I always hate how stealth in CoD games really just consists of lying in some grass as someone tells you what to do. Then once you get what you came for your cover is immediately blown. Seriously, is there any CoD mission where you make it in and out undetected? It makes me wonder how the protagonists even become elite soldiers if during every mission they end up shooting their way out.
I remember there was this one mission where you had to time shots with your co-op partner to take out multiple targets at once. But that stealth segment was completely avoidable and the stealth part was for an achievment...
This is why CoD never should have moved out of the WWII genre, and transferred itself to a Special Ops themed shooter. I feel the CoDs downgraded. Look at CoD 3 and pay close attention to the variety of features and how they empathized on the game being about war, not some excretion meant to lead you to buy some overpriced DLC. I am not disparaging some "master-piece" of a genre, which kicked of with its 6th= I MEAN 4th game, but honestly I don't understand why people buy this franchise anymore, as they could play CoD 3 for a larger arcade shooter that requires more talent to implement effectively, play a larger scale war game such as Battlefield, not buy another CoD for 5 years to see some actually change in the franchise, or drink a liter of tar, and bash their face into their console until they realize how repetitive this series is.
HaloAndMinecraftFtw Well, remember, it can't be the brilliance of stealth that Dishonored has. (I wouldn't know how good it is in Thief, I haven't played it.)
***** I haven't played Dishonored so I can't have much of an opinion on the stealth, but that's completely different. What I'm mostly trying to say is that lately CoD's stealth hasn't really been stealth. You snipe and stab a few guys, and then your cover is blown. For example, in a Modern Warfare 3 mission you swim under some docks and into a sewer to sneak into the city. After a few close calls, and the already mentioned sniping, you come across an army of men. But rather than finding some way around, Price decides that the best course of action is to attack them head on with his own army, effectively turning the entire city into a warzone. Yet for some reason, Markarov's (The guy you're there to kill) meeting isn't canceled the next morning. Or the mission where you sneak into a fortress. You leave behind a ton of bodies just waiting to be discovered, and to top it off Price throws a grenade into the control room. Not to mention that in every single stealth mission an NPC holds your hand through it.
"If that happened in Ghosts you'd probably just fart out all the radiation in one heroic guff, pull the broken glass out of your eyes and use it to shiv the Ayatollah." You know, call me crazy, but CoD SHOULD go down that route. The series is so over-the-top and such a joke now that going full-on, 100% self-aware parody with its next game seems like the best choice.
This is probably the best review Yahtzee has ever done, and thats saying such a huge statement since his track record is so strong! Keep up the fucking AMAZING work!!!
For once I want to see an FPS in which you play as the member of a small guerrilla unit in a third world country that's under attack by the US, who has gone mental (more son than normal) and is planning on taking over the world.
shit what about the cuban revolution when castro wasn't a dictator. it would be a guerrilla style enviroment and no U.s involvement that i remember but it would be interesting to play threw that piece of history espicly if it was a good fps.
I think Mercenaries is about as close to this as you'll get. Interesting game really. It had incredibly destructible environments as a bonus, at least 2 did, I'm not sure about the first, anyways it was really up there in gameplay for its time.
The first while a great game lacked stunning Graphics and some little things but it was solid Merc's 2 Kinda mixed feelings on it since Just Cause 2 kinda took Merc's thing and cranked it up a few notches that games world map is huge and you can go to all of it O.O.
While not under attack by the US, the Metro games feature non-americans shooting guns at things... Aliens I think. Or interdimensional beings. I forget which. Pretty game.... But as repetitive as any other FPS in which the main goal is to run to the end of the level while shooting as many things as possible.
While that idea would be superb, it'll never sell. Killing hundreds of thousands of those "brown" people? No problem. But killing American soldiers? God forbid. American news outlets will say the game is teaching kids about terrorism and that maybe America isn't always right, and whoever designed that game will be flooded by hate mail and even death threats by parents
That is one of the things that i found odd. The opening title sequence makes them out to be unstoppable sneaky ninja guys, yet you do no sneaking!!! there are no levels that are full on stealthy, stealthy, stealthy.
1:46 this bit stuck with me. "outsourcing their weapons development to fucking megatron" is such a fantastic way to say "levels of megalomania that should immediately flag anyone as a villain"
I love how the E3 guys hyped that part of the game up as an example of the power next-gen consoles, despite the fact that Super Mario 64 had the same AI tech 20 years prior.
I want to see a stealth game where you play as a german shepard posessed by a demon (A.K.A. the player) that takes over their mind and makes them stealthily hunt people. It'll be like okami for bastards
TheNextEvil "I relate COD to an Action Packed Block Buster. "Its, and. But in the end you really wanna play through it one time." Dunno, something seems off.
I remember being excited at the prospect of pure tenacity saving the day in Ghosts. I thought the ghosts would really on guerrilla warfare to accomplish their objectives. Instead, it's superior technology that wins, like every modern CoD. Sure am getting the "underdog" vibe :|
+TraustiGeir Yep. And you don't even have the freedom to play with each of them whenever you want. You have to wait for the section where the developers give you permission to use a certain "toy"
Honestly, the Federation are the good fucking guys, what the hell was America doing with that Orbital Death Platform anyway? See how much damage it did in one volley in the first mission? Then the Federation's version uses smaller, much more localized ones that are arguably better (Still an Orbital Death Platform, but whatever.) All throughout the game the only thing I could think of was. "Those guys are the good guys.", at least with the other CoD games I have to play a little bit before coming to that the conclusion.
I mean, when one side built a giant space weapon, and another side used it to wipe out population centers. Sure, you can argue the US shouldn't have built the thing (though I'm not sure it's that different from the already existing nuclear arsenal) but once you use it to wipe out population centers to aid in your invasion you've kinda lost the moral high-ground.
"If that happened in CoD: Ghosts, you'd probably just fart all the radiation out in one big heroic guff, pull the broken glass out of your eyeballs and then use it to shiv the Ayatollah." lolz
The part with the guy in Braveheart paint, wielding a claymore and smacking it against a windmill is most likely a reference to Don Quixote. I like it when Yahtzee adds in clever little references like that.
epicsauceness100 Oh good, you recognize a reference that every cartoon has ever made from the beginnings of the book, You must be the king of the hill of knowledge and culture.
i just got a us army ad that shows soldiers gunning from that F*cking video game twin propeller-ed thing that doesnt exist or if it does sure as fuck isnt used by the military. doing a d-day style beach landing.(which the US hasnt done since the korean war if you wanna be generous) and lastly charging a battle line rambo style....which again the US hasnt done since korea and when "we"(cause im american though i am wishing i wasnt by an increasing amount each day) did we got our ass handed to us by china. since that war the only thing american soldiers have done is get told to fight multiple un-winnable guerrilla wars as in-efficiently as possible and also piss off as many people as they can while doing so.. finally ending with the tagline "which way would you run?" which was the eye rolling cherry. cause the answer is "not into the machine gun fire, if thats what you are asking we already did that, its called world war one"
***** The Speed advantage actually comes down to it being 90% faster than the CH-47 and 60% faster than the UH-60, which for a bleeding soldier is rather considerable. You are right about it being hard to land for normal helipads but as the US are setting up their frontline military hospitals on aircraft carriers to make them harder to attack by guerilla forces, the Osprey can actually land there and due to its speed it increases the survival chances of wounded troops. I think it can also carry more troops than the UH-60 (although less than the CH-47) so ( at least for CASEVAC) it is be the superior option due to its blend of capacity and speed. It is also easier for the medics to move around in and is flying more stable during high wind speeds, making emergency operations less dangerous.
Listening to Yahtzee recounting the story, i could _almost believe_ that the writers meant to do a Spec Ops: The Line-style twist, where the U.S really does turn out to be the bad guys, but EA cut it short of that, and what we're left with is basically set-up for an antagonist that never has their fall.
and as i looked at Yahtzee's review, i didint scroll down to the comments untill it was over, i paused for a moment, and thought: I BET you if i scroll down, I'll see a lot of baseless racism, tea party members going on about nothing, people from other countries bashing america, and people talking about just how stupid the cod universe has become. I scrolled down, and was not proven wrong.
by 'bashing' the US im sure you mean pointing out stuff you dont want to admit is true...well, no, most of the comments are still americans insulting back those people, thus proving those facts correct
***** no, i said non-american comments talk about the US and how it seems some of its people act and think(in this case, about how americans make most of their shooter games center around them and how egocentric they are), then americans themselves reply acting the exact same way they were said to be or simply by insulting not that they all do it...but ive seen it pretty often
Anon The problem is, most times when non-Americans insult America, it's usually either elitist nonsense or just a straight up "Fuck America [insert country] is better" Sure there are problems with the US, I'll never debate that until we bring about world peace and end all suffering in the world. But when someone has baseless criticisms for your country, you're bound to get defensive.
supercoolguy43 funny americans tend to get offensive, not defensive and btw you're hypocritically using the most common american argument when this topic comes up: "Fuck [insert country], America is better"
In the word's of Vas from Far Cry 3, The definition of Insanity is that of repeating the same fucking thing over and over again expecting something to change.... CoD in a nutshell
Can't make their own super-weapons? They did, at the end of the game. There's literally an entire mission centered around that one objective, to take the enemy-equivalent of ODIN.
Call of Duty is running out of countries to set up as America's enemies. For all I know the next COD will be a modernized retelling of WW2. I mean if they can rationalize *all of South America* as the US's enemies I'm sure they can bring back Germany, and Japan.
Next: Germany learns how to cure nazi zombies into normal nazi's, and then japan begins making sushi out of burly white men. There we go, that's the next game's plot. Calling it
CoD in todays japan, im only saying that though because i think it would be a cool setting and multiplayer maps. And obviously a ninja level. Cyber Ninjas vs Mech Samurai
One of my favorite comments about Ghosts was something to the effect of >CoD has a dog as a main character before it has a woman as a main character. It says so much, doesn't it? Even Gears of War (which I loved because sometimes you need to embrace the part of your mind that loves the idea of a chainsaw bayonet) got in on that whole 'diversity' thing better than you, CoD. And the Gears live in the remnants of an authoritarian-style society's apocalyptic future but we can STILL find more Non White Men to include than you with your seven billion people on Earth.
Well, to be fair it wouldn't make sense for women to be in the kind of combat roles depicted in COD. All the WWII ones had no women in the infantry, Modern Warfare focused on spec-ops, Black Ops was same, Ghosts was more of the same. It's all in a universe with the same rules as America's military. Gears of War is in a fictional universe, and can depict as many women warriors as it wants.
***** except for the insanely small possibility that you are shooting guns in space and this takes place in reality? basically if follows military protocol of not having women in spec ops because having a vagina makes you a liability but doesn't follow the god damn laws of physics. this is in reality right?
***** Yes, although these certain things aren't realistic, Call of Duty: Ghosts takes place in an 'altered' reality to our own. Not an entirely different universe It is actually possible to fire a gun in space.
AllGamesAwesome Completely ignoring the woman thing, if you fired a gun in zero g it would send you flying just like the bullet. i am quite sure that is bad for game flow if you fire your gun and you are sent to the beginning of the level and knocked out.
+Clara Pagett It should actually be called "People from USA shoot anyone that isn't from USA because they are communists and hate freedom" Russians are still white people.
dtice Ahh that's true It's too easy to forget that COD used to be a world war shooter series before they started printing endless variations of Modern Warfare
+Clara Pagett god forbid any shooter having a brown person dying in, every time there's a cod game with a non white guy dying in it, everyone forgets every part where a white guy dies, you know, like 80% of the series.
Yeah, I could tell as soon as I saw the trailers on TV, I knew it was gonna be exactly the same unrealistic load of crap that Crap Ops II was. And unsurprisingly, I was right.
Have you noticed that the only COD games that have made it to Yahtzee's worst list were the ones made by Infinity Ward and none of the COD games made by Treyarch are on the list? He even admits that BLOPS2 is self-aware. Okay, he liked COD4 which was also made by Infinity Ward but that was in the past. Now Infinity Ward gets even worse especially their treatment of PC gamers. I can't believe I said it but I want to know what Treyarch is offering this year. At least they treat PC gamers nicely.
What do you all want to bet next year that when another CoD inevitably comes out that Yahtzee's review of it will inevitably contain another callback to that one nuke scene from CoD 4?
I WANNA BE A LOSER WHO SITS AT HIS COMPUTER ALL DAY! Oh wait i am already that.... um A BIG BURLY WHITE GUY! No no no, everyone would call that racist. A BIG BURLY BLACK GUY! the problem is i'm not black. NOBODY! it's the perfect plan!
When I first heard about CoD Ghosts I thought it was like the zombies mode but you were fighting ghosts so basically a coop ghostbusters thing, that would be great!
***** Unfortunately now it doesn't mean having games consoles can't run, because games today are made with consoles in mind and PCs tacked on as less than an afterthought.
This is by far your best review yet. heck , you put more effort into this review than the entire dev team for this game and a lot more entertaining than all of them.
The only way that COD could possibly go downhill from here is if they ever make a Ghosts sequel about how the villain and his newly brainwashed victim from this game (spoiler warning, though if you actually care that's sad) team up with a "terrorist" group composed solely of Native Americans and the ending is a final assault on their HQ located in a site like Wounded Knee.
For next year I want Call of Duty: Democracy, where a bunch of white dudes with guns hunt down nuclear weapons in the East and save America from the evil terrorists and... what's that, Fairy of Shit games? That's been the plot of the series for how many years? Well fuck me.
And if you get five kills with your handbag, you can call in an airstrike that bombards the map with larger, explosive-filled handbags. Don't forget the seven-kill bonus, which allows you to open your handbag and summon a pack of vicious chihuahuas.
Well at least, it's really damn great, especially considering I never played this game, nor will I ever, but I was thoroughly educated and entertained at the same time. Personally, his "Bioshock" review was what made me a fan of his, and it's especially great if you've played "System Shock 2."
I think Yahtzee needs to review Okami. It's a game that is surprisingly unique in both game play and storyline. It also avoids the gray color tone that most games today suffer from. However, it is on the Wii. So take from that what you will.
Ya know what would be funny, if the next call of duty was basically a giant middle finger to the people who play it by having 2 plots: plot A is basically spec ops the line but somehow even worse and plot B is being against america which is now ruled by angry COD fanboys who decide to become a nazi like army because they are afraid that other countries will "invade" them when they have the superior equipment...that actually sounds like a good plot for something.
0:34 I suddenly would really like to play a Call of Duty game set during the Cod Wars where you are a former SAS member that is currently making a living as a fisherman until Iceland declares war on the UK and it's up to you and your squad to save the day for queen and country but little do you know that the war was actually started by vengeful fish that were able to secure some nukes from the Soviets in return for long lost Atlantean technology
I got Ghosts a few days ago, and I think your pretty right. I got it to play with my friends, but my internet was down, and I live by the value of campaign before multiplayer. The campaign did lack proper stealth, except for Jungle Ghosts which is the most fun I've had in the game as of yet. Most of the variations from just gunning are fun, because I got really sick of gunning really quickly. This might be because I was playing on the second hardest difficulty, but I always died really quickly unless I sat down, shot a bit, and sat down again. What I like about the halo games is that they let you survey your surroundings and give you a fair chance.... most of the time. In ghosts you have to die repeatedly to learn the enemy locations, and slowly figure out exactly what they're going to do. Then you kill them all, and there was a guy in the next room with a shotgun. If a larger portion of the game was like jungle ghosts, I might have had more fun. I had zero fun in gun fights to be sure. I did like scaling walls and playing as the dog. I'm not done, but I have encountered one thing that was total crap. The underwater level. I believe this was the last level I played, or the second to last. You literally hide behind rocks and then shoot a bit. It's the same thing but in the ocean! As for the multiplayer, I was constantly dying in deathmatch. I actually liked infection a lot, but halo did that better. Those are the only two I've tried. Finally there's extinction. Truth be told, I love extinction. Now I've only played the first level of extinction, but it was amazing! In single player it's fun, and in multiplayer, it's incredible. Nazi Zombies, eat your heart out. So yes, Ghost is pretty bad, but within the see of repetitive and unoriginal game play, there is some stuff worth playing.
Finally someone who hates call of duty as much as I do! and you forgot apart of it my friend riley he was playing the bit where you are in space and he had a grenade launcher attachment and when he fired it curved down as if there was gravity along with the ability to hear gunshots in space.I am just entering highschool and I am more intelligent then the people who make a million dollar franchise.
Danny Breslin If you have a PC, get Call of Duty 4. That game is what every Call of Duty and most first person shooters have strived to (and failed) to be.
I just can't stop myself replaying 4:39 over and over again. Just the fact that a freedom-loving patriot runs around hitting Aslan repeatedly with a sword and Aslan kindly asking him to stop is just great.
4.38 - Oooh, and now a Don Quixote reference too?! Yahtzee, you are a well-read one! (Said reference being the character attacking a windmill, which is a classic scene in the original story, when Don Quixote mistook a bunch of windmills on a hill for an army of giants)
I saw this review coming from 50 miles away, and it was everything I hoped it would be. Not a single mention of the word spunkgargleweewee tho. Yahtzee's slipping :V
I think CoD's dreadfulness has finally come full circle and it has already started biting Activision in the ass. How they complained about the the sales not matching their expectations is proof that their overdue downfall has officially begun :)
It's odd that a critic's review about a predictably lacklustre game can cause the comment section to descend into a den of dweebs engaging in back-and-fourth mithering about their 'omnipotence' regarding militaria as if it's supposed to be impressive... You're all pretty, girls, now pipe down.
maybe if we (burly white dude) say burly white dude enough we can (burly white dude) beat whatever (burly white dude) is at the "burly white dude" top (burly white dude) did i mention burly white dude
I kinda wish that this game was more like Call of Duty: Fallout/ Days of Ruin/ Optimistic Mad Max (like a group of soldiers who decided to save the survivors against raiders). This was what I thought when trailer came out. You should know that previous CoD has other countries besides US until Black Ops and Ghost, and the British Commandos were the only competent characters in MW series.
PLEASE try Far Cry for the Wii !! It is the manly game you always wanted to play on the Wii. You can dual wield any weapon, melee people with your bare hands that are as muscular as schwarzy during his mister world days and includes more content to criticise than you could ever want.
you know, every year I look forward to Yahtzee's Call of Duty review. It's basically the same game every time so it's fun to see how funny he can make it this time around.
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I always hate how stealth in CoD games really just consists of lying in some grass as someone tells you what to do. Then once you get what you came for your cover is immediately blown.
Seriously, is there any CoD mission where you make it in and out undetected? It makes me wonder how the protagonists even become elite soldiers if during every mission they end up shooting their way out.
I remember there was this one mission where you had to time shots with your co-op partner to take out multiple targets at once. But that stealth segment was completely avoidable and the stealth part was for an achievment...
This is why CoD never should have moved out of the WWII genre, and transferred itself to a Special Ops themed shooter.
I feel the CoDs downgraded. Look at CoD 3 and pay close attention to the variety of features and how they empathized on the game being about war, not some excretion meant to lead you to buy some overpriced DLC.
I am not disparaging some "master-piece" of a genre, which kicked of with its 6th= I MEAN 4th game, but honestly I don't understand why people buy this franchise anymore, as they could play CoD 3 for a larger arcade shooter that requires more talent to implement effectively, play a larger scale war game such as Battlefield, not buy another CoD for 5 years to see some actually change in the franchise, or drink a liter of tar, and bash their face into their console until they realize how repetitive this series is.
HaloAndMinecraftFtw Well, remember, it can't be the brilliance of stealth that Dishonored has. (I wouldn't know how good it is in Thief, I haven't played it.)
"All Ghillied Up" in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was pretty awesome.
***** I haven't played Dishonored so I can't have much of an opinion on the stealth, but that's completely different. What I'm mostly trying to say is that lately CoD's stealth hasn't really been stealth. You snipe and stab a few guys, and then your cover is blown.
For example, in a Modern Warfare 3 mission you swim under some docks and into a sewer to sneak into the city. After a few close calls, and the already mentioned sniping, you come across an army of men. But rather than finding some way around, Price decides that the best course of action is to attack them head on with his own army, effectively turning the entire city into a warzone. Yet for some reason, Markarov's (The guy you're there to kill) meeting isn't canceled the next morning.
Or the mission where you sneak into a fortress. You leave behind a ton of bodies just waiting to be discovered, and to top it off Price throws a grenade into the control room.
Not to mention that in every single stealth mission an NPC holds your hand through it.
"If that happened in Ghosts you'd probably just fart out all the radiation in one heroic guff, pull the broken glass out of your eyes and use it to shiv the Ayatollah."
You know, call me crazy, but CoD SHOULD go down that route. The series is so over-the-top and such a joke now that going full-on, 100% self-aware parody with its next game seems like the best choice.
Black Ops 2 had the self-awareness down, but not the parody part.
that moment you realize the review is more entertaining than the game.
The moment that you found a worthwhile comment
chris ubhi The moment that you found a worthwhile reply to a comment
***** The moment you feel there is hope for humanity on the toobs.
The moment where you want to keep this joke alive...
That moment when you totally agree
Maybe its called Ghosts because everyone is Burly white guys.
It's called Ghosts because the Ghosts are a fictional elitist military squad. How original.
The Jackal You must be fun at parties.
The Jackal Elite or Elitist?
It's called Ghosts because no one wants to see the game.
its called ghost cause of that one dude from mw2 that everyone thought was cool
This is probably the best review Yahtzee has ever done, and thats saying such a huge statement since his track record is so strong! Keep up the fucking AMAZING work!!!
Oh, innocent Dreamcastguy from 2013... if only you could have known what Yahtzee would do to the Shenmue series
That Monty Python analogy was surprisingly accurate and very well deserved.
3:54 "incidentally the ghosts are well fucking equipped for a guerrilla unit."
aaaaaaaaand thats when Ghosts' plot goes out the fucking window
We only outsourced it to Megatron because Unicron was busy.
omfg, lmfao
You cannot destroy his destiny!
Lol!
Thank you/you're welcome
1:46 the most realistic reaction to this plot element I've ever seen 🤣
I'm glad he didn't jam that promotion down our throats.
oh god, I'm so sorry. Please, tell me and tell me true, how can I preserve my humour?
yeah, you butter be careful around me
Best series of jam-based jokes ever.
Awww thanks! Everyone else is just jelly ;)
Play Hatfall
Hehe, Megatron in charge of weapons development... that sounds potentially interesting...
At least more interesting than this game?
+TheScribeInYellow Michael Bay heard you there :-D
+Clara Pagett OH SH*T!! EVERYBODY HIDE!!! MICHAEL BAY IS MAKING A GIANT SPACE SPACE GUN THAT SHOOTS EXPLOSIVE DOGS!!!!!!
+The Atomic BonBon dont worry! you'll be fine as long as you're a white guy!
Krebons1200 Huh. Uh. Hm.
For once I want to see an FPS in which you play as the member of a small guerrilla unit in a third world country that's under attack by the US, who has gone mental (more son than normal) and is planning on taking over the world.
shit what about the cuban revolution when castro wasn't a dictator. it would be a guerrilla style enviroment and no U.s involvement that i remember but it would be interesting to play threw that piece of history espicly if it was a good fps.
I think Mercenaries is about as close to this as you'll get. Interesting game really. It had incredibly destructible environments as a bonus, at least 2 did, I'm not sure about the first, anyways it was really up there in gameplay for its time.
The first while a great game lacked stunning Graphics and some little things but it was solid Merc's 2 Kinda mixed feelings on it since Just Cause 2 kinda took Merc's thing and cranked it up a few notches that games world map is huge and you can go to all of it O.O.
While not under attack by the US, the Metro games feature non-americans shooting guns at things... Aliens I think. Or interdimensional beings. I forget which. Pretty game.... But as repetitive as any other FPS in which the main goal is to run to the end of the level while shooting as many things as possible.
While that idea would be superb, it'll never sell. Killing hundreds of thousands of those "brown" people? No problem. But killing American soldiers? God forbid. American news outlets will say the game is teaching kids about terrorism and that maybe America isn't always right, and whoever designed that game will be flooded by hate mail and even death threats by parents
That is one of the things that i found odd. The opening title sequence makes them out to be unstoppable sneaky ninja guys, yet you do no sneaking!!! there are no levels that are full on stealthy, stealthy, stealthy.
They're not Ghosts as in "woo we're sneaky Ghosts", they're Ghosts as in "PEW PEW PEW PEW YOU CAN'T STOP US"
I think because "Poltergeists" has too many syllables for their target audience.
Nono
LOL so true.
Love your name btw.
AcceptSolitude Thanks! Yours is neat too, actually has a concept.
Hammerhead547 Just like almost every american citizen. lol
God this is so fucking accurate and his tone is just making it more hilarious
"die in a pose that confuses future archealogists"
lol
1:46 this bit stuck with me. "outsourcing their weapons development to fucking megatron" is such a fantastic way to say "levels of megalomania that should immediately flag anyone as a villain"
this game is 10/10 it has advanced fish A.I
Hahaha
I love how the E3 guys hyped that part of the game up as an example of the power next-gen consoles, despite the fact that Super Mario 64 had the same AI tech 20 years prior.
Those, indeed, were the cod ghosts. The protagonists imagine them because they want to be in a more interesting game.
I want to see a stealth game where you play as a german shepard posessed by a demon (A.K.A. the player) that takes over their mind and makes them stealthily hunt people. It'll be like okami for bastards
Is it just me, or does the black guy always die first?
Yep, but on AW the black guy dies before the last mission. The first guy to die is Will
Nye Covington Will Smith*
The fastest black guy died was at dead space 2
Evolved Gaming You ever play Left 4 Dead?
Evolved Gaming Just like in the 80's
1:17
I couldn't stifle my laughter. I don't think he could have more accurately described the CoD community if he tried.
I relate COD to an Action Packed Block Buster.
Its fun, and great. But in the end you only really wanna play through it one time.
Fairly accurate, but you have to remove "fun" and "great" from that description.
Hey Proto.
it's fun, until you replay it and realize how poorly written and racist it is.
TheNextEvil "I relate COD to an Action Packed Block Buster.
"Its, and. But in the end you really wanna play through it one time."
Dunno, something seems off.
waitwat
I remember being excited at the prospect of pure tenacity saving the day in Ghosts. I thought the ghosts would really on guerrilla warfare to accomplish their objectives. Instead, it's superior technology that wins, like every modern CoD. Sure am getting the "underdog" vibe :|
Yeah....Pretty much what I'm thinking. CoD 2 And CoD4 MW the best.
CoD: Ghosts in a nutshell:
It's a chest...full of old toys. The End.
Not much more needed
Jacy Brooks Not for CoD, apparently.
+TraustiGeir Yep. And you don't even have the freedom to play with each of them whenever you want. You have to wait for the section where the developers give you permission to use a certain "toy"
ProPcGamer Playing the dog was very cool, too bad it only lasted 15 minutes.
He didn't even talk about the revolutionary fish A.I.
Honestly, the Federation are the good fucking guys, what the hell was America doing with that Orbital Death Platform anyway? See how much damage it did in one volley in the first mission? Then the Federation's version uses smaller, much more localized ones that are arguably better (Still an Orbital Death Platform, but whatever.)
All throughout the game the only thing I could think of was. "Those guys are the good guys.", at least with the other CoD games I have to play a little bit before coming to that the conclusion.
+Patrich Urso Here's another good question...why did we have our space laser thingy pointed at US?
SuperLordGaming I think they changed the orbit, the point still stands though.
And here's another, why the f**k would the U.S. have orbital laser weapons?
MaxTheGreat14 Because plot convenience.
Its plots like that though that make me say. "Huh, maybe the rebels who hate America are in the right here."
I mean, when one side built a giant space weapon, and another side used it to wipe out population centers. Sure, you can argue the US shouldn't have built the thing (though I'm not sure it's that different from the already existing nuclear arsenal) but once you use it to wipe out population centers to aid in your invasion you've kinda lost the moral high-ground.
the latins finally get some fucking significance in a cod game aside "brazil fabela guerrilla warfare fucks" and its fucking cod ghosts
4:37 Nice Don Quixote reference
lost in la mancha is too good
i thought i was the only one to get it
Where.
@@duxnihilo The windmill and being disconnected from reality.
"If that happened in CoD: Ghosts, you'd probably just fart all the radiation out in one big heroic guff, pull the broken glass out of your eyeballs and then use it to shiv the Ayatollah." lolz
The part with the guy in Braveheart paint, wielding a claymore and smacking it against a windmill is most likely a reference to Don Quixote. I like it when Yahtzee adds in clever little references like that.
I am happy to see that another person recognized the reference. I've been looking for months to see if someone else has.
epicsauceness100
Oh good, you recognize a reference that every cartoon has ever made from the beginnings of the book, You must be the king of the hill of knowledge and culture.
+epicsauceness100 Lambda complex?
Shλdow Ember Yup.
epicsauceness100 Better grab the Gluon gun.
i just got a us army ad that shows soldiers gunning from that F*cking video game twin propeller-ed thing that doesnt exist or if it does sure as fuck isnt used by the military. doing a d-day style beach landing.(which the US hasnt done since the korean war if you wanna be generous) and lastly charging a battle line rambo style....which again the US hasnt done since korea and when "we"(cause im american though i am wishing i wasnt by an increasing amount each day) did we got our ass handed to us by china. since that war the only thing american soldiers have done is get told to fight multiple un-winnable guerrilla wars as in-efficiently as possible and also piss off as many people as they can while doing so..
finally ending with the tagline "which way would you run?" which was the eye rolling cherry. cause the answer is "not into the machine gun fire, if thats what you are asking we already did that, its called world war one"
+odd135 They actually are quite useful for MED- and CASEVAC but pretty certainly not used to carry troops into Battle.
***** The Speed advantage actually comes down to it being 90% faster than the CH-47 and 60% faster than the UH-60, which for a bleeding soldier is rather considerable. You are right about it being hard to land for normal helipads but as the US are setting up their frontline military hospitals on aircraft carriers to make them harder to attack by guerilla forces, the Osprey can actually land there and due to its speed it increases the survival chances of wounded troops. I think it can also carry more troops than the UH-60 (although less than the CH-47) so ( at least for CASEVAC) it is be the superior option due to its blend of capacity and speed. It is also easier for the medics to move around in and is flying more stable during high wind speeds, making emergency operations less dangerous.
Listening to Yahtzee recounting the story, i could _almost believe_ that the writers meant to do a Spec Ops: The Line-style twist, where the U.S really does turn out to be the bad guys, but EA cut it short of that, and what we're left with is basically set-up for an antagonist that never has their fall.
Except EA isn’t CoDs publisher-Activision is
That's so true, the dog was literally in like 3 levels and the third one got shot, all about publicity with you cod isn't it! Tell me!
Whenever I’m having a bad day I watch one of Yahtzee’s call of duty reviews to cheer me up
and as i looked at Yahtzee's review, i didint scroll down to the comments untill it was over, i paused for a moment, and thought: I BET you if i scroll down, I'll see a lot of baseless racism, tea party members going on about nothing, people from other countries bashing america, and people talking about just how stupid the cod universe has become. I scrolled down, and was not proven wrong.
by 'bashing' the US im sure you mean pointing out stuff you dont want to admit is true...well, no, most of the comments are still americans insulting back those people, thus proving those facts correct
***** no, i said non-american comments talk about the US and how it seems some of its people act and think(in this case, about how americans make most of their shooter games center around them and how egocentric they are), then americans themselves reply acting the exact same way they were said to be or simply by insulting
not that they all do it...but ive seen it pretty often
Excellent use of litotes in the last sentence of that comment. (Litotes is a rhetorical device that denies the opposite of something)
Anon
The problem is, most times when non-Americans insult America, it's usually either elitist nonsense or just a straight up "Fuck America [insert country] is better" Sure there are problems with the US, I'll never debate that until we bring about world peace and end all suffering in the world. But when someone has baseless criticisms for your country, you're bound to get defensive.
supercoolguy43 funny
americans tend to get offensive, not defensive
and btw you're hypocritically using the most common american argument when this topic comes up:
"Fuck [insert country], America is better"
In the word's of Vas from Far Cry 3, The definition of Insanity is that of repeating the same fucking thing over and over again expecting something to change.... CoD in a nutshell
Fer Morales They said themselves that it isn't a new engine.
Fer Morales Yeah, you're an idiot.
***** I added the word fucking, And Vas used fucking in it, therefore it was Vas :P
***** XD When did this shooting happen???
“A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.”
Can't make their own super-weapons?
They did, at the end of the game. There's literally an entire mission centered around that one objective, to take the enemy-equivalent of ODIN.
Call of Duty is running out of countries to set up as America's enemies.
For all I know the next COD will be a modernized retelling of WW2. I mean if they can rationalize *all of South America* as the US's enemies I'm sure they can bring back Germany, and Japan.
Next: Germany learns how to cure nazi zombies into normal nazi's, and then japan begins making sushi out of burly white men.
There we go, that's the next game's plot. Calling it
ho about france?
Kamfrenchie
French terrorists bombing the provisional government controlled by the German Fourth Reich?
Fund it!
CoD in todays japan, im only saying that though because i think it would be a cool setting and multiplayer maps. And obviously a ninja level. Cyber Ninjas vs Mech Samurai
***** 25 Killstreak - Play as Raiden and have people die from being amazed how many ways he can cut a Watermelon.
I agree with Yahtzee on one thing: this is definitely NOT a game about fish spirits hanging around Captain D's and Long John Silver's restaurants.
Just want to say that I feel like I've watched almost every zero punctuation and I appreciate what you do Yahtzee
This basically sumed up what's wrong with CoD campaign.
YES! My new fix zero punctuation!
This came out last week.
Pommy McMuffin
He means the video
Fridgeworks Which came out last week.
Do you mean on their website?
Some of don't use or ever visit it. So for me, this came out just now
EpicFlyingCat Not on youtube = It doesn't exist
One of my favorite comments about Ghosts was something to the effect of
>CoD has a dog as a main character before it has a woman as a main character.
It says so much, doesn't it? Even Gears of War (which I loved because sometimes you need to embrace the part of your mind that loves the idea of a chainsaw bayonet) got in on that whole 'diversity' thing better than you, CoD. And the Gears live in the remnants of an authoritarian-style society's apocalyptic future but we can STILL find more Non White Men to include than you with your seven billion people on Earth.
Well, to be fair it wouldn't make sense for women to be in the kind of combat roles depicted in COD. All the WWII ones had no women in the infantry, Modern Warfare focused on spec-ops, Black Ops was same, Ghosts was more of the same. It's all in a universe with the same rules as America's military. Gears of War is in a fictional universe, and can depict as many women warriors as it wants.
***** except for the insanely small possibility that you are shooting guns in space and this takes place in reality? basically if follows military protocol of not having women in spec ops because having a vagina makes you a liability but doesn't follow the god damn laws of physics. this is in reality right?
***** Yes, although these certain things aren't realistic, Call of Duty: Ghosts takes place in an 'altered' reality to our own. Not an entirely different universe It is actually possible to fire a gun in space.
AllGamesAwesome Completely ignoring the woman thing, if you fired a gun in zero g it would send you flying just like the bullet. i am quite sure that is bad for game flow if you fire your gun and you are sent to the beginning of the level and knocked out.
Call of Duty: Finest Hour (I think) had a woman who was your sniper/ sniper spotter on the Soviet Front, argument destroyed, you've been lawyered.
Gotta love that Don Quixote reference at 4:37.
Just discovered this channel AND ITS SOOO DAMN GOOD !!!
Please enjoy responsibly. Don't watch too many at once. You'll find that days will pass without you noticing, among other symptoms.
If you start using colorful language to describe mundane events or begin talking in a fast paced, Anglo-British accent seek immediate medical help.
ChunkNinja only if it lasts longer than four hours.
Why aren't cod games just called "White guy shoots everyone and everything that isn't a white guy" or would that count as a plot spoiler
+Clara Pagett
It should actually be called
"People from USA shoot anyone that isn't from USA because they are communists and hate freedom"
Russians are still white people.
+Clara Pagett 10 WORDS OR LESS GODDAMMIT! I CAN'T READ THESE NOVELS!
+Clara Pagett are we forgetting the first 3 games where we punch out endless streams of cackling, evil nazis?
dtice
Ahh that's true It's too easy to forget that COD used to be a world war shooter series before they started printing endless variations of Modern Warfare
+Clara Pagett god forbid any shooter having a brown person dying in, every time there's a cod game with a non white guy dying in it, everyone forgets every part where a white guy dies, you know, like 80% of the series.
I just want to take a brief little moment to acknowledge how adorable Yahtzee and at the dog are hiding in the tall grass at 2:57.
Yeah, I could tell as soon as I saw the trailers on TV, I knew it was gonna be exactly the same unrealistic load of crap that Crap Ops II was. And unsurprisingly, I was right.
Lewtable at least Blops is playable
Have you noticed that the only COD games that have made it to Yahtzee's worst list were the ones made by Infinity Ward and none of the COD games made by Treyarch are on the list? He even admits that BLOPS2 is self-aware. Okay, he liked COD4 which was also made by Infinity Ward but that was in the past. Now Infinity Ward gets even worse especially their treatment of PC gamers. I can't believe I said it but I want to know what Treyarch is offering this year. At least they treat PC gamers nicely.
what do you mean treatment to pc gamers? do they whip out there chains and slash their eyes open?
Haha nice. It might have been a bit invisible for the former COD titles by Infinity Ward, but it shows in Ghost with the 6GB RAM requirement lies.
the old infinityward is creating titanfall :D
DJ Speedy That... actually sounds fun...
& It is SOOOOOO much more fun then ANY Modern Shitfare that Infinity Ward shits out
What do you all want to bet next year that when another CoD inevitably comes out that Yahtzee's review of it will inevitably contain another callback to that one nuke scene from CoD 4?
I WANNA BE A LOSER WHO SITS AT HIS COMPUTER ALL DAY!
Oh wait i am already that.... um
A BIG BURLY WHITE GUY!
No no no, everyone would call that racist.
A BIG BURLY BLACK GUY!
the problem is i'm not black.
NOBODY!
it's the perfect plan!
Probably because ever since COD 4, they have been trying to recreate that moment by having a 'shocking' scene in each game
When I first heard about CoD Ghosts I thought it was like the zombies mode but you were fighting ghosts so basically a coop ghostbusters thing, that would be great!
They have that. It is called multiplayer for ghostbusters the video game.
Tuffluck 1337 omg I must find that!
I swear it's Gabe from Yahtzee's LPs doing the "Jaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmm."
This is one of best reviews he has ever made.
just picked up my first ps3.. for 60 bucks. GAWD i love new console releases
Lucky sod
How is this relevant to this vid ? And PC MASTER RACE KNEEL BEFORE OUR MIGHT YOU FILTHY PEASANTS!!
***** At least I'm able to upgrade it, unlike having to wait for a new console to come out with tech on it from 3 years ago... ;3;
***** Unfortunately now it doesn't mean having games consoles can't run, because games today are made with consoles in mind and PCs tacked on as less than an afterthought.
This is by far your best review yet. heck , you put more effort into this review than the entire dev team for this game and a lot more entertaining than all of them.
The only way that COD could possibly go downhill from here is if they ever make a Ghosts sequel about how the villain and his newly brainwashed victim from this game (spoiler warning, though if you actually care that's sad) team up with a "terrorist" group composed solely of Native Americans and the ending is a final assault on their HQ located in a site like Wounded Knee.
JAM....
Though I agree with JAM you have a my little pony pick and for that I dislike you as an individual if you are a male and over the age of 15.
Kyle Hallam Lol ok whatever
Monkeynetgam3r Just expressing my opinion sir brony.
Kyle Hallam Well ok then :)
I like how he's able to say so mic about the plot without actually spoiling it.
This is one of my favourite zero punctuation episodes - every point is dead on
I have been waiting WEEKS for this!
And now, everyone's favorite yearly bowel movement!
nah, yahtzee is biased because was not sponsed by doritos.... sarcastic mode off...
that was pretty sarcastic!
Alexander P no it wasn't he had a brain and hates this game
yep, i hate call of duty the punisher...
Ah Call of Duty, the one thing I will always agree with Yahtzee on.
For next year I want Call of Duty: Democracy, where a bunch of white dudes with guns hunt down nuclear weapons in the East and save America from the evil terrorists and... what's that, Fairy of Shit games? That's been the plot of the series for how many years? Well fuck me.
Don't worry: I'LL SAVE YOU!!! * Hands a copy of Spec Ops: The Line *
Zelousmarineinspace *Catches box. I've played it, but thanks regardless. =D
cod should have a game mode where your guns are replaced with purses and you have to slap you enemies to death with them lol
No. Because that's a mod. And mods are creative. And we don't want a creative game industry now, do we?
And if you get five kills with your handbag, you can call in an airstrike that bombards the map with larger, explosive-filled handbags. Don't forget the seven-kill bonus, which allows you to open your handbag and summon a pack of vicious chihuahuas.
YES
This. This is his best review ever.
Well at least, it's really damn great, especially considering I never played this game, nor will I ever, but I was thoroughly educated and entertained at the same time. Personally, his "Bioshock" review was what made me a fan of his, and it's especially great if you've played "System Shock 2."
that last line, priceless
Tim Senna Only because everyone hates Ghosts (I'm not an exception), but it's not his best review ever.
true, but there are those few awesome lines
He he, I got the windmill reference. I am so clever and smart...
Clever bugger
I swear I watch this once every month or so.
M, Same.
0:35 i would buy that game
ROFL The Braveheart Expy attacking the Windmill, awesome reference to Don Quixote.
"ORBITAL FUCKING MISSLE WEAPON?!?!" cracks me up every time.
I think Yahtzee needs to review Okami. It's a game that is surprisingly unique in both game play and storyline. It also avoids the gray color tone that most games today suffer from. However, it is on the Wii. So take from that what you will.
It`s on the PS2 as well so he might even enjoy it
Semyon Galtsev the sound was great wen i played
Semyon Galtsev
what do you mean by sound?
on wii?
He never really reviews old games, it's almost entirely new releases each week
What you expected something different? This is cod, same moneygrab shit different year
Do not buy this no matter what. Want single player? Play the first few Ghost Recons. Want multiplayer? Play Battlefield.
Ncusa17 TF2 != BF4
Ncusa17 they're two totally different games
Ncusa17
Team Fortress 2 doesn't have bugs, that's rich.
Ncusa17 Lies.
Want full scale invasions on a hugs ass map where its basically 2000v2000 (by continent) Play Planetside 2
Ya know what would be funny, if the next call of duty was basically a giant middle finger to the people who play it by having 2 plots: plot A is basically spec ops the line but somehow even worse and plot B is being against america which is now ruled by angry COD fanboys who decide to become a nazi like army because they are afraid that other countries will "invade" them when they have the superior equipment...that actually sounds like a good plot for something.
wolfganghammerfistheywood Except if it bumbles that up and fails to make it resonate with the player.
worse in quality or worse in grittiness?
wolfganghammerfistheywood Challenge accepted.
0:34 I suddenly would really like to play a Call of Duty game set during the Cod Wars where you are a former SAS member that is currently making a living as a fisherman until Iceland declares war on the UK and it's up to you and your squad to save the day for queen and country but little do you know that the war was actually started by vengeful fish that were able to secure some nukes from the Soviets in return for long lost Atlantean technology
Even if you love CoD DO-NOT-BUY-THIS!!!!
South America, or at least Brazil, would probably attack Germany for what happened in the last FIFA World Cup games......
Man this is gonna be good
indeed it will
I got Ghosts a few days ago, and I think your pretty right. I got it to play with my friends, but my internet was down, and I live by the value of campaign before multiplayer. The campaign did lack proper stealth, except for Jungle Ghosts which is the most fun I've had in the game as of yet. Most of the variations from just gunning are fun, because I got really sick of gunning really quickly. This might be because I was playing on the second hardest difficulty, but I always died really quickly unless I sat down, shot a bit, and sat down again. What I like about the halo games is that they let you survey your surroundings and give you a fair chance.... most of the time. In ghosts you have to die repeatedly to learn the enemy locations, and slowly figure out exactly what they're going to do. Then you kill them all, and there was a guy in the next room with a shotgun. If a larger portion of the game was like jungle ghosts, I might have had more fun. I had zero fun in gun fights to be sure. I did like scaling walls and playing as the dog. I'm not done, but I have encountered one thing that was total crap. The underwater level. I believe this was the last level I played, or the second to last. You literally hide behind rocks and then shoot a bit. It's the same thing but in the ocean! As for the multiplayer, I was constantly dying in deathmatch. I actually liked infection a lot, but halo did that better. Those are the only two I've tried. Finally there's extinction. Truth be told, I love extinction. Now I've only played the first level of extinction, but it was amazing! In single player it's fun, and in multiplayer, it's incredible. Nazi Zombies, eat your heart out. So yes, Ghost is pretty bad, but within the see of repetitive and unoriginal game play, there is some stuff worth playing.
Finally someone who hates call of duty as much as I do! and you forgot apart of it my friend riley he was playing the bit where you are in space and he had a grenade launcher attachment and when he fired it curved down as if there was gravity along with the ability to hear gunshots in space.I am just entering highschool and I am more intelligent then the people who make a million dollar franchise.
~650k views ~10k likes and only 171 dislike. Truly your views on pop entertainment are on the furthest of fringes...
almost everybody hates call of duty kid, and its not becuase of an unrealistic space fight sequence
not everyone. and why do you immediately assume that I am a kid. By the way assuming makes an ass out of u
Jacob Dragonfist You said you just entered high school fucktard
ah damn
I bet 80% of you agreeing with this review own the damn game.
yah i returned ghosts. got my 50 bucks back
Russell Johnson The first COD game I ever owned was BO2...I returned it in a week....I never got a COD game since.
Danny Breslin
If you have a PC, get Call of Duty 4. That game is what every Call of Duty and most first person shooters have strived to (and failed) to be.
Russell Johnson My dad was so pumped, we got it for the PS3 AND the upgrade for PS4.
Wasn't worth it. At all.
***** how old is he and, why did he get pumped for ghosts?
Ok, does Yahtzee's voice sound slightly different in this video than the others to anyone else? It's like RageNineteen impersonating him or something.
5:26 - 6:38 That's quality writing right there! XD
This is probably the best Zero Punctuation I have ever seen.
I just can't stop myself replaying 4:39 over and over again. Just the fact that a freedom-loving patriot runs around hitting Aslan repeatedly with a sword and Aslan kindly asking him to stop is just great.
Oh god did anyone else see the ending after the credits?
Jaaaaammmmm
Jaaaaaaaammmmm
Can`t believe he didn`t mention the umbevievebly unrealistic space physics...
Read the little credits things He talks about it there
"If i angle my weapon to the side i move faster" how is that supposed to work in space?!.
oh this guy never gets old.
4.38 - Oooh, and now a Don Quixote reference too?! Yahtzee, you are a well-read one!
(Said reference being the character attacking a windmill, which is a classic scene in the original story, when Don Quixote mistook a bunch of windmills on a hill for an army of giants)
I saw this review coming from 50 miles away, and it was everything I hoped it would be.
Not a single mention of the word spunkgargleweewee tho. Yahtzee's slipping :V
I think CoD's dreadfulness has finally come full circle and it has already started biting Activision in the ass. How they complained about the the sales not matching their expectations is proof that their overdue downfall has officially begun :)
QUICK! Shove against them so they fall faster!
You got it :)
It's odd that a critic's review about a predictably lacklustre game can cause the comment section to descend into a den of dweebs engaging in back-and-fourth mithering about their 'omnipotence' regarding militaria as if it's supposed to be impressive...
You're all pretty, girls, now pipe down.
Nailed it!
Just for kicks I searched 'burly white dudes' in youtube and this was the 2nd video.
maybe if we (burly white dude) say burly white dude enough we can (burly white dude) beat whatever (burly white dude) is at the "burly white dude" top (burly white dude) did i mention burly white dude
I kinda wish that this game was more like Call of Duty: Fallout/ Days of Ruin/ Optimistic Mad Max (like a group of soldiers who decided to save the survivors against raiders). This was what I thought when trailer came out.
You should know that previous CoD has other countries besides US until Black Ops and Ghost, and the British Commandos were the only competent characters in MW series.
Best review ever.
"The US has been invaded by all of South America."
Me,a Latin:
Here comes the stereotypes
PLEASE try Far Cry for the Wii !! It is the manly game you always wanted to play on the Wii. You can dual wield any weapon, melee people with your bare hands that are as muscular as schwarzy during his mister world days and includes more content to criticise than you could ever want.
*sees Zero Punctutation video about Call of Duty: Ghosts*
"Oh man, this is going to be good."
Man. That Don Quixote reference. subtle and beautiful
you know, every year I look forward to Yahtzee's Call of Duty review. It's basically the same game every time so it's fun to see how funny he can make it this time around.