CoD Vanguard is a (very fun) waste of money.
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2021
- Call of Duty Vanguard is enjoyable, but it's also one of the laziest video games I've ever played.
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I think what sucks is that the Npc count in these fights are the same as cod 2. Only Arthur’s mission MADE ME FEEL like I was in a real ww2 fire fight
If it wasn’t for the 3 year dev cycle, I’d think this was a product of publisher-mandated crunch to get people to forget about ActiBlizzKing’s sexual harassment lawsuits.
But then again…
the harassment was under investigation between 2019 and 2021 so i dont doubt that the investigation definitely sacrificed the quality of vanguard
@@SoulStealerJay I'd also say the tensions between Raven Software and Sledgehammer Games played a huge role as well.
Just noticed some of the maps are even from Call of Duty 2! (which I kinda like as COD2 seems to have been all but forgotten, even though it had some great maps - the french village one sepecially)
And Toujane for example. I think COD 2 lives on in the minds of the players of that age but people are just too overwhelmed by the annual releases of CODs that it kinda falls behind.
yooo its larry bundy
What maps? The only remakes I know of are Castle and Dome from World at War.
Vanguard is the type of game to pick up on sale a year from now for $10 and just mess around and have a good time
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Will it live that long???
I've historically bought most of the Call of Duty games on sale.
What's so hard about making World at War 2, a brutal first person shooter that RESPECTS and IMMERSES the player in WWII? They have the blueprint. They have passionate fans. Activision....?
this is a video topic idea I’ve had.
Attachments, skins, blueprints, operators, are all non-negotiable features as far as Activision is concerned. For Activision and the investors, micro-transactions are "required". I think that the entire game's development and design probably suffered just from that requirement.
@@kae2018 Warzone is the problem. Until Warzone Fails, which won't happen for a LONG time, I theorize less and less passion will be put into the PREMIUM COD experience that made the brand popular in the first place.
P.S. I don't think these new Sledgehammer developers know COD very well. Look at some of their interviews. They clearly don't seem to understand the lore very well.
This game is more-or-less filler for the next game, which will almost certainly be a sequel to Modern Warfare. I also believe that they are working on a bigger and better follow-up to Warzone.
Mw2022 should build off of mw2019 with what we got in cw like actual colours, better map design and spawns (less camping), more content and more. If they could remove sbmm that would improve it so much but I doubt activision would let them
@@bestbechara8682 tbh MW19 lighting is better than CW
@@ihatethatyoutubedisplaysyo8106 it's way better but most of the maps have washed out colours, it's not as bad mw3 but it's one of the ways they could improve the map design
@@ihatethatyoutubedisplaysyo8106 yeah but zombies is pretty good for cw
Holy hell you called it
This game really feels like Many Hands: The Game written all over it.
Oh my god, THANK YOU. I absolutely despise COD: WW2 for how little goddamn respect it shows to the source material, literally the bloodiest conflict in human history, and would love if you'd make a video tearing it apart for the inaccuracies. It's really not difficult to accurately portray WWII in , we've been doing it for decades now. It's shamefully fucking lazy and deserves way more attention than it gets.
Also, any game that claims to be "The Best WWII Game" and isn't just Red Orchestra II with modern graphics is outright lying. Enlisted is 1000x better at being a WWII game than this garbage, even with all the grinding and microtransactions.
Imagine crying about muh historical accuracy in call of fucking duty...
@@CptPrice-qr6ng cod games have always been fucking action movies since like cod4. Quit crying.
@@CptPrice-qr6ng I've played them all. Your 'theories' expose your intelligence level when I mentioned cod4 in my comment. Clearly reading comprehension is a skill you lack which for most people is a very basic skill to master.
@@CptPrice-qr6ng there goes the manchild again making assumptions and saying I said things I never did. Also mom jokes? At least we've established that you still go to middle school. Also the fact that you even think any of those words are 'fancy' is hilarious and again shows the level of intellect we're dealing with here 😂👨🦽
@@CptPrice-qr6ng that's too bad. You really must hate school then. Oh no I'm so threatened by your 'harsh' mom jokes and childish insults 😭
I know is not much Kacey but I really like your content. Thanks for all your efforts!
This game just ain’t worth full-price, people need to stop feeding Activision their money for mediocre garbage.
The campaign is silly, literally every 2 minute you run out of bullets and have to run and steal a enemy weapon, never in any cod campaign have i ever had to do this
i feel like cod developers these days focus too much on making things pretty and realistic rather than making an enjoyable WW2 game.
games like W@W and medal of honor: frontline may not be the prettiest of games, but they are so fun to play. not only that, both stories are masterpieces compared to whatever the hell this is.
Something to be said about the PS5 dashboard music immediately calming me down and making me feel nice right as the video started lol
This was such a fantastic video
A Top Gear clip. I love that. The original trio is the best.
I can already hear Jeremy about the laziest (game) designers.
Really good video, I've got one criticism - I would say the Black Ops games (at least 1 & 2) are generally faster pace than Modern Warfare (1,2 & 3 haven't played the new one). The low TTK in the MW series encourages camping whereas the higher TTK in Black Ops makes people more comfortable to run and gun (also killstreaks could build off of each other in MW2). Really good video friend!
I appreciate it! My own take on the pace of the games is likely informed a lot by my play style. I have really good reflexes and aim so I tend to play Modern Warfare a little more recklessly than most because I know I can win an aim duel with most people. Black Ops’s slower TTK means that aiming and shooting first doesn’t matter quite as much, and the movement is a lot heavier and slower (esp. without double time sprint) which forces me to slow down.
the last call of duty game I played was modern warfare 3 I think? and the last one I spent any money on was... never.
considering Activision management and actions, I am happy with my decisions.
Haha not if you are a zombies player. Playing since 2008 and this is easily the worst COD zombies installment ever made. It's even worse then BO4. God help us all.
well what do you expect when Treyarch only had less than a year to develop it. Of course it's gonna be bad. This was made as a freaking last resort
@@useless4692 World at War is better then this. This was made in 2008 and was held together with gum and duct tape. This is not an excuse.
@@requiemagent3014 While I do agree that WaW is better than Vanguard, development over time has gotten more time/money consuming. Still ain't an excuse in Activision's case though
Hey Kacey just letting you know I'm very much looking forward to your next video, make it awesome as always girl.
Came here from Shambles. Found great stuff!
Picked up Vanguard with no expectations aside from it being a Call of Duty game. Wasn’t blown away or anything but I’ve been enjoying it so far.
Certainly won’t ever be on a top 10 all-time list or remembered a few years from now, but if you look at it as just a WW2 expansion to MW2019, it’s not THAT bad and like Kacey said, it’s fun.
True bad games can be fun but only when they work!!! 🤔🤔🤔
@Scarlet Dani I wholeheartedly hate everything that Activision is doing and has done that led to this point.
I just wanted to say the game wasn’t great, but I had fun playing it.
Feels gross now saying that, you’re right. But I don’t appreciate being called an Activision shill.
From the first sentence I thought you were talking about the TCG from 2011
This video is great, as always, keep the good content going!
Ok, now I know not only that you are a NIИ fan, but The Fragile is your favorite one, I think so too. Awesome. I have The Downward Spiral, The Fragile and Year Zero on CD. I'm planning to buy them all but I want to buy Pretty Hate Machine now :D
I’ve got almost all of the LPs on vinyl. Just need Fixed, Year Zero and Hesitation Marks.
"CoD Vanguard is the second most unoriginal game I have ever played behind Valorant"
What about Anthem?
Also are you sure this is the worst CoD game when Ghosts exists?
It’s less original, and yes.
Ghosts, for all its faults, had quite a large amount of gameplay innovation. Squad Points instead of level-based unlocks and the perk budget (both great additions btw), weapons with pre-installed attachments, modular weapons, interactable environment, and npc companion kill streaks, and I'm probably missing something.
What does Vanguard have?
Would love to hear your thoughts/review vid on Soul Sacrfice on Vita
11:04 you NEED to add more top gear clips
Good review. I completely understand where you’re coming from in this.
Honestly, as you said, it’s all subjective opinions and it really depends on how engaged you are with the COD franchise in general.
I personally really like this multiplayer because all I ever wanted in COD was to have Modern Warfare’s movement and gunplay with fixes to its main gameplay issues, slightly faster pace, better maps, and more 6v6 content. And personally, Vanguard checks all of that out for me and that’s why I really like it. I like Cold War but in terms of presentation and overall fluidity, it doesn’t hold a light to Vanguard or MW.
It’s a shame that Activision’s advertising for this game in general was extremely weak and downright forgettable. They put little to no effort in it because it’s very clear that they just care about Modern Warfare II right now. If they truly want Treyarch and Sledge to shine, they need to give them the same attention as IW.
MW 2019 brought people back to the franchise in some cases.
It's a step in the right direction.
IW has a great foundation to build upon.
If the campaign follows the gritty and realistic atmosphere that the reboot had.
All is good on that front.
On the multiplayer side of things => The biggest issues with the MW reboot:
1. Color palette
2. Visibility
3. Map Design
4. SBMM
Issues 1 through 3 aren't hard to resolve, the color palette and visibility issues are resolved with brighter colors and vibrant map locations.
If the leaks are correct and the campaign takes places in Latin America.
Those visibilty and color palette issues are fixed for the most part.
Maps design is tough one to crack.
What makes a good COD map changes from person to person.
SBMM isn't going anywhere sadly.
Finally, a good third game mode would help a lot with longevity
Great video. Underrated channel!
I'm mostly a campaign guy so I'm skipping Vanguard.
I really wish they'd finally give Italy a proper go in a COD title, Italian and Romanian forces actually fought against Soviet Troops, it'd be really cool to have a more World-at-War style title where you have Italians and Romanian's fighting the Soviets, since you almost never see Italian guns in WW2 games and I can only list the RTS Men of War: Red Tide for seeing Romanian weapons in detail in a WW2 game.
Italy would be a good setting for the next game
Last year i was thinking how COD never gets never uses other wars to do new titles, there’s tons of wars with interesting backstory that you could use
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That railroad scene is actually pretty funny
How did I not notice she was referring to CoD and not Medal of Honor in the community post, it says it there lol
In fact, Kacey should review that too!!
Honey wake up there’s a new Kacey video
Not Car
Yeah.
Guns
Yuck
I would love to see kacey review ghost recon breakpoint or ghost of tsushima
I’m gonna be talking about breakpoint at some point. Not sure about Tsushima; I do wanna play it but I don’t know what angle I’d talk about it from.
Great video, great editing, but I am a bit more pessimistic about the franchise
Some of my most favorite cod games are the mission that are heavily scripted the eighty examples being mw2019 clean house mission, and the wolfs den or missions or the semi open missions like the few marine missions in mw2cr mainly being were you have to take out the enemies via uav drone and protect burger that areas was just open enough to allow me to take cover behind various bushes near the edge of the level. The gas station you get near after avoiding the uav you can grab the javelin along with the lmg next to it, so when Foley tells you to grab the javelin you already have it already in your hands. Even the small detail they added when you kill two enemies that were supposed to be one at a time the ai would have commented on that action. Even all gillied up in cod4 was kinda open near the end where you try your best to flank and take cover whilst protecting macmillan as you wait for the chopper. I think if call of duty find a way to not fuck up a open world experience, they could really revive the series via that approach because right now the cod games are bleeding out and Id rather wait for lobbies in past cod games that are only being held together with tdm matchs. I mean as I type this I'm waiting for a match on battlefield hardline on the PlayStation now service and that version is the PlayStation 3 version of the game
The funny thing about this game is it has a proper offline modes like local multiplayer when newer mw2 and mw3 don't and mw2 doesn't have custom classes and cold war only let you access 5 classes while modern warefare gives you 10
Great video - thanks for rushing this out and saving me time I might have spent on the campaign. This is my first cod since WW2 so I was a little curious if it would be any good.
The only thing I don't think is quite accurate is what you said about attachments. There are a lot that don't do shit, but accuracy affecting attachments have a significant impact - whether your gun sprays basically randomly or is a laser beam. And vital basically functions as stopping power on the guns that have it. Essentially the attachments that do impact performance allow you to create some of the most broken guns in cod history.
I don't know why but I love cod cold war so much and find it so crazy that vanguard is so bad, they only had to do the same but little more and ww2.
7:43 I guess I don't need doors in my house
Thanks for the vid
Call of Duty reminds me of Fast and the Furious... Well... Fast and Furious...
They took the spunkegargleweewee stigma of the past games to whole new level
30$ is a good price?
Should I buy it? I really like MW2019 and want to try something new
The best thing to come out of this game is the HLL shoutouts lol
@15:30
It feels like they know most people play Multiplayer, and they are trying to keep you engaged with the campaign at any cost
I’m honestly glad I went to a friend’s house just to play the campaign instead of buying the game for myself.
the music in the Zombie part..... i play the better back 4 blood (L4D 2 )
20:15 personally I've been thinking about doing a compare and contrast with Watch_Dogs legion. As much as that game got wrong (the shift to almost forced gunplay particularly urked me) it did get some stuff right. the ability to recruit anyone was great, and the ability to use their individual traits, doing things like recruiting a cop so you can just walk into a police station, was a genuinely good idea. until it ran into the "forced gunfight" problem I mentioned earlier.
-flying around the city on construction drones was great, but the broadline removal of fluid ground movement was not.
-the addition of a cloaking device was great, the fact that it lasts such a short time as to be completely useless is not.
my closing thought on the game is this. it's a striking contrast that despite the technical capability of the game is truly ground breaking it makes the player feel the least technical in the series. It's no longer a hacking game, its more like a mercenary game with tech upgrades
infinite warfare underrated warfare
Yes.
Campaign yes
2/16 maps are from a previous game, and I don't personally like Dome, but I don't like small maps generally.
I said best, not majority
I completely agree here with your opinion in every aspect!!!
Really feels like Sledgehammer can’t make a proper COD game that is actually interesting
I hate mounting and doors in my cod game
Hey Kacey
Thanks man. Was debating on whether or not to even try it. But now I just won't. Even mw is getting stale for me now. So I know I won't like vanguard. Cold War was only instresting cause of the zombies mode, for me atleast the mp was lack luster. I look forward to seeing if they try to do anything to amend for this or if they just do what they did with sledgehammers last game ww2. Act like nothing happened and keep moving forward.
Yeah I didn't really gain interest on Vanguard because it felt the same as MW. Nothing new besides Zombies but even the people who are die hard fans say zombies isn't so great compared to Coldwar which to be honest, treyarch did well. They really expanded on different types of gamplay. Not to mention outbreak which Is a neat idea but wished it had more than just 4 players.
To be honest. I'm looking forward to see the next NFS game instead and hoping it's solid. Otherwise I'll find a different game to play.
Glad I avoided this for Horizon 5
I actually like this game and having a good time
It doesn't feel refreshing or different. Main reason I didn't even consider the game. I play zombies myself. It's no where near like cold war. Straight forward tasks. Layouts are done well. (Not awesome but it's fine) They added more neat ideas. Example Outbreak. I just hope they improve the mode and allow more than 4 players. And the upgrade system was simple and also straight forward. Vanguard when I saw the many reviews and gamplay. Feels unfinished and more like a step back.
Kind of says something about the state of CoD when I saw that more people were hyped for Forza Horizon 5 than Vanguard.
Infinity Ward is the only truly good COD dev. I mean, it is their baby after all.
Plot twist: this video was actually sponsored by the developers of Hell Let Loose
Nah. I paid full price for that game. I just really, really like it
BRO WHERES GUN FIGHT??????????!!!!!!!!!
i like final front
While I never played Modern Warfare 2019, I know for certain I would’ve liked it. I was a minority that really enjoyed Cold War, especially its campaign.
Currently I’m trying Vanguard’s free multiplayer weekend and it’s definitely fun. But yeah I don’t wanna spend $60 at least on it.
If you like Cold War you probably won’t like mw19.
@@balzarini51 Really? Because I liked Vanguard’s multiplayer mechanics that were borrowed from it. Felt really smooth
Says hes gonna play every ds nfs
My brain: flashbacks to nfs undercover ds highway battles
She's*
Do nfs carbon own the city
And fun fact at the time (irl) when ww2 and vanguard token place I was leader of Germany in my past life
PLAY HELL LET LOOSE THO...COSIGN THAT SHIT THO...PUT DOWN A DAM. MORTGAGE ON THAT SHIT THO......
You don't think it to be the dumpster fire everyone else make it out to be?
Hey have fun if you like it.
speaking of tom clancy, why does ubisoft have to arbitrarily put his name in every game they make? i dont understand
i can say that the best game sledgehammer made in this series was their first nothing more nothing less it imo is the best advanced movement call of duty a sequel is very deserving but seeing how this game turned out i dont know anymore
Not gonna talk about the gamefeel cause what you said was spot-on, but, IMO Vanguard's wacky bubba customization and narrative would fit well in a alt-history "what if the war didn't end" scenario.
Like, by essence since Activision just want a rerun of Modern Warfare 2019 with WW2 skin, they should at least go hogwild bullshit and did make WW2 game set in the 60s or something, when modularity start being a point in military armament developments and so they can at least justify having a goddamn red dot on a STEN.
It's kinda what I expected from BFV just because the trailer show us insane (and in my opinion would be absolutely delightful) stuff like MG42 with angular foregrip and barret-style compensator implying we're not in proper historical setting anymore, but instead we got "GamersTM" crying about women in vidya and how there's "no cripples" in WW2 or some shit idk.
jokes on you my broke ass laptop is too trash to even play black ops 2 let alone vanguard lmao
Probably the worst triple A game ever. I liked MW2019 and was excited as a WW2 fan. This was easily the laziest game I've ever played that's almost offensive to veterans of the war
FACTS :)
Idk man Cold War is much faster than MW2019, I’ve played a lot of hours on both and Cold War is only slower in trek but that’s only on certain weapons. Movement and map layouts in Cold War lead to much faster gameplay.
Vanguard is a good game because the maps are honestly excellent.
Search and Destroy plays extremely well on every map from what I’ve played. If you like SND I would definitely recommend it.
Also extremely disingenuous on your part my guy.
Only two maps are from world at war and castle is honestly one of the least fun maps in the game. Straight lying to people lol.I
Fun is subjective. This is my opinion. The maps are generally good, but the best in the game are from other games. That's what I said. This isn't "disingenuous." Sorry you disagree with me but politely, get the fuck over it.
@@Kaceydotme No it’s certainly disingenuous to imply that the map pool’s quality is reliant on retreads when out of 18 new maps the vast majority range from good to excellent.
@@matthewfowler4557 it’s my opinion. I’m sure you’ll get over it. If it’s that big of a sticking point for you that I don’t agree you’re welcome to fuck off.
I'm skipping CoD yet again. BO3 is the last one I paid full price for. Before that BO1 (which I caused me to never buy any CoDs until BO3)
Well then you just have shitty tastes because black ops 1 was excellent.
What are those games at 17:14
in order of appearance: Deathloop, Hot Wheels Unleashed, Metroid Dread.
big recommend on all three btw :)
the only cod game i will buy if made is a full remake of world at war and not some shity remaster
noice
you didnt like MW3? even the campaign?
I enjoyed it but its definitely one of the weakest of the golden era.
@@Kaceydotme ah ok
“The Best WWII Game”.
Uh, that would be Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. In my humble opinion.
I will never understand how anyone can praise MW2019's map design - or like Piccadilly.
The map design and SBMM are 90% the reason I stopped playing MW.
I Love MW 2019. It's the best COD MP. That said Piccadilly is the WORST COD MAP EVER created. No one likes it, even fans.
Also, Activision's Version of SBMM is immoral.
Cod van trash 🗑️
Cold War is slower? LMAO 🤣 You serious?
If you think Cold War's time to kill is faster than Modern Warfare or Vanguard, your sense of time is off and you should probably stop doing heroin.
I deleted the game it’s trashhh
Its just MW2019 but with new cover vanguard thats the game same gun fight same gameplay same movement from 12 years till now lol
The last CoD I liked was Infinite Warfare 2016. And that was just the campaign, didn't care for the multiplayer or zombies.
Campaign in Vanguard looks absolutely terrible to me. They literally give ya super powers now and aren't even trying to be respectful to the historical setting unlike older WW2 CoDs.
Sledgehammer makes the worst CoD games. 2017's WW2 was bad too.
Tbh I've played 15 hours of Multiplayer and I think all the maps are shit.
The ones from World at War just play awfully in a modern meta.
Zombies is unfinished
Don't really care enough about campaigns anymore to even think that a good campaign would hold up the rest of the game.
I'm probably one of few who don't mind where Zombies is starting as it might have the potential to be alright JUST ADD A FUCKING PAUSE BUTTON FOR SOLO!!
But realistically I played it for 2/3 days and ended up playing Forza Horizon as soon as that came out yesterday and I'm much happier then the GTA Trilogy comes out tomorrow.
Cold war zombies offered more. And gave us more freedom. Without pushy or annoying mechanics to unlock things. Pretty straight forward. They did well with wanting to do something new (outbreak is a neat idea. ) I just hope they expand those ideas. And improve from it. Vanguard zombies. It's pretty stale.
@@oscarfunez3806 I agree, but remember they will improve upon it if they want to keep zombies players interested, apparently the first update will come with Season 1 in December.
Don’t forget Cold War only had 1 map at launch as well. Although it did have a better progression (technically) with dark Aether skills able to upgrade. It was a bold move not doing a turn based map at launch (or potentially ever) but we’ll have to see what they have planned. With Shi No Numa in the game files already (as it is one of the locations in Der Anfang) I’d be fairly shocked if we didn’t get a remake of it.
@@lewiswaters8479 True on the statement. They can improve from it for sure. I'm confident they will add round based maps. As zombies has always had round based maps which everyone pretty much plays. And add outbreak but improved from cold war. As it is a neat idea to be honest.
Its complete trash.
Game suck cold war is way better
Lets see until season 6
Huh you mentioned nothing about the characters? Let's just say they're one of the reasons why Vanguard is mostly despised.
By racists, yeah. The characters are shallow stereotypes and little more- I’ve not seen criticism deeper than that that wasn’t just “BUHBUHBUH BLACK AND FEMALE SOLDIERS WERENT A THING”
I mean there weren't females that actually fought in WW2 but there were nurses for dealing wounded soldiers and I guess there were female spies during the war. As far as black people fighting in the war that is true. Women had to take take over production while men were fighting the war it's true look it up.
There were female soldiers in Russia- and the only female soldier in the game was Russian. As for multiplayer… if the gender and race of soldiers is your biggest accuracy complaint with Vanguard multiplayer, which has laser guns, red dot sights, suppressors and anime skins, than you should probably unpack that lmfaooooo
@@Kaceydotme Yes there was Russian women fighting in the war heck you see some in CoD 2 which I think you know. I'm saying that American women didn't fight in the war. They were in factories doing the men's job while they were away fighting in the war.
@@JustGenius2001 sure, they don’t in this game’s campaign either
i love how these videos can be done in 7 minutes yet these channels all fool you guys and compete for the best "review" like just get to the point not make a video for contents sake, smh
Just wait for lame ow excuse me halo infinite. Yeah infinite cash grab. Ow excuse me. It's free to play. They need to make there money back. How much does Microsoft make. Apparently not enough.
Ow excuse me Nintendo makes phone computer
ur wrong about alot, not going to go into details as to why you are wrong as it would require a video. But your wrong, and thats not an opinion. TRUST ME. (But you are right about alot aswell)
He's so wrong you can't list a single thing 😂
@@gethprime6549 She*.