Everything GREAT About Call of Duty: Black Ops 3!

this video is sponsored by rage Shadow Legends [Music] we all are completely ready to lose your minds if you've ever played this game you know that nothing makes sense in the first playthrough or the second or the third or actually nothing makes sense unless you really start digging to understand the narrative which is actually really freaking cool and ambitious when you figure it out I've figured it out but we'll see track really for the longest was always pushing the boundaries with what a Cod game could be between Black Ops 1 with the Mind Control narrative Black Ops 2 with the multiple endings and then Black Ops 3 with the story barely concerned with factions and terrorists and more focused on death what happens when we die how to maybe avoid it and make that Journey as peaceful as possible just makes all these campaigns infinitely more interesting than other ones before we even jump into the campaign we get to choose our gender and customize our character at first this feels like an Erasure of the main character having any identity but it really enhances the story that they are trying to tell as our character is literally named player and we die in the first mission experience everything through Taylor I love this because my interpretation of why they never named our PCS because corvus and the dni is sort of a meta thing Black Ops 3 is doing with us the actual player using our consoles to interface with Taylor's memories or it's because it really doesn't matter who or what our character is since this story is more focused on exploring this concept than anything else to bolster my theory every time we load in or out of a mission we see the coalescence interfacing logo I.E us players interfacing with the story Black Ops 3 really went hardcore with specialist hero abilities and we are given a host of these unique abilities to use in the campaign a lot of people hated this but I absolutely loved it am I biased because Black Ops 3 is my favorite card game in every 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Ops 1. everything we do here could be done through menus but it's a nice little way of immersing us that really isn't too cumbersome once again we are given the option to create our own Loadout before each Mission which makes even more sense than in Black Ops 2 since each of the missions we are reliving in Taylor's Consciousness and we really can just take whatever we want human bio augmentation has become commonplace throughout the developed world superstorms continue to hammer the region hampering relief efforts there's a greater story here about by augmentation and what has become of the world with these developments and shark easily could have made a good story handling these teams and it would have been much easier to follow shark really wanted to push the boundaries make a story that isn't so clear-cut and I really have to commend The Bravery and doing something so bad I'm really surprised that Activision went for it no they probably didn't understand it either just took it a face value of destroyed the corrupted traitors protesters and local forces clashed again today really giving me a quartus Dia Vibes I'll bring it up one more time because I really would have loved a direct sequel to Black Ops 2 like we all expected they had all the pieces to set up a futuristic story that jump started off what Menendez did but but it's okay find enjoyment in what we have right kind of the thesis of this channel no mistake this is in Treyarch really cannot resist having some type of Cold War in their games like literally the last four games they've made have had one there's a big theme in these cut scenes with Ravens Ravens are often a bad Omen and they are constantly used when discussing dni and corvus mainly associated with loss in in Native American cultures have to do with the shifting of Consciousness like this game knew what it was doing and what it wanted to be even if the execution was lost on all of us we may not always see our enemies but they are out there as this is said we are shown a flock of ravens and a fire of orange light placed in the eye later with Taylor we see his eyes take on this orange Globe when we are fighting for control of his body and dealing with corvus that unseen enemy just so we're clear if this goes wrong you never existed and it does go wrong for our player character and during this library has shown snow indicating the Frozen Forest at the beginning of each Mission we are given this giant wall of Texas swings by too fast to read does it suck that there's so much information that basically explains the story kinda but upon reflection I really like it because interfacing with dni happens almost instantaneously so our player would understand and read these General entries by Taylor just like that I also like that they go so fast we don't believe there is anything actually worth reading on our first go to not have anything spoiled for us what's exactly going on sometimes piecing together and figuring out the stories more rewarding than just straight up experiencing it such as this first text telling us that we were pronounced dead before we ever even get to play had we known that it would have made things start to click and I don't think track wanted that with this story get down I always love stuff like this seeing something on the screen and then directly to you did you know there were other prisoners sir is the only priority Hendrick starts being a little soft when he sees Khalid for a moment we think it's just because you know prisoners we're the good guys we need to help but we'll come to find out these boys have history there are a lot of moments like these that hint to the plot twist sun was never funny you sound like the voice of experience trust me I am is this foreshadowing because like we think the game is in chronological order pre-shadowing post shadowing can you fight Khalil always we'll grab a weapon from the locker room up ahead and reprogram it to match your Biometrics picking up other weapons really isn't a big deal with the amount of ammo boxes Black Ops 3 gives us but it's also a bit of neat World building locking out guns so your enemy can't use them seems like a good idea in theory also like we can get an attack mod to allow for us to unlock them speaking of attack mods they're a neat little campaign exclusive abilities to spice up the gameplay your orders were to extract the minister his name is Lieutenant cleal sound familiar get moving just like that Taylor changes Mission priority given their history understand also they know each other and this is the last mission in the timeline Taylor's showing us the Moves enhanced by his cybernetics and dni you'll notice that Hendricks doesn't have any augmentations right here he never gets a dni or cybernetics there's never a scene where we are shown him getting it which leads to the question of why he is able to interface with consoles and stuff in later missions I believe that the simulation Taylor interfaced mind with player didn't want to believe that Hendricks was acting erratically upset of his own Frugal and blamed the dni virus which he never had dni Rachel that didn't work out remember that line and noticed the bandana on his arm it's in the same place where Taylor is wounded at the end very important details to understand the timeline and what is and isn't real in the memory missions take care of him as good as you did me that's not funny man this is so so cool because one to us it sets up Hendrick's ability to treat us the way he does throughout and two building the honest history these two men actually shared that we actually do get to see let's roll stay close now we're getting introduced to the main selling point of Black Ops 3 which is the cybernetic soldiers and all the Fixins that come with that the fire is mine you know I gotta win the sauce comes easy now doesn't it Taylor referencing his dni and enhancements and Taylor doesn't answer because after the implants he's not entirely proud of doing it and two and not exactly himself anymore the presentation is really terrifying killing machines coming through the smoke Terminator Style real good intro to one of our main standings it may not be a mission priority but they're still people did change so much that you've forgotten what that feels like there is the obvious theme of the enhances and I guess more like robots and humans which isn't explored too much but I'm still happy to see a bit of it Black Ops 3 really just went ham sandwich on this turret section literally everything explodes this is some terrifyingly brutal feels even worse because of the cold nature of the battlebot with it not being personal and just a program it makes it scarier to watch it happen hey still with us a line that will be used constantly referring to player actually dying and having complications with interfacing with Taylor headed to the Zurich headquarters of the coalescence corporation our cargo prototype for the Winslow Court neural network initiative so this game throws out a lot of names wins whoa CDP 54 models there's complaints that none of this is explained and we don't understand the motives of any of these factions like I keep saying we are purposely not supposed to because that's not the focus of this game I really believe this story is meant to be played once then again after understanding what's really happening this is the fun stuff that game set in the future Allied into on top of the straight up Acid trip that is the final mission we're connected all of this is a simulation inside our minds a little did we realize how much we really meant by that and they took it hard outcome try and go boom my God the best thing to come out of Black Ops 3 I swear the great multiplayer and zombies nah tringo boom I actually really liked the advanced movement once there was a recharge on the abilities really raised the skill ceiling for the game the dni offers not just story elements but also enhances the gameplay I have to determine to low UI elements but they can be really useful to choose to use them okay okay this is poised as PTSD which yeah but every time the screen starts getting pixelated it's when players losing their grip on life doctor can straighten it out just need to recalibrate your meds trust me you're gonna be fine so this is where player actually dies we can see Taylor fighting to not have our life support unplugged it's still a bit up in the air if Kruger did it on purpose or not the botched assault man it took six hours for the zsf to get that information outcome train go boom berserk security Force got their asses handed to him out come train go boom some knowledge is worth earning appreciating Treyarch at understanding the story probably okay new blood from this point on the simulation deviates from actual events not that it's going to feel any less real with our recent death this is why we have stuff happening that never did when reliving Taylor's memories but the associated subconscious interference will leave him brain dead believe me this is a bad way to go oh foreshadowing to her eventual death but you just learned that your dni took the zsf weeks to uncover what do you think I'm going to say next outcome train go boom there was no way to stop it and get off the train your day and I might show you all the options but only you can decide what you're willing to sacrifice kind of the whole idea surrounding Taylor's character sacrificing his entire team then later becoming a terrorist himself attacking coalescence his relationship with Kane seemingly Hendrix and in the end player sometimes you have to let go Taylor how's our patient as good as can be expected we see the moment Kane left Taylor framed as player Welcome Back Being prepped for surgery now it's okay and this moment is a distorted memory of Taylor instead of Kane speaking to Taylor it's him to player promoting the surgery where Kane did not want him to go through with it Hendrix wasn't even injured on the mission he volunteered for this my God it's actually really well done this is so seemingly taking place after Ethiopia but actually after they killed Taylor I.E Dylan Stone confusing yes fun as hell what a hundred percent and Hendricks getting the dni is also a distortion of the simulation since we literally see him with human boy arms and talk and smack on Taylor's decision in the opening Mission explosion of the old coalescence facility killed 300 000. and now it's a ghost town the mission description says day Zero works for both the op of going into Singapore and players first missions out with the dni and if you read the pre-mission protocols it will spell out we are Taylor just like in Black Ops 1 with resnob is dead player is seen sometimes with the mask on and others without this is to add to the ambiguity of who really is underneath there Warlords are one of the few boss type enemies in Black Ops 3. bosses aren't something we see often CoD game and our welcome change of pace at this point in the story Taylor doesn't have a dni and I really can't find an explanation for moments like these other than the simulation trying to make it all seem real to player what do you all think Cadence got her bandana here so we know it takes place pre-op and she's really here [Music] turn that [ __ ] off operatives were murdered by Stone and his team because of their work on dni and we hear this radio playing about the Frozen Forest this could be what they actually heard or it could be corvus starting to get through denial of reincarnation funny considering player in a sense is trying to reincarnate in Taylor's Body which is exactly what Stone's team was thinking to put it into the 54 Immortals the name is derived from Chinese numerology literally translating to Never Dying Immortals once again with another boss enemy I'm really amazed we never got to Pilot one of these mechs just like we did when we wiped the black state I won't but you may not like what you see we never saw him use his dni to wipe the black side station so I believe Kane just used him as a conduit to remove the data as he didn't have a dni hence his fear of being scrambled Black Ops 3 could be played in Co-op just like Advanced Warfare probably would have enjoyed it a bit more going on this acid trip of a game with a friend Kane tell him what you told me told me every time we see Ravens from here on out it will have directly to do with the simulation switching all the members of Dylan Stone's team with Taylor's team Ravens and Norris especially Odin's Ravens have an affinity for spying or quickly flying over all of midgar gathering much information and seeing true which is ironic considering the false life were being shown much of the structure was destroyed in the disaster our best option is to descend through the center we see Hendrick's eye transitioned from electronic to human trust nothing the traditional Call of Duty stealth Mission isn't shoved in your face in Black Ops 3. you were given the option of either stealth or going loud you know what they say about staring into the abyss that the abyss stares back at you meaning and hinting at Taylor's eventual dni in Hendrick's killing Stone these next moments give me big Guilty Spark vibes from the mystery of what's going on the blood trails to the eventual ambushes man these robots are really just the mechanical equivalent of our zombies does this Arena give anyone else big Where Angels Fear To Tread vibes from Borderlands 2. [Music] so each of these 10 members never actually got interfaced with they were just eliminated by Hendricks and Taylor Diaz Hall and ready die due to the infection of their dni corvus in the Frozen Forest keep their Consciousness uploaded they make it possible for us to interact with them in this simulation is it just me or is this Eagle meant to evoke the same imagery that the Nazis used I mean they both used human test substance against their will after all we got a Crouch behind here and don't see the cars only just little giddly bits flying adding to the horror of this execution well that's some great morbid camera work there's still a chance hey do you hear me she's dead accept it of course I was confused on why player cared so much about getting Kane out there especially so the reveal of this being Taylor's lady love made all this sweeter I'm glad we wrapped up with this lady quickly because she wasn't not the focus and it really didn't matter too much went out in a fun gruesome way though so that's cool [Music] hey still with us and now that in the simulation our dni has been unplugged not unlike our life support we will be constantly being checked on if we are still present very similar to how a doctor and nurse might try to constantly keep you awake to not go towards the light essential supplies at low oh you're still holding on you can thank Raul Menendez what rol Menendez was a hypocritical egomaniac ah so I was onto something in the Black Ops 2 video and also this is our only mention of Black Ops 2 and I got really giddy when I heard this name maybe so but I wouldn't think Menendez he was a prick who got what he deserved Mindy died and Cannon confirmed I do not know or care who you are I know I keep saying it but this game is rough to win the only interesting thing about it is the twist anyway Saleem saying this makes us question things because he should know who we are we saved him in the opening Mission and I demand to speak to a legal representer that would be me have a seat player plays good cop and Hendrix plays bad cop these men right here do you know them uh poor Hall man this was an awesome way to get a dog's type kill streak in the future setting it's not often but at least sometimes we get the little vignette scenes that used to make Cod King pain so much more immersive a moment that's more interesting if we view it as players since the bot and the attack he used is very similar to the one they suffered in the opening missions just more red herrings to what's actually going on instead of Taylor's saving us at Centrics these two buds man I'm only finding out about this tracker right now you and Kane into keeping secrets for me you need to back off Hendricks because they in love buddy boy that's why you didn't tell him about the tracker He Slipped Saleem ah the water player gave him wasn't a good cop it's how he got the tracker in him slim helped with the Frozen forest and has a glowing orange stomach just like corvus when we met them the hall boss fight is pretty fun that is all so this is what we do now kill her own because they blew up in a conspiracy in her own backyard works for both what really happened is Taylor opened the mech to confirm the kill and after seeing Alice dead then Hendrick said this this decomposition is pretty realistic when we decompose we will blow it up and get those red eyes before withering away completely to a skeleton I remember but it's almost like it was a dream like it was happening to someone else it was happening to Alice Conrad I studied it at the Academy I cited it in my final paper as one of the greatest examples of courage and bravery in military history so corbus can't create memories or anything for that matter it can only use what has learned from others who have a dni the Frozen force was chosen by it as its location from Hall's research and since she cited it as the greatest example of courage and bravery in military history no wonder corvus would choose a location for the soldiers to pass on in peace picking a place that displayed both courage and bravery two things many will need if to face death with peace the first old boy we see in This World War II power is private Miller baby this is when Black Ops 3 started to get really interesting and I wish they delved even more into this awesome reality for the whole game but by the time we got there the staff were already dead carved to Pieces by a 54 Immortals enforcer by the name of Jay Jean we knew they'd send a wet work team after it we had no choice but to cut a deal with the Immortals and get the hell out of Singapore that wasn't what happened Sarah Sarah was telling truth because it wasn't actually her that did that and this is kind of when things get even weirder because Taylor's real team in real life died of the infection of corvus and in the timeline they died at the same time as their Stone team counterparts so I believe that each of Taylor's team was actually with Taylor Hendricks in the real timeline during these moments hence why Hall mentions cutting a deal with the Immortals because player and Hendrix do that next mission in the context of them murdering these CIA guys and in provocation the robots that Ambush and save us are actually Hall Meridian Diaz but there are four Bots and we are tailored so how does that work I'm going to say the simulation made a fourth bot for Taylor since we are in control you'll notice in that mission Abbot throws someone over the ledge like we do later in modus towers and the two teams were both doing similar things in the same locations so the descriptions Hall gives of the goings on works for both Stone and Taylor's team in the real timeline you have to stay with me just like players Consciousness hers is fading we use the same lines to keep her from passing over project was under the direct command of Sebastian Kruger a senior example Cougar's name is brought up we get a remix of the Zombies theme when a new round starts when we hear his name we've got a new Target and in a way a new round has started and we also got zombies on the way so and my best theory and why there are zombies here is this is what corvus does to people with dni after enough time foreign [Music] you okay okay oh Kane doesn't have her bandana and since Taylor never actually interfaced with Conrad Kane wouldn't have come up to him here and Taylor wouldn't have any information about the Frozen Forest this is all player constructing Kane to talk about corvus tell me Paul's brain looks like neurons connecting but also like tree limbs I.E Frozen Forest that's how Taylor actually killed Conrad not through interfacing she didn't know what was happening to her and as players says this we watch a raven fly through this puddle a mirror image referencing the real world events and players simulated one man after going to Hall's head going to a normal Mission like this is really underwhelmed but I'm sure that's why track put us in this vital to spice things up that is a hell of a swim she wasn't there when we got there and this is preying on what we expect out of games having our NPCs just show up during the cutscene the notice again no bandanna you're getting pixelated the game here in corvus this is player's Consciousness inside Taylor's starting to fade away towards the Florissant forest and death [Music] Stay With Me free you could read this as Taylor tried to perform CPR in the middle of a hospital player whatever it wants Taylor so this to me is a construct of the conversation Kane and Taylor had before he got the surgery and this Taylor is her actually talking to Taylor as she romantically grabs his hand we can find another way a way outside the military outside the CIA there are places we can go places we can be safe please listen to me stay with me this is also referencing the conversation before going under talking about leaving away together the simulation is failing right now as players getting closer to the light notice Hendrix popping up out of nowhere and also does this fish remind anyone of the mission Cortana from Halo 3 the momentary slowdowns that corvus talking to us like grave mine and Halo as Moretti dies we see him fall into the Frozen Forest that peace before death and we see it as players since we are right there with him that's just an awesome visual right there throughout this Mission we get a lot of pixels and ravens as this is the last mission we truly see as player through Taylor's consciousness Taylor's mind is overloading I think it's causing bleed through into its other hosts we're bleeding between both timelines right now because Taylor does get infected after he interfaces with player and that's what Kane is talking about right now not the fake killer we are seeing the sin until zombies really started to jump the shark this was kind of the biggest boss battle we've ever had in the CoD game out [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh God that is brutal imagine yourself in a frozen Forest hang in there I'm on my way at least he's wishing us a peaceful death if you go through with this be with you this is the only way it's going to change you Taylor was wounded fighting Stone and after Kane picked him up opted to get a dni in cybernetics and we see why in the first mission Kane and him didn't work out don't forget the person according to player and Taylor becoming one maybe you can change things you just need to wake up but we are already dead all the mission info here is all scrambled this Mission takes place inside Taylor's head primarily but also a bit in real time attacking coalescence something I've yet to mention is how Punchy the audio design is I remember when I first played Black Ops 3 and heard those grenades explode I could not get over it still in there checking for player or Taylor at this point things are pretty rough to discern what were they messing with here Kane ever heard of Nova 6 nominal Purge sequence initiated it lied to us it can make you believe things that aren't even real okay please I.E who knows what's real or not throughout this ending sequence hey you still with us I'm going to do my best to wrap my head around this ending even with all the research I've done I'm still like what's happening you've been fighting it we all have you just need to relax corvus is just a physical embodiment of death I need an answer me asking track about this game story it was always about control of course the ca is always about control if the only way to prevent future attacks is to monitor the thoughts and desires of the population then the choice is obvious we need to know who our enemies are and what they are planning that is how we save lives they could have done both the acid trip and Taylor's mind and done a commentary on the NSA Patriot Act I mean hell Black Ops 2 was kind of putting the ball on the T for Black Ops 3. still Chuck kinda did so I'll give it to him I can't do this anymore you're going down a path that I can't follow this is Hendricks talking to Taylor about getting his dni also Hendrix has basically Padme I lost you a long time ago Hendrix referring to Hendrix leaving Taylor on Lotus Towers I've told you everything to know the purpose for which I was created I think we could all relate to Columbus but I swear if we were ever given an answer we'd probably be just as disappointed as Corpus says you just stay with me we'll get through this everything that happens from here is pretty much the final moments of player on the hospital bed before death this Mission feels like the training grounds for the Revelation zombies map [Music] this is Taylor struggling right now and plays into our PC being named player it only took till near the end of the game to have the quick cutting editing we know and love from Black Ops let your mind reminder let your thoughts drift and what you could interpret this entire game as is that corvus was never real and it was just Taylor speaking to you the entire time trying to comfort us as we pass on soldiers I said what's your name Taylor and that's the giant ass plot twist that we were in Taylor's head all along also as our Consciousness gets purged from Taylor's mind that is when we died and since we're dead we cut the black and it's over Jason Blundell is one of the directors on this game and for anyone who knows his previous work shouldn't be surprised at the absolute Insanity the story was trying to tell he made mob to the dead in Origins and went on to direct four Treyarch zombies ever since dude definitely has some kind of brain on him and so yeah that's Black Ops 3. a really weird tough game to go through and I am 100 sure that I missed a lot of things because God there is a lot going on here while seemingly nothing going on I really love the concept going on here it's super sci-fi on one hand but also really grounded about how humans deal with death on the other this game feels pulled in many directions though by augmentation of what that means for Humanity how much freedom and privacy will we strip from society to deal with threats good soldiers follow orders our relationship with death how to conquer it or accept it there's a lot going on and not nearly enough time to explore each idea made even worse because it's a Cod campaign where not many resources are poured into it for what it was I love the idea playing it is a complete other story as honestly I was just bored going through it I believe Jason Blundell and his team given the resources and the time could have made an amazingly mind campaign but alas it's a Call of Duty campaign remember Drive the speed limit break some water and love one another Pizza [Music]

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Length: 30min 23sec (1823 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 25 2022