Oh, man. Another tiny channel with a dozen hour long video essays to watch through. Thanks for uploading! I'm only ~10 minutes through, but this is an interesting recap. I don't recall Modern Warfare 3 being even slightly controversial at the time, but iirc I was too busy with Skyrim to care too much around it's launch.
I'm glad I stopped after bo2 came out and only returned for a year mw2019 came out. It was a very good refresher. But after Warzone came out, COD became COD again.
yea after the actual real talented devs left after 2009 cod just became a shell of its former self till mw2019, then right after that it happened all over again and cod died another time.
100% for me mw3 was the first time I ever felt like a cod game was not as good as I expected it would be. No call of duty after that except for black ops 2 ever felt like it deserved the money
this was my first "modern warfear" before this I had only played World At War and Black Ops. I really liked this game, I guess it helped as I didn't have the problem of this feeling like MW2, as I had never played it.
My issue with MW3 was the lack of grounding. Don’t get me wrong, Blops 1 and MW2 had more than their fair share of Michael Bay moments, but MW3 was really when not only did it begin to feel overdone, but it was outstaying its welcome. Every mission seemed to involved a scripted scene with you running through a collapsing building, and every mission felt like it involved destruction of a major world monument. It was just old. Even MW2 at least had the mission on a realistic feeling FOB in Afghanistan. MW3 just didn’t feel believable to me at any point. As for the multiplayer, it really felt exactly the same as MW2.
Its because they did not have steve fukuda to design the campaigns anymore. They spent more $$$ on mw3 and all of the destruction but they completely abandoned player agency. fukuda led a team that designed levels that had alot more freedom than everything that came after him. Fukuda's team had levels were you could choose how to achieve objectives , large sandbox spaces (nates parking lot , the favela ) in addition to the normal cod linear levels. Also the setpeieces were QTE events in MW3. In fukudas MW2 you had agency during the setpieces and were in full control as the chaos unfolded around you (the helicopeter evacuation , favela riot , the nates parking lot) .
It's not every single game. Only the bad ones. Nobody talks shit about MW1, WaW, MW2, BO1 or BO2 because they were good. People shit on games like Ghosts or Infinite Warfare because they're shit. Some of them are just mediocre, like MW3. If you can't understand why bad products are criticized then I don't know what to tell you.
@@VikingKong. they release the same game every year with minor movement differences aside from the jetpacks which were arguably pretty fun. the og modern warfare and black ops games get no hate because most of the playerbase grew up on them it's nostalgic and that's when the community was at its peak. even the modern warfare 2 remaster got a ton of hate despite literally being the boots on the ground fps that everyone wanted. it's not the younger generation complaining about any of these games it's the millennials and gen z that grew up playing mw2 and the og black ops. no different than ur grandpa talking about the "good old days" and complaining about anything new going on
lots of modern cod fans don't understand how much of a shitshow mw2 into 3 was I can distinctly remember none of my homies wanted to play mw3 as they all (rightfully) felt it was just a weaker mw2 which in and of itself is funny cuz mw2 was a literally unfinished game 😂
I remember liking the game but hating shg for the shit maps. I mean they weren't tge worst but they aren't really memorable. Hardhat and Dome still stand out to this day. Other than that, not much. The gunplay was more polished and it felt like you had much more variety. Ks selection was better and specialist was interesting Overall a more polished version of MW2 with worse maps
Oh, man. Another tiny channel with a dozen hour long video essays to watch through. Thanks for uploading! I'm only ~10 minutes through, but this is an interesting recap. I don't recall Modern Warfare 3 being even slightly controversial at the time, but iirc I was too busy with Skyrim to care too much around it's launch.
Thank you for the kind words:)
I'm glad I stopped after bo2 came out and only returned for a year mw2019 came out. It was a very good refresher. But after Warzone came out, COD became COD again.
Nope. COD became fortnite after Warzone came out. Warzone sucks ass, and is nothing like original COD.
I had to drop $110 on Ghosts and the season pass before I had the sense to stop 😢
What are you actually saying
Bruh what am I reading? Warzone is the most anyi-CoD thing ever rofl
This game was much better than the slop they release nowadays
EXACTLY I'd rather play og mw3 then any new release garbage
Good video essay, 10/10 and descriptive.
@@MrClauws thank you!
yea after the actual real talented devs left after 2009 cod just became a shell of its former self till mw2019, then right after that it happened all over again and cod died another time.
100% for me mw3 was the first time I ever felt like a cod game was not as good as I expected it would be. No call of duty after that except for black ops 2 ever felt like it deserved the money
this was my first "modern warfear" before this I had only played World At War and Black Ops.
I really liked this game, I guess it helped as I didn't have the problem of this feeling like MW2, as I had never played it.
This game makes me feel old lol but played the hell out of it on ps3! M16a4 acog was goated burst gun
My issue with MW3 was the lack of grounding. Don’t get me wrong, Blops 1 and MW2 had more than their fair share of Michael Bay moments, but MW3 was really when not only did it begin to feel overdone, but it was outstaying its welcome. Every mission seemed to involved a scripted scene with you running through a collapsing building, and every mission felt like it involved destruction of a major world monument. It was just old. Even MW2 at least had the mission on a realistic feeling FOB in Afghanistan. MW3 just didn’t feel believable to me at any point.
As for the multiplayer, it really felt exactly the same as MW2.
Felt the same way about Ghosts
@@tylergarrett4498 tbh yeah. I thought Ghosts had a lot of great ideas but the execution was atrocious.
Its because they did not have steve fukuda to design the campaigns anymore. They spent more $$$ on mw3 and all of the destruction but they completely abandoned player agency. fukuda led a team that designed levels that had alot more freedom than everything that came after him. Fukuda's team had levels were you could choose how to achieve objectives , large sandbox spaces (nates parking lot , the favela ) in addition to the normal cod linear levels. Also the setpeieces were QTE events in MW3. In fukudas MW2 you had agency during the setpieces and were in full control as the chaos unfolded around you (the helicopeter evacuation , favela riot , the nates parking lot) .
raise your hand if you’re confused by the new mw series 😂 man I feel old.
i'll never understand the insane amounts of complaining from the cod community about every single game they release no matter what the devs do
It's not every single game. Only the bad ones. Nobody talks shit about MW1, WaW, MW2, BO1 or BO2 because they were good. People shit on games like Ghosts or Infinite Warfare because they're shit. Some of them are just mediocre, like MW3.
If you can't understand why bad products are criticized then I don't know what to tell you.
@@VikingKong. they release the same game every year with minor movement differences aside from the jetpacks which were arguably pretty fun. the og modern warfare and black ops games get no hate because most of the playerbase grew up on them it's nostalgic and that's when the community was at its peak. even the modern warfare 2 remaster got a ton of hate despite literally being the boots on the ground fps that everyone wanted. it's not the younger generation complaining about any of these games it's the millennials and gen z that grew up playing mw2 and the og black ops. no different than ur grandpa talking about the "good old days" and complaining about anything new going on
lots of modern cod fans don't understand how much of a shitshow mw2 into 3 was I can distinctly remember none of my homies wanted to play mw3 as they all (rightfully) felt it was just a weaker mw2 which in and of itself is funny cuz mw2 was a literally unfinished game 😂
can we get black ops 2 video next?
I remember liking the game but hating shg for the shit maps. I mean they weren't tge worst but they aren't really memorable. Hardhat and Dome still stand out to this day. Other than that, not much.
The gunplay was more polished and it felt like you had much more variety. Ks selection was better and specialist was interesting
Overall a more polished version of MW2 with worse maps
People still buy these fucking games? Shit hasn’t been good since MW2 and BO1.