Couple of things I completely forgot to mention in the video. First of which is why I didn’t include dead ops arcade, and the second thing is the round 100 that achieved on call of the dead For dead ops, there’s two reasons I didn’t include it in this video. First is that I’m leaving it for a different type of video I’m planning to do after mw3’s life cycle ends. The other reason is that I can’t include it even if I wanted to. For whatever reason, dead ops doesn’t launch for me on pc, so I can’t play it. As for the call of the dead round 100, a week before uploading this video, someone managed to get to round 105 on call of the dead. The reason I didn’t include it is that I only heard about this after uploading the video, and I didn’t think I would need to check if someone got to round 100 since something like this would’ve been a massive deal in the community. To my surprise, I haven’t seen anyone talk about it. Anyways, I’ll start working on the next video after the college semester ends in May to make sure I don’t fail any of my classes. So until then, enjoy this video
@@mrcrowthebird9836why not add it to your channel? You’re detailing your own perception of the mode, so it would make more sense for you to put it in your channel
Tbh I wouldn't want you to feel pressured to make a Dead Ops video unless you really wanted to, since there's already a couple in-depth retrospectives where the DOA community comes together and looks back on how it's evolved
@@WAFFENFABRIK that’s not the idea I have in mind. I wanna make a video on the entire concept of gamemodes in zombies. And dead ops would be an important topic to that video
Black Ops 1 is the perfect Call of Duty game. Campaign is incredible, Multiplayer is iconic and feels so great, and zombies is atmospheric and fun. Its really got it all.
To this day, I have always preferred the visual style of BO1 Zombies as apposed to the over saturated and plastic-looking Chronicles remasters. (Don't get me wrong, the BO3 versions of the maps are asthetically pleasing but for me personally miss the mark when it comes to that unsettling and liminal feeling that the original versions give off).
And I can’t believe it. I was so confident that it won’t happen within making this video that I didn’t even bother to check whether it was actually achieved or not. As a result, I’m getting multiple comments correcting the mistake and each time it hurts my soul
Black ops 1 is my favorite. The atmosphere is creepy and mysterious, fun and memorable weapons, interesting wonder weapons, and the challenge of survival was still at the forefront. When people say old zombies is outdated, I think what they really feel is that they are over the core gameplay of survival, and later games really contributed that.
something people tend to forget: in black ops 1 both kino, five (an dead ops arcade) are on disc! which mean you don't have to pay more money and if the servers are shutdown you can still play those maps. bo2 has the HUGE weakness to have as only on disc maps the tranzit stuff. I remember paying 60€ the game at release and instantly launching it at home and the first thing I did is to check the zombie mode cuz I was curious to what they did with the mode and it was fun playing tranzit and town with friends for one week.. then.... yeah. later the first dlc map released, it was die riese. my friend bought it and.... yeah unsurprisingly he didn't like it and recommended to the whole group to come back to bo1 and forget about bo2. when the first actual good map released with motd, we stop playing bo2 all together so we didn't cared and even if we did that one friend wouldn't want to risk to waste money again buying a dlc so we would have to play without him. that's the main reason to why bo2 zombie is the worst one of the treyarch classics, that and the fact waw zombie is underrated as hell. and that's why bo1 and bo3 are the best zombie even tho i'm not the biggest fan of bo3 edit: you can totally train in Five when playing in group of 4, in fact all the three floors are trainable
Not gonna lie I’ve been seeing the updates for this video and I’ve been patiently waiting and I can say with certainty this is one worth watching, great vid man 🙏 definitely worth the wait 👍
I know that she’s buffy. The reason I mention daphne instead is that I thought it would be hilarious to slightly bother anyone watching that bit thinking I would bring up buffy. There has been a few comments mentioning this, so it’s working lmao
Bo1 was my first zombies game. I never had a xbox 360 or a ps3, so when my friend got the game and a copy of bo1, you know i was over there everyday i could. Booting up the zombies menu and hearing the piano of damned sends chills everytime i play it. Awesome video man, the wait, as always, was worth it
I hereby announce this video essay and our joyous contribution towards it as an artifact of significant historical value. May our AUGs be non-anachronistic and our pneumonias not in the several!
Great video, man! Just finished it and it was expertly put together and I think content like this really what the Zombies Community needs. Innovative essay style videos like this I think have opportunity to reinvigorate the creativity and love for the game a lot of folks have. Black Ops 1 is goated and is probably my number 2 or 3 in terms of Zombies games. I'm a die hard moon fan, but I think I'm goin with the majority and saying that Call of the Dead is my favorite map from the game. I hope this video takes off and I'm looking forward to seeing what content you have in store for the future!
I’m glad you’re enjoying the video. As for a chronicles retro, that would be a difficult one to make. Since all I’m doing is looking over the changes that the remaster makes and not the maps themselves, there’s not much to talk about. If I were to make a large bo3 retro, then chronicles is definitely something I can include to it. But reviewing on it’s own would be extremely hard to pull off
As a zombies veteran from its conception and has been obsessed ever since…. This video is absolutely amazing! My guy was literally talking about when we all first learnt how to train among so many other valid points he made, kino, five, ascension… I’m only 45 mins in, but real recognise real, this dude is literally an OG version of Mr roffle waffles before the money corrupted him lol…… zombies is a round based wave game mode…. Easter eggs are cool to do once…. But the longevity of zombies imo has always been high rounding, zombies RUclipsrs imo contributed to the downfall of my beloved game mode, Dalek JD mr perkaholic for example lol…… big up Noah J though for keep pushing the customs….. finally this year o got a PC and now I literally have 60+ maps downloaded 😂
i always thought kino was just really easy playing it back then, so i always preferred playing Five, i feel like five is just so fun. definitely underrated
Why is it perfect? 1. Start with a single gun - gives you the anxiety and adrenaline that you need because you are playing zombies ofcourse. 2. The spacing is calculated to perfection so u need to approach every step and round with a strategy . 3. Simplicity of movement and guns. The problem in newer cods for me is that i feel like im never going to die and with the overpowered loadouts and everything i see the zombies as a joke.
So l glad this video finally dropped, I’ve been super excited for it! Edit: Yeah I agree that ascension is the worst aged map in the game by far, having to play so much ascension is what completely burned me out on making videos on zombies for a few months, so props to you for powering through it!
A thing worth noting in regards to the low gravity issues on Moon: the physics of BO1 are affected by your fps. Very high fps makes the odds higher of you to randomly fly up in the air when sprinting. Sometimes I've flown up so high that I can reach the ceiling in the pyramid room. There's a reason why the game is capped at 92 fps as default on PC.
I’ve had that happen a ton. But the reason I didn’t mention it is because I didn’t want to bring up an issue that is only affects people that play at a high refresh rate.
@@zestymoon Understandable. But then again, a lot more PC players nowadays play with fps and refresh rates that are much higher than 60. So for anyone that gets really bothered by the Moon physics glitches, this could be good know. Fun fact: BO2 has similar issues in some aspects, as that game's physics are also affected by fps and refresh rate. Best example is the Paralyzer in Buried. The higher the fps, the lower you can fly up. Really high fps makes you incapable of flying up at all.
My favorite maps from BO1 were “FIVE” and “Call of the Dead.” In BO2, they are “Mob of the Dead” and “Buried.” In BO3, they were “Shadows of Evil.” I can play all those maps all day and never get bored. They really need to make zombies it’s own game so we can use different movement and have all the maps in one game I can’t play any newer COD zombies without getting bored past round 30. Cold War was okay, but it was way too easy for my liking, and the HUD was kinda gross in my opinion. Why do you need a mini map? Vanguard was just a big disappointment. I thought MW3 would be good because Modern Warfare guns in zombies sound cool until you get into a game on the one and only map that is a Warzone map, just at night with pimples in buildings and no round based mode. 😭 Later on in MW3’s life cycle, they made zombie looking maps not for zombies but for multiplayer. Why not make those maps round based, even if they are bad? 🤷♂️
Black ops 1 zombies could be my favorite zombies experience honestly, it just feels good I love how it has real guns and not all of them are good. If they fixed the leaderboards I would play it a ton moren
It's strange, in my opinion, I agree with a lot of people when they say that BO1 is outdated. Yet when I say it's outdated, I don't always mean it in a bad way, BO1 came out at a time when the Zombies mode was still growing, evolving, and most importantly, experimenting, for better or for worse. There's a LOT of stuff in BO1 that I don't like (ammo economy, weapon damage falloff, a lot of the special zombies, Shangri-La), but a lot of those are really just bad because it was their first time trying something new, and it just didn't work out (besides the ammo thing bro what is up with always running out of ammo in BO1 LOL). Also as a side note I think I prefer playing the BO1 versions of almost all these maps, despite Zombies Chronicles fixing a lot of the issues I have with them.
Classic Treyarch zombies will never get outdated. The mode is simple enough that anybody can get into it, with the possibility of added complexity if you go for high rounds or EEs. The lore's also there if you're interested but you can play thr mode perfectly fine without it.
imo cod zombies went downhill with the mindset that mob of the dead introduced, focusing on Easter eggs\story when the real appeal of zombies is the rogue like elements that it never leaned into as much as it should. the box having the best weapons, but also risking giving you shitty guns is the best example of this. your point about bo1 weapons was a good point, having to overcome difficult maps while having a bunch of playstyles due to box luck, direction you go in on a map, perk choice makes it interesting.
Nah you're wrong. MOTD saved zombies. Tranzit and Die Rise were killing BO2 whereas MOTD and Origins saved the game and the entire zombies game mode. Focusing on easter eggs and story was for the better. Round based survival was getting tiresome at that point. Surviving just to survive with no story to get invested in and no goal to achieve was fucking boring and pointless. Times change and zombies had to change with the times and evolve to be better and stay relevant.
@@DanielWilson-lm4zh I know that mob and origins helped zombies popularity and origins was a real good map. what I'm saying is that it gave people the idea that the story Easter egg was the main appeal of zombies which it never was for most, and being forced to do most of the EE steps to play the map properly got repetitive. bo1 struck a good balance tho i prefer bo2 weapons a lot more i think they are more interesting
@@fiinenight Easter eggs have always been optional. I would say easter eggs became the appeal cause it was something else to do other than the standard round based gameplay that we've been doing since day 1. It was something new, something fun, and it was a mystery for the player to uncover. It brought the community more together than any round based gameplay.
@@DanielWilson-lm4zh in mob and origins you have to do most of it to get the wonder weapons n shit. mob is particularly bad about it, still think its better than buried that map is mind-numbingly boring. now i stopped playing cod after bo2 so i have no idea about b03 onward.
@@DanielWilson-lm4zh Why do things have to change? Why couldn't the zombies mode die out peacefully instead of it becoming a carcass of its original self?
I listened to this at work and I loved your retrospective! I've been playing this game since a few weeks before DLC1 came out, and I continue to play it to this day (I totally recommend the Renaissance mod for a really fun and refreshing experience too!) A few nerdy things to note: Commonly, most know the Wunderwaffe as the "Jugg Zapper", but what it's actually doing is zapping your health regen away. Without Jugg, zapping yourself brings you from 100 HP down to 1. With Jugg, it takes you from 250 HP down to 113, effectively making you a 2 hit. Surprisingly, a lot dont know about this, but the WAW remasters are also launch maps! They were released alongside the Prestige Edition of the game. So they rereleased the maps in DLC4 because, let's be honest, you paid a bunch extra for a game version that not many else had. You weren't going to find anyone to play with online. Lastly, you probably know by now, but Round 100 was just achieved in COTD solo very recently. Many runners were playing correctly to reach Round 100, but a fatal flaw with the game engine was holding them back. If I'm not mistaken, the game will count ticks in each map. If this count reaches the 32-bit integer limit (around 21 billion), the map will force restart. I think the restart happens around 80 hours? This is why many runners have to basically speedrun for world record. This issue persisted from WAW as well. COTD just had Round 100 broken because of a new barrier glitch found that leaves zombies in an idle state, which will automatically die when left like that for too long.
Imma give my personal opinions on the maps: Kino Der Toten: Personal favorite map of all time and I really love it. "Five": A cool "Yang" to Kino's "Yin" and they work well together. Ascension: Would be my favorite but the Monkeys drags it down. Call Of The Dead: Kinda mixed but I loved George Romero. Shangri La: Underrated and yet still my least favorite map of it. Moon: An Great ending map, but it got better in BO3 Nacht Der Untoten: Atmosphere is downgraded but has Mule Kick and Thunder Gun Verruckt: Shittiest version of the map. Why does it get the Winter's Howl Shi No Numa: Just Eh. Der Riese: Got upgraded but I just didn't play it as much. Black Ops 1 as a whole is my favorite Zombies game of all time.
Shangri la PAP has bought back some memories of playing this map when it was brand new…with random people Jesus fucking Christ I hated playing this map with other people especially if they flat out refused to communicate or didn’t have a mic I preferred playing this alone it was the only BO1 map I was legitimately good at
Bro I wish, but these videos take a lot of time to make. Not only that but my progress of making videos is slowed down by college. I’ll get more and more efficient in the future hopefully
I want to add something to mulekick. Something important. Having three weapons takes longer to cycle through. This can and will end your game sometimes. It is the sole reason why I never use this. Even in newer CODs. When I need my Wonder weapon to get out of a sticky situation I need it NOW.
That’s not really true. If you know your weapon cycle, you can click triangle/Y multiple times to cycle to the weapon you want, or if you using a mouse, you can rotate back and forth using the scroll to the weapon you need. It’s just a matter of muscle memory
It’s not much need tbh but on some maps it’s helpful . Like you can carry wuffle Thompson for points and ray gun for dogs . However I just use Thompson and knife for dogs and waffle
As a big fan of moon regarding the excavators i always thought the reason they were in spawn was so that you would teleport to area 51 with the hacker then your right next to the controls i dont think ive ever stopped an excavator without teleporting to area 51
I’ll never forget that I saw a video of an airport behind the first WAW map, it was modded and I didn’t know what mods were, but I would keep playing trying to unlock enough doors/points to open the door to the airport. I sucked and played solo so it never happened haha
I'm only 44 mins into this video but I love it already. Amazing production work and I love the little art in between the sections. 43:48 "This Place" would be known as "Lander D" as the Russian letter "Д" on the terminal translates into English as the letter "D". The "Junkyard" can also be referred to as "Lander F" (Ф = F) and the Speed Cola lander can be referred to as "Lander B" (Б = B) Edit: Finishing the Ascension section. Yes I do agree the monkeys can be very annoying and a bit off putting to want to play the map. However you can prevent them from taking Jugg if you leave both doors closed and get it through defending the perk machine and the bottle, at the cost/challenge of not being able to buy Jugg and having to gamble for it. And taking the time to look into the detail of the map it has that eerie and cold, yet beautiful atmosphere, even before turning the power on. I personally think it's aged fine if you're looking for a fun time, yet want more of a challenge than Kino, which tbh while I like Kino, it's always been overrated to me and has felt like a "Der Reise 2.0" not that it's a bad thing and it's good if I want to shut my brain off and shoot. Five/Ascension and beyond keep me on my toes and keep me challenged. Again overall I love the video, and I was 8 when BO1 came out, so I remember when these DLC's came out and used whatever Microsoft Points (Yes... those) I had saved from Christmas' and birthdays to buy them. BO1 is a huge nostalgia trip for me every time and I will always come back to it. This and BO2 serve as major core memories for me.
@@pikminologueraisin2139 dude I feel this 100% I remember when I finally bought chronicles I got the giant with it and I just felt like "damn this would have been perfect with shadows of evil as a map rotation"😂🙏
I like the nova crawlers. Even with the nova crawler kino is so easy to get high rounds so having those as a extra little level of difficulty is nice. I wouldn’t have played as many hours of kino as I did if there weren’t nova crawlers
I never understood why people hate the ascension monkeys with such a burning passion. Sure they can be annoying but without them Ascension would be the easiest map in zombies history. They are very predictable in their pathing and as long as you set up well and actually aim good you can deal with them easily everytime without losing a perk.
I think I perfectly outlined my problem with ascension in this video. They don’t make the map harder. even with the monkeys on the map, ascension is one of if not the easiest map in zombies. The monkeys aren’t a problem because they’re hard to deal with. They are easily killable with traps and the thundergun. The problem is that they waste your time by forcing you to go around the entire map getting your perks back. And even if you’re able to deal with them without losing perks, they’re not a fun boss enemy to fight. That’s a valid reason to hate them
Apparently that was a week before this video was posted. It’s unfortunate that I didn’t hear about since I finished the call of the dead section over a month ago, and I didn’t expect a round 100 before finishing the video
I've loved zombie since a kid. But as you grow up you realise that training is just a waste of your time. Now I only enjoy zombie maps that don't allow you to train like shangri-la
zesty moob. ever since i died with mw3 zombies (began decaying at vanguard) and my revival with bo6 announcement. ive been waiting for the newest video once ive awaken. after watching the first seconds ive shat myself because i got scared. no horror videos on youtube could ever do this. and this video has made my views on five go higher and higher than ive ever had it. (which was very high, i really loved the cast of five except for mcnamara because im biased)
I do have a lot of problems with bo1 zombies, and It has shown it's age in a lot of ways. That being said it's still black ops zombies it's a classic forever
Absolutely brilliant video. I’m glad I found your channel. The only thing I disagree with is your opinions on the original four maps, especially shi no numa and der riise. Especially der riise… that map is utterly goated. I was thinking you’d speak more highly about it especially with how highly you spoke about Kino, which I think is an inferior map. Nacht and Verruckt I can see your points but I definitely think they are great maps which really capture that original zombies style gameplay which we miss today and haven’t had since bo3 zombies. Other than that, the video is FANTASTIC. Thank you brother 🐐
Can you do a video on BO2 as well? That was my first and honestly made me hate BO1 on so for years, because without a team it felt like training the game, but as an adult it’s in my top three, in order from 3-1 it’s bo1, bo3, and BO2
I wouldn’t say that there’s isn’t fans of the other games. It’s more so that fans of bo3 are more vocal about their high opinion of the game, which I do understand. It’s just that some of them are so attached to that opinion that they think that the other games aren’t even worth playing, and it’s impossible for them to comprehend that people can enjoy other games.
I'm a very casual player, black ops 3 is usually held up as being brilliant zombies and yeah I guess but a lot of those maps turned me off simply because of the Easter egg steps needed for PAP and so on. I'm very white bread and toast with zombies, call me boring, so bo1 and 2 had so many maps that just worked for me with Kino being the crown jewel. My favourite map.
The title of this video was already enough. You can not say the game hasn't withstood the test of time. I started with waw's nacht der untoten. This was just after Dmitry and Reznov had put the final nail in the Reichstag's hq. Seeing the zombies running at you in through the fog. Seemingly coming back for revenge against the player, truly terrifying. Bo1 was a mixed baf for me. The renastered waw maps were fine. But it's a bit clunky. (Except Der reise. That was a perfect remaster!) Kino: Easy and accessible. Asenion: Easy, but the monkeys are a pain. Call of the dead: Camping isnt as viable. George A. Remero keeps players on the move. Shangri-la: Not easy. But with map knowledge. It has some of the best features. (WW, using the monkeys to cycle power ups into max ammo's etc) Moon: Bombastic and chaotic. But it has the most rewarding late match gameplay potential.
That’s a common misconception. Mule kick was never a thing until moon came out. When the perk was introduced in moon, the devs decided to retroactively add it to all previous maps. If you doubt that, try playing a game of any map other than moon and the waw remasters offline. Mule kick won’t be on the map
I dont see how Acension is a poorly aged map, if you put out a poll today youd see it being at the top instead of the bottom for a reason. The monkey rounds cannot be the reason it aged poorly, considering everything else is fantasticeven for solo players. Unlike five, five has to be the most poorly aged map on bo1. The lack of space, the lack of good weapons to get you set up, the pentagon theif, nova crawlers in the tightest spaces etc. Not to mentionen the lack of good wonder weapons. P.s sarah michelle gellar would be more known for her roll as Buffy the vampire slayer lol
I think you missed what I said in the end of that section. The reason I said ascension aged poorly isn’t purely because of the monkeys. The astronaut for example is just as bad if not worse than the monkeys, but I didn’t say that moon aged poorly due to that. The reason I said that ascension aged poorly is that the map is no longer unique, and there are too many other maps that offer what it offers. The monkeys more so the straw the broke the camel’s back. Oh and for sarah’s role as buffy, I do know that she’s more known for that role than daphne. I just thought it would be hilarious to mention a much goofier role just to slightly irritate some people who expected buffy. There’s a few comments mentioning this so I guess it worked lmao
hey really hope you see this, I just watched a video about WaW showing that if you play the game above 125 fps it makes the zombies drag you in more. you should give it a try they say you should play the game around 120 fps max
Couple of things I completely forgot to mention in the video. First of which is why I didn’t include dead ops arcade, and the second thing is the round 100 that achieved on call of the dead
For dead ops, there’s two reasons I didn’t include it in this video. First is that I’m leaving it for a different type of video I’m planning to do after mw3’s life cycle ends.
The other reason is that I can’t include it even if I wanted to. For whatever reason, dead ops doesn’t launch for me on pc, so I can’t play it.
As for the call of the dead round 100, a week before uploading this video, someone managed to get to round 105 on call of the dead. The reason I didn’t include it is that I only heard about this after uploading the video, and I didn’t think I would need to check if someone got to round 100 since something like this would’ve been a massive deal in the community. To my surprise, I haven’t seen anyone talk about it.
Anyways, I’ll start working on the next video after the college semester ends in May to make sure I don’t fail any of my classes. So until then, enjoy this video
If I make a really detailed video about the bo1 dead ops and community reception about it. You will add to your channel?
@@mrcrowthebird9836why not add it to your channel? You’re detailing your own perception of the mode, so it would make more sense for you to put it in your channel
Tbh I wouldn't want you to feel pressured to make a Dead Ops video unless you really wanted to, since there's already a couple in-depth retrospectives where the DOA community comes together and looks back on how it's evolved
@@WAFFENFABRIK that’s not the idea I have in mind. I wanna make a video on the entire concept of gamemodes in zombies. And dead ops would be an important topic to that video
been reliving zombies bo1 myself turn on your vid and im in it XD
Black Ops 1 is the perfect Call of Duty game. Campaign is incredible, Multiplayer is iconic and feels so great, and zombies is atmospheric and fun. Its really got it all.
Ya and its not live service
so true. it’s my fav cod for that exact reason. only thing didn’t like about it was the quickscoping nerf.
Nothing is perfect & BO3 had the best zombies don’t lie to yourself
@@dariusdafigga great maps but gobble gums made it too easy
@@ThunderHOWL16 You don't have to use the gobblegums
"Zombies. Gentlemen, at times like these our capacity to retaliate must be and has to be massive, to deter all forms of aggression."
"It's just the storm, Dick. Sit down."
ive always loved that line because he's basically saying, "your balls need to be massive" but in a presidential way 🤣🤣
Holy crap JFK from five
"Gentlemen, lock and load."
"I might have played this game more than any other person on the planet"
Alright, listen here, wise guy-
"In the last 5 months."
Ok valid
Same
17:53 Today I learned you can place a claymore on that windowsill lol
Oh that. I literally figured it out by accident lmao
To this day, I have always preferred the visual style of BO1 Zombies as apposed to the over saturated and plastic-looking Chronicles remasters. (Don't get me wrong, the BO3 versions of the maps are asthetically pleasing but for me personally miss the mark when it comes to that unsettling and liminal feeling that the original versions give off).
This game may be old but it holds a special place in our hearts
True. It was the first map I played. The nova crawlers terrified me though
And it may be “old” to everyone else but to us vets, it feels like yesterday.
I still play bo1 zombies to this day, bo3 remasters are great but OG maps hit different ambiance wise@@Thedudemannn
I'm a simple man. I see a BO1 video essay, I hit like.
Realest comment I've seen all day
I too am a simple man, I see a comment on someone liking a video because it’s about bo1 and I hit like.
Diddo lol
If I made a video essay on Blops Zombies, would you like it ?
lmaoo deadass
this video was uploaded days after a Call Of The Dead round 100 was finally achieved legitimately after almost 13 years.
And I can’t believe it. I was so confident that it won’t happen within making this video that I didn’t even bother to check whether it was actually achieved or not. As a result, I’m getting multiple comments correcting the mistake and each time it hurts my soul
Black ops 1 is my favorite. The atmosphere is creepy and mysterious, fun and memorable weapons, interesting wonder weapons, and the challenge of survival was still at the forefront. When people say old zombies is outdated, I think what they really feel is that they are over the core gameplay of survival, and later games really contributed that.
was a lot of fun and absolute pleasure helping you with this - don’t think I could ever play this game without Blauwbeer now
I don’t think any of us can.
@@zestymoon for as much as we bitched about every map it was always fun, especially der riese
something people tend to forget:
in black ops 1 both kino, five (an dead ops arcade) are on disc! which mean you don't have to pay more money and if the servers are shutdown you can still play those maps.
bo2 has the HUGE weakness to have as only on disc maps the tranzit stuff. I remember paying 60€ the game at release and instantly launching it at home and the first thing I did is to check the zombie mode cuz I was curious to what they did with the mode and it was fun playing tranzit and town with friends for one week.. then.... yeah. later the first dlc map released, it was die riese. my friend bought it and.... yeah unsurprisingly he didn't like it and recommended to the whole group to come back to bo1 and forget about bo2. when the first actual good map released with motd, we stop playing bo2 all together so we didn't cared and even if we did that one friend wouldn't want to risk to waste money again buying a dlc so we would have to play without him.
that's the main reason to why bo2 zombie is the worst one of the treyarch classics, that and the fact waw zombie is underrated as hell. and that's why bo1 and bo3 are the best zombie even tho i'm not the biggest fan of bo3
edit: you can totally train in Five when playing in group of 4, in fact all the three floors are trainable
Not gonna lie I’ve been seeing the updates for this video and I’ve been patiently waiting and I can say with certainty this is one worth watching, great vid man 🙏 definitely worth the wait 👍
Idk if it was a meme to reduce Sarah M. Geller to "Daphne" when she was literally Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
it was a meme yes
I know that she’s buffy. The reason I mention daphne instead is that I thought it would be hilarious to slightly bother anyone watching that bit thinking I would bring up buffy. There has been a few comments mentioning this, so it’s working lmao
Dead ops arcade players be malding for not getting mentioned in
I genuinely forgot mention anything related to it. I guess the mode is that forgettable lmao
Bruh xD
Quick tip for ascension:
place claymores on each perk machine the more you progress
Bo1 was my first zombies game. I never had a xbox 360 or a ps3, so when my friend got the game and a copy of bo1, you know i was over there everyday i could. Booting up the zombies menu and hearing the piano of damned sends chills everytime i play it. Awesome video man, the wait, as always, was worth it
Same. Asked my friend every single day if I could go over and play 😂
you are my favorite zombies youtuber, been waiting on this video
Favorite? that is something I never thought I’d hear so soon. Glad you like the content brotha
Omfg i never thought it would come out,Thank so you much for bringing us this video brother 🙏🏽🖤
I hereby announce this video essay and our joyous contribution towards it as an artifact of significant historical value.
May our AUGs be non-anachronistic and our pneumonias not in the several!
27 years old now proper nostalgia! Recently just bought WaW and Black ops 1 for Xbox purely for zombies. Wish there were more players on the servers 😢
every couple of months i rewatch all of your videos it's kinda weird ive out of the zombies loop for a year now
I’m glad that you enjoy the videos this much brotha
Oh shit, its finally here! Been waiting for this one man, glad ya were finally able to finish it
Incredibly well done. I really love the longer videos, keep it up man!
Great video, man! Just finished it and it was expertly put together and I think content like this really what the Zombies Community needs. Innovative essay style videos like this I think have opportunity to reinvigorate the creativity and love for the game a lot of folks have.
Black Ops 1 is goated and is probably my number 2 or 3 in terms of Zombies games. I'm a die hard moon fan, but I think I'm goin with the majority and saying that Call of the Dead is my favorite map from the game.
I hope this video takes off and I'm looking forward to seeing what content you have in store for the future!
God that RatSlinger guy from the CotD section had a horrible mic
He does have a god awful mic, but his donations are appreciated. But in all seriousness, thanks for the tip senior
Still better than whatever the fuck that Blauwbeer guy had, 1890's radio ass mic.
Asylum. Freeze-ray… Wait- Mr. Freeze! It’s a Batman reference!
Just got done with the kino section, great video so far would love to see a chronicles retrospective in the future.
I’m glad you’re enjoying the video. As for a chronicles retro, that would be a difficult one to make. Since all I’m doing is looking over the changes that the remaster makes and not the maps themselves, there’s not much to talk about. If I were to make a large bo3 retro, then chronicles is definitely something I can include to it. But reviewing on it’s own would be extremely hard to pull off
As a zombies veteran from its conception and has been obsessed ever since…. This video is absolutely amazing! My guy was literally talking about when we all first learnt how to train among so many other valid points he made, kino, five, ascension… I’m only 45 mins in, but real recognise real, this dude is literally an OG version of Mr roffle waffles before the money corrupted him lol…… zombies is a round based wave game mode…. Easter eggs are cool to do once…. But the longevity of zombies imo has always been high rounding, zombies RUclipsrs imo contributed to the downfall of my beloved game mode, Dalek JD mr perkaholic for example lol…… big up Noah J though for keep pushing the customs….. finally this year o got a PC and now I literally have 60+ maps downloaded 😂
An og mr rofflewaffles? That’s an interesting way to describe me. I’m glad you enjoyed the video brotha
i always thought kino was just really easy playing it back then, so i always preferred playing Five, i feel like five is just so fun. definitely underrated
Why is it perfect?
1. Start with a single gun - gives you the anxiety and adrenaline that you need because you are playing zombies ofcourse.
2. The spacing is calculated to perfection so u need to approach every step and round with a strategy .
3. Simplicity of movement and guns.
The problem in newer cods for me is that i feel like im never going to die and with the overpowered loadouts and everything i see the zombies as a joke.
So l glad this video finally dropped, I’ve been super excited for it!
Edit: Yeah I agree that ascension is the worst aged map in the game by far, having to play so much ascension is what completely burned me out on making videos on zombies for a few months, so props to you for powering through it!
Was playing old cods even after the ps4 and almost into ps5, all timeless classics. WAW, MW2, BO1, MW3 and BO2
Everyone I always played with only liked Kino and Der riese because the other ones were too hard to them. So frustrating
A thing worth noting in regards to the low gravity issues on Moon: the physics of BO1 are affected by your fps. Very high fps makes the odds higher of you to randomly fly up in the air when sprinting. Sometimes I've flown up so high that I can reach the ceiling in the pyramid room. There's a reason why the game is capped at 92 fps as default on PC.
I’ve had that happen a ton. But the reason I didn’t mention it is because I didn’t want to bring up an issue that is only affects people that play at a high refresh rate.
@@zestymoon Understandable. But then again, a lot more PC players nowadays play with fps and refresh rates that are much higher than 60. So for anyone that gets really bothered by the Moon physics glitches, this could be good know. Fun fact: BO2 has similar issues in some aspects, as that game's physics are also affected by fps and refresh rate. Best example is the Paralyzer in Buried. The higher the fps, the lower you can fly up. Really high fps makes you incapable of flying up at all.
My favorite maps from BO1 were “FIVE” and “Call of the Dead.” In BO2, they are “Mob of the Dead” and “Buried.” In BO3, they were “Shadows of Evil.” I can play all those maps all day and never get bored. They really need to make zombies it’s own game so we can use different movement and have all the maps in one game
I can’t play any newer COD zombies without getting bored past round 30. Cold War was okay, but it was way too easy for my liking, and the HUD was kinda gross in my opinion. Why do you need a mini map? Vanguard was just a big disappointment. I thought MW3 would be good because Modern Warfare guns in zombies sound cool until you get into a game on the one and only map that is a Warzone map, just at night with pimples in buildings and no round based mode. 😭 Later on in MW3’s life cycle, they made zombie looking maps not for zombies but for multiplayer. Why not make those maps round based, even if they are bad? 🤷♂️
Black ops 1 zombies could be my favorite zombies experience honestly, it just feels good I love how it has real guns and not all of them are good. If they fixed the leaderboards I would play it a ton moren
Fantastic video, was well worth the wait.
It's strange, in my opinion, I agree with a lot of people when they say that BO1 is outdated. Yet when I say it's outdated, I don't always mean it in a bad way, BO1 came out at a time when the Zombies mode was still growing, evolving, and most importantly, experimenting, for better or for worse. There's a LOT of stuff in BO1 that I don't like (ammo economy, weapon damage falloff, a lot of the special zombies, Shangri-La), but a lot of those are really just bad because it was their first time trying something new, and it just didn't work out (besides the ammo thing bro what is up with always running out of ammo in BO1 LOL). Also as a side note I think I prefer playing the BO1 versions of almost all these maps, despite Zombies Chronicles fixing a lot of the issues I have with them.
Classic Treyarch zombies will never get outdated. The mode is simple enough that anybody can get into it, with the possibility of added complexity if you go for high rounds or EEs. The lore's also there if you're interested but you can play thr mode perfectly fine without it.
imo cod zombies went downhill with the mindset that mob of the dead introduced, focusing on Easter eggs\story when the real appeal of zombies is the rogue like elements that it never leaned into as much as it should. the box having the best weapons, but also risking giving you shitty guns is the best example of this. your point about bo1 weapons was a good point, having to overcome difficult maps while having a bunch of playstyles due to box luck, direction you go in on a map, perk choice makes it interesting.
Nah you're wrong. MOTD saved zombies. Tranzit and Die Rise were killing BO2 whereas MOTD and Origins saved the game and the entire zombies game mode. Focusing on easter eggs and story was for the better. Round based survival was getting tiresome at that point. Surviving just to survive with no story to get invested in and no goal to achieve was fucking boring and pointless. Times change and zombies had to change with the times and evolve to be better and stay relevant.
@@DanielWilson-lm4zh I know that mob and origins helped zombies popularity and origins was a real good map. what I'm saying is that it gave people the idea that the story Easter egg was the main appeal of zombies which it never was for most, and being forced to do most of the EE steps to play the map properly got repetitive. bo1 struck a good balance tho i prefer bo2 weapons a lot more i think they are more interesting
@@fiinenight Easter eggs have always been optional. I would say easter eggs became the appeal cause it was something else to do other than the standard round based gameplay that we've been doing since day 1. It was something new, something fun, and it was a mystery for the player to uncover. It brought the community more together than any round based gameplay.
@@DanielWilson-lm4zh in mob and origins you have to do most of it to get the wonder weapons n shit. mob is particularly bad about it, still think its better than buried that map is mind-numbingly boring. now i stopped playing cod after bo2 so i have no idea about b03 onward.
@@DanielWilson-lm4zh Why do things have to change? Why couldn't the zombies mode die out peacefully instead of it becoming a carcass of its original self?
I listened to this at work and I loved your retrospective! I've been playing this game since a few weeks before DLC1 came out, and I continue to play it to this day (I totally recommend the Renaissance mod for a really fun and refreshing experience too!) A few nerdy things to note:
Commonly, most know the Wunderwaffe as the "Jugg Zapper", but what it's actually doing is zapping your health regen away. Without Jugg, zapping yourself brings you from 100 HP down to 1. With Jugg, it takes you from 250 HP down to 113, effectively making you a 2 hit.
Surprisingly, a lot dont know about this, but the WAW remasters are also launch maps! They were released alongside the Prestige Edition of the game. So they rereleased the maps in DLC4 because, let's be honest, you paid a bunch extra for a game version that not many else had. You weren't going to find anyone to play with online.
Lastly, you probably know by now, but Round 100 was just achieved in COTD solo very recently. Many runners were playing correctly to reach Round 100, but a fatal flaw with the game engine was holding them back. If I'm not mistaken, the game will count ticks in each map. If this count reaches the 32-bit integer limit (around 21 billion), the map will force restart. I think the restart happens around 80 hours? This is why many runners have to basically speedrun for world record. This issue persisted from WAW as well. COTD just had Round 100 broken because of a new barrier glitch found that leaves zombies in an idle state, which will automatically die when left like that for too long.
I remember buying my 1st second hand PS3 Super slim back on 2018 I instantly grab Black ops combo pack sealed.
Imma give my personal opinions on the maps:
Kino Der Toten: Personal favorite map of all time and I really love it.
"Five": A cool "Yang" to Kino's "Yin" and they work well together.
Ascension: Would be my favorite but the Monkeys drags it down.
Call Of The Dead: Kinda mixed but I loved George Romero.
Shangri La: Underrated and yet still my least favorite map of it.
Moon: An Great ending map, but it got better in BO3
Nacht Der Untoten: Atmosphere is downgraded but has Mule Kick and Thunder Gun
Verruckt: Shittiest version of the map. Why does it get the Winter's Howl
Shi No Numa: Just Eh.
Der Riese: Got upgraded but I just didn't play it as much.
Black Ops 1 as a whole is my favorite Zombies game of all time.
The Frosty cameo was like an og MCU cameo. Had me cheering like I was at the cinema
Trust me, I was just as happy when I saw the masterpiece he made for the video
Shangri la PAP has bought back some memories of playing this map when it was brand new…with random people Jesus fucking Christ I hated playing this map with other people especially if they flat out refused to communicate or didn’t have a mic I preferred playing this alone it was the only BO1 map I was legitimately good at
You gotta upload more man your vids are soooo good
Bro I wish, but these videos take a lot of time to make. Not only that but my progress of making videos is slowed down by college. I’ll get more and more efficient in the future hopefully
@@zestymoon feels man I just enjoy them a lot since there aren’t a lot of zombie RUclipsrs that make videos like these
BO1 is the best Call of Duty in my eyes. All 3 modes were solid. And zombies was creepy.
I want to add something to mulekick. Something important. Having three weapons takes longer to cycle through. This can and will end your game sometimes. It is the sole reason why I never use this. Even in newer CODs. When I need my Wonder weapon to get out of a sticky situation I need it NOW.
That’s not really true. If you know your weapon cycle, you can click triangle/Y multiple times to cycle to the weapon you want, or if you using a mouse, you can rotate back and forth using the scroll to the weapon you need. It’s just a matter of muscle memory
It’s not much need tbh but on some maps it’s helpful . Like you can carry wuffle Thompson for points and ray gun for dogs . However I just use Thompson and knife for dogs and waffle
you earned my sub for the DBZ BT2 music. god bless you. great vid
God bless you too brotha. I had to put lost courage due to how much of a banger it is
Man this is such a good video that obviously had a lot of time and work put into it. Can’t wait for more man💯
You hit the nail on the head with everything you said. I just wish I could play this game without getting hacked
As a big fan of moon regarding the excavators i always thought the reason they were in spawn was so that you would teleport to area 51 with the hacker then your right next to the controls i dont think ive ever stopped an excavator without teleporting to area 51
Awesome video! Been waiting on this one for awhile and it didn’t disappoint
I’ll never forget that I saw a video of an airport behind the first WAW map, it was modded and I didn’t know what mods were, but I would keep playing trying to unlock enough doors/points to open the door to the airport. I sucked and played solo so it never happened haha
I'm only 44 mins into this video but I love it already. Amazing production work and I love the little art in between the sections.
43:48 "This Place" would be known as "Lander D" as the Russian letter "Д" on the terminal translates into English as the letter "D". The "Junkyard" can also be referred to as "Lander F" (Ф = F) and the Speed Cola lander can be referred to as "Lander B" (Б = B)
Edit: Finishing the Ascension section. Yes I do agree the monkeys can be very annoying and a bit off putting to want to play the map. However you can prevent them from taking Jugg if you leave both doors closed and get it through defending the perk machine and the bottle, at the cost/challenge of not being able to buy Jugg and having to gamble for it.
And taking the time to look into the detail of the map it has that eerie and cold, yet beautiful atmosphere, even before turning the power on. I personally think it's aged fine if you're looking for a fun time, yet want more of a challenge than Kino, which tbh while I like Kino, it's always been overrated to me and has felt like a "Der Reise 2.0" not that it's a bad thing and it's good if I want to shut my brain off and shoot. Five/Ascension and beyond keep me on my toes and keep me challenged.
Again overall I love the video, and I was 8 when BO1 came out, so I remember when these DLC's came out and used whatever Microsoft Points (Yes... those) I had saved from Christmas' and birthdays to buy them. BO1 is a huge nostalgia trip for me every time and I will always come back to it. This and BO2 serve as major core memories for me.
One of the best videos on cod zombies to drop!
Shadows of evil when it first came out was kinda annoying but shadows of evil now is one of my favorite maps in BO3
yeah I just wish the giant was free so people could play something less overwhelming at the time. plus it's a remake map so c'mon
@@pikminologueraisin2139 dude I feel this 100% I remember when I finally bought chronicles I got the giant with it and I just felt like "damn this would have been perfect with shadows of evil as a map rotation"😂🙏
I like the nova crawlers. Even with the nova crawler kino is so easy to get high rounds so having those as a extra little level of difficulty is nice. I wouldn’t have played as many hours of kino as I did if there weren’t nova crawlers
I never understood why people hate the ascension monkeys with such a burning passion. Sure they can be annoying but without them Ascension would be the easiest map in zombies history. They are very predictable in their pathing and as long as you set up well and actually aim good you can deal with them easily everytime without losing a perk.
I think I perfectly outlined my problem with ascension in this video. They don’t make the map harder. even with the monkeys on the map, ascension is one of if not the easiest map in zombies. The monkeys aren’t a problem because they’re hard to deal with. They are easily killable with traps and the thundergun. The problem is that they waste your time by forcing you to go around the entire map getting your perks back. And even if you’re able to deal with them without losing perks, they’re not a fun boss enemy to fight. That’s a valid reason to hate them
Nice video keep up the good work, btw round 105 has been achieved on Call of the Dead solo
Apparently that was a week before this video was posted. It’s unfortunate that I didn’t hear about since I finished the call of the dead section over a month ago, and I didn’t expect a round 100 before finishing the video
I've loved zombie since a kid. But as you grow up you realise that training is just a waste of your time. Now I only enjoy zombie maps that don't allow you to train like shangri-la
Hold on, gotta mark this video down right now, this is a good video to eat too, I'll be back later.
zesty moob. ever since i died with mw3 zombies (began decaying at vanguard) and my revival with bo6 announcement. ive been waiting for the newest video once ive awaken. after watching the first seconds ive shat myself because i got scared. no horror videos on youtube could ever do this. and this video has made my views on five go higher and higher than ive ever had it. (which was very high, i really loved the cast of five except for mcnamara because im biased)
and oh shit a frosty collab! caught me off guard watching the five segment
Thundergun is goated 🐐
Rewatched the video, i changed my mind it sux lmao
Kino Der Toten has always been my favorite zombies map.
I'm about to watch this once for real and like 4 more times in the background 😂
(Also I broke my edging streak to this)
A fitting end for that streak
I do have a lot of problems with bo1 zombies, and It has shown it's age in a lot of ways. That being said it's still black ops zombies it's a classic forever
I'm pretty sure I've had the QED empty my ammo as well as other nefarious things.
Good video keep it up bro
Boutta miss my sons birth for this 💯
As you should
I’ve been waiting for this vid! Yessir
finally been waiting for this broski
Even a p diddy party couldn’t stop me from watching this video
Yes I have been waiting for this
WAW and BO1 Bring back memories ...
"I've played this game more than anyone in the last 5 months"
Some rando speedrunner: *chuckles*
Ok maybe like top 10.
Gotta say I love these videos
Glad you do man
It’s finally here! Time to bust out the popcorn 🍿
Absolutely brilliant video. I’m glad I found your channel. The only thing I disagree with is your opinions on the original four maps, especially shi no numa and der riise. Especially der riise… that map is utterly goated. I was thinking you’d speak more highly about it especially with how highly you spoke about Kino, which I think is an inferior map. Nacht and Verruckt I can see your points but I definitely think they are great maps which really capture that original zombies style gameplay which we miss today and haven’t had since bo3 zombies. Other than that, the video is FANTASTIC. Thank you brother 🐐
Why is it so hard to find time in my life? I hope that today will be the day in which I finally watch this video
And I hope that you’re going to enjoy it
mfs with less than 10k subs making a 2+ hour passion project of a video essay:
me: i like :)
Hopefully I’ll get there one day
@@zestymoon hope you do too :)
Can you do a video on BO2 as well? That was my first and honestly made me hate BO1 on so for years, because without a team it felt like training the game, but as an adult it’s in my top three, in order from 3-1 it’s bo1, bo3, and BO2
I already made a bo2 video lmao
Forgot two major Kino strats... Fire trap and foyer room for the unlucky fourth player lmao
Really good video, I agree
Bro, thank you for actually being honest, like, there's only bo3 fans now..
I wouldn’t say that there’s isn’t fans of the other games. It’s more so that fans of bo3 are more vocal about their high opinion of the game, which I do understand. It’s just that some of them are so attached to that opinion that they think that the other games aren’t even worth playing, and it’s impossible for them to comprehend that people can enjoy other games.
I'm a very casual player, black ops 3 is usually held up as being brilliant zombies and yeah I guess but a lot of those maps turned me off simply because of the Easter egg steps needed for PAP and so on. I'm very white bread and toast with zombies, call me boring, so bo1 and 2 had so many maps that just worked for me with Kino being the crown jewel. My favourite map.
The title of this video was already enough. You can not say the game hasn't withstood the test of time.
I started with waw's nacht der untoten.
This was just after Dmitry and Reznov had put the final nail in the Reichstag's hq.
Seeing the zombies running at you in through the fog. Seemingly coming back for revenge against the player, truly terrifying.
Bo1 was a mixed baf for me. The renastered waw maps were fine. But it's a bit clunky.
(Except Der reise. That was a perfect remaster!)
Kino: Easy and accessible.
Asenion: Easy, but the monkeys are a pain.
Call of the dead: Camping isnt as viable. George A. Remero keeps players on the move.
Shangri-la: Not easy. But with map knowledge. It has some of the best features. (WW, using the monkeys to cycle power ups into max ammo's etc)
Moon: Bombastic and chaotic. But it has the most rewarding late match gameplay potential.
Acension wasnt the first map to introduce a new Perk, Kino introduced Mulekick and also had 5 perks.
That’s a common misconception. Mule kick was never a thing until moon came out. When the perk was introduced in moon, the devs decided to retroactively add it to all previous maps. If you doubt that, try playing a game of any map other than moon and the waw remasters offline. Mule kick won’t be on the map
Oh on didn't know that, mb and thank you for the clarification. @@zestymoon
I remember having bo1 and only the moon dlc on my ps3 but i never had the original waw maps for some weird reason.. 😢
1:13:25 BASED. You are so based, I love your content and personality.
I dont see how Acension is a poorly aged map, if you put out a poll today youd see it being at the top instead of the bottom for a reason. The monkey rounds cannot be the reason it aged poorly, considering everything else is fantasticeven for solo players. Unlike five, five has to be the most poorly aged map on bo1. The lack of space, the lack of good weapons to get you set up, the pentagon theif, nova crawlers in the tightest spaces etc. Not to mentionen the lack of good wonder weapons.
P.s sarah michelle gellar would be more known for her roll as Buffy the vampire slayer lol
I think you missed what I said in the end of that section. The reason I said ascension aged poorly isn’t purely because of the monkeys. The astronaut for example is just as bad if not worse than the monkeys, but I didn’t say that moon aged poorly due to that. The reason I said that ascension aged poorly is that the map is no longer unique, and there are too many other maps that offer what it offers. The monkeys more so the straw the broke the camel’s back.
Oh and for sarah’s role as buffy, I do know that she’s more known for that role than daphne. I just thought it would be hilarious to mention a much goofier role just to slightly irritate some people who expected buffy. There’s a few comments mentioning this so I guess it worked lmao
My first cod zombies game
Bro how do you only have 4k subs thats wild
Hopefully One day I’ll get far
Damn this is a pretty fire ass video
Oh look! A masterpiece!
And easter eggs can be done offline I will not stop stressing that
Bo4😂😂😂😂😂
hey really hope you see this, I just watched a video about WaW showing that if you play the game above 125 fps it makes the zombies drag you in more. you should give it a try they say you should play the game around 120 fps max
Black ops 1 definitely has zombies despawning, it was one of the mechanics allowing the round 100 on call of the dead.
Which part of the video are your talking about?