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>Takes place in a Post-Cold War World >Chance to show conflicts like the Yugoslav Wars or the Iraq War >Makes some bs secret organization and a fake knockoff of Monaco while having just three mission in Iraq
@@owlmandiasthelatinowl3687 they definitely killed off Perseus too early. Could tell he was a rogue. Could've seen them operate everywhere. From the collapsed Soviet Union to Africa and etc. This campaign was 5/10 because of the Gulf war, the skirmish in the collapsed Soviet Union/Russia and return of Vorkuta.
BO6 should've been half old storyline/new storyline like BO2: Opens with 17 year old high school buddies David Mason and Mike Harper joining marines. Few years pass, David is deployed to Afghanistan. 2001-2003 campaign with young David, Harper, Salazer, Crosby Jr, one of David's older cousins from Aunt Marion, Bowman's son (who had already worked the old crew of Woods, Adler, Sims, Park when he was starting out) during the war on terror, David hunts Bin Laden with Billy Waugh, old friend of Woods and the gang and he tells story to the new crew: 1991-1993 campaign uncovering a deep-state American version of Perseus in Gulf War, Waco, Mogadishu with appearances from HW, Clinton, Thatcher, Powell, Saddam (maybe a meeting between all of them discussing the Gulf war psyop), Koresch (a rouge Pantheon agent), Waugh. Ends storyline with Woods, Adler, Park, Sims and begins Bowman's son's quest origins. Showdown ends in 03 Iraq at Saddam's Palace, Cordis Die teaser at the end.
@@emperorvader1310Thankfully Perseus isn’t just one guy, so they could’ve had the main cast hunt down the remnants of Perseus instead of a CIA mole and Pantheon.
I know they won’t do it, but imagine a Black Ops game were they go the conspiracy route and that 9/11 was an inside job to justify invading Afghanistan. That would really be Black Ops
God I hope not, there are several respectful ways they could handle it. That’s quite possibly one of the worst things they could do. Best way would be that they play it completely straight and that David is inspired to enlist after seeing it and we follow his early career. This was a very realistic scenario for a lot of people and wouldn’t alienate like everyone who plays cod over the age of 30. Thankfully I doubt they’ll touch it all since most of the staff at activision likely remembers 9/11 vividly, it’s not 40-60 years ago. There were people who experienced it who are just now entering their 30’s
@@Viper-dz2kw fair point although it would be intresting if a cod game has the americans as "the bad guys" insted of some random russian/arab dude which we've seen many time
@Binbobin CoD has has some American bad guys in the past like Shepherd and the guy from ghosts. I think there's a way to do the conspiracy side of it while being respectful. Only portray what factually happened. Like I said, the cia knew the hijackers were in the country but didn't do anything at the time. Why? Play BO7 to find out.
@Viper-dz2kw I feel you can't really alienate people age wise from cod unless the gameplay is fucky. And while this would still be a vivid memory for older adults, people my age were 4 years old when the attacks happened so it would be a different but raw experience still. We grew up all our young lives afraid of the big bad terrorists and never understood why they happened
@@Donker_Dank I have to agree. I hadn't been born yet, 2003, and yet the GWOT has shaped much of the political world stage landscape my future will live with. Not to mention, much of Modern Warfare 1 (original 3) was based on stuff that happened when I was born and on into my early childhood. The brutal battles for Fallujah, for example, was 2004. Some of what "Charlie Don't Surf" (MW1/MWR) is based on Fallujah.
They don't really touch on anything that happened in the 90's. I wish they would have done something with Gothic Serpent (Somalia) or something with Yugoslavia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, or the First Chechen War or when the Taliban takes control of Afghanistan following the Afghan Civil War. There were plenty of chances to utilize any of these real and packed conflicts and instead we got dicking around with crime lords in the Mediterranean. The campaign in its state is great outside of the issues with history. I enjoyed it.
@kurtzlundstedt6127 this comment is 100% fact. Plus if there's one thing we can all agree, no one gives a fuck about avalon. I guess a better question is. Is there a video game that does cover these conflicts
@@Donker_Dank YT keeps deleting my comments to this lmao No, there aren't many games that cover these conflicts purely or through historical fiction. Plenty of controverisal Arma 3 mods related to the Yugoslav Wars and the First and Second Chechen Wars. I'm sure there are mods related to the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan and/or Gothic Serpent. There is a roblox FPS game that's based on the First Chechen War, but I dunno if that counts 🤣🤣🤣.
@kurtzlundstedt6127 it counts I think. This may sound stupid but I think games have a roll in educating people about this history by interacting with it. How much did kids learn about DDay and stalingrad thanks to cod I wonder
I feel like the Call of Duty franchise is more like Marvel at this point than what Call of Duty really used to be. You somehow always know that the good guys are gonna win after they get beat up a little, but the big bad guy still lurks in the background to foreshadow a sequel. Literally every single time. I miss Cod4 where basically everyone dies.
You’re absolutely right , im Kuwaiti and I have been a treyarch fan ever since BO1, which I believe it’s the best campaign , the pacing , the historical elements and historical personalities. Now a decade ago I asked myself, how cool would a cod campaign covering the gulf war, it would be awesome, and like they protested Noriega and Castro , they gotta portray saddam, as he’s the most ruthless, infamous historical personalities ever . And also the gulf war with his invasion of Kuwait , they butchered the campaign , I didn’t want to fight crime families in the Mediterranean or hop into harrows past , I want raw gulf war fighting
@vaddenrosvyl3659 I'm glad my vid reached out to you. This is exactly what I mean, it's like people forgot that for some decades Saddam was a big deal in the world. Even his execution was a big deal. Idk why they couldn't show him at all because unlike him, noriega and castro were still alive when they were portrayed in previous games. There should have been more raw gulf war missions, though I wonder how diverse you could make those missions gameplay wise. Lots of vehicle missions I'd think
@@vaddenrosvyl3659 Thing is I would have loved that too ngl, but I'm not really sure it would be Treyarch's story to tell. Especially considering call of duty's less than amazing track record of portraying arabs in the past. I personally wouldn't have liked a patriotic american telling of the gulf war even in the vein of something like cod 4's campaign. I personally enjoyed the campaign more bcuz it was historical fiction with Woods, Adler, Marshall, Case, and Sevati going rogue to uncover a secret paramilitary order that infiltrated the CIA. Given how cod usually goes all out for historical accuracy when it comes to western vistas (e.g Amsterdam in MW2 2022, WW2 European war theatre in cod WW2, The White House in BO6) but rarely does the same for the global south, I think stuff like BO6 is the most we can expect from american or western made media like BO6 that cover the Gulf War or any other middle eastern/global south conflict. But hey that's just me.
Black Ops games typically have what I like to call a "Google Moment". Some part of the game that's based on a real like historical event that's so insane you stop and think "wait, that can't possibly be real", and immediately go look it up on Google. In BO1 for instance it was "was Vorkuta/Rebirth Island/Russian numbers sequence brainwashing a real thing?" In Cold War it was "was Operation Greenlight a real thing/did the US really plan to nuke Vietnam?" And so on. Black Ops 6 didn't have a single Google Moment, in a game set in a time period as monumental and tumultuous as the fall of the USSR and the beginning of the Gulf War in the early 90s
I was born in 1993, & when I was young, I’ve heard about the Gulf War, the fall of the Soviet Union, the war in Chechnya & the Oklahoma City bombing before 9/11.
Okay, this might sound stupid. But what if the plot follows your character trying to stop 9/11. But there are two endings where he either fails or succeeds in stopping it. Then it is revealed that the futuristic missions in Black Ops 2 take place in an alternate timeline where 9/11 didn’t happen thanks to your characters actions. This is there to explain away all the futuristic technology in 2025 that doesn’t exist irl. And that the MW reboot takes place in the timeline where your character failed to stop 9/11.
@commonglitch9661 there's no idea too stupid around here friend. One issue tho. In BO2 9 11 did infact happen because there'd a bit if dialogue with Briggs and Patreaus where he says the last time we were at this Defcon was 24 years ago which was 2001. Plus there's a dlc map in bo2 that takes place on a bridge in NYC and you can see the freedom tower. The bin laden thing could be written odd because he was on the fbi most wanted after Kenya I think.
The crazy part about Black Ops 2 is that Raul Menendez was listening in on your coms the whole time in the modern-day, such a cool detail to a great game, they just don't make them like they used to, great video man :)
The black ops series doesn’t feel like a military campaign about warfare based on the a certain time period. That’s why I liked bo1 and bo2 so much. Bo1 gave us a decent idea of what the veitnam era was like but it was the “black operations” instead of the typical war that was going on. It was more about what was going on behind there scenes. Still very much about the Vietnam era though. Where with bo6 I was expecting to be immersed into the action around the time of the first gulf war. But most of the time I just felt like I was playing splinter cell or as a sneaky cia agent
I can't believe I'm saying this, I used to hate BOCW in terms of settings, now I think I love it now. Not many historical stuff as BO1 but at least it's still authentic, unlike BO6 that is way more dissapointing. Instead of including some real 90s conflicts like Yugoslav Wars, Somali Civil War, Second Congo War, Transnistrian War, Sri Lankan Civil War, or Chechen War we fighting against some crime family at random island that doesn't even exist lmao. WOW!!! I can't believe you actually featured my most popular video here at 0:50, thank you so much man! 😍
@Rakhons I think if cold war had omnimovement (and had a better launch) I'd probably like it alot more. And dude, I can't tell you how much I watched your 21st history of warfare video. It was one of the inspirations to make this. How you kept track of any and every one of these games AND mods is unbelievable. I hope you feel proud of that video
@@Donker_Dank Yeah I'm really proud and thanks for watching it, but I wish I included more wars in the video. I missed some of them like Russian Civil War (BF1), Sierra Leone Civil War (Kuma\War), or any ARMA III mods that were set during Portuguese Colonial War, US Invasion of Grenada, Congo Crisis, or Ogaden War. Maybe I'll do a Part 2 if I have much time. Also what you said here are 100% true, well said review!
Black ops 6 still feels like black ops due to still having drug induced schizophrenia and conspiracy, it just feels like cod overall is focusing too much on characters experiencing the story over the player experiencing it.
"The bad guy group can never be defeated, so that DLC exists." And yet, this is where it's more historical than anything. Stitch said it best in the exact footage you used: "He was not the first Perseus, just as I will not be the last." You are fighting groups that try to destabilize the world order through covert operations and threats of global war, these ideals will persist for decades onwards, just like most of those splinter factions in real life do.
Being honest, there is a lot of military moments that were never covered in COD Games. Moments that could make the franchise more unique, like: - WW1 - Second Sino-Japanese War - Chaco War - Spanish Civil War - Brazil in WW2 - Deserted German Campaign - Korean War - Dominican Civil War And all of these conflicts you have mentioned.
Cod had a whole ass chance to make a bo4 campaign somehow connect with bo3 and bo2 (post 2025 era) and completely missed out on it just to copy fortnite. Or they could've made bo3 set some time shortly after 2025 instead of the 2060s(cod was hopping on the futuristic double-jump stuff), then make bo4 take place after that time period or set it back to where Mason and woods met in the Korean War, then have cold war and bo6. Nice job treyarch, you guys missed out on 2 whole games of potentially great storytelling just to try to hop on some trends that would've made no sense to anyone playing that game over 5 years later, that was trying to understand the whole Black Ops franchise. It's stuff like that which makes COD not special to me anymore. They had great campaigns of people like Reznov, Mason, Woods, Price, and Soap with Villains like Zakhaev, Makarov, Steiner, Kravchenko, Dragovich, Defalco, and Menendez that the players actually liked as characters in a main story, good or bad. And now I don't like emotionally investing in the COD storylines anymore because they just suck now. Everything is repetitive, recycled and makeshifted into something just to say they have a storyline when really they just care about the multiplayer.
Am I the only one bummed we didn't get that rogue operative ending with case the way we did with bell in cold war they drop hints the whole game that case isn't who he seems to be yet gives zero pay off and focuses on that chick
Im a history nerd and I was a bit disappointed with how the game just showed early events of 1991 and thats it instead of going through the whole decade and ending it off in the early 2000s but sadly with how most new cod games story continues with warzone we didn't get that 😞
How is New world order Anti-Semetic? Sounds like a self admission Streisand effect. We legit gotta censor our movies to prove we are not dystopian lmfao
@Lift4Bjj it seriously blows my mind that that entire region of Europe basically fell apart and people were systematically killed. But no one ever talks about it. Maybe it was because of their religon or something. Shameful either way, especially when you hear that the Bosnian women were being systematically r4ped too. Evil shit from not too long ago
For starters, overall video setup is smooth and good video essay format. And yes I agree with most parts. The 90s nostalgia is present, but lack of historic events and real focus is lacking. Especially compared to BLOPS and BLOPS II. Blops felt like a fun time capsules that wasn’t a documentary but more of an imaginatively spin on what flashbacks and present day was. Gameplay and zombies is great and story isn’t bad but felt lacking in what you mentioned. NEW WORLD ORDER
It would be interesting if Mediterranean gang in BO6 having connected to gang in Los Angeles at the 90s and we have Los Angeles 1992 MP map in BO6 Season 2, also too Los Angeles having a riots because Rodney King incident and Crack Cocaine, it would be interesting having GTA SA refrence in the map because GTA SA set in early 90s too similiar with Black Ops 6
@@Donker_Dank it would be interesting CJ will be added as operator in Black Ops 6 and CJ was work with Toreno who has a government agent during storyline for making his way back to Los Santos
I would love if Activision did a new game set in the OG Modern Warfare timeline that has been abandoned since 2011, set in 2027 with flashbacks to WW2, Rhodesia, Chechen and Yugoslav Wars, and even 9/11, like BO2 did but in the OG Modern Warfare universe, I would love that game.
Black Ops 6 campaign isn't as bad as MW3 2023 or Vanguard, but I definitely don't think it is a 9/10 up there with Black Ops 1&2. They completely wasted the Gulf War and the 1990s historical setting. I think Black Ops Cold War had a way better campaign, plus I liked that you could change the ending. And yes, CoD has completely abandoned its core identity of being a soldier in a larger conflict. CoD was created to be a Medal of Honor killer and set itself apart by focusing on being a cog in a larger war machine compared to Medal of Honor's one man army stuff. Shame CoD has become like pretty much every other AAA FPS now rather than retaining its unique identity. Here's hoping that new Delta Force game's Black Hawk Down campaign is as good as past CoDs that actually focused on military conflicts. Plus tying the stories to multiplayer/Warzone has negatively affected the campaigns. I'm tired especially of capturing bad guys in the MW reboot sequels only for them to escape and become a threat again in multiplayer updates. CoD has become boring Fast And Furious/MCU movies now. Last CoD campaign I legit enjoyed was 2016's Infinite Warfare and that will likely never receive a sequel.
@Donker_Dank, It's a new Delta Force game. I think they're going to release it on Steam soon and later consoles. They're focusing on the multiplayer that has futuristic stuff, but a campaign based on Black Hawk Down is also coming too. Otherwise, Six Days In Fallujah is getting a full release in 2025 on pc and consoles. That's based on the post Iraq occupation and conflict with insurgents.
@@Donker_Dank ohhhh all makes sense originally I thought you were only talking about the base story but since you’re talking about zombies, then yeah, because technically every Call of Duty game is connected to the ether storyline
I would like to point out, that in the mission where you have to ride around Kuwait (where you had to destroy the scud Missiles): the game never mentions WHY they had to be destroyed. irl, they were being launched at Israel. It makes sense why they wouldn’t want to bring that up. I don’t expect them to bring up 9/11 either
As a Kuwaiti myself, I completely agree with you. There was so much missed potential. I expected at least one mission focusing on the Kuwaiti resistance, especially given how extensively the CIA collaborated with the Kuwaiti government-in-exile and the resistance. Their operations involving espionage and sabotage would have fit perfectly with the Black Ops theme. Instead, all we got was a generic airport mission, which I assume is supposed to represent the battle for Kuwait International Airport, and a couple of oil fields burning in the background during the intro. I also would have appreciated something similar to the COD 4 missions set in the Middle East. It’s just disappointing.
@Donker_Dank You're probably thinking about Iraqi groups that were against Saddam, such as the Kurdish rebels. They were promised financing and support from the U.S. after the Gulf War to rebel against him, but since the U.S. didn't deliver on that promise, they were brutally suppressed by Saddam. I was talking about Kuwaiti resistance fighters who fought to liberate their country after it was invaded by Saddam's army. They received intelligence and material support from the U.S.
@potanionlaw3399 right. My bad. I got it confused from a book I read this year. But that sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than stupid ass Mediterranean mafia
@Donker_Dank It surely is, it's especially disappointing when they build it up with teasers like "the truth lies" then just completely ditch that conspiracy vibe to a generic group of bad guys. Regardless of how good the campaign is, it will always be butchered by this seasonal story bs. They need some generic team of bad guys so that they can keep this faction shit in multiplayer and warzone. Imo multiplayer should always be in the background of the campaign as normal soilders fighting, not a continuation of what half-assed story they were trying to tell. And as you've mentioned, campaigns don't have a real ending anymore, it takes away that feeling of finishing it. I love Cold War's campaign but I have absoultly no idea how it ends because after the first season I'm no longer invested into the story.
I saw through bo6 final operator unlock and heard rumors that black ops 7 will take place in 2030s after 2025 events of bo2 so unfortunately i dont think we will see 9/11 and some history.
BO6 feels like im playing skyrim with all these puzzles and riddles you have to solve. And The amount of jumpscares in it. More of them then actual shooting
I forgot to comment on this, @ 3:29 This reminded me of one of the last missions of the game. When David Mason says: "We need to get back to the [USS] Obama!" I was like "OH! This game just mentioned the current US President! They just 'real life' me!"
My girlfriend and I keep trying to sit down and play the campaign, but it’s like pulling teeth man. It feels like homework to play through it. We are NOT enjoying it compared to the other Black Ops campaigns 😅
The OG black ops was so fun. Crazy thing about black ops 2, it’s predicted our future in a way. I was hoping black ops 6 would do some gothic serpent stuff cuz how much guys such as Kyle Lamb a shooting instructor talks about how it changed things for our military such as tourniquets being added and more advanced medical added. The OG of black ops 6 idea in trailer was we hunted by CIA being framed which would be cool cuz how much corrupt stuff they’ve done. Warzone has ruined the campaigns though cuz the “season passes”.
Treyarch: It’s too early to War on Terror era, people. Get a hold for yourself! CoD Fandom: Sorry. Treyarch: And our game takes place in the Gulf War era in the early 90s!
Man I was soo looking forward to this COD, seeing that it was rumored to take place during the Gulf War. God, it was such a missed opportunity. They barely touched on it other than some CIA dudes doing scud busting in the desert. I was hoping to be a tanker in the Battle of 73 Eastings (one of the greatest tank battles in modern history). I know BO7 has got to be about GWOT (at least early GWOT). They better have a mission about Operation Anaconda, kicking in doors in Fallujah, or taking part of the Thunder Run in Baghdad. Theres so much covert content you can make out of GWOT, they better not mess this up.
@ The way you merged the history in with the gaming was really well done so a bit of both. And the way you present it was really easy to follow. Subbed!
Wow! Your attention to detail is insane, great video with amazing production quality! I can really appreciate your research and the credits that you include in your description. If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of microphone do you use? Your audio quality sounds great
The trailer showed all the historical figures and gulf war footage, so everyone was hyped. But Treyarch just thought they would be “genius” and introduce new missions (emerge BS and harrow’s mind missions). Bad timing and horrible story Always the same shitty story. CIA is compromised, bad Russian nationalist wanting to nuke the U.S. and those cringe cutscenes. Guys, forget it. COD is dead It’s Call of TikTok now and their public target are the young ones, who love this shitty stories and camos, Taylor swift skins etc….
yeah they could've did a LOT better with the campaign's story, the netcode, multiplayer bugs, hit reg, directx errors due to vram leakage, but hey at least they're marketing weapon builds at the same time there's a challenge *specifically* for that weapon... definitely essential in a great video game.
I totally agree. Only got bits of the history. That's why I only play Black Ops, Battlefield WWI and WaW only from the big names. The more in depth about the Soviet Union's downfall was definitely a missed opportunity. So many missed opportunities in the history. Least it stuck with the 90's history.
BO7 has been leaked to be a "sequel" to BO2 2025. So I believe it will continue David Mason's story. But who knows, maybe they'll follow BO2's shoes and do flashback missions just like how you mentioned.
@WillISpeak that might be one of the kindest comments I've read. Thank you very much. But if I were part of making a cod story, I'd be cancelled 20 times over
Cold War was awesome: Iranian Hostage Crisis, Reagan, Baker, Haig, Los Alamos, Perseus conspiracy, Tet Offensive flashback, East Berlin Stasi fight, Gorbachev, DUGA-3. It was awesome and had og writers and a Hollywood writer but sadly sliced down too short due to pandemic, would've loved a Grenada mission or Falklands mission with babe Park. The Warzone Extended Story Cutscenes and Bo6 completely removed all the cool history for genericness. The Clinton mission and vehicle missions in BO6 were kinda cool though. The WZ cutscenes were awesome except the weird Butcher/Godzilla tie in weirdness that ruined it. BO6 should've been half old storyline/new storyline like BO2: Opens with 17 year old high school buddies David Mason and Mike Harper joining marines. Few years pass, David is deployed to Afghanistan. 2001-2003 campaign with young David, Harper, Salazer, Crosby Jr, one of David's older cousins from Aunt Marion, Bowman's son (who had already worked the old crew of Woods, Adler, Sims, Park when he was starting out) during the war on terror, David hunts Bin Laden with Billy Waugh, old friend of Woods and the gang and he tells story to the new crew: 1991-1993 campaign uncovering a deep-state American version of Perseus in Gulf War, Waco, Mogadishu with appearances from HW, Clinton, Thatcher, Powell, Saddam (maybe a meeting between all of them discussing the Gulf war psyop), Koresh (a rouge Pantheon agent, Adler loses his shit and kills civilians inside at random in pure rage similar to past missions like Rebirth or Time and Fate from BO1/2), Waugh, maybe something in Yugoslavia. Ends storyline with Woods, Adler, Park, Sims and begins Bowman's son's quest origins. Showdown ends in 03 Iraq at Saddam's Palace, Cordis Die teaser at the end.
I think they should really make a black ops game leading up to,during and after 9/11 since there is a lot of info about that time frame in that period of the late 90s and 2000s. Heck even leading up to blacks ops 6 release date people were speculating that black ops 6 was going to feature 9/11.
I was so so so so disappointed at the Black Ops 6 campaign. As an avid Black Ops campaign fan, with the Alex Mason JFK assassin conspiracy, the whole numbers MK ultra stuff, the real life conflicts (Vietnam War, Invasion of Panama, Afghanistan, Cold War), I thought Black Ops 6 would follow suit. We had a really cryptic and mysterious reveal trailer ‘The Truth Lies’ with some powerful people. I thought it’d be some crazy conspiracy, mysterious campaign. In fact - what we got was a steaming pile of dog piss. Average plot, anti-climatic ending, characters you don’t give a fk about, and nothing related to the world leaders we were shown. When I finished the campaign I thought, “that was it?” Never been so disappointed at something in my life.
I feel like they didnt had that much history because they want to play it safe for the lawsuit reguarding bo2 lawsuits for the the two guys in the game, "manuel and angolan."
yeah but they won didnt they? with all the moneys they get from these waifu bundles, they can afford a lawyer. Hell after all the allegations with activision and blizzard Im sure they have a bunch on retainer
I think I enjoyed black ops Cold War more was because it was still a CIA movie type plot, but it emphasized heavily the historical time period you were in, and it never felt like a chore to finish.
Imo I think this is why the campaigns should not be linked to seasons. At first I was a fan of this concept but the longer it gets the more I realise that is now an excuse for them to release a campaign without real consequences to it's continuity.
@ I agree with that. Zombies kind of makes sense in a way, with the way they’ve done it now. But MP and Warzone is just not necessary. Cuz it only causes that people get mad at nitpicks like Soap as an operator or Lazar back in bocw when he was added
I keep saying this and I’ll stand by it, with Woods original voice actor not being apart of the new games anymore it just doesn’t feel right. Sticking to Black Ops 1 & 2’s campaign is more than enough for me. Sam Worthington as Mason is forever iconic
100% agree. I also HATE how the whole theme and era is just nonexistent in multiplayer and ruined by the atrocious bundles. Fucking anime skins, unrelated crossovers and straightup fantasy scifi.
One reason i think they held back from using real world events is because theyve delt with legal troubles from the previous games, and my second reason is that they probably just want to focus on the more creative route maybe they feel like using real world events is lazy or idk thats just what i think
I thought the same about the campaign. It is good but it doesn’t feel like black ops and it misses so many chances at connection plus the normal sounds and black ops style to say the least. Idk it’s hard to explain the the feeling isn’t there
Although it's not relevant to the topic of the video, but Bo6 doesn't feel like a Black Ops game cause it's not built on a typical Black Ops engine. I know the video is about the story and real world crossovers, but gameplay wise Bo6 is just garbage. They've been using the MW19 engine and mechanics for like what 5 years now? It's stale and every game feels identical, no soul and no identity, especially for Black Ops. Cold War at least somehow resembled something of a Black Ops game due to being built on a mix of the Bo3 and Bo4 engine, but Bo6 is just Modern Warfare with a Black Ops paint job, and Bo7 won't be any different. Cod is utter shite now. They need to get rid of this engine, or at least stop building the main games based on Warzone, separate the entities, give each studio their own engine like we used to have pre 2019, and then we might get some soul back into these sub series, cause even Modern Warfare doesn't feel like "Modern Warfare" anymore.
Just more vanilla "shithead grifting click bait" using 9/11 to create a video with no real conclusion. I don't think branding entire conversations and viewpoints about historical events and decades of 3 letter agency/military industrial complex lies as anti semitic bs is fair. I enjoyed the video tbh but why try on dunk on things you're not willing to get into.
@kaseoneZEF I should have elaborated more on this: I do not believe for a second that the NWO thing is anti semetic. But there are enough weirdoes that do to change the name of a marvel movie. I think all courses of conversation should be had. When I referred to drifting shitheads I mean the people like Bill ORielly from back in the day that went ape shit because of No Russian when he's never played a game in his life. I should have explained that better, I apologize I did not
your idea for a black ops 7 is badass, but the problem we are facing now is that Call of Duty will never do anything "edgy" again. they will never mention 9/11 and they will never use real factions again. There will never something in the game again that could cause controversy or any chance for controversy again, because COD won't let that happen. I think they belive they will always sell games no matter what and they don't want to piss off advertisers. It's a sad reality I have been facing lately. I didn't even want to finish the campaign. I think it will be years down the line before activision truly goes back to their roots if they ever do. and that is probably gonna take a huge competitor in fps for them. the story is just GONE for me.
also i heard the next call of duty is another futuristic one, set in advance warfares timeline, which i can see because of all the love the community has given advanced and infinite warfare lately. I can also see a cycle of futuristic games, then a wwII game, then another vietnam game, then the cycle repeats.
Personally this is why the last COD that really caught my eye was BO2. Unfortunately they’d rather prioritize Skins and multiplayer & zombies over the stories and campaign that grew the franchise.
Hi! I played Black Ops 6 game when it came out and the campaign was amazing, one of the best campaigns I’ve played in a FPS game. It’s also my first proper Black Ops I hoped to try and now most of the campaign was amazing, but coming towards the climax, it kinda stopped becoming Black Ops ish and turned into a puzzle and quite limiting to anything and throwing other random things. I do notice that idk if it’s just me, but the game feels a bit soft in terms of being realistic and how would I react if someone did something I really didn’t like. I think they could’ve done a bit more enhancements to the characters and story. I was really excited to play this one as it was a change up from MW3 and a few recent ones. They were bringing back some cool, good features from the past and doing something different, which is what they shown here and I’m in for a game where devs put in a lot of effort so yeah. I did videos on the game and it feels like my reactions enhanced the game a bit to make it be more cooler and authentic.
It focused too much on the fictionalised narrative that was, in essence, a Tom Clancy-style espionage plot. They should have leaned heavily into real events/figures to make it feel ripped from the headlines of the era. I think I know why they didn't (trying to craft an "Avengers" style ensemble cast story), but I would have preferred it if it was more based on events of the era. I also feel like they intentionally weave narratives to work with a far "looser" Warzone story, which dilutes the whole thing for me.
Honestly at the end of the campaign i was left feeling really flat, despite being so into it whilst playing. I think you've perfectly described why I got that feeling! I kept thinking okay, eventually this is going to come back round to Saddam Hussein and the politics of the Gulf War.. but it never did, and that's a real shame
@@Donker_Dank now that would be a bit more of that juicy black ops 1+2 kind of stuff we're missing! Annoyingly I think what will happen is we'll get several shoddy cutscenes on the back of future warzone updates about the crime families in the Med 😴
Listen there is something in the black ops beta that has probably been forgotten about or already has been dumped. In this comment section. There is a cool card called make history and when it was in the beta it had a freeze frame of one of the planes before it hit the twin towers
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Activision is more interested into selling skins than telling a compelling story
Too true
>Takes place in a Post-Cold War World
>Chance to show conflicts like the Yugoslav Wars or the Iraq War
>Makes some bs secret organization and a fake knockoff of Monaco while having just three mission in Iraq
That nails it
@@owlmandiasthelatinowl3687 they definitely killed off Perseus too early. Could tell he was a rogue. Could've seen them operate everywhere. From the collapsed Soviet Union to Africa and etc.
This campaign was 5/10 because of the Gulf war, the skirmish in the collapsed Soviet Union/Russia and return of Vorkuta.
BO6 should've been half old storyline/new storyline like BO2:
Opens with 17 year old high school buddies David Mason and Mike Harper joining marines. Few years pass, David is deployed to Afghanistan. 2001-2003 campaign with young David, Harper, Salazer, Crosby Jr, one of David's older cousins from Aunt Marion, Bowman's son (who had already worked the old crew of Woods, Adler, Sims, Park when he was starting out) during the war on terror, David hunts Bin Laden with Billy Waugh, old friend of Woods and the gang and he tells story to the new crew:
1991-1993 campaign uncovering a deep-state American version of Perseus in Gulf War, Waco, Mogadishu with appearances from HW, Clinton, Thatcher, Powell, Saddam (maybe a meeting between all of them discussing the Gulf war psyop), Koresch (a rouge Pantheon agent), Waugh. Ends storyline with Woods, Adler, Park, Sims and begins Bowman's son's quest origins.
Showdown ends in 03 Iraq at Saddam's Palace, Cordis Die teaser at the end.
Don't forget Mogadishu Black Hawk Down in 1993
@@emperorvader1310Thankfully Perseus isn’t just one guy, so they could’ve had the main cast hunt down the remnants of Perseus instead of a CIA mole and Pantheon.
I know they won’t do it, but imagine a Black Ops game were they go the conspiracy route and that 9/11 was an inside job to justify invading Afghanistan. That would really be Black Ops
God I hope not, there are several respectful ways they could handle it. That’s quite possibly one of the worst things they could do.
Best way would be that they play it completely straight and that David is inspired to enlist after seeing it and we follow his early career. This was a very realistic scenario for a lot of people and wouldn’t alienate like everyone who plays cod over the age of 30.
Thankfully I doubt they’ll touch it all since most of the staff at activision likely remembers 9/11 vividly, it’s not 40-60 years ago. There were people who experienced it who are just now entering their 30’s
@@Viper-dz2kw fair point although it would be intresting if a cod game has the americans as "the bad guys" insted of some random russian/arab dude which we've seen many time
@Binbobin CoD has has some American bad guys in the past like Shepherd and the guy from ghosts. I think there's a way to do the conspiracy side of it while being respectful. Only portray what factually happened. Like I said, the cia knew the hijackers were in the country but didn't do anything at the time. Why? Play BO7 to find out.
@Viper-dz2kw I feel you can't really alienate people age wise from cod unless the gameplay is fucky. And while this would still be a vivid memory for older adults, people my age were 4 years old when the attacks happened so it would be a different but raw experience still. We grew up all our young lives afraid of the big bad terrorists and never understood why they happened
@@Donker_Dank I have to agree. I hadn't been born yet, 2003, and yet the GWOT has shaped much of the political world stage landscape my future will live with.
Not to mention, much of Modern Warfare 1 (original 3) was based on stuff that happened when I was born and on into my early childhood. The brutal battles for Fallujah, for example, was 2004. Some of what "Charlie Don't Surf" (MW1/MWR) is based on Fallujah.
They don't really touch on anything that happened in the 90's.
I wish they would have done something with Gothic Serpent (Somalia) or something with Yugoslavia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, or the First Chechen War or when the Taliban takes control of Afghanistan following the Afghan Civil War.
There were plenty of chances to utilize any of these real and packed conflicts and instead we got dicking around with crime lords in the Mediterranean.
The campaign in its state is great outside of the issues with history. I enjoyed it.
@kurtzlundstedt6127 this comment is 100% fact. Plus if there's one thing we can all agree, no one gives a fuck about avalon. I guess a better question is. Is there a video game that does cover these conflicts
@@Donker_Dank YT keeps deleting my comments to this lmao
No, there aren't many games that cover these conflicts purely or through historical fiction. Plenty of controverisal Arma 3 mods related to the Yugoslav Wars and the First and Second Chechen Wars. I'm sure there are mods related to the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan and/or Gothic Serpent.
There is a roblox FPS game that's based on the First Chechen War, but I dunno if that counts 🤣🤣🤣.
@kurtzlundstedt6127 it counts I think. This may sound stupid but I think games have a roll in educating people about this history by interacting with it. How much did kids learn about DDay and stalingrad thanks to cod I wonder
Imagine BO6 esque gameplay campaign with cold war or Black ops 1 or 2 story? It would genuinely be one of the best single player games ever
@CoolManCoolMan123 I gotta think about that one
I feel like the Call of Duty franchise is more like Marvel at this point than what Call of Duty really used to be. You somehow always know that the good guys are gonna win after they get beat up a little, but the big bad guy still lurks in the background to foreshadow a sequel. Literally every single time. I miss Cod4 where basically everyone dies.
@@TheFO3God when was the last time we had a true honest to god sacrifice in these games
@@Donker_Dank RIP Sandman MW3
@panamajack5972 a true American hero
@@Donker_Dank Black Ops 2.
RIP Gaz. Watching how quick and non-cinematic Gaz's death was had way more weight than anything in the reboot trilogy...
You’re absolutely right , im Kuwaiti and I have been a treyarch fan ever since BO1, which I believe it’s the best campaign , the pacing , the historical elements and historical personalities. Now a decade ago I asked myself, how cool would a cod campaign covering the gulf war, it would be awesome, and like they protested Noriega and Castro , they gotta portray saddam, as he’s the most ruthless, infamous historical personalities ever . And also the gulf war with his invasion of Kuwait , they butchered the campaign , I didn’t want to fight crime families in the Mediterranean or hop into harrows past , I want raw gulf war fighting
@vaddenrosvyl3659 I'm glad my vid reached out to you. This is exactly what I mean, it's like people forgot that for some decades Saddam was a big deal in the world. Even his execution was a big deal. Idk why they couldn't show him at all because unlike him, noriega and castro were still alive when they were portrayed in previous games. There should have been more raw gulf war missions, though I wonder how diverse you could make those missions gameplay wise. Lots of vehicle missions I'd think
@@Donker_Dank This would assume that Activision and their studios have any guts to jump into anything outside of Marvel plots.
@@vaddenrosvyl3659 Thing is I would have loved that too ngl, but I'm not really sure it would be Treyarch's story to tell. Especially considering call of duty's less than amazing track record of portraying arabs in the past. I personally wouldn't have liked a patriotic american telling of the gulf war even in the vein of something like cod 4's campaign. I personally enjoyed the campaign more bcuz it was historical fiction with Woods, Adler, Marshall, Case, and Sevati going rogue to uncover a secret paramilitary order that infiltrated the CIA. Given how cod usually goes all out for historical accuracy when it comes to western vistas (e.g Amsterdam in MW2 2022, WW2 European war theatre in cod WW2, The White House in BO6) but rarely does the same for the global south, I think stuff like BO6 is the most we can expect from american or western made media like BO6 that cover the Gulf War or any other middle eastern/global south conflict. But hey that's just me.
Black Ops games typically have what I like to call a "Google Moment". Some part of the game that's based on a real like historical event that's so insane you stop and think "wait, that can't possibly be real", and immediately go look it up on Google. In BO1 for instance it was "was Vorkuta/Rebirth Island/Russian numbers sequence brainwashing a real thing?" In Cold War it was "was Operation Greenlight a real thing/did the US really plan to nuke Vietnam?" And so on.
Black Ops 6 didn't have a single Google Moment, in a game set in a time period as monumental and tumultuous as the fall of the USSR and the beginning of the Gulf War in the early 90s
@@LuvzToLol21 that's what I'm saying dawg what a waste of potential
This is a very good way of measuring the quality of a black ops campaign haha
For 12 minutes you made me forget this was a black ops 6 review and gave me a falls illusion I was watching a history video.
What makes it false?
@Donker_Dank right after you stopped mentioning mason and woods and went in to 911 and new world law.
I was born in 1993, & when I was young, I’ve heard about the Gulf War, the fall of the Soviet Union, the war in Chechnya & the Oklahoma City bombing before 9/11.
That sounds either really cool or really terrifying to grow up with
Okay, this might sound stupid. But what if the plot follows your character trying to stop 9/11. But there are two endings where he either fails or succeeds in stopping it.
Then it is revealed that the futuristic missions in Black Ops 2 take place in an alternate timeline where 9/11 didn’t happen thanks to your characters actions. This is there to explain away all the futuristic technology in 2025 that doesn’t exist irl.
And that the MW reboot takes place in the timeline where your character failed to stop 9/11.
@commonglitch9661 there's no idea too stupid around here friend. One issue tho. In BO2 9 11 did infact happen because there'd a bit if dialogue with Briggs and Patreaus where he says the last time we were at this Defcon was 24 years ago which was 2001. Plus there's a dlc map in bo2 that takes place on a bridge in NYC and you can see the freedom tower. The bin laden thing could be written odd because he was on the fbi most wanted after Kenya I think.
Do you want to make zombies fans upsetty spaghetti adding another layer of alternate realities into their cod chimicanga
@georgerockwell6124 I can upset them way easier than that. Check me out: the BO3 maps are overrated
But it’s implied that woods shot Mason in the head in this timeline in Panama
Oh trust me that tech exists already we 🤖 drone sz etc,
The crazy part about Black Ops 2 is that Raul Menendez was listening in on your coms the whole time in the modern-day, such a cool detail to a great game, they just don't make them like they used to, great video man :)
Thaaank you man I appreciate it. And yeah that part with Farid and Menedez was tense af
@@Donker_Dank I still have my copy of BO2 on ps3 lol
@chillyman7340 I tried playing cod on ps3. The controller sticks weren't it. Nor were the graphics but then again I was an xbox lad
The black ops series doesn’t feel like a military campaign about warfare based on the a certain time period. That’s why I liked bo1 and bo2 so much. Bo1 gave us a decent idea of what the veitnam era was like but it was the “black operations” instead of the typical war that was going on. It was more about what was going on behind there scenes. Still very much about the Vietnam era though. Where with bo6 I was expecting to be immersed into the action around the time of the first gulf war. But most of the time I just felt like I was playing splinter cell or as a sneaky cia agent
Black ops 1 giving serious deer hunter vibes
It do, these games had alot of film inspiration. Look at mw2
I can't believe I'm saying this, I used to hate BOCW in terms of settings, now I think I love it now. Not many historical stuff as BO1 but at least it's still authentic, unlike BO6 that is way more dissapointing. Instead of including some real 90s conflicts like Yugoslav Wars, Somali Civil War, Second Congo War, Transnistrian War, Sri Lankan Civil War, or Chechen War we fighting against some crime family at random island that doesn't even exist lmao.
WOW!!! I can't believe you actually featured my most popular video here at 0:50, thank you so much man! 😍
@Rakhons I think if cold war had omnimovement (and had a better launch) I'd probably like it alot more. And dude, I can't tell you how much I watched your 21st history of warfare video. It was one of the inspirations to make this. How you kept track of any and every one of these games AND mods is unbelievable. I hope you feel proud of that video
@@Donker_Dank Yeah I'm really proud and thanks for watching it, but I wish I included more wars in the video. I missed some of them like Russian Civil War (BF1), Sierra Leone Civil War (Kuma\War), or any ARMA III mods that were set during Portuguese Colonial War, US Invasion of Grenada, Congo Crisis, or Ogaden War. Maybe I'll do a Part 2 if I have much time. Also what you said here are 100% true, well said review!
@Rakhons thank you my man. If you make a part 2 il be the first to watch
Black ops 6 still feels like black ops due to still having drug induced schizophrenia and conspiracy, it just feels like cod overall is focusing too much on characters experiencing the story over the player experiencing it.
@@McDuckee69 that is a great way to word it
It definitely feels way more sunshine and rainbows nowadays with silly private military companies instead of actua real-world antagonists.
It's too safe, the games are just calculations of how to milk every dollar from the market
As cool as PMC's are, I get it. They don't wanna step into political discourse and it makes them look like cowards.
@therandomscout6590 exactly. Cowardice for an easy buck. I think there's a vid called "Call of Duty isn't political" that goes into this hypocrisy
"The multiplayer is actually pretty good"
Only for gen z with an attention span made for TikTok.
I am technically a gen z so you got me there
"The bad guy group can never be defeated, so that DLC exists." And yet, this is where it's more historical than anything.
Stitch said it best in the exact footage you used: "He was not the first Perseus, just as I will not be the last."
You are fighting groups that try to destabilize the world order through covert operations and threats of global war, these ideals will persist for decades onwards, just like most of those splinter factions in real life do.
Thematically I understand that. But like I also want to see more of what it is they try to influence
Being honest, there is a lot of military moments that were never covered in COD Games. Moments that could make the franchise more unique, like:
- WW1
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Chaco War
- Spanish Civil War
- Brazil in WW2
- Deserted German Campaign
- Korean War
- Dominican Civil War
And all of these conflicts you have mentioned.
@@Myzito I'd pay msrp for a game about one of those
What happened in Brazil during WW2?
There's an entire Wikipedia page about it!
I'll read it later.
@@LlaneroDeTorunos huh
Black ops doesn't feel like black ops because its not on an engine designed to run the game its on a iw engine
@onepumpscottie8594 that is also a large part of it
Cod had a whole ass chance to make a bo4 campaign somehow connect with bo3 and bo2 (post 2025 era) and completely missed out on it just to copy fortnite. Or they could've made bo3 set some time shortly after 2025 instead of the 2060s(cod was hopping on the futuristic double-jump stuff), then make bo4 take place after that time period or set it back to where Mason and woods met in the Korean War, then have cold war and bo6.
Nice job treyarch, you guys missed out on 2 whole games of potentially great storytelling just to try to hop on some trends that would've made no sense to anyone playing that game over 5 years later, that was trying to understand the whole Black Ops franchise.
It's stuff like that which makes COD not special to me anymore. They had great campaigns of people like Reznov, Mason, Woods, Price, and Soap with Villains like Zakhaev, Makarov, Steiner, Kravchenko, Dragovich, Defalco, and Menendez that the players actually liked as characters in a main story, good or bad. And now I don't like emotionally investing in the COD storylines anymore because they just suck now. Everything is repetitive, recycled and makeshifted into something just to say they have a storyline when really they just care about the multiplayer.
They only care about getting immediate money
man i wish black ops 6 may longest , they may cover other in 90s to 2003 .
Id be shocked if any cod has any 9/11 stuff
@@coreycasciano3255 yeah
Kind of like how WAW did their ending cutscene.
Am I the only one bummed we didn't get that rogue operative ending with case the way we did with bell in cold war they drop hints the whole game that case isn't who he seems to be yet gives zero pay off and focuses on that chick
@@newportpoppa I agree. Like what was the point of all that
@@Donker_Dank filler I guess
Im a history nerd and I was a bit disappointed with how the game just showed early events of 1991 and thats it instead of going through the whole decade and ending it off in the early 2000s but sadly with how most new cod games story continues with warzone we didn't get that 😞
@@cfiber_inc it's so sad it makes a brotha cry
How is New world order Anti-Semetic? Sounds like a self admission Streisand effect. We legit gotta censor our movies to prove we are not dystopian lmfao
Thanks for bringing attention to the genocides in bosnia. Not talked about enough!
@Lift4Bjj it seriously blows my mind that that entire region of Europe basically fell apart and people were systematically killed. But no one ever talks about it. Maybe it was because of their religon or something. Shameful either way, especially when you hear that the Bosnian women were being systematically r4ped too. Evil shit from not too long ago
@@Donker_Dankliving ironically in Europe highlights this as he is Balkan
For starters, overall video setup is smooth and good video essay format. And yes I agree with most parts. The 90s nostalgia is present, but lack of historic events and real focus is lacking. Especially compared to BLOPS and BLOPS II. Blops felt like a fun time capsules that wasn’t a documentary but more of an imaginatively spin on what flashbacks and present day was. Gameplay and zombies is great and story isn’t bad but felt lacking in what you mentioned. NEW WORLD ORDER
@@Quintinous wu world order almost got played. And thaaaaank you. This guy gets it
It would be interesting if Mediterranean gang in BO6 having connected to gang in Los Angeles at the 90s and we have Los Angeles 1992 MP map in BO6 Season 2, also too Los Angeles having a riots because Rodney King incident and Crack Cocaine, it would be interesting having GTA SA refrence in the map because GTA SA set in early 90s too similiar with Black Ops 6
Now I'm sad bc that sounds cool but you know they won't do that smh
@Donker_Dank i really hope Treyarch maybe adding Los Angeles map at season 2 during 1992, even i know it was impossible for BO6 update story
@Nito1997 la riots time. Maybe they can meet up with special agent Smoke and CJ
@@Donker_Dank it would be interesting CJ will be added as operator in Black Ops 6 and CJ was work with Toreno who has a government agent during storyline for making his way back to Los Santos
@Nito1997 toreno part of pantheon
I would love if Activision did a new game set in the OG Modern Warfare timeline that has been abandoned since 2011, set in 2027 with flashbacks to WW2, Rhodesia, Chechen and Yugoslav Wars, and even 9/11, like BO2 did but in the OG Modern Warfare universe, I would love that game.
@Sean-fz5nf there would be precedence to that. In mw2 you see a map and it shows like all the horrible shit in the past 50 years
Thank you for your service Donker Dank. Great walk down memory lane. May you prosper furthermore.
@@sergioleon8366 thank you you too
cod is fortnite right now, with all the fantasy characters and toy guns.
@@DJODJOMusic and I'm part of the problem. Damn operator bundles
@Donker_Dank remember. No credit card.
*belt dumps lmg*
Black Ops 6 campaign isn't as bad as MW3 2023 or Vanguard, but I definitely don't think it is a 9/10 up there with Black Ops 1&2. They completely wasted the Gulf War and the 1990s historical setting. I think Black Ops Cold War had a way better campaign, plus I liked that you could change the ending.
And yes, CoD has completely abandoned its core identity of being a soldier in a larger conflict. CoD was created to be a Medal of Honor killer and set itself apart by focusing on being a cog in a larger war machine compared to Medal of Honor's one man army stuff.
Shame CoD has become like pretty much every other AAA FPS now rather than retaining its unique identity. Here's hoping that new Delta Force game's Black Hawk Down campaign is as good as past CoDs that actually focused on military conflicts.
Plus tying the stories to multiplayer/Warzone has negatively affected the campaigns. I'm tired especially of capturing bad guys in the MW reboot sequels only for them to escape and become a threat again in multiplayer updates. CoD has become boring Fast And Furious/MCU movies now.
Last CoD campaign I legit enjoyed was 2016's Infinite Warfare and that will likely never receive a sequel.
@Gruntvc amen brother. I'm glad I'm not crazy in thinking this. There's a black hawk down game?
@Donker_Dank, It's a new Delta Force game. I think they're going to release it on Steam soon and later consoles. They're focusing on the multiplayer that has futuristic stuff, but a campaign based on Black Hawk Down is also coming too.
Otherwise, Six Days In Fallujah is getting a full release in 2025 on pc and consoles. That's based on the post Iraq occupation and conflict with insurgents.
@Gruntvc that sounds badass
Well, the original modern warfare series is not connected to the new one because in the original World War 3 happens and the last mission is in 2017
@@salehbazzeim7436 that's right. Did you know it was Black Ops 4 that redid the timeline to connect everything?
@ well I didn’t know that
@salehbazzeim7436 it's bc of the zombies story. It's so weird
@@Donker_Dank but man, I don’t like that black ops 4 doesn’t have a campaign it doesn’t feel right.
@@Donker_Dank ohhhh all makes sense originally I thought you were only talking about the base story but since you’re talking about zombies, then yeah, because technically every Call of Duty game is connected to the ether storyline
this game shouldve been called Cold war 2, we couldve had a few missions playing as different soldiers during that time
I would like to point out, that in the mission where you have to ride around Kuwait (where you had to destroy the scud Missiles): the game never mentions WHY they had to be destroyed. irl, they were being launched at Israel. It makes sense why they wouldn’t want to bring that up. I don’t expect them to bring up 9/11 either
@@Gucci_Nomad dancing Israeli mini game
@@Donker_Dank
Idf MilSim skin when
@therandomscout6590 I definitely didn't just buy the shark skin yesterday no wayyy
As a Kuwaiti myself, I completely agree with you. There was so much missed potential. I expected at least one mission focusing on the Kuwaiti resistance, especially given how extensively the CIA collaborated with the Kuwaiti government-in-exile and the resistance. Their operations involving espionage and sabotage would have fit perfectly with the Black Ops theme. Instead, all we got was a generic airport mission, which I assume is supposed to represent the battle for Kuwait International Airport, and a couple of oil fields burning in the background during the intro. I also would have appreciated something similar to the COD 4 missions set in the Middle East. It’s just disappointing.
@@potanionlaw3399 didn't our president promise the people money and weapons if they rebelled against saddam, then never followed up?
@Donker_Dank You're probably thinking about Iraqi groups that were against Saddam, such as the Kurdish rebels. They were promised financing and support from the U.S. after the Gulf War to rebel against him, but since the U.S. didn't deliver on that promise, they were brutally suppressed by Saddam. I was talking about Kuwaiti resistance fighters who fought to liberate their country after it was invaded by Saddam's army. They received intelligence and material support from the U.S.
@potanionlaw3399 right. My bad. I got it confused from a book I read this year. But that sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than stupid ass Mediterranean mafia
@Donker_Dank It surely is, it's especially disappointing when they build it up with teasers like "the truth lies" then just completely ditch that conspiracy vibe to a generic group of bad guys. Regardless of how good the campaign is, it will always be butchered by this seasonal story bs. They need some generic team of bad guys so that they can keep this faction shit in multiplayer and warzone. Imo multiplayer should always be in the background of the campaign as normal soilders fighting, not a continuation of what half-assed story they were trying to tell. And as you've mentioned, campaigns don't have a real ending anymore, it takes away that feeling of finishing it. I love Cold War's campaign but I have absoultly no idea how it ends because after the first season I'm no longer invested into the story.
Exactly
I saw through bo6 final operator unlock and heard rumors that black ops 7 will take place in 2030s after 2025 events of bo2 so unfortunately i dont think we will see 9/11 and some history.
I heard that too. Damn
Wild thumbnail bro
@@SalihAhmad597 thank you
bro dont stop pumping out vids this is high quality content
@@BTag2000 il try brother. Stick around this Friday il have something for you
BO6 feels like im playing skyrim with all these puzzles and riddles you have to solve. And The amount of jumpscares in it. More of them then actual shooting
@@DoomderX atleast the puzzles were fun
@@Donker_Dank not for me lmao its cod not riddle of duty lol
Until we get away from “Operators”, we will never truly be back…
@@funkyfreshuuhhh2199 we will never truly be free
I know it’s been done on Black ops already but something like the Manchurian candidate would be pretty cool as a story
Or a mandalorian candidate
Had to sub soon as I heard that OG PS2 startup sound in the intro, this guy means business
@@S-a-m-24 you know it brother
Being called Black Ops, it took 6 games in the series to finally have a black guy on the cover of the game. I'd say it did well.
If he was a bad guy it really would be a black ops game
damn cant believe your channel isnt bigger ur vids are great!
@SpideyZzZzZ thank you my friend, I'm glad I was able to entertain you for but a moment
Every vid gets better and better. Well done
@Crowned13 thank you my brother. I strive to please
I forgot to comment on this, @ 3:29
This reminded me of one of the last missions of the game.
When David Mason says: "We need to get back to the [USS] Obama!"
I was like "OH! This game just mentioned the current US President!
They just 'real life' me!"
I know who that is!
Call Of Duty 2025 is a direct sequel to Black Ops 2, Call Of Duty 2026 is Modern Warfare 4 and Call Of Duty 2027 is unknown
@@parkerburrus289 that's what I hear. Hmm
My girlfriend and I keep trying to sit down and play the campaign, but it’s like pulling teeth man. It feels like homework to play through it. We are NOT enjoying it compared to the other Black Ops campaigns 😅
Il give it this, it'd a hell of a lot better than bo3s campaign
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😂 unfortunately you’re correct about that. It was so bad and confusing for NO good reason
Fantastic video!
thank you! Im glad you liked it.
It's been 23 years. Enough time has passed. I want to fly the planes in Black Ops 7
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
The OG black ops was so fun.
Crazy thing about black ops 2, it’s predicted our future in a way.
I was hoping black ops 6 would do some gothic serpent stuff cuz how much guys such as Kyle Lamb a shooting instructor talks about how it changed things for our military such as tourniquets being added and more advanced medical added.
The OG of black ops 6 idea in trailer was we hunted by CIA being framed which would be cool cuz how much corrupt stuff they’ve done.
Warzone has ruined the campaigns though cuz the “season passes”.
The campaign is like an acid trip. . Too much going on puzzle wise etc
I feel that
Treyarch: It’s too early to War on Terror era, people. Get a hold for yourself!
CoD Fandom: Sorry.
Treyarch: And our game takes place in the Gulf War era in the early 90s!
We must be patient
14:17 I promise u what this man is saying right here is true
Based
CoD use to have some stones. Now it's just grownup fortnite with crossovers and sanitized story
Yeah. Marketed to manchildren with all the game chat moderation
@@Donker_DankDEI and liberals
@freeman7577 I was wondering when I'd get a comment like this
@@Donker_Dank lol. Hate to say it but I’ve witnessed what it can do to a company…
@@freeman7577 I bet you did some journalist analyst type shit
Man I was soo looking forward to this COD, seeing that it was rumored to take place during the Gulf War. God, it was such a missed opportunity. They barely touched on it other than some CIA dudes doing scud busting in the desert. I was hoping to be a tanker in the Battle of 73 Eastings (one of the greatest tank battles in modern history).
I know BO7 has got to be about GWOT (at least early GWOT). They better have a mission about Operation Anaconda, kicking in doors in Fallujah, or taking part of the Thunder Run in Baghdad. Theres so much covert content you can make out of GWOT, they better not mess this up.
@ziggamon the more you get your hopes up for a cod campaign the more they get trampled
They will mess it up. Think of it. BO6 just released and you’re already saying “they better not mess BO7 up”.
@@davehtown trueeee
Do more videos like this. This was fantastic and really well presented! I was 100% paying attention throughout
@@totalhavoc666ify you would like to see more? The gaming part or the history part
@ The way you merged the history in with the gaming was really well done so a bit of both. And the way you present it was really easy to follow. Subbed!
@@totalhavoc666ify Thank you my man, I hope I will keep being entertaining for you
Nigga u a genius having the ps2 intro as the intro for your video was genius 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@diegoflamee 🙏🙏🙏 bless you sir
12:30 Black Ops 7 is a Black Ops 2 sequel set in 2035. It puts a focus on informational warfare.
maybe it will have flashbacks god willing
Wow! Your attention to detail is insane, great video with amazing production quality! I can really appreciate your research and the credits that you include in your description. If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of microphone do you use? Your audio quality sounds great
@JayBirdPrince thank you my friend. It's something I'm very passionate about. I use a blue yeti x. Got that bad boy on prime day
The trailer showed all the historical figures and gulf war footage, so everyone was hyped.
But Treyarch just thought they would be “genius” and introduce new missions (emerge BS and harrow’s mind missions). Bad timing and horrible story
Always the same shitty story. CIA is compromised, bad Russian nationalist wanting to nuke the U.S. and those cringe cutscenes.
Guys, forget it. COD is dead
It’s Call of TikTok now and their public target are the young ones, who love this shitty stories and camos, Taylor swift skins etc….
yeah man, what bastard would make cod tiktoks
you aren’t 13 anymore, you’ll never have as much fun on games as you did as a kid when gaming. it’s that simple.
@@OneKaleidoscope3812 but i did have fun. I just thought the game needed more history if u watch my vid
I was today years old when I found out about this speech and the irony of its public debut, wow history is fun
It is isn't it
yeah they could've did a LOT better with the campaign's story, the netcode, multiplayer bugs, hit reg, directx errors due to vram leakage, but hey at least they're marketing weapon builds at the same time there's a challenge *specifically* for that weapon... definitely essential in a great video game.
@@korsame and then there's that whole xp token nonsense
All I know is that its almost 2025, and VTOL Ospreys are not a thing yet.
@@PeninsulaCity2024 yet
I totally agree. Only got bits of the history. That's why I only play Black Ops, Battlefield WWI and WaW only from the big names.
The more in depth about the Soviet Union's downfall was definitely a missed opportunity. So many missed opportunities in the history. Least it stuck with the 90's history.
Imagine a flashback to the chernobyl disaster
@Donker_Dank if only. Don't know how it would fit?
@@emperorvader1310 it contributed to the fall of the Soviet union didn't it
@@Donker_Dank it definitely was one of many aspects. But don't know how it would fit as a mission. Maybe cutscene wise.
BO7 has been leaked to be a "sequel" to BO2 2025. So I believe it will continue David Mason's story. But who knows, maybe they'll follow BO2's shoes and do flashback missions just like how you mentioned.
If they did I'd nut
Great work man I wish minds like yours were making the game
@WillISpeak that might be one of the kindest comments I've read. Thank you very much. But if I were part of making a cod story, I'd be cancelled 20 times over
We need a Black Ops between Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 3
Apparently that's going to be bo7
Cold War was awesome: Iranian Hostage Crisis, Reagan, Baker, Haig, Los Alamos, Perseus conspiracy, Tet Offensive flashback, East Berlin Stasi fight, Gorbachev, DUGA-3. It was awesome and had og writers and a Hollywood writer but sadly sliced down too short due to pandemic, would've loved a Grenada mission or Falklands mission with babe Park.
The Warzone Extended Story Cutscenes and Bo6 completely removed all the cool history for genericness. The Clinton mission and vehicle missions in BO6 were kinda cool though. The WZ cutscenes were awesome except the weird Butcher/Godzilla tie in weirdness that ruined it.
BO6 should've been half old storyline/new storyline like BO2:
Opens with 17 year old high school buddies David Mason and Mike Harper joining marines. Few years pass, David is deployed to Afghanistan. 2001-2003 campaign with young David, Harper, Salazer, Crosby Jr, one of David's older cousins from Aunt Marion, Bowman's son (who had already worked the old crew of Woods, Adler, Sims, Park when he was starting out) during the war on terror, David hunts Bin Laden with Billy Waugh, old friend of Woods and the gang and he tells story to the new crew:
1991-1993 campaign uncovering a deep-state American version of Perseus in Gulf War, Waco, Mogadishu with appearances from HW, Clinton, Thatcher, Powell, Saddam (maybe a meeting between all of them discussing the Gulf war psyop), Koresh (a rouge Pantheon agent, Adler loses his shit and kills civilians inside at random in pure rage similar to past missions like Rebirth or Time and Fate from BO1/2), Waugh, maybe something in Yugoslavia. Ends storyline with Woods, Adler, Park, Sims and begins Bowman's son's quest origins.
Showdown ends in 03 Iraq at Saddam's Palace, Cordis Die teaser at the end.
I think they should really make a black ops game leading up to,during and after 9/11 since there is a lot of info about that time frame in that period of the late 90s and 2000s. Heck even leading up to blacks ops 6 release date people were speculating that black ops 6 was going to feature 9/11.
thats what im sayin man
I was so so so so disappointed at the Black Ops 6 campaign.
As an avid Black Ops campaign fan, with the Alex Mason JFK assassin conspiracy, the whole numbers MK ultra stuff, the real life conflicts (Vietnam War, Invasion of Panama, Afghanistan, Cold War), I thought Black Ops 6 would follow suit.
We had a really cryptic and mysterious reveal trailer ‘The Truth Lies’ with some powerful people.
I thought it’d be some crazy conspiracy, mysterious campaign. In fact - what we got was a steaming pile of dog piss. Average plot, anti-climatic ending, characters you don’t give a fk about, and nothing related to the world leaders we were shown. When I finished the campaign I thought, “that was it?”
Never been so disappointed at something in my life.
Even more so than the mwiii campaign?
@ MW3 was so trash I did not bother buying the game, let alone the play the campaign 🤣
Imagine if this games “No Russian” was playing as the terrorists, twice, and flying into the twin towers 💀
Which had the higher body count do you think
lol twice
I feel like they didnt had that much history because they want to play it safe for the lawsuit reguarding bo2 lawsuits for the the two guys in the game, "manuel and angolan."
yeah but they won didnt they? with all the moneys they get from these waifu bundles, they can afford a lawyer. Hell after all the allegations with activision and blizzard Im sure they have a bunch on retainer
@@Donker_Dank they can't even pay for the copyrights to use real gun names in these games anymore. Activision's getting lazier.
I think I enjoyed black ops Cold War more was because it was still a CIA movie type plot, but it emphasized heavily the historical time period you were in, and it never felt like a chore to finish.
I feel that
Imo I think this is why the campaigns should not be linked to seasons. At first I was a fan of this concept but the longer it gets the more I realise that is now an excuse for them to release a campaign without real consequences to it's continuity.
And it's not like you can play more of the story, it just loosely connects to MP or warzone. Zombies atleast has a direct ish story
@ I agree with that. Zombies kind of makes sense in a way, with the way they’ve done it now. But MP and Warzone is just not necessary. Cuz it only causes that people get mad at nitpicks like Soap as an operator or Lazar back in bocw when he was added
I keep saying this and I’ll stand by it, with Woods original voice actor not being apart of the new games anymore it just doesn’t feel right. Sticking to Black Ops 1 & 2’s campaign is more than enough for me. Sam Worthington as Mason is forever iconic
@@DrinkCactusCooler Mason is the quintessential American bad ass
@@Donker_Dank Him and Donovan from Mafia 3
100% agree. I also HATE how the whole theme and era is just nonexistent in multiplayer and ruined by the atrocious bundles. Fucking anime skins, unrelated crossovers and straightup fantasy scifi.
@@MuscledRMH it's like, why is this in the 90s
One reason i think they held back from using real world events is because theyve delt with legal troubles from the previous games, and my second reason is that they probably just want to focus on the more creative route maybe they feel like using real world events is lazy or idk thats just what i think
@@bosssbaby it can't be the lazy part, this is activision we are talking here
I thought the same about the campaign. It is good but it doesn’t feel like black ops and it misses so many chances at connection plus the normal sounds and black ops style to say the least. Idk it’s hard to explain the the feeling isn’t there
It's like too detailed
@@Donker_Dank on top of that, Vorkuta was not what I was expecting. I was hoping for something or a mention or Reznov etc.
@kylemmein3096 I miss tricky vic
Although it's not relevant to the topic of the video, but Bo6 doesn't feel like a Black Ops game cause it's not built on a typical Black Ops engine. I know the video is about the story and real world crossovers, but gameplay wise Bo6 is just garbage. They've been using the MW19 engine and mechanics for like what 5 years now? It's stale and every game feels identical, no soul and no identity, especially for Black Ops. Cold War at least somehow resembled something of a Black Ops game due to being built on a mix of the Bo3 and Bo4 engine, but Bo6 is just Modern Warfare with a Black Ops paint job, and Bo7 won't be any different. Cod is utter shite now. They need to get rid of this engine, or at least stop building the main games based on Warzone, separate the entities, give each studio their own engine like we used to have pre 2019, and then we might get some soul back into these sub series, cause even Modern Warfare doesn't feel like "Modern Warfare" anymore.
You are very much correct in this. While I may like the movement, it does loose it's identity as a black ops
Just more vanilla "shithead grifting click bait" using 9/11 to create a video with no real conclusion. I don't think branding entire conversations and viewpoints about historical events and decades of 3 letter agency/military industrial complex lies as anti semitic bs is fair. I enjoyed the video tbh but why try on dunk on things you're not willing to get into.
@kaseoneZEF I should have elaborated more on this: I do not believe for a second that the NWO thing is anti semetic. But there are enough weirdoes that do to change the name of a marvel movie. I think all courses of conversation should be had. When I referred to drifting shitheads I mean the people like Bill ORielly from back in the day that went ape shit because of No Russian when he's never played a game in his life. I should have explained that better, I apologize I did not
your idea for a black ops 7 is badass, but the problem we are facing now is that Call of Duty will never do anything "edgy" again. they will never mention 9/11 and they will never use real factions again. There will never something in the game again that could cause controversy or any chance for controversy again, because COD won't let that happen. I think they belive they will always sell games no matter what and they don't want to piss off advertisers. It's a sad reality I have been facing lately. I didn't even want to finish the campaign. I think it will be years down the line before activision truly goes back to their roots if they ever do. and that is probably gonna take a huge competitor in fps for them. the story is just GONE for me.
also i heard the next call of duty is another futuristic one, set in advance warfares timeline, which i can see because of all the love the community has given advanced and infinite warfare lately. I can also see a cycle of futuristic games, then a wwII game, then another vietnam game, then the cycle repeats.
@@worstballer99 if we get another ww2 game I will puke
You can't make a bad campaign if you don't have one -BLACK OPS 4
bullshit, the biggest failing in life is not to try. I think ghandi said that
The intro just deserves a like
This comment just deserves a like
I wish they would do a card game where the Chinese are the enemy for once instead of the same old Russians or some Shadow organization
Or deep state. Imagine a cod game where you defend waves of Chinese forces from Taiwan. Or a game where you pick either israel or Palestine
Personally this is why the last COD that really caught my eye was BO2. Unfortunately they’d rather prioritize Skins and multiplayer & zombies over the stories and campaign that grew the franchise.
BO2 was lightning in a bottle, theyl never make a game like that again
Hi! I played Black Ops 6 game when it came out and the campaign was amazing, one of the best campaigns I’ve played in a FPS game. It’s also my first proper Black Ops I hoped to try and now most of the campaign was amazing, but coming towards the climax, it kinda stopped becoming Black Ops ish and turned into a puzzle and quite limiting to anything and throwing other random things. I do notice that idk if it’s just me, but the game feels a bit soft in terms of being realistic and how would I react if someone did something I really didn’t like. I think they could’ve done a bit more enhancements to the characters and story. I was really excited to play this one as it was a change up from MW3 and a few recent ones. They were bringing back some cool, good features from the past and doing something different, which is what they shown here and I’m in for a game where devs put in a lot of effort so yeah. I did videos on the game and it feels like my reactions enhanced the game a bit to make it be more cooler and authentic.
BO3 had a promotional thingy that included Singapore and they got backlash.
So they wanna stay away from irl for now.
Call of Duty Taiwan Defensive
It focused too much on the fictionalised narrative that was, in essence, a Tom Clancy-style espionage plot.
They should have leaned heavily into real events/figures to make it feel ripped from the headlines of the era.
I think I know why they didn't (trying to craft an "Avengers" style ensemble cast story), but I would have preferred it if it was more based on events of the era.
I also feel like they intentionally weave narratives to work with a far "looser" Warzone story, which dilutes the whole thing for me.
Facts 100
“Mason they hit second tower “💀
Skewer the winged beast
Honestly at the end of the campaign i was left feeling really flat, despite being so into it whilst playing. I think you've perfectly described why I got that feeling!
I kept thinking okay, eventually this is going to come back round to Saddam Hussein and the politics of the Gulf War.. but it never did, and that's a real shame
Exactly
You know what would have been nutty and probably bad taste, have you seen the Kingsmen prequel?
@@Donker_Dank I'd forgotten how infuriating that film was 😅
@@connorhearns44 imagine saddam meets with a shadow council about the world. And there's kim jeong il, bush, bin laden, and putin
@@Donker_Dank now that would be a bit more of that juicy black ops 1+2 kind of stuff we're missing! Annoyingly I think what will happen is we'll get several shoddy cutscenes on the back of future warzone updates about the crime families in the Med 😴
Haven’t touched the game in 3 weeks and it just came out a month ago
@@ProphetOfDoubt I love the zombies. I think there's some good gunplay
BRO! BLACK OPS 7, DUDE THATS EXACLY WHAT HAVE THINKING.
If enough of us want that maybe they'll do it
Black ops 6 didn't feel like Black Ops because of the mechanics for me. I thought the story did really good.
the mechanics eh? how do you feel about bo3's mechanics?
@@Donker_Dank I loved BO3, it felt like BO1 and BO2 with jetpacks
@VampEngr il give treyarch this. They love experimenting. And it mostly pays off
Do you think the mechanics are bad?
@@faze_chungus13 me or vamp? I love the omni shit
Listen there is something in the black ops beta that has probably been forgotten about or already has been dumped. In this comment section. There is a cool card called make history and when it was in the beta it had a freeze frame of one of the planes before it hit the twin towers
I remember that card. I had it for the beta when they pussified it
ps2 intro sound? that’s an instant sub
@@kinojack3150 you know it dawg