I think it started before Fortnite got very popular, but I hear what you're saying. The over-saturation of forced battle royale modes and battle passes got really really bad, and we're still stuck in it. The monetization and gaudiness of everything in gaming now was gonna happen regardless of Fortnite I think.
Can't blame Fortnite when Call of Duty started the micro transactions BS around Advanced Warfare time(2014) and Fortnite came out in 2017. It's all Activision's fault
I guess is it really a bad thing if kids aren’t growing up seeing graphic depictions of people getting shot, hung and immolated? WaW shows the horror of war extremely well, but there’s a difference between just showing something and actually saying something about it. Cod isn’t an anti-war series and it isn’t making anyone turn anti-war, either. It seems like people want that kind of imagery back just because that’s the level that they’ve been desensitized and normalised to, and because they feel like they’re being patronized for not having it. I just find it weird that brutality and violence is considered ‘mature’ when it’s just showing it for showing its sake. It feels like people are having a tantrum about not seeing arms get blown off because that’s the ‘reality of war’, but they don’t actually give a crap about war, or stopping wars from happening - they’ll just play Multiplayer and zombies. I think the series can take itself seriously without having to go to the extremes that it did in the past.
@@magicalunderscoreleaf So actually showing the horrors of war is more desensitizing than making a meme of it? Lmao I guess we should stop making War movies as well. Can't let anyone see how brutal conflicts actually are. Pretend it doesn't exist and just cover it with rainbows and teletubby outfits. And if you actually played the older series, you would know it was anti-war which makes your entire point moot.
@@Leon_SKennnedyto be honest it’s good because of how much is unclear about it. You have no idea who really killed her parents because first it says it was Adler then it changes to an unknown person. All you know is someone in the FBI killed them. I really enjoyed it for what it was. Was BO6 my fav cod? No way. Waw/BO1 shouldn’t even be considered the same game genre honestly. They are so much better but damn BO6 was the best we have had since BO2 in terms of a good campaign.
I'm 27, I played basically every cod except the first one, i also knew it was bad nowadays, but nothing could have prepared me for Nicki Minaj rapping about dropping in, not to mention the on screen vomit being presented visually. I lost another little piece of sanity because of that
@@shred1894well to be fair fortnite is its own game, and what really ruined modern gaming was the need for profits over quality, it’s not epic games’ fault that every modern shooter now copies their successful business model
Game is fun, great gameplay and feels good to shoot guns, free content updates, decent campaign, mp, and zombies, all this whacky shit you don’t even have to buy you can buy the game and that’s it. Art direction fell off but the actual gameplay improves with each iteration. the “Call of duty” in the title isn’t a good reason to hate on it
I'll never forget when my grandpa told me stories of the normandy beach landings. Thousands of american soldiers opening loot crates, pistol grips littered the beaches for miles 😢
I remember that my Grandfather got the teabag emote on an Allied-Soldier and he also twerked the hell out of his corpse afterwards. It was the blurst of times back then.
Enjoy this funny pun because the state of gaming and the gaming industry ain’t changing for the better. All we can do is joke around and make video essays about it. Voting with your wallets is futile when the majority of people still pay for this garbage.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Before I just paid for the game and got the full experience. Now it's all microtransactions. They've turned what was once a video game into a shop for silly stuff. Every 2 or 3 years they release another COD with the same payment methods. An industrialized franchise being a cash machine. They pay more in publishing than in development. There are so many negative factors that the positive things are almost nothing.
It only makes you wonder when the day will come if we need to fight a war. How would this current generation handle it if all they see is goofy colors and marvel-like humor in their movies and tv? One has to seriously wonder
@@adzhadow It's not particularly about "depicting the horrors of war" but rather just playing it straight. Minus a few easter eggs, the old games didn't goof around with the theme and aesthetics. Even camos were relatively grounded, usually being -- well, *camouflage* paintjobs instead of abstract art that animates across the gun. "Realism" isn't really the proper word: It was aesthetically cohesive and aesthetically grounded in a familiar world to the average player.
@@adzhadow You clearly do not understand the difference between artistic direction/consistency and realism. We just want soldiers to look like soldiers, not clowns with pink hair and guns that do not look like entire RGB palette
2:28 for people that don't know the two dudes are Jason West ( left) and Vince Zampella (right). They were the founders of Infinity Ward and the creators of Call of Duty. They were fired by Activisions CEO Bobby Kottick in the middle of 2010. They essentially got stabbed in the back, since they were about to take IW independent again and also take the MW IP with them. That's why MW2 up until a few weeks before launch didn't have COD in the title. Kottick and the board out of panic for losing their money makers ( remember 3arc didn't have a own sub IP at this point) looked for a reason to break the agreement they had with Vince and Jason since they delivered on their part with the incredible success of MW2. What happened was is that Kottick fired them for a breach of trust and also didn't pay them and the other devs the royalties for MW2. Shortly after the huge IW exodus happened with like 50% of the team leaving with Vince and Jason. They formed Respawn Entertainment shortly after.
And then went on to make two extremely good games, and the makings of a third pretty good game. Then that third grew out of control into the same exact mess you're seeing in this video. Colorful slop and no cohesion.
If it makes you feel any better, most of them are chronically weak and ineffectual people; utterly incapable of the feats of which they fantasize about.
3:05 I remember saw this gameplay at my cousin pc when i was younger. Corpses lying around everywhere with that ambience sound, i never touch the game until i got old enough to tell myself i was ready to embrace the scene. Truly nostalgic.
The sad thing is that no one remembers Medal Of Honor anymore either. Those old games, despite having some silly moments every once in a while, were built on solemnity and respect towards the lives lost in ww2. Look at missions like Arnhem Knights, the setpieces of ruined cities, the men falling as they fight alongside you, the civilians caught in the middle of it, all accompanied by the glorious soundtrack. It really left an impression on me as a small kid about the horrors of war
Reddit is like that burning coal mine that is impossible to put out. Regardless of how you tried to put it out, it would have still been buring until the end of time
@@haroldhughesyo besides the original 3 cod games, it's the only one that takes itself seriously. Rest are Michael Bay action schlock. People are blinded by nostalgia. Cod has been cringe and stupid for the last 16 years.
@@akuisbestgirl2448 Reznov was such a goated character. His lines about how someone should read the journal and how stalin had no need for heroes are very memorable imo. Modern cod couldn't create someone like him.
@@whodatninja439 1-3 and 5 were the only ones that cared about a somewhat historically accurate retelling of history. That doesn't mean that 4, bo1, mw2, and 3 etc did not take themselves seriously, they were still great games (bo1 having arguably the best campaign out of any call of duty game) and I wouldn't consider them cringe or stupid at all. The series only went cringe and stupid after they took it to space.
COD4 was a depressive/moody game visually. That's why it worked so well. It tried to show you that war isn't a good thing. Now ? The characters cheerfully pewpew and run with colors everywhere. I still remember playing all these years ago how bad I felt when the nuke scene happend. Then the aftermath was even worse.
That part fucked me up as a kid. Seeing the devastation of a nuke and thinking "Oh I'm far enough away from it, I'll just get out of the helicopter and- wait, why am I dead?"
I immediately have gone back to play the dark ones as I was planning on this to be my call of duty retirement, but it was so fucking disappointing. It wasn’t like Cold War, mw2 is so good now in comparison (the og one not new one)
Call of Duty wasn't making light of war back then. Now it's akin to laser tag. If I can don my tinfoil hat for a minute; I think Call of Duty is trying to make young people think that war's a game. We haven't seen WW3 pop off yet, it's just been small sandbox escapades since Korea. Call of Duty might get a wake up call when the big pop off happens and no one wants to think about war in their hobby anymore. ie. War is glamourous to those who haven't experienced or were threatened with it.
Remember when BO1 had simple face paint customization? Nothing bright pink, no cartoon characters running around. It felt semi-realistic. Those were the days….
I also miss the severity of the campaigns. They used to be gripping, have characters you hated to see go. My last COD was the reboot of MW, i think its the 2017 one idk, but that campaign was just so uninspired and boring. There were no dynamics like Reznov and Mason.
Remember Advanced Warfare? that game had such good customization, it was so in-depth. Sure there was some goofy cosmetics but a lot of it was realistic and tactical.
He must have hit things real close to the mark to stir everyone up like this. Holy crap, I've never seen so many people passionately defend multi-billion dollar corporate slop.
Because what has happened to this franchise is the same kind of conditioning you see on popular streaming sites, movies, corporate job training videos, and throughout social media. In my eyes it is an evil disguised as "good and fairness." The purpose it serves is to distract and distort reality. There is a high chane this comment will be hidden.
somewhere out there is an absolute NPC who sees the bright moving colors and shapes of these new cod trailers and is slapping their hands and feet together in genuine excitement like a baby
@@arycorvette884 "Don't it always seem to go? That you don't know what you got till it's gone, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot" - Joni Mitchell
I truly believe that Fortnite's success in the microtransaction-centered cosmetics business has done irreversible damage to the gaming industry. It revealed who you really could trust with making a good game, and who was only in it for the instant returns... and it revealed the people who couldn't even tell the difference between the two.
@@courier6448 "Their land, their people, their blood" and actual Hitler speeches playing during German victory to: "I shoot nazi, they die, that's my plan" and my team vs enemy team. The series crashed harder than the helicopters after the nuke in cod4.
@@FlamespeedyAMV also I've seen lots of dudes defending this skin thing, like modern cod "fans" don't care about having fun, they care about spending money on skins to satisfy their materialistic desires
@@FlamespeedyAMVThat’s taking it way too far. It’s a video game dude, not everyone is gonna care about battle passes and skins and are just gonna buy it. I’m not saying it’s right, but these are also normal people. That’s just being overdramatic.
3:57 They criticized these games for "glorifying war" and encouraging violence when they showed war's horrors in a realistic way, but when Nicki Minaj and Homelander are running around with guns they say nothing
You think two frames or four frames depict the real horrors of war when you already know you're playing a video game on your couch ? 😂😂 This is great propaganda / excuse for some yall to join the military.
These videogames have always been about glorifying violence and the American military and it's global intervention. Just because the media landscape has changed and a new wave of children fall for different things doesn't mean it's all newly propaganda.
Probably because it's flanderized to the point of being ridiculously fictitious/littered with collabs out of left field. No one takes it seriously anymore, not even Activision themselves
Old COD : Band of Brothers against impossible odds to become heroes surviving the most extremes of extremes ... based on real true horrific historic events New COD : Become a Psycho and express your inner fantasies how to dismember a corpse...
Old MW: The foreign wars come home in an exaggerated, but no less harrowing plot that keeps you glued till the end. Rise to protect democracy from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Whatever it takes. New MW: Forever war based lmao
@@RabidDeathCursed oh you mean the woke COD6 that now uses AI voice recognition that BANS CURSES , F Bombs and calling other names... in a M rated game , that pushed realistic gore ... but you can't curse ... like WTF !!!!!
The franchise was cooked the moment they had you opening loot boxes on Omaha beach, you know, the place where D-day had the most deaths. A “neat” game mechanic where everyone in the lobby could watch you do it and also get inspired to pull their own loot boxes.
IMO the franchise was cooked when the original Modern Warfare (or maybe MW2) released. At this point the COD series started pivoting from stories rooted in reality about how despite a war's atrocious events, there can be camradery and bravery to Michael Bay in video game format. I'd already started to check out of the series by this point.
Love this comment made me Lol xD. So sad to see a franchise when i was younger that was so captivating and creative with such compelling story telling. Games that we thought would only get better and better and looked forward to seeing that happen with better graphics. How wrong we all were when we were younger. It went from a game with a serious story with loveable characters. Enjoyable multiplayer and casual zombies to a in some cases no campaign at all or a very trash campaign with no effort. A nerdy sweat fest zombies story and a multiplayer that's an eyesore for anyone over the mental capacity of a 12 year old. Hard to be immersed in a game that has a fucking minaj and characters from the boys. I told my dad to not even bother buying the new cod cos he'll just be too disappointed.
tf2 had a collective vision with a very distinct art style which would have been headed by a creative lead. cods just bland with gayness thrown in. you can tell it doesnt know what it is it has no soul.
This is why I was more of an early Battlefield/Arma guy. Especially Arma as it tended to eliminate the console/fork-knife crowd of screaming and consumption indoctrinated infants.
Just clicked in my head all this "War trivialization" is happening not only in games - like, did y'all noticed how many armies now have official tiktok accounts they posting funny videos on daily?
To be fair, in Finnland they really do fun shit most of the times. Jokes aside, this is true and this is why of the many reasons why I don't like the military. People nowadays cry over actual politics being put in games and such, but never did I see cry them about militaries at video game conventions. What I am trying to say is that many instituions tried to infiltrate gaming spaces to get us to join them. For exampe at the Gamescom many years prior the Bundeswehr had their official stand trying to get new recruits. In my mind I would love to seperate these things, I am not judging people that want to join the military, but I'll I judge recruiters fishing where are vulnerable and deceiptive people.
Pretty sure the 360 no scope mlg quickscope, racial slur, camper fps trivialized war too by making it a fun videogame about war that sqeakers always loved
If you ever feel like you're at your worst and you think your life is disappointing, remember there are people out there who still buy the same Call of Duty game every single year.
My older brother spends a sizeable portion of his pay on being a dolphin in various online games. I don't understand it... But I guess something's gotta fill that void if you have no children, lol.
@@sanc3375I dont play madden or Fifa, but I assume there would be backlash if they put a bunch or rappers or puppets as playable characters in the game
I'm still waiting for a Hexen 3 from raven. Its about time they stop sitting on that serie. It was nice in the start, but apart from the first three in the cod series, never played the rest. Now its up in 22nd game or something. but i have my doubt it wouldve been the same as other hexen games, and probably ended up "soulless" too. I happened across a live broadcast from raven once, and i randomly wrote, "Hexen 3, when?" but what caught me of guard i think one of them knew what those games are, because he read it loud and chuckled but dismissed it as quickly. It suks when greed is a driving force behind games
Damn Crowbcat, you always know how to hit in the feels. Preach those good old times! I almost don't play anything new nowadays, mostly replaying classics like this one.
@@vrapbrap the people back in those days for the most part have jobs and are a contributing member of society now. Not much hope for the current player base, things don’t look too bright for their future
I modded my sick dual mp40's with a big titty weeb skin and dove out of the trench blastin' and rackin' up a kill streak on the "non political Axis" troops~ First hand account of the Battle of the Bulge
@@user-MidwayDisc If you don't bother with it in comments on youtube, you won't bother with it anywhere. It's for your own good if you pay attention to stuff like that.
yeah but dont you wanna play as a le epic quirky tough tomboy girl with a pink dyed side part and shaved sides???? cmon man, everyone knows that is so badass and finally lets us express ourselves in a videogame. thats really all that matters. who even cares about a creative storytelling experience??? i mean pull it together man
The hero shooterfication of fps games and its consequences. I'm tired of "le quirky and relatable" characters. Give me a generic soldier who actually sounds scared or tired of constant fighting.
@@philiplee1119Don't forget the constant snarky quips every five seconds where she sounds bored because we all know combat heavy war zones are less of a thrill to her than filing taxes.
Back in the day when you just spawned in as a team full of the same ordinary grunts from SEAL Team 6 or Mercs. “Remember speed and aggression gentlemen”, “Shut up clock in load out”.
Call Of Duty in its prime had a reputation of a ridiculous Hollywood action movie, even that being so the writing was competent, the characters were compelling and the narratives were interesting. Call Of Duty today still has that reputation but none of those positive aspects, instead being replaced with recycled nostalgia and pop culture references.
" recycled nostalgia " that is literally what you fans beg for??? and it's slop, the campaign in MW can be gritty and really cool which the campaigns was praised for but this video ignores all that to show the silly multiplayer mode.
@@Zane-jk9stone thing also to note is that back in the day its not like WAW players had some profound respect for the horrors of WW2 or the setting of the multiplayer, we still ran around and shot each other, raging, blowing each other up and laughing when we got revenge on a camper. I do greatly appreciate the attempt at realism and grittiness in the campaign, but I’m not 100% sure that it really translated into a valuable message for the players. The “real war isn’t like call of duty” mantra has been around since CoD’s golden age.
@@Zane-jk9st who exactly is begging for it? the people who played the originals? it’s not their fault activision decided to reboot the franchise and started putting in nostalgia bait on their own accord. people aren’t asking for recycled nostalgia; they’re asking for it to be done RIGHT.
@@CoolDrifty Agreed. This whole "WAW is 2deep4u" phenomenon is relatively recent, and it's only because nu-COD is so outrageously cartoonish that it's easy for older zoomers to pretend that the COD games they grew up with are worth more than they artistically merit. If COD fans were actually serious about playing games that actually respected the WWII setting, then the Brothers in Arms series would still be alive.
I've given up on Western AAA games as a whole. All the greed, pseudo-activism, and pandering to brain-rotted children chews my very sanity. Fuck that noise. I'm taking my money elsewhere.
Ironic how every shooter back then tried to imitate CoD in style and aesthetics and now CoD is now imitating Fortnite with ridiculous skins and collabs. They are so lucky the IP is widely known because if it was any other game, it would have gone under real quick.
And you know what, I would do imitate Fortnite too. Why? Because majority of people don’t care and I want to make money off them so I can afford a comfortable lifestyle. If me saying that makes you angry, then blame the consumers who keep paying and paying for garbage. It ain’t changing either. These folks are simply “gimmie gimmie gimmie!!! content creators are simply “gimmie gimmie gimmie” sheltered suburban vanilla kids are simply “gimmiie gimmie gimmie!!!”
Don't worry, CoD is going under as we speak...unless they do something drastic...this is the deathbed for CoD...no one is enjoying it other than Zombies
Probably the most infuriating thing for me in gaming has to be the fact that these companies are getting away with putting paid battle passes in PAID GAMES. ESPECIALLY when they’re like bo6 at 70 dollars already base price
Games as a service forcing consumers to treat the game like their job, hijacking their psyche to get them addicted to the compulsion loop. Did you know activision has a patent for a feature that puts people who buy a skin into games with bad players- giving their brain a positive association between buying a skin + doing well in the game?
clearly it's because people are buying them. Tell your friends not to buy them, stop buying them yourself, and maybe something will eventually change. As long as there are donkeys with too much money in their pocket who enjoy spending a shitload of money to look differently in a game, this shit will never stop.
Man, World at War was an absolute masterpiece. A dark, gruesome, gritty, and artistic telling of the world's most devestating and unforgettable conflict. It's just crazy to compare what we have now to this. This game was such an amazing piece of art, and it really shows how bad and pointless games are now and how impactful and meaningful games were and can still be as an artistic medium.
@@KudoYoungMany people, myself included, really disliked how it went from simple mad science gone wrong to straight multiversal endgame stuff. The characters were still pretty fun but good lord did bo4 zombies end with a whimper for the massively overcomplicated plotline. I miss how demonic the waw zombies sounded. Even now those sounds are unnerving compared to the rest of the games.
It's so funny, back in the day I always gravitated to WaW and proudly claimed it was the best one, whereas my friends/classmates argued otherwise. Now they all look back on it like "perhaps I treated you too harshly" compared to the slop we have nowadays 😭💀
@@KudoYoungyea same. I can't stand the new zombies. I had to uninstall black ops 6 today. It's the worst black ops I've ever played. Even the multi-player just terrible. What happened to black ops? It's always been my favorite. I even liked Cold War and BO4 a lot. But BO6 is just so disappointing
The Fortnite-ization of gaming was inevitable. Unregulated casinos for kids make far too much money for investors to consider anything else Though I feel I must point out that Call of Duty used to be a franchise famous for being generic slop. Like, back in the day games would get compared to CoD as an insult. CoD used to be the gaming equivalent of what Marvel movies are today. Only yearly sports game releases used to be considered worse and even then CoD was the butt of the joke far more often.
While you’re not wrong about CoD’s release cycle being mocked by gamers even from back in the day, you can’t deny that the devs at least put effort into making each title stand out from the rest in the franchise somewhat or at the very least have them have a believable and serious setting. For example, Black Ops 1 had an exceptionally good story that fit with its Cold War setting (psychological warfare, number stations, sleeper agents, etc.). The Modern Warfare trilogy, where all 3 games play almost exactly the same, also focused on having a serious story with character development and also introduced one of the most legendary missions in video games (All Ghillied Up). WaW set out to showcase just how horrific a mass conflict like war can be, and it did so perfectly.
It was just popular to hate on CoD. They weren't bad games. When they started doing historical revisionism by putting modern LA citizens and women in real historical battles, it was the death knell for the franchise, and that style of game.
@@bluedistortions Popular case of people not realizing how good they actually had it at the time. Cod also had a lot more major fps competition at the time and the sea of gray color shooters was still in effect so it was an easy target to ridicule. I remember when og mw3 was viewed as the black sheep but when compared to the new mw3 the writing for characters like Makarov makes the old version look like Shakespeare. Waw was also viewed as "just another dull ww2 shooter" after cod 4 dropped yet now that its had time to marinate in people's minds they realize just how hard the devs went for the game and the dreary visuals actually help the games tone and atmosphere. I still miss being a generic soldier and not some hero shooter wannabe. Now that we've seen "le quirky and colorful cosmetic" call of duty it makes sense a lot of the older fans came to miss the older style.
Nah, they happeend around the same time. Played since CoD1 and it was never considered 'slop' by the masses until around BO2/MW3. CoD4 to this day is one of the greatest shooters ever crafted especially on PC. They got progressively worse since COD2 which IMO was the peak. CoD4 was just the first break into the mainstream and when investors realized the gains to be had.
Man, World at War invoked a terror of war that CoD could never attain ever again. Goddamn shareholders killed creativity and quality in the games industry.
I think the cherry on top for this would have been to end it with a compilation of end credits from old cod games when they used to thank veterans and active soldiers on duty for their service.
Writers cant take their work seriously anymore. None of them have the courage to write a story that genuinely means anything because insecurity runs rampant in the generation of writers graduating college and getting jobs at big studios. Everything has to be soaked in irony and madness because holding genuine beliefs and standards is cringe.
This. I also hate how every character in shooters now has to be a hero shooter wannabe who can only speak sarcastic quips instead of genuine lines that fit their situation.
Youre getting mad at the wrong person. It's the executives who call the shots and make sure everything is shot to shit now not the person who's at the writing table wishing they could actually put something meaningful in the game instead of the horse shit their boss wants and expects out of them.
@@bananapeppers5105 It's a mix of both. The execs want money. To get money they have to jump through Fink's ESG hoops. To jump through Fink's ESG hoops, they have to hire writers based on their beliefs, race or gender, not on their skills.
@@bananapeppers5105I’d say you’re both right. The current generation of writers seem to have received an abysmal education. So many want to subvert expectations rather than meet them to be ‘interesting’ and ‘unique’. So many come from comfortable middle-class families and haven’t started a family or done anything else that can develop your character, so they can’t write serious people in serious situations well. However, it’s ridiculous that the corporate executives in the gaming industry are giving such inexperienced writers so much responsibility and influence. Corporate executives have pushed out so many of the talented people that made the games we love and replaced them with far less talented people. Many companies claim to do this in the name of ‘change’ and ‘diversity’ and while this may be partially true, I think by far the biggest reason is that talented game writers and developers have more power. They expect more money, better treatment and greater creative freedom from executive meddling. It’s especially sad because many of the inexperienced writers could become much better working under experienced writers, but instead they’re left to create propagandistic slop. I think it’s really damaging the AAA gaming industry and the executives are happy enough to just keep sailing on a sinking ship.
@@bananapeppers5105Executives just want to make money. A lot of the garbage in modern games is created by talentless hacks amongst the rank and file devs, artists, and writers.
This is extremely flawed logic. I haven't bought a CoD game in over 10 years, but they appeal to enough people so they sell. The people complaining about how far the game has fallen aren't the people buying it. Sorry to take your "gotcha" away, but it's not that simple.
So depressing to watch such a grounded and quality franchise turn into whatever this is. I wish you showed Vanguard's snoop dog and godzilla/king-kong stuff, it is hilariously bad to see that shit in a ww2 setting.
Grounded? Grounded in what? World At War was gritty and actually managed to convey how horrific WW2 was at a lot of points but lets not act like any of their other games were anything more than really fun and engaging "shoot the bad guys" games.
This video has extremely horrific, nightmare-inducing scenes, that will scar your soul, haunt your dreams and keep you awake for years. Thank god they stop at 2:55 and the rest of the video is much more light-hearted.
I always did back in the day. My favorite games are/were games that did a lot with so little, such as FF7, FFT, Xenogears to name a few. All they had back then was an untested device called a Playstation and very little storage space on each game disc, yet look at the storylines, imagery, and music those games brought us. FFT could almost be played on a Super Nintendo for crying out loud, but it still managed to just deliver to the senses in spades. When people refused to criticize & stop buying Squaresoft games after they fell off in 2000, it set the precedent for the rest of the gaming world: Here's the blueprint on how to monetize mediocrity. Now AAA devs prefer mediocrity, because they can never come up short of expectations again, and people will keep buying regardless. It's the same model that government employees/agencies use to keep their jobs.
It is a serious artform, what are you talking about?? Read Dead 2 not serious enough? Cyberpunk? Space Marine? God of War? This War of Mine? Countless other beautiful, enchanting games that can be counted among the best works of art of all time? Come on now. This is like looking at a McDonald's location and saying "there was a time restaurant owners were trying to provide higher quality food and a nicer experience, wish we had appreciated premium dining experiences before it was too late."
AAA gaming consumers sееthing when they realize that they're being soullessly monetized every day and then again and again and again without acting on that realization is the funniest bs ever
@@Afgrahamistan If you were 4 years old when CoD 4 came out, you'd be old enough to drink, grandpa. Those of us who were 13 at the time turned 30 this year. They were peak CoD, at the very least. The 360/PS3 era of multiplayer FPS games stomped all over the Fort-Lite aesthetics, silent lobbies, DEI inserts, and battle passes of modern shooters.
Unrelated, but as horrific and brutal as the White Phosphorous scene where u see the burnt off face of the little girls corpse, its actually still somewhat tame compared to what u do to younglings in prey 2006 and deadspace2
This is the only way a war themed game can actually comment on war without trivialising it. I reject the notion that either version of COD is anything other than an exploitative product fundamentally, even if it is fun to play.
Old art style in games must be preserved, not changed so much that it feels like a completely different series altogether. We have to gatekeep our communities.
Yup then they changed it to cod zombies. I still remember being a kid loading up the og nacht map and seeing the Nazi Zombies screen thinking I unlocked an easter egg and shitting my pants playing the og map
and the N word gets censored by youtube and algorithm won't promote whatever content associate with that word so the whole entire new generation who are too lazy to study history don't even know what is a Nazi. Some know the word and think is cool to scream heil hitler because they're social outcast
I mean it makes sense why it's not anymore. It's no longer centered around WW2 or the Nazi party. Now it's bigger than that. But you can tell the game suffers from hiring overly sensitive devs and trying to cater to SJWs.
I am so glad you used World at War for this. No other call of duty in history ever had or will have the soul, atmosphere, and gripping realism that game was able to capture. It was my first ever call of duty, and will always have a very special place in my heart.
Man, I miss the days when Call of Duty was something more than Product Placement for Netflix shows, junk food brands, and celebrity has-beens clinging to relevancy.
This is really ironic because Crowbcat failed his own relevance when he made that shitty RE4 Remake video and is now trying to pander to people by making videos like this.
@@Benjamin-o9q2o This is the same RUclips channel where they either exaggerated, cherrypicked or have a bias to the point that they deleted some of their videos due to backlash or by request (see: Giant Bomb's VR Coverage and Sprint Vectors). Crowbcat is at their best whenever they cover bad or controversial games.
That video was indeed very misleading if not outright terrible and sorry to burst your bubble but cod was never a gritty war game it was and is American propaganda.@@Benjamin-o9q2o
@@Ronin777zYes he did lol. The allies died so communists (like Reznov) could win, and the end result is the world we live in. The good guys lost WWII, and I'm being serious here. If you can't make that connection this late into the game, safe to say, you never will.
@@Captain-Jinn Played Helldivers and loved it, not sure I would count games like it (darktide ex) among competitive online shooters. Own Remnants and didnt like.
We are living in the worst timeline when we are infantilizing war and the horrors of warfare instead of showing how horrifying it truly was. This is sad to watch man
Good. How can I make money off it. Why? Majority of people don’t care. No good advice, good warning, good recommendations, sensible suggestions will even help the situation. So why bother lol
I've never really been a COD fan, mostly limited to enjoying the story mode in the first couple Modern Warfares. I knew it had gotten bad, but man, part of me still really wants to believe this is modded gameplay.
I kinda wanna go back and play the old ones to see how based it is. I was never much of a cod fan but I started playing on modern warfare 2 and black ops and loved them. Getting on with the boys every night on xbl, cussing and talking shit 😂 Seeing what this franchise has become now though is seriously making me want to revisit the old ones when we were in the bro days 🤦
@@4biddenflow COD has been an arcade game since it's inception mate. It's never attempted to show the "brutality of war", it's a video game aimed at 14 year old boys 😂
20 years ago, politicians were worried about the glorification of violence. Now I'm worried about the infantilization of violence.
the trivialization of war
@@christianmicheal6678I mean we can sit here and act like humans don't do war in lalala land and act like everything is cupcakes and rainbows
That’s probably the gayest shit I’ve ever read lmao
Zoomers yearn for the trenches.
I don't think any of you know what that word means
the fortnite effect over all shooter genre was devastating
Games are now made for preteens rather than adults
I think it started before Fortnite got very popular, but I hear what you're saying. The over-saturation of forced battle royale modes and battle passes got really really bad, and we're still stuck in it. The monetization and gaudiness of everything in gaming now was gonna happen regardless of Fortnite I think.
And woke effect aswell
Can't blame Fortnite when Call of Duty started the micro transactions BS around Advanced Warfare time(2014) and Fortnite came out in 2017. It's all Activision's fault
Roblox is more popular.
fifty thousand brain cells used to live here. now it's a ghost town.
Now it's a numb skull
i lost thirty thousand brain cells in a blink of an eye
@@CorredorDigital_ And the whole world just f***ng watched
@@CorredorDigital_ And the consumers just f*cking watched!
My last brain cell died after watching cod moments in this video
The worst part about growing up is seeing new generations completely accepting this because they never knew something else.
On point. That is the reason why Cod will never be the same anymore.
Its not the young folks fault
I guess is it really a bad thing if kids aren’t growing up seeing graphic depictions of people getting shot, hung and immolated? WaW shows the horror of war extremely well, but there’s a difference between just showing something and actually saying something about it. Cod isn’t an anti-war series and it isn’t making anyone turn anti-war, either. It seems like people want that kind of imagery back just because that’s the level that they’ve been desensitized and normalised to, and because they feel like they’re being patronized for not having it. I just find it weird that brutality and violence is considered ‘mature’ when it’s just showing it for showing its sake. It feels like people are having a tantrum about not seeing arms get blown off because that’s the ‘reality of war’, but they don’t actually give a crap about war, or stopping wars from happening - they’ll just play Multiplayer and zombies. I think the series can take itself seriously without having to go to the extremes that it did in the past.
@@magicalunderscoreleaf i share your opinion. Its an adult game. But most players are Kids i guess
@@magicalunderscoreleaf So actually showing the horrors of war is more desensitizing than making a meme of it? Lmao
I guess we should stop making War movies as well. Can't let anyone see how brutal conflicts actually are. Pretend it doesn't exist and just cover it with rainbows and teletubby outfits.
And if you actually played the older series, you would know it was anti-war which makes your entire point moot.
Not sure if they are an outlier but my kids tend to prefer games from the early 2000s despite being born long after.
the unforeseen consequences of $2.50 horse armor
Unforeseen consequences
Prepare for Unforeseen Consequences
Based understander. It didn't have to be like this. The schizos saw the writing on the wall, they tried to warn us, but we refused to listen.
So dear, when you get back to the office, relay these words to the board: "Prepare for unforeseen consequences..."
Oh, no, they were foreseen.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become a Crowbcat video
Nicely said
Best comment ever
to anwser the title of this clickbait
"it was filled with pro war propaganda, it was always bad, just not filled with abusive and predatory practices"
Id agree but I still remember that one time Crowbcat made a video praising Beatsaber and people shit on it relentlessly causing him to delete it.
@@I_H_M_N "pro war" bro's brain is cooked
Black Ops 1 depicted the effects of psychological warfare, Black Ops 6 inflicts psychological warfare upon you.
😭 exactly
Same as Mass Effect 3 ending that shows the player is actually indoctrinated. Or maybe the devs.
Its crazy how that harrow mission where you go through her memories is praised so much when it's the prime definition of telling, not showing
@@Leon_SKennnedyto be honest it’s good because of how much is unclear about it. You have no idea who really killed her parents because first it says it was Adler then it changes to an unknown person. All you know is someone in the FBI killed them. I really enjoyed it for what it was. Was BO6 my fav cod? No way. Waw/BO1 shouldn’t even be considered the same game genre honestly. They are so much better but damn BO6 was the best we have had since BO2 in terms of a good campaign.
Yeah wtf im so sad
The guy in the dog mask doing a little dance before stabbing the guy is just insane lmao
1:10 Good Lord
That's Snoop Dog, Dog
Gay fetish gimp mask cosplay, but if you say anything about it Activision will ban you for bigotry.
Lol
Yeah I had no idea there were ferries, I just could not accept being downed by a furry, even if it is just pup-play😅
Holy fuck, I knew COD was bad nowadays but the beginning just fingerblasted my soul
The Fortnite Battlepass and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
I'm 27, I played basically every cod except the first one, i also knew it was bad nowadays, but nothing could have prepared me for Nicki Minaj rapping about dropping in, not to mention the on screen vomit being presented visually. I lost another little piece of sanity because of that
@@shred1894well to be fair fortnite is its own game, and what really ruined modern gaming was the need for profits over quality, it’s not epic games’ fault that every modern shooter now copies their successful business model
_We defeated the wrong enemy._
*Captain Price*
Game is fun, great gameplay and feels good to shoot guns, free content updates, decent campaign, mp, and zombies, all this whacky shit you don’t even have to buy you can buy the game and that’s it. Art direction fell off but the actual gameplay improves with each iteration. the “Call of duty” in the title isn’t a good reason to hate on it
2008: real war crime footage
2024: Nikki minaj
Some may argue it's metaphorically consistent?
I see no difference
being forced to listen to nikki minaj is a war crime though
So nothing changed
Genuinely who tf is Nikki Minaj catering too? Does CoD now have a massive black female audience or something?
1:33 honestly felt like I had been watching for 10 minutes at this point.. this must be some form of light torture
🤣🤣
The exact point I hit the comments because I thought the vid was almost over 😭
>tfw brutal war footage feels like a relief
Same. The first 2 minutes of the video felt like 10 or something
Same. When the video started to change theme I said "Wasn't this around 10 min long, how do we have time?"
It’s felt like this since 2015 tbh
BO2*
I'll never forget when my grandpa told me stories of the normandy beach landings. Thousands of american soldiers opening loot crates, pistol grips littered the beaches for miles 😢
Why?😂🤣 I cant with you people!
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember that my Grandfather got the teabag emote on an Allied-Soldier and he also twerked the hell out of his corpse afterwards.
It was the blurst of times back then.
Now that's an old school meme
American soldiers? Don't you mean their team fighting the enemy team?
The Fall of Duty.
Hi Jack :D
@@luunatik5714 Hi Luu
Enjoy this funny pun because the state of gaming and the gaming industry ain’t changing for the better.
All we can do is joke around and make video essays about it.
Voting with your wallets is futile when the majority of people still pay for this garbage.
The Call of Doodie
That sounds ridiculous the fall of doody. Nerds
The game storage is so big because its full of this bullshxt
Lmfao sadly true
They want you to play their crappy game and force delete your games installed.
Call of duty mobile que o diga, 2 gb de jogo e 30 de skins feias e sem sentido.
Basically a bloated garry's mod server.
@@deerri7618 good one!
Crowbcat doesn't say a word but says so much
So much bullshit. Only focuses on negativity because people without nuance crave it. It’s a multiplier. This is all very petty.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Before I just paid for the game and got the full experience. Now it's all microtransactions. They've turned what was once a video game into a shop for silly stuff. Every 2 or 3 years they release another COD with the same payment methods. An industrialized franchise being a cash machine. They pay more in publishing than in development. There are so many negative factors that the positive things are almost nothing.
I hate the fact that everything needs to be goofy and colorful now.
Even war isn't something serious anymore.
Bro why would you make a multiplayer slop shooter gritty and depict the horros of war 😂?
It only makes you wonder when the day will come if we need to fight a war. How would this current generation handle it if all they see is goofy colors and marvel-like humor in their movies and tv? One has to seriously wonder
@@adzhadow It's not particularly about "depicting the horrors of war" but rather just playing it straight. Minus a few easter eggs, the old games didn't goof around with the theme and aesthetics. Even camos were relatively grounded, usually being -- well, *camouflage* paintjobs instead of abstract art that animates across the gun. "Realism" isn't really the proper word: It was aesthetically cohesive and aesthetically grounded in a familiar world to the average player.
@@adzhadow You clearly do not understand the difference between artistic direction/consistency and realism. We just want soldiers to look like soldiers, not clowns with pink hair and guns that do not look like entire RGB palette
@@adzhadow oh god please stick too reddit
2:28 for people that don't know the two dudes are Jason West ( left) and Vince Zampella (right).
They were the founders of Infinity Ward and the creators of Call of Duty.
They were fired by Activisions CEO Bobby Kottick in the middle of 2010.
They essentially got stabbed in the back, since they were about to take IW independent again and also take the MW IP with them.
That's why MW2 up until a few weeks before launch didn't have COD in the title.
Kottick and the board out of panic for losing their money makers ( remember 3arc didn't have a own sub IP at this point) looked for a reason to break the agreement they had with Vince and Jason since they delivered on their part with the incredible success of MW2.
What happened was is that Kottick fired them for a breach of trust and also didn't pay them and the other devs the royalties for MW2.
Shortly after the huge IW exodus happened with like 50% of the team leaving with Vince and Jason.
They formed Respawn Entertainment shortly after.
And then went on to make two extremely good games, and the makings of a third pretty good game.
Then that third grew out of control into the same exact mess you're seeing in this video. Colorful slop and no cohesion.
@@euclidismybro1451 yeah, they just kinda jumped from one terrible corp to another
Still praying for Titanfall 3
@laszlohrabovszky2489 It will literally never happen.
Zampella on the new Battlefield right?
Sometimes I feel like we're living in a world full of psychopathic Teletubbies.
underrated comment fr fr
If it makes you feel any better, most of them are chronically weak and ineffectual people; utterly incapable of the feats of which they fantasize about.
to anwser the title of this clickbait
"it was filled with pro war propaganda, it was always bad, just not filled with abusive and predatory practices"
@@I_H_M_N Do you ever get tired of spamming the same comment since your so butthurt over one video?
Because...you are?
3:05 I remember saw this gameplay at my cousin pc when i was younger. Corpses lying around everywhere with that ambience sound, i never touch the game until i got old enough to tell myself i was ready to embrace the scene. Truly nostalgic.
The sad thing is that no one remembers Medal Of Honor anymore either. Those old games, despite having some silly moments every once in a while, were built on solemnity and respect towards the lives lost in ww2. Look at missions like Arnhem Knights, the setpieces of ruined cities, the men falling as they fight alongside you, the civilians caught in the middle of it, all accompanied by the glorious soundtrack. It really left an impression on me as a small kid about the horrors of war
MOH Frontline was incredible! Arnhem Knights was one of my favorite missions but the D-day landing is the best I've ever seen in game.
@AdamBorseti absolutely. The D-day starting mission is incredibly intense even for today
Well, yeah. The old CoD games were competing with Medal of Honor. Now they're competing with games like Fortnite.
Medal of Honer tip of the spear and following dlcs are goated for their authenticity and quality
Beautiful games
Posted this to the CoD subreddit and the mods took it down shortly thereafter. Gotta maintain that echo chamber!
redditors are predditors
I wouldnt go as far as to say that over someone's opinions on call of duty lol @pvprangergod4024
Reddit is like that burning coal mine that is impossible to put out. Regardless of how you tried to put it out, it would have still been buring until the end of time
Wow, they are sick for sure
I was just about to post it, thanks for saving me haha
So glad WaW gets the recognition it deserves these days.
Its hilarious how it is technically the first game in the Black Ops series though
Reznov appears in WaW, Blacks Op 1 and Black Ops 2. All of them are masterpieces. Coincidence? I doubt it.
@@haroldhughesyo besides the original 3 cod games, it's the only one that takes itself seriously. Rest are Michael Bay action schlock.
People are blinded by nostalgia. Cod has been cringe and stupid for the last 16 years.
@@akuisbestgirl2448 Reznov was such a goated character. His lines about how someone should read the journal and how stalin had no need for heroes are very memorable imo.
Modern cod couldn't create someone like him.
@@whodatninja439 1-3 and 5 were the only ones that cared about a somewhat historically accurate retelling of history. That doesn't mean that 4, bo1, mw2, and 3 etc did not take themselves seriously, they were still great games (bo1 having arguably the best campaign out of any call of duty game) and I wouldn't consider them cringe or stupid at all. The series only went cringe and stupid after they took it to space.
i mean, WaW is jewish fanfic, but otherwise good.
4:44 the little detail where one of the Soviet soldier tries to stop his comrade from shooting the captured German POW lol.
"You do not deserve mercy"
"Wait, he can help us"
"Help us? He can die for us"
don't forget the original CoD4 has some serious dark/desolate vibes - the crash site after the nuclear detonation, and the missions in Pripyat
COD4 was a depressive/moody game visually. That's why it worked so well. It tried to show you that war isn't a good thing. Now ? The characters cheerfully pewpew and run with colors everywhere.
I still remember playing all these years ago how bad I felt when the nuke scene happend. Then the aftermath was even worse.
That part fucked me up as a kid. Seeing the devastation of a nuke and thinking "Oh I'm far enough away from it, I'll just get out of the helicopter and- wait, why am I dead?"
I immediately have gone back to play the dark ones as I was planning on this to be my call of duty retirement, but it was so fucking disappointing. It wasn’t like Cold War, mw2 is so good now in comparison (the og one not new one)
The new cod players these days would claim cod4 is ‘milsim’
Call of Duty wasn't making light of war back then. Now it's akin to laser tag.
If I can don my tinfoil hat for a minute; I think Call of Duty is trying to make young people think that war's a game. We haven't seen WW3 pop off yet, it's just been small sandbox escapades since Korea. Call of Duty might get a wake up call when the big pop off happens and no one wants to think about war in their hobby anymore. ie. War is glamourous to those who haven't experienced or were threatened with it.
Just so y’all know Infinity Ward nor Treyarch have any Og developers at least in the director department so we ain’t never going back to the old days.
Like most modern studio, no og found. And then people wonder why games are getting bad all around.
@jonathaningram8157 Sadly what happened to Dice, Bungie and 343
That's the tragic truth
Same with gta 6. I'm sure its gonna be good but without the Houser brothers and Benzies I doubt it'll have that special spark.
@@georgie2844 Well, to be fair, 343 was shit from the start
Remember when BO1 had simple face paint customization?
Nothing bright pink, no cartoon characters running around. It felt semi-realistic. Those were the days….
I also miss the severity of the campaigns. They used to be gripping, have characters you hated to see go. My last COD was the reboot of MW, i think its the 2017 one idk, but that campaign was just so uninspired and boring. There were no dynamics like Reznov and Mason.
@@nutmeg9005dude modern warfare was fire
Remember Advanced Warfare? that game had such good customization, it was so in-depth. Sure there was some goofy cosmetics but a lot of it was realistic and tactical.
@@CASA-dy4vs No it wasn't zoomer.
@ zoomer? I’m young enough to be your grandchild.
He must have hit things real close to the mark to stir everyone up like this. Holy crap, I've never seen so many people passionately defend multi-billion dollar corporate slop.
Because what has happened to this franchise is the same kind of conditioning you see on popular streaming sites, movies, corporate job training videos, and throughout social media. In my eyes it is an evil disguised as "good and fairness." The purpose it serves is to distract and distort reality.
There is a high chane this comment will be hidden.
People will jump at anything that confirms their fears and prejudices.
@@Elkington7 Dude there are tinhats in this comment section posting david stars and their comments are fine and visible to everyone.
WAW was art… you wouldn’t get it🫃🏿
somewhere out there is an absolute NPC who sees the bright moving colors and shapes of these new cod trailers and is slapping their hands and feet together in genuine excitement like a baby
You'd be surprised how many cod fans are like that nowadays
The Consoomer meme irl
These are marketed towards literal children, because it’s way easier to get them into a gambling addiction.
@@Blady02PLwe are a dying breed brother. 😢
@@nebylicza I'm not sure its kids anymore, when I'm playing it's generally grown adults with too much money who love spending it on colorful skins
Back when M was ACTUALLY rated Mature
Rated M for Microtransactions
Back then we still made fun of call of duty lol
@@arycorvette884 "Don't it always seem to go? That you don't know what you got till it's gone, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot" - Joni Mitchell
M rated means gambling nowadays anyways.
M for minaj
We've got the Marvelisation of movies & the Fortnitification of games.
Yeah both cancers.
overreacting much?
@@8johh Nope
That's the greatest way to put it
@@8johh Um, I guess that just happened.
I truly believe that Fortnite's success in the microtransaction-centered cosmetics business has done irreversible damage to the gaming industry. It revealed who you really could trust with making a good game, and who was only in it for the instant returns... and it revealed the people who couldn't even tell the difference between the two.
WaW getting the respect it fucking deserves. The old MW games were great, but WaW was a masterpiece
Absolutely
@@courier6448 "Their land, their people, their blood" and actual Hitler speeches playing during German victory to:
"I shoot nazi, they die, that's my plan" and my team vs enemy team.
The series crashed harder than the helicopters after the nuke in cod4.
Mw 1, mw 2, bo 1, bo2 were the peak of cod, all masterpieces
Cod 4 to bo2 the last of the good/decent
I already found black ops one boring and shite aside from the campaign
Soulless franchise
For soulless people, this is why I don't even enjoy playing it because you don't find normal people playing them.
@@FlamespeedyAMV also I've seen lots of dudes defending this skin thing, like modern cod "fans" don't care about having fun, they care about spending money on skins to satisfy their materialistic desires
its already is since vanguard
@@FlamespeedyAMVThat’s taking it way too far. It’s a video game dude, not everyone is gonna care about battle passes and skins and are just gonna buy it. I’m not saying it’s right, but these are also normal people. That’s just being overdramatic.
@@Bubba1025
Normal people don't buy microtransactions, social rejects with gambling addictions do.
3:57 They criticized these games for "glorifying war" and encouraging violence when they showed war's horrors in a realistic way, but when Nicki Minaj and Homelander are running around with guns they say nothing
You think two frames or four frames depict the real horrors of war when you already know you're playing a video game on your couch ? 😂😂 This is great propaganda / excuse for some yall to join the military.
These videogames have always been about glorifying violence and the American military and it's global intervention. Just because the media landscape has changed and a new wave of children fall for different things doesn't mean it's all newly propaganda.
@@DimuthuYapaWe aren't always immune to propaganda.
@DimuthuYapa playing Call of Duty does not make me want to join the military.
Probably because it's flanderized to the point of being ridiculously fictitious/littered with collabs out of left field. No one takes it seriously anymore, not even Activision themselves
Old COD : Band of Brothers against impossible odds to become heroes surviving the most extremes of extremes ... based on real true horrific historic events
New COD : Become a Psycho and express your inner fantasies how to dismember a corpse...
Old MW: The foreign wars come home in an exaggerated, but no less harrowing plot that keeps you glued till the end. Rise to protect democracy from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Whatever it takes.
New MW: Forever war based lmao
The problem is that your description of the new CoD is better than what it actually is.
Pretty much accurate to the US Army
@@RabidDeathCursed oh you mean the woke COD6 that now uses AI voice recognition that BANS CURSES , F Bombs and calling other names... in a M rated game , that pushed realistic gore ... but you can't curse ... like WTF !!!!!
Yep. Notice all the clown crap and pink and green guns.
Theyre trying to coddle ppl into being fucking r3t4rd5
The franchise was cooked the moment they had you opening loot boxes on Omaha beach, you know, the place where D-day had the most deaths. A “neat” game mechanic where everyone in the lobby could watch you do it and also get inspired to pull their own loot boxes.
Facts.
They did what
And that was 8 years ago lol
IMO the franchise was cooked when the original Modern Warfare (or maybe MW2) released. At this point the COD series started pivoting from stories rooted in reality about how despite a war's atrocious events, there can be camradery and bravery to Michael Bay in video game format. I'd already started to check out of the series by this point.
Yep, they're attempt at Destinys "tower" epic fail.@BigBrosFilms
From Call of Duty to Clown on Duty.
Love this comment made me Lol xD. So sad to see a franchise when i was younger that was so captivating and creative with such compelling story telling. Games that we thought would only get better and better and looked forward to seeing that happen with better graphics. How wrong we all were when we were younger. It went from a game with a serious story with loveable characters. Enjoyable multiplayer and casual zombies to a in some cases no campaign at all or a very trash campaign with no effort. A nerdy sweat fest zombies story and a multiplayer that's an eyesore for anyone over the mental capacity of a 12 year old. Hard to be immersed in a game that has a fucking minaj and characters from the boys. I told my dad to not even bother buying the new cod cos he'll just be too disappointed.
Perfect for Clown World 2024!
This is tye best comment
"Are ya winning, Western society?"
Goy Slops 6
Impressive how they managed to make it more colorful and less serious than actual cartoon shooters like Team Fortress 2.
TF2 looks like Black Hawk Down by comparison
tf2 had a collective vision with a very distinct art style which would have been headed by a creative lead.
cods just bland with gayness thrown in. you can tell it doesnt know what it is it has no soul.
OG here, the golden years of gaming will never be forgotten.
From a gritty war franchise depicting the horrors of war, to random slop made for kids to swipe their parents credit cards. The fall of is sad!
Metal Gear Solid showed it all far better than COD.
They did that in ONE game tbf, World At War. Little dramatic
This is why I was more of an early Battlefield/Arma guy. Especially Arma as it tended to eliminate the console/fork-knife crowd of screaming and consumption indoctrinated infants.
Modern Warfare and the second one to a lesser degree as well
Trash talking, racial slurs, ninja defuse, spawn camper, mlg, ... truly was the horrors of war
You know the triple A gaming is fcked when CrowbCat uploaded videos in the span of a month.
those who know 💀
those who snow ⛄️
Those who blow 💨
those who don't know 🦛
Those who grow 🗿
Wait what in the actual FUCK?!?!!
This is what COD is now???
This is what a lot of franchises are now. It will not get better from here.
Only in multiplayer, and aesthetic of it is the least of the problems when compared to the actual story it has.
Basically competing with fortnite and roblox at this point.
Trust me yeah. Cod back then was WAAAAAAAYYY more brutal than now. The difference is HUGE!!
This is one of the biggest reasons i dont play CoD anymore
_A healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse..._
So much passion and creativity was shown in the World at war Campaign, they pretty much turned world war 2 into a horror game.
One of, if not the best in the series. It shows how WW2 was, brutal and terrifying for all that were involved.
I notice that the end messages are from CoD WW2 from 2017. Not a perfect game but the last CoD game to be serious.
WWII was horrible... and this is what they fought for.
@@TiberianFiend
Fought for the future kids to sit and play video games all day
is it worth it? i mean its hardcore and ive seen gameplay on it but i have yet to actually play it. im sure it is but id like another opinion. thanks!
Just clicked in my head all this "War trivialization" is happening not only in games - like, did y'all noticed how many armies now have official tiktok accounts they posting funny videos on daily?
Most armies are a token force and seen as a public service rather than a warfighting organization.
isra hel
To be fair, in Finnland they really do fun shit most of the times. Jokes aside, this is true and this is why of the many reasons why I don't like the military.
People nowadays cry over actual politics being put in games and such, but never did I see cry them about militaries at video game conventions.
What I am trying to say is that many instituions tried to infiltrate gaming spaces to get us to join them. For exampe at the Gamescom many years prior the Bundeswehr had their official stand trying to get new recruits. In my mind I would love to seperate these things, I am not judging people that want to join the military, but I'll I judge recruiters fishing where are vulnerable and deceiptive people.
Does "trivialization" relially matter if CoD had always been getting funds from US army and been used as a recruiting tool?
Pretty sure the 360 no scope mlg quickscope, racial slur, camper fps trivialized war too by making it a fun videogame about war that sqeakers always loved
If you ever feel like you're at your worst and you think your life is disappointing, remember there are people out there who still buy the same Call of Duty game every single year.
Or a Madden or Fifa or gacha loot boxes or spending in a F2P
My older brother spends a sizeable portion of his pay on being a dolphin in various online games.
I don't understand it... But I guess something's gotta fill that void if you have no children, lol.
@@sanc3375I dont play madden or Fifa, but I assume there would be backlash if they put a bunch or rappers or puppets as playable characters in the game
Consume product
I'm still waiting for a Hexen 3 from raven. Its about time they stop sitting on that serie. It was nice in the start, but apart from the first three in the cod series, never played the rest. Now its up in 22nd game or something. but i have my doubt it wouldve been the same as other hexen games, and probably ended up "soulless" too. I happened across a live broadcast from raven once, and i randomly wrote, "Hexen 3, when?" but what caught me of guard i think one of them knew what those games are, because he read it loud and chuckled but dismissed it as quickly. It suks when greed is a driving force behind games
Damn Crowbcat, you always know how to hit in the feels. Preach those good old times! I almost don't play anything new nowadays, mostly replaying classics like this one.
True
1:48 bro its literally a nursery rhyme sung like radio rock how much lower common denominator can it be
i hate activision
Uwu
well the current audience is largely little babies. Not that it was much better back in the day, but at least now they know their audience.
@@vrapbrap the people back in those days for the most part have jobs and are a contributing member of society now. Not much hope for the current player base, things don’t look too bright for their future
Children's own Daycare
My grandpa told me once: "in World War II we saw lootboxes falling from the skies."
Dark Times, everything was pistol grips.
😂😂😂😂
how horrific I'll never be able to sleep well again after knowing such debauchery
I modded my sick dual mp40's with a big titty weeb skin and dove out of the trench blastin' and rackin' up a kill streak on the "non political Axis" troops~ First hand account of the Battle of the Bulge
Everyone feared those who bought the battle pass
Not funny
It’s crazy that Black ops 6 had only been out for a month and there already anime girl skins and other skins that ruin the 1990 setting
It had robots on release... they don't even try to depict the look and feel on a game supposedly set in 1990's
"their" is a possessive pronoun.
"and THERE ARE already" is grammatically correct.
@ Thanks for the correction my man but it’s just a RUclips comment.
lmao if u expect a mainstream game like cod to depict stuff the way it was
@@user-MidwayDisc If you don't bother with it in comments on youtube, you won't bother with it anywhere. It's for your own good if you pay attention to stuff like that.
If someone told me this was an unironic ad for the new game, I would've believed it.
I miss games where you could just play as an ordinary grunt.
yeah but dont you wanna play as a le epic quirky tough tomboy girl with a pink dyed side part and shaved sides???? cmon man, everyone knows that is so badass and finally lets us express ourselves in a videogame. thats really all that matters. who even cares about a creative storytelling experience??? i mean pull it together man
The hero shooterfication of fps games and its consequences.
I'm tired of "le quirky and relatable" characters. Give me a generic soldier who actually sounds scared or tired of constant fighting.
@@philiplee1119Don't forget the constant snarky quips every five seconds where she sounds bored because we all know combat heavy war zones are less of a thrill to her than filing taxes.
YOU CAN! THERE ARE PLENTY OF MILITARY, NON-GOOFY SKINS
Back in the day when you just spawned in as a team full of the same ordinary grunts from SEAL Team 6 or Mercs. “Remember speed and aggression gentlemen”, “Shut up clock in load out”.
It all started with "supply drops". The rest is history
It started with CoD Ghosts
It started with Horse Armor
Bacon camo from BO2 or Snoop Dogg announcer from Ghosts? Nope, never happened.
@@macho8240 More like with Advanced Warfare.
It started with BO2.
2 Crowbcat videos in the same year is special
Must've been a particularly bad year 😅
@@cannandreasit was for gaming
He needs that holiday money from us pigs
probably a third coming up, although the window is short, so maybe not, but maybe
@@axxa5000it was. You can count good projects on one hand.
while missing a couple of fingers
these seven minutes have felt longer than all of your normal content and left me in tears. ive never seen a better film
Call Of Duty in its prime had a reputation of a ridiculous Hollywood action movie, even that being so the writing was competent, the characters were compelling and the narratives were interesting. Call Of Duty today still has that reputation but none of those positive aspects, instead being replaced with recycled nostalgia and pop culture references.
" recycled nostalgia " that is literally what you fans beg for??? and it's slop, the campaign in MW can be gritty and really cool which the campaigns was praised for but this video ignores all that to show the silly multiplayer mode.
@@Zane-jk9stone thing also to note is that back in the day its not like WAW players had some profound respect for the horrors of WW2 or the setting of the multiplayer, we still ran around and shot each other, raging, blowing each other up and laughing when we got revenge on a camper. I do greatly appreciate the attempt at realism and grittiness in the campaign, but I’m not 100% sure that it really translated into a valuable message for the players. The “real war isn’t like call of duty” mantra has been around since CoD’s golden age.
@@Zane-jk9st who exactly is begging for it? the people who played the originals? it’s not their fault activision decided to reboot the franchise and started putting in nostalgia bait on their own accord. people aren’t asking for recycled nostalgia; they’re asking for it to be done RIGHT.
@@CoolDrifty Agreed. This whole "WAW is 2deep4u" phenomenon is relatively recent, and it's only because nu-COD is so outrageously cartoonish that it's easy for older zoomers to pretend that the COD games they grew up with are worth more than they artistically merit. If COD fans were actually serious about playing games that actually respected the WWII setting, then the Brothers in Arms series would still be alive.
to anwser the title of this clickbait
"it was filled with pro war propaganda, it was always bad, just not filled with abusive and predatory practices"
I left years ago, those first two minutes were an excruciating watch.. had no idea things had got that bad. Man, WaW was incredible.
Yep it really has gotten bad.
i quit after bo2, my friends dragged me into trying bo6 on gamepass. worst couple of hours i ever spent in a game, wish i was exaggerating
I've given up on Western AAA games as a whole. All the greed, pseudo-activism, and pandering to brain-rotted children chews my very sanity. Fuck that noise. I'm taking my money elsewhere.
I left after BO3, and only played Cold War since then.
Took a break after BO1 to do IRL life stuff, came back and was greeted by rainbow hair and emotes. So glad I havent bought a recent Actislop games.
Ironic how every shooter back then tried to imitate CoD in style and aesthetics and now CoD is now imitating Fortnite with ridiculous skins and collabs.
They are so lucky the IP is widely known because if it was any other game, it would have gone under real quick.
And you know what, I would do imitate Fortnite too.
Why?
Because majority of people don’t care and I want to make money off them so I can afford a comfortable lifestyle.
If me saying that makes you angry, then blame the consumers who keep paying and paying for garbage.
It ain’t changing either.
These folks are simply “gimmie gimmie gimmie!!!
content creators are simply “gimmie gimmie gimmie”
sheltered suburban vanilla kids are simply “gimmiie gimmie gimmie!!!”
Same happened to Halo trying to be more like CoD. First person shooters never understand what made them special in the first place.
Well xdefiant got shut down yesterday so
@@steverogers7601 The way you formatted that text invalidated your opinion entirely, man.
Don't worry, CoD is going under as we speak...unless they do something drastic...this is the deathbed for CoD...no one is enjoying it other than Zombies
I'm not a call of duty fan. 60 seconds in and I cannot believe what this franchise has become.
Probably the most infuriating thing for me in gaming has to be the fact that these companies are getting away with putting paid battle passes in PAID GAMES. ESPECIALLY when they’re like bo6 at 70 dollars already base price
Games as a service forcing consumers to treat the game like their job, hijacking their psyche to get them addicted to the compulsion loop.
Did you know activision has a patent for a feature that puts people who buy a skin into games with bad players- giving their brain a positive association between buying a skin + doing well in the game?
clearly it's because people are buying them. Tell your friends not to buy them, stop buying them yourself, and maybe something will eventually change. As long as there are donkeys with too much money in their pocket who enjoy spending a shitload of money to look differently in a game, this shit will never stop.
79.99
Buying the game should let you get all battle passes
But if you are a warzoner well good luck grinding.
Redirect your anger towards the idiots who keep buying this slop, it's the consumers fault at the end of the day
Man, World at War was an absolute masterpiece. A dark, gruesome, gritty, and artistic telling of the world's most devestating and unforgettable conflict.
It's just crazy to compare what we have now to this. This game was such an amazing piece of art, and it really shows how bad and pointless games are now and how impactful and meaningful games were and can still be as an artistic medium.
I miss the simplicity of the initial zombies mode.
@@KudoYoungMany people, myself included, really disliked how it went from simple mad science gone wrong to straight multiversal endgame stuff.
The characters were still pretty fun but good lord did bo4 zombies end with a whimper for the massively overcomplicated plotline.
I miss how demonic the waw zombies sounded. Even now those sounds are unnerving compared to the rest of the games.
It's so funny, back in the day I always gravitated to WaW and proudly claimed it was the best one, whereas my friends/classmates argued otherwise. Now they all look back on it like "perhaps I treated you too harshly" compared to the slop we have nowadays 😭💀
@@KudoYoungyea same. I can't stand the new zombies. I had to uninstall black ops 6 today. It's the worst black ops I've ever played. Even the multi-player just terrible. What happened to black ops? It's always been my favorite. I even liked Cold War and BO4 a lot. But BO6 is just so disappointing
It went from Saving Private Ryan to Fast and the Furious.
You can't casually resurface my childhood trauma like that... Such a great game
The Fortnite-ization of gaming was inevitable. Unregulated casinos for kids make far too much money for investors to consider anything else
Though I feel I must point out that Call of Duty used to be a franchise famous for being generic slop. Like, back in the day games would get compared to CoD as an insult. CoD used to be the gaming equivalent of what Marvel movies are today. Only yearly sports game releases used to be considered worse and even then CoD was the butt of the joke far more often.
While you’re not wrong about CoD’s release cycle being mocked by gamers even from back in the day, you can’t deny that the devs at least put effort into making each title stand out from the rest in the franchise somewhat or at the very least have them have a believable and serious setting.
For example, Black Ops 1 had an exceptionally good story that fit with its Cold War setting (psychological warfare, number stations, sleeper agents, etc.). The Modern Warfare trilogy, where all 3 games play almost exactly the same, also focused on having a serious story with character development and also introduced one of the most legendary missions in video games (All Ghillied Up). WaW set out to showcase just how horrific a mass conflict like war can be, and it did so perfectly.
It was just popular to hate on CoD. They weren't bad games.
When they started doing historical revisionism by putting modern LA citizens and women in real historical battles, it was the death knell for the franchise, and that style of game.
@@bluedistortions Popular case of people not realizing how good they actually had it at the time.
Cod also had a lot more major fps competition at the time and the sea of gray color shooters was still in effect so it was an easy target to ridicule.
I remember when og mw3 was viewed as the black sheep but when compared to the new mw3 the writing for characters like Makarov makes the old version look like Shakespeare.
Waw was also viewed as "just another dull ww2 shooter" after cod 4 dropped yet now that its had time to marinate in people's minds they realize just how hard the devs went for the game and the dreary visuals actually help the games tone and atmosphere.
I still miss being a generic soldier and not some hero shooter wannabe.
Now that we've seen "le quirky and colorful cosmetic" call of duty it makes sense a lot of the older fans came to miss the older style.
Nah, they happeend around the same time. Played since CoD1 and it was never considered 'slop' by the masses until around BO2/MW3. CoD4 to this day is one of the greatest shooters ever crafted especially on PC. They got progressively worse since COD2 which IMO was the peak. CoD4 was just the first break into the mainstream and when investors realized the gains to be had.
sir you have no idea what you’re talking about saar
Man, World at War invoked a terror of war that CoD could never attain ever again. Goddamn shareholders killed creativity and quality in the games industry.
Real as it gets
WaW is my personal favourite. Also (((shareholders)))
But, but, but money?
Green haired people did
@@gazzy9136 the green haired and the shareholders
I think the cherry on top for this would have been to end it with a compilation of end credits from old cod games when they used to thank veterans and active soldiers on duty for their service.
Just consume, don't ask questions.
Legit snow flake
Be excited for next product
@@Evolution-Is-A-Blatant-Lie ...this is sad man...
Writers cant take their work seriously anymore. None of them have the courage to write a story that genuinely means anything because insecurity runs rampant in the generation of writers graduating college and getting jobs at big studios. Everything has to be soaked in irony and madness because holding genuine beliefs and standards is cringe.
This. I also hate how every character in shooters now has to be a hero shooter wannabe who can only speak sarcastic quips instead of genuine lines that fit their situation.
Youre getting mad at the wrong person. It's the executives who call the shots and make sure everything is shot to shit now not the person who's at the writing table wishing they could actually put something meaningful in the game instead of the horse shit their boss wants and expects out of them.
@@bananapeppers5105 It's a mix of both. The execs want money. To get money they have to jump through Fink's ESG hoops. To jump through Fink's ESG hoops, they have to hire writers based on their beliefs, race or gender, not on their skills.
@@bananapeppers5105I’d say you’re both right. The current generation of writers seem to have received an abysmal education. So many want to subvert expectations rather than meet them to be ‘interesting’ and ‘unique’. So many come from comfortable middle-class families and haven’t started a family or done anything else that can develop your character, so they can’t write serious people in serious situations well.
However, it’s ridiculous that the corporate executives in the gaming industry are giving such inexperienced writers so much responsibility and influence. Corporate executives have pushed out so many of the talented people that made the games we love and replaced them with far less talented people.
Many companies claim to do this in the name of ‘change’ and ‘diversity’ and while this may be partially true, I think by far the biggest reason is that talented game writers and developers have more power. They expect more money, better treatment and greater creative freedom from executive meddling. It’s especially sad because many of the inexperienced writers could become much better working under experienced writers, but instead they’re left to create propagandistic slop. I think it’s really damaging the AAA gaming industry and the executives are happy enough to just keep sailing on a sinking ship.
@@bananapeppers5105Executives just want to make money. A lot of the garbage in modern games is created by talentless hacks amongst the rank and file devs, artists, and writers.
You get what you tolerate. If you don't like the direction a game series is going but STILL buy every single entry, then you deserve this.
Can proudly say I haven't bought one since BO2 and even that was too late to abandon the series, should've stopped after BO1
Bros acting like bo2 and mw3 weren't peak
@@RedAlpha101 🤮
@@RedAlpha101Fact check: FALSE
This is extremely flawed logic. I haven't bought a CoD game in over 10 years, but they appeal to enough people so they sell. The people complaining about how far the game has fallen aren't the people buying it. Sorry to take your "gotcha" away, but it's not that simple.
50000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town.
Our so-called leaders.. prostituted us to the West. Destroyed our culture.. our economies.. our honor.
#olds i remember. old
If you think about it, it's actually more violent than before, because now the only reason you are killing people is for ego
if only people stopped buying literal trash every year...
Unfortunately, most people are stupid.
It’s like cigarettes but for regards
Normies suck.
@@wallclock4648At least cigarettes make you look cool.
Dont hate the player hate the game
Thanks Crowby. Haven’t touched a new cod since Black Ops 3 and didn’t realise this was the state of the games.
I will avoid them like the plague.
Brother, i havent touched a call of duty game since Black Ops 1 😂 the genre has changed alot from the look of things!
@@Jaymo00Black Ops 2 and Advanced warfare are pretty good. Same with Modern Warfare 2019. Those were the last CODs to take themselves seriously.
@@EmperorPalpatine0108Dude! 2019 Mw was fcking amazing! I wish they would have keep the momentum and quality for the sequels.
So depressing to watch such a grounded and quality franchise turn into whatever this is. I wish you showed Vanguard's snoop dog and godzilla/king-kong stuff, it is hilariously bad to see that shit in a ww2 setting.
Fortnite, you mean.
"quality franchise" hahahaha
And? You can't even make a point bruh
Am I too old? Who are these people talking about CoD like it's ever been considered good
Grounded? Grounded in what? World At War was gritty and actually managed to convey how horrific WW2 was at a lot of points but lets not act like any of their other games were anything more than really fun and engaging "shoot the bad guys" games.
Before: Gore, War, Duty, Dark graphics,
Now: Clowning,Thug style ight, Soft, Brainrot, Feminism, Fantasy.
ok lets not start defending the shitty grey/brown colour filters from the 360 era
This video has extremely horrific, nightmare-inducing scenes, that will scar your soul, haunt your dreams and keep you awake for years.
Thank god they stop at 2:55 and the rest of the video is much more light-hearted.
you got me with that. the read more covered it perfectly
Call of Duty then: "War is HELL"
Call of Duty now: "War is KAWAII"
War is Gay now
Please do not pull anime into this.
uwu wet’s do waw cwimes owo
Too late it's in the game.@@susangoaway
war is W.A.P. while you smoke weed with snoop dogg and eminem
The worst part is that most people see the new COD and think to themselves "Yeah, this is fine."
Dont forget the condescending "well it was always slop so why are you mad now" people.
@@superbrainz2357 "You are just blinded by nostalgia." Drives me NUTS.
@@Evolution-Is-A-Blatant-Lie Right, When half these kids were likely still barely out of diapers when BO2 came out.
Idiocraty is prophecy. Its them from movie
@@VITAS874you can barely spell, so I guess you’re right.
Thank you.
For reminding me why this franchise was so great.I recently tried Black Ops 6 through game pass, And deleted it after about five matches.
There was a time when developers were trying to turn videogames into a serious art form and we didn't appreciate it until it was too late
I always did back in the day. My favorite games are/were games that did a lot with so little, such as FF7, FFT, Xenogears to name a few. All they had back then was an untested device called a Playstation and very little storage space on each game disc, yet look at the storylines, imagery, and music those games brought us. FFT could almost be played on a Super Nintendo for crying out loud, but it still managed to just deliver to the senses in spades.
When people refused to criticize & stop buying Squaresoft games after they fell off in 2000, it set the precedent for the rest of the gaming world: Here's the blueprint on how to monetize mediocrity.
Now AAA devs prefer mediocrity, because they can never come up short of expectations again, and people will keep buying regardless. It's the same model that government employees/agencies use to keep their jobs.
It is a serious artform, what are you talking about??
Read Dead 2 not serious enough?
Cyberpunk?
Space Marine?
God of War?
This War of Mine?
Countless other beautiful, enchanting games that can be counted among the best works of art of all time?
Come on now.
This is like looking at a McDonald's location and saying "there was a time restaurant owners were trying to provide higher quality food and a nicer experience, wish we had appreciated premium dining experiences before it was too late."
AAA gaming consumers sееthing when they realize that they're being soullessly monetized every day and then again and again and again without acting on that realization is the funniest bs ever
@@swoopskeemost of these are aaa slop too but better
I did.
COD4 to Black Ops 2 was truly peak gaming. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Yes!
COD 2 is still one of my favorites too
Calling a handful of annual generic shooters peak gaming?? Are you even old enough to drink?
@@coeurdelion689 COD2 was great as well.
@@Afgrahamistan If you were 4 years old when CoD 4 came out, you'd be old enough to drink, grandpa. Those of us who were 13 at the time turned 30 this year.
They were peak CoD, at the very least. The 360/PS3 era of multiplayer FPS games stomped all over the Fort-Lite aesthetics, silent lobbies, DEI inserts, and battle passes of modern shooters.
Meanwhile, Spec Ops: The Line
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
guys remember Spec Ops: The Line!!!1!11>>>1??
Unrelated, but as horrific and brutal as the White Phosphorous scene where u see the burnt off face of the little girls corpse, its actually still somewhat tame compared to what u do to younglings in prey 2006 and deadspace2
Israel standing on 20k child corpses: "yes 😎"
Spec Ops The Line was made in Unreal Engine 3, i wish i coukd get to access to tje Unreal Engine 3 with its source code : )
This is the only way a war themed game can actually comment on war without trivialising it. I reject the notion that either version of COD is anything other than an exploitative product fundamentally, even if it is fun to play.
Before: PTSD
Now: Epilepsy
Slop for the slop consumers. excitement for the next product to the mindless.
Old art style in games must be preserved, not changed so much that it feels like a completely different series altogether. We have to gatekeep our communities.
The hoodlums in LA keep funding GTA and COD despite being slop franchises
Don't ask questions just consume next product
slopheads
@@dominikcz198 100%
OG’s know It was originally called Nazi Zombies.
Yup then they changed it to cod zombies. I still remember being a kid loading up the og nacht map and seeing the Nazi Zombies screen thinking I unlocked an easter egg and shitting my pants playing the og map
and the N word gets censored by youtube and algorithm won't promote whatever content associate with that word so the whole entire new generation who are too lazy to study history don't even know what is a Nazi. Some know the word and think is cool to scream heil hitler because they're social outcast
really? and that was before the nazi zombies saga from sniper elite or after?
I mean it makes sense why it's not anymore. It's no longer centered around WW2 or the Nazi party.
Now it's bigger than that. But you can tell the game suffers from hiring overly sensitive devs and trying to cater to SJWs.
I mean... there were no nazis on shi no numa
if you told me 10 years ago call of duty would become this saints row looking game I would have never believed it
It was already bad in 2014
Not even Saints.
This is Fortnite levels of bullshitery.
@@JustAnOldStoneExactly it is just Fortnite now.
You mean when cod had snoop dog, Halloween, predator, a grandma as the voice announcer and ginger bread men outfits? Yeah would have never guessed
Advanced warfare had a gingerbread character skin in multi player.
I am so glad you used World at War for this. No other call of duty in history ever had or will have the soul, atmosphere, and gripping realism that game was able to capture.
It was my first ever call of duty, and will always have a very special place in my heart.
Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare - Black Ops 2: Peak COD era
You gotta include vCOD and UO lol. I remember letting my friend play vCOD and he went to buy it since the campaign was so good
Call of Duty 2 was my first COD and still one of my all time favourite of the franchise. But COD4… oh my… oh my… absolute perfection.
Perfect
Bo2 is overrated, World at war and mw2 were peak
I’m so glad you didn’t include BO3. It was good gameplay for zombies but my God I hate the loot boxes system.
Man, I miss the days when Call of Duty was something more than Product Placement for Netflix shows, junk food brands, and celebrity has-beens clinging to relevancy.
Yep, we’re in the age of people paying for literal advertisements.
This is really ironic because Crowbcat failed his own relevance when he made that shitty RE4 Remake video and is now trying to pander to people by making videos like this.
@@gantz22ify Nothing was wrong with his re4 video, he spoke truth
@@Benjamin-o9q2o This is the same RUclips channel where they either exaggerated, cherrypicked or have a bias to the point that they deleted some of their videos due to backlash or by request (see: Giant Bomb's VR Coverage and Sprint Vectors).
Crowbcat is at their best whenever they cover bad or controversial games.
That video was indeed very misleading if not outright terrible and sorry to burst your bubble but cod was never a gritty war game it was and is American propaganda.@@Benjamin-o9q2o
"Someone should watch this" Viktor Reznov
Chernov did NOT die for this shit bro 😭
NO ONE WILL EVER READ THIS!
@@_MaZTeR_Someone should read this. - also Reznov
@@Ronin777zYes he did lol. The allies died so communists (like Reznov) could win, and the end result is the world we live in.
The good guys lost WWII, and I'm being serious here. If you can't make that connection this late into the game, safe to say, you never will.
@@TheAnonymousIndividual “The good guys lost WW2” is crazy
A cinematic masterpiece 👏👏👏
From the maker of "It's just cosmetics".
Feels emotionally devastating to see the contrast of CoD's past and present captured in 6 minutes.
6 minutes unfathomable truth unfolded. laid bare and readied for the witnesses.
I havent played or purchased a shooter in almost a decade. Seeing what ive missed, I realize I havent missed a thing.
Missed out on a few gems like Remnant:From the Ashes, Helldivers, and Hell Let Loose, but I getcha.
@@Captain-Jinn Played Helldivers and loved it, not sure I would count games like it (darktide ex) among competitive online shooters.
Own Remnants and didnt like.
@@Captain-Jinn Do enough people still play Hell Let Loose to be worth buying? Might pick it up if so.
Ya COD is the only shooter ever
@@SonnoMakuhell let loose is awesome, has a rough learning curve though
We are living in the worst timeline when we are infantilizing war and the horrors of warfare instead of showing how horrifying it truly was. This is sad to watch man
There is no sincerity anymore. Only irony.
Good.
How can I make money off it.
Why?
Majority of people don’t care.
No good advice, good warning, good recommendations, sensible suggestions will even help the situation.
So why bother lol
Thanks to those who let Sarkeesian and Belair meddle in the industry. They're just the tip!
I've never really been a COD fan, mostly limited to enjoying the story mode in the first couple Modern Warfares. I knew it had gotten bad, but man, part of me still really wants to believe this is modded gameplay.
I kinda wanna go back and play the old ones to see how based it is. I was never much of a cod fan but I started playing on modern warfare 2 and black ops and loved them. Getting on with the boys every night on xbl, cussing and talking shit 😂 Seeing what this franchise has become now though is seriously making me want to revisit the old ones when we were in the bro days 🤦
Remember when cod had the balls to show the brutality of war?
No? 😂
nice pfp!
@@BT-kc3eeyou’re most likely 15 years old or younger
C tier action movie slop with ok gameplay sometimes, that is what cod was and still is
Don't get too emotional about mediocrity
@@4biddenflow COD has been an arcade game since it's inception mate. It's never attempted to show the "brutality of war", it's a video game aimed at 14 year old boys 😂
Just found this channel and your videos showing some of the best games ever killing themselves hurts so much 😞thankyou for documenting