Totally random but "Heard you died in a tank in South America" The fight with Graves took place in Mexico, which is not in South America. They couldn't even get that right
It's weird, but for some reason, some geographers stopped referring to Mexico as being part of "Central America" and instead calling the whole thing either just "North/South America."
I can already imagine the next COD Soap comes back and Price goes "Soap I saw you get shot in the head, cremated your dead body and then scattered your ashes" to which Soap will reply "I wasn't in that cremation urn."
“Oh did I? Huh… didn’t notice” insert over the top badass music (which is silence because the game actually doesn’t have a soundtrack) thinking they did something awesome
1:11:52 Fun Fact: Briky had that same exact challenge to unlock semtex in his game. You know what was the last point of the challenge? Kill an enemy with semtex… you need to kill an enemy with a semtex, that you haven’t unlocked yet, to unlock semtex.
I love how they don't know their own timeline in this plot. Makarov says "6 years", but the subtitles say "4 years" in the first mission. He insults Price in the flashback, but the insult would only make sense in present day. Prince calls to warn about the missiles when they launch, but as soon as you receive the call - they land, etc...
none of publishers or devs gave a damn about the actual timeline nor the quality. The only thing really ever gave a shit about was the sbmm and eomm system that broke COD and the online store that's the only system in the game that's never had any issues outside of existing in the first place.
11:52 that’s why OG Makarov’s voice was so awesome, it was cold, calculating, intimidating, and it had an authentic sounding Russian accent without being over the top….and that’s because he was actually voiced by a Russian actor
@@diobrando2495 the new guy is Bulgarian, and he’s fine, but it’s just not as good as the OG To be fair, Roman Varshevksy isn’t even a full blooded Russian. He was born in Kazakhstan back when it was part of the USSR, but he grew up in Moscow and Russian is his first language. The point stands that his voice for makarov is authentic and perfectly acted for a cold and calculating villain
I love how people still play this game for the multiplayer, despite it still just being the last game’s multiplayer. I’m so glad that Lethal Company has outsold this COD.
definitely just the last games MP. Didn't touch a single thing on any of the guns or movement or add in any new weapons or killstreaks to the last one. Not a single thing was changed.
55:40 fun fact if u want another emotional “scene” go back to the old Modern Warfare 2. Forgot what the mission name, but it was a section where you were suppose to stop Russian reinforcements from over running an Evac LZ for civilians during the invasion of Washington DC. If you do nothing the nearby radio messages get more and more depressing.
"Fanservice in Cod?! Since when?" WDYM since when?! Do you not see how hot some of their women look in cod games?! Not to mention how much they milk the iconic characters for skins in the stores for the non-sexual fanservice.
As much of a clusterfuck Halo 5's campaign was, it at least had curated mission design, set pieces (I'll never forget the Mantis section on Sanghelios with the Walk Softly BGM), an interesting premise *on paper,* an actual sensical timeline of sorts, a decent OST, and didn't commit character-assassination - Master Chief was just boring, Vale was Vale, Locke is marginally better than he was in Nightfall, and it was nice to see Buck still kicking ass after the events of ODST and New/Bad Blood. The best way I can describe MW2023's campaign is a blackhole of time and energy. Makarov is dually a god and a dumbass - able to teleport where the plot needs him to be, I question how Price maintains his position as a captain, the "highly concentrated Sarin gas" that Ghost mentioned is not even remotely close to what Sarin actually is (a 5 minute google search will tell you exactly what it is and its effects from both the CDC and Wikipedia), and the TF141 are bootleg Avengers.
10:50 Here's the thing... The Black Ops campaign is generally regarded as one of the best. And the Black Ops 2 campaign is generally regarded as THE best. They were most definitely very well received. You may not remember it, but that's completely fine.
Black ops was kino and was hype as fuck back when it released with generally good reviews. The campaign is amazing multiplayer was peak and zombies was goated. Her saying it was mid is weird
Supposedly, this game wasn't even supposed to be a game in the first place. They just forced them to make a game with little to no time. That's most likely why zombies is the way it is. Is the campaign bad? Bad isn't even the right word. It's awful. Is the zombies bad? Well, I've seen people have genuine fun with the game, so it's subjective. And now the elephant in the room: was this worth $70?. No,no it wasn't. If this was DLC for the previous game, you know where all these maps are from, it would be great! Remaster of old maps and a zombie experience, for, let's say, $15 would be amazing! For me personally, I only play zombies in COD. But I'm not willing to pay $70 dollars for a game that I'm gonna be playing one mode. This "game" isn't worth $70.
you're an idiot if you think the the entire rework of health, movement, recoil on guns, addition of one of the highest number of guns in a base cod (only mw3 guns), and all of that is only worth $15. No way that shit would be less than $40, likely more. Is the stuff that's not the MP good? Not really. Most of the MP issues are things sledgehammer was handed and they're slowly having to fix for IW anyways.
If you think about it, back in the 2011 MW3 with it's sequel it was done well compared to 2023. They carried on the story after Shepherd's death. You go to play as a character in the mist of WW3 as well as swapping back to your old Task Force 141 buddies with a new member in the group with tie-ins and better yet the plot was amazing. And the fact how Makarov was going over the rails to capture Vorshevsky (The Russian President) so he can take his nukes and do the final blow. He straight up tricks his own country into a motivation of wiping out America with a single act that's shown as terrorism on the hands of a dead American CIA agent. Makarov in MW3 is just there out of bounds keeping the show in motion whilst planning a strike that would make him the most dangerous man on the planet. And nobody would even know the truth except for his enemies.
MW3 was an amazing game not better than MW2 ofc but it’s an epic final installment to give a badass and bittersweet ending, it might have copied a lot yet I still disagree with Actman saying it’s mediocre that is too far it’s good just not amazing like MW2.
I think I might get what she's saying about getting people who can speak some Russian to actually play Russian Roles. From the way she described how it sounds to her, it gave me the same vibes as what we usually get in anime (the original Japanese dubs) when they need to have an American character speak English, but they cast Japanese VA's who sound like they only have a very loose general idea of how the words are meant to be spoken.
I know it's silly to nitpick an already shitty game but when he's talking about the 40mm grenade barely missing him, the grenade model in game that was shot at him is the whole round still in the case...
The comment about bugs arising from copy-pasting assets from one game into another in a new engine hits home. Did QA on WZ some years back and the assets brought over from MW2 and Cold War were bugged to high hell every time it was a nightmare.
BO1 didn't have a strong start, but it did grow phenomenally before it's cycle ended. So much so that, that very growth helped in the excitement of BO2 which most of the fan and player base considered the best game in the franchise.
In the original mw3 I still cry when soap passes and prices reaction. When I first experienced this mission I cried as I played mw 1 and 2, just felt like losing a friend you had for years. I know he's a fictional character and etc. Just the way the story was done made us feel connected with the characters to that level. I do miss when games had those kind of storys.
Remember when Farah was a close friend to Price, partially because he saved her, and her brother's life from a prison camp in MW2019? Ya MW3 throws all that out the window....wtf
TLDR Makarov's Russian is like Borat's English (Borat was an early 2000s movie making fun of stereotypical American's responses to an Eastern European touring the US filmed in front of unknowing passers by with only the most extreme responses to him making it into the movie it's technically illegal to do that now and yes it was basically a UA-cam prank before UA-cam was big). Given the company track record im suspecting they didn't get a decent voice actor out of fear of getting an accent that alienated either Russia or the entire ex-soviet block giving everything they can afford to give to Ukraine in the hopes of stopping Russia from rebuilding the USSR.
They killed my boy (Soap) in the worst way possible. "Oh hey, how should we add shock value? How about we kill off one of the most popular 141 characters." It's not only just that, they did it in the worst way possible, to the point where I didn't play him in multiplayer for months.
The moment in the original MW3 had more impact because not only did you play as Soap in the original MW1, but you also fought alongside him in MW2, it created that perfect blend of bonding between you and the characters you were interacting with so to hear Price yelling about Soap dying right in his arms like a parent losing their child, it hits you right in the feels because it makes the following scene after be more impactful when you hear and see Price's rage.
I see this vid is 2 months old, but here, I remember growing up and going to the yearly field day in my school. There were people who won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Then we stepped away from that and gave everyone a ribbon. Now those kids are grown and in the work force. You are welcome!
"Black ops was mid and the zombies was good, but from everything else it was mid. Thats what I remember" Then your memory must be duller than Vietnam helmet-
On a personal level IDRC if the skins for characters are based on existing IP's or just weird whacky characters like the cat skin soldiers or whatever, that to me is just cool or a reference to other beloved characters (I think the implementation I've seen from the lillith/inarius skins were lame but idc about the skins themselves), but I do have major issue with pulling real life celebs as character skins. If we're using real life people as the basis for a skin, Why not base them off of military/historical legends like the white death? that's significantly better than niki who lets be real, we all know the real reason most people are buying that skin; kevin durant whoever tf that is, or snoop dogg (I love snoop but like... why?). It'd be one thing if they were unique characters in the game like connor mcgregor was in infinite warfare, but no to my knowledge it's JUST snoop dogg.
"Your main goal is to complete arbitrary contracts and objectives, then lose the match before jumping into a new one." The apple doesn't fall far from the dev's desk.
"Bad" Russian accents is literally just what we hear when people speak Russian: fake exaggerated deep voice, speech pattern making steady incline to then fall of a cliff to start over again. It's really hard to hear what you sound like when you speak a language. Look up what English sounds like to people who don't speak it. Same thing.
I remember way back when PUBG first came to consoles and it looked something like the new MW3 graphics when you loaded in. Fortunately, the textures and stuff would eventually load into the map on PUBG.
I almost just want to insert a disc of the original trilogy in any person's PC/Console that plays these games. Like I swear, the original ones, even with the recycling are great games with great stories and moments and really sucks someone could associate this new trilogy with the Modern Warfare brand. My only hope left is to Treyarch to release another banger next year, If they haven't over-exploited them so hard this time even they could fail.
I love the anotation at the bottom at 9:15 (rescuing Makarov AKA Russian Ben Shapiro) when I think he looks more like Russian Ion Hazzakostas. His eyebrows are nowhere bushy enough to be Ben.
I had fun in Ghosts, despite them making big promises and achieving none of them. I still had fun. How the heck does this not even look remotely fun? It’s been downhill since BO2.
Ghosts had some of the best dlc hands down, c’mon Micheal Myers and Predator? That’s a W, it was fun and I liked the multiplayer for the most part at least, I don’t remember the story atm.
The most annoying part, is that you have to launch the hub, wait, it open, update, restart, wait, it opens, and then selct mw2, then it closes, wait, it opens mw2, and then you have to close it for a update, and then, open the hub, then open mw2, and then wait for sharder to finally optimize after a week, and then play mw2. like dam, not only they didn't even merge, they didint create a new cod, but people who wants to play 2, has to go through so much hopes and lopes, unlike before.
You should react to his other review videos on COD games. I recommend his WaW and BO2 videos. I will always say this, BO2 was the last COD game that was good and had soul. Such a great campaign, great multiplayer, and a good zombies.
I'll defend AW and say that they did want to genuinely push the series forward mechanically, even if that was because titanfall was the newest/biggest competition. The exosuits allowed for wild shit in the campaign and the military as a business was a very interesting concept to go with. I thought multiplayer was cool (even if a lot of scummy shit got started in that game, I remember unique weapons being a purchasable thing via lootboxes/cod points or some shit). zombies was ass though from what I remember. Hell infinite warfare had a really surprisingly good campaign too, multi/zombies I don't remember being the best but the campaign definitely had heart, the advertising for that game was dogshit though. "fuck it, lets go to space" ruined the game before launch. WW2 is what ruined the series for me. I thought the campaign was uninspired tedium, I didn't like multiplayer at all, there was a LOT of lootbox shit going on in that game, and it felt like the first time the series outright collectively took a step backwards. Even BO4 tried something new with the BR stuff, I can applaud that to an extent even if they gutted campaign entirely. I will however always say BO2 was the best. multiplayer was great, the campaign is the best in the series with so many optional pathways and discoveries to make, zombies wasn't BO good to me but it was still pretty fun, and most importantly it has the B23r which is my favorite gun in the series :)
This isn't a sequel. This isn't an expansion. This isn't even a DLC. This is a poorly made fan-fiction shareware made by people who made the game they THINK people wanted.
Her part of how the Russian sounds in games as a non-Russian speaker it sounds ok to me as i can understand it as much as i can korean meaning not at all. To this I can understand why she gets annoyed at people who are in the game Russian speaking Russian who should know how to properly but doing so poorly. As that happens a lot in games translated from Indonesian to English. Their VAs for speaking English are not that good with English voices are good but how they pronounce them is bad. The part over reuse of assets in Call of Duty games well unless the player can tell it is a quick way to make games quickly. For most guns i can see why to use the same mesh and just have a better texture on it for the newer edition to the franchise. For land you have like maybe 20 textures everyone uses for all games. It is in how they are used. The real big no-no they did is rip entire maps from another game. The meshes even for buildings, guns, ground and the sky can be the same if done right with textures it can look very different. Destructibility at least in the 3D modeling screen can help make a new mesh for the scene too. The big problems come when using textures and materials from other games but adjusting them none. how you can condense all game's grounds into 20 textures for all game grounds is how to adjust it is different. It seems EA's CoD forgot that is a thing they have to do. Yeah the places look better but even with direct copies of a map without modifying anything you get exactly that a direct copy of a map and players will notice.
9:30 that's not actually how voice acting works. You don't have the liberty of just TRYING to find someone that IS Russian or speaks it. You have a very specific talent pool in the US from the two major voice acting cities in the US, Los Angeles and Houston, Texas, and you usually have to hire or audition talent from that pool that is part of the industry and have notable experience in the field. Experience, known talent and actors with resumes superceed something as arbitrary as matching nationalities with an actor. It's just an accent. Performance is more important than an accent.
As someone who started playing COD with the original MW3: It was imo what MW2 should have been (the same without "one man army"). At least we got a functioning game and the maps were all actually new...
One of my friends streamed the campaign, I watched him play it on VETERAN, and mind you he's not that good of a campaign player, it took him exactly 4 hours and 30 minutes. And we encountered a few bugs from the MW II MULTIPLAYER in the CAMPAIGN.
Hey, at least when Eren went to war with the world, the world started it. he was in the wrong, but there was at least some grain of rationality why. After everything the outsiders put them through, now they're gathering a whole execution armada rather than letting them break out of the island. Not to mention the whole time-plot shenanigans. Graves was doing that shit literally for a paycheck. He's not even a war criminal, he's not a part of the military, he's 100% a terrorist. They want to show the hawroars of war and also have your multiplayer "operators" be characters like it's Apex or something.
It’s funny that people try defending this shit game by saying it’s “realistic” but it literally the least realistic of the trilogy and honestly even og trilogy because at least when characters die in og they stay dead, but here two people just magically move around in spots and magically just still alive after full on explosions
I mean when a somehow alive Price was in CoD 4 after dying on the _Tirpitz_ in WW2 in the original game, that was a _joke_ (him using an M1911 in the that game was a nod to the fact that CoD 1 didn't have a British sidearm). These days it wouldn't even be a surprise.
Alana, we can agree that the new MW3 is ass, but no way in hell did you call Black Ops 1 mid and "not well received." It's literally one of the most praised games in the franchise.
I hated that game, and I loved the game before it (the original modern warfare 2 I think?). HARDCORE CoD fans seem to really like Black Ops, but as a casual player, I do believe it was middling.
I work at a taco bell KFC and the gas from the taco bell has definitely knocked more than a few customers out with slightly more lethal side effects than that sarin gas 😂😂😂
Everyone clowned on BFV and COD WWII for having strange skins, but at least they never included E-girls and American Singers into the games like next gen Modern Warfare did.
The worst thing honestly? Infinity Ward was bored from making another Modern Warfare game so this was fucked at the start. And especially with sledgehammer games doing another one after finishing up vanguard. IW needs their shit together.
I recently got this game digitally for free (there is a story with this that I'm not going to go into). Is that cheap enough for how bad this games campaign is? I don't know if I'm actually going to bother playing this even though I didn't pay anything for it.
Black ops 1 was not mid, its was one of the best selling in the series and a lot of people in the community were hyped for it. My GameStop was packed with people picking it up and it even made news outlets talking about it. It also has the best campaign and multiplayer in the series and zombies was a masterpiece. So no Black ops 1 was not mid
What many don't know is that the people who made the good COD 1,2, MW where all purge by Bobby and to be sure they don't rise they made shit jetpack futuristic CODs before these devs could get their game (Titanfall) out
Imagine a timeline where Activision gave a shit about game quality. This would be a Multiplayer, Warzone, and Spec ops(co op) DLC developed by Sledgehammer. Let Treyarch and Infinity Ward cook on their next releases. If Activision still wanted more COD hype. They have another card to pull. MW3 remastered. Have Raven studios handle it again. Hell, since this is the fictional universe where Activision cares. Maybe this is when they release an MCC equivalent. Have it start with the original Modern Warfare trilogy(Campaign, Multiplayer, and Spec Ops). Then over the years add COD 1-3, WaW, BLOPS1&2. 1 reasonably priced and forward compatible game to enjoy all the OG CODs. Sadly they'll never do that. Cause people keep buying the effortless slop they push out.
Next CoD, COD: the search for makarov's shirt. XD Also i use to play WoW, a long time ago. But not even them bringing back Turalyon could save the story for me. lol
Honestly, I feel like they should have taken what little effort they put into attempting to cover up how unoriginal this MWIII is, scrapped the "campaign" completely and just apply 100% of their effort into turning this into a $20 expansion for MWII called "The Legacy Expansion" due to all of the reused assets from old COD games. Also add in more legacy maps but adjust them for the different movement. Maybe bring back spec ops mode if they really wanted to do a co op mode. Would've been similar to how they used to release map packs back in the day.
Let me tell you, if human beta testers were there, they were ignored. Quality Assurance was ignored, too. Assuming they were even hired in the first place considering dang near everyone in the higher ups think that A.I. alone can do everything without any glaring issues and side effects. Instead of Quality Assurance and testers complaining, let's half bake the game and patch it with AI made Quality Assurance or something. Let's make A.I. music that's horribly mixed to not even be heard well and sounds more like an elevator than an action movie or at the very least a film tragedy. Let's not try at all. Also, big fan of Game and Watch music used for the awful frame rate. Actually hilarious considering how the Game and Watch predates Mario and uses literal frames and cells instead of the now normalized LED stuff. Very fitting, even if Game and Watch is honestly better in comparison when taking in the 1980 start.
Also, to play devil's advocate: 1) Graves "surviving" by not going to that tank in the first place is logical thing, considering his character. 2) Neither Price not telling anything to Farah about shadow company, nor Farah not giving a fuck is bad. In fact, that's kinda how military operates. They are not a ragtag bunch of misfits and buddies who share their war stories on sleepovers. It's boring, but realistic outcome because: A) Farah is a soldier of another army and certainly doesn't have any deal/clearance in Task Force 141 affairs. B) It's not her problem that Price has a beef with Shadow Company and Graves, she has her own conflict. I'd argue that the bad hollywood-tier writing in THIS case would actually be the opposite of that.
1:09:42 bare with me because i might go off on a tangent here: major annoying problem with MW3 2023: *the tik toK meta gun abusing sweats ruining the fun for everyone...for the 3rd game in a row* MW3 is literally *"50 shades of MCW"* This has been going on since MW2019 *"As soon as one person makes a class setup video, the entire population is glued to it, never uses anything else ever again, and most of the time its the only gun you die to".* and this goes to the point its freaking annoying. *And simultaneously complain when someone is having fun with a goofy off meta gun.* Watch Tmal's videos, and you'll see what i mean. Think about it: *•Vanguard had the mp40 and the stg* *•MW2 2022 had the Vaznev and the Taq 56* And now *•MW3 has the MCW* Like, *what the hell happened to all the fun?*
The phrase "hits you right in the meow" hits way different than "Gets you right in the heart." I think you meant the second one, but the first is just too hard of an innuendo.
Oh god it is actually like Armin still forgiving and thanking Eren for committing mass murder of like 80% of the outside world just in this case Graves and his pmc or Shadow Company massacred a lot of civilians
I honestly liked MW 2019 and MWII’s campaigns but MWIII’s campaign killed my hype for MWIV if it ever happens. For me the multiplayer is cool, I personally have fun but I can’t believe how MWIII squandered its campaign. 80% of their missions were nothing but WARZONE and some that weren’t were boring. Except for 2. The first mission and the stadium mission were both incredibly made but were overshadowed by the campaign’s dumb story.
micro shoulda just dropped kodics ass the second the purchase of activision was finalized. Then drop everyone else that was hired from him cause their passion for publishing and developing strong quality games is about as none existent as his.
I love call of duty. It was a great game and it followed me through childhood. Even though there are so many good games out there, this was the one I actually played, even when I never was a gamer at all (maybe playing once a week or even lesser). Even after i bought a pc in the near past, I wasn’t playing anything really, but call of duty like games and I even switched again to my ps4 to play modern warfare (since I must buy those games again on pc, it’s better to just play them on where I have them). Question: Should I delete modern warfare 3 for black ops 3 or infinity warfare?
@@alonsovenegas4444 Difficult question, indeed. Maybe infinity warfare, because the modern touch in it. There is a weapon I always used and loved, it was one of those automatic chargeable weapons
@@shayann2228 i see. It does depend if you want more zombies or multiplayer experience, cause if you want more zombies than you can go for bo3, but if you want more multiplayer than it really is just preference
I'm still baffled that there are also people who genuienly like this campaign. But the most likely explanation is they started first with 2019 and stuck with it
28:18 Dont get me wrong but, I liked Farah character literally being annoying and cringe because her looks of the face literally screams MAI CHOICE!! MAI CHOICE!!! Plus remember Black Ops 2 where Mulla Rehman betrays Alex, Woods, Hudson and Zhao. Looks like same shit lol
im not part of these Shooter genres but wow... 4h Story is short. I think a spent 4h alone in the first 2 Regions of the Start Sector in Everspace 2 XD The Story itself is about 30h, but you can spend above 100h in that story-driven spacegame.
"its oky the bullet passed through my skull but missed all the vital spots"
Piccolo; ALL OF THEM?!
Game was rigged from the start?
Totally random but "Heard you died in a tank in South America" The fight with Graves took place in Mexico, which is not in South America. They couldn't even get that right
True gringo moment
Certified 'Murica moment
@@wea69420Gringos be like 😂
I mean, I'm not surprised, Graves spent the entirety of multiple missions trying to speak Spanish and failing with flying colors
It's weird, but for some reason, some geographers stopped referring to Mexico as being part of "Central America" and instead calling the whole thing either just "North/South America."
I can already imagine the next COD Soap comes back and Price goes "Soap I saw you get shot in the head, cremated your dead body and then scattered your ashes" to which Soap will reply "I wasn't in that cremation urn."
"I'm still knifin watermelons cap'n"
"Oh no, that wasn't me you saw. That was my twin, Detergent".
'eye gawt bettah'
“Oh did I? Huh… didn’t notice” insert over the top badass music (which is silence because the game actually doesn’t have a soundtrack) thinking they did something awesome
You all joke around NOW, but watch them ACTUALLY pull something like this in season 2 or 3 of Warzone. 😂
1:11:52 Fun Fact: Briky had that same exact challenge to unlock semtex in his game. You know what was the last point of the challenge? Kill an enemy with semtex… you need to kill an enemy with a semtex, that you haven’t unlocked yet, to unlock semtex.
Small indie company, plz understand
@@darcidious99 They are pretty busy… stealing breast milk from the fridge that is.
@@nergalrior7841 and busy stealing my money to make improvements
Omg no shot 🤦♂️
Oh no, they only had to win an extra match? Not a big deal.
I love how they don't know their own timeline in this plot. Makarov says "6 years", but the subtitles say "4 years" in the first mission. He insults Price in the flashback, but the insult would only make sense in present day. Prince calls to warn about the missiles when they launch, but as soon as you receive the call - they land, etc...
Kinda hard to take anything seriously when it doesn't even take itself seriously, huh.
none of publishers or devs gave a damn about the actual timeline nor the quality. The only thing really ever gave a shit about was the sbmm and eomm system that broke COD and the online store that's the only system in the game that's never had any issues outside of existing in the first place.
“Timing is everything”
- Benjamin “Russian” Sharpeero
@@nickwen2881 u got mental issues
11:52 that’s why OG Makarov’s voice was so awesome, it was cold, calculating, intimidating, and it had an authentic sounding Russian accent without being over the top….and that’s because he was actually voiced by a Russian actor
I did not know that but its nice that they cared enough to actually do that
@@diobrando2495 the new guy is Bulgarian, and he’s fine, but it’s just not as good as the OG
To be fair, Roman Varshevksy isn’t even a full blooded Russian. He was born in Kazakhstan back when it was part of the USSR, but he grew up in Moscow and Russian is his first language. The point stands that his voice for makarov is authentic and perfectly acted for a cold and calculating villain
I love how people still play this game for the multiplayer, despite it still just being the last game’s multiplayer.
I’m so glad that Lethal Company has outsold this COD.
definitely just the last games MP. Didn't touch a single thing on any of the guns or movement or add in any new weapons or killstreaks to the last one. Not a single thing was changed.
@@roar104 You're just wrong there
55:40 fun fact if u want another emotional “scene” go back to the old Modern Warfare 2. Forgot what the mission name, but it was a section where you were suppose to stop Russian reinforcements from over running an Evac LZ for civilians during the invasion of Washington DC. If you do nothing the nearby radio messages get more and more depressing.
"Enemy troops are inside the evac site! Repeat, enemy troops are inside the evac site! We've lost the civvies!"
"Of their own Accord"
I have the remake and refuse to see it for myself.
"Fanservice in Cod?! Since when?" WDYM since when?! Do you not see how hot some of their women look in cod games?! Not to mention how much they milk the iconic characters for skins in the stores for the non-sexual fanservice.
One of the few good things in MW, i'd say...
Makapiro- "Facts don't care about your чувства."
"How do you know she's a terrorist?"
"Well she looks like one!"
based
she sure as fuck doesn't look like a white nerd tho
Based af 💪🏻🗿
Based.
*throws in a That's Racist Kid meme*
As much of a clusterfuck Halo 5's campaign was, it at least had curated mission design, set pieces (I'll never forget the Mantis section on Sanghelios with the Walk Softly BGM), an interesting premise *on paper,* an actual sensical timeline of sorts, a decent OST, and didn't commit character-assassination - Master Chief was just boring, Vale was Vale, Locke is marginally better than he was in Nightfall, and it was nice to see Buck still kicking ass after the events of ODST and New/Bad Blood.
The best way I can describe MW2023's campaign is a blackhole of time and energy. Makarov is dually a god and a dumbass - able to teleport where the plot needs him to be, I question how Price maintains his position as a captain, the "highly concentrated Sarin gas" that Ghost mentioned is not even remotely close to what Sarin actually is (a 5 minute google search will tell you exactly what it is and its effects from both the CDC and Wikipedia), and the TF141 are bootleg Avengers.
10:50 Here's the thing... The Black Ops campaign is generally regarded as one of the best. And the Black Ops 2 campaign is generally regarded as THE best. They were most definitely very well received. You may not remember it, but that's completely fine.
Black ops was kino and was hype as fuck back when it released with generally good reviews. The campaign is amazing multiplayer was peak and zombies was goated. Her saying it was mid is weird
@@Seyanoo Precisely
"Wait, I thought you were dead."
"It was merely a setback."
Black ops was actually one of the best received games in the entire franchise
Yeah, don’t know why she’s saying it’s mid. Lmfao
Yeah no that was stupid af lol
BO1 & BO2 are some of the best games in all aspects, same with the modern warfare trilogy.
Supposedly, this game wasn't even supposed to be a game in the first place. They just forced them to make a game with little to no time. That's most likely why zombies is the way it is. Is the campaign bad? Bad isn't even the right word. It's awful. Is the zombies bad? Well, I've seen people have genuine fun with the game, so it's subjective. And now the elephant in the room: was this worth $70?. No,no it wasn't. If this was DLC for the previous game, you know where all these maps are from, it would be great! Remaster of old maps and a zombie experience, for, let's say, $15 would be amazing! For me personally, I only play zombies in COD. But I'm not willing to pay $70 dollars for a game that I'm gonna be playing one mode. This "game" isn't worth $70.
Ya definitely plays & feels like a DLC.
only bad part about is zombies is online only and servers are iffy you lose your gear if you DC like you died.
Bobby really needed help securing the down payment for his retirement home
15$ 😂😂 what are you smoking. They don't do that anymore. Even dlcs will cost at least 40$
you're an idiot if you think the the entire rework of health, movement, recoil on guns, addition of one of the highest number of guns in a base cod (only mw3 guns), and all of that is only worth $15. No way that shit would be less than $40, likely more. Is the stuff that's not the MP good? Not really. Most of the MP issues are things sledgehammer was handed and they're slowly having to fix for IW anyways.
If you think about it, back in the 2011 MW3 with it's sequel it was done well compared to 2023. They carried on the story after Shepherd's death. You go to play as a character in the mist of WW3 as well as swapping back to your old Task Force 141 buddies with a new member in the group with tie-ins and better yet the plot was amazing. And the fact how Makarov was going over the rails to capture Vorshevsky (The Russian President) so he can take his nukes and do the final blow. He straight up tricks his own country into a motivation of wiping out America with a single act that's shown as terrorism on the hands of a dead American CIA agent. Makarov in MW3 is just there out of bounds keeping the show in motion whilst planning a strike that would make him the most dangerous man on the planet. And nobody would even know the truth except for his enemies.
MW3 was an amazing game not better than MW2 ofc but it’s an epic final installment to give a badass and bittersweet ending, it might have copied a lot yet I still disagree with Actman saying it’s mediocre that is too far it’s good just not amazing like MW2.
I think I might get what she's saying about getting people who can speak some Russian to actually play Russian Roles. From the way she described how it sounds to her, it gave me the same vibes as what we usually get in anime (the original Japanese dubs) when they need to have an American character speak English, but they cast Japanese VA's who sound like they only have a very loose general idea of how the words are meant to be spoken.
She's Russian?
I know it's silly to nitpick an already shitty game but when he's talking about the 40mm grenade barely missing him, the grenade model in game that was shot at him is the whole round still in the case...
52:36 No one expects the Spanish Inquisition I love that joke.
The comment about bugs arising from copy-pasting assets from one game into another in a new engine hits home. Did QA on WZ some years back and the assets brought over from MW2 and Cold War were bugged to high hell every time it was a nightmare.
BO1 didn't have a strong start, but it did grow phenomenally before it's cycle ended. So much so that, that very growth helped in the excitement of BO2 which most of the fan and player base considered the best game in the franchise.
In the original mw3 I still cry when soap passes and prices reaction. When I first experienced this mission I cried as I played mw 1 and 2, just felt like losing a friend you had for years. I know he's a fictional character and etc. Just the way the story was done made us feel connected with the characters to that level. I do miss when games had those kind of storys.
"I told you I am NOT an O'Driscell." "You look like one."
Remember when Farah was a close friend to Price, partially because he saved her, and her brother's life from a prison camp in MW2019? Ya MW3 throws all that out the window....wtf
TLDR Makarov's Russian is like Borat's English (Borat was an early 2000s movie making fun of stereotypical American's responses to an Eastern European touring the US filmed in front of unknowing passers by with only the most extreme responses to him making it into the movie it's technically illegal to do that now and yes it was basically a UA-cam prank before UA-cam was big).
Given the company track record im suspecting they didn't get a decent voice actor out of fear of getting an accent that alienated either Russia or the entire ex-soviet block giving everything they can afford to give to Ukraine in the hopes of stopping Russia from rebuilding the USSR.
They killed my boy (Soap) in the worst way possible. "Oh hey, how should we add shock value? How about we kill off one of the most popular 141 characters." It's not only just that, they did it in the worst way possible, to the point where I didn't play him in multiplayer for months.
The moment in the original MW3 had more impact because not only did you play as Soap in the original MW1, but you also fought alongside him in MW2, it created that perfect blend of bonding between you and the characters you were interacting with so to hear Price yelling about Soap dying right in his arms like a parent losing their child, it hits you right in the feels because it makes the following scene after be more impactful when you hear and see Price's rage.
"Bup by ya. Bud da ba ba ba. Bup by ya."
That intro will never not be adorable!
And Alana is Insanely Good.
Fax. I don't do live. But I've been enjoying her UA-cam channel a lot. Very fun and cozy.
Truest words @@Bigdude0444
I've been waiting for Alana's reaction to this! We're eating good today boys!
I see this vid is 2 months old, but here, I remember growing up and going to the yearly field day in my school. There were people who won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Then we stepped away from that and gave everyone a ribbon. Now those kids are grown and in the work force. You are welcome!
"Black ops was mid and the zombies was good, but from everything else it was mid. Thats what I remember"
Then your memory must be duller than Vietnam helmet-
On a personal level IDRC if the skins for characters are based on existing IP's or just weird whacky characters like the cat skin soldiers or whatever, that to me is just cool or a reference to other beloved characters (I think the implementation I've seen from the lillith/inarius skins were lame but idc about the skins themselves), but I do have major issue with pulling real life celebs as character skins.
If we're using real life people as the basis for a skin, Why not base them off of military/historical legends like the white death? that's significantly better than niki who lets be real, we all know the real reason most people are buying that skin; kevin durant whoever tf that is, or snoop dogg (I love snoop but like... why?). It'd be one thing if they were unique characters in the game like connor mcgregor was in infinite warfare, but no to my knowledge it's JUST snoop dogg.
Heeeeeelp i fell into a VTuber rabbit hole. AND I START TO LIKE IT
One of us, one of us, one of us. :p
"Your main goal is to complete arbitrary contracts and objectives, then lose the match before jumping into a new one."
The apple doesn't fall far from the dev's desk.
"Bad" Russian accents is literally just what we hear when people speak Russian: fake exaggerated deep voice, speech pattern making steady incline to then fall of a cliff to start over again. It's really hard to hear what you sound like when you speak a language. Look up what English sounds like to people who don't speak it. Same thing.
I remember way back when PUBG first came to consoles and it looked something like the new MW3 graphics when you loaded in. Fortunately, the textures and stuff would eventually load into the map on PUBG.
I almost just want to insert a disc of the original trilogy in any person's PC/Console that plays these games. Like I swear, the original ones, even with the recycling are great games with great stories and moments and really sucks someone could associate this new trilogy with the Modern Warfare brand. My only hope left is to Treyarch to release another banger next year, If they haven't over-exploited them so hard this time even they could fail.
I love the anotation at the bottom at 9:15 (rescuing Makarov AKA Russian Ben Shapiro) when I think he looks more like Russian Ion Hazzakostas. His eyebrows are nowhere bushy enough to be Ben.
BLOPS 1& 2 had great Campaigns 2 especially... performance decides who survived
It took me almost 40 minutes to notice Alana was wearing a santa hat
Were you looking at thr Monka the whole time?
@jordanhunter3375 No, I was genuinely interested in what Actman had to say, so I just wasn't paying attention to her model most of the time
I had fun in Ghosts, despite them making big promises and achieving none of them. I still had fun.
How the heck does this not even look remotely fun?
It’s been downhill since BO2.
Ghosts had some of the best dlc hands down, c’mon Micheal Myers and Predator? That’s a W, it was fun and I liked the multiplayer for the most part at least, I don’t remember the story atm.
I'm really enjoying the energy of your videos.
the bigger zombies could have been good if it had any zombies IN IT :D
The most annoying part, is that you have to launch the hub, wait, it open, update, restart, wait, it opens, and then selct mw2, then it closes, wait, it opens mw2, and then you have to close it for a update, and then, open the hub, then open mw2, and then wait for sharder to finally optimize after a week, and then play mw2.
like dam, not only they didn't even merge, they didint create a new cod, but people who wants to play 2, has to go through so much hopes and lopes, unlike before.
You should react to his other review videos on COD games. I recommend his WaW and BO2 videos.
I will always say this, BO2 was the last COD game that was good and had soul. Such a great campaign, great multiplayer, and a good zombies.
I'll defend AW and say that they did want to genuinely push the series forward mechanically, even if that was because titanfall was the newest/biggest competition. The exosuits allowed for wild shit in the campaign and the military as a business was a very interesting concept to go with. I thought multiplayer was cool (even if a lot of scummy shit got started in that game, I remember unique weapons being a purchasable thing via lootboxes/cod points or some shit). zombies was ass though from what I remember. Hell infinite warfare had a really surprisingly good campaign too, multi/zombies I don't remember being the best but the campaign definitely had heart, the advertising for that game was dogshit though. "fuck it, lets go to space" ruined the game before launch.
WW2 is what ruined the series for me. I thought the campaign was uninspired tedium, I didn't like multiplayer at all, there was a LOT of lootbox shit going on in that game, and it felt like the first time the series outright collectively took a step backwards. Even BO4 tried something new with the BR stuff, I can applaud that to an extent even if they gutted campaign entirely.
I will however always say BO2 was the best. multiplayer was great, the campaign is the best in the series with so many optional pathways and discoveries to make, zombies wasn't BO good to me but it was still pretty fun, and most importantly it has the B23r which is my favorite gun in the series :)
This isn't a sequel. This isn't an expansion. This isn't even a DLC. This is a poorly made fan-fiction shareware made by people who made the game they THINK people wanted.
Her part of how the Russian sounds in games as a non-Russian speaker it sounds ok to me as i can understand it as much as i can korean meaning not at all. To this I can understand why she gets annoyed at people who are in the game Russian speaking Russian who should know how to properly but doing so poorly. As that happens a lot in games translated from Indonesian to English. Their VAs for speaking English are not that good with English voices are good but how they pronounce them is bad.
The part over reuse of assets in Call of Duty games well unless the player can tell it is a quick way to make games quickly. For most guns i can see why to use the same mesh and just have a better texture on it for the newer edition to the franchise. For land you have like maybe 20 textures everyone uses for all games. It is in how they are used.
The real big no-no they did is rip entire maps from another game. The meshes even for buildings, guns, ground and the sky can be the same if done right with textures it can look very different. Destructibility at least in the 3D modeling screen can help make a new mesh for the scene too.
The big problems come when using textures and materials from other games but adjusting them none. how you can condense all game's grounds into 20 textures for all game grounds is how to adjust it is different. It seems EA's CoD forgot that is a thing they have to do. Yeah the places look better but even with direct copies of a map without modifying anything you get exactly that a direct copy of a map and players will notice.
9:30 that's not actually how voice acting works. You don't have the liberty of just TRYING to find someone that IS Russian or speaks it. You have a very specific talent pool in the US from the two major voice acting cities in the US, Los Angeles and Houston, Texas, and you usually have to hire or audition talent from that pool that is part of the industry and have notable experience in the field. Experience, known talent and actors with resumes superceed something as arbitrary as matching nationalities with an actor. It's just an accent. Performance is more important than an accent.
Well she said the voice acting sucked too aka the performance.
The original had Billy Murray. Craig Fairbrass. And Idris Alba of camera voice work.. Wonderful British actors.
As someone who started playing COD with the original MW3: It was imo what MW2 should have been (the same without "one man army"). At least we got a functioning game and the maps were all actually new...
You have to be smoking something GOOD if you think 3 is better than 2.
One of my friends streamed the campaign, I watched him play it on VETERAN, and mind you he's not that good of a campaign player, it took him exactly 4 hours and 30 minutes. And we encountered a few bugs from the MW II MULTIPLAYER in the CAMPAIGN.
Hey, at least when Eren went to war with the world, the world started it. he was in the wrong, but there was at least some grain of rationality why. After everything the outsiders put them through, now they're gathering a whole execution armada rather than letting them break out of the island. Not to mention the whole time-plot shenanigans.
Graves was doing that shit literally for a paycheck. He's not even a war criminal, he's not a part of the military, he's 100% a terrorist. They want to show the hawroars of war and also have your multiplayer "operators" be characters like it's Apex or something.
It’s funny that people try defending this shit game by saying it’s “realistic” but it literally the least realistic of the trilogy and honestly even og trilogy because at least when characters die in og they stay dead, but here two people just magically move around in spots and magically just still alive after full on explosions
I mean when a somehow alive Price was in CoD 4 after dying on the _Tirpitz_ in WW2 in the original game, that was a _joke_ (him using an M1911 in the that game was a nod to the fact that CoD 1 didn't have a British sidearm). These days it wouldn't even be a surprise.
I wish they got the original person who played Makarov or something similar
Cause the original makarov is so much better then what we got
Can you believe that during the awards show, people were actually upset that this game didn't win an award? Why should it? It's absolute garbage.
5:10 -
For context to future viewers - Alana is saying "CoD 1 and 2" as Modern Warfare 1 and 2 and NOT the actual CoD 1 and 2.
Id still recommend the bricky vid on mw3 being the worst campaign, its so well done
Best COD story-modes are in BlackOps 1 & 2, AW (origin for 'press F to pay respects'), the space one and maybe Cold War too.
The MW trilogy is up there for the best story modes, L for not having it there.
@@LeaderOfTheLostSouls Only if you're high on American jingoism which I'm not. In fact, I despise it.
@@PredatoryQQmber Then you have shit taste and are a moron, OG MW 1-3 was amazing, Not as good as BO2 which is peak but still.
Alana, we can agree that the new MW3 is ass, but no way in hell did you call Black Ops 1 mid and "not well received." It's literally one of the most praised games in the franchise.
I hated that game, and I loved the game before it (the original modern warfare 2 I think?). HARDCORE CoD fans seem to really like Black Ops, but as a casual player, I do believe it was middling.
32:48 I like Alana's eyes expression change and that how I react to that scene too😳
I work at a taco bell KFC and the gas from the taco bell has definitely knocked more than a few customers out with slightly more lethal side effects than that sarin gas 😂😂😂
The music even though there's no music in war In real life in my opinion the music is the mindset of the person you're playing as.
Everyone clowned on BFV and COD WWII for having strange skins, but at least they never included E-girls and American Singers into the games like next gen Modern Warfare did.
The honest con from unscripted on this is great
1:10:22 bruh, the grenade still has the casing on...
The worst thing honestly? Infinity Ward was bored from making another Modern Warfare game so this was fucked at the start. And especially with sledgehammer games doing another one after finishing up vanguard.
IW needs their shit together.
This game desperately needed to be beta tested. SAO was beta tested
The multiplayer storyline for Black Ops Cold War kinda did it better
31:49 noooooooo he cut out the second half of that clip where he walks in, sees a woman and guns her down
I recently got this game digitally for free (there is a story with this that I'm not going to go into). Is that cheap enough for how bad this games campaign is? I don't know if I'm actually going to bother playing this even though I didn't pay anything for it.
I miss Cod 3,4,black ops 1 and 2, and MW, they were fun
Activision getting ownership of call of duty was a big mistake.
Black ops 1 was not mid, its was one of the best selling in the series and a lot of people in the community were hyped for it. My GameStop was packed with people picking it up and it even made news outlets talking about it. It also has the best campaign and multiplayer in the series and zombies was a masterpiece. So no Black ops 1 was not mid
What many don't know is that the people who made the good COD 1,2, MW where all purge by Bobby and to be sure they don't rise they made shit jetpack futuristic CODs before these devs could get their game (Titanfall) out
37:47 bro they just used hammer space, duh
Imagine a timeline where Activision gave a shit about game quality. This would be a Multiplayer, Warzone, and Spec ops(co op) DLC developed by Sledgehammer. Let Treyarch and Infinity Ward cook on their next releases.
If Activision still wanted more COD hype. They have another card to pull. MW3 remastered. Have Raven studios handle it again. Hell, since this is the fictional universe where Activision cares. Maybe this is when they release an MCC equivalent. Have it start with the original Modern Warfare trilogy(Campaign, Multiplayer, and Spec Ops). Then over the years add COD 1-3, WaW, BLOPS1&2.
1 reasonably priced and forward compatible game to enjoy all the OG CODs.
Sadly they'll never do that. Cause people keep buying the effortless slop they push out.
Next CoD, COD: the search for makarov's shirt. XD Also i use to play WoW, a long time ago. But not even them bringing back Turalyon could save the story for me. lol
Honestly, I feel like they should have taken what little effort they put into attempting to cover up how unoriginal this MWIII is, scrapped the "campaign" completely and just apply 100% of their effort into turning this into a $20 expansion for MWII called "The Legacy Expansion" due to all of the reused assets from old COD games. Also add in more legacy maps but adjust them for the different movement.
Maybe bring back spec ops mode if they really wanted to do a co op mode. Would've been similar to how they used to release map packs back in the day.
They kept everyone alive except for soup a actual loved character dies
Let me tell you, if human beta testers were there, they were ignored. Quality Assurance was ignored, too. Assuming they were even hired in the first place considering dang near everyone in the higher ups think that A.I. alone can do everything without any glaring issues and side effects. Instead of Quality Assurance and testers complaining, let's half bake the game and patch it with AI made Quality Assurance or something. Let's make A.I. music that's horribly mixed to not even be heard well and sounds more like an elevator than an action movie or at the very least a film tragedy. Let's not try at all.
Also, big fan of Game and Watch music used for the awful frame rate. Actually hilarious considering how the Game and Watch predates Mario and uses literal frames and cells instead of the now normalized LED stuff. Very fitting, even if Game and Watch is honestly better in comparison when taking in the 1980 start.
Talking the “Warfare” out of “CoD: Modern Warfare 3”
mfs left us with CoD: Modern 3😭
Varshavsky was such a good fucking VA for Makarov, and how abysmal the VA in the nu-MW3 was.
Jesus.
Also, to play devil's advocate:
1) Graves "surviving" by not going to that tank in the first place is logical thing, considering his character.
2) Neither Price not telling anything to Farah about shadow company, nor Farah not giving a fuck is bad. In fact, that's kinda how military operates. They are not a ragtag bunch of misfits and buddies who share their war stories on sleepovers. It's boring, but realistic outcome because:
A) Farah is a soldier of another army and certainly doesn't have any deal/clearance in Task Force 141 affairs.
B) It's not her problem that Price has a beef with Shadow Company and Graves, she has her own conflict.
I'd argue that the bad hollywood-tier writing in THIS case would actually be the opposite of that.
1:09:42 bare with me because i might go off on a tangent here:
major annoying problem with MW3 2023:
*the tik toK meta gun abusing sweats ruining the fun for everyone...for the 3rd game in a row*
MW3 is literally *"50 shades of MCW"*
This has been going on since MW2019
*"As soon as one person makes a class setup video, the entire population is glued to it, never uses anything else ever again, and most of the time its the only gun you die to".*
and this goes to the point its freaking annoying.
*And simultaneously complain when someone is having fun with a goofy off meta gun.*
Watch Tmal's videos, and you'll see what i mean.
Think about it:
*•Vanguard had the mp40 and the stg*
*•MW2 2022 had the Vaznev and the Taq 56*
And now
*•MW3 has the MCW*
Like, *what the hell happened to all the fun?*
you can beat the new campaign in a single stream
The phrase "hits you right in the meow" hits way different than "Gets you right in the heart." I think you meant the second one, but the first is just too hard of an innuendo.
Starfield is a pretty good game and it's nothing like No Man's Sky.
Halo 5 had a substantially better campaign, for all it's faults.
Oh god it is actually like Armin still forgiving and thanking Eren for committing mass murder of like 80% of the outside world just in this case Graves and his pmc or Shadow Company massacred a lot of civilians
I honestly liked MW 2019 and MWII’s campaigns but MWIII’s campaign killed my hype for MWIV if it ever happens.
For me the multiplayer is cool, I personally have fun but I can’t believe how MWIII squandered its campaign. 80% of their missions were nothing but WARZONE and some that weren’t were boring.
Except for 2. The first mission and the stadium mission were both incredibly made but were overshadowed by the campaign’s dumb story.
Im actually kinda glad that I didn't buy this game. My friend warned me and I said I wouldn't pre-order it. So glad I dodged a bullet.
micro shoulda just dropped kodics ass the second the purchase of activision was finalized. Then drop everyone else that was hired from him cause their passion for publishing and developing strong quality games is about as none existent as his.
I love call of duty. It was a great game and it followed me through childhood. Even though there are so many good games out there, this was the one I actually played, even when I never was a gamer at all (maybe playing once a week or even lesser). Even after i bought a pc in the near past, I wasn’t playing anything really, but call of duty like games and I even switched again to my ps4 to play modern warfare (since I must buy those games again on pc, it’s better to just play them on where I have them).
Question: Should I delete modern warfare 3 for black ops 3 or infinity warfare?
Depends, what you want out of bo3 or infinity ward? Either way you should delete mw3
@@alonsovenegas4444
Difficult question, indeed.
Maybe infinity warfare, because the modern touch in it. There is a weapon I always used and loved, it was one of those automatic chargeable weapons
@@shayann2228 i see. It does depend if you want more zombies or multiplayer experience, cause if you want more zombies than you can go for bo3, but if you want more multiplayer than it really is just preference
@@alonsovenegas4444
Great, thank you for the recommendation
18:22 I don't have a problem with a 4 hour campaign as long as its good and worth playing more than once. good example is titanfall 2
I'm still baffled that there are also people who genuienly like this campaign. But the most likely explanation is they started first with 2019 and stuck with it
28:18 Dont get me wrong but,
I liked Farah character literally being annoying and cringe because her looks of the face literally screams MAI CHOICE!! MAI CHOICE!!!
Plus remember Black Ops 2 where Mulla Rehman betrays Alex, Woods, Hudson and Zhao.
Looks like same shit lol
And the most depressing thought is Raven Software and High Moon are still going to remain as janitorial staff for this glorified DLC pack.
In my opinion, it's fine to enjoy this game. But I agree with Acting Male here. Don't defend it even if you enjoy it. It ain't worth it.
im not part of these Shooter genres but wow... 4h Story is short.
I think a spent 4h alone in the first 2 Regions of the Start Sector in Everspace 2 XD The Story itself is about 30h, but you can spend above 100h in that story-driven spacegame.