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Call of Duty: The Dark Patterns
we're so back.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:30 Balancing School and Games
4:14 Dark Patterns
5:07 THE SEASONAL CONTENT UPDATE
5:30 just buy the battle pass, bro
7:53 Building Bad Habits
10:33 Release Busted Guns
14:33 The Best Unlock Skip
20:40 Nostalgia Pandering
24:30 AI Cosmetics
26:07 Closing Thoughts
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Видео

Nintendo's Paywalled Character: Agent 8
Просмотров 72 тыс.3 месяца назад
this took ages to whip up, comment your favorite color palette. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 4:34 Splatoon 7:00 Octo Expansion 26:15 Side Order 35:44 Characters
Afterglow: The End of an Era
Просмотров 39 тыс.3 месяца назад
A little retrospective of some afterglow controllers! Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:26 Gamecube 1:20 Old Skool 2:08 Afterglow Overview 4:13 Playstation 3 6:13 Xbox 360 8:23 Headsets 12:17 Wii 15:14 Wii U 16:21 Nintendo Switch 21:02 Recap
Call of Duty: The Cosmetics Problem
Просмотров 359 тыс.4 месяца назад
Hope you enjoyed, this was a lot of fun to put together! Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:30 The Call of Duty History 1:54 Camo's Evolution 7:01 Gear Intro 7:21 Ghosts 8:28 Advanced Warfare 11:50 Black Ops 3 12:32 Infinite Warfare 14:07 Black Ops 4 14:48 Modern Warfare 2019 18:38 Black Ops Cold War 20:24 Vanguard 23:13 Modern Warfare II 25:30 Black Cell 27:53 Modern Warfare III 32:33 Potential Solution 3...
''WAKE UP'' - a Short Film
Просмотров 7174 месяца назад
All filming was done in my London flat All audio was derived from the Splatoon 3 sfx and game files. I wanted to challenge myself and only use audio from a sound-pack rip of the game, since I enjoyed playing the Side Order DLC spending my time in London. This was a project for a class I took through UAL.

Комментарии

  • @UAVED
    @UAVED Час назад

    The reason I play is because I’m fully addicted, I’ve thought about talking to a therapist to help me quit gaming. Gaming now it’s more predatory then gambling and casinos, at least they are open about being evil, devs aren’t by law being held accountable for the mental manipulation they add to their games.

  • @Samgratt
    @Samgratt 10 часов назад

    I know I will get hate for that but, i really enjoy mastercrafts in call of duty and I know they just want to have my money but idk why I love it so much. The custom weapons inspects are always insane, the skins are usually crazy, the tracers are also usually awesome and yeah I know I shouldn’t like it but i do

  • @zumba.c
    @zumba.c 11 часов назад

    We still play COD because we loved COD, it used to be great and we want it to be great again. All they had to do was remove SBMM. I don't buy DLC.

  • @Smoulderingmel
    @Smoulderingmel 12 часов назад

    Agree with author. 34:50 They say, what skins create by AI. 20$ for AI work - insane.

  • @TherealEnab
    @TherealEnab 12 часов назад

    8:36 not brainwashed, it was just propaganda that many octolings were told

  • @drop830
    @drop830 13 часов назад

    Bro I'm a die hard multiplayer. It gets kind of annoying when half the lobby is cheating their butts off, and you can tell they are, but I still have a blast when I'm going off. I've been playing multiplayer since world war war days

  • @CallMeMang
    @CallMeMang 14 часов назад

    Guess what? I’ll never be watching one of your videos again as a new viewer. Not because of the quality. Not because of your opinions. Not because of your voice. No. It’s because there’s 50 fucking ads on your video bro. Jesus christ.

  • @Octomy1
    @Octomy1 16 часов назад

    Agent 3 when is not controlled by the Player is also known as the Inkling with the Biggest skill issue ever. Imagine having unlimited Specials and losing to a Random girl with serious Memory Loss that doesnt even know where she is standing

  • @ItsnikBaconhead
    @ItsnikBaconhead 16 часов назад

    In my opinion the reason why I don’t play a whole lot of games today (Mainly cod) I’ve seen so many cheaters. The only way I can actually have fun is playing older games.

  • @Killc4m
    @Killc4m 19 часов назад

    I really like this style of content from you. Your edits are so funny and cultured 🔥

    • @lessthoughtof
      @lessthoughtof 19 часов назад

      I really appreciate that! Honestly, I don't think I want to make content if it wouldn't make me laugh. That's kinda my baseline. Thx!!

  • @DankMcDANK1738
    @DankMcDANK1738 21 час назад

    Nope you’ve got it all wrong. Consume! Consume! Consume!

  • @SeniorStinky420
    @SeniorStinky420 22 часа назад

    the snakeyjackey shoutout

  • @lucidstarbeam
    @lucidstarbeam День назад

    The fact is, I started feeling weird around MWIII. I wanted to just load up SND and play for an hour. Everyone else wanted to grind the battle pass, rank up guns for Warzone, or chase a camo grind. Honestly I realized that maybe I wasn’t the target audience if I just wanted to play the game by itself. No special camo to show off in SND (fuckin whole reason I got damascus, stupid I know) or using the meta attachments. I just wanted to load in, like the old days. Default skin and everything. And yet I felt weird. That’s probably the worst experience I’ve had with gaming since quitting Destiny as a whole.

  • @wasntclayde
    @wasntclayde День назад

    " I check in regularly with some games more than my friends" hits hard unfortunately

  • @surr3ald3sign
    @surr3ald3sign День назад

    My favorite camos are the og red tiger and blue tiger camos, cod mobile actually has them still tho that game has some of the most unforgivable cosmetics and monetization of any cod game

  • @Rhy_thymgamer
    @Rhy_thymgamer День назад

    “And quietly sends you on your way.”

  • @peanutzesxd
    @peanutzesxd День назад

    this video is very cute but DID YOU JUST CALL ATCH ACT ?????? LOLLL .. also not the she/her ... like theyre canon nb .... </3

  • @LetsGetBuildingOfficial
    @LetsGetBuildingOfficial День назад

    Ok, quick note. Acht/Dedf1sh goes by They/Them since splatoon 3. they are never referenced by her in 3. even when referencing octo expansion in 3. I know it’s a minor thing but it’s kinda important to their character

  • @xvoidxhunter2129
    @xvoidxhunter2129 День назад

    A huge deviation in why cod is so different is because of how much the community has changed: Cod is no longer just a casual fun couch co-op experience anymore; it creates jobs, its heavily competitive and a content generating gold mine. -There is no confusion about what the meta is anymore, people dont run the gun they enjoy mostly because the only guns that can keep up online is the meta. Its all down to an exact science. -There are no fan theories about in game mechanics, lore or stats because RUclipsrs solve it all on stream as soon as it releases and before some people can even play it. Part of what made old zombies so charming was the mysticism around the in game mechanics and lore, idk how many fake easter eggs people used to tell me they believed (Like doing the Flytrap easter egg made the game harder or interacting with the red liquid on Der Riese made Juggernog stronger, etc) -We have all DLC Leaked weeks in advance to the first trailer being officially released, so any hype around what it may be is gone by the time it's out. -People are looking to become a business of their own off Cod, and to be the "Very best that no one ever was" and so because of that the Meta is the only things youll see in lobbies, whatever movement tech is discovered is whats abused and whatever head glitch gets the most kills gets sat in the hardest and they all know exactly how and what to do because some Streamer already spent 20 hours straight play testing it and figuring it out. (Just look at Bo6s beta: kill feeds entirely filled to the brim with Jakal PDWs and nothing else) -CoD community is alot less patient and cool with anything, if anything is too OP it "Needs to get nerfed". Which is why we will likely never get balancing to the same crazy degree as OG MW2 ever again. If anything is too complicated or too samey from the past it instantly gets backlash, if its too hard OR too easy the same happens there as well. Snake shots from MW2019 would've been 100% ok in OG MW2, but the classic Akimbo Model 1887s in any recent cod? One Man Army + Noobtubes? Never, it wouldve gotten complained out of the game to the point of them just removing them from the game entirely - The Cod community is alot more connected and vocal with developers than what they used to be. Nowadays you can tag a dev on twitter and get a reply potentially so long as it doesnt spoil anything. Back then Devs often trolled the community by doing the opposite of what people wanted on purpose or just breadcrumbing them because to them it was just whiners and actual players to them. Especially in zombies, Tank Dempseys whole character in Bo1 besides a macho American Solider is essentially being what Treyarch saw the average Zombies player as back in the day -Gamers by in large dont play "casually" anymore, they dont play a couple hours a day and just put the game down and go outside, they play the game like it's their second/third job and thats in between watching and thinking about the games they play outside of their game time. From as soon as they get home from work till they cant stay awake anymore alot of times. Alot of the times the games themselves support them doing so by consistent content drops, incentivizing or limited XP gains match to match, limited time event exclusive rewards, Battlepasses etc etc. The gaming landscape has changed because of the average gamer has changed

  • @mattbourque1741
    @mattbourque1741 День назад

    gold camos were in cod 4!!

  • @xvoidxhunter2129
    @xvoidxhunter2129 День назад

    AS optimistic as some of the ideas around the shop are, truthfully speaking itll never change because its what works for Fortnite. Everything in the shop is its own price and its up to the consumer to buy them when its available, the only thing Fortnite allows is bargains based on how much of the bundle you already own, which doesn't exist in cod because as of rn theres no way to get only a part of a bundle instead of the full thing. CoD has always loosely copied whatever idea at the time was huge: Bo4 and Bo3 went with unique effect operators because Overwatch and R6S were massive, Battlepasses and leaning more into IP farming got big with Fortnite and CoD has since copied it Event camos and dope master craft bundles are a good edition, and and a ton of camos and attachments means a bigger customization pool and reason to play. Camos and master crafts that pop are generally more cool and attractive to bland camo that has been seen in every cod ever like gold and (Insert assortment of brown and green here), reactive and moving camos will always be superior because they will always have more visual appeal. Meanwhile even though the Ultra Mastery camos like Interstellar and Dark Aether might seem less unique, at the end of the day everyone in the lobby still knows exactly what it took for you to unlock said camo. Theres more stuff to work on in MW3 than any other MW before it, and because of that it requires ton of grinding moreso than any prior: If you wanna 100% MW3 you have to 100% MW2 basically, and obtain every camo, calling card and trophy which is a completionists dream but not nessesarily an OG fans cup of tea. CoD was never a Mil sim, any actual gun expert and military personal can expose at lengths the inconsistencies and inaccuracies and many videos already do exactly that, the thing that has always made CoD addicting was the parts it deviates from reality and making an addicting gameplay loop out of it. The people that love MW3 are likely in love with how unserious it is the same way people love Fortnite, as well as the crazy amount of customization and sandbox elements there are. Old cod games were very limited; limited hardware, limited graphics and limited file sizes, what we have right now is when we have all of those hinderances removed and the developers are able to focus on the buisness side of things for better or worse.

  • @ThePIZZADUD3
    @ThePIZZADUD3 День назад

    Once again, Splatoon music is just…hooray. Yeah, games have become a lot more about grabbing the wallets of every player and shaking every little bit out of it. In the good old days of games, you’d earn rewards just for playing the game you paid for. Now you’d be lucky to play a game without a battle pass with time exclusive rewards that convince you to buy their product that you then have to play the game to finish, or a digital deluxe edition that lets you play the game with a few extra bonuses that would normally be locked behind that paywall. Some games still have free stuff (Splatoon, obvious pick) which everyone likes. Anyone would pick free things over paid. Oh no I wrote a big essay just for a RUclips comment 😅

  • @carterpittarelli
    @carterpittarelli День назад

    I personally have just lost the passion for gaming. While looking back I did enjoy playing with friends, making memories- but was it worth it? No. I would take back all the time if I could

  • @zjsz4954
    @zjsz4954 День назад

    26:46 shit is $90 plus tax here

  • @zjsz4954
    @zjsz4954 День назад

    DMZ lover checking in

  • @ConquerorMane
    @ConquerorMane День назад

    Battle passes are stupid. Call of duty is ridiculous!!

  • @absin8078
    @absin8078 День назад

    This shit has never worked for me. I PLAY WHEN I WANT TO PLAY. Don’t forget, you have free will. No challenge will tell me what to do. If I wanna hop and and get some kills in a game of TDM than that’s what I’ll do, nothing more.

  • @vault1021
    @vault1021 День назад

    Cold War was mid

  • @mattclements1348
    @mattclements1348 День назад

    Yea the meta guns are always in the battle pass only.😐

  • @mattclements1348
    @mattclements1348 День назад

    So nice to see a video like this,👍 that space marine 2 is 😎

  • @bronsontolliver9027
    @bronsontolliver9027 День назад

    DLC has irreparably ruined gaming.

  • @garrettm5162
    @garrettm5162 2 дня назад

    With having a kid, fiance, and multiple hobbies, I feel like cod is perfect because it doesn't take up too much time. I enjoy the extra quick stress relief.

  • @isaiahduran4213
    @isaiahduran4213 2 дня назад

    You didn’t mention WW2. Loot boxes, except there was a catch. Half the weapon variants weren’t available in them due to a glitch. Spend hundreds of dollars and never get the sniper variant. They felt so bad they added weekly Contracts to get a new variant each week

  • @Snowmaninadesert
    @Snowmaninadesert 2 дня назад

    im gonna say something. i dont think releasing overpowered weapons then nerfing them to a balanced state is a bad thing, players are stubborn and are hard to convince to try new stuff.

    • @lessthoughtof
      @lessthoughtof 2 дня назад

      I didn't think about it like that, that's a new take.

  • @Polyodon
    @Polyodon 2 дня назад

    Played it last night bc my friend didn’t have mw2 wanted to kms after 2 games

  • @Knife.105
    @Knife.105 2 дня назад

    Last cod I played was bo3 and only zombies and campaign Existed for bo6 so many things have changed it’s like buying a new iPhone after 6 years The small changes on every year add up to make your new phone worth it instead of buying iPhone every year That’s how I play cod now

  • @fearingalma1550
    @fearingalma1550 2 дня назад

    I'd had enough after BO1. But I found harder drugs. Ever try quitting Escape from Tarkov before?

  • @NanyaBissness
    @NanyaBissness 2 дня назад

    The whole battle pass the newest form of a loot box. But it isn't gambling it is instead making a game more like a job. I have a feeling that in due time, Some country like the EU bans Battle Passes and forces every game and company to switch up their strategy. Like how it did back then.

  • @oatmeal710
    @oatmeal710 2 дня назад

    black ops 1 had gold camo before mw3 though

  • @oatmeal710
    @oatmeal710 2 дня назад

    decade old problem, worst part of advanced warfare wasnt anything about the gameplay, it was the fucking lootboxes, not to mention dlc maps themselves not really being a great thing

  • @moyses9293
    @moyses9293 2 дня назад

    Getting Damascus in mw19 was so hard literally pulled my hair out

  • @SlickTemerity
    @SlickTemerity 2 дня назад

    I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this in the comments yet or not, but I believe Black Ops 4 actually had introduced zombies mastery camos to the series. I agree, Pink Diamond was disgusting 😭

  • @krono5el
    @krono5el 2 дня назад

    not me, thank the gods i'm a Sega kid for life and was raised and spoiled on quality so when something isn't up to my standards i immediately jump ship and don't waste my time. Cod, cod2, cod4, mw2, and mw2019, are the only cods i paid for and that weren't bootleg trash.

  • @davitdavid7165
    @davitdavid7165 2 дня назад

    I really missed those mw2019 challanges. I also do agree that they probably look the best. I do no like how a lot of them changed the sights though, making them slightly p2w. also the 2019 gold is kind and you cant change my mind on this Mw2 is the least grindy of the modern cods. There were few levels per gun, you could unlock guns with dmz, the grind encouraged you to try all guns while 2019 made you use 1 gun for days to unlock attachments that made it good or the same one you unlocked 50 times already. I also like the inclusion of stuff like solid camos. I dont like the p2w scopes or the 15min dmz mechanic. I did unlock the only f2p 15 minute gun though and I think making those guns unlockable through dmz challanges would have been the best way to go. I do also like a few blueprints that added taped up preassure switches for lasers. The berliner in 2019 did that too, but here there was an mpx and a honey badger that did that. edit: please dont put lootboxes in videogames again. Chance should not be a factor in the grind and gambling should be kept away from kids.

  • @moyses9293
    @moyses9293 2 дня назад

    The only time I accept the battlepass motto is in Fortnite

  • @Conner06
    @Conner06 2 дня назад

    When Modern Warfare II (2022) came out the battlepass was so confusing that i just didnt look there anymore. Challenges, blueprints, progression, ect, all confusing especially with that menu. It actually makes me engage with the game less.

  • @FireTrainer92
    @FireTrainer92 2 дня назад

    Weapon Balance isn't on purpose at least not maliciously. They wouldn't be inconsistent with it if it was. They make those weapons good because no one would use them if they were. It's also hard to balance guns because these games aren't balanced.

  • @FireTrainer92
    @FireTrainer92 2 дня назад

    The problem lies more in how people are taught to consume than it does with the consumption. Everything is playing on FOMO that you don't even have to give much attention to. Play what you like for however you like.

  • @HATERSWELCOME47
    @HATERSWELCOME47 2 дня назад

    Cool video 45 years old getting back on call of duty for as many hours as I can until I go to bed.. and yes I have every black sell battle pass ever put out in every game ever

  • @HATERSWELCOME47
    @HATERSWELCOME47 2 дня назад

    All quit playing video games and go serve Satan already s***