Call of Duty: A Franchise Retrospective and Analysis
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- This is an in-depth examination of the entire Call of Duty Franchise, covering 18 games and over three hours. It is a labor of love, so I hope you enjoy.
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0:00 Introduction
8:05 Call of Duty
27:49 Finest Hour
32:58 Call of Duty 2
41:18 Big Red One
47:29 Call of Duty 3
56:00 Call of Duty 4
1:10:32 World At War
1:24:06 Modern Warfare 2
1:40:10 Black Ops 1
1:52:04 Modern Warfare 3
1:59:39 Black Ops 2
2:12:40 Ghosts
2:25:31 Advanced Warfare
2:37:20 Black Ops 3
2:51:18 Infinite Warfare
3:00:00 WW2
3:07:41 Black Ops 4
3:09:11 Modern Warfare (2019)
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch such a long video. Your support means a lot. Say you watched it in the comments or on my twitter. - Ігри
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MW2019 best campaign, best Multiplayer. Your complaints about multiplayer is invalid. You dont know how to move, you dont know the maps, nor do you know how to flank the enemies, or use equipment to kill campers. You got so wrapped up in the single player because you overthought the political bullshit instead of just enjoying it. TLDR: get good, liberal.
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@@DavidOZ wanna talk about bo2's campaign? I basically hate it aswell lol.
Just going to assume this is a joke, for your sake.
@@terrynixon2758 you wanna elaborate or?
@@terrynixon2758 ?
I'm an old lady and don't know anything about video games. The UA-cam algorithm sent this to me in the middle of the night. It was so well done I stayed up and watched the whole thing. You are a very talented young man.
This comment made me very happy. I hope you are doing well, and you are not secretly a 25 year old due trolling me. Welcome to this weird side of UA-cam!
@@DavidOZ Her name is Patricia. She ain’t trolling you brotha
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u. r. silly!
But you know what an algorithm is, so you are tech savvy. Keep it up!
This is what I love about UA-cam man. We dont need to wait on a documentary company to produce a professional video on a particular subject we are passionate about, we can literally do it ourselves. Great video man, excellent analysis!
This ones really nice, thank you. Glad you liked it.
My Grandad and I loved playing the old COD games back in the day, he was the one who got me into video games,unfortunately he passed away a month ago at 87 years old.His last COD game he played was WWII. Before he passed, he managed to complete Sniper Elite V, even while dealing with his arthritis! Even though I helped him in some sections, but most of the time it was all him. He’s a true gamer till the end and he was one of the bestest friends I have ever known. RIP Grandad, we will meet again, and I hope you are up there playing every video game in heaven, save me a seat, I will be there in maybe 70 years, if I’m lucky.
im sorry for your loss
I didn't expect to get hit in the feels in this comment section...blind sided by tears acheivement unlocked
We disagree on ALOT, but this was an amazing watch and incredibly put together you did an amazing job.
Dude i LITERALLY search "Call of duty saga: analisys" I found THIS video that was uploaded 10 hours ago. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks.
Saaame , i was so happy when i found it
Ask and ye shall receive
You lucky
I’m living in your walls I’m living in your walls
This one is great and if you like it, Noah Gervais also did a really awesome long form analysis
In WAW the Japanese were designed to stand out in gameplay compared to the Nazis. The Japanese ambush, suprise, and rush you. While the Germans hold up with machine gun nests and are generally more cautious.
The Japanese in WW2 used a variety of tactics to surprise their enemy, faking their deaths, using traps, and hiding in the grass to name a few. It helps immerse the player and reinforces the sporadic and violent chaos of war.
The game also uses heavy violence and gore to try to put yourself in the boots of an average soldier, war is cruel, war is messy, and it represents the morale-killing events soldiers mighty experienced in the battles portrayed.
That’s what makes WaW stand out. Personally I wasn’t initially thrilled with the return to the WW2 setting since by that point it was done to death. But WaW really was the perfect last hurrah for the plethora of WW2 shooters we saw in the 2000s. Video games aren’t realistic by any means, but WaW is probably the closest we can get to a game that truly depicts the horrors of war and not just about going from point A to point B and mowing down everyone in sight.
That's not part of the critic about racism
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 What part was it then?
@@charlesrump5771 How It shows them in the same vein as the stereotypical cartoons from the era
See letters to iwo jima to see how the japanese army really was
It was not a bunch of Savage suicidal kamikazes that loved blood and torture
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 I personally don’t find anything racist about how the Japanese army was represented in WaW. I don’t see any stereotypical things that could even be considered racist from the game. The Japanese army during WW2 was savage in its guerrilla warfare tactics and suicide was very much so a big part of the Japanese army during WW2. If you’ve actually seen Letters from Iwo Jima or Flags of our Fathers you’d know this. They literally commit suicide at different points in Letters from Iwo Jima. From pulling grenade pins and holding them against their own chests to gutting themselves with their own swords. All the way to a last stand suicidal run at the enemy with all hope pretty much lost in the battle. Shit they even were willing to kill their own soldiers for not willing to fight or not willing to do certain things. All things the real Japanese army did during WW2. To not represent this would be historically inaccurate & to represent it is in no way racist. Just because it’s an uncomfortable truth and people may not like it or the way it portrays a certain cultures army at the specific time period, doesn’t at all make it racist when it is in fact historically accurate. Not only that but to add on top that not only the Japanese but both them and the German armies were pumped up with amphetamines also doesn’t help with the fact that both armies were savage. Drug use especially of amphetamines accumulated with sleeping barely at all on top of many other side effects of drug use just plain and simple help make a person more mean and act unlike a rational minded person does. Just in their own ways if that’s possible for some people to distinguish. People may not like how it’s represented, but it’s not a historically inaccurate depiction. This isn’t to say every single one of the Japanese imperial armies militants were psychotic savages, and that they didn’t have their own personal lives behind / before the war and had loved ones they cared for as the Americans did. But the fighting style of the Japanese army was just plain and simple a savage kind of fighting style with suicidal tendencies. It’s just the truth plain and simple, not racist.
I always love bringing up this anecdote: I spent so much time playing MW2 with my best friend in high school, sometimes we'd take turns playing multiplayer so we wouldn't have to use split screen. One day while visiting, he had apparently gotten MW3 and was playing it the whole time I was hanging out and I didn't even notice it was a different game until he pointed it out. I figured if I can't even tell the difference between MW2 and MW3 then there's no reason for me to buy it.
This is honestly still a channel that aged well. There was passion in each topic, and you never sold out. I have upmost respect for you to this day.
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We completely went wrong way 😂
What happened as of late? Is there drama i should know 💀
@@LEM620 same
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It’s been 12 years and I just now found out Reznov will acknowledge you no scoping enemies
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The effort on this video is unreal mate hundred percent deserves a like
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"War is antiethical to fun"
That one German guy who wrote Storm of steal: "Huh?"
Seriously tho - i loved this video. It's a pefeect mix of learning and good ol' Nostalgia
I absolutely love the snarky quote on the pseudo-philosophical comments made by Fallout.
"War ABSOLUTELY changes" lmao, spot on.
This is a great video and fantastic analysis, but I think with WaW it just seemed like you were LOOKING for “problematic” things, its not racism just by depicting a country’s military correctly
The truth was that yes, Japanese forces were that brutal in combat, if not even worse than depicted in WaW
I thought he was spot on with his analysis apart from when it came to WaW, which is near and dear to my heart. Even so, he had some good points.
I just finished this video, took me probably 6 sessions because of my time commitments. Just wanted to say a massive thank you for creating this and providing an eloquent run through of the series. Hearing about all of them back to back really put into context how far the series has come
The fact that there are still people playing the original cod games' multi-player is truly impressive
@Helicida that's what impresses me
Search and destroy, bolt actions only
I can still get lobbies in bo2 and ghosts
I really appreciate the fact that you cover the classic Call of Duty games as well unlike most people who pretends anything before COD4 isn't important or good. COD2 to this day is my favorite in the franchise simply because it doesn't have an actual story, it just wants to show interactive authentic WW2 battles. And it does a fantastic job in terms of immersion and making you feel like an average joe especially in Veteran difficulty.
The Libyan tank missions on Veteran stand out to me as one of the best moments in a video game. CoD2 was really ahead of its time
Cod 2 also has better sound design and reload animations that the newest cpds out.
@@MidniteMeatBus It absolutely does not. MW2019 and MW2 2020 are the best of the best when it comes to attention to detail with the weapons like the reload animations. In fact, every call of duty from WaW and before do not even accurately reload bolt action rifles, they shove an entire 5 round clip into the gun even if you still have 4 rounds left.
@@bucky97 i think he meant cod WW2
I have to say you totally underrated Big Red One
It focused on small scale tasks in bigger picture feel. It also took people to areas and places no game period has taken people since. Italy and Vichy France got tons of coverage content and really made you feel like your as close to WW2 perspective as one can be post WW2. And the player plot was amazing in it. Tons of armor and planes too. It deserved tons more recognition.
"A mascot that neither Treyarch or Sledgehammer managed to recreate."
*Looks at Mason, Woods and Menendez*
Don't forget Redznov and all 4 of the classic Zombies Crew
Great video though I vehemently disagree with the pseudo dislike for WaW. I too have played cod since the very first one and responded inversely to the video creator here I guess. I found the new tone, gore etc... supremely refreshing and much more realistic than previously takes on the setting. BTW people hate to admit this but it’s true, why do stereotypes crop up in society? Because to an uncomfortable degree they tend to have truth too them so I just don’t understand how cod was racist here. The Japanese really did have scary and fanatical devotion to the emperor to the point where nearly every last soldier and civilian had to be ruthlessly cut down in places like Saipan and Okinawa. The Japanese really DID lose previously unheard of in amounts of men (to the western mind) In obviously futile bonsai charges and Kamikaze attacks. The Japanese were absolutely known and if anything more likely than not to commit horrific war crimes on civilians, soldiers and prisoners of war. Such as cutting off certain private quarters of dead diggers (Australian’s) as well as G.I’s and shoving them in their dead mouths so as to enrage their comrades when they were found. I won’t even mention the unforgivable acts the Japanese committed toward Chinese civilians. There’s many theories as to why they were like this, the most likely being high commands way of putting the Japanese public/military in a place where they understood no surrender as the only choice given they had brutalized their opponents so much that no mercy would be given. Nonetheless though my point is that these are stereotypes because that’s how the pacific war was. If anything I thought waw shy’d away from the climate of absolute racial hatred both the Americans and Japanese had for each other at that time. It’s why the pacific war isn’t as glorified today as the European theater. The brutality and cruelty was much more akin to the Eastern front or a pseudo Vietnam rather than the image of the allies morally liberating a French village.
My thoughts exactly. He seemed to think it was racist simply bc they were brutal and not awesome super civilized fighters. In reality they were brutal, they find with their hands if they had to.
They even fake surrendered,just like in the last mission, they went full warcrime mode.
Hell, if the japanese and russian were racially stereotypical, one could say the mw saga has an imperialistic pov with the stereotypical russian bad american/english good, but i loved both waw and mw(more waw than mw) you can even say waw is the best HD ww2 shooter and given how vanguard looks right now, seems like it will stay that way for some time
Historically everything you said is correct.
Seriously this guy breathes soy.
My thoughts exactly, in ww2 especially the Japanese were unrelenting, and on the hatred aspect I always think about a scene in The Pacific, where Sledge and his crew walk past some troops who surrendered and (I don't remember completely) but he gets freaking livid and almost beats him to death.
Hello everyone. Thanks for watching. This video is a bit older now but I was clicking on it to check in on some comments and got like 10 mid roll ads in the first hour. I think that is absurd, but YT studio isn't letting me change it. I turned off ads for the video but some people are still getting them. I hate the idea of YT deciding where my ads go in this 3 1/2 hour long video so I just turned em off. If you still get them, let me know. Anyway, if you see this, love you bye
To be honest, with imaginable time and effort this video must have taken to produce, your probably one of the few creators I would want to see ads in, as while I can't contribute to patreon at the moment (hopefully some time in the future) ads make me feel like I'm still showing appreciation for this awesome content.
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Same, make your money dude!
I got ads
Put ads on it man. I’m happy to have them if it supports you. Patreon?
What an awesome video, I really think you have the ability to make good retrospectives
They arent my favorite games, but they are some of the most fun experiences ive ever had. I will never forget sleeping over a friends house and playing MW2 all night and hitting a crazy cross the map throwing knife kill. Thank you for this video!
This video hacked the algorithm cuz I fall asleep with a different video every night but wake up to this lol
Having seen the immense amount of effort you have put into this video, I’m happy to say that this video was an absolute pleasure to watch from start to finish. I particularly enjoyed hearing about your own past experiences with the CoD games as an analysis on its own own and of this length can become quite sterile and soulless. The part about the silent MW2 lobbies hit me right in the feels :(
A video about CoD zombies would be super cool! I’m looking forward to see what you come out with next!
Matt couldn’t agree more my man. When he was talking about launching the game for the last time not knowing it, or saying “see you tomorrow guys” for the last time I got really sad at that part
I love New Modern Warfare. I love shipment. And I love this video.
Stopping my life for three hour’s then
In the same boat as well
Loop
Evaluate mw 2019 ❌
Talk about politics ✅
This took me down the rabbit hole of my childhood. Literally this unlocks me memories of staying up late middle school playing zombies with the bros. Planning how we would reach the next round. Man this is timeless. Even looking at missions i forgot i even played !! Absolutely speechless…thank you man !!
1:13:44 The voice clip you're talking about is probably the one where he screams "Sanitäter!". The dude is calling out for a medic, basically. My most memorable sound across the early games is that one weird death noise that first appeared in CoD2 and found its way to CoD4.
I remeber the voice line form cod 2 :TIME TO GO GET MOVING and when i heard it in cod 4 i got flashbacks
Zee enemy is building a bridge!!!?!???
@@Tourettes42069 stop the enemy from building the bridge!!!
The little German I do know comes from my time with COD, and as I kid I specifically looked up the translation just to understand the intentions of enemy AI since they actively call out their tactics or where they spot opposing soldiers to know if they're targeting the PC. There are a couple specific recognizeable German VA lines that come from COD 2 and were repurposed in both COD 3 and World at War which is why they're recognizeable. The "Sanitater" ("Sally tater") callout is the German soldiers calling for a medic, and is triggered as a reaction voice line whenever a nearby fellow German soldier gets killed which is precisely why you hear it so many times what with you mowing through so many Wehrmacht troops in the game.
After watching the zombies analysis first and then watching this it's actually very interesting to see your opinions on each title's version of the mode changed based on how you experienced the node i.e. casual vs veteran. Anyway, great content!
I was laughing when in W@W you were talking about the Germans yelling ‘sally tator’. I remember that and ‘indie kong’. It has space in my brain from playing so much cod 3 and W@W growing up. They use those sound bites 1 more time in the Nova 6 missions in black ops. They got their money’s worth in those.
I haven’t finished this video yet, but I’m happy to FINALLY see CoD3 get some love. That’s my nostalgic, favorite old CoD that I’d go back to if I could.
I would like to add that COD ghosts is underrated.
@@philosopherpresident4896 When I am visiting my favorite game shop I am going to buy Ghost and check the campaign out. Infinite Warfare is also underrated when it comes to its campaign.
I just bought a used copy of COD 3 for my PS3, as kid i just played it on the good ol' Ps2, but my dream was play it on PS3 because of the new graphics and shiet, and here we are, finally.
No regrets.
1:23:00 It's really refreshing to see someone play zombies without using the tried and true high round strategies, or having someone run in circles for hours. Just sitting in a hallway crouched shooting zombies with an MP40 is really what zombies has always been.
You mean that's what it's always been for you!!?
It's all about the Barry Sanders strategy. That's all you need to know.
"Always been" dude. Camping was phased out the same game it was INTRODUCED IN. Stop acting like you were even alive during that time lmao.
It was always about the STG or bar if it was on the map. I always use to camp in the hallway on verruct or the cat walk on Der Reise when my 5 year old brother and his freinds would play but then when it al fell apart I would take off running and then it would just be me running, dipping, dodging, grabbing whatever gun I ran passed and killing the last zombie by jug or the box. I miss the camping glitches, not for camping but for taking 5 or ten to get get some food, smoke stuff then getting right back to it.
This is one of the best video essays I've ever seen and the fact that I sat over three hours through it is testament to that. Quite a spectacular feat actually haha. Well done, certainly earned that sub 👍
I miss the old, simple ps2 cod games.
I don't see WaW's potrayal of Americans hate against the Japanese as racism. It's more so that these are battle-hardened Marines who've spent years fighting the Japanese, whom many that fearlessly fought like animals in WW2, have grown to hate them. I mean, Miller witnessed a Marine POW have his eye burned out with a cigarette, countless traps that ambushed Marines, and both Roebuck and Polonsky witnessed their Sergeant Sullivan, who they looked up to, stabbed right in front of them. The opposite is actually in the Soviet campaign. Sure, the massacre at Stalingrad was a good reason to hate the Nazis but every Soviet throughout the campaign shows absolute brutality and hatred against the Germans. The Soviets will burn surrendering Germans and shoot a POW begging for mercy. The only exception is Chernov who is mocked for his pacifist nature by Reznov who tries to teach him how to be a soldier. What's more interesting is the character Chernov
He doesn't understand war like everyone else and represents the silent minority in the Red Army. He refers to shooting a POW as 'murder' and not war, horrified by the rockets tearing Berlin apart, sees no point in killing dying Germans. He even records your actions and his thoughts on you will be revealed at the end varying on whether you are a hero or not after he dies.
The purpose of the American campaign was actually a new style of gameplay. The Japanese fight WAY different than the Germans in WaW. The Germans fight more generic like in previous titles, but the Japanese are more aggressive and determined. They will often ambush with traps, play dead, hide in the grass, Kamikaze, and at the end of the game, they will lure Roebuck or Polonsky into a surrender trap just to blow themselves up (which justifies their hatred, had they shot them they would still be alive) followed by 3 waves of Banzai chargers Treyarch wanted the player to relive the horrors of the Pacific Theatre, which was way more intense and bloody than the European and African theatres and were more dangerous than German soldiers.
The Americans and Russians openly hate their enemies and is the only game in the series to portray this level of sadism and hatred. You literally called it racist because the Japanese are the only minority faction in the game.
THIS, the guy clearly hasn't seen a documental or movie about the Pacific, his pretenciousness ruined the video for me (especially since WaW is my favorite cod) and I'm only here looking for comments like yours.
I didn’t get how he was really harsh on world at war for being too violent and “racist” even though it fairly accurately portrayed the Pacific and eastern fronts, and then turned around and liked WW2s story. WW2 was totally wokewashed with its “War is an adventure” storytelling and perversion of the Germans; black soldiers, no swastikas anywhere, “axis” faction etc
He's a liberal what do you expect? so of course he thinks that the way the Japanese are portrayed in the world at war is racist.
He's a liberal what do you expect? so of course he thinks that the way the Japanese are portrayed in the world at war is racist.
He's a liberal what do you expect? so of course he thinks that the way the Japanese are portrayed in the world at war is racist.
This took a tonn of effort. I feel like I'm reliving my late middleschool years and my high-school years. World at war and black ops 2 are still my all time favorites of the series. World At War for campaign, and BO2 for multiplayer. Those were the glory days for sure
Bo1 multi 🤓
Bo2 for multi all the way. The last time I enjoyed knife only on blackops was 2
I graduated in 2013 as well and that summer is so special to me as well because of bo2 and mlg events. I absolutely fell in love with comp COD that year and I wish i could relive it again to some extent. It was just amazing.
I have to disagree quite strongly on your take on WaW with the apparent stereotypes and racism on the pacific theater campaign.
It's depicted pretty much exactly how the Japanese fought during that time using guerilla tactics like foxholes, hiding in trees and grass, ambushing and kamikaze bombing (black cats mission). All of that stuff legitimately happened and the fact that it's touchy subject with bad history does not make it a racist stereotype. I can't imagine what you'd think if they portrayed the parts when they used bamboo torture on pow's, experimented on victims of ALL ages, and even cannibalize people.
Know you history before making claims.
It's literally racist of him to try to whitewash Japanese brutality as if it never happened. The Japanese killed millions of Chinese people in the name of racism and brutality. They literally allied with Nazi Germany for christ sake.
Really enjoyed this video, i disagree with what you said about mw3 and mw 2019 but still really loved this , i listened to it as a podcast
yeah i disagreed with his mw2019 review aswell, like ITS A VIDEO GAME
I disagree with his 2019, ghost, and black ops
I’d like to say that COD3 and COD2: the big red 1 are insanely underrated at least from a story perspective and music was fantastic.
Hell I’d go and say they should’ve been made into movies
The music in the first 3 are all bangers
Anything before COD4 is underrated.
@@fredster594 oh definitely lol
COD2 wasn't underrated, it was, maybe, one of the best games back in the day. PC Gaming wasn't mainstream at that time.
@@Kreia. he said Call of Duty 2 big Red One
I'm sad this video is over. Phenomenal job, brother. I know how much work this stuff takes and I am in awe of your dedication, level of detail, and at some points, vulnerability. I appreciate the apparent adoration for a franchise we love, even during the points in which you were criticizing it. Thank you for the work you put into this.
On WaW, the savagery of the Japanese is no myth. Historically, the accounts of war crimes on their part are numerous and cruel at best; making it also more scary the fact that they didn't need an ideology like Nazism to achieve it. So the "lack of nuance" is just how the Americans at the time viewed the Japanese, which would not have been strangers to the violence displayed in the game. The campaign of WaW makes the Pacific theater quite harsh and difficult, without any meaning unlike the Eastern theater, but it only serves the purpose of giving us the mindset of the soldiers of the time, which was an extremely violent war on strange islands far from home for some greater geopolitical goal.
They did have an ideology behind their insanity . They were racial supremacists like the nazis. Read An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus. Their empire produced that document. Even now significant amounts of Japanese people think they are biologically superior to the rest of asia.
As a long time hard core zombies fan. It is very interesting to listen to how a more casual fan sees the maps. Love the video. You are an amazing video essay creator. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to watch more.
«I don’t expect anyone to watch this video all at once»
Me knowing dam well I'm going to watch the whole thing in a row: Yeah, that would be crazy.
I so wish i could play COD 1 for the first time again.
how i’ve only just found this video blows my mind, this is going to be a great watch. The effort in this video ALREADY, blows my mind. Thank you for this man
Great video. One nitpick: 46:20 5 shermans = 1 tiger is a common myth that is not really true. Sure, Tiger Tanks were kinda strong, but not that strong, and the Shermans were much better than usually given credit for.
Not to mention the Tiger was really expensive and unreliable.
And there was generally 5 Sherman’s not because they were required to take on a Tiger, but because that’s just what American forces showed up with. Even just two Sherman’s could do alright against one Tiger.
You are going to have an astounding impact on the future of commentary and Retrospective Analyses on UA-cam. This video is phenomenal and you are going places.
Thank you so much. This is such high praise! I will take it. Hope to see you around in the future.
man i had to give this a like and subscribe, this was a phenomenal video essay on the video game series I grew up on. Starting all the way back on COD 2 on the 360 i fell in love instantly and was a consistent fan player and try hard through and through we except infinite warfare lol. Either way great job again David the time money and dedication to the perfection of this video blew away all expectations
21:54 I was literally just born while you were 1v1ing, the joy in your voice recollecting ab this specifically is heartwarming for me. In 20 years I hope I find myself reminiscing with my friends of 1v1ing in Fortnite’s “playground” before creative. Crazy how video games can create some of your most valuable memories, almost brings a tear to my eye. I lost likely won’t be able to watch all of this video but I salute you sir and can only hope I can have such a work ethic as yourself in the future🙌🦾
Between you and NCG I'll never lay in bed unable to sleep again. Sometimes I am unable to turn my brain off at days end. These videos keep my mind active enough that I forget to worry or process life as I slip into the game world while being no stress which allows me to sleep. Thanks man.
Dude, its just a video lol
@@PiperAtTheGatesOfYourMom it's not video. It's truth!!!! For the motherland
Just wanted to say, thank you for providing your insight. I haven't finished the video yet (halfway) but the fact you are willing to work this hard and put together a video of this quality and insight is incredible. Thanks for sharing this. I hope this video provides you a lot of reward for your hard work! Cheers from Canada bud 🍁
Watched in 2 sittings-- the last half maybe a month later once it came on autoplay this morning and I remembered. Really enjoyed this analysis. It was nice to be reminded of the nostalgia while not feeling crazy for (mostly) walking away from COD a while ago (just based on life circumstances; no console or PC between 2014 and 2019). You dove into some thematic depths I wasn't expecting, and for that you get a sub my man.
There were a surprising amount of laugh out loud moments in this 3.5 hour video. Particularly the juxtaposition at 2:25:20 when those asinine exoskeletons pop out after a moment of serious self-reflection. You were able to transcend the self-indulgent writer-ey wordiness of your script. No one else could have done it better. Awesome job dude. Can't imagine how many hours you put into this
I've watched this and your borderlands retrospect back to back. It is 3am now. I regret nothing.
3:56am at the end. This was really enjoyable. I hope you read this, you are an actual legend.
You have the best videos essays on game theory, The most in depth ones. great work,keep it up.
BO3 custom zombies NEEDS more recognition , its so underrated and casuals dont know about it .
About 5 minutes into the video and I already subscribed just because anyone with this level of dedication has to make quality content
You: no on will watch this in one sitting.
Me, working night shifts: watches entire video
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Same👍🏻
Love the fact you take time and put 100% effort in your videos.
The Japanese in WaW are completely accurate. In fact their barbarity shown in game is only scratching the surface of reality. They were little better than the Nazis and even worse in a lot of ways. Certainly not “racism”. To say it’s racist to portray the imperial Japanese in a bad light is like saying it’s racist against Germans to portray Nazis in a bad light
Watch Mark Felton’s video on Japanese brutality in WW2. This game only scratches the surface of reality. And maybe consider remaking this video without the baseless racism accusations.
The 5 Sherman > one Tiger thing is actually historical revisionism. Allied vehicles travelled in convoys so realistically, you’d always see 5 or more Shermans all in the same convoy whereas due to materials and manpower shortages, you’d more often see lone Tigers operating independently from other tanks, though there’d definitely be infantry with them most of the time.
Man I'm a sucker for documentary type videos like these. Keep going at it, this community needs more people like you to give depth to the amazing design of our various beloved series.
I always look forward to these longform videos of yours, and I like many others very much appreciate the work you put into them. Keep it up, David!
Holy shit. Thank you SO much for the insane effort that must've gone into making this video! I came here to learn more about the CoD series (I knew absolutely nothing and, tbh, had some unflattering preconceived notions in my head), about what makes it appealing to its fans & some criticisms even fans might have, and boy did you deliver! Plus I found your way of talking about these games super enjoyable to listen to. I could feel your love (and occasional frustration) through the screen.
I got here because I watched a LP of the MW2 reboot and - yes, like many many others - fell in love with Ghost. He single-handedly made me decide to try and learn more about the franchise. I honestly didn't think I would have so much fun learning. :D Thank you very, very much for 3.5 educational hours, told from a perspective I hadn't considered before!
everytime i fall asleep at night and my screentime is high the next day this video autoplays for multiple hours😭👍🏻
Susan Wabbajack better boost this in recommended because you earned it. This is some of the best commentary on the CoD franchise alongside Reycevick. And that’s not just because of the effort put into the video, anyone can do that. You actually made something truly worth experiencing.
the zombies retrospective sounds great! this video was incredible enough
As a Zombies heavy COD player, this really gives me a perspective on multiplayer and the history of older COD games. Great video all in all! (Watched it in one sitting while playing Cold War)
Dude I watched this months ago and I was telling my buddy about it and I got so excited to rewatch. Phenomenal job man
OG MP CoD UO was my childhood man and it required so much skill. So fun.
I feel I must leave my thoughts on this here. What an incredible undertaking and analysis from start to finish. I have loved every one of your extensive analysis videos and this one is no exception, but only now do I believe truly what goes into it and can appreciate the effort. Thank you again for another incredible work of art.
I hope you’re doing well my man. I started playing cod when I was 10 years old playing World at War (cod5). I’ve fallen deeply in love with the franchise for well over half of my life. Thank you so much for this video. This has been such an amazing trip down memory lane. Thank you for all of your effort.
"War is antiethical to fun"
That one German guy who wrote Storm of steal: "Huh?"
I’m a old cod player. I definitely put the most hours into the original and it’s expansion then any other cod game and played it until about 2009. Base assault was my jam. So many good memories playing that game
Another wonderful video. Thank you so much for spending the incredible amount of time, effort, and planning it must have taken to get to this point in time. This work is without a doubt both a love letter to the games we've played before and now, as well as a true aspect of just how passionate you are in your work. If anyone deserves more recognition for their work on this platform, it would be you. I am indefinitely glad that I found you when I did. I wish you the best, and we will all be there to see just what lies in store for you next!
Now this is how you do a video essay! Started listening to this to fall asleep, but I was so pulled into it I paused it to properly pay attention in its entirety. Great work here. May the algorithm be in your favor
Watching pieces of my childhood...I feel so old now. All of these games we play about war took on new meaning when I joined the military. I remember when the devs used to tell you in front of the camera and not online that these projects were out of love and reverence for these conflicts and those who make that ultimate sacrifice. I miss games being able to make me stop and really think sometimes. Now it's all fever dreams of bright colors, explosions and numbers... it puts things in a whole new light when you have to learn about things like war, standing in their boots. I hope they wake up and find passion in the craft again. I would be lying if I said that the games, movies, shows, history, and art I interacted with as a child...didn't help durect my will to do something larger than myself. Glad you made this video.
Keep up the great work! I am one of those Ghost fans, it was my first Cod game. So many great memories of playing it with my brother. I also am glad to see love for Infinite Warfare, I love the single player!
Ghosts may not have my favorite singleplayer, but it's the best multiplayer in Call Of Duty for me personally. Weapons sound nice and heavy, character customization is not deep but simple enough to have unique looking characters without them looking like clowns or a 5 year olds crayon drawing -_-
My K/D is the best here in all the games at 2.137, game modes are fun, Blitz and Cranked were hilarious, maps... apart from Stone Heaven they're actually decent.
The best part is on PS3 the servers carry around 2000 people on average a day, enough to play most game modes. No matter what time you're always going to find TDM, Domination, Drop Zone and Gun Game, well Extinction too if we're talking outside of regular MP.
The sliding mechanic was introduced here, cover cleaning, camo unlocks are kinda lame though.
Overal it's a nice package
I thought IW campaign was solid. Especially the aerial battles. They were really well done.
I like games like soma; things that make you think and question everything. It does in its own way, but I’ve never been able to play it effectively enough to experience the story myself. This is a wonderful analysis. Many thanks for the time and effort you’ve put into this.
David, I have to admit that your view on COD4: Modern Warfare is a very interesting one and one I somewhat thought about when playing the game and I did think about it deeply on one occasion. This video of yours is really well done and I’m happy I found this. Thank you.
Your analysis of Cod 4 is absolutely spot on and summaries my feeling perfectly.
WOW! This retrospective is so well done, I'm just speechless! Well done sir 👏💯
I remember playing the first Call of Duty as a kid and the Stalingrad speech getting me truly amped up and ready for the upcoming battle
What an incredible video, great work my man! A pleasure to watch
Really appreciate your work man.. stayed until the very end of the video without skipping. Took me a whole week to finish your video..
Dave, thank you so much for all the superhuman effort put into these three and a half hours, I cannot gather enough words to cpngratulate you on this. Absolutely enjoyed every hour of the commentary!
This is a really great comment, thank you.
3 n a half hour anLysis. This is beautiful work man! You are amazing!!
This video has been playing right after I fall asleep so i have “watched” it three times now
Wow your channel deserves sm more recognition, just subbed brotha
Call of Duty means a lot to me. I remember starting with Finest Hour. I loved that game. I remember hooking up my PlayStation to an Ethernet cable for the first time, just to “try out” online multiplayer in World at War. I remember borrowing CoD4 and preordering MW2. I remember buying Black Ops 1 and getting on the first night and seeing all my friends playing together, which was rare at the time, on Radiation. This was a great video. You can tell where I fall on the best time for call of duty. I’m the guy that thinks CoD4 until MW3 was the best era. Anyways, great video.
this is unbelievable you are insane you need so much for recognition how i don’t think anyone has put this much effort into a video
Watched all of this during an acid trip. 10/10 video. Really loved your in depth analysis on each CoD and how it has progressed throughout the years. BO2/BO3/MW2019 are probably my top 3.
Great video man!! Appreciate your time and effort on this.
I fucking LOVE THIS video and I LOVE YOU. You've gained yourself another subscriber. Don't stop making videos man.
Thank you, so much, for this video. It truly helped me out a lot in determining which games to go back and play. I started with MW3, never picked one up again until CoD mobile, which convinced me to get the current game. This vid was right on time. Thank you again for your effort
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Just from the first 6 minutes alone, I can already tell you are my kind of guy. This is my first time seeing your content, and let me say; clear, concise and respectable is the impression I got. I have a strong suspicion im gonna enjoy the next 4 hours lol.
Watched it in one sitting :) loved the vid
The piece on MW2, especially the multiplayer, was sensational and unexpectedly profound. Great job!
And it just keeps getting better with the Black Ops Zombies analysis. Totally agreed on the comments about the maps and how future iterations become self-congratulatory and obtuse. Summed up the thoughts I've had for years right there.
Never assumed philosophical DaveOZ would be such a sharp Quickscoping master. Lool, back again to compliment the Ghosts section; it too was the point me and my friends split between consoles. A COD analysis hitting the feels.
I'm back again, now that I've finished the Video, with an update comment hopefully serving as a suitable offering to the algorithm Gods.
I think that very last line was great and got me thinking. I too think my time has passed, not only for COD, but online multiplayer in general (At least within its current trends). I've never been able to get into battle royals and the traditional XP grind hasn't gripped me since the MW2 days; with perhaps MW3 being the last Game I was fully invested in (with buddies and all). I've dipped in and out of COD since breaking off from it (BLOPS 2) and it's never quite hooked me back in.
These days I find myself focusing on single player Games prioritising narrative and storytelling over the idea of getting 'addicted' to something; like I did as a teen. In that respect I don't think I really fit the mould of what Activision's audience is nowadays, but I like hearing that kids are jumping in and going crazy for Warzone, and again, that final sentiment hit me all warm like. Halo gets a lot of nostalgia points for being the multiplayer that everyone feels attached to, and although I loved me some Halo, I feel like my after school nights were defined a lot more by COD. Which is funny because I get the lowkey sense that my peers may see some kind of shame in that, given COD's negatively skewed reputation. This video helped me look at COD through that same lens I see peeps nostalging over Halo with. Personally I think the peak of this franchise sits right up there next to it.
I never realised the soft spot I have for COD until some of the bangers put out in this video. So thanks for that unexpected joy. As for the future, I think I will keep my foot in the door of the franchise. A new COD is always interesting. And if it goes south I can fulfil the role of growing into the old man that spins tales about "Back in my day you could One Man Army, Commando Pro troll clans on Search and Destroy, just to get a kick out of pissing people off." Yee Haw.
Thanks for this video David!
Man this was thoroughly entertaining and I’m glad you posted it
Holy crap, good job. Your effort is clearly in display. Congratulations, your effort has payed out, this video is awesome!