Call of Duty doesn't need you
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Call of Duty was one of the most beloved and controversial video game series of all time. It saw peaks that some franchises would only dream of and became a cultural phenomenon. So why does it feel like new Call of Duty’s are unable to recapture that magic? The answer isn’t just Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM) but is something that’s been brewing for a very long time.
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I can't believe the love this video is getting. I put so much time and effort into scripting, recording, and editing. I'm so thankful you all have enjoyed and connected with it. There are definitely more to come like this one. Thanks guys
Hard work pays off
Brother we love good content I’m trying to work on mine as well
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Awesome job 👍
@@jommunicator Well man, someone has to say what no one is saying. Its an extremely underrated truth that everyone is blind. "You take a mortal and put him in control. What him become a god" someone humble and reasonable not blinded by money has to say what is right and the title it self was a pin point accurate.
playing cod feels like being in a toxic relationship
“Maybe it’ll be different this time” 😞
When she good to you, she is good to you.
Just can’t stop going back
Feels like a toxic relationship that didn't start that way, that's what makes it so heartbreaking
Destiny 2 beats this by a mile.
Honestly you summarised a plethora of problems that has made cod a crappy franchise.
-Too concerned about monetisation
-Incomplete release
-Exploting meta (for profit)
-EOMM and SBMM
They're a company, of course they want monetization. You don't fucking work for free, neither do they.
@@spankyjeffro5320 the problem isn't monetization, but how they monetize it
@@spankyjeffro5320That thinking is the problem. Instead of them monetizing little 15 dollar map packs and that content being worth it is completely different than pay to win weapons in an already 70 dollar game.
@@spankyjeffro5320bootlicker.
"I think it was the worst thing to happen in 2019 and I got cancer in 2019" is one of the hardest disses ever.
So outta left field aswell lol
Not really cod put out way worse games b4 2019.....you children know nothing about cod
@ronjones3977 The first cod i played was BO1, but continue your rambling old man
@@ronjones3977 lmao. Children. I havent even played 2019, i last played black ops 4, started with WAW, and then nothing untill bo6 beta just now. People can have opinions and thats okey. I just thougth his comment was funny.
@@jildar who tf was talking to you ??? You know your name would have an@ next to my comment if I was replying to you dummy😅.....I was talking to the op
I feel super lucky to have been a young teenager during the OG golden days of COD 2007-2012. Some of the greatest times growing up and still some of my fondest memories. Cant believe I’m 30 next year, time has gone unbelievably quick. To all my fellow OG COD boys I hope you are all happy and content in your lives. I’ll never forget the amazing times we had back then 🫡
great video just love it, black ops 6 is going to be the worst cancer cod yet
You're writing bullshit. Most iconic call of duty games were: Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive and Call of Duty 2
@@kljukusa1 Well you’re clearly delusional
@@kljukusa1 PAHAHAHAHA ur just so wrong
Just hit 30 last month, I feel this on another level. 2007-2012 RIP the Golden Age we got to experience but didn’t know how good we had it 🫡
"WaW is a horror game."
Yes, the horror of having 5 grenades spontaneously appear at your feet when you try to recover from getting shot. Truly, horror.
Man, veteran mode. Awesome.
Not all horror is an existential dread or jumpscares. But getting slammed by 70 grenades in WaW certainly qualifies as both.
@@3ofSpadesbest part is the grenades actually just spawn in if you’re stationary for too long, regardless if there’s actually any enemies around
@@gengarclefairy3475 i swear i can only ever see one guy actually throwing the grenade and then i see like 4 grenade indicators appear
@@AleK0451there in the raptures and the trees my guy 😂 low key miss that shit though, 3 am zombie matches wit big bro, screaming at the mic on multiplayer 😭😂
5:14 COD trash talk massively desensitised me to verbal abuse .. ..
It hardened you into a person who won't cry and complain because someone spoke a few words. We need more people like that in today's world
If you could survive a COD verbal assault, you're practically bulletproof.
The saddest part about the cod falloff (and gaming in general) is that the studios know how to make an amazing cod, but they don’t because there’s no need to. All they care for is maximising profit and player retention. It’s like enjoyment is being gatekept by corporate greed. Seeing some of my favourite gaming franchises turn to shit is so upsetting
Agreed
This is why I moved on to games that actually care
They wouldn’t retain players or make money if what they were making wasn’t fun though. Just cuz it’s not a mirror image of what we grew up on doesn’t mean it’s not fun or good. Y’all gotta get of the nostalgia train and try to just enjoy things for what they are and not what you want it to be
It's more the players fault then Activision they keep on buying it saying it sucks and playing it anyways
I have a vivid image of Pete Parsons (Bungie CEO) and his $2000000 car collection after removing 1/3 of his employees while reading that
MW3 was underrated, it wasn't super innovative but it had loads of guns and most were pretty viable or had a niche, the gun level system was good, specialist and support killstreaks were nice too. It was one of if not the last cods to have more than 2 multiplayer factions with different voiceovers and music themes as well
And new/fun game modes too
Agreed. I think it mostly suffered from it being not different enough from MW2. People expected much more innovation and change than we received. After MW3 we learned to temper our expectations from the franchise.
Calling in EMPs every minute was a blast for me and my friends. (Fuck your killstreaks) 😂
I loved it
also cant forget how great of an ending was in the campaign.... just felt like perfect closure for og mw1+2... it doesnt matter that it wasnt too different bc it was still a continuation of those games...
I'm about to be 31 and I don't ever think I'll get that same dopamine hit that COD4/MW2/BO2 gave me ever again. If you need me tho, I'll still be chasing that dragon.
I get the reference lol. People bash us for having rose tinted glasses but that's not the case given they are bootlickers and fanboys of this God forsaken movement system and mechanics. CoD is dead and kept alive by low IQ creatures.
Delta Force Hawk Ops looks promising
I am a 31 y/o too and its been painful to see every single franchise that I have loved since a child slowly become terrible. I think only GTA has managed to stay fresh and engaging, but even then profits rule with online being prioritized over innovative and creative DLC
Fellow soon to be 31 year old here, only shooters I play now are tactical shooters (even though I don't like them) and halo MCC, everything else bores me to death.
Only content addicts buy cod now
WaW is criminally underrated. There was just WW2 fatigue at that point. Good campign, great multiplayer, and the introduction of zombies. Unfortunatly most people didn't expierence zombies until BO1.
One thing I wanna add is that its not just because its "Not for the old players" but corporate greed ultimately making cod less popular and worse. The cod you miss and remember really was the golden age of cod.
I agree with your sentiment, but corporate greed and cod being less popular does not go hand in hand. Cod is as popular as ever. Warzone numbers caused Activision to go this direction.
@@1openborderyeah in reality, its not bout the "current active users playing" as numbers, but "how much revenue we are getting" the way they are basing how cod is done these days. Is not fun anymore. And popular... bc they can still promote those cods with the omega whales who keep paying every new skin they add in the store.
Warzone numbers are only high cuz of the Indian/Chinese market. This isn’t to discount those people but the majority of them never cared for the original games and don’t have passion for what cod used to be. They only play warzone because it’s free and they’re poor
@1openborder You have to add in the contracts some streamers sign to push certain games.
Unfortunately corporate greed is the natural reaction under capitalism. Until workers own the means of production like socialism proposes, profit for the individual capitalist will always be the white whale of the western world.
Nothing hurts worse than seeing our fellow COD veterans lose faith in COD. I, myself, still play it (despite me also seeing its downward decline since the 2007-2013 era) and every year i keep regretting hashing out the money to play a lackluster game that i wont enjoy, thinking its gonna be better this time.
why do you keep wasting money by giving it to someone who hates your guts lmaooo
Idk but youre the part of the problem...still giving them money. Do you buy skins also?
We lost faith in COD because there is nothing left to have faith in. It is a cash shop that happens to have a half-baked game in it. Call of Duty is dead to me.
why play it if u dont enjoy it, i still have fun playin even if it isnt as good
Yep. I still play a little COD, and have been since original MW3, but most of my friends aren’t interested in COD at all and won’t play it lol the games just aren’t as good anymore. Sometimes less is more
This video was way too high in quality to have 134 views. You've really got something here dude! Keep up the good work
It's only been one day
That's crazy bro I dare you to peel your skin off
@HotMochaCake peeling it off layer by layer like an onion as we speak 🫡
@@HotMochaCakebet
And to have only 425 subs? I’ll be your 426th nice video bro!💯
I think I'm one of the last “8 year olds” from the OG era. I’m in my last year of college, and as both a former COD and Halo fan, it truly depresses me how these franchises have been desecrated. I’m glad you went to the effort of giving people like us a voice on this matter, great video!
I’m on that same boat of 8 year olds starting from WAW
Its just so annoying knowing most of the fanbase has never even played the original games
Sick of the fanbase now defending all the server crashes and victim blaming, telling people to restart their game or reinstall drivers..
Well, of course you potato fanboy, of course I've tried everything before wasting my time listening to your empty replies lol.
The other thing that bothers me is all the stupid skins 😂😂😂
OG Halo Player: First time?
@@LuffyTheLabrador at least MCC makes them easily accessible on modern consoles, idk if cod will ever remaster or remake the original games
Call of duty 2 was the best, color custom names and no custom classes or bs
@@Supersonicspyro bro i have been saying for ages, seriously. why is there no cod equivalent of mcc? it drives me nuts
COD Then: "It's always the same and lazy"
COD Now: "Bring back old cod without sbmm, eomm, and ai generated maps"
~sigh :c
BABE WAKE UP JULIAN FINALLY RELEASED HIS MAGNUM OPUS
Until his next one, obviously
Idk if I would’ve dropped this video without your continued support and nice comments over time so thank you!
@@jommunicator this is too wholesome for its own good guys
@@jommunicator It's been 6 days and this video is your big break man congrats!!!! So many more people in this community it's awesome to see!!
@@illegalwaffleSlurp, slurp, suck, suck, lick, lick😂
I saved up my supply drops in advanced warfare for the WHOLE life cycle of the game. About a month before the next cod was going to release I used them all and got literally nothing.
Watched this hungover, took me on a ride through my whole childhood ❤ hella good quality!
Real. Glad you enjoyed!
I wouldn't be able to handle the emotional callbacks while hungover.
29:37 now you understand why your grandparents say the old days were better 😢✌🏻🫶🏻
Man, I cried at the end of the video….. I remembered back in the day when I was 11/12/13 playing bo1 mw3 and bo2. I had no friends, but at home on my 360 I met the best friends I ever had and today I’m so sad that I skipped the Xbox one and can’t even find those guys anymore. It’s just sad, it’s brutal. I’m getting old..
What a p****
Honestly I understand the mentality of why COD is trending this way. What breaks my heart is how they abandon the old CODS and leave them unplayable. AND completely KILL any efforts to crowd source our own attempts to revive it. Cold War was my final COD too.
cod would've never trended the way it did if the idea of making more money strictly involved making games to improve the sales numbers and popularity. They can make more money than they ever did now without making a better game or leaping heavily based off game sales
didn’t even realize this came from a small channel, loved this high quality video essay
Did this guy just make the best call of duty TH-cam video of 2024? Yeah let me just hit that subscribe button.
“And I got cancer in 2019.” 22:40 Subbed that moment
Same
Here from your reddit post, great job bro!
super happy youtube is pushing smaller channels now :3 bump bump bump bumpbump bump bump
Agreed alot of videos recommended to me recently have been from small channels I didn't notice until I checked alot of them had less than 1k subs
TH-cam algorithm being good and useful for once. I wish they'd fix the search function too
@@PristianoPenaldoSUIIIINormal Boots' latest implosion created a vacuum that lifted the veil from the smaller creators that had been buried for years.
calling ghosts streaks bad is criminal, map specific killstreaks went unbelievably hard, i would kill for this level of creativity in a modern cod game
Exactly, especially playing as the Predator. The guy has no idea what hes talking about
28:20 - 29:16 man that message hit home. I was 19 during the MW 2 era; 33 now. Full time employee, father, gym rat etc. The part where you said "our era might be over, but there are ways to keep the spirit alive," that hit home. I sometimes feel like an old head watching and reminiscing over older COD clips of 2009. What a time that was. Where it was straight up dumb fun, and everyone was playing. Nowadays I feel displaced, and I rarely connect with people anymore. I'm glad you captured the essence of the "jaded-ness" that most of us feel. Happy to hear that I'm not alone and that there are others that share the same sentiments. Bittersweet for sure. Anywho, loved this video! Absolutely top tier.
spot on dude
Memories of a generation.
Holy shit. This is probably one of the most profound, heartfelt, genuinely meaningful videos on the call of duty franchise I've ever seen. You put into words what I've felt about newer cods so precisely. I really hope you get the sucess you deserve from this video, man. Keep it up, and keep bringing joy to people who may have forgotten what it was ❤
Trashing 2011 MW3 is a crime
let's not pretend mw3 didn't get backlash over at launch, it was literally a mw2 dlc.
@@arish_xoyeah but he didn’t really do a good job properly explaining it since he didn’t know enough about it.
COD culture was very much alive during Mw3 and a lot of Snipers would also call it their favorite. Not mentioning that is wack, but then again he said he didn’t even play it
@@nicrudiger961 the irony that it's their favourite when it's the exact same thing that MW2 did, this didn't variate enough from MW2 as people led you to believe they're just nostalgic about reliving those good old days.
@@arish_xo I mean I was very actively playing cod from MW to BO2 and I remember it pretty well. Sniping clans, montages, TH-camrs like KYR SP33DY and Faze Jev all came up during MW3. Say what you want about it not being different enough for you. There was more cool stuff to it that wasn’t mentioned. MW3 wasn’t even my fav, but that part of the vid seems super out-of-touch
Makes a grown man cry 😭
See I’m gen Z and I have to say socializing now a days is hard because I only use to connect through BO2 from zombies to multiplayer and I really I hope this comes back soon but who knows who will bring back.
Hey bro, wanna play bo2 zombies with me?
@@worldnightmare4048 are you on xbox?
awwwe :
I am gen z too, socializing was hard for me and gaming was my escape. Nowadays, its hard to find friends, people who are actually really nice or people that actually are looking for friends. Maybe, or it could just be that I lack social skills and suck at making connections. ;~;
Trust me as a gen z, socialising is annoying but I don't mind talking to you. It may be hard to find friends but don't give up hope.
COD Ghost was honestly a good game. It's major flaw was that it was trying to bring in the Battlefield fans. As someone who played both franchises, they had their special place amongst their respective fields so when Ghost added the features that altered the map, it was a clear attempt at mimicking the what BF was laying out. COD did not need that and that's why Ghost failed mainly. The larger maps were only a problem because there weren't enough players to take up the space, that is it. Ghost received unnecessary hate because of those two factors and that it came out right after BO2. AW was a solid game all around except for the microtransactions that were virtually gambling. Character customization is something that COD needs now, most of us do not care about buying a skin when just 10 years ago, I could make my own character.
CODMW2 (2009) to me was the true peak of COD. BO series did not scratch the itch that MW2 had scratched for years. I played MW2 until some life changes happened and didn't play games for a while. I know I am gonna catch some hate from some dudes that wanna cry about noobtubes and one-man army, but the community behind that MW2 grew a respective understanding that if no one used them, then we were good. If someone did end up using tubes, then the entire lobby was using them. The problem with COD games now, is that there are a group of blue haired lesbians developing these games and think that a rated R game needs to be nice and inviting; Representing every aspect of someone identity rather than just making me a faceless soldier in the good fight.
Prestige use to show off how far you've come along. Calling cards use to show-off what you've accomplished and so did Emblems. Now everything is just meh...The soul is stolen from the game. Everyone wants to be a sweat-lord streamer besides just a guy that got off his 9-5 and just wants to have a fun few rounds.
Julian, great video all in all, you've captured the essence of the COD fatigue almost perfectly. COD and many other games, need to get away from coddling those aren't the main consumer of their products, stop caring about the shareholders, and get back to the days where event like No-Russian pushed boundaries in the gaming sphere. Get back to where dudes making doom in their garage, and ladies wanted to chain saw a monster in half.
The biggest issue with COD is that it's a Brand name. Like McDonald's, or Walmart. It's nice when you actually want/need it but most of the time you don't and in reality it is really, really shitty.
This also means that people will flock to it no matter how bad, because they lack critical thinking skills. Brand loyalty is the stupidest thing you can do not only as a gamer, but as a consumer. If the game is shit, don't buy it because 'muh brand.' This has been a massive issue in the United States and has seeped into video games, with Valve being one of the only Triple A devs left that can actually produce a good game.
I like mw2023, I just dont play games I dont like. Like Blackops 5, also known as Cold War. I didn't like it at all so I didn't play it no more. i didn't like mw2022 either, so I didnt play it more. I dont think ppl play games they dont like, do they? Whats the point then?
And indie developers. And other privately-owned game companies.
@@xploitcatbecause when all your friends ONLY play warzone, what other choice do you have? Please go find me a game that's cross platform, that's got a big player base and it isn't an FPS game.
The problem like other say, brand loyalty and people lacking critical thinking is the problem
The CoD cycle: A new game is announced, mild hype comes along, people trash-talk it online, the game is released, and TH-camrs say how bad/good it is. Rinse and repeat like clockwork
Don't diss on walmart.
Man WW2 was so good minus the SBMM
You should honestly keep making video essays following this format. Amazing quality video, with informative and anecdotal information. You’re very well spoken, not too formal, and captivating. This is what people like, and you nailed it
I definitely will.
I dont want to be a nerd here, but CoD 4 had the first replay/theatermode
When you started talking about bo2 man it make me almost tear up all little. I love that everyone had the same experience with that game. It was just so much fun no matter what you wanted to do.
I like that game too, but people really seem to want to forget how divisive it was at launch along with MW3.
@Horgler I was 12 when bo2 came out, so I honestly ONLY remember good things about that game
@@FishermanKyle Newgen
For an old head in his early 30s to watch, that was beautiful man
I was so hyped for cold war because it felt like black ops 1 in the trailers and it was coming with zombies. When I played it, it felt like a game trying to mimic what cod does without doing it right, *especially* the zombies. It didn't feel like Call of Duty Zombies. It felt like a game studio wanted to cash in on Call of Duty Zombies, but weren't allowed to make the game too similar or else they would get sued, so they made it mate with Left 4 Dead 2 to create an abhorrent abomination that it became.
The problem is that it was also made with the same engine as MW 2019, so it felt like MW 2019, but set during the Cold War
@@bulgarianreaper6587 TL;DR: Engine this, engine that, the engine doesn't matter... It's what the people program into the game that makes the difference.
Better game engines improve graphics qualities and development processes. Perhaps instead of writing in Assembly or C like in Id Tech 2, you can now use C++ in Unreal Engine's case or perhaps C# in Unity's case, and perhaps you have better support for model files. However, say you're moving from Source to Source 2; they're both using C++, and therefore, you can import the movement mechanic code from CS:GO straight to CS2 if you so desired (but would probably still tweak it in an attempt to improve it anyways). That code written in C++ will always work, regardless of the engine you use, so long as it supports the programming language and doesn't rely on missing libraries.
A game engine impacts performance and visuals. Old engines have old rendering tricks. Modern engines have modern rendering tricks. New engines have new rendering tricks.
The game you want to *make* will decide the engine you *use.* I won't use Source if I want to build a procedurally generating world as large as Rust or Minecraft; it is literally impossible due to how the engine compiles the map.
Speaking of source, an antiquated engine from 2003, it's a nightmare to develop for it. How people make great games in it, I will never know. It's wonderful that Valve will be releasing Source 2. Imagine you wanted to import a model you made in Maya to your new game. If you are using the Unreal Engine, you save the model as a .fbx, you import the model you just saved into unreal engine, you drag your texture into unreal engine, and you're done. Say you wanted to do that in Source.
First you need to save the model as a .obj file
You import that file into Blender
You fix that model in case it has weird import bugs
You build a collision model for your existing model
You shade your collision model smooth
You download a third party addon for Blender called Source Export SMD
You export your model as a Source Export SMD
You take your texture, uv maps, whatever, and you put the .smd file, the textures, and whatever into its own folder
You OPEN A NOTEPAD DOCUMENT
You write a .qc file to specify your .smd file, your collision information file, and your texture files, etc etc MANUALLY
You download Crowbar, another third party application created to make this process easier
Compile the model using the .qc file using Crowbar
Proceed to create a vtf file for the actual texture to show up
Import that texture into hammer
and *pray* you didn't mess something up along the way
for every. single. model.
That's the appeal of modern game engines, and is likely what Call of Duty upgraded to; you can just drag and drop most things as modern engines cater to the ease of use, so building the game and making it look pretty is easier.
Of course, the engine might be horrifically optimized and perform poorly, but so long as performance is good, the game can be good.
What matters most in a game is how your player moves, how you interact with your environment, how your equipment sounds and feels, how powerful your character is, how impactful the game feels, the balance of the equipment found in the game, whether the game is a challenge and whether that challenge is fun or unfair.
If Activision gave me a giant team with the modern Call of Duty engine, I would build a Black Ops 1 remaster with all of the original movement and code, and simply renovate the visuals, and it would be perfect. No change the music, make the sound samples sound higher quality, and touch nothing but improve the texture quality and model detail on all of the materials in the game.
@@bulgarianreaper6587but without the cool gun building. They gotta stop listening to the new fans, guns system was great. It was the grind that was the problem, paired with SBMm to make that grind harder.
@@bulgarianreaper6587it actually wasnt made on the 2019 engine. after cold war, though, they started capitalising on it all the time which makes the newer games feel even more like the same.
Modern warfare 3 is so underrated when I see videos like this people say it literally was Modern warfare 2 but worse but they literally added a lot of innovations that no one even talks about. They just act like it was a copy and paste
7:51 titanfall 2 is still the greatest movement shooter of all time
Titanfall never got enough love.
Agreed
@@jommunicatoryou sir have earned a sub anyone who can appreciate the greatness of titanfall is a true fps fan.
I think Half-Life 1 and Quake are better but TF2 is fun
Brought back some memories of those older ones. Thank you. Played COD from MW2 2009 all the way to Cold War. Until after reloading MW2019 in preparation for the next MWII 2022 I played one game of it and was falsely perma-banned for supposedly cheating, I wasn't. No way to fight it, every COD game I loaded after that was immediately perma-banned. 54 weeks later, over a year, I got a message from Steam stating that they'd been contacted by COD Dev Team to reverse an 'incorrectly applied perma-ban'. I wasn't contacted by COD, wasn't contacted by Activision, the only reason I know it was reversed was a message notification from Steam stating it had been reversed at the request of COD Dev Team. Loaded into COD account. No record of the ban ever occurring, they'd wiped it clean. No apology. Not nothing from COD or Activision. I've sworn I'll never pay for an Activision or COD game again. But whenever the new ones come out, it's hard. Hard not to jump back in.
Nothing will ever compare to coming home from school and hopping on mw2/blops/blops2 with the boys.
One other thing that made old school cod special to me was the fact there was such a casual feel to it all, like sure we could sweat and tryhard if we wanted to, but if we just wanted to sit back and have some fun it was fully possible, like i vividly remember playing custom games in private matches back in the day like we would play hide and seek, can never forget having to try so hard to hold in a laugh when someone got too close to me... i miss those times, and i miss the way the old cod community felt, as you said in the video it was rare to join a old mw2 lobby with no one talking, even though i was a squeaker back then i still was happy to load it up and join in with the trash talking (even if it got me in trouble a few times if my mom heard me lol), but nowadays gaming in general has gone quiet, everyone is either in discord or party chats, or just dont have a mic plugged in or set it to push to talk and never push to talk... ever.
Man that “in the distant future” then showing 2025 hit different
22:40 nah you're the goat for that lmao subbed
I had the same thought process😭 subbed
Cod used to force you into game chat to play certain modes. Think this changed around ghosts. Probably why the lobbies are much different today
this video about to blow up hopefully bro. 🎉❤
The last few minutes of this video hit me in the feels man. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the 2014-2015 era of coming home from school, hopping on BO2 or Minecraft and having fun with friends. No stress, no sweaty gameplay... just pure fun and joy.
I haven’t bought COD games since Black Ops 3. Having played the Black Ops 6 beta recently, it’s nuts how everyone plays so sweaty with these crazy movements. It’s like everyone is high on adrenaline. Not fun for me to constantly sweat just because i need to be on an even level with wannabe e-sport players. I miss older COD games where mechanics are simple and movement is not super fast like it is now.
Bo3 was way more sweaty than bo6 lmao
It’s not everyone, it’s the SBMm that’s doing that.
@@euphka7687That’s just your SBMm bubble anecdote.
@@bannedmann4469 i had a 3ish kd before being false banned so if anything my sbmm should be way more sweaty then this dude lol
How is being able to easily adapt = being sweaty. I might as well call an experienced programmer a sweat because I can't code at his level. It's like you casuals aren't great at critically thinking.
I stopped playing cod after mw3 and moved over to Battlefield, but man, that last statement about how the games aren't really made for us anymore hit hard. Nothing today really hits like they used to, and I never really realized I've been holding everything to that standard of the golden years. Awesome video though, nearly made me cry there for a min
Same. Until DICE told me not to buy their games anymore and I came back. Unlike my ex wife, COD took me back so I guess there's that...
5:26 you can literally hear that that "yum yum yum yum" comes truly from the soul. Its a classic.
2:05 “until I got my hands on a controller that was actually plugged in” 😂 also I think people hate on Inf warfare too much. Have you PLAYED zombies in spaceland? Chef’s kiss.
Zombies in spaceland and even the campaign imo were underated i really think its due to the communities fatigue with futuristic games back tk back
“They want you to play the newest most monetizable game” I had never thought about it like that
Playing CoD MW2 2009 up until 2014 on the 360 was one of the best times of my life. Not just for gaming, but in my life. that still to this day has been the peak of online gaming for me.
Mw3(2011) slander is insane.
That’s what I’m saying. Definitely a top 3 cod imo. Maybe top 4 depending on where I rank black ops
I remember not liking it when it came out. The campaign's clearly not as good as in MW2. But when I replayed it, I appreciated it more since I could compare it to what studios pass off as campaigns these days (if they even have one).
sure it felt the same as mw2 and previous cods but it perfected the formula. its mw2 without noob tube
and deserved.
@@maxim6993 mw2 with rebalanced and no infinite grenades
22:03 that has to be one of the funniest COD clips i have ever seen lmao
6:50 Kobe 😭😭😭😭
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16:55 brah 💀
Those who don't know 😃
Those who know 😳😬
The Bridge Incident
I was thinking the same thing 😂
Oh no... PEWDIEPIE DONT SAY IT
“WHAT A F-CKING N-“
I used to be angry when COD did something I didn't like such as lootboxes or pay 2 win guns...
Now I just don't care what COD does. I haven't played a COD since 2021.
To be honest, the only reason I clicked on this video is because I am at work and need something to pass the time. Great video though!
2:35 I instantly knew which comment you were referencing
This video was really good man. Im 22 now and when i was a little kid would watch my older brother play call of duty 4 and he got me into it. When mw3 was coming out i turned like 9 or 10 and finally got an xbox and xbox live for my self. I have played tons of multiplayer on cod 4, WaW, MW2, MW3, BO1 and BO2. That was the golden age. I had a good time on advanced warfare and a lot of fun on black ops 3 as well from the movement and skill gap it added and aswell as zombies was at its best in black ops 3. After that i felt it was changing like you said and each year it was releasing with less content and it felt like the games were decreasing in quality. You are completely right about mw2019 being a big changing point in how the games are now. This video made me really miss the old days of gaming. It wasnt even just cod i feel. Alot of games were in their peak back in the day and now its as much it feels like. Great video again though man
bo2 will forever be the PEAK of cod. no game can EVER compare.
I agree
No it definitely isnt lol
Not the peak of cod at all. In terms of amount of players and being top in culture I'd say bo1. The best cod is cod4.
Mw2 is the peak of cod, if your old enough to have played, the community was booming
I have played every COD since 2006. BO2 was the best by far. MW2 is in the conversation for top 5 along with COD4, BO1 and MW3.
MW2 was an excellent game but BO2 was the complete package. Campaign, Multiplayer, Zombies, peak League Play and MLG competitive play yet still casual fun playstyles for Ninja Defusers, Knifers, Snipers, Riot Shielders etc. Pick 10 system. I could go on and that’s just multiplayer. MW2 didn’t have zombies. 3ARC could have made MW2 but IW couldn’t have made BO2.
Calling MW3 the least talked about call of duty from 2007 to 2012 is just a straight lie. World at war is the least talked about even though it is amazing
Hating on mw3 and ghosts is so damn typical. Mw3 is kind of surprising but everyone loves to hate on ghosts when it's still probably the best Cod since it came out
So, the charade is over-you’ve figured out that the modern games are manipulating you more than you're playing them. And your response? "I can’t wait to play Black Ops 6!" That’s peak consumerism at its finest. Im ashamed on your behalf
Sorry, 2019 is my favorite modern cod. I couldn’t stand anything post MW2 and came back in 2019 to a heavy, gritty, completely different and slower call of duty. It was great.
Exactly the same here. OG MW2 is without a doubt COD's peak.
Blops just didn't feel right and I just skipped OG MW3 entirely, didn't touch COD again until the gunfight 2v2 beta for MW 2019 and it relit that fire in a big way.
The people who shit on or downplay MW 2019 are in denial that it revived a dying brand that was borderline irrelevant by the time COD WW2 released.
@@itsWelshymw19 was undeniably hot ass and had nothing to do with cods resurgence. What really got casuals hooked was the implementation of Warzone
I'm an "old head" relative to the golden cod days. Skipped it since I finished bo1, personally. I miss the old days of a friend group, being able to come on and be stress free, shoot the shoot, have crazy times... But now those days are behind me. I'll admit, this video had me walking away sad and reminiscing on those times knowing I'll not have a friend group like that again.
But, such is life.
People gotta understand that cod was never that special. What cod did was give millions of people one of the easiest ways to escape life. Over time the only result is for the game to eventualy die down.
I remember pulling the Bal-27 inferno one random day when I skipped school and having to wait until my online friends came back home to brag to them about my pull. It’s my most insane pull out of any game with loot boxes or packs to buy but I never can mention it to anyone because every person I seem to come across hated/skipped out on playing AW. Def not my most favorite but definitely a lot better than recent memories on these newer CODs. Great video brother, it brought up way too many peak childhood memories!
man this took me back. I remember loading up black ops 1 and being scared shitless by the zombies theme music (I was 12). I never played the OG cods besides BO1 but I started grinding Cold War with my friends and I still play COD with my friends to this day.
really like your takes in this video - COD will never be what it was before but it has shaped the gaming landscape in a way that has paved the road for better games.
People are seeing the beta for bo6 and are conveniently forgetting that all the OMNI movement will be paired with the most sweaty and EOMM lobbies you’ll ever see. It’ll only be fun for the bots, who aren’t using the new technology to its full potential.
i hate that cod changed.
It's not about COD not being like the old titles or not creating that nostalgic feeling, it's the constant money grabbing, not inovating anything garbage we see now in the newest titles. Old COD represents the perfect quote. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" - Dr Seuss. So true.
My relationship with COD mirrors that of my, recently ended, 6 year relationship with my ex girlfriend:
It started off when I was young and helped shape me into the person I now am, was a reliable and safe place I could go when I needed distraction from the world, but every year despite clear problems we hope that things will just get better suddenly and they never did. In the end it had to stop.
I think its very simple. Call of Duty was just something new when it came out. Thats why we have great memories of that time. Also we were young, that changes perception of things aswell. No matter what you do with new Call of Duty games, it will never give that same feeling. The concept of the game stays the same so it will never trigger the experience we had first time playing it as a child.
From someone who had the pleasure of experiencing all thats been said (and rightfully passed on a few entries). you hit the nail on the head on current state of CoD. While Black Ops 6 coming up, some may say its treyarch can bring it back; but with activision going the same way theyve been heading since 2019, Im not holding my breath.
I miss those old experiences. Might check plutonium
One thing that's not talked about much is that content creation culture has fundamentally changed online gaming. In MW2, aspiring content creators and pros made up maybe 0.1% of the active playerbase. Today, it's closer to 10%. So now devs are forced to either use SBMM to stick them all together and make the top 30% play in disgusting lobbies, or turn it off and have every lobby mopped up by 1 guy who plays more of the game than the rest combined.
Man, the minecraft music along with your words about going back to Black Ops 2 with Plutonium seriously brought a tear to my eye. Two games I played a tremendous amount, but no longer feel connected to.
A few months ago, my friends and I decided to try and play Black Ops 1 on Xbox, and 3-6 of us played online almost every night for a while. Would love to revisit once again. If you're on Xbox, come play with us. Really great video and writing.
Mw to mw3 we so memorable for me as a teen, i grew up in a small town in the uk so my local game shop would get the games early for midnight release, i was able to get COD couple of days earlier, such good times when games were as they came.
Dude, I have never seen a video game content video that I agree with more. It’s so fun going through the whole franchise again and reliving what I loved and didn’t love about each COD. I loved seeing such a perfect, poetic tribute to the old CODs I enjoyed so much. And it was refreshing to hear that I’m not going to, and don’t need to, try and find that same feeling in the new releases. I spent a lot of time playing the OG CODs with friends and your totally right, it’s the memories and the friendships that were cemented through playing older CODs that matters the most now, and we’ll always have that.
I’m excited for more content from you, and wish you all the luck. Your story telling and adeptness at capturing how a lot of us feel about this franchise is amazing
I appreciate the fact that you brought up how our complaints lowkey ruined the franchise. I have not bought a cod since Cold War and I always said that our complaints ruined the franchise. I remember everyone saying MW3 was the same as MW2 and I was onboard with that thought process, but boy do I miss MW2.
WWII -- are you kidding me? That game had a new mode: WAR mode, with successive objectives. It was the best thing about WWII. ALSO, the multiplayer maps were good, and the HQ was VERY good, with built-in good rifle range. Did you play it?
Didn’t sound like he played WWII tbh. War was fantastic and it’s unfortunate they never put it in another game.
@@reet-ko9lg MWIII has a "WAR" mode, but they did a terrible job of promoting it, and only gave it 2 maps. Disappointing.
I remember being 10 years old and watching my older brother’s friend play CoD 4 and not being able to pick my jaw off the floor. I played every CoD until BO3. I was so sick of the advanced movement and pay to play I found other games like Battlefield 1 or Titanfall. I rejoined the CoD hype with MW2019 but you summed it up perfectly. Unfinished, hectic maps but it felt different. I actually enjoyed it. However, I played this game religiously until I went out to sea and when I came back a year later, the game was absolutely gone. The monetization and gameplay were shot and war zone was at an all time high. I think this was the final nail in the coffin for CoD. It will never come back
It's really the movement and the weapon attachment variety. Perks system in BO6 was actually done well from what I saw in the beta. I know a lot of newer players don't like to go back to that older CoD set up as it's much slower. We saw this with MW2 (2022) where players were now so accustomed to the movement and how much of an impact attachments were making that it feels clunky and slow to go back
In short. Old CoD will never come back because we're no longer the demographic to appeal to. And that's fine, but there definitely is a market for a slower paced arcade shooter. Make weapon attachments that don't alter slide-to-aim speeds or whatever ridiculous amount there is now. Just have weapons out of the box that WORK for everyone with few attachments that don't alter the gameplay by too much. Don't add sliding at all preferably. Slow down the running pace. No around the corner aiming being able to hide your body. Headglitching was already a problem which is only made worse this way. Most importantly of all... don't add new weapons in MTX/Battle Passes. I know that sounds controversial but honestly the only thing it is good for is to separate the player base in the have's and have not's. Charge for maps for all I care, but don't add a paywall to new guns
Agreed Bro : )
Man, watching that snippet of the AW reveal trailer gave me a boost of nostalgia. Yeah, we all know 2007-2012 COD was amazing but Advanced Warfare was fun as hell to play coming home from school.
I will absoultely not tolerate mw3 2011 slander dude. The game fixed so much balancing issues from mw2, the maps were still good, and its campaign/survival mode was awesome.
I think that’s when COD got it’s reputation for “being the same game every year”
Even if MW3 was the better MW2, it didn’t need to be its own game because the developers could have just updated (fixed) MW2. It’s also when I realized W@W was basically Modern Warfare reskin but WW2.
I also think MW3 was when many COD fans realized they didn’t actually like Infinity Ward games, because ever since then, their games are very controversial in terms of gameplay and design.
MW2 was fun for the wrong reasons, MW3 wasn’t fun because it wasn’t as broken, but MW3 still objectively the better designed game.
COD 5 Multiplayer was my introduction to COD, and I still miss the level of gore that multiplayer had...
CoD 4, WaW, MW2, Black Ops 1, incredible works of love by the devs.
I quit after BO1, and came back for 2019. Loved it. Then they abandoned it for the next game, and changed the entire focus of the game towards Warzone with all the whacky skins.
Sad man. Don't think I'll come back again.
I can’t believe so much time has passed. Let’s be thankful that we got to live and experience such beautiful moments boys, thinking about it it’s sad but at the same time brings me so much joy.
Cheers to many more memories even if they are not gaming related.
"MOM, GET THE CAMERA" ... man, the MLG / quickscope edit days were so glorious. If only we knew just how special that brief moment of time post-internet boom but pre-social media takeover was.
I have high hopes for Black Ops 6. So far everything that the devs have said and everything I have experienced in the beta is exactlywhat we want to hear.
Great video. Modern COD is not for the OG fans and will never be moving forward. Time to move on or accept the new games.
This video made me feel so much better about hating on something I used to love. Gaming as we knew it is dead. Micro transactions killed gaming and that’s the long and short of it, GTA is the same . World beating single player. Online just an absolute mess designed for kids with there mom and dads credit card. Go back to basics, but with the greed these developers have now we have no chance.
Cod lost its identity when it had an actual identity crisis. They want the guns and maps to feel like they are from a tactical shooter, the matches to feel like a competitive shooter, the movement to feel like its from a fast paced arena shooter, and the aesthetic to be whatever can sell the most microtransactions. They cannot create a cohesive game anymore and every cod since 2019 has felt off because of it.
I was never an OG cod player. My first cod was COD Mobile.
But still, it's saddening to see corporations don't know they'll make even more money if they made something the audience would actually love.
AW had the biggest jumpscare in the series...opening a supply pack and having the guy yell "ELITE!" at you
Dude this was a very very well put together video. Had amazing editing, was funny at points and also like super serious and even sad at the end man. Like I legit started to get a lil sad there at the end bc it reminded me of the good ole days playing up all night as kids on xbox and playstation with a close knit group of childhood friends of whom unfortunately have all recently passed away and the last one alive is fighting a war half way across the world right now just so he can support his family. I'd give a kidney or something to have them around still and play a few rounds of cod with them all again. Also can't believe you never mentioned any of the custom game lobbies on mw4 like infected, michael meyers, with old school mode of course, and etc. before they made them into actual modes in later cods.
Honestly, Cold War is the most loyal to the original multiplayer feeling, it does not have stupid exploits and op guns, also the sound work is awesome, there is bunch of people playing it