If I was in charge of the COD franchise, I'd probably do one of two things at this point. Thing #1: Make the next COD game the last and take the Saints Row 4 route of throwing up my hands and going all out bananas. Throw in time travel, dinosaurs, alternate universes, whatever I could fucking think of. Thing #2: Go back to the franchises routes and start cranking out ultra-realistic historical shooters covering multiple different wars. WWI and II, Korea, Vietnam, you name it. Come to think of it, they might wind up doing that out of sheer desperation.
that rant, about limb damage and the lack of death animations, made me very happy. (sigh) WERE THE FUCK!!! DID THAT GO!?! Wolfensein the new order was the only fps in a very long time to have any of that.
You absolutely nailed why I don't connect with latter day Call of Duty. I'll break down my feelings. I love fps games like Blood (my favorite game of all time, I also like blood II to an extent), Soldier of Fortune, SiN, Quake, Quake II, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D just to name a few for the thrill of the kill . Each individual kill in those games is excessively satisfying. I like Serious Sam and Painkiller because those games are straight up bloodbaths with you shooting down waves after waves of enemies. I like Outlaws for it's external tone and charm (as well as bringing some innovations to the genre). I like Early Call of Duty, Early Medal of Honor, Perfect Dark, No One Lives Forever, and Unreal for their challenge that didn't just involve running and gunning. I like Powerslave (the Saturn version) for it's completely non-linear level design. Essentially Metroid Prime before Metroid Prime was even a thing. I bring this up because I find that latter day call of duty lacks most, if not all, of these features. I know you've stated that you are generally not a fan of first person shooters so I figured I'd share with you thoughts from a crazy nutjob like me who is an fps fan.
+Kombine047 I love F.E.A.R. Unlike many horror games that sacrifice gameplay for the sake of trying to spook out people. Not only does F.E.A.R. succeed as a horror game in my eyes but also as an action game. Thus, if you don't get sucked into the horror, you still have an exceptionally fun and solid shooter on your hands. It's a masterpiece of two genres.
I think the endless CoD sequels utterly killed my interest in the FPS genre. I enjoyed some of the earlier games (mainly the WW2 ones and MW1) , but since the whole Infinity Ward debacle and the general overexposure of the franchise, I can't bring myself to care about any FPS games anymore. I suspect only Battlefield Bad Company 3 could spark my intest at this point. Anything on the annualization treadmill goes straight to my ignore list.
> Doom 1&2 > Half life 1&2 > Bioshock 1&2 > Metro 1&2 > Unreal 1 & ut 99 > Quake 1&3 > No one lives forever 1&2 > F.e.a.r 1 > Bad company 2 > Star wars Dark forces 2 > Battlefield 4 ( just kidding ) Great singleplayer fps gaming in a nutshell !!!! :) Also , if you want to play goldeneye and perfect dark in 1080p 60fps and mouselook let me know.....
Doofy MetalusMaximus Oh yeah , my bad.... > portal 1&2 > counter strike go ( offline game modes with decent bots ) > cs 1.6 , L4D and TF 2 don't have worthy singleplayer's but yeah valve makes good games as and when they do.....:(
You guys raise some excellent titles. Maybe it's just the current spate of MMS that has made me blasé. I played ungodly amounts of Doom back in the day and I completely forgot the new one is coming out, so that's something to look forward to.
CoD4 multiplayer was good because it was simple and the maps were well designed. I also really enjoyed how the kill streaks were limited and actually required skill to use. It actually felt like a mechanic designed to end stalemates compared to the ridiculous kill streaks they have now that might as well not exist if your flooring your opponent to begin with.
COD4 and WAW were the last First person shooters. After that it became first person grenade spam holy fuck death strikes from the sky its like i'm in a michael bay movie and sometimes i may shoot my gun shooter
I just realised in the intro that the male player character is played by Ben Bowder of Farscape and Stargate fame. Looks like Claudia Black is getting all good voice roles out of those shows.
One of the problems with criticizing CoD is that genuine criticism quickly gets lost in the sea of haters, contrarians, and fanboys. Aside from demanding the CoD series should die, no one knows where the series should go, or what it should do. Go back to a modern setting, World War 2, or go all in on sci-fi? Make a serious game or a silly comedy? Whatever they do, the previously mentioned haters, contrarians, and fanboys will complain. Also, anyone know what screwattack video was mentioned in the video?
Jet Force Gemini..Run around blowing up ants, nobody cares about ants, not even Peta. Make a new one, with bigger guns and blow up ants, that's what I'dd do with the CoD engine.
Turok was an amazing shooter of old. Can't believe how many gamers I know who have no idea about Turok. Hell, I think half of the games files were death animations and gore packs.
Wait...Screw Attack calls Call of Duty bashing "The Low Hanging Fruit" meanwhile SEGA can't fart without them coming out with another bullshit video on why Sonic the Hedgehog sucks? Ever since Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 the entire Sonic franchise has been the low hanging fruit and even when the games began to improve and even become damn good like Sonic Generations, Screw Attack was still riding the "Lol doesn't Sonic just suck??" train all the way to piggy bank!
I honestly miss the old 1993-era shooters where every time you shot someone with a pistol you saw their arm detach and face collapse in, rather than just watching them slump over like they developed down syndrome after stepping on a wad of gum. Black, Bulletstorm, and DOOM 4 are some of the few great shooters that preserve the tradition.
+C Ziggy because a lot of AAA games have the majority of their budget spent on hiring expensive voice actors, music composition and creating extremely detailed models of buildings that 99% of people aren't going to notice.
I had no idea that razorfist would understand my love of turok 1/2 , I literally poured a glass of wine sat on my couch and kicked my feet up to watch this Bad ass reveiw.
I remember having a good chuckle when watching the cod presentation live when they came up with such advancements to present the audience as "fish swim away when you get close" and "parralax mapping". Yeah where have you been for the last 10 years? They really had nothing than to throw around buzzwords their audience would know nothing about to sell the next itteration.
What was that ending from, I must know. and does anyone feel like they try way too hard to garner the tasteful gamers attention ? from power armor to the advent of being able to dodge roll like a fucking Gundam in said power armor, I almost feel the inklings of giving a fuck again..,but then again, I like Gundam, so who am I to talk about taste.
+PKDeviluke25 world at war: i wanna see more call of duty zombies, this is neat and fun. black ops 2: i wanna stop seeing call or duty zombies, this is not fun. WHAT HAPPENED TREYARCH!!!??? and then i stopped buying call of duty games, i stopped seeing call of duty zombies and i'm happy with my choices in life.
CoD has pretty much relied on brand loyalty and not any actual innovation for quite a while now. As a fellow Vanguard master class, I approve this message.
I'm fed up with recent fps games, Halo was my favorite modern fps franchise, and then halo 4 happened. The last killzone was okay. I've played recent call of duty games at friends, and hated them. I also liked playing campaigns in shooters which are now gone, or so brief they might as well not be there.
Good. Someone who reviewed this game finally acknowledged that Treyarch eyeballed Deus Ex and put it on their "To Cntl+C and Cntl+V" list. The sheer lack of mention of the whole "Cyberpunk territory has already been heavily occupied," greatly bothered me.
This comparison also goes for Assassin's Creed. I predict by the end of 2025 we will have another 8 releases form Call Of Duty, and at least another 6 from Assassin's Creed. Maybe I am over (or under) estimating these numerals, but I should be close!
COD 1-4 are classic games. I remember getting tricked into thinking I didn't get a 360 for Xmas holiday 05. Then my uncle who was an exec at BJs walks in and hands it to me in a paper bag. Haha I got it hooked up and started playing CoD2. That was a decade ago....
+EvaUnit02 I completely disagree. I loved WAW. One of my favorite moments in gaming last gen was storming the Reichstag as the soviets killing the last of the SS hold inside. When you get to the top you rip the Nazi flag down and replace it with the iron sickle. Never mind Razof(sp?) is a fantastic character, one of the best COD characters. I enjoyed the multiplayer too.
5:00 That right there is why I never liked halo. When I fire a rocket launcher at an enemy I expect them to become a bloody ball of carnage. Instead they cartoonishly fly off like somebody fired em out of a circus cannon.. You know what real shooters are.
You know what, despite all this, you know what I hate the most? It's that the game tries to have soul with its trailers. Like, putting a hit single from the fucking 70's/80's and a generic Michael Bay trailer is going to convince me to spending over 100$ on some copy and paste game with a repeating DLC practice? No thanks.
+Quiet Oh dude...you say this and yet when my parents saw the trailer on television and heard the song, they were legitimately interested. They don't understand video games as entertainment, mind you, so at a glance they saw guns, explosions and good music they recognized, not realizing how shit the company or repetitive the games are. Basically, you noticed that Activision used the song as an assholes' attempt to advertise to as large an audience as possible...even trying to get the "baby-boomer" generation in on their crappy games solely with the song. Not a new thing for Activision or advertisers in general, I just wanted to share an event that showed the vapidity and desperation of their ad campaign, and I thought it neat someone brought up the commercial specifically!
+Quiet There always using Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" an anti war song to market there war game. There ya go marketing for ya taking the soul out of things for the sake of sales.
+CreeperJ44 I don't remember who said it but there's a quote that goes "all war movies are pro-war", the implication that when you turn war into entertainment you glorify it, even if you message was anti war. The best war songs are anti-war songs. The line "we oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies" in Two Minutes to Midnight is unappealing as it can be, but the song as a whole gets me pumped.
I love this series, but this may have finally done it for me. Ghosts enraged me, AW was perplexing, yet this one disappointed in ways that hurt worse. I've played every game on Playstation consoles since 2004 and, quite frankly, I feel burnt out of the whole experience.
The only way they can make me Call of Duty any further than Black Ops II is if they go on a time traveling adventure and gave the writing to R.L. Stine.
It's sad that Treyarch managed to get Kara Thrace and John Crichton in their worst CoD. I understand that Treyarch's writers wanted to talk about PTSD and the birth of an AI but holy shit the campaign was bad. Also the next CoD might be Ghosts 2 because I'm sure Infinity Ward can make a shittier game than CoD Ghosts.
If there is anything e3 2015 showed us, people no longer care about call of duty. Watch the Sony conference and pay attention to the reaction of the crowd when they announced black ops 3. They don't make faces that blank on crash test dummies.
+Snake56 Ghosts did have some good features, like the whole build a team of 10 soldiers and also a mode where you can fight with your created characters, but everything else was complete and utter shit, with only one map that was actually worth playing if you didn't want to spend half the fucking game looking for someone to kill or be killed by.
+The Sarcastic Gamer I agree, I did enjoy that part of the multiplayer and also the whole token system where you can unlock things you actually want to use like guns, attachments, perks. Outside of that, everything in Ghosts was shitty, they re-used sounds and assets from Modern Warfare 3, every gun sounded the same... even Black Ops 2 looked better and it was on a previous generation.
never played a single cod game and never will it seems.... did play battlefront 1 & 2, battlefield 1942, planetside 2, & republic commando.... for some reason republic commando, planestside 2 and battlefront 2 were the games I liked the most
Here is my one strong feeling out of the last five years of COD game entries: Treyarch is at the very least the better of the three main entry developers. In other words: Black Ops 3 > Advanced Warfare and Ghosts.
On the death animations part, I also heard that at some point Activision promised there won't be any blood in the CoD's multiplayer (hence the dollar bills erupting from the body in recent titles). Useless promise since there's already enough violence to earn the PG18 rating, plus BF3 HAD blood, and still sold very well!
At this point I don't see CoD for the gameplay, I just like the cool things they do with the technology. Thank god for Let's Plays letting me see them in HD instead of using my toaster
The one good thing I'll say about Treyarch is that they at least try to be a bit different with each installment, but yeah the rip-offs in this were heinously obvious. They try to be different, but you can almost feel the leash around the dev team's neck snapping taut whenever they're about to venture an iota from the mandated checklist of what's needed per game. Still... if sales are indeed going down, maybe it'll cause Activision to try doing something that isn't CoD.
I've seen this time and time again with video game companies where they face financial problems and they're faced with an ultimatum. They either change what they're doing, or they will be referred to in the past tense. After Capcom announced they are removing it buyout policy and essentially trying to avoid bankruptcy, they have since started to make very interesting and beneficial decisions. Releasing an HD update to the old Resident Evil game has proven beyond a success. Now they have confirmed that they are completely remaking Resident Evil 2 and not just rereleasing it. So for every other video game company that has been under financial stress pay attention carefully, because they are either going to make some amazing decisions, or they will go the way of THQ.
3:00 God I hate how Captain Marvel looks now. Why? Why would you do that to a character? I do not get why the artist would draw like that either. Looking at their past work they drew women beautifully. Why!
When i made a joke game for mine and a coupple freinds personal amusement for the death animation i literally just took a picture of cubed meat and said when an enemy dies it becomes cubed meat.. i never looked at Jewel the same way again.
I enjoyed MW2 even though it was very broken, the OP weapons balanced each other out and the maps were still fairly large and you could hide, series hasn't progressed since then
Very entertaining review, as always, but with your mention of the importance the illusion of exceptionaism in RPGs, one would've expected you to talk about the lack of a level cap in Fallout 4 when you reviewed of that game.
2:17 That's actually some of my Call of Duty footage from when I did videos with those games. Forgot ScrewAttack used it in their video. Lol Cool to see again. Small world
And make no mistake, I'm still not to the point of considering buying it, but I might actually find myself renting it one day to play with a friend or two. One day.
To this day, I've never played a Call of Duty game. I only played the multiplayer for one of the games back when I was in college, but other than that, I remain absent from the series.
I don't give two shits about Call of Duty, but I show up to see what Razorfist has to say about it because I know I'll at least get a chuckle and a hefty dose of critique. Entertaining as usual and looking forward to a new year of content.
Team Fortress 2 perfected character imbalance that made it so satisfying to break conventional thinking and charge at a bunch of camping snipers as a scout and gain several kills before being plastered by 20 rockets from their angry teammates. Then have a fun chat with them after the match on a good, well played game.
Agree with everything except class balance. A good game gives you maximum viable options when selecting a class (ideally, any class). If there's a dominant strategy to beating the game, via selecting a specific class and weapon loadout, it speaks volumes on how little time the devs spent balancing; it's just one step further in becoming highly linear and predictable.
If I was in charge of the COD franchise, I'd probably do one of two things at this point.
Thing #1: Make the next COD game the last and take the Saints Row 4 route of throwing up my hands and going all out bananas. Throw in time travel, dinosaurs, alternate universes, whatever I could fucking think of.
Thing #2: Go back to the franchises routes and start cranking out ultra-realistic historical shooters covering multiple different wars. WWI and II, Korea, Vietnam, you name it. Come to think of it, they might wind up doing that out of sheer desperation.
I would also add some dinasiours
+יהונתן דולב I would add some robo dinosaurs if you can't go smart go dumb
+John Eisenmann The ironic part is they are thinking of making a vietnam one, so we are going back to that again
+LN2233 I dunno, idea 1 sounds like TimeSplitters. Anything that sounds like TimeSplitters at least has some potential.
+John Eisenmann I'd come dangerously close to buying Idea #1.
that rant, about limb damage and the lack of death animations, made me very happy. (sigh) WERE THE FUCK!!! DID THAT GO!?! Wolfensein the new order was the only fps in a very long time to have any of that.
+Nathan Lehto I liked New Order alot , I still need the old blood
Killing Floor 2 absolutely nails these.
+Nathan Lehto I miss shooting out the lights, it's amazing how many bullet proof lights exist in games these days.
+Antichrist2000 red faction guerilla, a game that feels more next gen, than most next gen games.
I think in only some of the COD single player campaigns you could blow off a limb and watch them roll around or clutch at their stump then die
I want Deus Ex, but without all the interesting and nuanced gameplay and designs. Here's your game!
Deus ex human revolution is a fucking mess,great thing directors cut fixed those boss fights
Denzel Romero Ya the boss fights were shit.
This video had me more entertained in it's 9 minutes than the last six games in this series.
What a way to start the year. Thanks Razor.
I agree
“We have fish move out of the way when you move closer to them”
Wow that’s brilliant AI
Is it weird that I like Call of Duty, and yet Razorfist's Call of Duty reviews are some of my favorite videos of his?
Nope. Perfectly normal.
Hell I love FF14 (post 1.0, I'm not a masochist), but I still love watching Razor tear apart anything Square Enix related.
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That Lena Dunham punch tho... masterful. Welcome to 2016 and still being the only video game reviewer on YT worth a damn.
Creatively bankrupt must be on your resume in order to work at Activision.
You absolutely nailed why I don't connect with latter day Call of Duty. I'll break down my feelings.
I love fps games like Blood (my favorite game of all time, I also like blood II to an extent), Soldier of Fortune, SiN, Quake, Quake II, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D just to name a few for the thrill of the kill . Each individual kill in those games is excessively satisfying.
I like Serious Sam and Painkiller because those games are straight up bloodbaths with you shooting down waves after waves of enemies.
I like Outlaws for it's external tone and charm (as well as bringing some innovations to the genre).
I like Early Call of Duty, Early Medal of Honor, Perfect Dark, No One Lives Forever, and Unreal for their challenge that didn't just involve running and gunning.
I like Powerslave (the Saturn version) for it's completely non-linear level design. Essentially Metroid Prime before Metroid Prime was even a thing.
I bring this up because I find that latter day call of duty lacks most, if not all, of these features. I know you've stated that you are generally not a fan of first person shooters so I figured I'd share with you thoughts from a crazy nutjob like me who is an fps fan.
+Kombine047 I love F.E.A.R. Unlike many horror games that sacrifice gameplay for the sake of trying to spook out people. Not only does F.E.A.R. succeed as a horror game in my eyes but also as an action game. Thus, if you don't get sucked into the horror, you still have an exceptionally fun and solid shooter on your hands. It's a masterpiece of two genres.
***** I have it but I've never played it so I don't have an opinion on it yet.
So basically you are old and like old things, got it.
Death animations. I miss those from the N64 days. They were great. Each body part had one animation when you shot it. Sometimes more.
I think the endless CoD sequels utterly killed my interest in the FPS genre. I enjoyed some of the earlier games (mainly the WW2 ones and MW1) , but since the whole Infinity Ward debacle and the general overexposure of the franchise, I can't bring myself to care about any FPS games anymore. I suspect only Battlefield Bad Company 3 could spark my intest at this point. Anything on the annualization treadmill goes straight to my ignore list.
+Darkly Tranquil Two words : BRUTAL DOOM
+Darkly Tranquil Stay on the train, dude, all FPS's aren't COD
> Doom 1&2
> Half life 1&2
> Bioshock 1&2
> Metro 1&2
> Unreal 1 & ut 99
> Quake 1&3
> No one lives forever 1&2
> F.e.a.r 1
> Bad company 2
> Star wars Dark forces 2
> Battlefield 4 ( just kidding )
Great singleplayer fps gaming in a nutshell !!!! :)
Also , if you want to play goldeneye and perfect dark in 1080p 60fps and mouselook let me know.....
Doofy MetalusMaximus Oh yeah , my bad....
> portal 1&2
> counter strike go ( offline game modes with decent bots )
> cs 1.6 , L4D and TF 2 don't have worthy singleplayer's but yeah valve makes good games as and when they do.....:(
You guys raise some excellent titles. Maybe it's just the current spate of MMS that has made me blasé. I played ungodly amounts of Doom back in the day and I completely forgot the new one is coming out, so that's something to look forward to.
CoD4 multiplayer was good because it was simple and the maps were well designed. I also really enjoyed how the kill streaks were limited and actually required skill to use. It actually felt like a mechanic designed to end stalemates compared to the ridiculous kill streaks they have now that might as well not exist if your flooring your opponent to begin with.
COD4 and WAW were the last First person shooters. After that it became first person grenade spam holy fuck death strikes from the sky its like i'm in a michael bay movie and sometimes i may shoot my gun shooter
when Razorfist says there need to be gore in this Shooter! I say Yessss finally!! someone gets me
hell yeahh I just got that mod 2 weeks ago its a blast
Interrupted my CoD2 online binge to watch this, damn you!
Oh how great this series was at one point!
I choose Splatoon over BO3. At least that game was original.
And actually good.
And had absolute reason to come back to it...even if the map and modes were shitty at launch
+Denzel Romero that's your opinion man. bo3 is a good online shooter once u get the hang of the chain movement. Gunplay is spot on.
I just realised in the intro that the male player character is played by Ben Bowder of Farscape and Stargate fame. Looks like Claudia Black is getting all good voice roles out of those shows.
1:19
Based on the sales chart, people at least had hope for the series from playing Black Ops.
Never played a single game in this series, couldn't care less but I do watch your reviews because you're a funny fucker.
One of the problems with criticizing CoD is that genuine criticism quickly gets lost in the sea of haters, contrarians, and fanboys.
Aside from demanding the CoD series should die, no one knows where the series should go, or what it should do. Go back to a modern setting, World War 2, or go all in on sci-fi? Make a serious game or a silly comedy? Whatever they do, the previously mentioned haters, contrarians, and fanboys will complain.
Also, anyone know what screwattack video was mentioned in the video?
3:00 You nailed that prediction.
You predicted the nonbinary character choice from COD Cold War.
WTF!? That VO sequence after the credits, was that actual the guy from Farscape, or the best Bill Paxton impression ever!? LOL
God I need the name of whatever madness birthed that clip cause dear lord that was amazing.
Jet Force Gemini..Run around blowing up ants, nobody cares about ants, not even Peta. Make a new one, with bigger guns and blow up ants, that's what I'dd do with the CoD engine.
+John Tortorella I don't know about that, Peta once threw a fit because Obama swatted a fly.
^^bawhahahaha lololol
with more color and teddy bears.
Turok was an amazing shooter of old.
Can't believe how many gamers I know who have no idea about Turok.
Hell, I think half of the games files were death animations and gore packs.
After all these years, I still don't know what speed is optimal for god fucking.
+Teckniphobia ...and sadly, now we'll never be able to ask Lemmy, to know for certain.
Black Ops 3's campaign was actually lit. The plot twist, though... it would be awesome, if it actually didn't require wiki-leaks to uncover.
Wait...Screw Attack calls Call of Duty bashing "The Low Hanging Fruit" meanwhile SEGA can't fart without them coming out with another bullshit video on why Sonic the Hedgehog sucks?
Ever since Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 the entire Sonic franchise has been the low hanging fruit and even when the games began to improve and even become damn good like Sonic Generations, Screw Attack was still riding the "Lol doesn't Sonic just suck??" train all the way to piggy bank!
If it's brutal death animations you want, Doom is exactly what you'll be playing come late spring.
I honestly miss the old 1993-era shooters where every time you shot someone with a pistol you saw their arm detach and face collapse in, rather than just watching them slump over like they developed down syndrome after stepping on a wad of gum.
Black, Bulletstorm, and DOOM 4 are some of the few great shooters that preserve the tradition.
I chuckled at the Metal Gear Rising references, thanks for that.
Literally the most incredible reviewer on YT. What is this guys job? He's an absolute genius.
I play Shovel Knight & Axiom Verge, and they are far more superior than CoD in this day and age.
***** When it comes to shooters, the ones I still play are Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, and Deus Ex.
***** I have played Splatoon, I own it, and I still think that game for being a new IP that differentiates itself from other shooters is incredible.
triple A game costs 300 million to make. A game made with RPG maker called the crooked man has 10x the complexity and depth of 99% of triple A games.
have people heard of it though? probably not, at least not many.
+C Ziggy It's a good game. My current favorite is Ib though of those RPG horror games.
+C Ziggy because a lot of AAA games have the majority of their budget spent on hiring expensive voice actors, music composition and creating extremely detailed models of buildings that 99% of people aren't going to notice.
LAMFO ... XD XD XD XD XD XD that scorpion part ,,,, lol ,,, GET OVER HERE ,,,, FATALITY ,,,, DAMN ,, made my day ,,, your awesome man ,,
And still with the cats.
The *god damn* internet cats...
+Lucifierium Grimnoir - It's the internet. The cats are implied.
Eh, okay.
Great video none the less
Thoroughly chuckled at the little Farscape nod at the end!
Vanguard: Best class. It's funny because it's true. xD
I had no idea that razorfist would understand my love of turok 1/2 , I literally poured a glass of wine sat on my couch and kicked my feet up to watch this Bad ass reveiw.
I remember having a good chuckle when watching the cod presentation live when they came up with such advancements to present the audience as "fish swim away when you get close" and "parralax mapping". Yeah where have you been for the last 10 years? They really had nothing than to throw around buzzwords their audience would know nothing about to sell the next itteration.
What was that ending from, I must know.
and does anyone feel like they try way too hard to garner the tasteful gamers attention ? from power armor to the advent of being able to dodge roll like a fucking Gundam in said power armor, I almost feel the inklings of giving a fuck again..,but then again, I like Gundam, so who am I to talk about taste.
+starwarsfan117 I think it was a scene from farescape. The main character's voice actor stared in it.
+starwarsfan117 That's from Farscape, an episode called Crackers Don't Matter. And yes that's Ben Browder.
The original Black Ops was good.
I second that emotion.
No it fucking wasn't, cod hasn't been good since cod 2.
What do you think of World at War?
+PKDeviluke25 MOSIN NAGANT STRONK
+Mitch L BARK BARK WOOF
MP40 Simulator
+PKDeviluke25
world at war: i wanna see more call of duty zombies, this is neat and fun.
black ops 2: i wanna stop seeing call or duty zombies, this is not fun.
WHAT HAPPENED TREYARCH!!!???
and then i stopped buying call of duty games, i stopped seeing call of duty zombies and i'm happy with my choices in life.
***** Every enemy had grenade launchers instead of arms.
CoD has pretty much relied on brand loyalty and not any actual innovation for quite a while now. As a fellow Vanguard master class, I approve this message.
2:00 Hey man mw3 is one of the best games they ever did
I'm fed up with recent fps games, Halo was my favorite modern fps franchise, and then halo 4 happened. The last killzone was okay. I've played recent call of duty games at friends, and hated them. I also liked playing campaigns in shooters which are now gone, or so brief they might as well not be there.
Good. Someone who reviewed this game finally acknowledged that Treyarch eyeballed Deus Ex and put it on their "To Cntl+C and Cntl+V" list. The sheer lack of mention of the whole "Cyberpunk territory has already been heavily occupied," greatly bothered me.
The voice acting at the end would have gone perfectly with Bill Murray's monologue at the end of Scrooged.
That thumbnail...that should be Activision's new logo.
We have more Call of Duty games than live albums from Iron Maiden. This is the best comparison ANYONE can give!
This comparison also goes for Assassin's Creed. I predict by the end of 2025 we will have another 8 releases form Call Of Duty, and at least another 6 from Assassin's Creed. Maybe I am over (or under) estimating these numerals, but I should be close!
COD 1-4 are classic games. I remember getting tricked into thinking I didn't get a 360 for Xmas holiday 05. Then my uncle who was an exec at BJs walks in and hands it to me in a paper bag. Haha I got it hooked up and started playing CoD2. That was a decade ago....
+amethystwyvern CoD3 was utterly awful. The worst game in the series bar none.
+EvaUnit02 I completely disagree. I loved WAW. One of my favorite moments in gaming last gen was storming the Reichstag as the soviets killing the last of the SS hold inside. When you get to the top you rip the Nazi flag down and replace it with the iron sickle. Never mind Razof(sp?) is a fantastic character, one of the best COD characters. I enjoyed the multiplayer too.
+amethystwyvern Not WAW he is talking COD 3 which I played on 360 it was Treyarch first game. It was ok, not as good as COD 1 or 2.
+SHOTRED555 COD 3 is WAW. It was trey arches first game.
amethystwyvern It isn't look again en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty_3 Hell look at Trey's game record.
5:00 That right there is why I never liked halo. When I fire a rocket launcher at an enemy I expect them to become a bloody ball of carnage. Instead they cartoonishly fly off like somebody fired em out of a circus cannon.. You know what real shooters are.
You know what, despite all this, you know what I hate the most? It's that the game tries to have soul with its trailers. Like, putting a hit single from the fucking 70's/80's and a generic Michael Bay trailer is going to convince me to spending over 100$ on some copy and paste game with a repeating DLC practice? No thanks.
+Quiet Oh dude...you say this and yet when my parents saw the trailer on television and heard the song, they were legitimately interested. They don't understand video games as entertainment, mind you, so at a glance they saw guns, explosions and good music they recognized, not realizing how shit the company or repetitive the games are. Basically, you noticed that Activision used the song as an assholes' attempt to advertise to as large an audience as possible...even trying to get the "baby-boomer" generation in on their crappy games solely with the song.
Not a new thing for Activision or advertisers in general, I just wanted to share an event that showed the vapidity and desperation of their ad campaign, and I thought it neat someone brought up the commercial specifically!
+Quiet I'm just impressed the marketing team can manage to spin the game into something that looks half appealing in the trailers
+Quiet There always using Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" an anti war song to market there war game. There ya go marketing for ya taking the soul out of things for the sake of sales.
+CreeperJ44 I don't remember who said it but there's a quote that goes "all war movies are pro-war", the implication that when you turn war into entertainment you glorify it, even if you message was anti war.
The best war songs are anti-war songs. The line "we oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies" in Two Minutes to Midnight is unappealing as it can be, but the song as a whole gets me pumped.
2:00 I never got past the All Ghilled Up mission. And that's the only CoD I've ever TOUCHED.
I love this series, but this may have finally done it for me. Ghosts enraged me, AW was perplexing, yet this one disappointed in ways that hurt worse. I've played every game on Playstation consoles since 2004 and, quite frankly, I feel burnt out of the whole experience.
The only way they can make me Call of Duty any further than Black Ops II is if they go on a time traveling adventure and gave the writing to R.L. Stine.
Great. Now I have to pull the Farscape episodes out from the time capsule.
+dileepvr My work here is done.
It's sad that Treyarch managed to get Kara Thrace and John Crichton in their worst CoD.
I understand that Treyarch's writers wanted to talk about PTSD and the birth of an AI but holy shit the campaign was bad.
Also the next CoD might be Ghosts 2 because I'm sure Infinity Ward can make a shittier game than CoD Ghosts.
If there is anything e3 2015 showed us, people no longer care about call of duty. Watch the Sony conference and pay attention to the reaction of the crowd when they announced black ops 3. They don't make faces that blank on crash test dummies.
+live2rock13 that was hilarious
+live2rock13 Really makes you wonder what kind of people are keeping this shitty series alive.
+Snake56 Ghosts did have some good features, like the whole build a team of 10 soldiers and also a mode where you can fight with your created characters, but everything else was complete and utter shit, with only one map that was actually worth playing if you didn't want to spend half the fucking game looking for someone to kill or be killed by.
+The Sarcastic Gamer I agree, I did enjoy that part of the multiplayer and also the whole token system where you can unlock things you actually want to use like guns, attachments, perks. Outside of that, everything in Ghosts was shitty, they re-used sounds and assets from Modern Warfare 3, every gun sounded the same... even Black Ops 2 looked better and it was on a previous generation.
Rageaholic never dissapoints.
never played a single cod game and never will it seems.... did play battlefront 1 & 2, battlefield 1942, planetside 2, & republic commando.... for some reason republic commando, planestside 2 and battlefront 2 were the games I liked the most
Here is my one strong feeling out of the last five years of COD game entries: Treyarch is at the very least the better of the three main entry developers. In other words: Black Ops 3 > Advanced Warfare and Ghosts.
On the death animations part, I also heard that at some point Activision promised there won't be any blood in the CoD's multiplayer (hence the dollar bills erupting from the body in recent titles). Useless promise since there's already enough violence to earn the PG18 rating, plus BF3 HAD blood, and still sold very well!
I don't understand why people like this game, I've played one COD and the ghost demo and I am already board of the whole series.
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Ahhhh, you nail it every time. I could dance to the rhythmic voice of yours ;)
Blinded by glorious logic... Godammit, God speed sir.,.
I miss the days of black ops 1
At this point I don't see CoD for the gameplay, I just like the cool things they do with the technology.
Thank god for Let's Plays letting me see them in HD instead of using my toaster
I hereby crown razorfist the king of analogies!
The best part about this is that Razor predicted the non binary gender option on accident for Cold War
The one good thing I'll say about Treyarch is that they at least try to be a bit different with each installment, but yeah the rip-offs in this were heinously obvious. They try to be different, but you can almost feel the leash around the dev team's neck snapping taut whenever they're about to venture an iota from the mandated checklist of what's needed per game.
Still... if sales are indeed going down, maybe it'll cause Activision to try doing something that isn't CoD.
I've seen this time and time again with video game companies where they face financial problems and they're faced with an ultimatum. They either change what they're doing, or they will be referred to in the past tense. After Capcom announced they are removing it buyout policy and essentially trying to avoid bankruptcy, they have since started to make very interesting and beneficial decisions. Releasing an HD update to the old Resident Evil game has proven beyond a success. Now they have confirmed that they are completely remaking Resident Evil 2 and not just rereleasing it. So for every other video game company that has been under financial stress pay attention carefully, because they are either going to make some amazing decisions, or they will go the way of THQ.
+live2rock13 Also Capcom's Strider reboot was pretty nifty too.
Hovis Steve Damn right it was.
+crossbones116 destiny?
The only CoD I have ever played was black ops. And honestly that was enough for me.
I'm really glad that in the future they put just as much effort into the graphic design of hacking as they do the hacking itself.
I do like being able to choose my genitalia though. I dislike how there is no option on how big said genitalia can be...
Ooooooo fish moving out of the way........ just like in in 1997's Turok: Dinosaur Hunter UUUHHHGGGG
3:00 God I hate how Captain Marvel looks now. Why? Why would you do that to a character? I do not get why the artist would draw like that either. Looking at their past work they drew women beautifully. Why!
Nah, Advanced Warfare 2 is for 2017. This year it's Ghosts 2 or some shit by the shambling corpse known as Infinity Ward.
you are an apsolute genius of video makingĄ
Technically WaW was after MW:2, and that campaign was pretty fuckin good.
You didn't drop the mic
You smashed on the ground so hard that planet earth went the way of Alderon.
Late Christmas present is still Christmas present. Happy 2016, RazorFist!
When i made a joke game for mine and a coupple freinds personal amusement for the death animation i literally just took a picture of cubed meat and said when an enemy dies it becomes cubed meat.. i never looked at Jewel the same way again.
wait, those post credits dialogue sounded like bro team. did he get cast as an extra in this game?
I enjoyed MW2 even though it was very broken, the OP weapons balanced each other out and the maps were still fairly large and you could hide, series hasn't progressed since then
Very entertaining review, as always, but with your mention of the importance the illusion of exceptionaism in RPGs, one would've expected you to talk about the lack of a level cap in Fallout 4 when you reviewed of that game.
That Lena Dunham joke... Holy Shit.
2:17 That's actually some of my Call of Duty footage from when I did videos with those games. Forgot ScrewAttack used it in their video. Lol Cool to see again. Small world
I think i nearly died of laughter after listening to this..
This is a question to both the Rageaholic himself and other commenters: How do you guys feel generally about the gaming industry as a whole right now?
Am I the only one who thought this game was basically a Project Snowblind Sequel? Does anyone even remember that game?
And make no mistake, I'm still not to the point of considering buying it, but I might actually find myself renting it one day to play with a friend or two. One day.
Holy shit! What is that double bass drum intro metal song in the beginning? Sounds raw and brutal as shit.
Sticky grenades started with Shadow Warrior as far as I can remember
To this day, I've never played a Call of Duty game. I only played the multiplayer for one of the games back when I was in college, but other than that, I remain absent from the series.
I don't give two shits about Call of Duty, but I show up to see what Razorfist has to say about it because I know I'll at least get a chuckle and a hefty dose of critique. Entertaining as usual and looking forward to a new year of content.
Team Fortress 2 perfected character imbalance that made it so satisfying to break conventional thinking and charge at a bunch of camping snipers as a scout and gain several kills before being plastered by 20 rockets from their angry teammates. Then have a fun chat with them after the match on a good, well played game.
Holy shit, it's Katee Sackhoff. There was something good about this game
Does anyone else want Razor to make a COD series retrospective?
Agree with everything except class balance. A good game gives you maximum viable options when selecting a class (ideally, any class). If there's a dominant strategy to beating the game, via selecting a specific class and weapon loadout, it speaks volumes on how little time the devs spent balancing; it's just one step further in becoming highly linear and predictable.
I still like mages in Dragon Age Origins. Always fun to lob around fireballs, even if it causes friendly fire.
Gotta laugh at this because Black Ops 4 complaints are the exact opposite of this 😂 😂 😂 😂