I would love to see you cover infinite warfare, most people absolutely hated it but honestly it's my favorite game, campaign wise. The sci-fi aesthetic combined with the mastery of advanced movement, the amazing dogfighting and the genuinely unique story in many ways all make it so much better than pretty much anyone gives it credit for. Plus, I love the fact that the PC is a captain and not just another basic soldier.
My understanding of the game's story with all this cool new information I never thought to dig for is that Corvus occasionally messes with the simulation specifically to keep you immersed, keep you from having a chance to question anything, or at least to distract you when you do start questioning. It hurts the simulation's accuracy, but Corvus would decide that it's worth it if it keeps the Player calm and contained. Corvus is probably saying "It's just a game, don't think about it too hard" with such tricks.
@@tempestflare4339 Hallucinations likely being affected by an AI, based on how specific the hallucinations are (such as living in the shoes of someone else for a time). It's too well curated, too carefully made with the Frozen Forest being a part of it.
@@seraslain962 nope you are Taylor you are reliving the missions you've previously done Hendricks never had cybernetics he died in the first mission only taylor lived not hall not Hendricks not you only Taylor (you at this point in the story) Kane gives you a bandana but Taylor wears it instead corvus means death/ related to death so corvus is a rationalisation of death hall dies later on because the players character (Taylor) needs to rationalize their death same with mirattie and Diaz their death is a rationalisation of Taylor's guilt for their death when Taylor dies later it's your character losing hope and in life Taylor fighting off corvus is Taylor dieing him giving in to is wounds and trauma and passing
BO3 has one of the best campaigns and I’ll die on that hill. People bitch moan and complain when the narrative is handed to them on a silver platter, but then bitch moan and complain when they have to hunt for well hidden plot details. This story displays and intricacy and twist that most wouldn’t expect from a cod game, and I appreciated it
The naming scheme behind CORVUS goes even beyond the whole raven imagery (Corvus being the latin name for Raven). The corvus was was also a military device used during the time of of ancient Rome. There is was used by their navy to board enemy ships and take them over, just like CORVUS does over the DNI of the different team members.
This game did alot of good things...especially for Multiplayer and Zombies. The campaign was ok but nothing to go crazy but the customization is impressive
If anyone wants a quick rundown on what the actual story of BO3 is before watching (especially since the video gets some things wrong), I've got you covered: All of the missions except for Black Ops, New World, and Life are taking place in Taylor's memories, but not exactly as we the player experience them. Before any in-game events, the events of those missions occur in a similar way, but instead of Player, it's Taylor going with Hendricks to track someone down. The person we see as Taylor in game is actually someone named Dylan Stone. Hall, Maretti, and Diaz are also stand-ins for three other operatives named Alice Conrad, Joseph Fierro, and Javier Ramirez. None of these four were augmented or had DNIs. (So Conrad was not interfaced with the way Hall was, she was interrogated via more traditional methods before being executed by Taylor.) Then the events of the levels Black Ops and New World occur, exactly as seen in-game. After all of his old team were killed for defecting, Taylor was put in command of the three we just spoke about. The player does not die immediately at the end of Black Ops. They are sent to a hospital and given emergency treatment, and implanted with a DNI alongside Hendricks. The training we see in New World does actually happen in "present time." However, Player doesn't survive the procedure, but somehow they "infect" Taylor via some weird Corvus shenanigans. From this point on, the real world Player is dead, but their consciousness lives on in control of Taylor's body. Taylor at this point is basically trapped in his own subconscious and/or the Frozen Forest. Hendricks begins to suffer the actual symptoms we see in the game, but not in those contexts (since again, those events aren't actually happening). The final mission, Life, is actually the final mission chronologically. The first part of it takes place in the real world, where you play as Player in control of Taylor's body. This is true up until Player shoots themself, at which point the level entirely exists within the "mindscape" up until the DNI purge. This purge effectively eliminates everything within the Frozen Forest except for Taylor, putting him back in his body. Why we experience Taylor's previous missions but modified isn't entirely clear. Also Kane was in a relationship with Taylor at some point. It's also unclear if she knows that Taylor isn't actually the one controlling his body during the actual events of the game. Any questions?
I haven’t played the game but reading that explanation is leaving me with more questions than answers. Not your fault it’s just a lot. Morgan Freeman couldn’t explain this shit.
@@TheMadone67 the first mission is the last mission since after you play through taylor’s memory which happened in the past the player you doesn’t want to die so he want to live through taylors memory since you and Taylor were connected before you died but then train go boom and you die since you were in a coma you’re pretty much Reznov and Taylor is pretty much Mason
Black Ops 3’s campaign would have been intriguing if the twist was actually conveyed properly instead of being in rapid fire mission text that you would think is just for aesthetic purposes Treyarch wanted to make something cool but then didn’t bother actually leaving tangible narrative hints and expects you to read a comic to understand more.
@@haley3787 So, it literally should say campaign in the main menu. I went and found a random video with the game's menu on it and there's nothing else to it. ua-cam.com/video/EHy482_7S4Q/v-deo.html If you would have said PS3 or X360 that would have been a different story. Because they didn't make a story mode for those.
This game to me is like Tenet in game form, a piece of art that's too interested in being smart and outsmarting the audience and therefore not having great storytelling, which is what people expect from you know, stories
I have played this campaign about 8 times, even completing it on the hardest difficulty, not because of the story, which I thought was alright, but because I really enjoyed the gameplay and level design. And I also love the choice to play this campaign with 3 of your friends.
I would love to see him try to win the Battlefield 4 campaign. It also has some underlying themes like BO3 that many players missed and like BO3 it’s a “bad” campaign that has kind of become a cult classic. Also seeing him try to win the Battlefield V campaign will be fun since it’s pretty bad (besides The Last Tiger). Battlefield 3 should be a fun video tho
Someone else who appreciates the BO3 campaign? And here I thought I was alone. I love this acid trip of a story. I do think Treyarch made it a bit too difficult to figure out on your own; I had to look up videos where the mission text was slowed down. But once it clicks, it's awesome.
My opinion is that it had cool concepts and solid ideas, but extremely poor execution. It saddens me too because BO3 campaign has some imagery like the Frozen Forest or the giant hearts and the weird babies that stick out with me after playing it through the first time. They delved so hard into the weird aspect of the story concept they had and I love it, but it eventually proved itself to be a double-edged sword that tries to say so many things but ends up saying nothing.
It was actually only with this video I recognised her, I paused immediately when Hall said her first line in this video like "HUH!? Katee Sackhoff's in this?"
Getting the Platinum trophy for this game was absolutely brutal. I started out loving the campaign, and ended up despising it after playing each mission like a dozen time.
Keep up the good work man I love the black ops series and I honestly think this game got a bad rep I mean yeah it wasn’t perfect but it wasn’t bad either way good video!!
You did a great job covering most things in the story, but there's still so much you didn't cover. My favorite weird mystery: Reznov might secretly be a major player in this story. There's a LOT of smoke here, iIm not sure if there's a fire but it's interesting. First of all, Reznov didn't actually die at Vorkuta. Look up John Trent from the Black Ops 1 CIA server, as well as the serial numbers in BO1 translating to "Reznov is dead, or is he dead, there was no body, is he who he says he is" We know that the test subjects have an influence over Corvus from Jae Xiong.With that fact in mind, there are two collectibles in Bastogne that are quite strange and out of place. We have a Russian Field Compass and an Ushanka Hat. First of all, the Ushanka Hat was later used in Black Ops 4 as Reznov's special item. And secondly, the Soviet Union had zero participation in this battle and there's no reason for these items to be here. My idea on this is that this is Reznov's influence on Corvus shining through. The mission takes a strange turn after Bastogne, as we are suddenly in Stalingrad. None of our 2060 characters have any connection to Stalingrad, as far as we know. But Reznov does. Corvus constantly shows us crows and ravens. For the ravens, the youtube video by DX "Chasing Rabbits" has a great explanation. As for the crows, the first time we ever see Reznov in World At War, we see crows picking at the dead. We see in the Black Ops 3 Data Vault that the CORVUS program actually took test subjects from Vorkuta Labor Camp. We also see that Sebastian Kreuger asked the CIA for information about Reznov (amongst other BO1 characters). Both Corvus and Reznov were victims of mind control experiments, and tried to turn that mind control against the people who first perpetrated it, obsessive about revenge on these people. In the last mission, Corvus leads Kane to dying the same way Dmitri did. As this happens, Corvus says "I... was born in the minds of others." Taylor's Journal entry from the last mission is a jumbled mess as he is infected by Corvus. But one string of text stands out. For some reason, Corvus spells out the following phrase: "Delta-Romeo-Alpha-Gold-Oscar-Victor-India-Charlie-Hotel-Kilo-Romeo-Alpha-Victor-Charlie-Hotel-Echo-November-Kilo-Oscar-Sierra-Tango-Echo-India-November-Echo-Romeo-Tango-Hotel-Echo-Sierra-Echo-Mike-Echo-November-Mike-Uniform-Sierra-Tango-Delta-India-Echo" of course, if you spell this out it is D R A G O V I C H K R A V C H E N K O S T E I N E R T H E S E M E N M U S T D I E There's so much more to the Reznov mystery but it gets into the weeds of the Black Ops 4 "story" and is outside the scope of this video. There's also plenty more to BO3 including Nightmares, the data vault, tons of interpretations on the last mission. But anyway, it's nice to see a big channel stepping into what I consider my super niche obsession.
I know this is a year later now, but I’m hoping you get to see it. I’ve known about that last journal entry for years and I have never seen anyone mention it in a single video or comment! Now that you’ve expounded on that and mentioned the two items you an find on the Hall level I’m convinced that Reznov’s consciousness is definitely in the DNI “system” if that makes sense to you, but I haven’t quite figured out how. However, i had never heard about John Trent or Kreuger mentioning Reznov, but now I want to know more about that…
@@chrisMoutkastragtop thanks, I just saw this 8 months later lol. Kreuger talks about Reznov and all the other BO1 characters in the Black Ops 3 Data Vault, I forget exactly where but it's definitely in there. The John Trent thing isn't even a theory, it's extremely blatant if you read the Black Ops 1 terminals, that also is a fairly well known piece of the lore. The weird Russian collectibles in BO3 are just totally undiscussed, though. I've never seen one person bring them up. It feels like there's probably more here.
The frozen forest is a reference to the Bastogne Forest the same ones from Band of Brothers one of the worst experiences that Easy company encountered because of lack of supplies.
Great video. My understanding of certain references like the DNI is very Ghost in the Shell to me. Lots of brainhacking and cybernetics. The dreamlike themes of life/death remind me of the film Jacob’s Ladder (the OG in the 80s).
BO3 was the first cod game I actually got to play at home on my own system, and I really loved it. I see now that it's not objectively the best but I will always have a soft spot for it.
To help anyone having trouble understanding the story, you play as Taylor, most mentions of "Taylor" like the attack in Egypt where they take Dr Salim, or where they kill the personnel at the blacksite , even the guy Hendricks caps on the roof; it's actually a guy called Dylan Stone from the prequel COMIC. which helps you understand the story SO MUCH BETTER.
One of my favorite bits was how Hendricks went from caring about others, and being concerned for people to only caring about Taylor and the AI. Shows how his how deeply Corvus was affecting the characters. Makes me wonder how the others were changed when Corvus got in their heads?
Honestly realizing that Hall saying "you don't know what this'll do" in the later mission when you interface with her being before she gives us the lesson on interfacing between people, where the character may not and probably more than likely had no clue what would happen like we the player do
Completing this game on realist almost cost me my sanity. I remember that I ended up having more deaths than kills on the last mission. It was crazy. I think this must be the best CoD to play on veteran because all the power might make it challenging yet satisfying unlike most other veteran runs.
This is my favorite COD. Not because of the gameplay or the story. Its my favorite because of all the memories I had with my friends absolutely destroying each other in multiplayer.
The greatest thing about this game and CoD BO4 is that they have nothing to do with the story of the first two so they don't sully the name of BO1 and 2
Honestly this is probably my most favourite cod campaign other than maybe bo1, and I absolutely love Christopher melonis voice acting in this. He plays Taylor and I’ve known his acting for 10+ years from law and order and he has amazing acting range and abilities
i was very young when i played this story and never played it again so i quite literally have no clue what hes talking about but i will still watch the whole video and drop a like cuz i like him
Me and my friends have this little inside joke about that line… “train go boom” so like when an outcome happens in siege “hostage go boom” GTA when a hiest goes south “safe go boom” especially COD III ( TRAIN GO BOOM )
For me, I love a lot about BO3. The multiplayer was fantastic, the 4 player online co-op for the story was awesome, especially since things would change, like on the first mission alone you might be sitting off to the right side instead of the left, or instead of being behind the window in the interrogation room you could stack up on the door. The only thing I never really liked was how confusing the story the game was trying to tell was. Like I somewhat got it but never fully processed it.
so i'm curious, will you end up going through the Modern Warfare series as well, at some point? MW3 was the game I started with, and would love to see your video on it!
hey, just rediscovered your channel and actually finished a video and got immediately hooked so i watched all of your videos on games i have played through, this being the final one. Loved all the videos and love how much effort you put into your videos, keep it up! maybe do mw2 as soon as possible. Ooh and the gears of war franchise I always preferred it to halo. Or neither because ultimately you should make the content you want to make (but seriously mw2 is the most loved cod ever you know you'd get all the views)
Oh man I can't wait for you Infinite warfare video. It's underrated. I like it better than Titanfall 2 and BF1. Both these games came out at the same time as cod iw and I think that made everyone not pay any attention to how good it's campaign really is
Another take I read about regarding the story was that the player dies at the end of New World but his mind is scrambling so he thinks he’s ok and about to enter surgery. Then yes, player relives Taylor’s memories with constructs in place, however he’s also fighting for control over Taylor’s body and Corvus has woken up, thanks to player’s and team’s new memories. But Hendricks, having gone out of surgery, likely calls Kane to try to get through to “Taylor”, as his team, who also interfaces with him, die off one by one. The “Taylor” and “Stay with me” is her first thinking she woke up the real Taylor and then realizing she didn’t. Also the very distinct “Where is Taylor going?” As if she’s playing along. By the end of Lotus Towers, Hendricks has had it. Having had second thoughts about the Stone mission, having had to kill his comrades, having lost his entire new team on the first op of a seemingly much safer job, having witnessed his friend and his whole team die off due to a virus, he’s had it and he goes to attack Coalescense. And that’s where the simulation ends and Life mission happens.
The hint is Krueger wasn’t lying when he told Corvus who he was. He wasn’t even being a asshole. Just humored that at what basically Google or Bing asking “What is my purpose”. Corvus was a software program designed to run the project to monitor people thoughts. The mere fact he gained self awareness and became an AI was just as the game characters said it was; “a glitch in the system” and “a mistake.”
Man I know it was technically never one released video game but released over multiple games. But itd be so dope if you covered Call of Duty Zombies. It blows my mind how these DLCs were this great lore narrative game that relied on longtime fans playing multiple CoDs.
I can't remember what mission it was in or where, but I remember finding nova 6 canisters before the big moment. Nice little foreshadowing for people that took time to explore the environments.
BO3 is Deus Ex: CoD Edition and the soundtrack is godly, Ignition and Safehouse are just *chef's kiss* They just chose an extremely inconvenient way to tell the story.
Came back to play zombies about a month ago. The zombies alone was worth getting the game. It's a shame the game has a big issue with hackers now. Awesome video bro
4:38 I don’t think they did have all the pieces……..with the multiple endings from BO2 I don’t think you can make a “true” sequel. I mean you can replay BO2, sure, but the endings are different enough that there’s almost no possible way to continue a somewhat linear storyline from the events that would unfold after the different endings.
I played it when it came out, and completed, I didn't understand shit until the ending where player was in Taylor mind, then I understood a little bit more but still i didn't care about understanding it more than with the simple thing that it provided me
call me a sucker all you want, but except for Ghosts, i LOVED every single campaign in these games, even Advanced and Infinity Warfare. and the zombies too.
Honestly a better version of gameplay of Advanced Warfare (even though the invisible walls limit the shiz out of it) and great gun play. It’s a great game even though the story is hard to follow.
To be honest, I didn't really enjoy this game when compared to previous two black ops and even Advanced Warfare. To the point that when the game crashed on me during the section with Hall and the frozen forest I didn't end up picking the game back up again (it didn't help that the crash also deleted all my progress). I felt the same way for the most part, that I was just kinda bored and it wasn't at all what I was expecting since I had really enjoyed BO 1&2 and as a result I actually stopped playing CoD until Black Ops Cold War came out. But otherwise your break down of the game was once again really well done and I am looking forward to seeing what game you go over next.
You should do Infinite warfare after Bo4's campaign (oh wait there isnt one) But really infinite warfare campaign legit made me cry, those death messages broke me man
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I would love to see you cover infinite warfare, most people absolutely hated it but honestly it's my favorite game, campaign wise. The sci-fi aesthetic combined with the mastery of advanced movement, the amazing dogfighting and the genuinely unique story in many ways all make it so much better than pretty much anyone gives it credit for. Plus, I love the fact that the PC is a captain and not just another basic soldier.
My understanding of the game's story with all this cool new information I never thought to dig for is that Corvus occasionally messes with the simulation specifically to keep you immersed, keep you from having a chance to question anything, or at least to distract you when you do start questioning. It hurts the simulation's accuracy, but Corvus would decide that it's worth it if it keeps the Player calm and contained. Corvus is probably saying "It's just a game, don't think about it too hard" with such tricks.
Black ops 3 is only the hallucinations of a man dying from a botched surgery
@@tempestflare4339 Hallucinations likely being affected by an AI, based on how specific the hallucinations are (such as living in the shoes of someone else for a time). It's too well curated, too carefully made with the Frozen Forest being a part of it.
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@@seraslain962 nope you are Taylor you are reliving the missions you've previously done Hendricks never had cybernetics he died in the first mission only taylor lived not hall not Hendricks not you only Taylor (you at this point in the story) Kane gives you a bandana but Taylor wears it instead corvus means death/ related to death so corvus is a rationalisation of death hall dies later on because the players character (Taylor) needs to rationalize their death same with mirattie and Diaz their death is a rationalisation of Taylor's guilt for their death when Taylor dies later it's your character losing hope and in life Taylor fighting off corvus is Taylor dieing him giving in to is wounds and trauma and passing
-rep furry.
BO3 has one of the best campaigns and I’ll die on that hill. People bitch moan and complain when the narrative is handed to them on a silver platter, but then bitch moan and complain when they have to hunt for well hidden plot details. This story displays and intricacy and twist that most wouldn’t expect from a cod game, and I appreciated it
The naming scheme behind CORVUS goes even beyond the whole raven imagery (Corvus being the latin name for Raven). The corvus was was also a military device used during the time of of ancient Rome. There is was used by their navy to board enemy ships and take them over, just like CORVUS does over the DNI of the different team members.
thanks for giving me the name of the roman thing, I forgot what it was called and just started refering to it as "the roman claw machine"
This game did alot of good things...especially for Multiplayer and Zombies. The campaign was ok but nothing to go crazy but the customization is impressive
DX did an amazing take on the story. Still confusing, but if it is what was planned, then they definitely got some intrigue
Agreed
If anyone wants a quick rundown on what the actual story of BO3 is before watching (especially since the video gets some things wrong), I've got you covered:
All of the missions except for Black Ops, New World, and Life are taking place in Taylor's memories, but not exactly as we the player experience them. Before any in-game events, the events of those missions occur in a similar way, but instead of Player, it's Taylor going with Hendricks to track someone down. The person we see as Taylor in game is actually someone named Dylan Stone. Hall, Maretti, and Diaz are also stand-ins for three other operatives named Alice Conrad, Joseph Fierro, and Javier Ramirez. None of these four were augmented or had DNIs. (So Conrad was not interfaced with the way Hall was, she was interrogated via more traditional methods before being executed by Taylor.)
Then the events of the levels Black Ops and New World occur, exactly as seen in-game. After all of his old team were killed for defecting, Taylor was put in command of the three we just spoke about. The player does not die immediately at the end of Black Ops. They are sent to a hospital and given emergency treatment, and implanted with a DNI alongside Hendricks. The training we see in New World does actually happen in "present time." However, Player doesn't survive the procedure, but somehow they "infect" Taylor via some weird Corvus shenanigans. From this point on, the real world Player is dead, but their consciousness lives on in control of Taylor's body. Taylor at this point is basically trapped in his own subconscious and/or the Frozen Forest. Hendricks begins to suffer the actual symptoms we see in the game, but not in those contexts (since again, those events aren't actually happening).
The final mission, Life, is actually the final mission chronologically. The first part of it takes place in the real world, where you play as Player in control of Taylor's body. This is true up until Player shoots themself, at which point the level entirely exists within the "mindscape" up until the DNI purge. This purge effectively eliminates everything within the Frozen Forest except for Taylor, putting him back in his body.
Why we experience Taylor's previous missions but modified isn't entirely clear. Also Kane was in a relationship with Taylor at some point. It's also unclear if she knows that Taylor isn't actually the one controlling his body during the actual events of the game.
Any questions?
Thank you for the explanation, I was close to having a aneurysm trying to make sense of this game and even after playing it so much too.🙂🥲🤕
Yes,… all the questions!
What is the correct order of the missions
I haven’t played the game but reading that explanation is leaving me with more questions than answers. Not your fault it’s just a lot. Morgan Freeman couldn’t explain this shit.
@@TheMadone67 the first mission is the last mission since after you play through taylor’s memory which happened in the past the player you doesn’t want to die so he want to live through taylors memory since you and Taylor were connected before you died but then train go boom and you die since you were in a coma you’re pretty much Reznov and Taylor is pretty much Mason
Black Ops 3’s campaign would have been intriguing if the twist was actually conveyed properly instead of being in rapid fire mission text that you would think is just for aesthetic purposes
Treyarch wanted to make something cool but then didn’t bother actually leaving tangible narrative hints and expects you to read a comic to understand more.
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I just bought this game secondhand but I can't seem to find the campaign anywhere ?? Any ideas where I find it to start it ?
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For what system?
@@sion8 ps4. Xx
@@haley3787
So, it literally should say campaign in the main menu. I went and found a random video with the game's menu on it and there's nothing else to it.
ua-cam.com/video/EHy482_7S4Q/v-deo.html
If you would have said PS3 or X360 that would have been a different story. Because they didn't make a story mode for those.
The campaign was ok but zombies was damn near perfect
Eisendrache GASM
Yes I could not agree more
I loved the zombies and the multiplayer
No it was
@gatofruit yup
This game to me is like Tenet in game form, a piece of art that's too interested in being smart and outsmarting the audience and therefore not having great storytelling, which is what people expect from you know, stories
Tenet was okay!
@Attaxalotl it wasn't okay, it was great
I think they should’ve watched Predestination before making bo3
After playing this for the first time, my reaction was “okay, that was fun but what that hell just happened?”
I have played this campaign about 8 times, even completing it on the hardest difficulty, not because of the story, which I thought was alright, but because I really enjoyed the gameplay and level design. And I also love the choice to play this campaign with 3 of your friends.
Keep up the good work after your done doing the cod franchise do the Battelfield franchise please. I hope you do advanced warfare next.
I would love to see him try to win the Battlefield 4 campaign. It also has some underlying themes like BO3 that many players missed and like BO3 it’s a “bad” campaign that has kind of become a cult classic. Also seeing him try to win the Battlefield V campaign will be fun since it’s pretty bad (besides The Last Tiger). Battlefield 3 should be a fun video tho
@@lobaandrade7172 I think he would love bad company
Finally someone that likes BO3. I cant belive people hate this masterpeice of a game
Someone else who appreciates the BO3 campaign? And here I thought I was alone. I love this acid trip of a story. I do think Treyarch made it a bit too difficult to figure out on your own; I had to look up videos where the mission text was slowed down. But once it clicks, it's awesome.
It’s awful
My opinion is that it had cool concepts and solid ideas, but extremely poor execution.
It saddens me too because BO3 campaign has some imagery like the Frozen Forest or the giant hearts and the weird babies that stick out with me after playing it through the first time. They delved so hard into the weird aspect of the story concept they had and I love it, but it eventually proved itself to be a double-edged sword that tries to say so many things but ends up saying nothing.
Katee Sackhoff playing Sarah Hall in this game is so cool. she plays Bo Katan in Clone Wars and the Mandalorian.
It was actually only with this video I recognised her, I paused immediately when Hall said her first line in this video like "HUH!? Katee Sackhoff's in this?"
Getting the Platinum trophy for this game was absolutely brutal. I started out loving the campaign, and ended up despising it after playing each mission like a dozen time.
Holy hell this story is way more complex than I realized when I first played it. That's kinda awesome
Love the homage to the BO2 campaign start with the flames at 5:56
I like your positivity, even if the game isn’t great, you find the good in a game.
Keep up the good work man I love the black ops series and I honestly think this game got a bad rep I mean yeah it wasn’t perfect but it wasn’t bad either way good video!!
You did a great job covering most things in the story, but there's still so much you didn't cover. My favorite weird mystery: Reznov might secretly be a major player in this story.
There's a LOT of smoke here, iIm not sure if there's a fire but it's interesting. First of all, Reznov didn't actually die at Vorkuta. Look up John Trent from the Black Ops 1 CIA server, as well as the serial numbers in BO1 translating to "Reznov is dead, or is he dead, there was no body, is he who he says he is"
We know that the test subjects have an influence over Corvus from Jae Xiong.With that fact in mind, there are two collectibles in Bastogne that are quite strange and out of place. We have a Russian Field Compass and an Ushanka Hat. First of all, the Ushanka Hat was later used in Black Ops 4 as Reznov's special item. And secondly, the Soviet Union had zero participation in this battle and there's no reason for these items to be here. My idea on this is that this is Reznov's influence on Corvus shining through.
The mission takes a strange turn after Bastogne, as we are suddenly in Stalingrad. None of our 2060 characters have any connection to Stalingrad, as far as we know. But Reznov does. Corvus constantly shows us crows and ravens. For the ravens, the youtube video by DX "Chasing Rabbits" has a great explanation. As for the crows, the first time we ever see Reznov in World At War, we see crows picking at the dead.
We see in the Black Ops 3 Data Vault that the CORVUS program actually took test subjects from Vorkuta Labor Camp. We also see that Sebastian Kreuger asked the CIA for information about Reznov (amongst other BO1 characters).
Both Corvus and Reznov were victims of mind control experiments, and tried to turn that mind control against the people who first perpetrated it, obsessive about revenge on these people. In the last mission, Corvus leads Kane to dying the same way Dmitri did. As this happens, Corvus says "I... was born in the minds of others."
Taylor's Journal entry from the last mission is a jumbled mess as he is infected by Corvus. But one string of text stands out. For some reason, Corvus spells out the following phrase:
"Delta-Romeo-Alpha-Gold-Oscar-Victor-India-Charlie-Hotel-Kilo-Romeo-Alpha-Victor-Charlie-Hotel-Echo-November-Kilo-Oscar-Sierra-Tango-Echo-India-November-Echo-Romeo-Tango-Hotel-Echo-Sierra-Echo-Mike-Echo-November-Mike-Uniform-Sierra-Tango-Delta-India-Echo"
of course, if you spell this out it is
D R A G O V I C H K R A V C H E N K O S T E I N E R T H E S E M E N M U S T D I E
There's so much more to the Reznov mystery but it gets into the weeds of the Black Ops 4 "story" and is outside the scope of this video.
There's also plenty more to BO3 including Nightmares, the data vault, tons of interpretations on the last mission. But anyway, it's nice to see a big channel stepping into what I consider my super niche obsession.
I know this is a year later now, but I’m hoping you get to see it.
I’ve known about that last journal entry for years and I have never seen anyone mention it in a single video or comment! Now that you’ve expounded on that and mentioned the two items you an find on the Hall level I’m convinced that Reznov’s consciousness is definitely in the DNI “system” if that makes sense to you, but I haven’t quite figured out how.
However, i had never heard about John Trent or Kreuger mentioning Reznov, but now I want to know more about that…
@@chrisMoutkastragtop thanks, I just saw this 8 months later lol. Kreuger talks about Reznov and all the other BO1 characters in the Black Ops 3 Data Vault, I forget exactly where but it's definitely in there. The John Trent thing isn't even a theory, it's extremely blatant if you read the Black Ops 1 terminals, that also is a fairly well known piece of the lore. The weird Russian collectibles in BO3 are just totally undiscussed, though. I've never seen one person bring them up. It feels like there's probably more here.
"Train go boom."
Why does that makes me smile?
The frozen forest is a reference to the Bastogne Forest the same ones from Band of Brothers one of the worst experiences that Easy company encountered because of lack of supplies.
Great video. My understanding of certain references like the DNI is very Ghost in the Shell to me. Lots of brainhacking and cybernetics. The dreamlike themes of life/death remind me of the film Jacob’s Ladder (the OG in the 80s).
Zombies deserves its own series honestly
I don’t know, I think people might get confused about it being related to COD
i agree and it takes away from his purpose of the channel. i like that he don’t go into the secondary parts of cod
BO3 was the first cod game I actually got to play at home on my own system, and I really loved it. I see now that it's not objectively the best but I will always have a soft spot for it.
115 sins for the Raid ad.
To help anyone having trouble understanding the story, you play as Taylor, most mentions of "Taylor" like the attack in Egypt where they take Dr Salim, or where they kill the personnel at the blacksite , even the guy Hendricks caps on the roof; it's actually a guy called Dylan Stone from the prequel COMIC. which helps you understand the story SO MUCH BETTER.
One of my favorite bits was how Hendricks went from caring about others, and being concerned for people to only caring about Taylor and the AI. Shows how his how deeply Corvus was affecting the characters. Makes me wonder how the others were changed when Corvus got in their heads?
You forgot the crazy "Zombie campaign" stupid hard. All in all it was a crazy trip and okay to play. Great work, can't wait to see more.
Fun Fact: Blops 3 was my first COD game
I still haven't finished it
love your videos, GamingWins!
Mine was the OG Black Ops.
WAW Zombies was my first lmao
Honestly realizing that Hall saying "you don't know what this'll do" in the later mission when you interface with her being before she gives us the lesson on interfacing between people, where the character may not and probably more than likely had no clue what would happen like we the player do
Completing this game on realist almost cost me my sanity. I remember that I ended up having more deaths than kills on the last mission. It was crazy.
I think this must be the best CoD to play on veteran because all the power might make it challenging yet satisfying unlike most other veteran runs.
Love It or hate it you’ve gotta admit one thing
Train go boom
These videos are so great each time!
Honestly, I suggest you should play Infamous Second Son. I'm confident you'll enjoy it.
Tbh, the narrative of the Story reminds me of the movie sourcecode.
This is my favorite COD. Not because of the gameplay or the story. Its my favorite because of all the memories I had with my friends absolutely destroying each other in multiplayer.
The greatest thing about this game and CoD BO4 is that they have nothing to do with the story of the first two so they don't sully the name of BO1 and 2
Honestly this is probably my most favourite cod campaign other than maybe bo1, and I absolutely love Christopher melonis voice acting in this. He plays Taylor and I’ve known his acting for 10+ years from law and order and he has amazing acting range and abilities
i was very young when i played this story and never played it again so i quite literally have no clue what hes talking about but i will still watch the whole video and drop a like cuz i like him
When I played this campaign years ago; all I got from it is "wHaT iS tHe FrOzEn FoReSt?!" And the robots really enjoy punching
B03 and it zombies. Oh how that takes me back to when things were simple.
Me and my friends have this little inside joke about that line… “train go boom” so like when an outcome happens in siege “hostage go boom”
GTA when a hiest goes south “safe go boom” especially COD III ( TRAIN GO BOOM )
For me, I love a lot about BO3. The multiplayer was fantastic, the 4 player online co-op for the story was awesome, especially since things would change, like on the first mission alone you might be sitting off to the right side instead of the left, or instead of being behind the window in the interrogation room you could stack up on the door. The only thing I never really liked was how confusing the story the game was trying to tell was. Like I somewhat got it but never fully processed it.
it really is one of the CoD campaigns ever made
Me: Noooo you can't just tell me the outcome!
Taylor: Outcome:Train go boom
so i'm curious, will you end up going through the Modern Warfare series as well, at some point? MW3 was the game I started with, and would love to see your video on it!
He said he was going to do infinite warfare at some point so I assume he'll go through the invite ward games after treyarch ones
Fun fact; one of the black Ops Cold War multiplayer maps features a destroyed train and the name of the area on your hud is “Train Go Boom”
hey, just rediscovered your channel and actually finished a video and got immediately hooked so i watched all of your videos on games i have played through, this being the final one. Loved all the videos and love how much effort you put into your videos, keep it up! maybe do mw2 as soon as possible. Ooh and the gears of war franchise I always preferred it to halo. Or neither because ultimately you should make the content you want to make (but seriously mw2 is the most loved cod ever you know you'd get all the views)
7 years later and this campaign still makes my brain hurt
Bro you explained it and I still don't know wtf was happening in that game.
WORST.STORY.EVER🙄
Oh man I can't wait for you Infinite warfare video. It's underrated. I like it better than Titanfall 2 and BF1. Both these games came out at the same time as cod iw and I think that made everyone not pay any attention to how good it's campaign really is
Another take I read about regarding the story was that the player dies at the end of New World but his mind is scrambling so he thinks he’s ok and about to enter surgery. Then yes, player relives Taylor’s memories with constructs in place, however he’s also fighting for control over Taylor’s body and Corvus has woken up, thanks to player’s and team’s new memories. But Hendricks, having gone out of surgery, likely calls Kane to try to get through to “Taylor”, as his team, who also interfaces with him, die off one by one. The “Taylor” and “Stay with me” is her first thinking she woke up the real Taylor and then realizing she didn’t. Also the very distinct “Where is Taylor going?” As if she’s playing along. By the end of Lotus Towers, Hendricks has had it. Having had second thoughts about the Stone mission, having had to kill his comrades, having lost his entire new team on the first op of a seemingly much safer job, having witnessed his friend and his whole team die off due to a virus, he’s had it and he goes to attack Coalescense. And that’s where the simulation ends and Life mission happens.
I sadly only had the demo and only got some black ops 3 multiplayer abilities. I never even knew it had a campaign until this video lol
there is no such thing as a flock of ravens, it is called an unkindness. Which is even more fitting to use at 5:36 because of context
man the multiplayer was just the most fun I had with friends in PS4 use to play this game everyday relentlessly
Call of duty ghosts next?
The hint is Krueger wasn’t lying when he told Corvus who he was. He wasn’t even being a asshole. Just humored that at what basically Google or Bing asking “What is my purpose”.
Corvus was a software program designed to run the project to monitor people thoughts. The mere fact he gained self awareness and became an AI was just as the game characters said it was; “a glitch in the system” and “a mistake.”
Idk if they did a sequel to this campaign,it would probably do good ,since we were left on a cliff hanger
He returns!
Man I know it was technically never one released video game but released over multiple games. But itd be so dope if you covered Call of Duty Zombies. It blows my mind how these DLCs were this great lore narrative game that relied on longtime fans playing multiple CoDs.
the scene of your character getting their arms ripped off gives me nightmares
fun fact, if you upgraded the cyber core abilities enough you can take control of every robot in the game except for the gi units
I can't remember what mission it was in or where, but I remember finding nova 6 canisters before the big moment. Nice little foreshadowing for people that took time to explore the environments.
Dang, Elliot Stabler really let his time in the SVU change him. Guess he became a super soldier to block out the bad memories?
Without watching a video explaining this campaign, all that you walk away is “Wow, this was a total clusterfuck of a campaign.”
Never played this one since I was stuck with a seventh gen console for the longest time but it always sounded so fascinating to me.
The lore in bo3 is still confusing but hey at least you made it easier to understand
You guys Remember the nightmares campaign? I remember when people played it. It’s a underrated bonus mode
It’s mad how I remember certain snapshots from missions in this but couldn’t have told you literally anything about the campaign
BO3 is Deus Ex: CoD Edition and the soundtrack is godly, Ignition and Safehouse are just *chef's kiss*
They just chose an extremely inconvenient way to tell the story.
'Nah. Train go boom' needs to be a meme
Came back to play zombies about a month ago. The zombies alone was worth getting the game. It's a shame the game has a big issue with hackers now. Awesome video bro
4:38 I don’t think they did have all the pieces……..with the multiple endings from BO2 I don’t think you can make a “true” sequel. I mean you can replay BO2, sure, but the endings are different enough that there’s almost no possible way to continue a somewhat linear storyline from the events that would unfold after the different endings.
I played it when it came out, and completed, I didn't understand shit until the ending where player was in Taylor mind, then I understood a little bit more but still i didn't care about understanding it more than with the simple thing that it provided me
I’m gonna be real here-Treyarch didn’t have the *BALLS* to confirm the Jacob’s Ladder analogy explicitly.
I remember when i was a kid, and i played the hell outta this on my ps3!
Fun BO3 fact you DIDn't mention: "Train go boom"
Apparently the canon ending of BO2 is still here, riots, tech, and the destroyed cities scattered, because of the drone attack by good ole Raul.
I dare you to do an episode about Skyrim
I now have even more questions about black ops 3’s campaign
You should do the mafia series cuz I just finished the whole series pls
Black ops 3 was the first cod I ever got I was like 15 when it released and a month later I played it
I live in Iran and the time of using internet is now random times of the day and I had the luck to see your new video
Your explanation of events gave me a headache in the best way!
I got a game series I'd love for you to do: Legacy of Kain. A long forgotten masterpiece in story writing and voice acting.
12:33 flashbacks to Crysis 3
Advance Warfare did not have co-op, World at War did.
My first shooting game ever and I still remember that twist ending, spent so much time trying to figure it out.
14:55 you can actually pilot these mechs with the hack ability
Cyborg Ben Browder is always a win.
call me a sucker all you want, but except for Ghosts, i LOVED every single campaign in these games, even Advanced and Infinity Warfare. and the zombies too.
the choice to choose loadout for campaign is something I wish Modern Warfare 2 had done.
"I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude" said four different people all talking about each other.
I can’t wait for you to play infinite warfare since the campaign was soo good
Honestly a better version of gameplay of Advanced Warfare (even though the invisible walls limit the shiz out of it) and great gun play. It’s a great game even though the story is hard to follow.
To be honest, I didn't really enjoy this game when compared to previous two black ops and even Advanced Warfare. To the point that when the game crashed on me during the section with Hall and the frozen forest I didn't end up picking the game back up again (it didn't help that the crash also deleted all my progress). I felt the same way for the most part, that I was just kinda bored and it wasn't at all what I was expecting since I had really enjoyed BO 1&2 and as a result I actually stopped playing CoD until Black Ops Cold War came out.
But otherwise your break down of the game was once again really well done and I am looking forward to seeing what game you go over next.
You should do Infinite warfare after Bo4's campaign (oh wait there isnt one) But really infinite warfare campaign legit made me cry, those death messages broke me man
U should totally do a video on spec ops the line