Black Ops 2... 10 Years Later Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Heralded by many as the best Call of Duty game ever, Black Ops 2 is reaching it's 10th Anniversary today and serves as a nostalgic trip down memory lane, while also a sad reminder of how far the gaming industry has fallen within the last decade. How well does Black Ops 2 hold up to today's standards? What were some of the bumps along the road during it's life cycle? And what do the numbers mean, Mason?!
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Timestamps:
0:00 November 2012...
2:01 Intro
2:55 Campaign Analysis
10:20 The Multiplayer
13:31 Multiplayer in 2022
15:01 Zombies!
24:48 The End of an Era
#callofduty #blackops #modernwarfare #blackops2 - Ігри
A little different from the usual Halo content, but I hope you all enjoy it anyways! And I should warn you that there are some flashing lights in this video thanks to how Treyarch edit their cutscenes.
Man it’s hard to believe a lot of the games I played during the tail end of the 360/PS3 era are getting to be a decade old.
I turned 40 this year so... 😅
Black ops 2 in general is one of the best cods ever made and I don’t think they can never go back to make another cod like this again. Amazing campaign, fun as hell multiplayer and classic zombies with the best map of all time being mob of the dead. Definitely a game to go back and play with the boys
This was such a nostalgic look back at one of my favorite games.
Also hearing you rip apart tranzit hurt 😂 I still love that make to this day but I cant fight its issues
Thank you for commenting! I know a lot of people feel nostalgic for Tranzit, but I just can't see the enjoyment in it. Even playing with friends, its a massive pain. Especially if someone goes down on the other side of the map 😂
Damn. I’d honestly forgot how much time I put into Black Ops 2. I played this CoD more than any other. So many matches on Nuketown, endlessly tweaking my loadouts, chasing all the little challenges and camos. Custom red dots.
Now I’m just sad 😭
Hey, player! Drop the chips and watch the new Laper video!
I actually really liked Transit the idea of being on the bus defending it while on the move was pretty fun with friends for me
For how long I’ve been watching you, I’m certain this is the video that gets you the recognition you deserve. I’m positive
Didn't play it much when it first came out but in hindsight, BO2 was great. Also 10 outta 10 IGN video as usual Larden.
Thank you!
It's truly insane of how this game is now ten years old and still holding the test of time for being one of the best Call of Duty games and personally one of my favorite games as well. It shows the test of time by how we're still talking about it today and how for example COD Black Ops 4 or even Cod Cold War has been thrown aside. It shows the craftsmanship of the development of a game back then and how companies cared a bit more on if it's good. However, the microtransations and the scummy marketing was slowing seeping through in the end of Black ops 2 life and I'm glad it didn't go too far with some of it's questionable season pass "exclusives." Again I'm happy it didn't go too far so I can just remember this game with pure bliss.
BO2 was the last great Cod game wasn’t it? I remember asking my dad to buy the game for me I and he went to our local blockbuster and they had a special offer and through in a free film with the game. Good time right there.
Ahhh, the old Blockbuster days. Rent a game out for a week, watch all the YT tutorials to get the achievements, and then get something new next week.
This game came with my 360. And I could not stop playing the campaign. The branching paths in the story was such a fantastic design choice that it sucked when playing other cod campaigns.
I absolutely agree with you, Modern warfare to BO2 / The 360 & PS3 Era was the best of gaming however, I do also wonder, is that because it was as you said, that period of time where you were old enough to have fun with it but not old enough to deal with real adult problems? was it really that amazing or was it the friends, the like-minded people that dominated the scene? will the youth of today (I'm 25, that makes me sick) have the same opinion of fortnight or Apex or Among us in 10 years' time?
On a side note, the fact you only have under 10K subs is criminal, one of my favourite UA-camrs and such quality on the videos you make
The chills bro at 1:41. I remember how excited 9 year old me was just because my parents bought me the pre-ordered edition of the game for Christmas.
"Pre-order now and get access to the Nuketown 2025 bonus map. Terms and conditions apply."
22:15 of all the best cod zombies moments, the opening of origins is by far the greatest moment on cod zombie history
It's such a great cutscene! Never used to skip it when playing Solo because it was so good.
To this day no Call of Duty has been able to surpass this one in terms of campaign. Such a remarkable franchise.
Thanks for making me feel old asf
Me too man, me too.
Holy hell. You literally summorised my thoughts exactly about cod and Halo in one vid. Damn I miss the old days of cod and Halo. It has gone to s**t nowdays. Bo3 was the last cod game I truly put time into.
This is one of the best cod sequel ever and the last amazing cod game until it lose its popularity since ghost.
Happy 10th anniversary to bo2.
yo got me some chills at start and end man damn!😆
I'm not sure how to feel about games I played as a teenager being a decade old. I still remember some of those memories well. Social gaming has never been the same. Atleast back in those days, everyone had a mic, wither they chose to use it or not, for better or worse. Now the most response you'll get from most people in a game is them teabagging you after getting a kill.
Think Menendez was referring to his virus having secondary functions that will activate in the near future when mentioning Odysseus. Unless Krama stop it, which game really hate. Seriously, she have more dead end then anyone else and need to have perfect right choice to keep her alive.
In the greece story of a man who have everything stack against impossible, suffered many set back, but ultimately achieve victory in the end, which Menendez can see himself in.
Excellent video, Laper Larden! The video section headings provided in the Call of Duty format is such a fantastic touch! The only Call of Duty titles I played were Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops. I was in my early teens when I played the games, and I believed the argument that the campaigns were mostly on the rails set pieces - although I got pretty invested in the U.S. Army Soldiers in Call of Duty 3. Your video and a few other videos have helped me see that there were some pretty good stories in the Golden Age of Call of Duty. I appreciate war stories that make you think beyond the main objective of reaching a certain location or beating an enemy force. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombies sounds pretty interesting. I played a lot of Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies, and I loved playing on Kino Der Toten reaching the higher levels with upgraded weapons and Juggernaug. Whenever someone activated the song "115" things got real intense. The Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies experience made me desperately want Floodfight in Halo, and I'm glad we got it in Halo: The Master Chief Collection even if it doesn't have the same level of tension as the Call of Duty mode. It's a shame that the earlier Call of Duty games have been cast aside by Activision. I wonder why they haven't made a package game like Halo: The Master Chief Collection that provides the Call of Duty titles from the first Call of Duty to Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Twelve Call of Duty games is certainly a lot to have for a single collection, so maybe two collections could be made - the first one stopping at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and the second one stopping at Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. I agree that 2002 to 2012 was a Golden Age for video games. I believe the reason for the abundance of excellent titles is that developers still had a significant amount of creative freedom and focused direction while having more funds and technological resources. For most current developers they seem to be able to have only one advantage. Thank you for continuing to make amazing videos, and I hope you had a great birthday!
Good to see you here, Reclaimer! I remember playing COD 3, years ago but the first game I owned was World at War, which also had an incredible campaign. My hope is that one day Activision realise a Call of Duty Collection similar to the MCC is just a licence to print money and it gives people who didn't get the chance to play them back in the day another opportunity. Might be worthy of making a video about that one day and tag some Activision executives 😂
Birthday was a lot of fun! Thank you!
I just played through this game for the first time about a month ago, in the middle of my CoD binge (never played any of these except World at War). It was alright. Loved Menendez and Harper, the gameplay and missions were alright.
Personally my favorite CoD campaigns are World at War, MW2 (original), and Infinite Warfare
All very good picks for campaigns. I think I've always preferred Treyarch's stories because of how unapologetically brutal they were. You could not get away with releasing World at War today.
@@LaperLarden oh definitely. I like to say that everyone should be required to play the game at some point to drive home how horrifying and not-glorious war is. It might discourage the populace from pushing for war.
You are so right about the community being at it's peak in bo2. I sometimes wonder if CoD can still be considered in it's prime because it hasn't faltered in sales, but the passion that went into the games definitely dwindled. No game after bo2 gave you the feeling that they were trying their hardest, it just seems like they've been trying to get away with as little as possible lately.
Multiplayer? Ruined by SBMM and they won't remove it because they don't want to alienate noobs. Campaign? Still good but not as creative or ambitious as it used to be.
Zombies? Quantity > quality in every regard now. There will never be another map like mob of the dead. They just don't care about cramming a map full of awesome shit any more, it's become about creating a massive grind. We'll see what Treyarch has up their sleeve in 2 years but the direction they've gone is awful.
Der Riese was my fav blops 2 zombies map.
Now that's a niche joke and a throwback.
@@LaperLarden 😆
As much as I loved BO2, it's Zombies mode lost me. Even Mob and Origins fell flat, if not more so due to their focus on EEs and quests. My friends and I just wanted to sit down, PaP'd weapons in hand, and mow down as many zombies as we could before we bit the dust. Black Ops IIs zombies seemed at times actively hostile to that, so we always hopped back to WaW and BO1 when we wanted to play.
Look, that's fair. I still find Origins to be particularly tedious and sometimes I don't have the brain power to worry about setting up and completing objectives like Mob and Buried make you do. During BO2's life cycle I always used to hop back on BO1 because I thought the maps were better and you had more variety too.
@@LaperLarden yeah, I think High School me just didn't want to dedicate the brain power (and wiki time) to figure out how to set up, and ultimately that's what lost me. I get why people love those maps, but it at least wasn't personally my cup of tea
The 7th generation of consoles with the wii with games like wii sports and mario galaxy, the ps3 with the last of us and xbox 360 with all of the iconic fps Games. COD BO2 was the last good game of that era even if I have only played split screen multiplayer with a friend on his ps3
“the community got to be the one who fixes the game” Well that aged well
Awesome.
Ghosts was way under-appreciated. It made some critical mistakes in Multiplayer and the Campaign, but Extinction had the potential to supersede Zombies IMO. It didn't, obviously, but the game loop of that mode had the potential
Thank you! Extinction was great! I loved the fact that it was more linear than Zombies, which was good for a change. It felt like you were always working towards an end goal. The maps were great and I loved the variety of enemies and the bosses. Nightfall and Mayday were especially awesome.
YESSIRRRR
The last truly good COD for me. Great story. Fantastic multiplayer. Cool Zombies mode. I master prestige'd it and everything, and the best part about all ot this: it was all in one package AT LAUNCH. Remember, Zoomers, this is what a fully-fledged game looks like, with DLC packs that came out afterwards to add on top of the game to make it even better.
Fucking masterpiece. Best COD.
#Justice4Denizens!!!
I’ll say that as much as BO3’s campaign is a disasterpiece, actually reading what happened before the game starts says what happens after the events of BO2, with the…. 3rd? 4th? Mission mentioning Menendez’s impact on defenses
Looking at videos like these, as well as other UA-camrs talking about CoD like Act Man and HiddenXperia, really makes me wish Activision would make a MCC style game that’s for older Call of Duty titles. Like, imagine if they made “The Modern Warfare Collection” or “The Black Ops Collection”, making something like that would make classic CoD games easily accessible for modern ga(y)mers (haha, got ‘em) and would definitely catch my interest. But it just seems like Activision couldn’t give two shits about the older CoD games and that really sucks.
And even though the two new MW games look fun as hell, especially the campaigns, I’ve heard they both have super strict SBMM that makes Halo Infinite’s look nearly nonexistent. So I’m a little hesitant on that regard.
I've been saying this for years! A Black Ops Collection would be incredible! And it baffles me that the first two Modern Warfare games can be remastered when Black Ops 1 at least, sold better than all of them. I'd throw money at Activision if they released a Black Ops Collection with remastered versions of World at War, BO1 and 2.
I'd stay clear of it. The new Modern Warfare II is a mess. It's unfinished, the weapon balancing is terrible, a majority of the MP maps suck and the campaign was pretty underwhelming. Even with Season 1 around the corner, it's just adding stuff that should've been there on day one.
@@LaperLarden I don’t know friend, Acting Male seems to think MW2022 is pretty goated. It might be the first CoD game I buy, play, and put time into. Just not right now.
Can anyone explain what anti consumer means? They offer little skins you can buy. How is that anti consumer? If they give away skins wouldn’t that be anti consumer? People will complain either way, might as well make them completely optional and get paid.
14:12 Pretty much what the TF2 community does. I’d say the community tends to do a better job that the developers at times
Man, this is making me wish I liked the Zombies mode.
It's never too late to give it another try!
100 Likes OVER 0 DISLIKES, LET's GO!!!!
Unfortunately I never got to play BO2 because i was already too disappointed with COD from BO1 and MW3
black ops 2 was my last cod game until mw2019 came out because almost all the cod games that came after blops2 was just.... meh as fuck
except I gotta say, the infinite warfare campaign was fun as hell and I replay it every year
and then bo3 went into bizzaro world. wtf was that campaign.
at leat infinite warfare campaign is more understandable
I'm really late to this video but tranzit 1 got to much hate I'd much rather over ambition the none at all and 2 tranzit is no longer the worst zombies map or mode in general we have vanguard zombies in that spot now
good video but skipper clears
Black Ops II may not be your favorite, but it is the best COD game
call of duty 2003 to call of duty black ops 2 was the golden age of the franchise
ghost to ww2 was the silver age
(though infinite warfare was horrible)
and after that it became meh
We all know Ghosts was best though.
Unironically Extinction slapped hard.
it's pronounced eh-pit-oh-me btw not eh-pih-tome. Just an fyi
FUUUUCK. That was smooth brain as hell. I'm annoyed I didn't pick that up earlier, I was probably just reading the script on mental auto pilot.
Don’t both work?
the youtubers quarrel with tranzit sounds like a skill issue.
No, it's just legitimately bad.
all the new games are money grubber halo infinite comes to mind
Black ops 2 was a fucking masterpiece
First
Based and Willis-pilled.
When I first started transitioning I had my sights on either Kara or Chloe for my name because I felt attached to the character Chloe (Karma) Lynch. I settled with Chloe because to me, i felt it suited me better.
Kara was a play on words from Karma (her alias in bo2)
Also, Kara's a bitch (Karma's a bitch) cause why not? 😅🤷🏼♀️