new abilities in a simulated fight, this is happening while you are undergoing the surgery to get all your cyber buffs. You die mid-operation, and it's at the point where they state that "The simulation breaks down here, but we can go ahead", and you go on the chase with the woman. The implication being that the simulation broke down because you died and had stopped being fed information, but the DNI creates a reality for you. But the issue is that's only real foreshadowing if you know the simulation is perfect usually, so it breaking down would mean something. For all we know the simulations break down all the time so it's nothing to be worried about. It tries to make it a lot more blatant later, with obvious hallucinations and stuff, but that's just as easily explained by the DNI being imperfect. It's really hard to make a hallucination plot make sense when you also introduce ACTUAL hallucination creating technology. It's like trying to have a strong death scene in a show where it's established people can fake death or resurrect easily. Makes it really hard to actually know or care if it's a real death or not.
It shouldn't even be a black ops series. There's like one single aspect from the previous black ops that translates to this game. And I think it's just the whole "bad guys creating sleeper cell soldiers in the good guy countries " or something
@@alvanegra253 i remember watching videos of how bad it was on xbox 360 lol. Bo3 was genuinely a good cod tho. Multiplayer was solid and zombies was awesome. Last cod I really played
the saddest thing is that barely anybody understood what the game was about and how it all made sense. I literally had to watch videos back in the day explaining it and while I did understand it, I also understood that they did a poor job bringing it across. From what I understand it goes like this: When the robot rips your arms off and breaks your legs you actually died. They tried to save your life by turning you into a cyborg and having Taylor help your brain get used to it by linking his to yours. It's later explained that when you jack into the other characters shortly before they die their last moments get connected to your memories, i.e. they can live through them. And that is what's happening to you. You're living through Taylor's Memories as your last moments. That also explains why your character is confused, not knowing how they got to the next place or what day/year it is. I think it's a cool Idea for a story, it was just very poorly executed.
only thing i played it for was that one mission set in a ww2 section also nightmares mode thats just campaign but also with zombies edit: apparently bo3 campaign is set way in the future using bo2's story events as a background. none of the characters are related to the characters from bo1 or bo2 tho lmao
Black Ops 3 was by far the best CoD campaign ever for Co-Op. My friend and I were entertained for hours just laughing at how comically bad it was. 😂 It helps that the gameplay actually was fun, too.
I played this campaign and remember that it wasnt bad but I have no recollection of what happened and I think that's pretty much explains how good it is.
I remember playing this campaign on hardened and dying 20 times to the metal gear boss thingy. I also remember a zombies campaign that was a bit more fun.
This Call of Duty campaign has the best story ever in a call of duty game, it tackles a lot of deep and meaningful shit like the afterlife, and what it means to be alive. But the developers were like, yeh lets give them the story fragmented and they'll figure it out, it will be fine.
I think this campaign is great and genuinely one of the coolest thing cod has done, I feel like people would consider it one of the best if it was a lot easier to understand. I don't think it deserves the hate it gets at all but I can see why people don't want to watch 10 videos explaining the ending lol. Still love the gameplay, abilities, enemies, crazy mission design etc, its very different from the typical "go stop evil russian man" but I get why people dont like it as a cod game or a black ops 2 sequel
@@vale_3k personally if your story is hard to understand it either isn’t a good story, or your presentation was poor, level of confusion doesn’t equal level of quality
@@tenghiskhan2063 the presentation was terrible, it didn't help that the missions were placed out of chronological order, but also they were all available to play from the start, so people could play in whichever order they wanted. That only added to the confusion.
that guy's death scream echoing and getting all "90's videogame sound quality" gave me real Street Fighter vibes, I don't know. But Mortal Kombat also works too. (the guy who gets killed by a tree near the end)
I barely remember the campaign, I remember some of the missions, and a few cool things in the campaign, such as choosing your weapons and outfit... That's it.
The gameplay for the campaign is great IMO, it's just that the story was shoved through a woodchipper and put back together inside out with off brand Elmer's glue
Fun fact, you actually CAN make a grenade launcher in subnautica. If you breed a TON of crashfish in the big alien containment you can shove em into the PRAWN storage, equip the propulsion arm, and freely load and fire them from the cockpit seat at your leisure. They usually 3-hit bone sharks, it’s super satisfying
Fun fact; The game tells you the character you started the game as died... In a jumble of text on a loading screen. So the games main plot of the game is not only on a loading screen, but really hidden in it. Who green lit this story!?
i think youre right that nobody else has ever played this campaign because i definitely wouldve heard about it if anyone else knew blops 3 turned into a lars von trier movie
The campaign had a few bugs, the multiplayer was fun except when you ran into a whole team using the camping specialist, zombies was probably the best in recent years compared to what came after it. Now the game is filled with hackers
Black ops 3 story in a nutshell: You were killed by robots and the rest of the campaign is a hallucination of a dying person (you) that slowly devolves into a fever dream
Funny enough is that it’s meant to be a legit sequel, as they reference the Cordis Die from BO2 and their uprising. This is supposedly set after that ending.
What urks me most about the black ops 3 campaign is not how convoluted it was, but the fact that before release they had the football player marshawn lynch promoting the game and how he was featured in the story mode. Yet in the actual game he was only featured in one level and he was just a background character like WTF?!
The campaign was probably the worst of all CoDs (still played it twice, one of those times in coop on the abslute cock and ball torture that is realism difficulty), but I spent way more time than I'd like to admit in the MP and still do so occasionally.
I didn't hate the campaign, honestly. It was fun enough in co-op, just kind of meh. There were way too many cutscenes, though. Seriously, it really hits you just how much of the game is cutscenes when you play the alternate zombies campaign.
I played it and realized that I needed to play it a second, this time paying attention. And then I played it 3 times just to make sure I understood everything
I like how he incorrectly stated Treyarch didn't want to make more campaigns and activision went "No you don't have to." When Treyarch WANTED to make a campaign for BO4 and ACTIVISION went "No. Just make profit."
I actually played this game for the campaign. So I owned a Xbox 360 (no internet) and pre order it from GameStop. When it came out it didn’t have a campaign (for last gen consoles). So I canceled the game. So I got a PS4 and then I could play the game. After playing the campaign multiple times and after beating it the only thing I comprehend from the story was “train go boom”.
The "ember" trailer made this game seem way cooler than it actually was. The idea of mankind messing with their genetic biology with cybernetics, slowly becoming a shell of their former humanity is a common trope, but a fun one nonetheless. We got none of that at all here.
This is one of the few CoD campaigns I actually played to completion (mostly because I hated the mp) and I gotta say it wasn’t worth the $0 it cost to steal it. I ended up giving it to my brother who ended up loving the mp for some reason I’ll never understand. Made me not trust him when MW2019 came out and he said CoD was good again.
Play the nightmare campaign at least, it's the se cutscenes and story but really out of order with bad adr it's hilarious and better than the actual campaign
This might be the first of the Black Ops campaigns I played. I thought I owned Back Ops II but I couldn't find it when going through my PS3 games recently, and I just got Back Ops I, but I might have Black Ops II boxed up somewhere because at one point I thought I was going to have to move last year, and boxed most of my games up. I unpacked most of them but I'm sure there are a few I haven't found yet.
when you gotta make a new call of duty yesterday, but all you've got on your desk is a Titanfall disk and a copy of William Gibson's "Neuromancer" with half the pages missing.
Use camo cyber ability, all primary attachment wildcards, use the Drakon with thermal sights, FMJ, Suppressor, Rapid Fire, Extended Mags, Fast Mags. Secondary war machine (for ASP tanks or mobs), EMP grenades, any lethals, Emergency Reserve and Repulsor Armor tac-rigs. Abuse your special cyber vision to see and shoot enemies through walls with FMJ. Abuse thermals to shoot people's ankles and shoulders while they are in cover. If you're level 20 (you should be), you can switch to the remote control hack ability and use that to clear out entire rooms of enemies with talons, sentry guns, or the little rocket tanks. Use loadout crates to refresh your Emergency Reserve after going down. The hardest mission in the game is going to be either the first one because you don't have the special vision yet and the last holdout can be a bitch, or the one where you swim underwater forever and die to a glancing blow from the depth charges. If you're having trouble with the flying drone boss with the 4 engines, know you can snipe the engines through gaps in the roof with your sniper. Takes a mag but it kills the engine, you don't need explosives. And the mission where you have to run out into the firing line and plant the explosive spikes looks scarier than it actually is. The enemies infinitely respawn so just clear a couple, camo, sprint the spot and plant the spike, back away and blow it to cover the retreat, then lay in cover till camo comes back. During the holdout after the jet flying set piece, learn the spawns and abuse camo to shoot enemies without them firing back. You don't need to kill them all, just enough that the hack goes through and gets you a checkpoint. Warlords (tanky robots that hipfire LMGs and walk at you) are pretty easy to melt with headshots. I imagine EMP or any control hacks work well too. I just platinumed it the other day because I apparently got it free on PS5.
I have played the campaign, almost the entire campaign. Let's say there were definitely some parts where it was trying to force you get friends to play with.
I played the campaign and the only things i remember are that i didn't understand the end cutscene,that the part with the zombies was the least boring part and that some enemies did have way to many HP.
The twist is that you actually died after the first mission and that they synced you up with Taylor to put you in a coma dream thing while they try to revive but it didn't work. It's basically one big death throe.
Day 567 of trying to get Oboe to do a Skyrim Sigurd RP “Out of all the CODs, this is one of them” as someone who has never played cod and only knows about it through absorbing it from internet culture, this is exactly the conclusion I came to, it’s just, one of them
The only thing I remember about this campaign was the robot tearing your arms off and the needlessly complicated ending that I forgot after 2 days
I only remember White Rabbit and making fun of how bad the game was with a friend.
millions of dollars spent on a virtual arm removal
All I remember is train go boom meme
@@nathandts3401 it is not the white forest?
@@mariano98ify White rabbit is the name of the song that plays at at the end part where you're walking and purging. Quite a famous song.
now you gotta play the alternate campaign that has zombies instead of robots. trust me its integral to the story and definitely makes more sense
HA! Good one.
Call of Duty has gotten to the point that for a good few seconds after reading this I was actually about to try and look that shit up lol
@@cainmathewson1857 it's real
nah, zombies after waw and black ops 1 were genuinely wack.
@@CountlessPWNZ pov: you like having a different opinion just to be different
Truly surprised there was no "the dead speak" joke integrated, considering that's the actual plot of the game.
Check the text at the end of the video
I knew I was in for some shit the minute they referred to their special forces teams as "being black ops"
A "black operation" or "black op" is the term for a military operation that isn't meant to b publicized. It's a secret that can never get out for political reasons, if anything goes wrong the government denies that you exist and you're basically on your own. This is why Mason was never rescued from Vorkuta, you were buried the minute you jumped off that plane.
In short, a "black op" is a kind of operation and not an organization of task force, but this is COD where nothing is done correctly or logically so I dunno what I was expecting.
Yeah, like everyone in every military and government was replaced by a literal bad actor and left with all their resources to pretend to do the person's job and then end up in the most amazing, ridiculous situations.
Pretty much avant-garde art like he said. It's hyper-real or something. Weird stuff.
Metal Gear Solid 1 even explains this in the intro cutscene. "This is a top-secret black op, don't expect any official support." You'd think with how influential that game was the devs would know that.
@@NotOnLand They also could've googled "what are black ops" before making Black Ops III.
how are they publicized if you're in a simulation?
+Immolator772
I think you've missed my point. A black op is a type of operation, not a group. The game is calling your character and their group "black ops" as if it's a unit designation, which it's not.
For example, let's say that we're playing a game series called "Electrical Fires" where you play as a firefighter unit specially trained in putting out electrical fires. In Electrical Fires 3, your character is put into a group and they tell them that they're an electrical fire now. Do you see what I mean now?
The BO3 campaign was one of the most convoluted, depressing, and bland experiences I've ever had playing a video game. You can tell a lot of work went into it, but more work doesn't always get you a better game.
the problem really was that it was marketed as a futuristic Cold War, with a sort of augmentations arms race but it wasnt like that at all. The game didnt know if it wanted to be a cyberpunk-ish story of a rouge AI trying to learn about itself or about the cia and black projects like the original Black Ops
@@OlEgSaS32 And they shoehorned everything in and it was terrible. Rumor has it they originally wanted to do an open-world campaign before it was scrapped. Imagine that. 🤢🤮
Apparently this wasn't even meant to be a Black Ops game, but because Black Ops is the best selling of the CoD sub-franchises Activision forced them into changing it. That along with an early version of the campaign getting scrapped lead to the story being so poorly told. It has cool elements but you have to slow down all of scrolling text at the start of each mission and read it to understand the story's plot twist that's never explained otherwise, and without knowing the plot twist you can't notice a lot of the little details that foreshadow it. It's like they finally figured out how they would fit all of the themes together in a story but didn't have time to execute it properly, so they just left the largest plot point hidden in some fucking text you can't realistically be expected to read.
@@icantthinkofagoodusername4464 Not to mention it was supposed to be *open-world* at first.
@@mr.s9783 ngl I would’ve played the shit out of it if it was open world or at least like Infinite Warfare’s campaign
This game is tied in with the other black ops games, it's just very vague. In the Egyptian Train Station mission (I forget the name of the mission), Khalil talks about Raul Menendez being partly responsible as to why the Egyptian defence has lasted as long as it did, or something like that.
There's only 2 references to previous games of Raul Menendez and Nova 6 Gas in the Singapore. That's it, definitely on a level like Black Ops 1 with the mind fuck
@@OpticHamster69 Aye
The actual base concept is tied to it, actually. The entire reason the world is in that state is because aircraft and drones became pointless, since Menendez' fuckery with drones led to countries MAJORLY improving their air security. So all the wars are on foot and that's why there's cyborg soldiers. So it's kind of like showing the after effects of BO2.
That said, the game does fuck all to explain this as you play it and it's such a huge waste of a neat concept.
They actually explain the aftermath of BO2 in the safehouse codex, but the game never tells you it exists.
@Roniixx nobody is really trying, this is just stuff the game talks about in the background that nobody pays attention to.
Really shit storytelling but the base concept is alright, they just wasted it on "hoohoo haha mind games".
Its ok, Oboe. We know you love CoD and replay all the campaigns on a daily basis.
The gritty Psychonauts reboot no one asked for
Yeah they had to soft reboot the series again and they just called it phsyconauts 2
and no one needed
The concept of the campaign was pretty cool, the whole Deus Ex-esque mind/machine narrative. The problem is, it was executed super poorly. I should not have to google what happened.
I think it's in part because it was originally supposed to be open-world game (likely a bit like Human Revolution/Mankind Divided), but got retooled into classic campaign shooter halfway through.
i like how everyone tells it's executed poorly, when most didn't even get the story. It's psychological story for a reason.
i just want a game where i shoot the bad guy and train go boom
I remember they had a weird half assed zombies version of the campaign too that re-contextualized the missions while putting zombies everywhere instead of regular guys
I thought that was a dream dude are you telling me they actually did that?
Nightmare mode
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ending of Black Ops 3
Doesn't make sense at all
AI gains sentience, murders scientists who made it, calls itself Corvus and begins infecting soldiers that link to it (through Taylor who linked with it first). Slowly develops sapience as it passes from soldier to soldier which drives Hendricks insane. It attains full sapience in PC's brain and after the PC kills themselves, Corvus takes over and calls itself Taylor after the soldier who (inadvertently) freed it. Made sense to me.
The 'technology' that mother gives you allowed soldiers to live on after death, which is essentially the save function in any shootem up.
This is why the ceo stand-in npc cannot explain who you are as they have not achieved CHIM. This exec character then gets a gruesome double death punishment for their story crimes, but not before your character is overwhelmed by the revelation of CHIM and commits harrycarry.
The true villain 'ai' is therefore a metaphor for the player who fulfils the supply demand transactions of the AAA Industrial games complex. And also drives this player character towards their doom, shame on you! It is also a backhanded insult to the player, delivered via a pithy plot with tropey twists that you presumably have paid for.
The secret mastermind behind the AI really just wishes you'd play with their lootbox casinos, season pass timeshares and buy the skins/nfts indefinitely so they have to do less animations, voice acting and no writing for a campaign mode. So the corporate avatar was still the realreal villain, but he couldn't understand why.
Or something. White rabbitttttt
@@porkcracklins630 No, player character was dead the whole time and was reliving the memories of Taylor through his DNI.
@@porkcracklins630 The scrolling text at the start of each mission are mission debriefs from Taylor. It describes the mission you're about to play but with Taylor being the protagonist instead of the player character. That along with a lot of subtle hints reveals that your character dies during the tutorial mission and you're reliving Taylor's memories through your DNI that's linked to his during that training simulation. There's actually a load of really cool foreshadowing that hints at the plot twist, like Taylor talking about Kane in the first mission, Kane's bandanna not being on her during moments that didn't really happen that the protagonist's mind is making up, and the frozen forest poem really being something recited to you by a doctor to calm you as you die, but all of it is sort of purposeless when you can't understand these details without knowing the plot twist which is never actually explained in-game.
@@danielo9141 in addition to everything you said, I think the game's also ripping off the Hyperion novels.
This game is literally a fever dream after you died. The games campaign takes place in for some reason someones conscious mind. And you are dead after the events of the first level. So basically its just fever dream the campaign but add some nazis and nazi zombies with a side of futurism and the middle east is at the brink of collapsing and your pretty much good
The "Reznov is dead" twist from the original Black Ops was great because you could actually connect the dots and figure it out yourself. You replay the campaign and start to pick up on clues, like how no one but Alex ever talks to or mentions Reznov.
BO3's "you were dead the whole time" just comes out of nowhere. It had no buildup, no foreshadowing, and it doesn't really explain anything.
@@LuvzToLol21 It's literally an M. Night Shyamalan ending, completely unearned and out of nowhere.
@@LuvzToLol21 well, it had foreshadowing, only that I don't remember as it was... The Reznov twist really have some plot holes, like the years that Mason spent in Vietnam after he "rescue" Reznov, why he didn't interact with him between missions? Did he not speak with him and show explain him to his squad saying something like: "look boys he is the famous Reznov I was speaking about who saved me in Vorkuta" and his squad be like "with who the hell are you speaking you about, Mason?"
@@LuvzToLol21 It kind of had a buildup but it's not one you'd really understand until a second playthrough. In the 2nd mission, where you're getting used to your new abilities in a simulated fight, this is happening while you are undergoing the surgery to get all your cyber buffs. You die mid-operation, and it's at the point where they state that "The simulation breaks down here, but we can go ahead", and you go on the chase with the woman. The implication being that the simulation broke down because you died and had stopped being fed information, but the DNI creates a reality for you.
But the issue is that's only real foreshadowing if you know the simulation is perfect usually, so it breaking down would mean something. For all we know the simulations break down all the time so it's nothing to be worried about.
It tries to make it a lot more blatant later, with obvious hallucinations and stuff, but that's just as easily explained by the DNI being imperfect. It's really hard to make a hallucination plot make sense when you also introduce ACTUAL hallucination creating technology. It's like trying to have a strong death scene in a show where it's established people can fake death or resurrect easily. Makes it really hard to actually know or care if it's a real death or not.
So it's just the movie Repo men but worse in every conceivable way?
4:36 Still a better WW2 level than Vanguard
For a long time I didn't know this game had a campaign because i bought the multiplayer only lol
you bought the ps3 or xbox 360 version xd
It shouldn't even be a black ops series. There's like one single aspect from the previous black ops that translates to this game. And I think it's just the whole "bad guys creating sleeper cell soldiers in the good guy countries " or something
@@alvanegra253 i remember watching videos of how bad it was on xbox 360 lol. Bo3 was genuinely a good cod tho. Multiplayer was solid and zombies was awesome. Last cod I really played
@@theasiancow1860 same, now I just hope I can play the previous ones
@@theasiancow1860 yeah it still really carried the spirit of bo2, just not in the campaign
I heard that the whole campaign after u get ur limbs ripped off in the beginning by that robot is set in your dying mind, so that's something
the saddest thing is that barely anybody understood what the game was about and how it all made sense. I literally had to watch videos back in the day explaining it and while I did understand it, I also understood that they did a poor job bringing it across. From what I understand it goes like this: When the robot rips your arms off and breaks your legs you actually died. They tried to save your life by turning you into a cyborg and having Taylor help your brain get used to it by linking his to yours. It's later explained that when you jack into the other characters shortly before they die their last moments get connected to your memories, i.e. they can live through them. And that is what's happening to you. You're living through Taylor's Memories as your last moments. That also explains why your character is confused, not knowing how they got to the next place or what day/year it is. I think it's a cool Idea for a story, it was just very poorly executed.
Yeah, you can't have a mindfuck story and then never reveal that this is what you were doing
In BO4 they should've explained it, since most COD players don't have the IQ to understand it.
@@Immolator772 Well they can't explain anything if there is no campaign lol
@@TheSlayer. exactly
That scene at the beginning when the mech mutilates the player in first person is fucking brutal. It's so fucked up.
I thought it was hilarious when I played on release. Especially when you try punching it lol
@@BigBoss_670 yeah lol haha sure.
Check out the 'strogification' in Quake 4, lol
@@joehill7916 f-gat wimp. go to your safe space
@@Evolution-Is-A-Blatant-Lie coming from someone with "words kill" on their bio lmao
only thing i played it for was that one mission set in a ww2 section
also nightmares mode thats just campaign but also with zombies
edit: apparently bo3 campaign is set way in the future using bo2's story events as a background. none of the characters are related to the characters from bo1 or bo2 tho lmao
I respect the effort they put into it, I think the story makes sense when explained properly, but the story fails to do that
They wanted to do a Metal Gear Solid 2, but fumbled the ball. The hints are there and it's better executed in Cold War.
Black Ops 3 was by far the best CoD campaign ever for Co-Op. My friend and I were entertained for hours just laughing at how comically bad it was. 😂
It helps that the gameplay actually was fun, too.
You got metal legs Lieutenant Stabler.. Black ops X Forrest Gump X Law and Order... the ultimate crossover.
I played this campaign and remember that it wasnt bad but I have no recollection of what happened and I think that's pretty much explains how good it is.
I remember playing this campaign on hardened and dying 20 times to the metal gear boss thingy. I also remember a zombies campaign that was a bit more fun.
I absolutely lost it at "Train go boom" @ the 1:30 mark. Jeezus, murray, 'n jooohesif, I was not ready to laugh that hard
As a famous person/philosopher once said, ''Train go BOOM!"
This Call of Duty campaign has the best story ever in a call of duty game, it tackles a lot of deep and meaningful shit like the afterlife, and what it means to be alive. But the developers were like, yeh lets give them the story fragmented and they'll figure it out, it will be fine.
I think this campaign is great and genuinely one of the coolest thing cod has done, I feel like people would consider it one of the best if it was a lot easier to understand. I don't think it deserves the hate it gets at all but I can see why people don't want to watch 10 videos explaining the ending lol. Still love the gameplay, abilities, enemies, crazy mission design etc, its very different from the typical "go stop evil russian man" but I get why people dont like it as a cod game or a black ops 2 sequel
@@vale_3k personally if your story is hard to understand it either isn’t a good story, or your presentation was poor, level of confusion doesn’t equal level of quality
It was a very good idea, but poorly executed. I wouldn't call it a great story as a result.
@@tenghiskhan2063 the presentation was terrible, it didn't help that the missions were placed out of chronological order, but also they were all available to play from the start, so people could play in whichever order they wanted. That only added to the confusion.
@@squareroots6003 I wish they did what MGSV did with its ending and have you do an abridged version of the story but with things more clear this time.
that guy's death scream echoing and getting all "90's videogame sound quality" gave me real Street Fighter vibes, I don't know. But Mortal Kombat also works too.
(the guy who gets killed by a tree near the end)
You mean The Doctor? Type 'emergency medical hologram voyager' to a search engine :)
I barely remember the campaign, I remember some of the missions, and a few cool things in the campaign, such as choosing your weapons and outfit... That's it.
The gameplay for the campaign is great IMO, it's just that the story was shoved through a woodchipper and put back together inside out with off brand Elmer's glue
Fun fact, you actually CAN make a grenade launcher in subnautica. If you breed a TON of crashfish in the big alien containment you can shove em into the PRAWN storage, equip the propulsion arm, and freely load and fire them from the cockpit seat at your leisure. They usually 3-hit bone sharks, it’s super satisfying
Fun fact; The game tells you the character you started the game as died... In a jumble of text on a loading screen. So the games main plot of the game is not only on a loading screen, but really hidden in it.
Who green lit this story!?
Black Ops 3 is a massive mindfuck.
i think youre right that nobody else has ever played this campaign because i definitely wouldve heard about it if anyone else knew blops 3 turned into a lars von trier movie
Remember that time people compared Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3?
The campaign had a few bugs, the multiplayer was fun except when you ran into a whole team using the camping specialist, zombies was probably the best in recent years compared to what came after it. Now the game is filled with hackers
Seeing you use Modern Weapons in WW2 just convinces me that some Dev heard of "Darkest of Days" and was like, "Let's use that idea!"
I played this with my uncle, who’s already played through it, so he skipped the cutscenes and I had no clue what was happening.
Black ops 3 story in a nutshell:
You were killed by robots and the rest of the campaign is a hallucination of a dying person (you) that slowly devolves into a fever dream
Me irl
'I don't think a single person in the entire world has ever played this (Black Ops 3) Campaign.'
Well I did, and I wished I didn't.
Funny enough is that it’s meant to be a legit sequel, as they reference the Cordis Die from BO2 and their uprising. This is supposedly set after that ending.
Hey, the hand cutting off laser thing can also be used for feet.
What urks me most about the black ops 3 campaign is not how convoluted it was, but the fact that before release they had the football player marshawn lynch promoting the game and how he was featured in the story mode.
Yet in the actual game he was only featured in one level and he was just a background character like WTF?!
Ah yes, the campaign that was so convoluted you needed to read the tie in graphic novel to make any sense of it.
Most confusing COD campaign of all time. Best Zombies though
Wow watching an Oboeshoes video and getting a notification of a new Oboeshoes video is like an Oboeshoes overload, or an Oboe-load if you will.
Oboe-load me up, soldier.
Rip Spencer this was your favorite COD. I miss you man I miss you a lot
Overall this game was alright, the zombies was really good, the multiplayer was decent, and the campaign was awful.
The ost was good in my opinion
The campaign was probably the worst of all CoDs (still played it twice, one of those times in coop on the abslute cock and ball torture that is realism difficulty), but I spent way more time than I'd like to admit in the MP and still do so occasionally.
Bo3 was the golden age for Zombies.
@@chrisiooo vanguard:
@@strikefg Tbf, I've only seen videos of Vanguards campaign but seems to be better thwn BO3
I owned this game, hell I owned a blops 3 edition ps4, but I don't remember this campaign at all, must've never played it. No regrets there.
I didn't hate the campaign, honestly. It was fun enough in co-op, just kind of meh. There were way too many cutscenes, though. Seriously, it really hits you just how much of the game is cutscenes when you play the alternate zombies campaign.
I played the BO3 campaign like 5 times and I still don’t know wtf was going on in that game.
I played it and realized that I needed to play it a second, this time paying attention. And then I played it 3 times just to make sure I understood everything
I like how he incorrectly stated Treyarch didn't want to make more campaigns and activision went "No you don't have to." When Treyarch WANTED to make a campaign for BO4 and ACTIVISION went "No. Just make profit."
I ironicly liked this campaign mainly because you had like some consistent mechanics like funny fireflies that burned people alive
I actually played this game for the campaign. So I owned a Xbox 360 (no internet) and pre order it from GameStop. When it came out it didn’t have a campaign (for last gen consoles). So I canceled the game. So I got a PS4 and then I could play the game. After playing the campaign multiple times and after beating it the only thing I comprehend from the story was “train go boom”.
I played the campaign and I always wondered “why does this feel like multiplayer” cause the UI
I remember playing this a few year after it came out, and boy was I glad I waited for it to by 15$ at gamestop lol
1:20 - 1:31
That's it. That's the perfect summary of Black Ops III.
Was this the one where you’re supposed to play the campaign backwards? That’s why you can play any level from the start.
The "ember" trailer made this game seem way cooler than it actually was. The idea of mankind messing with their genetic biology with cybernetics, slowly becoming a shell of their former humanity is a common trope, but a fun one nonetheless. We got none of that at all here.
This is one of the few CoD campaigns I actually played to completion (mostly because I hated the mp) and I gotta say it wasn’t worth the $0 it cost to steal it. I ended up giving it to my brother who ended up loving the mp for some reason I’ll never understand. Made me not trust him when MW2019 came out and he said CoD was good again.
"I shot up an airport and got BONUS POINTS."
~Badjur, 2015
“Outcome?
Train go boom”
I quoted that for monthes lol
Play the nightmare campaign at least, it's the se cutscenes and story but really out of order with bad adr it's hilarious and better than the actual campaign
I like how the robot was designed to commit war-crimes with an intimate knowledge of the human body.
This might be the first of the Black Ops campaigns I played. I thought I owned Back Ops II but I couldn't find it when going through my PS3 games recently, and I just got Back Ops I, but I might have Black Ops II boxed up somewhere because at one point I thought I was going to have to move last year, and boxed most of my games up. I unpacked most of them but I'm sure there are a few I haven't found yet.
This is the only cod campaign that I never finished😂
6:12 reminds me of Rhys destroying handsome jack in tales from the borderlands
Love you Oboe, comment for the algorithm to give me back my kids
when you gotta make a new call of duty yesterday, but all you've got on your desk is a Titanfall disk and a copy of William Gibson's "Neuromancer" with half the pages missing.
I remember renting this game from redbox and it being my first cod campaign. I remember enjoying it and thinking it had some cool visuals
I only understand one thing about this game "Train Go Boom"
The NRC? The Nuclear Regulatory Committee? What a weird enemy faction
how did you not put in TRAIN GO BOOM at full volume that line made that game great
This was one of the Call of Duty campaigns ever made.
I literally walked away from my computer to get some juice and all of a sudden Dr Manhattans in this game? 4:36
Crazy how I never touched the campaign of this game and never had a second thought
the campaign of all time, the game is played, the people speak, the people are killed, truly one of the most games
"Robot Beats your guy to beat, the end."
The funny thing is: That's the actual plot of Black Ops 3.
No seriously.
“What’s your name, soldier?”
“Taylor Skywalker”
he actually said society lol
On steam I'm missing the last achievement for realistic campaign it was such a pain mentally and physically
Use camo cyber ability, all primary attachment wildcards, use the Drakon with thermal sights, FMJ, Suppressor, Rapid Fire, Extended Mags, Fast Mags. Secondary war machine (for ASP tanks or mobs), EMP grenades, any lethals, Emergency Reserve and Repulsor Armor tac-rigs. Abuse your special cyber vision to see and shoot enemies through walls with FMJ. Abuse thermals to shoot people's ankles and shoulders while they are in cover. If you're level 20 (you should be), you can switch to the remote control hack ability and use that to clear out entire rooms of enemies with talons, sentry guns, or the little rocket tanks.
Use loadout crates to refresh your Emergency Reserve after going down. The hardest mission in the game is going to be either the first one because you don't have the special vision yet and the last holdout can be a bitch, or the one where you swim underwater forever and die to a glancing blow from the depth charges. If you're having trouble with the flying drone boss with the 4 engines, know you can snipe the engines through gaps in the roof with your sniper. Takes a mag but it kills the engine, you don't need explosives.
And the mission where you have to run out into the firing line and plant the explosive spikes looks scarier than it actually is. The enemies infinitely respawn so just clear a couple, camo, sprint the spot and plant the spike, back away and blow it to cover the retreat, then lay in cover till camo comes back. During the holdout after the jet flying set piece, learn the spawns and abuse camo to shoot enemies without them firing back. You don't need to kill them all, just enough that the hack goes through and gets you a checkpoint. Warlords (tanky robots that hipfire LMGs and walk at you) are pretty easy to melt with headshots. I imagine EMP or any control hacks work well too.
I just platinumed it the other day because I apparently got it free on PS5.
I played the campaign, I forgot about it after beating it.
I still remember being hella angry after I completed the campaign. I was like “what is the frozen forest”!?!?!
My favourite part was Corvus T-posing after killing Kruger
I have played the campaign, almost the entire campaign. Let's say there were definitely some parts where it was trying to force you get friends to play with.
I played the campaign and the only things i remember are that i didn't understand the end cutscene,that the part with the zombies was the least boring part and that some enemies did have way to many HP.
You literally just play 1 mission. The rest is reliving Taylor's memories and more existential dread.
*chuckles in bought this game for just zombies*
The twist is that you actually died after the first mission and that they synced you up with Taylor to put you in a coma dream thing while they try to revive but it didn't work.
It's basically one big death throe.
The only reason I remember this game is because Taylor was a main character in Law and Order SVU.
Train go boom is literally the only memorable part of this
Played this a few weeks ago after seeing your other COD videos and man did I make a horrible decision
I’m kinda surprised you didn’t throw in the zombie level from the campaign
He doesn't like it when the dead speak
Day 567 of trying to get Oboe to do a Skyrim Sigurd RP
“Out of all the CODs, this is one of them” as someone who has never played cod and only knows about it through absorbing it from internet culture, this is exactly the conclusion I came to, it’s just, one of them
You're not the only one, I'm currently playing the campaign. However, I only want to finish in order to re-play the maps with zombies ;o)
Ops 3 was my introduction to BO, I only ever played the first Modern Warfare before it. It sucked, but the secrets and the little hub area was neat.
Campaign coop is always a blast me and some friends had a blast playing this
I immediately thought Doctor Manhattan as soon as I saw that blue guy flying lmao
All I remember is train go boom.
as one of the few people who 100% this campaign, but i still don't know why the bad guys are bad or what the hell the ending means
THERE GOES QUADRINAROS POWER COUPLING
I see you, oboe....