Right?!! I know he mentioned reviewing COD6 but that just made me expect an indie double-bill switcheroo. But I guess they finally put enough single player substance to warrant a review after all this time
Maybe Second Wind figured outs it's a good thing if he actually talks about games people know? Instead of, you know, bumming around games nobody cares about with people you'd keep a safe distance from in real life?
The CIA might condone it, but even they can't risk killing the sugar daddies of major politicians, because that would mean the "start a gang war for no reason" budget might reduced by Congress.
activision has been trying to find franchise immortality serum for decades. they tortured series like tony hawk and skylanders like experiments in a labratory and cod was the only one that lived
Scuffed bit about Skylanders was they actually had some diamonds in the rough with their 3DS games. Instead of focusing on lame combat and puzzles whose solutions amounted to "own the proper toy". The 3DS games were Sonic-esque platformer, time attack racers with light beat 'em up elements. The fun bit was that not all levels suited every type of toy. You might think that the fliers would be OP but there were limitations to what they could do and the flight being more of a glide meant that tricky platforming while trying to go as fast as possible could easily result in over shooting targets. The variety of characters was a boon as they all had subtle variations in how they controlled due to size, speed and method of locomotion. So replaying levels over and over never really got old as there was always some new learning curve to account for. I stand by my assessment from back then that they were dumping all of their effort and money into the wrong games. The larger console games were never half as enjoyable in spite of the larger, more elaborate production.
Or did the stuff some twenties in Yahtzee's knickers and sit back to watch him dance. The lights don't keep themselves on, you know. I doubt it, though. Our man Yhatz isn't good at keeping distain from his delivery, if not his words. I detected little to none.
@@chrisbarnes3864 you're the first other person I've seen with it. I scrolled down to the comments and had a "wait a second. That's not me! " type of moment.
honestly most of bo6 feels like the devs desperately wanting to do something that's not a cod game, unshackled by whatever vision activision has at least it's pretty good, had a lot of fun with the campaign, and i found the characters to be really fucking cool, but knowing that the 4 main cast of marshall/sev/felix/case are doomed to be one-note characters and warzone skins just saddens me, it's a shame that it's all trapped in cod.
Something else I noticed about this game. There really wasn't much that felt like it was set in 1991. There's some talk about Saddam and Desert Storm. Some NIN songs. Some old CRT monitors. A Bill Clinton cameo. And that's about it. Everything else would fit perfectly today. Even the cars don't look like they're from the era.
5:00 There's something uniquely depressing about seeing high moon, beenox and raven all still in the CoD mines. Not really a massive fan of any of them but I've played and enjoyed games they made, seeing them all tied up like this is pretty sad. Then again knowing the turnover at these companies the vast majority of the people there won't have worked on the stuff I played
IMO, "AAA sampler platter" is probably the best place for a game like CoD, especially if it pushes players to other, more involved SP experiences. Embrace being the first video game anyone can name by celebrating the wider medium.
The part where Yahtzee describes the various levels reminded me of his first joke review for Duke Nukem Forever. You really can't joke about anything anymore, every stupid thing gets done eventually.
Speaking of the Duke Nukem Forever joke review, I read an article once where it stated that was more or less the blueprint for Wolfenstein The New Order. Pretty crazy.
The sad part? Duke Nukem Forever is looking better in hindsight, all the time. Honestly, I've played the crap out of it, and it's worse crime is being *boring.* You want truly bad, I'll direct you to Eat Lead or Starfield.
Extra Credits once called the tendency of Call of Duty games to throw spaghetti at the wall with their game mechanics "Call of WarioWare." That quip still seems to apply today.
They've had a whole Resident Evil 6 "we've forgotten what we were supposed to be about, so here's a little bit of everything popular these days" crisis, haven't they?
Not exactly, because Resident Evil 6 was motivated by desperation while this feels more like the devs were just bored and wanted to get experience for different stuff in their resume. It's competent in a way that RE6 was very much not.
@@grfrjiglstan This isn't out of desperation, but because Activision is the only company that loves treadmill work. That being making an annual release instead of a stable and legit live service model. I just want one CoD game every 3-5 years
Fun fact about BLOPS 6: Not only is it available on Game Pass (for like 10-12 dollars a month), but after finishing the campaign, I was able to not just cancel the Game Pass, but actually was able to get it *fully refunded* in the cancel subscription menu - something I've never seen before - despite playing the game over multiple days and not rushing it. I've effectively finished the entire Blops 6 campaign for free, completely legally - and honestly, for a $0 experience, it was really fun.
@@clydenorthrup5484 That wasn't exactly a screwup, it's a dedicated option when you select to cancel your Game Pass subscription - there's possibly some time limitation (maybe within a week of starting it? I did finish the game in ca 5 days), one strict difference between "refund" and the classic "cancel after this month" option is that the refund-type cancellation ends your sub immediately, not "after the month ends". It's also possible there's a limit of how many times you can do a game pass refund, so don't @ me if it doesn't work the second time (:
I swear companies care more about "active users" than game sales. They'd rather you be in the game to potentially buy skins, than get 1 game sale. Gotta please brain dead investors with "active user" numbers. 🤑😑
I remember a few years ago I was looking at the steam reviews for the original wolfenstien and noticed they all had 2 hours of playtime. 2 hours is the limit to how much time you can have in a game before steam won’t let you refund it so if you don’t die too often, you could probably beat it in time for a refund
Black ops seemlying has the coolest potential since you save the world from shady underground plots with a small group. Though it seems like since black ops 3 they have ran out of ideas. Honestly I would prefer more modern times so that it is not just "hey remember this tacky pop culture reference."
I appreciate the running gag of the protagonist just being referred to as "Black Ops", not like they'd be interesting enough for us to remember their real name anyways.
Honestly, I haven’t remembered anything about a CoD protagonist since Infinite Warfare, and _maaaaybe_ Bell, but the last one’s only cause of a handful of really good missions that make little to no sense from a historical perspective.
Tbf, this game at least tried something new. It might not be a coherent experience, but it’s still better than 4th unoriginal Modern Warfare game, featuring John American shooting Vague International Threat #36. I think that even at its messiest, an attempt at something different is worth a thousand attempts at the same idea.
The reason it's like this is because the campaign is made by Raven Software. It's barely even a CoD, you're WAY MORE overpowered than you think. Go replay but use the adrenaline stims.
After watching a play through of Black Ops 6, I thought the bad guys weren’t “a PMC group being controlled by a mole in the CIA” but rather “Woods and Company deal with the CIA’s sins, again”
What I will mention is the campaign's lead developer team is Raven Software. They've been working on CoD's multiplayer for about a decade and was promoted to taking over the Black Ops story from Treyarch starting with Cold War. Cold War and BO6 campaign is pretty much them protesting and turning the story into Singularity 2 that they never got to make. Activision...LET THEM MAKE THE DAMN SEQUEL!!!
Eh, I played the campaign and it’s alright. It flip flops from interesting (the prey style mission) to really dull and there isn’t any real replayability with it.
The campaign was fun! I actually hope the studio responsible for it get to work on their own game if possible. Stealth missions, optional objectives, the mind bending portions - all great!
i didnt love it that much but i agree there was some sembelence of original thought and a campaign that could have been decent if they were really allowed to run with a theme and make a whole game.
@@idanbhk3875 It been a few decades, I'm sure the Call of Duty audience would have gained self awareness by now the same way the Fast and Furious fans have.
The funniest part of the game is how the evil PMC/rogue cia unit are introduced; The bad guys don’t even get to fire first. There’s no shock twist that the shady cia black Ops unit who’ve come to help suddenly start Order 66-ing our ass. The main characters get the jump on them and start shooting before they get a chance to do anything, so you have US troops firing on other US troops with neither side communicating first. It would be really fucking awkward if they actually were sent to help but since they “aren’t with us” that immediately means they’re hostile. Marshall, Harrow and Case must suck at surprise parties.
Been a hot minute since I played a CoD campaign, I was looking forward to taking advantage of the gamepass release and gunning through some crazy silly set pieces and corridors filled with Bad Guys(TM). I wasn't expecting dialogue choices, branching paths, or anything else that Yahtz touched on in his review. It was actually really fun - stupid, with a shallow story that didn't make sense or feel grounded in the slightest, but I felt transported back 15 years to simpler times.
1:09 Love the detail of the eyes looking in different directions as he says "I swear all I had to do was spray bullets vaguely in the direction of the dudes..."
Yeah exactly. I don't understands Yahtz sometimes. Jack of all trades doesn't have to always be a bad thing, I've really enjoyed the variety Raven software tried to create with this campaign. They have some cool gameplay ideas despite being forced to work in call of duty mines
It's the best campaign since Call of Duty 4, which is faint praise, but still, worth checking out if you have 12 bucks for gamepass and an extra large hard drive.
Raven yearns to escape the COD mines. Also just gonna say they specifically worked on the campaign, same with the Cold War campaign, since that seemed unclear in the review.
I'm assuming higher ups at treyarch wanted it to go unnumbered like how CoD as a whole went unnumbered after the 4th game, but I guess they couldn't come up with a catchy subtitle for black ops and gave up
@@testname4464 That's probably what happened. Originally when the leaks for this game started happening in 2022, it was being referred to as Black Ops: Gulf War, but I guess they realized that would've been very misleading given that this game doesn't really have anything to do with the Gulf War at all aside from the Helldivers 2-esque mission Yahtzee mentioned and a subsequent siege on Saddam's palace to push forward the main plot. But they couldn't come up with a better subtitle so they just said "FUCK IT! Let's just call it Black Ops 6!"
@NN010 speaking of leaks. I remember when Twitter insisted you could fly the planes into the twin towers. Why? Idk but it was really funny to see people just confidently lie about something so ridiculous yet harmless
Oh yay, a new Fully Ramblo to brighten up my day. One moment, let me just blast a smile onto my face with this shotgun as I try not to think about what else happened today
A fancy hors-d'oeuvres buffet is the perfect analogy for this. A little unsatisfying bit of everything for everyone, but no one's gonna have the money for it and why would they make this when they can just eat their preferred meal at home, unless they're rich.
I suddenly feel sad for all the devs that work on this game. They clearly want Call of Duty to to take a break from the yearly release schedule. Hell, I would like half of the studios that worked on this to do SOMETHING ELSE for their next project so that they can at least take a mental break. Let Beenox, High Moon and Raven make make games that are considerably different.
What's bizarre is its become so dire even buying the game from actiblizz doesn't matter anymore, because they're making bank off overpriced cosmetics. At least fornite can be played for years on end, after the first year of any CoD game the playerbase tanks. And you gotta buy the next game to avoid endless sweats, or play warzone... honestly warzone should count as self harm
You know what? I'm actually sold on this game. That all sounds quite interesting, especially as someone who's enjoying Battlefield Hardline's janky attempts to fit an actual police game into a spunkgargleweewee engine.
I hate these stupid comments. Zombies, Campaign, Online PVP, Online Massive PVP, etc. You act like these games don't have massive modes that require hordes of people to develop.
@@TheStormbringer8751 Don't forget about all the people who are asset artists, level designers, the ones that worked on the game engine, etc. There is so much artwork in the game, there are so many calling cards (that most people will never unlock if they even see them but there's a ton of them that are there). Watching the credits, you can kind of see which studios did what but I think it's high time Raven gets to be fully let off the leash since their last couple campaigns were actually pretty fun and I'd like to see them tackle something unique/not-explicitly-COD
This is what happens when you turn the fifth largest gaming company that used to make a game in nearly every genre into an fps factory, they want to escape.
I played the campaign (for free on Game Pass, of course) and I can say for certain that it was both not very good and better than the Modern Warfare remakes. Probably worth it if you can play it for under $15. Also, that open world desert level was probably the worst. It took me like two hours and the 4 different types of objectives were just repeated 3 times. Also, the baddies kept clipping through the car when I tried to run them over.
I know Yahtz's intention is to stop us from playing it, but honestly the insantiy he's describing makes me wanna play it more. I've always enjoyed CoD campaigns but I skipped MWIII because I didnt hear good things about it and I was going through a FPS burnout at that time. But I am quite curious about this one. Maybe I'll try it when the price is okay in G2A or something
Lmao I used to play around with Game Maker in my high school comp science classes over a decade ago, imagine my absolute shock when I find out not only are they still alive as a business, but they've sponsored this video and are actually behind some solid releases I've heard of.
First couple Levels sounds like the normal Infinity Ward slop, the open world part sounds like Sledgehammer last "game" Raven Software's Singularity sounds kind of like the lab level Yahtzee is on to something..
It *almost* feels self aware, and to a degree I'm sure it is, but between all the different developers and the total sincerity it handles its narrative I think at best a couple of devs were able to convince the suits to go along with their more outlandish ideas.
4:00 LOL! That's kind of how Cold War ended. You're in the middle of the final mission, blow up some non descript AA guns and suddenly the game is over. So random and unsatisfying. I hadn't actually played a CoD game since the original MW3 but CW (which I got free with my GPU) was so disappointing due to the lack of spectacle except for this cool moment at the beginning where you're chasing a plane. Otherwise it was such a dull experience and was too short to tell its story properly.
I watched the campaign from an online gamer's point of view. I think the reason it has so many different gameplay styles - even the Puzzle House - is because CoD gamers don't buy other games. They don't even look in the direction of other games. This is a whole generation of gameplay variety that they missed out on because this is their gaming. They aren't "Gamers" they are "Call of Duty Enthusiasts" and have thus missed out on nearly every major trend in gaming as a hobby since they began buying the franchise and have therefor been left out of every significant conversation. It's even got single player perks you can "Level Up" but only if you find enough missable money by using the unique and brand-new-to-CoD mechanic of "Exploring the Levels" for "Secrets". It's like the team that Activision has enslaved to make this game knew their precious cash babies were falling behind the other gamers who actually try new games and play more than one game at a time and didn't want little Johnny to be the only child on the playground still in diapers after 20 games.
1:37 This is why I loved that Micah was the rat in Red Dead Redemption 2. You're encouraged to hate him from the beginning, he continues to be hateable, and then becomes a hundred times more hateable. That's a villain I enjoyed ending.
Put that way it sounds like some kind of demo reel where studios try out all kinds of different genre gimmicks and whichever one is the most popular gets a full on game.
I was hoping for a stealth indie review. The last time he did that for disco elysium it was one of the best game ive ever played. and well theres a recently released indie game that would have catered to the sea faring, detective loving giant seaturtle that makes these reviews perfectly.
“Not unheard of in the Spunk Garggle WeeWee Realms” legit had me crying. I don’t know specifically why this line had my laughing out loud so hard but it did 😂😂😂
Dear lord I didn’t realize properly what bell end meant until now. I thought it was a term meaning empty headed like a church tower with nothing rattling around but a bell. 🔔 Thank goodness for the animations….
1:17 "We play as a CIA operatives who discover a plot to take over the world by an evil - sing along if you know the words..." Before I could think, my mind just went to *RANDOM DOCUMENTS AND AUDIO LOGS*
Anyone else get flashbacks to the spoof review of Duke Nukem Forever before it actually came out? I legitimately thought for a moment that this video might have also been a parody review! Are you seriously telling me that CoD: BO 6's story seriously that sporadic?!
when he mentioned Beenox I was actually surprised. I forgot I was living in a world where Activision was making anything besides COD, and more faithful high-quality recycles of PS1 mascot games were possible.
I think this video existing is proof that they atleast finally made something to talk about, i think if they keep iterating with a new one every year , they will improve these loops and drop the segments that didnt work. Its not the smartest way. But it sure is a way
kinda surprised Yahtz reviewed the 21st mainline COD, before Factorio or Satisfactory... you know, games that definitely could be described as post-dad games.
I maintain call of duty peaked, with the original modern warfare made in 2007. The campaigns of the series quickly descended into unplayable madness from there, with mw3's being one of the dubious honors of actually making me throw a controller in a rage fit because of cheap design choices and the unfair trope of infinitely respawning enemies with infinite grenades to toss making that final big level nigh on impossible to finish. And not even a bonus reward for going through that hell. Once they decided to nix the singleplayer campaign, it's been all too easy to ignore. And nowadays it's still reusing the same engine license since 2007, _and_ wants a *300GB download* to boot!
*It was definitely the third best Black Ops game in my opinion and the campaign was far better than last year’s COD (Although that was a rather low bar since Modern Warfare 3 as a whole was - to quote Callum’s Corner - a bag of arse).*
the new modern warfare 2 did the same thing by essentially having every mission rip off a different naughty dog level lol; convoy chase, crafting focuses stealth survival segment, etc.
I REALLY wish he'd dive into zombies, because since I've gotten into it I've become a total convert. The zombies mode in the Treyarch entries is worth admission price alone.
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Heyyyyy wait a minute.....wheres my stealth indie review??? Its actually call of duty??? I've been had!
Dude. Spoilers. 😖
Right?!! I know he mentioned reviewing COD6 but that just made me expect an indie double-bill switcheroo. But I guess they finally put enough single player substance to warrant a review after all this time
Trump won, this is the evil timeline
I was hoping it'd switch to a Mouthwashing review 30 seconds in
Maybe Second Wind figured outs it's a good thing if he actually talks about games people know? Instead of, you know, bumming around games nobody cares about with people you'd keep a safe distance from in real life?
You gotta love how they make the villain a CIA “mole” as if the CIA wouldn’t condone the most heinous shit imaginable.
yeah like MK Ultra lol
Technically it wasn't a mole, just a different kind of rogue CIA agent.
[Behind the Bastards intro music plays]
The CIA might condone it, but even they can't risk killing the sugar daddies of major politicians, because that would mean the "start a gang war for no reason" budget might reduced by Congress.
I guess when you name your game "black ops" you gotta work hard to create a villain that makes the hero look good
activision has been trying to find franchise immortality serum for decades. they tortured series like tony hawk and skylanders like experiments in a labratory and cod was the only one that lived
Black Ops 6 wasn't born. It survived the abortion.
Don’t forget what they did to Guitar Hero.
Scuffed bit about Skylanders was they actually had some diamonds in the rough with their 3DS games.
Instead of focusing on lame combat and puzzles whose solutions amounted to "own the proper toy". The 3DS games were Sonic-esque platformer, time attack racers with light beat 'em up elements.
The fun bit was that not all levels suited every type of toy. You might think that the fliers would be OP but there were limitations to what they could do and the flight being more of a glide meant that tricky platforming while trying to go as fast as possible could easily result in over shooting targets.
The variety of characters was a boon as they all had subtle variations in how they controlled due to size, speed and method of locomotion. So replaying levels over and over never really got old as there was always some new learning curve to account for.
I stand by my assessment from back then that they were dumping all of their effort and money into the wrong games. The larger console games were never half as enjoyable in spite of the larger, more elaborate production.
World of Warcraft somehow hasn't died. Hundreds of "WoW killers" and only FFXIV has ever come close.
They attached cybernetics into it this time. Half robot, half of duty. Robocod. A bit of James Pond?
The fact the video wasn't just him seizing on the floor while foaming at the mouth is a miracle.
Or did the stuff some twenties in Yahtzee's knickers and sit back to watch him dance. The lights don't keep themselves on, you know.
I doubt it, though. Our man Yhatz isn't good at keeping distain from his delivery, if not his words. I detected little to none.
Its practically a glowing recommendation for anyone remotely interested in the game.
It's because the second chance perk is only in the multiplayer.
@@NyJoanzy that's a nice icon picture you've got there.
@@chrisbarnes3864 you're the first other person I've seen with it.
I scrolled down to the comments and had a "wait a second. That's not me! " type of moment.
Ngl the zombie mission of the campaign really had me thinking that Treyarch just wants to make an action horror game
The funniest part is only raven did the campaign
As they should because it was gaz
honestly most of bo6 feels like the devs desperately wanting to do something that's not a cod game, unshackled by whatever vision activision has
at least it's pretty good, had a lot of fun with the campaign, and i found the characters to be really fucking cool, but knowing that the 4 main cast of marshall/sev/felix/case are doomed to be one-note characters and warzone skins just saddens me, it's a shame that it's all trapped in cod.
ya its clear everyone wants to make something that is not cod. one wants to make a milsim, one want to make a movement shooter.
Can someone bend reality and give them F.E.A.R.?
Black Ops 5 was just called Cold War. It was set in the 80s and had some raytraced shadows, which they weirdly haven't brought back
they were strange and buggy in Cold War, probably why they got removed
Yes we know that's why when he says black ops 5 it shows cold war on the screen
@@salmon_wine couldn't tell the difference with them being on tbh. The game looked pretty mid throughout
@@CT3LA had no idea that was Black Ops 5
@shawklan27 honestly I think cold war looked great- I prefer it's visual style to both BO4 and Bo6
No I did not drop a spoiler warning BECAUSE I RESPECT YOUR FING INTELLIGENCE love it
Just so know, you are allowed to say the word "fucking".
Something else I noticed about this game. There really wasn't much that felt like it was set in 1991. There's some talk about Saddam and Desert Storm. Some NIN songs. Some old CRT monitors. A Bill Clinton cameo. And that's about it. Everything else would fit perfectly today. Even the cars don't look like they're from the era.
How... How long ago you think 91 was?
@@Sp1n1985 cars certainly looked a lot different 30 years ago...
@@Sp1n1985 33 years to be exact. I know because my birthday was like a week ago.
@@Sp1n1985 A third of a century ago.
@@Sp1n1985 How is length of time relevant to getting the aesthetic correct? If it doesn’t look like 1991, it doesn’t matter how long ago it was.
5:00 There's something uniquely depressing about seeing high moon, beenox and raven all still in the CoD mines. Not really a massive fan of any of them but I've played and enjoyed games they made, seeing them all tied up like this is pretty sad.
Then again knowing the turnover at these companies the vast majority of the people there won't have worked on the stuff I played
Imagine if they would just let 3arch off the leash and tell em to make a full fledged horde shooter
@@Bruhx10 Jedi Outcast/Academy fan here. It burns...
The only Raven game I've played was Black Crypt on the Amiga, so your last point is almost certainly true for me.
Raven once shared an office with id Software, and used their tech for some good experiences!
At least they unionized!
We live in these mines
We die in these mines
We never leave these mines
Cause the CoD mines never end
-The subsidiary workers chant
IMO, "AAA sampler platter" is probably the best place for a game like CoD, especially if it pushes players to other, more involved SP experiences. Embrace being the first video game anyone can name by celebrating the wider medium.
Honestly...not a terrible idea.
Not the worst take of all, but also think they could have done more stuff like the Desert level and instead shoehorned the stealth aspects into that.
If I understood what you mean by that, I'd bring up Nintendo Land. That's also just a splattering of fun recreations of other, more focused, games.
The part where Yahtzee describes the various levels reminded me of his first joke review for Duke Nukem Forever.
You really can't joke about anything anymore, every stupid thing gets done eventually.
Speaking of the Duke Nukem Forever joke review, I read an article once where it stated that was more or less the blueprint for Wolfenstein The New Order. Pretty crazy.
We still need the moon ravioli section. That'll probably turn up in a sequel to It Takes Two if they ever make one.
The sad part? Duke Nukem Forever is looking better in hindsight, all the time. Honestly, I've played the crap out of it, and it's worse crime is being *boring.* You want truly bad, I'll direct you to Eat Lead or Starfield.
@@Umbra_Ursus Starfield at least has the space explorer fantasy and ship builder going for it. And can be fun to play
Extra Credits once called the tendency of Call of Duty games to throw spaghetti at the wall with their game mechanics "Call of WarioWare."
That quip still seems to apply today.
Before or after they relate black people to orcs?
@@keatonkitsune4064 Long before. When it was actually good.
LOL brilliant
@@keatonkitsune4064I'm sorry w h a t
@@keatonkitsune4064 Normalizing that rhymes with Yahtzee.
They've had a whole Resident Evil 6 "we've forgotten what we were supposed to be about, so here's a little bit of everything popular these days" crisis, haven't they?
Not exactly, because Resident Evil 6 was motivated by desperation while this feels more like the devs were just bored and wanted to get experience for different stuff in their resume. It's competent in a way that RE6 was very much not.
@@grfrjiglstan
This isn't out of desperation, but because Activision is the only company that loves treadmill work. That being making an annual release instead of a stable and legit live service model. I just want one CoD game every 3-5 years
@@redline841 You know something's gone horribly wrong when your development model makes people wish you'd just do Live Service and get on with it
Yes indeed.
How far off do you think we are from a remake of Resident Evil 6?
Fun fact about BLOPS 6: Not only is it available on Game Pass (for like 10-12 dollars a month), but after finishing the campaign, I was able to not just cancel the Game Pass, but actually was able to get it *fully refunded* in the cancel subscription menu - something I've never seen before - despite playing the game over multiple days and not rushing it.
I've effectively finished the entire Blops 6 campaign for free, completely legally - and honestly, for a $0 experience, it was really fun.
So . . . did Microsoft screw up or are Microsoft trolling their business partners now?
When they are trying to sell a dlc for $70 you got to use modern solutions.
@@clydenorthrup5484 That wasn't exactly a screwup, it's a dedicated option when you select to cancel your Game Pass subscription - there's possibly some time limitation (maybe within a week of starting it? I did finish the game in ca 5 days), one strict difference between "refund" and the classic "cancel after this month" option is that the refund-type cancellation ends your sub immediately, not "after the month ends". It's also possible there's a limit of how many times you can do a game pass refund, so don't @ me if it doesn't work the second time (:
I swear companies care more about "active users" than game sales. They'd rather you be in the game to potentially buy skins, than get 1 game sale. Gotta please brain dead investors with "active user" numbers. 🤑😑
I remember a few years ago I was looking at the steam reviews for the original wolfenstien and noticed they all had 2 hours of playtime. 2 hours is the limit to how much time you can have in a game before steam won’t let you refund it so if you don’t die too often, you could probably beat it in time for a refund
Im with yahtzee. I didnt know they made a black ops 5 let alone 6.
there was a 4?!
@@santacruisin
Apparently so.
@@santacruisin there was, but everyone overlooked it because it had no campaign and the zombies sucked
Black ops seemlying has the coolest potential since you save the world from shady underground plots with a small group. Though it seems like since black ops 3 they have ran out of ideas. Honestly I would prefer more modern times so that it is not just "hey remember this tacky pop culture reference."
I appreciate the running gag of the protagonist just being referred to as "Black Ops", not like they'd be interesting enough for us to remember their real name anyways.
I do remember his name but that's only because I've played it so recently
Honestly, I haven’t remembered anything about a CoD protagonist since Infinite Warfare, and _maaaaybe_ Bell, but the last one’s only cause of a handful of really good missions that make little to no sense from a historical perspective.
They were once... How the mediocre have fallen.
Tbf in BO3 i think the game basically did that aswell. I genuinely think his name on the subtitles was just "Soldier" or something like that.
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Probably the nicest Yahtz has been to COD as of late
Tbf, this game at least tried something new. It might not be a coherent experience, but it’s still better than 4th unoriginal Modern Warfare game, featuring John American shooting Vague International Threat #36.
I think that even at its messiest, an attempt at something different is worth a thousand attempts at the same idea.
Meh, still the same old cod different skin.
The reason it's like this is because the campaign is made by Raven Software. It's barely even a CoD, you're WAY MORE overpowered than you think. Go replay but use the adrenaline stims.
After watching a play through of Black Ops 6, I thought the bad guys weren’t “a PMC group being controlled by a mole in the CIA” but rather “Woods and Company deal with the CIA’s sins, again”
What I will mention is the campaign's lead developer team is Raven Software. They've been working on CoD's multiplayer for about a decade and was promoted to taking over the Black Ops story from Treyarch starting with Cold War. Cold War and BO6 campaign is pretty much them protesting and turning the story into Singularity 2 that they never got to make. Activision...LET THEM MAKE THE DAMN SEQUEL!!!
The fact that Black Ops 6 was worthy of a Fully Ramblomatic makes it 10x more worth buying than any other call of duty in the last 8+ years.
technically, I guess. it's still zero after all
i mean 10 times 0 is still 0, but i get your point
Cope. A cod game is a cod game
Eh, I played the campaign and it’s alright. It flip flops from interesting (the prey style mission) to really dull and there isn’t any real replayability with it.
@@zekenotech ten times zero is still zero
The campaign was fun! I actually hope the studio responsible for it get to work on their own game if possible. Stealth missions, optional objectives, the mind bending portions - all great!
Even if ends on a cliffhanger?
i didnt love it that much but i agree there was some sembelence of original thought and a campaign that could have been decent if they were really allowed to run with a theme and make a whole game.
This is actually the best thing I've heard about COD campaigns. It SHOULD lean more into a Saint's Row-esqe silliness
Self-awareness only works if there's a self-aware audience.
@@idanbhk3875 It been a few decades, I'm sure the Call of Duty audience would have gained self awareness by now the same way the Fast and Furious fans have.
@@monhunterz5430 "Press F to pay respects" is literally a meme started by Advanced Warfare. You'd hope there's some self-awareness with COD fans.
The GameMaker ad needs updating to include UFO 50!
It's huge and crazy impressive what they've done, from the maker of Spelunky
The funniest part of the game is how the evil PMC/rogue cia unit are introduced;
The bad guys don’t even get to fire first. There’s no shock twist that the shady cia black Ops unit who’ve come to help suddenly start Order 66-ing our ass. The main characters get the jump on them and start shooting before they get a chance to do anything, so you have US troops firing on other US troops with neither side communicating first. It would be really fucking awkward if they actually were sent to help but since they “aren’t with us” that immediately means they’re hostile.
Marshall, Harrow and Case must suck at surprise parties.
However unintentionally, you've somewhat sold me on the campaign.
Been a hot minute since I played a CoD campaign, I was looking forward to taking advantage of the gamepass release and gunning through some crazy silly set pieces and corridors filled with Bad Guys(TM).
I wasn't expecting dialogue choices, branching paths, or anything else that Yahtz touched on in his review. It was actually really fun - stupid, with a shallow story that didn't make sense or feel grounded in the slightest, but I felt transported back 15 years to simpler times.
Sold you on the pitch. But the execution is a different story.
The idea that there's a part of a CoD game that feels like Psychonauts honestly terrifies me about what AAA gaming is gonna ruin next.
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Love the detail of the eyes looking in different directions as he says "I swear all I had to do was spray bullets vaguely in the direction of the dudes..."
Seeing what's been done to High Moon brings a tear to my eye every time
This honestly makes the Campaign sound amazing.
Makes me think of a less good Titanfall 2, which still sounds pretty good.
I know, right? I've barely ever played CoD, but I'm feeling interested.
As long as you don't try to bum rush it and just do it casually, it ends up being decent (not to pay for but for leaving mp/zombies for at least).
Yeah exactly. I don't understands Yahtz sometimes. Jack of all trades doesn't have to always be a bad thing, I've really enjoyed the variety Raven software tried to create with this campaign. They have some cool gameplay ideas despite being forced to work in call of duty mines
It's the best campaign since Call of Duty 4, which is faint praise, but still, worth checking out if you have 12 bucks for gamepass and an extra large hard drive.
Raven yearns to escape the COD mines.
Also just gonna say they specifically worked on the campaign, same with the Cold War campaign, since that seemed unclear in the review.
0:18 Same. Had no idea it was Black Ops 5 too.
I'm assuming higher ups at treyarch wanted it to go unnumbered like how CoD as a whole went unnumbered after the 4th game, but I guess they couldn't come up with a catchy subtitle for black ops and gave up
@@testname4464 That's probably what happened. Originally when the leaks for this game started happening in 2022, it was being referred to as Black Ops: Gulf War, but I guess they realized that would've been very misleading given that this game doesn't really have anything to do with the Gulf War at all aside from the Helldivers 2-esque mission Yahtzee mentioned and a subsequent siege on Saddam's palace to push forward the main plot. But they couldn't come up with a better subtitle so they just said "FUCK IT! Let's just call it Black Ops 6!"
@NN010 speaking of leaks. I remember when Twitter insisted you could fly the planes into the twin towers. Why? Idk but it was really funny to see people just confidently lie about something so ridiculous yet harmless
I wasn't even aware there was a fourth one. It seemed to me like they skipped straight from 3 to 6.
@@37TrillionWaspsthe 4th one was the one that didn’t have a campaign
Oh yay, a new Fully Ramblo to brighten up my day. One moment, let me just blast a smile onto my face with this shotgun as I try not to think about what else happened today
A fancy hors-d'oeuvres buffet is the perfect analogy for this. A little unsatisfying bit of everything for everyone, but no one's gonna have the money for it and why would they make this when they can just eat their preferred meal at home, unless they're rich.
And of course that bio weapon is bright green in a glass vial. As is tradition.
@@patrickbyrne5070 It’s red, actually.
I suddenly feel sad for all the devs that work on this game. They clearly want Call of Duty to to take a break from the yearly release schedule. Hell, I would like half of the studios that worked on this to do SOMETHING ELSE for their next project so that they can at least take a mental break. Let Beenox, High Moon and Raven make make games that are considerably different.
The worst part is that there are enough whales still buying into these games that they make fiscal sense to make. That's the real tragedy here.
What's bizarre is its become so dire even buying the game from actiblizz doesn't matter anymore, because they're making bank off overpriced cosmetics. At least fornite can be played for years on end, after the first year of any CoD game the playerbase tanks. And you gotta buy the next game to avoid endless sweats, or play warzone... honestly warzone should count as self harm
Yahtzee: "what are you, a Playstation demo disc?
Yahtzee's audience: "A what? What's a 'demo disc'?"
You know what? I'm actually sold on this game. That all sounds quite interesting, especially as someone who's enjoying Battlefield Hardline's janky attempts to fit an actual police game into a spunkgargleweewee engine.
I had the same thought when Blops 6 was announced. "There was a 5?"
Having that many developers work on a 5 hour campaign is like having a billionaire bankroll an elementary school nativity play
I hate these stupid comments. Zombies, Campaign, Online PVP, Online Massive PVP, etc. You act like these games don't have massive modes that require hordes of people to develop.
@kingsleycy3450 I believe only raven worked on the campaign
@@TheStormbringer8751
Don't forget about all the people who are asset artists, level designers, the ones that worked on the game engine, etc.
There is so much artwork in the game, there are so many calling cards (that most people will never unlock if they even see them but there's a ton of them that are there). Watching the credits, you can kind of see which studios did what but I think it's high time Raven gets to be fully let off the leash since their last couple campaigns were actually pretty fun and I'd like to see them tackle something unique/not-explicitly-COD
This is what happens when you turn the fifth largest gaming company that used to make a game in nearly every genre into an fps factory, they want to escape.
I was expecting a review of Disco Elysium 2: Panic at the Elysium.
4:36 I like how the picture of the motorcycle still has its code
Nobody talks about it but UFO 50 was also made in Game Maker. It was kinda wild finding out.
I'm happy the end music has a much lower volume.
I played the campaign (for free on Game Pass, of course) and I can say for certain that it was both not very good and better than the Modern Warfare remakes. Probably worth it if you can play it for under $15. Also, that open world desert level was probably the worst. It took me like two hours and the 4 different types of objectives were just repeated 3 times. Also, the baddies kept clipping through the car when I tried to run them over.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought the abandoned cia research facility mission just felt like a control or prey reference
This was sounding a lot like an "Avengers assemble" scenario even before he introduced the dev conga.
I know Yahtz's intention is to stop us from playing it, but honestly the insantiy he's describing makes me wanna play it more. I've always enjoyed CoD campaigns but I skipped MWIII because I didnt hear good things about it and I was going through a FPS burnout at that time. But I am quite curious about this one. Maybe I'll try it when the price is okay in G2A or something
Lmao I used to play around with Game Maker in my high school comp science classes over a decade ago, imagine my absolute shock when I find out not only are they still alive as a business, but they've sponsored this video and are actually behind some solid releases I've heard of.
Damn that end bit was a dagger line.
I’m surprised this came out, Dunkey said it was impossible to play this game!
He is right. I tried subscribing to Game Pass for it, but Microsoft just wouldn't take my money.
That's because Dunky is a clown who can get filtered by a 'sign your name' box.
The fact that he’s even playing the game AND hasn’t torn it to absolute shreds is a miracle itself.
First couple Levels sounds like the normal Infinity Ward slop, the open world part sounds like Sledgehammer last "game" Raven Software's Singularity sounds kind of like the lab level Yahtzee is on to something..
It *almost* feels self aware, and to a degree I'm sure it is, but between all the different developers and the total sincerity it handles its narrative I think at best a couple of devs were able to convince the suits to go along with their more outlandish ideas.
honestly i appreciate the game taking it's narrative seriously
making it self aware would've turned it into a joss whedon fest.
@@bit_ronic When you put it that way, yeah, this was definitely the preferable way to do it.
This is one of the funniest you've made since SW started. Bravo!
4:00 LOL! That's kind of how Cold War ended. You're in the middle of the final mission, blow up some non descript AA guns and suddenly the game is over. So random and unsatisfying. I hadn't actually played a CoD game since the original MW3 but CW (which I got free with my GPU) was so disappointing due to the lack of spectacle except for this cool moment at the beginning where you're chasing a plane. Otherwise it was such a dull experience and was too short to tell its story properly.
I watched the campaign from an online gamer's point of view. I think the reason it has so many different gameplay styles - even the Puzzle House - is because CoD gamers don't buy other games. They don't even look in the direction of other games. This is a whole generation of gameplay variety that they missed out on because this is their gaming. They aren't "Gamers" they are "Call of Duty Enthusiasts" and have thus missed out on nearly every major trend in gaming as a hobby since they began buying the franchise and have therefor been left out of every significant conversation. It's even got single player perks you can "Level Up" but only if you find enough missable money by using the unique and brand-new-to-CoD mechanic of "Exploring the Levels" for "Secrets". It's like the team that Activision has enslaved to make this game knew their precious cash babies were falling behind the other gamers who actually try new games and play more than one game at a time and didn't want little Johnny to be the only child on the playground still in diapers after 20 games.
I thought the "Call of Duty enthusiast" was a U.S. military veteran that let himself go or a welfare king/queen.
2:57 So Doom... Over 20 years, and it took us so long to reach fucking Doom
1:37 This is why I loved that Micah was the rat in Red Dead Redemption 2. You're encouraged to hate him from the beginning, he continues to be hateable, and then becomes a hundred times more hateable. That's a villain I enjoyed ending.
Put that way it sounds like some kind of demo reel where studios try out all kinds of different genre gimmicks and whichever one is the most popular gets a full on game.
Oh cool, the description part for the video starts it of the advertisement bit.
4:51 I miss the Cybertron games...
Honestly, that sounds pretty on par with the last CoD campaign I've played so far.
"Please....no more Call of Duty. I'm so tired..."
- Every Call of Duty support developer.
I was hoping for a stealth indie review. The last time he did that for disco elysium it was one of the best game ive ever played. and well theres a recently released indie game that would have catered to the sea faring, detective loving giant seaturtle that makes these reviews perfectly.
“Not unheard of in the Spunk Garggle WeeWee Realms” legit had me crying. I don’t know specifically why this line had my laughing out loud so hard but it did 😂😂😂
Dear lord I didn’t realize properly what bell end meant until now. I thought it was a term meaning empty headed like a church tower with nothing rattling around but a bell. 🔔 Thank goodness for the animations….
Fuck I miss the 90s.
Everyone does, but unfortunately it appears we've overshot and landed in the *18*90s.
2:39 - Be me, watching this while giving a parking ticket
When did Cod Blops Five happen? Is it a Leisure Suit Larry 4 situation?
@@RuleroftheSandcastle It was Cold War.
no review of every single ufo 50 game but we got a cod review, give us the goods
1:17
"We play as a CIA operatives who discover a plot to take over the world by an evil - sing along if you know the words..."
Before I could think, my mind just went to *RANDOM DOCUMENTS AND AUDIO LOGS*
Anyone else get flashbacks to the spoof review of Duke Nukem Forever before it actually came out?
I legitimately thought for a moment that this video might have also been a parody review!
Are you seriously telling me that CoD: BO 6's story seriously that sporadic?!
It actually is.
Ending gag hitting especially hard today...
when he mentioned Beenox I was actually surprised. I forgot I was living in a world where Activision was making anything besides COD, and more faithful high-quality recycles of PS1 mascot games were possible.
Well, that last joke fits perfectly with US elections. Bravo.
I think this video existing is proof that they atleast finally made something to talk about, i think if they keep iterating with a new one every year , they will improve these loops and drop the segments that didnt work. Its not the smartest way. But it sure is a way
Damn. I was hoping he was gonna do VeilGuard... He is the ONE reviewer I actually trust on that one.
God I miss demo disks, in fact I just plain miss the Playstation 1 era of gaming.
kinda surprised Yahtz reviewed the 21st mainline COD, before Factorio or Satisfactory... you know, games that definitely could be described as post-dad games.
I dunno what I'm more surprised by, the fact that they've made 6 Black Ops games or the fact that Yahtzee still has to play and review them
He actually reviewed it and the zombies looks decent this time? That’s it, I’m buying this one
I maintain call of duty peaked, with the original modern warfare made in 2007. The campaigns of the series quickly descended into unplayable madness from there, with mw3's being one of the dubious honors of actually making me throw a controller in a rage fit because of cheap design choices and the unfair trope of infinitely respawning enemies with infinite grenades to toss making that final big level nigh on impossible to finish. And not even a bonus reward for going through that hell.
Once they decided to nix the singleplayer campaign, it's been all too easy to ignore. And nowadays it's still reusing the same engine license since 2007, _and_ wants a *300GB download* to boot!
Wait what? Pantheon isn’t a PMC, they’re a rogue cia splitter group. Did Yahtzee even play the game?
CoD has moved on from copying popular war movies and on to copying successful video games.
So how long until they throw in a BG3 esque sequence?
@@dastvan8002 I give it five more years
*It was definitely the third best Black Ops game in my opinion and the campaign was far better than last year’s COD (Although that was a rather low bar since Modern Warfare 3 as a whole was - to quote Callum’s Corner - a bag of arse).*
brilliant review
Didn't call it BLOPS this time. That's okay though, I'll still call these blops.
That last credits joke is so timely given the election results.
the new modern warfare 2 did the same thing by essentially having every mission rip off a different naughty dog level lol; convoy chase, crafting focuses stealth survival segment, etc.
I knew the angry guy at the start wasn't the mole the second they suggested he was.
NGL I'm a little disappointed that this CoD review actually contained a CoD review.
Funny, when Steam recommended "Black Ops 6" to me I also thought to myself "when was there a 5?"
So this AAA title was different developers being handed different levels and then the whole thing is strung together? 🤔 The LJN of the future is now.
Honestly the utterly unhinged mission structure does sound fun
Would be interesting if they credited which development team did which part. See if soul is still in the husks working in the Call of Duty mines.
I REALLY wish he'd dive into zombies, because since I've gotten into it I've become a total convert. The zombies mode in the Treyarch entries is worth admission price alone.
Set speed to 1.5 for classic Zero Punctuation nostalgia