"Call of Duty Campaigns Don't Matter"
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- The campaigns of Call of Duty are stellar and are often passed up for their more popular online modes. I really just wanted to make this video in spite of those who pass up the campaign and rank games without including them. Also it gave me an excuse to dive deeper into World at War :)
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@redccgaming (BO2 suffer with me)
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@blackcookie101 (BO2 is actually real)
@tiktokalnuke (BO2 real raul menendez)
@CallofDuty (BO2 reveal trailer)
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@adracoz (BO2 judgement day)
@Treyarch (BO2 origins intro)
@levieuxpere (BO4 menu)
@g4merfrags (BO4 MP)
@MrDalekJD (BO4 blood ending)
@MarcP1089 (IW SP)
@Gameplay-Only (IW zombies in spaceland)
@Xerexce (WAW co-op)
@DSPGaming (BO3 co-op)
@CasualCooper (WAW co-op)
@NGBlackHawk (MW2019 hunting party)
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CHAPTERS:
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0:00 - Call of Duty Campaigns Do Matter
0:39 - Giving the Game Direction
7:32 - What About the Experience?
9:00 - World at War Montage
10:26 - World at War Example
11:25 - Co-Op Making It More Fun
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This video was mainly for fun, but do you guys agree on campaigns needing more respect? I do think there are many people who appreciate them and love them, but I'm also hearing many dismiss them. My points here may tie in a lot with my previous video "When Call of Duty Took Itself Seriously" when dealing with memorability and themes.
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The campaigns deserve respect. Most people ignore the campaign and go straight to side content. BUT campaigns should be like they were, gritty, treated the audience like adults, amazing writing, and set pieces. What do I know? I ain't a game dev.
I’m 100% with you. The campaign sets the tone for all other aspects of the game. I miss when the campaigns were able to stick with us even after the next CoD came out. It gives the game so much personality, especially with your point on map design. I hope this year’s CoD feels special.
Yes definitely, a few weeks ago some dude I met on Xbox was arguing with me about the new mw3 and I mentioned the campaign and he said "no one cares about the campaign" witch through me off I thought that can't be the common sentiment I mean the cover of most of the games have a story character on the cover especially now.
Well actually is because you have fun talking about what matters to you is what made it so great.
I 100% agree with you, my most recent World at War video I give the campaign the spotlight by making it the main portion of my review. Check it out if you'd like to relive that campaign!
Be warned though, it's a 30 min long video if that's not your thing.
I honestly miss when fps games still tried to do campaigns, most current fps games are multiplayer only and the only kind of lore they have is a cutscene in the new battle-pass,letters and documents in random locations on the map and npc dialogues "that you will definitely hear".
I miss great military FPS games that had fun campaigns. Now? Mostly online only or lots of Doom/Quake clones from indie devs.
Can't even get something like Black or Soldier of Fortune today.
Campaigns are far superior to multiplayer games. Multiplayer games are temporary, campaigns are forever
@@-pROvAK And that's why AAA has been doing away with them. They don't want you to play a game for ever, they want you to be forced to buy the next release after they made the last one unplayable.
Aid said the last good campaing in cod was bo2. From then, all the rest were just to boring or too short.
@@Cowboycomando54that's exactly the case with Ubisoft with The Crew, although it has nothing to do with the topic of the video at hand, that's exactly the real reason why would they're decided to shutting down TC1 servers when it was no longer making profit like TC2 and TC Motorfest did
Waw was a gritty dark experience Cod4 was a cool modern campaign mw2 was like literal crack and my personal favorite blops1 was an action movie mixed with cool mystery about the numbers these campaigns are important fun and an experience ppl should experience at least one time
Black ops 1 campaign really nailed setting and atmosphere , man , not to mention the story and characters in general
man these bots are wild, and yeah bo1 nailed it
That’s what I hated mw2. Cod4 was like a tom Clancy thriller while mw2 was Michael Bay. They made the same mistake with mw19 and mw22. Mw19 was more grounded (for a game) while dangling upside down a chopper taking out trucks with a pistol was just, nah. I literally rolled my eyes
@@famalam943 eh, I felt like that was a smaller offense. Not being able to play realism on the first playthrough though... That was wild. MW22 was a one and done for me, so no way am I going through the whole thing twice just to remove the HUD.
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SP is honestly something that makes a game immortal. You can always return to it years later, knowing that you can experience some story and challenge, while most old MP-only games only offer a list of empty servers, with notable exception of some classics kept alive by die-hard fans.
Yeah, single player is often forever while multiplayer is not. So many dead online only FPS games on consoles and pc. Many don't even offer offline bot options.
Although, even single player games aren't always safe in today's digital only focused age. Spec Ops The Line recently got delisted from all digital stores on consoles and pc without warning.
@@GruntvcTrue
@@GruntvcSpec Ops being delisted has nothing to do with whether single player games are forever.
@@southpaw117let’s take cod games since 2019
They won’t even get to the menu if they can’t reach the servers
These games are basically a ticking time bomb
You’re right Multiplayer is a trend in a sense new games come out support and DLC stop and it does with a good campaign it makes it timeless, like CoD 4 and WaW they’re just amazing still hear more about those older campaigns then the more recent in 10 whole years that’s crazy.
"No one will ever read this!"
"S…Someone should read this."
It's been over a decade but this still sticks with me; Chernov, Dimitri, and Reznov dying was a 1-2-3 gut punch to me.
Campaigns are the things I was doing first when start playing a new COD.
It was a great way to have a first look at weapons, maps, and more.
I remember playing cod 4 campaign multiple time with arcade mode that let you try to beat your own score during the missions.
Even the Chapter thing, prologue, and so on.
Was great in my opinion.
Plus playing on the harder difficulties served as a way to warm up for multi-player.
It always saddened me when I'd talk to my friends and they'd always have brushed off the campaign.
I'll mever forget the moments from COD 4, crawling around with MacMillan. WAW and planting the flag on the Reichstag.
The atmosohere of these earlier games always stood out to me
Damn, I feel old now lmao
Exactly. Even today, my most favorite moment in gaming history is CoD4's All Ghilled up. Such a great mission, sure is it kinda bombastic and a bit unrealistic? Probably, maybe. Though People have done far more bombastic and greater things throughout history, so I do not believe for a moment that a mission like that is possible in real life. The Devs put a lot of care and detail into it, making it not only fun, but tense AND thrilling. Modern campaigns lack that heart and soul, they lack that fun yet tense and thrilling atmosphere and feel to it.
My favorite mission is still “Death From Above” even though I’ve played through several campaigns
Same, 24 in August and feel old as fuck. Cod 4 was my first cod when my stepdad got world at war in 2008 I got cod 4 handed to me
Same way, but for me it was BF3 and Bad Company's campaigns.
I have some controversial takes, but I like ghosts and infinite warfare campaign, obviously there are obvious good ones like cod 4 and bo2, but yeah, most of these new cods are lacking in the campaign dept.
Cod2 has a special place in my heart. Growing up in Russia, we heard so much about WW2 because it was a devastating time for the Soviet Union. Almost everyone had family that was fighting in the war, or at least have relatives whose grandparents or great grandparents were a part of. We’ve heard a lot of heroic stories and took a lot of pride in our country’s hard fought victory. And being a kid, who was able to play as soviet soldiers who were reclaiming their country from the grasp of German soldiers hit a totally special note for me and many others like me. Another amazing thing about it was the journals that the main characters were writing that you could read during loading screens. It gave a lot more personality to playable characters who never spoke a word.
Also the end of WaW, where you got to play as the soviet soldiers taking on the reichstag, putting the soviet flag on top of it was one of the most amazing experiences ever.
COD 1 had the Reichstag capture and flag putting as well
Yeah. Love the Cod 2 more than 4 and above. They're just basically taking away the "You're nothing but a common soldier" thing.
@@Jadanbr thanks, have to replay it now :')
But weird how soviet schools never taught that before WW2 Stalin agreed to attack and divide Poland with Germany
Real oh... 👏👏👏👏
Freaking out over Delta Team staying behind to cover TF141's exit still makes me pretty upset to this day.
The fact I can name characters like Grinch, Truck, Sandman, Scarecrow, Bullfrog, Meat and Royce who basically serve as "back up" honestly speaks alot compared to the recent campaigns were anybody who isn't TF141 are just labeled as faction soldiers really takes away from immersion imo.
when the Red Army theme came on at 8:58 with the "World At War" text showing up. Total chills
best COD.
I’ve been playing every COD since COD 2 2005. I’ve never played a single multiplayer battle. You’d probably guess the one exception I skipped being BO4. I’m a lone wolf kinda player. Never played an online multiplayer game in my life. So it pains me that they are skimping out more and more and more on the campaign.
I played the campaign first, multiplayer second, and Zombies last
Same here. Down with the multiplayer. They're cancer.
Campaigns also bring us such memorable quotes:
"Citizens of Berlin! A ring of steel surrounds your rotten city! Abandon your posts! Abandon your homes! Abandon! All! Hope!" - Commisar Markov (WaW)
"Look at this place, fifty-thousand people used to live in this city, now it's a ghost town. I've never seen anything like it." - MacMillan (MW)
"Dragovich, Kravchenko, Steiner. These... "men", must die." - Reznov (BO1)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye... and the world just fuckin' watched." - Shepherd (MW2)
And so on.
for a 2008 game having "multiple endings" really says a lot about the determination of making a good campaign.
when you finish WaW Chernov talks about you, the player, the choices you have made throughout the campaign. there are 3 endings (good, neutral, bad) and they re determined by only 3 choices, all 3 choices are in different missions (1 choice in 1 mission, another 1 in another mission,etc.) when you play as Dimitri. Search it up to see what you ve missed
9:00 HOLY FCKING SHIT
You just made WAW the greatest cod ever released thanks to this montage
Going through the game files and hearing the music just screamed montage to me lol. Had to make it, appreciate the love!
what software did you use?@@theWheezy
I use OBS to record and Sony Vegas to edit. Audacity for some audio tinkering too
@@theWheezyThis video took time. It was kinda difficult to make
You aren't a true cod fan if you don't love the campaigns
Screw that notion , then
Nah screw you son. Your the reason Activision turned cod into crap.
Mind you kolodenis I wasn't replying to you, but to the guy below you.
@@chedisalhi2382most basic cod fans don’t touch the campaign
I'm a cod fan and idc about campaigns.
You didn't mention the co-op game modes in MW2 and MW3. Super underrated if you ask me, they essentially were what you talked about regarding co-op campaigns.
Unbelievably underrated
The campaign has always been the first thing I played whenever I got a new Call of Duty game, and I feel like in the Call of Duty games without multiplayer operators, the campaigns definitely used to add to the multiplayer experience. When you played the campaign first and then hopped into multiplayer and saw all the soldiers from the campaign factions in their respective maps, you knew roughly what was going on and why the factions were fighting in those places. This made the multiplayer more immersive because it felt like the multiplayer games made sense and could actually happen in the world of the campaign’s story.
As someone who buys BF, Call Of Duty, etc just for the campaign I am starting development of a VR Vietnam game im mainly gonna focus on campaign, release a multiplayer beta, release the game with multiplayer, then release a campaign a week in
If y’all have any recommendations like characters, locations, or any stories from surviving veterans and your family I would love to hear it
Tunnel rats
You have no idea how much I miss good COD campaigns. I remember being utterly blown away by Big Red One on the OG Xbox, made me a HUGE fan of the franchise. Then MW comes out, then MW2, even MW3 is decent. Black Ops, Black Ops 2. My god COD had one hell of a good campaign run back in the day.
Writing - Good
Editing - very good
Good job mate
Thank you for sticking up to us campaings enjoyers
Campaigns are imo one of the best parts of those game and they NEED to be more respected
I had the opinion that if MWIII's open story missions had Co-Op it would at least be a bit better than it is right now; like imagine having 4 of you playing as the TF141 characters with different missions for each
I remember when I was younger, at any CoD launch, I would only see people in my friends list playing exclusively the multiplayer even though the game just came out.
I've never seen someone actually play any CoD campaign at that time.
It's really a shame, what's the point of spending your $60 for just an fps matchmaking game, every f**king year, and also crying about it btw.
It's like buying a -- still overpriced -- hamburger, and removing the bread, salad and tomatoes because "The BeEf's THe BeSt ParT BrO".
I find it sad that such efforts where put into the stories, yet so few people gave a sh*t.
Thanks for bringing those campaigns on the spotlight.
A tradition that I have is to play through the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare campaign around Christmas because I got it for Christmas. It was hands down one of the best singleplayer experiences I ever had. Especially because I came from that kind of shooter gamer that only knew crosshairs, semi-tactical and semi-realistic looking games like Half-Life, CS 1.6, CS:S, and so on. Being able to look through your iron sight was something big to me. I never had seen this in other shooters and it looked so much more mature than the games I played before.
If I hadn't played the campaign, the multiplayer wouldn't have felt alive to me. Every map was rooted in my head, I knew exactly what happened there and it felt more immersive. I knew who I was who my enemy was and why I fought them. Bloc would still be an eerie map without playing the campaign. But with the campaign in mind you know that this is actually Pripyat, you are fighting in the Chornobyl exclusion zone. You are fighting where 50,000 people used to live here. Now it is a ghost town.
Brothers in Arms had iron sight ADS in 2005 MONTHS before CoD 2 was out
World At War was the game that got me hooked into history. There is just something magical about it that made me fall in love with it.
Honestly the campaigns are the best thing like I hate playing a game & not knowing the story you know? People skip to the online all the time but me? When I first found out about COD I fell in love with the campaign, especially the first modern warfare on the all ghillied up mission a good campaign is like a good ass movie you just want more of it for an example RDR2 story mode is so good it feels like a movie you grow an attachment to the characters & you start to feel what they feel like “damn Arthur really be doing his best trying to look past the bs but still knows this isn’t gonna end well but is still loyal to those that have helped him out in life” that’s shit that people have gone through & still do which makes it even better! When it’s done right it is a beautiful thing to see
The main problem with call of duty campaigns is that they were once the face of the game but no longer anymore because ever since the rising popularity of Fortnite & PubG and other Battle royals, it was only a matter of time that call of duty threw its hat in the mix, and when bo4 didn’t have a campaign that was the start of the developers slowly turning away from the importance of the that entire 1/3 of the game.
In comes MW 2019 and campaign was decent but few months later in came WarZone and the the rest is history this exploded the game popularity and streamers and gamers alike flocked to it so by looking at the rising numbers and the extreme love for this new mode development now shifted to making each next title slowly merging with WarZone giving it more spotlight and research and adding in layer after layer of importance to the dev team. Now in comes new seasons with cutscenes that normally would be in a campaign 5-10 years ago but now have been entirely given to WarZone because that is all what the publisher thinks, it’s the star attraction of call of duty now and classic activision they are doing their hardest to milk it dry which now I hear fans hate the new WarZone while tease the OG fans with nostalgia. But it started with Blackout in Bo4 which led to WarZone which bumped off everything we once loved about call of duty.
Campaigns are now one and the same with WarZone stories and the latter is given more time to make and give a story than the predecessor yet always goes half way and cut corner than go the full mile and make it complete. Multiplayers numbers are really going down because of WarZones Ginormous death grip on the series. And zombies ever since Cold War they added those health bars for zombies and weapon rarities which you would see in a battle royal and I despise both immensely and I wish we’re never an idea on a drawing board yet here they stay with each zombie title with MW3 trying to merge Zombies into a open world stay in the zone map. This is ludicrous…. And heartbreaking it’s very sad to see the state of Cod now I grew with Black ops 1 and MW2 OG and to this day those remain the best Cod campaigns. And it doesn’t help that by looking at the series, it seems to be shifting to a subscription service with how the menus look and feel compared to older titles which if so would straight up be stupid beyond all words.
But anyways this is Cod now and campaign is not the face of the game anymore it’s WarZone.
Thanks for making this. As someone who has always had a passion for the single player campaigns, and who hasn't cared about the multi-player/zombies since like BO1, I've definitely just accepted by this point that my requests for what I would want out of CoD are totally drowned out.
World at War and Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare were pivotal at the time. There was a purpose to play, to fight and see the end of the campaign. Nowadays, to me I haven't recaptured that feeling in years with C.o.D. Spec Ops: The Line is what I'd love to see C.o.D try for their campaign. But times are changing, and not for the better.
Not sure why you would want to use Spec Ops: The Line as a comparison to anything positive. I hate that game with a burning passion because it had the gall to try and make the player feel bad for choices the game FORCES you to make.
I remember there being a youtuber who put together cinematic videos of singleplayer missions from the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and of World at War as well, I don't remember if they ever made any other videos based on other games in the franchise. These videos were extremely well put together nonetheless, trying to remember the name of that channel as well.
Playing halo 3 co op with friends was so fun back in the day. Can just imagine what mw games would have been like with this
Exactly! Running through Black Ops or Modern Warfare with friends would be the ultimate experience!
The fact in four years World At War will be 20 years old freaks me the hell out.
Just a fun fact: If you're interested to know where the first scene/shot comes from, whatch the HBO miniseries "Generation Kill". Although it's much more similar to Jarhead than to Call of Duty hehe.
8:35 I’ve never realized but the soldiers around record on their flip phones the explosion like that’s some attention to detail
They're gonna post it on liveleak
Nice vid. Well written script. Awesome editing. Glad I got your vid recommended. I was planning on making a vid on the COD WAW campaign but it’s been done so many times. You made a new idea for going over cod campaigns. Well done brother
I actually teared up while I was watching the WAW montage. So many memories..😢
Campaign is always the first thing I play, even with the newer cod games. I absolutely refuse to touch any other mode until I've finished the campaign at least once. WAW was my first cod, and I didn't have internet at the time so I would constantly just replay the campaign over and over and over. The campaign hit so incredibly hard, and I still revisit it sometimes
a lot of people also miss the fact that the music in the new COD just don't feel good anymore. WAW is gritty and gruesome on its own but it would feel 10X less impactful to storm on top of the Reichstag and not hearing the soviet chants or taking shiri castle and not hearing the really good metal soundtracks.
Such a great video! Everything you said i agree fully. Good job and keep up bro!
The authentic camaigns are why many played in the first place, I fell in love with the games that gave actual identity to what I was playing.
CoD is dead(R.I.P. CoD 2003-2015)
#ReviveBlackOpsll
#BlackOpsllOriginalRemaster2025
Respect to the real Call of Duty players.
P.s. I think Black Ops ll should've had a multiplayer campaign.
what do you mean 2003-2015? WW2 came out in 2017 and it's the best cod in the last few years.
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@@hawkcybergear stfu. ww2 is one of the best cods.
Great video mate, it made me think back on some great nostalgic memories from my childhood playing these Campaigns. 👍🏻
I absolutely agree with your message here. In fact, campaign is the main gaming experience in cod for me, i found multiplayer interesting in just a few of cod games. But i love coming back to their campaigns every now and then.
7:05 im one of those campaign players. It all started with waw and ever since I loved the story. Didnt buy bo4 and haven’t bought mw3 2023. The only 2 cods since 2007 I haven’t bought. The new cod mainly cuz I hate their business model and what they’re doing to cod these days and the original 2011 mw3 is my favorite cod
Man you deserve way more views and subs. Awesome vid!
that was a well made, fun and entertaining video, I really enjoyed it and agree with your points, thanks for making a great video!
world at war undoubtedly has the greatest campaign experience of all time. i remember as a kid, this was my first cod. little 8 year old me playing this campaign for the first time was terrifying but also such a great experience. it introduced me to cod. Modern cod games don’t put enough effort into the campaigns and it’s honestly sad. being fully immersed into a cod story was so fun and nothing compares. nothing will bring back those experiences.
I see the effort in making this video. It is awesome! Good job!
Growing up without wifi meant I only had campaign and split screen gaming. So campaigns I played over and over and over again. I always remember quotes. Such as “dragovich, kravgenco, Steiner, all must die…” that one had always stuck to me. Or “frost, get suited up we gotta move now” as you advance out of the humvee, reloading your m4 when sandman gives you a mag, and heading out into the city. Lastly I also remember the quote from MW2 “Ramirez! LAST MAG” all of the campaigns just mean a lot. How it brought me connected with the game. Reason why I stopped playing the games and haven’t bought another one since infinite warfare.
I remember when you played the campaign first because that was the main show. The multiplayer was the side show. Campaigns were important back then. They allowed games to evolve in storytelling. They also introduced new players to new concepts and gameplay. Giving the players a place to understand the weapons in the sandbox, mechanics, and special events in an offline PvE mode was important.
Thinking back on it, Black Ops 1 tells an incredible story. Honestly, if BO1 wasn't made into a game, but a tv show first it would fit right in. 1 episode about every mission. It would make a great action drama.
Everybody else talked about the multiplayer, meanwhile I was making good memories playing the campaigns.
Never even touched multiplayer until I was about 21 years old. My first multiplayer experience was the MW released in 2021
I aint gonna touch MP tbh. Kinda wish it never exist in the first place for cod and other games.
Loved the video. I am one of those players who play call of duty for the campaign. With multiplayer play on occasion. I used to play multiplayer more like in OG modern warfare games but now with sbmm and all the sweats it's not even fun
When I was younger I unfortunaly didn't have the chance to play videogames at all. FIrst time I was able to really get into playing CoD was during quarantine back in 2020. That time I used to play warzone and later even the mw2019 multiplayer. I've never bought the game for the campaign, because my main focus was to exp weapons that i could later use in warzone or to practise my skills. Few months later I got bored and decided to give the campaign a try. And even though that the mw2019 maybe isn't the most liked CoD campaign I loved it. It gave me a different point of view on the game and changed the vibe while playing it. Before, it was just a map with 5 buildings, but after playing the campaign I started to view the maps differently. Every map had its own vibe and made me feel differently, every weapon and even a attachment changed my persepective on what I was playing at that moment. I never thought, that I would like to play campaigns, but now I'm glad I gave them a try. Could anyone recommend me any CoD campaign that they enjoyed, I would like to give them a try :).
Bo3, vanguard, and mw3 (the new one) are the not so good campaigns but the rest are fun
Afghan dude casually eating a chocolate bar, is insane fuckin realism literally the coolest aspect of this mission 😂😂😂
A lot of people forget that cod started as story only
What an amazingly executed video! Loved every second, Wheezy.
As a kid I never had unlimited internet like nearly everyone has now so I was never allowed to connect my Xbox to the internet to play multiplayer games. This meant all I had was the campaigns. My first ever CoD was Finest Hour on the ps2/Xbox back in 2004, ever since then I was hooked. The original Modern Warfare series and WoW, BO1&2 to me were the most greatest and awesome games I had ever played. The campaigns are so memorable and have great stories and characters, even now as an adult with unlimited internet I'm still only interested in the campaigns. Unfortunately CoD isn't what it used to be and each year I get more and more disappointed, but at least I'll always have the 2003-2014 era of CoD to go back to.
A campaign in any game makes the other modes way more immersive. Immersion and believability is something that completely went away when campaigns went, and cosmetics started getting rediculous
Everytime I buy a call of duty, I play the campaign first. As you said it does give you a feel of the game general atmosphere and setting. Great Video!
The CoD multiplayer fan: "Your feelings for CoD campaigns are not real. Sooner u will only care about multiplayer"
The CoD fan: "My feelings for CoD campaigns are real to me!"
I always love me some Star Wars memes
World at War is the GOAT when it comes to cod campaigns for me
i mean after cod mw3, (from 2011) i haven't really seen something in-depth in story and dedication since from cod. i generally believe gamming was lost after 2014/2015, and that feeling hasn't returned since. 2011 was the peek. for me anywhere, almost every game from 2011 was a master peace in its own way
Campaign for PS3/360 was co-op for me in many shooters COD or other IPs. BO3 was the last game I did co-op in and Infinite Warfare while I heard good things about it campaign I have yet to play but thought was cool like the loadouts in BO2 in some change ups for the series campaign even if loadouts are always a thing in most multiplayer modes. I have on occasion replayed some shooters I already owned in singleplayer or new to me old games of that era as I buy up that era of shooters for their mechanics, seeing oh this is a FPS with Halo/Crysis inspiration like TimeShift, or many TPS with cover based systems but some other mechanics and replay some CODs or but older entries on PS2 I never owned like Finest Hour/Big Red One. I really like Big Red One or many Medal of Honour games.
I maybe sometimes played multiplayer offline, or the Alien one from Ghosts but never Zombies.
The one I have played the most is probably Declassified on Vita it's campaign, it's survival mode all offline and multiplayer online on occasion when I online set up my Vita.
So to me it was the campaigns, the theming, the mechanics, the settings, they really convey a lot and I remember them well.
WOW very much when playing it through to the plane part a few years ago and going oh this has scenes to hide for graphic details or really impactful scenes of the theme and setting that I was really impressed by and remember.
MW was well I replayed but on the Wii. BO2 a little bit on 360. I will try Ghosts/Infinite Warfare at some point. I have most of them and will go through the ma y CODs again then leaving them on the shelf or same with the BF games I've picked up or already owned.
I didn't mind the sci fi era as I liked Titanfall 2/other sci fi shooters/alternative history ones and COD had some fair ideas in those entries but I get why people don't like them.
ive seen a rise in world at war related videos , it seems like its kinda hyping again which i really love as it shows war for what it really is
I remember recently a friend of mine played through BO1. He never got to play CoD as a kid, and he really liked it. It was great to talk to him about it. And i wish more CoD did co-op. WaW co-op is a little janky. There's a few missions that are cut and lots of fog on every map. They needed to make sure people older 360 didn't catch on fire. But it could of been a great feature like how halo had it
Very well said. I also see many people dismissing the immense value that COD Campaigns have. At least they used to have. They're fun narrative arcade shooter gems and they basically introduce you gameplay mechanics that are used in MP. It can be also perceived as a Multiplayer Tutorial as well as all the other great things it has to offer. The exploration you can do, the little details and events you can find here and there that you most likely wont notice on your first run, and just the experience you get while playing them deems them memorable gaming moment that I don't see why people wouldn't want to revisit later on when they miss the feeling they provided to them. People can argue, "you play campaign only once, its the same thing if you replay it". Technically, that's true. The same can be said about movies. Movies can also be watched once and never watched ever again. But we all know for a fact that many people rewatch certain movies tons of times. So it really depends on how much you can appreciate all the work behind setting up all these missions and exploring every little detail that have to offer. Then it becomes very replayable and enjoyable to explore, and people fail to realize that.
I went on hiatus form the franchise because the 360/ps3 version of Black Ops 3 didn't come with the campaign. I generally don't delve into games that don't have campaigns. They feel incomplete without the mode and just not worth the price tag. I did eventually come back to the franchise back in 2019 when the reboot of Modern Warfare caught my attention.
Cod 4 was my first dive into a more mature story. As in before that I watched mostly kids movies.
I still remember the cultural event
that was the release of MW3. I went to a midnight release at my local GameStop.
The attachment people had to that game was to the story and wanting to know how it would conclude. Sure they were excited for Multiplayer… but all anyone could talk about that night was the story… what would happen to captain price and how Makrarov would get taken down etc.
Keep up the good work !!
I always feel sad knowing we'll likely never get a masterpiece like World at War again, mainly because most aren't interested in WWII as a setting now.
I personally love it as a setting. People forget that, unlike WWI, WWII was a true global conflict. It's still the most devastating war in all of human history, and that fountain scene where I believe is Stalingrad, what if I told you that Stalingrad was in fact the bloodiest battle in history? In the aftermath of the battle, nearly the entire civilian population of Stalingrad was wiped out due to the fighting and lack of evacuation before the Germans arrived
Dog thank you for this. Growing up internet was a luxury so I relied on campaign and spec ops… and the devs cared about that at the time so they made sure the game would stand the test of time. Campaigns made me care about the multiplayer and it’s setting
I still replay Law's campaign every now and then, it was so atmospheric. You didn't really play as a hero or a protagonist, you just played as a soldier and witnessed the story progressing....while racking up a MAD K/D
I must be the rare breed that only played Call of Duty for the campaigns. Never played multiplayer. Only few times to try it out.
I only play CoDs for its campaigns and it is good to see that at least some people stil appreciate them
Co-op Campaign definitely needs to make a return. I loved playing WAW with friends or randoms.
I flipped all the Cods to Cod 1 to Cod Bo3 and anything after that I didn’t care for I’m only for old gen Cods but I like how you included the campaign for cods because it had great story lines! WaW stands out above all cods
Call of duty campaigns gave always been a big part of my life, whilst i wouldnt be buying every new game every year, ive still got nearly all of them (cod 2 and upwards). My first proper dabble into cod multiplayer was when warzone 2019 came out (it was free and i didnt care enough to buy psn). And as such ive never played multiplayer for a lot of the older cod games, the campaigns were my only way to play them and there hasn't been a campaign ive disliked, sure there are parts or missions i havent been the biggest fan of, but other than 2023 MW3, ive loved every campaign, and i especially love playing multiplayer now with my friends
Fantastic video. Glad UA-cam recommended it
WAW modding potential is genuinely satisfying imagine more maps more campaign and of course we had for ages the amazing zombies custom maps I am Addicted to WAW engine
WaW is really unique experience. The campaign help you to understand what factions in multiplayer fighting for.
Campaign become to psychological horror when you complete half of it.
But if we talk about another old cods, campaign give you unforgottable 5 hours experience, special operations with friends and challenges like veteran difficulty.
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Thank you :)
After revisiting the old Treyarch games, I completely forgot how ambitious they were. I mean, the narritives for those games were surprisingly good, and you could tell that if they weren't restricted to being a CoD game they would have done much more.
One thing that doesn't get enough credit is the soundtrack. The OG cod games had a phenominal soundtrack, which seems to be absent in the newer games.
I always hate the excuse people use to defend either shitty campaign, or lack of a campaign altogether : “its so they can focus more on the muliplayer experience” as if the old games didnt already have a better campaign, multiplayer and extra modes like zombies/spec ops.
even the first cod as series had small interesting details. for example, in cod 2 a commisar will say how he will deal with a prisoner. you are ordered to leave but if you return you might make it in time just to see the commisar executing the german.
I personally never really enjoyed playing multiplayer. I mainly played zombies and the campaigne. It is a shame that bo4 didnt include a campaigne.
Very underrated
That’s why I bought cod THE CAMPAIGN. I grew up without internet. All I had was the campaigns and stories of Cod and Fallout, Metro , GTA etc… They forgot. They really did forget where they came from i those they get humbled.
I’d always get looked at crazy for preferring the store of an old Fps as opposed to the multiplayer beforehand
you're last statement is a hallmark!
the obligation to play a COD campaign first before anything should be the 11th commandment
Back in the day when black ops 1 came out i had a friend who had the game and only go straight to the multiplayer he would say who still plays the campaign but when i would get the game the campaign was all i could play because i couldn't buy a membership and i didn't have Internet so i grew up on campaign you get more story and enjoyment in my opinion.
I always played the campaigns when a new cod came out, none of my friends didn't even know about Nazi zombies until i came to multiplayer saying there was this scary game mode at the end. i invited them to come play with me and the rest is history.
Wow he picked WAW that’s where it all started for me that’s why it’s hard for me to pick as my fav with the other great cods but WAW had a special place in my heart. Kinda sad I didn’t play cod 4 in its prime I could tell the multiplayer was good but yea the numbers mason is insane we got some insane campaigns and now there just ass boring
Thats true a solid campain define the pvp and pve modes
Campaigns always deserve their time and effort back then because everybody enjoys the time in the story and the world that they get into I was one of those people that always plays The Campaign first but on the hardest difficulty then after finishing it I play both multiplayer and zombies, spec ops, Extinction
The last game I played complain the whole campaign on the hardest difficulty was unaware for 2019 after that I have lost all interest in campaigns because the lack of effort the Call of Duty has been doing I wanted to finish the campaign for Cold War but I would have to do the Easter egg / deciphering codes to get the best ending
This is why I loved Battlefield Hardline despite so many people hating it. The campaign was a genuinely cool story about a cop dealing with corruption. As for Call of Duty, I never even touched multiplayer. Just the campaigns and occasionally zombies alone.
Never had internet back in the day. For me WAW was the introduction. Played the Campaign, split screen co-op with my cousin and then all we played was zombies. After that, rinse and repeat with the rest of the franchise. Enjoy the Campaign then kill zombies. Only started killing MP when my brother introduced me to it in BO2
It's also just truly sad nowadays because you can see that cod is fractured and not a uniform thing.
MW3 being a big indicator.
You have a half asses campaign that got rushed through that people will simply only remember soap dying in for no reason.
That's it.
The tone doesn't matter since MP has tons of random crappy super goofy fortnite skins and the zombies was forced onto treyarch and they have left the project after 1 season.
Cod used to feel all uniform and under one theme.
Booting up World at war, black 1 or 2.
Or the OG MW2/3
I think the reason campaign isn’t recognized is because most people (or streamers at least) buy the game for multiplayer and don’t touch on the campaign for a few months (After BO2)
Some of the most memorable moments in COD come from the campaign (like the numbers, 50,000 people used to live here, Ramirez, heck, even some of the more recent campaigns like Bravo Six going dark)
This also applies to other games with both a campaign and multiplayer like Halo
Some fps are multiplayer only or multiplayer based like Counter-Strike, TF2, and Battlefield
One of my first encounters with COD come from the final part of the final mission in World at War
Whenever I play a new cod or redownload an old one. The first thing I do before even buying it is making sure that I have the day free so I can play the whole campaign before doing anything else.
Growing up I used to play waw co-op campaign all the time. It was actually what made me start playing multiplayer lol.
The emphasis on campaign helped developers stick to the theme of the game, however that reduces the amount of potential micro transaction content developers can add. This is why old cod is over, it’s all about the money. Awesome video.
I think the campaign helps the developers to stick to the core of a theme in the other modes. Lots of multiplayer maps come from the campaign missions. Like you want to feel like every map is unique, yet it should all fit and convey the feeling of the theme