Most people don’t realize that not everyone could afford to upgrade to next gen consoles, and for many people, myself included, this was our only way to experience this game. And the fact that I can still find lobbies for both multiplayer and zombies so easily just shows how dedicated the fan base was and how many people truly don’t care about graphics if the game is fun to play
If you can’t afford a next gen console after two years that’s kinda sad. You have at most had to spend $500, if that. Thats saving at most $20 a month.
A former QA tester, Jessica Gonzalez, at ATVI/Blizzard said that the development cycle of this version of BO3 was tumultuous and abysmal, but the real reason for the campaign being cut was time constraints. They simply didn’t have enough time before the deadline to get it working, which is why by modding it’s possible to load a single campaign mission on last gen. They tried, and evidently showed that they could do it, but they didn’t have enough time.
Black ops 3 is so bad on PS3/Xbox 360 it made people forget about AW on those systems, it's funny too because AW is somehow more playable and runs better than BO3 on those consoles
I can confirm this, I wasn’t able to afford an Xbox One so I was stuck on last gen until I got a Laptop in 2020. My last COD was AW and I loved it tbh, it was my second biggest grind on cod behind BO2.
Growing up, I played split-screen with my dad, starting from CoD 2 and 3 until I could play Rated M games when I was like 8. After years and years of playing cod multiplayer together on Zombies and split-screen Multiplayer bot lobbies, he got us BO3 on the 360. I'll never forget our slow realization that it wasn't split-screen. I think that was his wake-up call to get us an Xbox One for Christmas. BO3 on that compared to the 360 is like putting on glasses.
If I recall correctly, the reason they changed the drop icon from Cthulhu to the giant was because the icon was a stollen asset that they grabbed without the artist's permission. It was found out and 3arc had it removed.
@@WigneyRnot really they probably just looked up motd backgrounds and it showed up first, also it was an ingame screenshot from bo3 custom zombies from a map using their own assets, the owner wasn't even angry he was happy
I find it so shocking that BO3 last gen got DLC. But the Wii U version of BO2 didn’t get DLC. Even tho the Wii U was brand new at the time and was on par with the X360 and PS3 versions.
It's rather unfortunate that we haven't had a Call of Duty game on Nintendo hardware since Call of Duty Ghosts in 2013. I mean, they could've easily ported any of the 7th generation entries to Switch, and it would've done well, but I guess they just didn't want to dedicate the resources for a port.
@Gabriel-el3hn It looked better as the Wii U has a stronger GPU and RAM. But it often ran worse due to weaker CPU. Especially in Zombies. But it did have a unique feature where if u were playing 2 player. Instead of Splitscreen, 1 player could use the full TV and the other the gamepad.
Turning down the graphics wouldn't of done anything. At that point it was already running on hardware from 2005-2007. Hard to even get a computer with specs that old to run Black Ops 3. I even tried to play Black Ops 3 with an HD 5770 (Released in 2009) and it was getting 40 fps on 800x600 on 50% Render Scale and then crashed. It's not really a bad thing for them to remake the entire game from scratch with worse textures.
There is a comment made by an ex-Beenox developer under Kacey's "Black Ops 3's Terrible PS3/360 Port" video where he explains the story behind the development of this game (and describes it as the worst project of his career), in short it exists because Activision wanted to sell the game to markets like the South American one that couldn't afford newer consoles, the development was first assigned to Mercenary Technologies but they were so slow at porting it that they assigned the development to Beenox, they had to cancel the campaign due to time constraints and had to quickly finish the rest without any help from Treyarch
Kinda wild how people could say "just buy a new console". As if people never thought of that. I just got my 360 as a kid in 2013, there was no way that 2years later I'd get a new console. I had to wait till 2019 to get it
Still stupid to remove it though. The logos fitted PERFECTLY with the map. The regular logos used for all the other maps just look out of place on Shadows
Yeah the issue with those two being shoehorned in, is that you can completely remove the lines about Raul and Nova 6. and nothing about the game would change. Compared to the first two games, where there’s barely anything that you can cut out of the story without it heavily changing to something else. Cut Raul and Nova 6 out of the first games and you’ll get a completely different game.
Unironically have a lot of time on last gen BO3 and still occasionally go back to it. I was literally even able to somehow find a public match on DE just a few days ago on stream. Mainly just played zombies but I do know the MP experience had a wildly different meta that wasn't even just a snapshot of pre patch weapon balancing. Aside from the obvious brecci spam, the meta of last gen BO3 was actually akimbo LCAR 9s due to how recoil patterns worked. Zombies has a ton of small differences like pre patch haymaker, blast furnace, storm bow. KRM has a completely different reload compared to current gen, ragnaroks last twice as long, last gen exclusive trophies such as an "awaken the gazebo" style trophy and the 20+ different ray gun skins that I've come across in my time playing. This game truly is a time capsule
You can still play the bo3 multiplayer without the console freezing. The reason it freezes is because the servers are basically dead and freeze your console when you try to unlock anything. You need a mod menu and to unlock everything and there are still a VERY few people playing (10-20ish, more on zombies, i got a lobby with 7 people yesterday, there was a modder aimbotting though and everyone left)
I still own this version for 360. It functioned properly maybe 60% of the time. The other 40% was fighting with this game trying to get into a lobby that doesn’t crash out after 5 minutes.
I love that last gen BO3 exists. I've always had a fondness for weird and obscure ports of video games, especially demakes, like last gen BO3. This may sound weird, but I actually really like last gen BO3. Something about how ugly the graphics are and how janky the animations can be, along with the overly simplistic UI, it has a very strange charm to me. I can't really explain it. I think it's because it's just so different, yet so similar at the same time makes it kinda fun exploring seeing whats stayed the same and whats changed.
Pretty much the same reasons I like that Forza Horizon 2's XBOX360 version exists. Comparing the XBOX360 version of Forza Horizon 2 to the main XBOX ONE version is just so funny.
I remember my friend gave me his copy of BO3 for the 360. I really did have fun and in the back of my mind it felt like the same game when I switched to the Xbox One. I think it was good for what it was and it gave people the opportunity to actually play it. In compared to newer last gen games it may not stand as well but it truly was great and I’m glad they made it.
BO3 was horribly optimized period on all platforms. I remember on high textures was needing something like 8 gigs of vram making the game choppy as hell.
The servers still work. However, redeeming tokens does not. This means two things: 1. New players can't go past the multiplayer tutorial, unlock the first specialist and continue to pvp. 2. Players who have unlocked some specialists prior to the bug can get some multiplayer Achievements, but not all. To get all multiplayer Achievements, players must unlock all Specialists and equipment, which are necessary for in-game challenge-related Achievements. I have made a video about the issue, as well as opened a ticket with Activision support. My ticket is from 2 years ago and is still open.
Beenox did a great job with modern warfare 2 remastered, however. I also want to point out that, after playing MW3 on PS3 recently, that game has some very real framerate issues that shouldn't be overlooked. Not nearly as bad as BO3, but it should be mentioned because it shows that even IW and sledgehammer had difficulties with this generation.
I used to play ps3 bo3 chronically and still come back to it now and then, the reason you couldn’t get online was because of some weird string of events over a year ago that made multiplayer unplayable. I’m not sure if it was done kind of silent update, ddos attack or whatever but basically trying to unlock anything freezes your console and forces you to restart it. New players can’t play because you need to unlock a specialist to start playing. (This happened to a friend who got the game after it happened lol) Online still works, but has noticeably dwindled since then. I’m stuck with the same unfinished classes I had when I was 13, and it takes several minutes to find a 3-4 person lobby and even longer to wait for it to become 6 to start the match. (Last year it was incredibly easy to find a tdm lobby) I’m pretty sure you can unlock everything with mods, although I have yet to do that (don’t think I will lmao). My problem with this port isn’t that they “cut down” due to hardware limitations, we’ve seen ps3 ports like aw and ghosts work fine. I believe the issue is that activision handed this to a completely different studio, saying “finish this in five minutes and you’ll get twenty bucks.” They got what they paid for, considering it was barely anything at all. Man, the things I’d do to have an *actual* port made by 3arc with proper resources and time.
11:45 Your console froze because there is a server bug related to unlock tokens: If you try to spend a token the game crashes. If you have a new save file created after June 2023, when the bug first started appearing, you are forced into a tutorial that makes you spend unlock tokens, which is basically a softlock. This means that unless you are a fan of the Zombies mode, the game is outright unplayable on 7th gen for new players
My step dad got this one on ps3 and he said it was ok on his prime , but a month after he got the ps4 so that was an Improvement, I still play the ps4 version sometimes
I’m pretty sure the reason why BO4 doesn’t have a campaign is because of Blackout, Fortnite took over the gaming scene in battle royale. So naturally Activision being Activision, they made a choice to tell Treyarch to scrap the campaign and just work on their own version of a battle royale (which is ass)
Treyarch tried a 2v2 coop campaign, which playtesters called ass. So the devs pulled a RDR2 development cycle (100+ hour weeks) to get Blackout and BO4 out the door. You can find BO4 alpha campaign gameplay if you look it up.
Ch0pper made a video on BO4, and why it doesn't have a campaign. It's due to how unfun the campaign is, based on the QA testers feedback. Blackout was created obviously due to fortnite. Blackout was never the reason on why campaign was cut.
The reason why it looks so bad is because they had to DEMAKE the game quite literally, the game engine wasn’t designed to ever work on ps3 or Xbox 360, so they used either an OLD engine or made a brand new engine to make it work, bo3 had alot of features, ps3 wasn’t so built for MP so alot of the game was imbalanced and graphics never could get polished with a 1 year dev time
What I would imagine they did with the animations is that they took the ones used in the next gen version and instead of slightly editing them to look nice while being less complex, they just started cutting keyframes until it ran on last gen with little regard for how it looked.
Guessing they had to give up a lot graphically just to let it run . I'm not a developer but I'm guessing a lot of back end stuff took a lot of resources. It's crazy though that zombie maps from waw to bo2 all looked so much better than last gen bo3 maps.
I'd assume you guessed right. On a technical level Black Ops 3 was a pretty big leap for the franchise, with the introduction of proper PBR shaders for materials and the lighting system being entirely changed out for the volume-based prebaked lighting Call of Duty still uses to this day. The movement system probably means a lot animations per player, gun, enemy, et cetera. Being under time crunch to port these things to last-gen would've been hellish and you can see that in a few of the concessions they made in the port. Dynamic/not-baked lights look alright whilst all baked lighting looks awful, textures for materials are significantly lower-resolution, and animations clearly have far fewer keyframes.
i remember getting intense ui bugs when playing multiplayer for more than an hour, menus would start glitching and you could see things like heat wave when choosing a weapon.
I remeber back in late 2019-late 2021 i was always playing the 360 version and i didnt realize how horrible the game looks and feels now. its crazy how a previous cod port looks BETTER than bo3. they couldnt even add a bit of lighting to atleast mask how stinky it looks.
If you're wondering how it felt on Xbox 360, I didn't have as bad issues on that version and the online multiplayer was what you'd expect in terms of how people acted for the time on the other versions in terms of play and chatting. Widow's Wine dropped the framerate a lot less in my experience on that version, but it did still have some framerate issues.
I used to play this regularly until about a year or 2 ago when the glitch with the unlock system caused the multiplayer issue, it was an active game tdm and domination always had lobby’s and they were fun
My buddy didn’t get to upgrade his console in time for this and he actually bought this and legitimately grinded on it, and honestly it had some fun times
As a kid, I couldn’t afford next-gen consoles at the time, but I was happy to experience Black Ops 3. I had fun, despite how the game looked, and it had a dedicated fan base.
I personally quite enjoyed BO3 on the ps3. On release my ps4 was broken with an HDMI problem. Figured why miss the fun so got it on PS3. Sure it wasn’t perfect but those imperfections made it feel like its own game and not like a traditional cod. Truly a bizarre yet pleasant experience I had!🙏🏽
Crazy, that I played this for so many hours back in the day and had actually fun with it. I think this version is so bad, that it's difficult to even really be critical about it, it's almost self-aware of how bad it is. And once your vision gets blurry enough, you won't even pay attention to the graphics.
There’s another major issue with last gen Bo3 mp that makes it unplayable. There’s a bug where using an unlock token will instantly crash your console. Making it so people can’t even progress past the specialist tutorial.
The most notable thing about this version and the thing that made me literally stop playing in disgust was the reload animations. They are literally different, rougher and look awful. I had friends in the same room looking at the same game all saying that they didnt see it, and I never see other people point it out either. But I swear, they are practically nauseating
Ex-Xbox 360 BO3 player here: I only had an Xbox 360 back in 2015, so, naturally, I had the game on it. I absolutely loved it and didn’t think it was that bad compared to (what was then known as) new gen, but looking back, I was definitely just a silly child. The only reason I upgraded to Xbox one that year was genuinely because I wanted to use skins in multiplayer, as old gen also didn’t have them. DLC and campaign was just a nice bonus to me then. Good times.
I unironically, excitedly, went to GameStop with my older brother to buy BO3 on the PS3. And I’m ngl I still loved it even though it looked hideous because I also played advanced warfare on the PS3 and it had similar graphical downgrades compared to the next gen version of the game. So, me not knowing that the next gen version looked better, thought that this WAS how the game looked for everybody 😭
At one point, all the menu's for last gen had actual models and everything, but was replaced with video files for, mostly performance. But also, it just looked visually better from next gen.
Imagine last gen zombie chronicles. Imagine all those classic zombie maps that came out during the 360/ps3 era looking worse than there og counter parts
i only ever had the ps3 version of bo3 just due to never being able to afford a next generation console, that game was iconic for me growing up and quite sad i never got to experience the next generation version to its full potential, i do try play it every now and then but never find games to play
The first month or so I was on last gen ps3 and I can say the multiplayer online was manageable but a lot of random disconnects and load times would be an issue at some points. I played enough to get diamond on a few guns and stuff but got my ps4 that December lol
“I just cant imagine that being an awesome experience” it was definitely inferior but that being said it was some of the most fun ive ever had in my gaming memories, the out of map hide and seek i did with my friend on exodus was hilarious, just generally hunting the bugs made it fun because it was so pitiful yet the black ops 3 “soul” in the game still had me thinking bo3 was top 3 cods while playing ps3
To be fair, they were trying to get a game that was made to run on a console 8 cores and 8gb of ram on to a console with 3 cores and 0.5gb of ram. Plus the Xbox one had faster ram (68.3GB/s Vs the 360's 0.7GB/s) and more powerful graphics processor (1.31TFLOPS Vs the 360's 0.24TFLOPS). And the Xbox one has more storage, no wonder it looked and ran like crap on the 360
the freeze issue its been happening for over a year, if you try to use a unlock token over anything in the multiplayer the game would freeze. To fix this the only way is someone sharing a account with everything unlocked or doing an unlock all with mods yourself.
Im gonna tell you as a player from launch bo3 ps3, constantly blue screens and lag also when i first played it i was kinda disappointed since i didnt know this version was that bad and for 50 bucks…
So I was a regular player of bo3 last gen as a kid because I wanted bo3 desperately and it was alive back in the day. Found lobbies right away in mp and it was so janky but fun. Also the free run glitch where you can join with your buddies was never patched like in next gen so we would be there a lot. The Giant actually came out after DE. Which was very weird but I played so much of that. The burlesque glitch was never patched on it I don’t think😂 managed to do all EEs also it was a crazy experience
Me and my old buddy Isiah used to play this a long time back, before we ever got xbox ones. the best looking thing was the shadows of evil mark on the side of the screen, we honestly loved how bad it was playing together
Back in 2015, my family was too poor to afford a new-gen console. So I got BO3 on the Xbox 360 and saw how bad it was I was really upset. I still played it for hours though.
As a very very very beginner in Game development I can tell you what probably happened first time constraints that's the biggest thing time constraints really do make things worse I know this because I was a game director/lead developer on a FPS game that we had to make in 3 months on Unreal Engine 5 including learning how to use the game engine since it was a internship program and it was hell we barely got it ready in time to showcase it an event that's what probably happened with the studio tasked with creating this port they didn't know how to use the older game engine they had to learn how it worked and at the same time they had to make it all work while keeping the game playable and that meant making every single setting to low due to the 3D models probably taking tons of processing power and since they didn't have enough time to make them low quality they just had to do with what they had
This was the primary reason I didn’t really like black ops 3 when it released. I couldn’t afford a PS4 at the time and this was all I had to base my opinion on. Since then I have gotten to go back and play it on a PS4 and experience what everyone else loved so much. But I remember being pretty disappointed when it released since I wasn’t able to really play a finished version of the game.
I used to play online for this port a lot, actually almost got the platinum for it too. The online was ok, I remember having a lot of disconnects when it first came out but it sorta got fixed. I still had a lot of fun especially because I didn't have money for a PS4 at the time so this just scratch the bo3 itch
I think it’s so funny this came out because I actually just started Elden Ring on PS4 Pro because my PS5 died and I don’t own it on PC. And I haven’t made it far in but my first impression is that I’ve never heard a louder console than mine when Elden Ring is running.
Same I was on ps3 I was 15 and it was so much fun I truly didn’t care about graphics was just so happy to be able to play it and the zombies too shadows of evil and der eisen were still really good for what it was
The multiplayer worked until like last year. When you load the MP up with a new account you have to buy a character with a token. But for some reason the ps3/360 just crashes when you buy something. The MP normally still works but bc of the token crash nobody can play it anymore
i couldn't imagine life without last gen richtofen
Real tho
core memory now
last gen richtofen gives me the will to carry on
Most people don’t realize that not everyone could afford to upgrade to next gen consoles, and for many people, myself included, this was our only way to experience this game. And the fact that I can still find lobbies for both multiplayer and zombies so easily just shows how dedicated the fan base was and how many people truly don’t care about graphics if the game is fun to play
If you can’t afford a next gen console after two years that’s kinda sad. You have at most had to spend $500, if that. Thats saving at most $20 a month.
@DarthSpecky bros just looking for clicks 🤡
@Silversmith2627 True that brother
@@DarthSpeckyPeople have other priorites other than consoles lad.
That’s not even the issue . This was a bad port period . You have ps2 games looking better than this
A former QA tester, Jessica Gonzalez, at ATVI/Blizzard said that the development cycle of this version of BO3 was tumultuous and abysmal, but the real reason for the campaign being cut was time constraints.
They simply didn’t have enough time before the deadline to get it working, which is why by modding it’s possible to load a single campaign mission on last gen. They tried, and evidently showed that they could do it, but they didn’t have enough time.
yo do u know where can I get that mod? maybe a yt video showcasing it? now I'm extremely curious lol
I suppose the devs didn’t even have enough time to tune the BO3’s engine for the last gen consoles.
i need to see that campaign mission
Black ops 3 is so bad on PS3/Xbox 360 it made people forget about AW on those systems, it's funny too because AW is somehow more playable and runs better than BO3 on those consoles
I can confirm this, I wasn’t able to afford an Xbox One so I was stuck on last gen until I got a Laptop in 2020. My last COD was AW and I loved it tbh, it was my second biggest grind on cod behind BO2.
@@EJaDavaw on 360 was such a great time
My memories may be skewed but AW was honestly a pretty good last gen port.
@@haydenrhead7692 graphics were at mw3-bo2 level if i remember pretty much as good as a 360 cod could get
Last gen aws zombies was bugged af
Growing up, I played split-screen with my dad, starting from CoD 2 and 3 until I could play Rated M games when I was like 8. After years and years of playing cod multiplayer together on Zombies and split-screen Multiplayer bot lobbies, he got us BO3 on the 360. I'll never forget our slow realization that it wasn't split-screen. I think that was his wake-up call to get us an Xbox One for Christmas. BO3 on that compared to the 360 is like putting on glasses.
If I recall correctly, the reason they changed the drop icon from Cthulhu to the giant was because the icon was a stollen asset that they grabbed without the artist's permission. It was found out and 3arc had it removed.
Omg you’re right I forgot about that !!
was about to comment this and saw u already did
Which is honestly a shame because the Cthulhu icon was super sick
13 years later and they’re still doing the same shit 😂 they took a bo3 zombies custom map loading screen and put it in bo6 as a reward
@@WigneyRnot really they probably just looked up motd backgrounds and it showed up first, also it was an ingame screenshot from bo3 custom zombies from a map using their own assets, the owner wasn't even angry he was happy
I find it so shocking that BO3 last gen got DLC.
But the Wii U version of BO2 didn’t get DLC. Even tho the Wii U was brand new at the time and was on par with the X360 and PS3 versions.
Wii COD is a meme though
@@MaxiemumKarnage Cod on Wii U was on par with X360 and PS3 and was a proper version of COD.
It's rather unfortunate that we haven't had a Call of Duty game on Nintendo hardware since Call of Duty Ghosts in 2013. I mean, they could've easily ported any of the 7th generation entries to Switch, and it would've done well, but I guess they just didn't want to dedicate the resources for a port.
The Wii U version ran/looked better than the 360/ps3 versions iirc due to it being newer
@Gabriel-el3hn It looked better as the Wii U has a stronger GPU and RAM.
But it often ran worse due to weaker CPU. Especially in Zombies.
But it did have a unique feature where if u were playing 2 player. Instead of Splitscreen, 1 player could use the full TV and the other the gamepad.
It looks like instead of turning the graphics down they literally replaced all the textures woth new low res ones
Most COD games have low res textures as a way to ease up on HW usage and as a failsafe incase the standard texture never loads.
Turning down the graphics wouldn't of done anything. At that point it was already running on hardware from 2005-2007. Hard to even get a computer with specs that old to run Black Ops 3. I even tried to play Black Ops 3 with an HD 5770 (Released in 2009) and it was getting 40 fps on 800x600 on 50% Render Scale and then crashed. It's not really a bad thing for them to remake the entire game from scratch with worse textures.
There is a comment made by an ex-Beenox developer under Kacey's "Black Ops 3's Terrible PS3/360 Port" video where he explains the story behind the development of this game (and describes it as the worst project of his career), in short it exists because Activision wanted to sell the game to markets like the South American one that couldn't afford newer consoles, the development was first assigned to Mercenary Technologies but they were so slow at porting it that they assigned the development to Beenox, they had to cancel the campaign due to time constraints and had to quickly finish the rest without any help from Treyarch
Kinda wild how people could say "just buy a new console".
As if people never thought of that.
I just got my 360 as a kid in 2013, there was no way that 2years later I'd get a new console.
I had to wait till 2019 to get it
Dude I upgraded to the xbox 1 in 2021
I got my PS3 in 2014 and didn't get an Xbox One until 2018.
I got my 360 in 2012 and could never afford going up because of ridiculous tech pricing back in the day. Now, i'm making my move to PC gaming
It’s a weird concept but it’s called “saving”
I don’t even know why I got a ps5. 99% of games are still made for ps4 so there’s no real reason to have it.
The reason the Cthulu logos were removed on SoE was literally because it was plagarised art LMAO
Not even plagiarized. They just straight copy pasted it lol
That's what plagiarism is homie
@@DGKLite you are right. I thought plagiarism was more copying others work like tracing, taking several paragraphs from several sources, etc.
Still stupid to remove it though. The logos fitted PERFECTLY with the map. The regular logos used for all the other maps just look out of place on Shadows
@@PLANDerLinde99stealing art isn't okay and if they didn't remove it they probably would have gotten sued or a cease and desist
It’s really interesting how Treyarch doesn’t have their name at all on the Last Gen versions.
Its because of controller
@@gorillagroddgaming ...what?
it's because they didn't make it, it was made by beenox
Bc they didn’t port it
@@JohnSmith-XYZ controller
Bo3 campaign on paper sounded good, the execution...
So much stuff was scrapped from it, and they didn't even want to connect it to the old black ops
They connected it with like two lines about nova 6 and Menendez but other then that yeah nothing else connected
Yeah the issue with those two being shoehorned in, is that you can completely remove the lines about Raul and Nova 6. and nothing about the game would change. Compared to the first two games, where there’s barely anything that you can cut out of the story without it heavily changing to something else. Cut Raul and Nova 6 out of the first games and you’ll get a completely different game.
The gobblegum PNG's really gave me a good laugh 😂 awesome vid as always!
12 games? Hold on I need to sit down
Same😭 like damn it’s really been that long? I remember being hyped when MW2 first dropped
Unironically have a lot of time on last gen BO3 and still occasionally go back to it. I was literally even able to somehow find a public match on DE just a few days ago on stream.
Mainly just played zombies but I do know the MP experience had a wildly different meta that wasn't even just a snapshot of pre patch weapon balancing. Aside from the obvious brecci spam, the meta of last gen BO3 was actually akimbo LCAR 9s due to how recoil patterns worked.
Zombies has a ton of small differences like pre patch haymaker, blast furnace, storm bow. KRM has a completely different reload compared to current gen, ragnaroks last twice as long, last gen exclusive trophies such as an "awaken the gazebo" style trophy and the 20+ different ray gun skins that I've come across in my time playing. This game truly is a time capsule
You wanna see a weird last-gen port? Forza Horizon 2. It's incredibly kneecapped, but super interesting to see.
I remember playing that and thinking I was just playing some spinoff dlc type game
I remember playing that and thinking it was some weird dlc spinoff type game
pros: old power up icons, last gen richtofen
cons: everything else, last gen richtofen
Pros: No loot boxes
You can still play the bo3 multiplayer without the console freezing.
The reason it freezes is because the servers are basically dead and freeze your console when you try to unlock anything.
You need a mod menu and to unlock everything and there are still a VERY few people playing (10-20ish, more on zombies, i got a lobby with 7 people yesterday, there was a modder aimbotting though and everyone left)
I still own this version for 360. It functioned properly maybe 60% of the time. The other 40% was fighting with this game trying to get into a lobby that doesn’t crash out after 5 minutes.
I love that last gen BO3 exists. I've always had a fondness for weird and obscure ports of video games, especially demakes, like last gen BO3. This may sound weird, but I actually really like last gen BO3. Something about how ugly the graphics are and how janky the animations can be, along with the overly simplistic UI, it has a very strange charm to me. I can't really explain it. I think it's because it's just so different, yet so similar at the same time makes it kinda fun exploring seeing whats stayed the same and whats changed.
Pretty much the same reasons I like that Forza Horizon 2's XBOX360 version exists. Comparing the XBOX360 version of Forza Horizon 2 to the main XBOX ONE version is just so funny.
I remember my friend gave me his copy of BO3 for the 360. I really did have fun and in the back of my mind it felt like the same game when I switched to the Xbox One. I think it was good for what it was and it gave people the opportunity to actually play it. In compared to newer last gen games it may not stand as well but it truly was great and I’m glad they made it.
Props to Rushin for having world records on this game😭
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BO3 was horribly optimized period on all platforms. I remember on high textures was needing something like 8 gigs of vram making the game choppy as hell.
and now 6-8gb of vram is standard
To this day it's still a little scuffed on PC
In xbox one, it was good. I don't remember suffering with it
I never had issues on my 4GB card
It played well in my 4080Ti idk what u talking about bruh
When Playstation and Xbox players got a little taste of what was it like to be a Call Of Duty player on the Gamecube and Wii
Lol
I tired to get all of the Xbox 360 achievements on this game but there’s no severs for it and it’s literally impossible now
Well, boosting. Im kinda interested, if people show up
The servers still work. However, redeeming tokens does not. This means two things:
1. New players can't go past the multiplayer tutorial, unlock the first specialist and continue to pvp.
2. Players who have unlocked some specialists prior to the bug can get some multiplayer Achievements, but not all. To get all multiplayer Achievements, players must unlock all Specialists and equipment, which are necessary for in-game challenge-related Achievements.
I have made a video about the issue, as well as opened a ticket with Activision support.
My ticket is from 2 years ago and is still open.
@@Seamndelain’t no way you just commented this and there’s no way the ticket is still open 😂😭
@@Seamndel your data is outdated. You can get into multiplayer as a new player. Checked by myself
@notacat7127 I stand corrected. The case has been closed on October 24th, 2023 (about four months after I had submitted it).
It's crazy to think that I've played this port on release and thought it was the most beautiful game I've played
Black Ops 3 was not made in 9 months. What are you smoking😭
The port was made in 9 months 😂
Beenox did a great job with modern warfare 2 remastered, however. I also want to point out that, after playing MW3 on PS3 recently, that game has some very real framerate issues that shouldn't be overlooked. Not nearly as bad as BO3, but it should be mentioned because it shows that even IW and sledgehammer had difficulties with this generation.
I used to play ps3 bo3 chronically and still come back to it now and then, the reason you couldn’t get online was because of some weird string of events over a year ago that made multiplayer unplayable.
I’m not sure if it was done kind of silent update, ddos attack or whatever but basically trying to unlock anything freezes your console and forces you to restart it. New players can’t play because you need to unlock a specialist to start playing. (This happened to a friend who got the game after it happened lol)
Online still works, but has noticeably dwindled since then. I’m stuck with the same unfinished classes I had when I was 13, and it takes several minutes to find a 3-4 person lobby and even longer to wait for it to become 6 to start the match. (Last year it was incredibly easy to find a tdm lobby)
I’m pretty sure you can unlock everything with mods, although I have yet to do that (don’t think I will lmao).
My problem with this port isn’t that they “cut down” due to hardware limitations, we’ve seen ps3 ports like aw and ghosts work fine. I believe the issue is that activision handed this to a completely different studio, saying “finish this in five minutes and you’ll get twenty bucks.” They got what they paid for, considering it was barely anything at all.
Man, the things I’d do to have an *actual* port made by 3arc with proper resources and time.
It's so strange how the game looks worse than the few games before it
Comparable to PS2 Tomb Raider
The PS3 is retro. It's older now than the Sega Genesis was when the PS3 launched.
11:45 Your console froze because there is a server bug related to unlock tokens: If you try to spend a token the game crashes. If you have a new save file created after June 2023, when the bug first started appearing, you are forced into a tutorial that makes you spend unlock tokens, which is basically a softlock. This means that unless you are a fan of the Zombies mode, the game is outright unplayable on 7th gen for new players
I have the 360 version and that was primarily how I played the game. one zombies map and offline bot matches for multiplayer
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My step dad got this one on ps3 and he said it was ok on his prime , but a month after he got the ps4 so that was an Improvement, I still play the ps4 version sometimes
In the last gen version The death machine had an ammo limit counter, (also it still had infinite ammo despite it) might have been patched in next gen
I’m pretty sure the reason why BO4 doesn’t have a campaign is because of Blackout, Fortnite took over the gaming scene in battle royale. So naturally Activision being Activision, they made a choice to tell Treyarch to scrap the campaign and just work on their own version of a battle royale (which is ass)
Treyarch tried a 2v2 coop campaign, which playtesters called ass. So the devs pulled a RDR2 development cycle (100+ hour weeks) to get Blackout and BO4 out the door. You can find BO4 alpha campaign gameplay if you look it up.
Ch0pper made a video on BO4, and why it doesn't have a campaign. It's due to how unfun the campaign is, based on the QA testers feedback. Blackout was created obviously due to fortnite.
Blackout was never the reason on why campaign was cut.
the fact that i was content with this version of the game til i got an xbox one is outstanding in my eyes
My 15 seconds last a lil longaaa longaaa i could shit all day diapa
The reason why it looks so bad is because they had to DEMAKE the game quite literally, the game engine wasn’t designed to ever work on ps3 or Xbox 360, so they used either an OLD engine or made a brand new engine to make it work, bo3 had alot of features, ps3 wasn’t so built for MP so alot of the game was imbalanced and graphics never could get polished with a 1 year dev time
What I would imagine they did with the animations is that they took the ones used in the next gen version and instead of slightly editing them to look nice while being less complex, they just started cutting keyframes until it ran on last gen with little regard for how it looked.
I just about DIED when he showed that mangled richtofen never seen that before
BO3 got that “When she takes her makeup off” treatment😂
It still blows my mind that this game still had the capacity to get a DLC shipped for it
Guessing they had to give up a lot graphically just to let it run . I'm not a developer but I'm guessing a lot of back end stuff took a lot of resources. It's crazy though that zombie maps from waw to bo2 all looked so much better than last gen bo3 maps.
I'd assume you guessed right. On a technical level Black Ops 3 was a pretty big leap for the franchise, with the introduction of proper PBR shaders for materials and the lighting system being entirely changed out for the volume-based prebaked lighting Call of Duty still uses to this day. The movement system probably means a lot animations per player, gun, enemy, et cetera. Being under time crunch to port these things to last-gen would've been hellish and you can see that in a few of the concessions they made in the port. Dynamic/not-baked lights look alright whilst all baked lighting looks awful, textures for materials are significantly lower-resolution, and animations clearly have far fewer keyframes.
Going from BO3 on the 360 to BO3 on the PS4 was so life changing for me
"How could you not love the fact that this game doesn't even have a campaign"
Black Ops 4 is sweating fuckin bullets rn
4:13 WHO GAVE DEATHMACHINE AMMO COUNT
Death machine had amo count when bo3 first came out
i remember getting intense ui bugs when playing multiplayer for more than an hour, menus would start glitching and you could see things like heat wave when choosing a weapon.
Black Ops 3 apologism is wild, just because zombies was good doesn't make the remaining 2/3rds of the game less shit
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I remeber back in late 2019-late 2021 i was always playing the 360 version and i didnt realize how horrible the game looks and feels now. its crazy how a previous cod port looks BETTER than bo3. they couldnt even add a bit of lighting to atleast mask how stinky it looks.
The 7th Gen versions not having a campaign is a blessing in disguise and nobody talks about that part.
I played the multi-player back then. It ran okish but on most maps there were out of bounds wall glitches that made them unplayable.
If you're wondering how it felt on Xbox 360, I didn't have as bad issues on that version and the online multiplayer was what you'd expect in terms of how people acted for the time on the other versions in terms of play and chatting. Widow's Wine dropped the framerate a lot less in my experience on that version, but it did still have some framerate issues.
The fact that they were allowed to sell last gen bo3 is wild. I still feel bad that my mom bought it for me a decade ago
I used to play this regularly until about a year or 2 ago when the glitch with the unlock system caused the multiplayer issue, it was an active game tdm and domination always had lobby’s and they were fun
I remember hearing somewhere that when the game is stripped of the Bo3 name, it’s a lot closer to cod4 than bo3 and yeah I see it
I want my black ops 4 campaign I will die on a hill with that thank you…..
I’m convinced bo4 could’ve been top3 cod if they scrapped blackout and focused on campaign and zombies
My buddy didn’t get to upgrade his console in time for this and he actually bought this and legitimately grinded on it, and honestly it had some fun times
Imagine expecting a PS3/Xbox 360 game to look like it's PS4/Xbox One counterpart. Just be grateful you even still have the ability to play the game!
ZANDEMIC 💀💀💀
I was one of the poor souls that got black ops three on the 360 I completely forgot how terrible it was from my simple mind
As a kid, I couldn’t afford next-gen consoles at the time, but I was happy to experience Black Ops 3. I had fun, despite how the game looked, and it had a dedicated fan base.
I personally quite enjoyed BO3 on the ps3. On release my ps4 was broken with an HDMI problem. Figured why miss the fun so got it on PS3. Sure it wasn’t perfect but those imperfections made it feel like its own game and not like a traditional cod. Truly a bizarre yet pleasant experience I had!🙏🏽
Crazy, that I played this for so many hours back in the day and had actually fun with it. I think this version is so bad, that it's difficult to even really be critical about it, it's almost self-aware of how bad it is. And once your vision gets blurry enough, you won't even pay attention to the graphics.
There’s another major issue with last gen Bo3 mp that makes it unplayable. There’s a bug where using an unlock token will instantly crash your console. Making it so people can’t even progress past the specialist tutorial.
Wait till this guy hears about Black ops 6 on PS4
Gotta be tough to play
The most notable thing about this version and the thing that made me literally stop playing in disgust was the reload animations. They are literally different, rougher and look awful. I had friends in the same room looking at the same game all saying that they didnt see it, and I never see other people point it out either. But I swear, they are practically nauseating
Oh my god what are those maps?😂 They don't just look like graphics-downgrades, but legit generic substitutions for the name brand maps
Ex-Xbox 360 BO3 player here:
I only had an Xbox 360 back in 2015, so, naturally, I had the game on it. I absolutely loved it and didn’t think it was that bad compared to (what was then known as) new gen, but looking back, I was definitely just a silly child. The only reason I upgraded to Xbox one that year was genuinely because I wanted to use skins in multiplayer, as old gen also didn’t have them. DLC and campaign was just a nice bonus to me then. Good times.
I believe the reason they changed the power up icon is because of copyright. I remember hearing awhile back that the cthulu is stolen art.
Saying it is essential for black ops to continue the art of storytelling then not having a campaign in BO4 is crazy 😂
I unironically, excitedly, went to GameStop with my older brother to buy BO3 on the PS3. And I’m ngl I still loved it even though it looked hideous because I also played advanced warfare on the PS3 and it had similar graphical downgrades compared to the next gen version of the game. So, me not knowing that the next gen version looked better, thought that this WAS how the game looked for everybody 😭
Chop: you might not follow if you only played once
Me who hasn’t even beaten it once, starting like 8 times and always getting too bored
At one point, all the menu's for last gen had actual models and everything, but was replaced with video files for, mostly performance. But also, it just looked visually better from next gen.
Imagine last gen zombie chronicles. Imagine all those classic zombie maps that came out during the 360/ps3 era looking worse than there og counter parts
Never thought I’d see this game again.
i only ever had the ps3 version of bo3 just due to never being able to afford a next generation console, that game was iconic for me growing up and quite sad i never got to experience the next generation version to its full potential, i do try play it every now and then but never find games to play
The first month or so I was on last gen ps3 and I can say the multiplayer online was manageable but a lot of random disconnects and load times would be an issue at some points. I played enough to get diamond on a few guns and stuff but got my ps4 that December lol
“I just cant imagine that being an awesome experience” it was definitely inferior but that being said it was some of the most fun ive ever had in my gaming memories, the out of map hide and seek i did with my friend on exodus was hilarious, just generally hunting the bugs made it fun because it was so pitiful yet the black ops 3 “soul” in the game still had me thinking bo3 was top 3 cods while playing ps3
We’ve come full circle if I’m starting to see videos about this port in my recommended. I remember when this topic was breaking news..
To be fair, they were trying to get a game that was made to run on a console 8 cores and 8gb of ram on to a console with 3 cores and 0.5gb of ram. Plus the Xbox one had faster ram (68.3GB/s Vs the 360's 0.7GB/s) and more powerful graphics processor (1.31TFLOPS Vs the 360's 0.24TFLOPS). And the Xbox one has more storage, no wonder it looked and ran like crap on the 360
Multiplayer goes 60 FPS
And zombies goes 40 fps
They also have World at War on PS2, and it's interesting since that version has a training level at the beginning.
the freeze issue its been happening for over a year, if you try to use a unlock token over anything in the multiplayer the game would freeze.
To fix this the only way is someone sharing a account with everything unlocked or doing an unlock all with mods yourself.
This and the wolfenstein the new order 360 port are core memories of mine, part of me would love to relive it all again
Im gonna tell you as a player from launch bo3 ps3, constantly blue screens and lag also when i first played it i was kinda disappointed since i didnt know this version was that bad and for 50 bucks…
So I was a regular player of bo3 last gen as a kid because I wanted bo3 desperately and it was alive back in the day. Found lobbies right away in mp and it was so janky but fun. Also the free run glitch where you can join with your buddies was never patched like in next gen so we would be there a lot. The Giant actually came out after DE. Which was very weird but I played so much of that. The burlesque glitch was never patched on it I don’t think😂 managed to do all EEs also it was a crazy experience
Me and my old buddy Isiah used to play this a long time back, before we ever got xbox ones. the best looking thing was the shadows of evil mark on the side of the screen, we honestly loved how bad it was playing together
Back in 2015, my family was too poor to afford a new-gen console. So I got BO3 on the Xbox 360 and saw how bad it was I was really upset. I still played it for hours though.
As a very very very beginner in Game development I can tell you what probably happened first time constraints that's the biggest thing time constraints really do make things worse I know this because I was a game director/lead developer on a FPS game that we had to make in 3 months on Unreal Engine 5 including learning how to use the game engine since it was a internship program and it was hell we barely got it ready in time to showcase it an event that's what probably happened with the studio tasked with creating this port they didn't know how to use the older game engine they had to learn how it worked and at the same time they had to make it all work while keeping the game playable and that meant making every single setting to low due to the 3D models probably taking tons of processing power and since they didn't have enough time to make them low quality they just had to do with what they had
This was the primary reason I didn’t really like black ops 3 when it released. I couldn’t afford a PS4 at the time and this was all I had to base my opinion on. Since then I have gotten to go back and play it on a PS4 and experience what everyone else loved so much. But I remember being pretty disappointed when it released since I wasn’t able to really play a finished version of the game.
Bro says Richtofen like Weaver in BO6 🙏😭💀
I used to play online for this port a lot, actually almost got the platinum for it too. The online was ok, I remember having a lot of disconnects when it first came out but it sorta got fixed. I still had a lot of fun especially because I didn't have money for a PS4 at the time so this just scratch the bo3 itch
its actually impressive that even tho the game looks terrible, it still runs and fully functions
I think it’s so funny this came out because I actually just started Elden Ring on PS4 Pro because my PS5 died and I don’t own it on PC. And I haven’t made it far in but my first impression is that I’ve never heard a louder console than mine when Elden Ring is running.
I don’t think i’ve ever seen bo3 gameplay on the ps3/xbox 360 💀💀💀 shit looks so horrendous
Did you ever get dark matter in this game?
I did, and I'm tired of hardcore tdm
This is giving me bo1 maps in waw vibes
As someone who couldn’t afford a new console at the time, this game was surprisingly fun despite its shortcomings. Even grinded dark matter too
Same I was on ps3 I was 15 and it was so much fun I truly didn’t care about graphics was just so happy to be able to play it and the zombies too shadows of evil and der eisen were still really good for what it was
The multiplayer worked until like last year. When you load the MP up with a new account you have to buy a character with a token. But for some reason the ps3/360 just crashes when you buy something. The MP normally still works but bc of the token crash nobody can play it anymore