I agree, imagine a cod that's fully supported for 2 or 3 years. The amount of multiplayer, zombies and maybe even campaign content and dlc we could get would be amazing.
It’s actually crazy how with such a small amount of time to develop a full game through a straight up pandemic, Activision still couldn’t delay a Call of Duty game. Crazy to me man.
None of my friends nor do I buy new call of duties anymore. Activision are milking off the kids for the $$$$🤑🤑 We’re fed up with broken games, the only games I buy anymore are PlayStation studio games/Sony interactive entertainment ones. Also some new indie games that look interesting, I’ll buy them. Most of the time the indie games are 10 times better than what… call of duty 20😂. Activision are pathetic. gaming is slowly dying and withering away.
@More Miles you must enjoy having to fry your balls off every match just to do remotely good. Not everyone wants to be forced to sweat. That's not entertaining. Its stressful. I remember cod before this sbmm bs. At times I could go hard and dominate when I wanted, and I could lean back in my chair and do good casually running and gunning without penalty.
SBMM made it so that the match is rigged against you no matter what. I honestly don’t mind difficult competition. In my case, if I’m doing well consistently I will be matched up with beyond incompetent people, the kind of people who you could tell just by watching them play (which I did through replays) you could tell these people don’t know even what a radar is, you’d think a headless chicken is playing the game. I have a bunch of screenshots of high k/d games that ended up losses. This one game, i swear to god, I literally got 2 gunships and my first 30 kill streak and the match still ended in a LOSS. That was back in January. I literally re-evaluated my life and stopped playing after that until recently just to see what’s up with the game so far. SBMM man...
Strict SBMM and kill streak levels/counters killed it for me. When the game wasn't punishing me for doing well, it was a blast, unfortunately that was few and far between
For me, cw mp got stale fast. Didn't feel fun. It was good, but not fun. The campaign was nice, but very short. Zombies carried CW for me imo. Super hit, honestly top 5 zombies for all cods (I will defend this till I die).
I'm wondering, why you didn't even mention SBMM as an argument here (besides mentioning it to explain another point), since you have several videos in which you point out, how unfair and player unfriendly this system is since you get punished for getting better. Even if CW was at the current state at release, SBMM would still have completely ruined my experience.
This is why I quit CoD. As long as there is SBMM, it doesn’t matter how good the game is. It would have ruined the older CoD’s if it was implemented in them. I’d honestly not mind a subpar game as long as there is no SBMM, because the developers can make the best CoD ever and it won’t be any fun because of SBMM.
@@glitchadapt8681, it doesn't matter too much what they look like, it's more about showing the work you've put in to earn them. As long as they're distinctive enough to look different from anything else in the game, they're worth it imo.
The remastered maps were perfect and didn’t need any change. The only downside to this game is the lack of content at launch which Vanguard has addressed.
I really wish we could’ve seen more content for this game, I actually enjoyed it and saw it’s potential to be one of the best cods, I’m mainly a zombies player but if we would’ve got more stuff in multiplayer and bonus maps for zombies I would’ve been happy
It's so sad to see that Activi$ion would rather allow this franchise to go down the toilet than postpone their releases a couple of months. Imagine how much better both Cold War and Vanguard (along with future titles), if Cold War had been released during the spring and Vanguard released in 2022!
@@havkreaper_2552 idk about Cold War I hated it, but what I heard is that vanguard has been in production for 4 years, it’s had plenty of time but developers get $$.. however vanguard has updated the game to community suggestions so - time will tell
I'm one of the very few people out there that didn't have their experience ruined by SBMM. It was a fun game. Less polished than MW for sure, but I prefer the gameplay style over MW since it felt like a modified version of the first two Black Ops games.
I fell in love with Cold War far after launch but didn’t really like it when it first dropped. Direct contrast to MW2019 which I absolutely loved at launch but grew to immensely dislike after patches and updates.
I only like Cold War because It’s just a normal ass treyarch type of game which is what I’ve grown to prefer with cod over all the years I’ve played. It’s still the worst cod game of its type though, idk how they fucked up in all of the ways they did after they learned not to do that kinda stuff during Black ops 4. A perfect example of that is weapon balance, they have such a shit balance and meta even though it should’ve been miles better then BO4s but they took everything they learned and threw it out the window. Hell cold wars even had bugs that were in BO4 at one point then fixed. I’m still gonna play it over the other cods around rn because its more fun for how I wanna play.
I absolutely hated sniping in cold war. I have always used snipers but for some reason i didnt like it in cold war. Just felt uncomfortable using them. Went back to mw and lived sniping
This game fell off after week 1 for me. It was somewhat refreshing at first and I liked the atmosphere of the game, but I was too frustrated overall with some of the game mechanics like the audio and hit detection that I raged more than I had fun. Didnt help that I love map variety and there were so few maps. I played a couple times with friends every couple months or so but preferred to play mw2019 at any other time. Zombies also felt weird to me. I was once a high round grinder back in bo1 but this zombies didnt feel immersive whatsoever.
Definitely agree with the zombies. You'd think after BO4 received so much backlash they would go back to the original system that got everyone hooked on zombies to begin with. But noooooo what do they do instead? Same dumb shit with no replay value
I’ve been playing cod since the original call of duty 2. Cold War, in my opinion, is the best the series has been in years. The movement feels like silky smooth yet reminiscent to the classics. Maps are not the best, but they’re not horrible either and the game had a kick ass campaign and awesome zombies. Definitely skipping vanguard this year and sticking with this one 👍
Playing Cold War whilst everyone is on Vanguard is like playing a different game. I've averaged 5KD in the last 20 games I've played. It's insane how SBMM screwed this game up.
I totally agree I was like level 300 in season one and then I played 50 levels into season 2 and then didn't play again until Season 6 and that was basically to get ready for Vanguard
personally, this is my favorite all rounder cod game. Because you have a damn good zombies experience, a great campaign, and a pretty good multiplayer.
I’m seeing a lot of people say this game is gonna be forgotten but I think it’s gonna end up in the same spot as WWII where in a few years people talk about how underrated it is because they’ve forgotten all of the faults that got fixed.
100 percent. And it will likely be because this game was more like cod than MW19 and Vangaurd. I hate that cod tries to appeal to every person out there instead of being unapologetically and arcade shooter. If I wanted to play something like battlefield I would just go play battlefield, or Siege.
@@CaffreyPlays People say "more like cod" yet to me MW2019 is more like cod than cold war since I grew up with cod1, cod4, and mw2. I grew up with more tactical approach. Tactical crouch servers used to be a thing. Instead, Cold war feels like counter strike.
@@29blazehead ??? Cod 1-4 I can understand but MW2? That game is where CoD became like an over the top action movie. It's the game that created trickscoping and mlg meme culture.
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What a year! Great review Nero! I’ve been watching you since WWII and I’m looking forward to your coverage of the next year of COD. Agree 100% on CW. Good game that will be fondly remembered in the next year or so!
I agree with you on The Pines, map was awesome, in the future when I think back to this game a huge portion of my positive memories will probably be on that map, I loved the layout and the way it plays.
this is a unpopular opinion but Cold War was the best cod since bo2, I loved playing it and still play it way more than vanguard. I'd even say it's my 2nd favorite cod behind bo2
Not gonna lie, I enjoyed Cold War with the Zombies mode in particular. The MP this year just didn't feel as enjoyable as MW and I felt that it was just so frustrating to play. 6v6 Face Off and 12v12 Moshpit was fun. I won't be able to get Vanguard at launch, but I'm excited for it this year since it will play almost like MW. I'm excited to try out the MP and Zombies. The hype has pretty much creeped up on me to the point where I wanna play Vanguard right now
Cold War is easily within my top 5 favorite MPs. I only have a few issues and it’s the same issues I have with MW (like SBMM, the class system, and the lack of free things to grind for)
This is my favorite CoD since Black Ops II... I was hyped for every season, loved doing all the challenges and unlocking new weapons. Most DLC weapons were pretty awesome.
I still love cod. Cod's problem really show their head when you play for several hours a day. I work 50 hours a week and only play cod for maybe an hour once or twice a week. I love each one of them for one thing or any other. Great bite sized game .if I wanna grind something I play an rpg or something like thar
I love this game helped me through the pandemic tbf and think it’s really underrated! Also treyarch did a great job considering they only had 9 months to complete it and let’s be honest it’s a hell of a lot better and more complete than vanguard lol
The lack of content, lack of balancing, and intense SBMM were my only problems with Cold War. I hate getting punished for doing good in a video game. Lower the SBMM and this game gets 100 times better
Yup. This game would be GREAT without SBMM. I quit so many times because of SBMM. I can’t play more than a half hour without getting frustrated/bored and calling it quits. Only reason I’m not getting vanguard is bc of SBMM. SBMM is killing the fun in cod.
It sucks that fireteam dirty bomb never caught on. I thought it was a really well done mixture of regular multiplayer and battle royal. I think people are just too impatient and it took a few games of playing to really figure out what was going on and the games last about a half hour a piece.
I had a lot of fun on Zombies, but got burned out with the lack of maps, feel, and variety of the game after I did the Dark Aether grind. I agree with Neros about the game potentially being great but falling up short. Pity
I'm going to keep with Cold War as all the sweats and try hards should be on Vanguard. I've not played much due to this but hoping SBMM will be toned down so could be enjoyable with all the content.
Gotta say man I’ve been really enjoying the content lately. Between the Cod content and your personal life content, It’s great to see how far you’ve come in recent times! Keep it up💪🏻
Honestly it was my favorite COD in years. The movement was perfectly fine tuned, maps/weapons were great and zombies was a breath of fresh air. Unpopular opinion but I stand by it. 👍
For me Cold War is 6/10 -Major Lack of contents -Horrible weapon/scorestreaks balance -Horrible matchmaking -Awful Scorestreak system No way i'm remembering this as underrated nostalgic game
Cold war was a solid game to me. I hated how slow they made sniper ads speed but besides that I enjoyed it over mw2019 and I'm looking forward to Treyarch having full development time on the next entry.
Definitely putting this game off and coming back to it really made it feel great. Right now it feels fun to play and I think that I will be sticking with it a bit more especially considering imo vanguard is not worth 60$
Been a fan for a long time and look up to you after everything you’ve gone through. I know what it’s like. Always have and will look forward to your videos. Idk about you but I’m ready for some of these remasters to start pumping out
I’ve literally just bought this game and I absolutely love it. I know it’s old now,but the maps are some of the best of all the cod games. Absolutely love playing the mp,only gripes,score streaks are ridiculous,doesn’t promote objective game play at all. But maps,gun play,sound design are some of the best cod mp ever. Aside from blops 1,2 mw2 2009.’
Black ops 3 was amazing in my opinion. Even though it's an unpopular opinion then futuristic mobility played so well in that game. Used to fly around the map like a demon smoking fools lol. Miss that shit.
Cold War ended up a really good game. The issue is they deliberately hold back content to make more money off updates. They can release more complete cods but choose not to
You hit the nail on the head with how I feel on Cold War. The only reason I enjoyed it was combined arms, zombies, and fireteam elimination and the campaign obviously.
Tbf, I think Josh's phrasing actually means he has 4 days of play time in JUST his 11th prestige. So, from the time of his 10th prestige, to the time of his writing that post, he had 4 days in the game.
I'm done with cod franchise unfortunately. I played cold war for a week until i was bored and never touched the game again. It's been a long ride since MW2 but it's finally over
My thoughts on BOCW at launch - 4 out of 10. My thoughts on BOCW after its lifecycle - 6 out of 10. Both the Campaign and Zombies were good and enjoyable, but MP sucked. The gunplay and maps weren't bad, it was the SBMM, lack of things to earn and lack of new and original maps over the course of the year that ruined it for me. This game had potential to be in top 5 COD's of all time, maybe even top 3.
I really did enjoy cold war but after season 2 I just got bored. The only time I'd get on and play was when new zombie maps came out or season 5 which was amazing imo.
Yeah I definitely see myself coming back to BOCW time to time during the Vanguard year, I wonder if more unreleased maps may be released for the game like what happened MW19 during the BOCW year cycle.
I'm honestly just thinking about quitting cod for good. I have a combined 80 hours in the last three cod games, and I can say that cold war was the worst one for me. It had the hardest skill based matchmaking so far, I mean at the hight of my skill (top 2% in league play) I literally had played against Formal, scumpii and a few other pro players. I just play for fun, not for sweat.
I know a lot of people bash on bo4 multiplayer but that’s one of my most played cods. I was master prestige in both multiplayer and zombies. Wish it had a campaign but I had a decent time hitting nuclears in that game fr
I didn’t even get this game until the 3rd zombies map was out. Basically played for about a month then stopped caring. Definitely the last COD I’ll buy for a long time, if ever.
It's a pretty minor thing, but THANK YOU for not spoiling the ending to the campaign. I haven't played it yet, but I've been meaning to some day. I appreciate it Nero :)
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I love your videos Nero
Tbh Cold War was garbage, worst blackops game ever made by a mile.
Hopefully this is the last beta . The beta Kiki’s t takes away so much of the surprise .
I can’t be the only one willing to wait longer to get a better game. I genuinely feel that COD would greatly benefit from taking a year off
it doesn’t matter if they take a year or 2 to make a cod it will be ruined by SBMM
Vanguard is a 100 times worse then cold war 😕
I agree, imagine a cod that's fully supported for 2 or 3 years. The amount of multiplayer, zombies and maybe even campaign content and dlc we could get would be amazing.
I agree. They basically did with BO4 and came back with a masterpiece of a game in MW 2019
@@kculp93 They did that with Black Ops 3, as well as Call of Duty Mobile.
It’s actually crazy how with such a small amount of time to develop a full game through a straight up pandemic, Activision still couldn’t delay a Call of Duty game. Crazy to me man.
None of my friends nor do I buy new call of duties anymore. Activision are milking off the kids for the $$$$🤑🤑
We’re fed up with broken games, the only games I buy anymore are PlayStation studio games/Sony interactive entertainment ones.
Also some new indie games that look interesting, I’ll buy them.
Most of the time the indie games are 10 times better than what… call of duty 20😂.
Activision are pathetic.
gaming is slowly dying and withering away.
They’re in 3-4 year developer rotations so they’re not made in short amounts of time
@@evan_a_morrisyou mean they’re supposed to be. With the stupid shit they pulled these past 2 years they’re not on it anymore.
Lol you’d think a pandemic would be the only thing g that would force them to take an extra year to develop.
Money
The SBMM killed this game period. Shit was so toxic I felt like I was playing COD world champions every game.
@More Miles lmao must be a mw2019 fan
@More Miles you must enjoy having to fry your balls off every match just to do remotely good. Not everyone wants to be forced to sweat. That's not entertaining. Its stressful. I remember cod before this sbmm bs. At times I could go hard and dominate when I wanted, and I could lean back in my chair and do good casually running and gunning without penalty.
@More Miles its a Game not a job i should not be Getting off work just to clock in on the Game
SBMM made it so that the match is rigged against you no matter what. I honestly don’t mind difficult competition. In my case, if I’m doing well consistently I will be matched up with beyond incompetent people, the kind of people who you could tell just by watching them play (which I did through replays) you could tell these people don’t know even what a radar is, you’d think a headless chicken is playing the game. I have a bunch of screenshots of high k/d games that ended up losses. This one game, i swear to god, I literally got 2 gunships and my first 30 kill streak and the match still ended in a LOSS. That was back in January. I literally re-evaluated my life and stopped playing after that until recently just to see what’s up with the game so far. SBMM man...
SBMM is removed now
Strict SBMM and kill streak levels/counters killed it for me. When the game wasn't punishing me for doing well, it was a blast, unfortunately that was few and far between
So stop playing it 🤷🏾♂️
@@thesharinganknight9859 there’s a thing called negative criticism, bro. that’s how things get fixed or changed
@@aaron11b88 yes but Activision doesn't want it to get fixed
I don’t think its far to downgrade CW due to SBMM as its in MW19,CW and Vandguard so neutering all out experiences.
@@thesharinganknight9859 I did and i hope a lot of ppl stop playing...so you and your sweat buddies can have a great time together!
I had a ton of fun with this game. I had way more fun with it than I did with modern warfare. Everything about it was the ideal cod experience for me.
I feel the same way. Movement feels a lot more fluid compared to mw2019 and I like the faster pace of the game
It's the most ive enjoyed a cod in years
Cold War and Modern Warfare III are the best CODs in the post Warzone era
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I don't even play COD anymore, but Nero and Thunder are the only COD RUclipsrs I still like to watch. 👍👍👍
Mee too tomorrow I am going to enjoy Forza horizon 5
@@knownnuisance7512 apex is worth getting into
Blame Truth bro
Nero and S0ur for me. I've moved over to Battlefield now, but still watch them both.
Yea because most the time they unfairly or unjustly hate on a game
Honestly felt Cold War was underrated lol given context it’s amazing that this game existed
Revenge spawns, in-game nerfing, aim resist along with the “fan favourite” map returns killed it for me
yep aim resist is super frustrating, high ping SBMM lobbies, and wack spawns
Aim resist?? Not assist?
@@firebird_spleen4190 definitely resist
For me, cw mp got stale fast. Didn't feel fun. It was good, but not fun. The campaign was nice, but very short. Zombies carried CW for me imo. Super hit, honestly top 5 zombies for all cods (I will defend this till I die).
Zombies was fun as hell. Especially Forsaken and the wonder weapon on the map.
mauer and forsaken were dope
That is exactly what I feel with CW MP and Campaign, not a zombies guy tho
yayy 2 good maps of zombies out of a whole game so amazing and groundbreaking
This is my favorite COD zombies game
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Sbmm killed it for me honestly, got tired of getting put on a team that the game wanted me to carry
SBMM was in MW19 and Vandguard though
@@afd19850 1st off I hated MW2019 and second I plan on session joint or Nolag vpn
Not how SBMM works. That is team balancing and it would be worse without SBMM. You never played the game.
I'm wondering, why you didn't even mention SBMM as an argument here (besides mentioning it to explain another point), since you have several videos in which you point out, how unfair and player unfriendly this system is since you get punished for getting better. Even if CW was at the current state at release, SBMM would still have completely ruined my experience.
This is why I quit CoD. As long as there is SBMM, it doesn’t matter how good the game is. It would have ruined the older CoD’s if it was implemented in them. I’d honestly not mind a subpar game as long as there is no SBMM, because the developers can make the best CoD ever and it won’t be any fun because of SBMM.
At this point SBMM is a cod mechanic, not an individual game mechanic. Not really worth mentioning in a specific game review anymore imo
I liked how MW19 released obsidian camo halfway through the game’s life cycle, it felt like there was a lot to do throughout the whole year
Obsidian and all modern campfare camos were ass
@@glitchadapt8681 thanks for a obsolete opinion
@@glitchadapt8681 good or not you have to admit there was at least something to do
@@prescakington2050 there wasn’t even calling card challenges or levels past 155
@@glitchadapt8681, it doesn't matter too much what they look like, it's more about showing the work you've put in to earn them. As long as they're distinctive enough to look different from anything else in the game, they're worth it imo.
The remastered maps were perfect and didn’t need any change. The only downside to this game is the lack of content at launch which Vanguard has addressed.
they needed visual changes, express doesn't look like 80s in any way, its futuristic even
Vanguard addressed? Vanguard lacks of everything else except the maps.
Vangaurd addressed my ass. Thats what they addressed .
I really wish we could’ve seen more content for this game, I actually enjoyed it and saw it’s potential to be one of the best cods, I’m mainly a zombies player but if we would’ve got more stuff in multiplayer and bonus maps for zombies I would’ve been happy
Waiting all night for this one!!!
It's so sad to see that Activi$ion would rather allow this franchise to go down the toilet than postpone their releases a couple of months. Imagine how much better both Cold War and Vanguard (along with future titles), if Cold War had been released during the spring and Vanguard released in 2022!
Vanguard has been in production for 4 years
@@cjcarroll4915 that’s even worse, imagine the game crashing at a live event
@@cjcarroll4915 I thought sledgehammer was originally working on cold war with raven?
@@havkreaper_2552 idk about Cold War I hated it, but what I heard is that vanguard has been in production for 4 years, it’s had plenty of time but developers get $$.. however vanguard has updated the game to community suggestions so - time will tell
It's not going down the toilet in their eyes because their profits are still high every year.
I'm one of the very few people out there that didn't have their experience ruined by SBMM. It was a fun game. Less polished than MW for sure, but I prefer the gameplay style over MW since it felt like a modified version of the first two Black Ops games.
Cold war cycle isn't over. Watch, they're going to add more content because Vanguard is not going to do well.
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I totally agree with you on the Pines! I loved that map. Super creative and had a cool flow to it
I can only imagine a world where cold war was developed in the mw2019 engine
I agree with your take on The Pines map. It should go down as one of the better maps of all time. Crossroads Strike was solid as well.
I fell in love with Cold War far after launch but didn’t really like it when it first dropped. Direct contrast to MW2019 which I absolutely loved at launch but grew to immensely dislike after patches and updates.
I agree to an extent. I have grown to enjoy Cold War pretty much, but I never enjoyed MW...ever.
@@DB1Journeys Totally get that. I’ve never attempted to defend MW19. There were things I disliked but it hit a nostalgia button for me. Then lost it 😂
I only like Cold War because It’s just a normal ass treyarch type of game which is what I’ve grown to prefer with cod over all the years I’ve played. It’s still the worst cod game of its type though, idk how they fucked up in all of the ways they did after they learned not to do that kinda stuff during Black ops 4. A perfect example of that is weapon balance, they have such a shit balance and meta even though it should’ve been miles better then BO4s but they took everything they learned and threw it out the window. Hell cold wars even had bugs that were in BO4 at one point then fixed. I’m still gonna play it over the other cods around rn because its more fun for how I wanna play.
@@jman72898 Might seem random but what would you say is your favorite COD? 🤔
For me it was the complete opposite.. call me weird but I think mw19 is a great game now it has the best snd in any cod no debate
I absolutely hated sniping in cold war. I have always used snipers but for some reason i didnt like it in cold war. Just felt uncomfortable using them. Went back to mw and lived sniping
Love how you are upfront and honest with your reviews and about life in general! Very refreshing! Stay safe, mate!
Loved CW, people are going to miss the classic style multiplayer gameplay when every single COD becomes an MW19 replica
Nero you have been straight grinding! love to see it, can’t wait to see the content you’ll be bringing for vanguard!!!
This game fell off after week 1 for me. It was somewhat refreshing at first and I liked the atmosphere of the game, but I was too frustrated overall with some of the game mechanics like the audio and hit detection that I raged more than I had fun. Didnt help that I love map variety and there were so few maps. I played a couple times with friends every couple months or so but preferred to play mw2019 at any other time. Zombies also felt weird to me. I was once a high round grinder back in bo1 but this zombies didnt feel immersive whatsoever.
Audio is way better then vanguard will ever be
Definitely agree with the zombies. You'd think after BO4 received so much backlash they would go back to the original system that got everyone hooked on zombies to begin with. But noooooo what do they do instead? Same dumb shit with no replay value
I’ve been playing cod since the original call of duty 2. Cold War, in my opinion, is the best the series has been in years. The movement feels like silky smooth yet reminiscent to the classics. Maps are not the best, but they’re not horrible either and the game had a kick ass campaign and awesome zombies. Definitely skipping vanguard this year and sticking with this one 👍
Man I wish I saw what you saw
Playing Cold War whilst everyone is on Vanguard is like playing a different game. I've averaged 5KD in the last 20 games I've played. It's insane how SBMM screwed this game up.
That's cause your playing little kids who can't buy the new game ahaha, big boys are playing vanguard ahaha
I totally agree I was like level 300 in season one and then I played 50 levels into season 2 and then didn't play again until Season 6 and that was basically to get ready for Vanguard
personally, this is my favorite all rounder cod game. Because you have a damn good zombies experience, a great campaign, and a pretty good multiplayer.
I’m seeing a lot of people say this game is gonna be forgotten but I think it’s gonna end up in the same spot as WWII where in a few years people talk about how underrated it is because they’ve forgotten all of the faults that got fixed.
100 percent. And it will likely be because this game was more like cod than MW19 and Vangaurd. I hate that cod tries to appeal to every person out there instead of being unapologetically and arcade shooter. If I wanted to play something like battlefield I would just go play battlefield, or Siege.
@@CaffreyPlays People say "more like cod" yet to me MW2019 is more like cod than cold war since I grew up with cod1, cod4, and mw2. I grew up with more tactical approach. Tactical crouch servers used to be a thing. Instead, Cold war feels like counter strike.
@@29blazehead ??? Cod 1-4 I can understand but MW2? That game is where CoD became like an over the top action movie. It's the game that created trickscoping and mlg meme culture.
@@JDUU2K it had the same game atmosphere just the movement was bumped up. Mw2019 did the same thing. Just the movement evolved again.
Nah bruh. Cold War was a buggy piece of shit from beginning to end.
I miss cold war it was a really underrated game….
Cold war is the best cod in years
Nero, you been killing it with truth bombs from the OG perspective. Thanks.
I only just found your channel today and you made me subscribe and just from one video I really like your content and wanted to see more and see you succeed. I thought it was funny when I watched one of your videos that your intro song is the exact same song that I would play over and over and over and spent an hour or two looking for just the part that you have in your intro before I even came across your channel from that point on I knew that I would like your content but the actual content just sealed the deal. Hope your doing well and stay strong/healthy!
What a year! Great review Nero! I’ve been watching you since WWII and I’m looking forward to your coverage of the next year of COD. Agree 100% on CW. Good game that will be fondly remembered in the next year or so!
I agree with you on The Pines, map was awesome, in the future when I think back to this game a huge portion of my positive memories will probably be on that map, I loved the layout and the way it plays.
I miss Fireteam in this review. Fireteam right now is criminally underrated, as the SBMM is basically gone with playercounts so low.
this is a unpopular opinion but Cold War was the best cod since bo2, I loved playing it and still play it way more than vanguard. I'd even say it's my 2nd favorite cod behind bo2
Even though i knew what it was underwhelming, I only grinded Dark Matter only because it was something to do.
Not gonna lie, I enjoyed Cold War with the Zombies mode in particular. The MP this year just didn't feel as enjoyable as MW and I felt that it was just so frustrating to play. 6v6 Face Off and 12v12 Moshpit was fun.
I won't be able to get Vanguard at launch, but I'm excited for it this year since it will play almost like MW. I'm excited to try out the MP and Zombies. The hype has pretty much creeped up on me to the point where I wanna play Vanguard right now
Ranking all cods would be a great Nero video!
Cold War is easily within my top 5 favorite MPs. I only have a few issues and it’s the same issues I have with MW (like SBMM, the class system, and the lack of free things to grind for)
This is my favorite CoD since Black Ops II...
I was hyped for every season, loved doing all the challenges and unlocking new weapons.
Most DLC weapons were pretty awesome.
Four days of playtime is the equivalent of stopping by for a few minutes.
I’m hoping Vanguard has no SBMM. I miss playing COD. Good stuff😀👍🏼(I haven’t played COD the last 3 cycles )
I still love cod. Cod's problem really show their head when you play for several hours a day. I work 50 hours a week and only play cod for maybe an hour once or twice a week. I love each one of them for one thing or any other. Great bite sized game .if I wanna grind something I play an rpg or something like thar
I love this game helped me through the pandemic tbf and think it’s really underrated! Also treyarch did a great job considering they only had 9 months to complete it and let’s be honest it’s a hell of a lot better and more complete than vanguard lol
7:05 and that’s the reason why I never got into this game.
I think it was a slightly above average cod game tbh, I think I’d prolly rate it a 7.7/10
The lack of content, lack of balancing, and intense SBMM were my only problems with Cold War. I hate getting punished for doing good in a video game. Lower the SBMM and this game gets 100 times better
Yup. This game would be GREAT without SBMM. I quit so many times because of SBMM. I can’t play more than a half hour without getting frustrated/bored and calling it quits. Only reason I’m not getting vanguard is bc of SBMM. SBMM is killing the fun in cod.
It sucks that fireteam dirty bomb never caught on. I thought it was a really well done mixture of regular multiplayer and battle royal. I think people are just too impatient and it took a few games of playing to really figure out what was going on and the games last about a half hour a piece.
I hated dirty bomb and constant parachuting. Only thing I like was big maps since the game was desperate for maps.
I had a lot of fun on Zombies, but got burned out with the lack of maps, feel, and variety of the game after I did the Dark Aether grind. I agree with Neros about the game potentially being great but falling up short. Pity
I'm going to keep with Cold War as all the sweats and try hards should be on Vanguard. I've not played much due to this but hoping SBMM will be toned down so could be enjoyable with all the content.
Gotta say man I’ve been really enjoying the content lately. Between the Cod content and your personal life content, It’s great to see how far you’ve come in recent times! Keep it up💪🏻
You know there might be a variety of weapons but so little balance, everyone still uses ak74u and galo
Honestly it was my favorite COD in years. The movement was perfectly fine tuned, maps/weapons were great and zombies was a breath of fresh air. Unpopular opinion but I stand by it. 👍
For me Cold War is 6/10
-Major Lack of contents
-Horrible weapon/scorestreaks balance
-Horrible matchmaking
-Awful Scorestreak system
No way i'm remembering this as underrated nostalgic game
Cold war was a solid game to me. I hated how slow they made sniper ads speed but besides that I enjoyed it over mw2019 and I'm looking forward to Treyarch having full development time on the next entry.
Definitely putting this game off and coming back to it really made it feel great. Right now it feels fun to play and I think that I will be sticking with it a bit more especially considering imo vanguard is not worth 60$
Been a fan for a long time and look up to you after everything you’ve gone through. I know what it’s like. Always have and will look forward to your videos.
Idk about you but I’m ready for some of these remasters to start pumping out
1:02 the look of that sight took me a minute to fully process
Love your commentaries! Great video. Cold War for me missed the mark. Wasn't awful, but I just didn't have much fun with it.
There some bugs that never got touched. See exhibit A, the “best play” perk loadout is almost never right.
This will be one of those cods while playing it I thought it was meh then I look back years later and miss it lol - I can just feel it
I’ve literally just bought this game and I absolutely love it.
I know it’s old now,but the maps are some of the best of all the cod games.
Absolutely love playing the mp,only gripes,score streaks are ridiculous,doesn’t promote objective game play at all.
But maps,gun play,sound design are some of the best cod mp ever.
Aside from blops 1,2 mw2 2009.’
Black ops 3 was amazing in my opinion. Even though it's an unpopular opinion then futuristic mobility played so well in that game. Used to fly around the map like a demon smoking fools lol. Miss that shit.
Cold War ended up a really good game. The issue is they deliberately hold back content to make more money off updates. They can release more complete cods but choose not to
You hit the nail on the head with how I feel on Cold War. The only reason I enjoyed it was combined arms, zombies, and fireteam elimination and the campaign obviously.
I camped the hell out of Cold War and loved every minute of it……got vanguard so I’ll be there camping with one shot weapons……stay frosty baby
I haven’t played COD since 2019 but I still watch every video you put out Nero because I love your content. Cheers m8!
The only counter to air patrol was calling in an air patrol. Happened numerous times to me.
They stopped updating Fireteam. That was very disappointing 🤦🏾♂️
Tec-9 with akimbo marshalls has entered the chat
I'd take remake maps at this point compared to the new ones they put out. If they dropped fire range and array.
I really enjoyed Cold War. Played a lot of it. I rate it a lot better than MW2019. Maybe a top 5/6 for me.
Tbf, I think Josh's phrasing actually means he has 4 days of play time in JUST his 11th prestige. So, from the time of his 10th prestige, to the time of his writing that post, he had 4 days in the game.
I'm done with cod franchise unfortunately. I played cold war for a week until i was bored and never touched the game again. It's been a long ride since MW2 but it's finally over
My thoughts on BOCW at launch - 4 out of 10. My thoughts on BOCW after its lifecycle - 6 out of 10. Both the Campaign and Zombies were good and enjoyable, but MP sucked. The gunplay and maps weren't bad, it was the SBMM, lack of things to earn and lack of new and original maps over the course of the year that ruined it for me. This game had potential to be in top 5 COD's of all time, maybe even top 3.
I really did enjoy cold war but after season 2 I just got bored. The only time I'd get on and play was when new zombie maps came out or season 5 which was amazing imo.
Don't forget the 100 days we had where there was no balance update
First Cod I’ve put a good amount of time into since black ops 2
I got this game on season five and I like it so far
Actually forgot about this game until seeing this video pop up
For a "one year later" review you didn't talk about the final product very much
We should here no complaints from you this year Vanguard is amazing
Let’s go Nero!!!
Yeah I definitely see myself coming back to BOCW time to time during the Vanguard year, I wonder if more unreleased maps may be released for the game like what happened MW19 during the BOCW year cycle.
I'm honestly just thinking about quitting cod for good.
I have a combined 80 hours in the last three cod games, and I can say that cold war was the worst one for me.
It had the hardest skill based matchmaking so far, I mean at the hight of my skill (top 2% in league play) I literally had played against Formal, scumpii and a few other pro players.
I just play for fun, not for sweat.
I know a lot of people bash on bo4 multiplayer but that’s one of my most played cods. I was master prestige in both multiplayer and zombies. Wish it had a campaign but I had a decent time hitting nuclears in that game fr
Gonna be playing this and bo4 til 2023 by the looks of things
I didn’t even get this game until the 3rd zombies map was out. Basically played for about a month then stopped caring. Definitely the last COD I’ll buy for a long time, if ever.
Personally I think Cold War had locked potential from being a good game but all the stuff that happened wrecked it
Rest in pieces Miami Strike you wont be missed 😵
Sadly, that console trick only works on xbox
It's a pretty minor thing, but THANK YOU for not spoiling the ending to the campaign. I haven't played it yet, but I've been meaning to some day. I appreciate it Nero :)