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I think it's fair to call the quests from Der Riese to the Victis Black Ops 2 maps easter eggs but once they become so front and center from Mob and Origins onwards I don't think that label really applies.

turn to Jesus Christ he loves all of us more than anything and he literally died for us. He took in the punishment for our sins thru on the cross. It wasn’t cuz we deserved it, but cuz he loved us. 1 John 4:10 “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” it was thru his love that he died for us and we can be forgiven

This commentary best shows why in zombie chronicles the Easter egg is getting to a really high round, it was out of respect for the map design of internal motivation 💪

Its a good video essay, but did you ever end up reviving josHH v2? He had a raygun after all!

I think the biggest issue with Die Rise is that it was made before the engine could do verticality that well. Black Ops 2 and all the games before it were not built with platforming in mind, which means the maps that feature platforming heavily were going to suffer by the nature of the game they were in. If Die Rise was released in Black Ops 3 or even 4, where platforming became a more core part of the gameplay, Die Rise would not play nearly as uncomfortably as it does it Black Ops 2.

Lol "In game"

You didn’t really discuss the Easter egg 😂

11:55 Bro I’m just saying, there is almost nobody who played origins the first few times and actually built the staffs without looking it up. Finding the records in particular was probably the hardest thing. Basically every one has like 1 obvious spot, 1 kinda obvious spot, and 1 out of the way spot. Seriously the only way that was happening is if someone decided to keep a crawler for 30 minutes while they searched for everything. The whole “the records are all on the other side of the map from the tunnel that it marks” was such a weird design choice to me, and probably the biggest thing that made it frustrating. (I remember thinking the fire record just HAD to be around gen 3 and the tun I also distinctly remember my first few times playing the game having fits looking for the main gramophone record, or getting the ice staff before round 15-20 because nobody understood to keep the zombie only on snow. Also yea obviously you have to shoot a ducking glowing plane to get the last piece of what to that point, was the most straightforward staff to get. (everybody else had to be told or look up a vid for that too right?) I appreciate that they at least made PaP pretty straightforward. I thought the power system was the coolest thing about the map when I first played and really appreciated how not convoluted it was to turn on the power for everything without needing a guide, especially compared to tranzit/MOD. Blops 2 also understood that if you don’t have a staff by round 8 you should still be able to kill the panzer with guns. Meanwhile blops 3 is literally just death without a staff or ray gun. Sorry I’m rambling now it’s a good map but god damn it is one of the least noob friendly maps I’d ever played. Seriously I think people really forget that if you played origins for the first time without a video you were unbelievably out of your element. Even the map itself is crazy big and hard to get a feel for when u play it for the first time. It’s the first map where stamin up is basically needed because you are 100% going down in the mud without it once u pass round 13. It’s a map that has the biggest environmental threat to the player since the falls of die rise. (Seriously don’t underestimate how many people get fucked by the robots at first, because the natural training spots were the robots foot spots which again would slow you terribly without stamin up.). Every trip to the crazy place was soooo hard at first because the wall rng is brutal if u don’t know the general layout. Still great map tho. Just seriously brutal to noobs in a way I think people forgot with age.

Like Call of the dead, I don’t think Shi No Numa was based on a campaign level or multiplayer map.

Play this map on BO3 and not being able to get PHD sucks.

7:04 "They wanted to bring the old and the new.... *proceeds to keep talking about the old things* "

love this series BUT WHY DO YOU NOT KNIFE DURING INSTAKILL!!!

4:23 false statement: it is ALWAYS fun to gamble

Always been my favorite map

All of these maps hold such nostalgic value for me

Iv been playing shadows for a while, got comfortable with the beast mode, knows how to make the shield, wonder weapon and get pack a punch, not an expert of the map but very comfortable on it. I NEVER FUCKING KNEW U COULD TELL WHICH PERK SPAWNED WTFFFF

Shadows of Evil will always be my favorite map. I feel like there is stuff to do without it being stupid and annoying like origins. Maybe that’s just me tho

Didn’t hate this map but yeah it definitely required coordination that pub lobbies just didn’t have back then. It definitely needed more work but as it stands was just a frustrating experience. The vision was there but it’s hard to justify an un-fun experience even with how unique the map is.

origins kinda mid

This is my favorite bo3 map

Not being told you need anywhere but here for the egg is pretty rough

Buried was one of my favorite maps, its sad they never remade it cause i don't have a way to play it anymore

To this day, Shangri La was the hardest black ops map to reach round 40 on

shadows is my second favorite map only to origins and is tied with der eisendrache

Okay revelations was fun but if you look at previous games the last map was amazing (der riese, moon and origins) so I understand that people found revelations dissapointing

The very first line in this video was an incorrect statement lmao

People that say revelations is underwhelming because it's just a bunch of old maps is lazy criticism, the map is well designed in my opinion. I think from the way they built it up, this map needed more in terms of weaponry. They should have made the box weapons a mix from all WaW guns to bo3. They should have introduced a new buildable wonder weapon, potentially apothicon style, there should have been an upgradeable specialist and maybe even a side quest for the tactical grenade. Leave the thundergun in the box for sure, but apart from that remove the apothicon servant (should've been upgradeable in SoE anyway), arnies and DG4. And give us a new buildable wonder weapon, potentially with elemental upgrades but definitely not a necessity. The fact with 1 immolation gobblegum you can be completely set up on any round is so boring when compared to the sense of achievement you get in the rest of the black ops 3 maps for being set up. While gorod had a box wonder weapon, the specialist and dragon strike controller were enough to make it feel like you earned the set up

People that say revelations is underwhelming because it's just a bunch of old maps is lazy criticism, the map is well designed in my opinion. I think from the way the built it up, this map needed more in terms of weaponry. They should have made the box weapons a mix from all WaW guns to bo3. They should have introduced a new buildable wonder weapon, potentially apothicon style, there should have been an upgradeable specialist and maybe even a side quest for the tactical grenade. Leave the thundergun in the box for sure, but apart from that remove the apothicon servant (should've been upgradeable in SoE anyway) and give us a new buildable wonder weapon, potentially with elemental upgrades but definitely not a necessity

Wow, this video was a real revelation. I felt an ascension happen when I clicked play, like I was in transit to another world. It’s amazing how your content can light up my day like a full moon. Keep up the great work, it’s always an origin of inspiration for me! I hope this comment doesnt get buried

"We're talking about the zombies maps- in good faith -as a retrospective." "And why is *Five* here?! It sucked!" "As I always say, forgive weird maps, but remember their cutscenes."

I was never that good at this map myself, but I was always drawn to it. I love the warm sunset jungle vibe, and Pareidolia is a great song. I think it's difficulty is what drove me to keep trying to get better at it. It definitely feels like a lonelier map.

My only problem with the shift in direction that origins started, is that it’s not just one map you need to learn. It’s most maps that are very complicated to learn. So much knowledge needed to really enjoy the game mode vs to enjoy a particular map. Especially as the years go by

Isn’t Leroy like a king or some shit

I never really liked tranzit due to the size of the map. This map was best playing it with friends who knew how to play zombies. Playing it with no mic randoms was definitely irritating.

I will always see Moon as a great map. BO1 is my all time favourite COD. Back then (and now in retrospect) we kinda knew we would never have it as good as BO1 had been. Moon had it all. Massive EE, fun wonder weapon, one of the best pieces of utility with the hacker, unique challenges with the spawn room records and the grand scale of going between Area 51 and the Moon. I remember doing the easter egg and seeing the rockets blast off towards the Earth. One of my friends even joked about disconnecting and crashing the game because he was the host. I went crazy and basically begged him not to because we worked so hard to get that sweet 100G. I'm really enjoying your zombies essays. You definitely got a new subscriber.

Shang always came across as an odd map. Poor training spots, forced 4 player easter egg and tight areas that you could easily get caught in. However the aesthetics, zombies variety, simple (not convoluted as it became) time travel and a fun easter egg (not the 4 players aspect), made it one of my favourite maps.

Nuketown > Town

I can't imagine pixel hunting for bones being ant fun. That's not the developers trusting players. That's the developers artificially forcing an Easter egg to take longer than necessary

Gobblegums speed up the process of getting wondersweapons to help the RNG

4:30 Others have probably said it, but the step where you need to go into the robot then throw the g strike outside of the map sucks, especially on solo, since it takes forever for the right one to appear and you have no time to do it on solo Edit- I paused the video right before you said that, oops, I'll leave thia here just for algorithm purposes though

Listen I look back fondly at BLOPS2, I just wanna know why its still 60$ on steam

There r max ammo rounds on cotd u just have to shock a zombie with George and kill shock zombie every 5 rounds

ah the first map I ever someone train zombies. good memories.

please add subtitles in your videos for deaf people like me

I loved this map when it released, it was just so different. Learning people hated it was a shock.

Hard ass map

This was always my favorite map and idk why maybe because it was actually challenging and you couldn't just sit in a corner even though I don't really hate that method of round based zombies

Zombies content creators try not to say der eisendrache in the most cringeworthy way possible challenge