The Complete Failure of the Modern Warfare 3 "Story" (Video Essay)
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2023
- The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Campaign might be the least satisfying one in Call of Duty history. Let's break down why this is the case using a whiteboard and a whole lot of analysis.
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Meanwhile in the OG MW3, Makarov successfully throws Europe into chaos, causes WW3, nabs the Russian president and his daughter and Yuri actually plays a vital role.
And soap already died too
And Soap dies in a more tragic and meaningful way.
And all the deaths are justified and actually made me emotional the deaths in this just made me laugh
@@bhopirl4552 Soap died in the original MW3. Ghost died in MW2
Exactly that was so sick
List of questions I have for MWIII campaign:
1. Why is Konni consisted of US and British personnel?
2. Why was Makarov wearing a suit and tie in the Gulag?
3. Why were there no global consequences to US & ULF bio missiles being detonated and causing mass casualties?
4. How did Shepard get captured by Makarov?
5. What intel did Makarov get from Shadow Co?
6. Why did Makarov continue to text his plans to Andrie Nolan after he knew he got captured?
7. Why is Makarov always personally present everywhere he is minutes away from blowing up?
8. How is Makarov completely unfazed from taking a Bowie knife to the neck?
9. Why was Price killing Shepard made into a cutscene?
10. Whatever happened to Valeria and Alejandro?
Where are the missions like Safe House, Loose Ends, Boneyard, Whiskey Hotel, etc? Just feels like a complete waste of time with this story, running around Mexico and Verdansk accomplishing nothing while playing solo dmz missions. There doesn’t feel like any stakes and all the deaths have felt unearned, rushed, and brushed over.
I can answer some of them i think:
1)Dont take my word for it but i think it was revealed in DMZ that Konni has a London branch called "Crown" which explains why they so easily got to London.
2)As for Makarov wearing a suit and tie in prison honestly makes no sense for sure but i think its because he had some semblance of control over the prison?? (judging by the question about "who holds the power in a gulag" he asks Nolan) so i guess he prepared himself before his rescue arrived.
5) i suppose that would be revealed in MW4?
10) the whole story of Valeria, Alejandro and the Mexican cartel is right now only a Mexican problem. This cat and mouse chase game between ULF, 141 and Konni is an American problem for now. If Konni decides to go global in the next game, starting WW3 or something then Alejandro and the gang can show up i suppose.
Well from what it seems like Konni Group was speaking English to make it look like US or the UK did it. Price said later in the game it indicates that Konni Group is doing flash flag ops (This happens in Vondel as well months prior before the events of MWIII.)
Everyone complains that no one has died so they rush to kill off 2 people. People liked that really open mission from MW2 so they made if half the campaign.
Why is TF141 consisting only of the main characters?
@@undercover1790 so instead of careful approaches they just used a sledgehammer approach "fixing" the game ... thats amateur mistakes in writing and devs
@@LifeIsPain878I really don’t enjoy that you’d have to play DMZ or Warzone or keep up with the multiplayer cutscenes to know what’s happening in the story for the next game. My dad, who only plays the campaigns was so lost he stopped playing by the third mission for MWIII. He just had zero idea what the hell was going on and was not invested whatsoever.
what was odd coming from the og cods was the "loot boxes" in this one. made it feel pretty much like warzone. running around in a campaign mission looking for "loot crates"
It was basically playing a game of DMZ
Bf1 alike
There are no “og cods” with loot boxes. OG ends at bo2 or ghost. Everything else is the new style
@@ben8698og cod ended with advanced warfare. 100%
@@blackneji1701it ends with bo3
They left us on this terrible ending just to continue it in warzone
Will they really continue it in warzone considering leakers are saying that S2 is AW themed?
For the Raid episode, I'm sure they'll focus on Valeria
I remember when halo 5 did this with forcing people to read books to understand the story going into the game.
Its so sad to see this type of story telling being normalized in gaming. We have fortnite to thank for that.
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778is t halo 5 older than fortnite
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778yeah but fortnite is a free to play game blame the executive
@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778wait what did fortnite do
You know shits getting real when the whiteboard comes out
Not to mention, in the original you have soap get nearly killed and they fight to save his life while in the middle of a big ass battle. In this game he just gets offed. In the original Price is losing his mind over losing Soap, he's super pissed about it. In this one the relationship is more between Ghost and Soap and the most you get from Ghost is "No, Johnny!" And then they pour his ashes out and that's it. Like what??
Exactly. Soap's death was so pointless and stupid. His character has barely had a character arc in this new trilogy.
Price is even more pissed because half of task force 141 is wiped out basically all of it and he’s the only one to finish what they were likely created to do
i think that this ties into the alone mission in mw2 (think that whats its called) when he helps soap out of the zone while injured both being betrayed by Shadow Company. We didnt really get any more lore in this timeline but they were neck deep in it. no one really had an encounter like that in this series, could be wrong
@@Mtnlfe then you think there would be more to it than "John, no!"
It was definitely a marvel cutscene sending his ashes over the cliff
I like how the writing is so bad that Price actually betrayed Shepherd this time, and it makes him look like bad guy
They made Shepherd into an (admitted by the good guys in MW2022) well-meaning man who is unfortunately *very* mentally stunted, and Price into a little baby man lashing out lol
@@Shack11I feel like this is the part where most people haven't been vocal off. Half of the time he is just oddly fixated on this foreign freedom fighter who he met 10 mins on a mission, the other half he just constantly disobeying order from his superior (except for Laswell I guess) and commiting war crimes. But hey, since he is the main cool character he gets a pass
@@quakethedoombringerit's not a war crime but yeah tf141 shouldn't be going all out war on konni facilities within Russia. That alone gonna start ww3 than anything makrov did
it looks like written by AI, from me assuming writer strike, regards that yearly released they didnt even bother delaying the game HOLY
@@simonx760 order Nik to kidnap Butcher's wife and kid (foreign citizens) and threaten to shoot them (Price seems like the person to go with it if Butcher didn't cooperate) sounds warcrime -ish to me (and before people start giving the greater good excuse, I doubt the military would let it slide if this goes public)
There was more emotion in soaps death in the original mw3. You had the music, price crying "NO SOAP NO" and the clocktower in Hereford speach. But soaps death felt like a random side character. As if he was nothing.
When soap died i expected 3 to 4 missions of hunting Makarov down by any means and price got more people killed because he was focused on killing Makarov and Makarov gets seriously hurt but still wins by starting a world conflict.
He blew up a plane and carried out a chemical attack on a millitary base and it achieved...???? Nothing, Those attacks are never spoke of again 2 missions later. What a joke, Loads of crazy shit happening just for the sake of it, That literally lead nowhere.
@@thindon6661 Yeah it was like watching a dog chase around its own tail.
In the og MW after Ghost and Roach are killed we immediately get to Price and Soap hunting and killing Shepard. Imagine if the credits rolled after that back then?
@@hbma.-Old Price seems more attached to his men than the new one, the connection of 141 is built in the older games than the new ones. Probably why it feels shallow and rushed
@@thindon6661 The first half felt really well connected because they kept referencing how much Makarov has done in the past X amount of hours since he escaped prison, but yeah in the second half it's all forgotten and somehow him attacking a train tunnel with thousands inside is more worthy of a final mission than stopping a chemical missile that I think was said could take down a small country?
This is such a letdown of a campaign. This video is already 10x more fun than the campaign 😂
Is he wearing a turtle neck 🤔
It’s 10x longer I know that much
its not wtf 😂😂😂
@@Silath01damn it , you beat me to it 😂
playing the campaign was fun i won't lie, but the story DEFINITELY sucked. for gameplay i give it a solid 7/10, for story, i give it a 4/10 (it wasnt as bad as vanguard.)
You can tell they were really hoping players would just be so blindly traumatized by Soap's stupid death that they wouldn't question anything.
The way the originals are told make you feel like you’re part of something. You get some character traits you can tell who is loyal to who but that’s it. You are cogs in an incredibly complex war machine. In this rebooted trilogy youre a couple of cool guys blazing through your own missions that don’t seem to have any real impact outside of “job done”. The whole vibe of this reboot can be likened to ghost’s appearance change from hardass quiet dude who gets a job done to gravely voiced bro with an airsoft player costume.
They're like comic book characters now, like it's Marvel or something
Ghost costume in the reboot looks too weird and elaborate, no way an actual spec-op member would wear that shit
Yeah the oh trilogy you’re one of a group of above average guys. You go on constant missions with dozens of unknown guys on your level who you rely on to survive and succeed. You are a small small part of almost every victory.
This new trilogy(Mainly 2 and 3) you are basically the spec ops avengers, you go where you want, when you want. Every main and side character is john wick for some reason and just casually solos platoons. It’s just ridiculous and loses the call of duty vibe
very well said
Instead of throwing a knife into Shepherd's eye, we get a cutscene that doesn't even show him getting shot. It was like a PG version of his death.
not only that but Sheppard died instead of makarov like mw2 the original not makarov dying like in mw3 2011 this was definitely mw2 2022 dlc
the worst part is WE didn't even get to do it. With all the shit Shepherd pulled, with seeing a squad member DIE, WE don't even get to pull the trigger ourselves and deliver that justice for Soap
@@jimjones9631 I don't even think I'd want to do it if I was given the choice in this game. The events of this game just did not make me feel like Shepard deserved to be killed the way he was. Maybe he did deserve it and it will ultimately be for the best, but I don't feel like the game communicated that well enough.
@@pupperjackcheeseShepherd was never enough of a bastard to make me villanize him like in the original MW2, he orders Shadow Company to just arrest TF141 while they handle events and cover up Shepherd's mistake with the missiles. He didn't even knowingly partake in a terror attack, No Russian didn't involve him really. So it's like... he's slimy, but he's not really a big bad.
@@9000Dogs that's what I'm thinking. What bad did he do? He tried to help ULF, doing it out of spotlight assumingly because it's illegal, but Russians got the missiles. Obviously he tried to cover it up, because if he gets found out, he will lose his position and also won't be able to help ULF anymore. Then he tries to peacefully take away TF141, but they escalate it because they can? What does Shepherd do then? He goes back to helping ULF, but the missiles are stolen again, TF141 tries to stop them and so does Shepherd. He even goes to the lengths of helping TF141 and cleaning ULF's name, even though he had pretty much no reason. He could have betrayed TF141 since he was safe already.
So Shepherd pretty much went from a good guy who messed some stuff up, to good guy who messed more stuff up, but is actively trying to un-mess it up, and helps TF141 and ULF.
Meanwhile TF141 went from good soldiers to traitors and the type of people to shoot first, ask questions later.
And what does Price do in the end? Betray Shepherd.
The writing is so horrible that they accidentally made Price the bad guy, and I feel like Shepherd is good in this instance, as much as they are trying to portray him otherwise. There just isn't enough reason to see him as actual villain.
No matter what happens with zombies/call of duty I think you should do more of these on whatever subject you like. I think I speak for most when I say your whiteboard videos are absolutely magical.
aw thanks man, really appreciate that
The end caught me so off guard.. I was literally so dumbfounded that I couldn't even accept that it was the end of the game until the credits started rolling
I said out loud "wait, that's it???". Like Soap dying was so pointless and had basically no impact. Especially when you can compare it directly to his death in the original trilogy, where he gets a whole mission dedicated to trying to save him. Here it's just "oh, he got headshot, guess he's dead and there's nothing we can do about it"
Graves in MW2:
-betrays 141, actively trying to kill them
-performs bunch of war crimes, murdering half the town in Mexico in cold blood, executing civilians in the streets
-is basically one of the main villains and the only actual boss fight in the game
Graves in MW3:
-It's cool man, we can still be friends. Who wants some AC-130 overwatch?
I don't think what went down between Shadow and 141 can just be weaved off with "It was just business my dudes, ok?"
They could’ve turned Graves into a brotherly type ally to task force 141 for shadow company and as soon as his ceo turns on task force 141, Graves defects to the task force and aids them and makes Allie’s with the team. Maybe have them make conversations with price soap ghost etc. like best buddies by mw3.
The worst part is that this doesn’t even delve into the disappointing gameplay parts, almost half of the missions are the “open combat missions” which just skip the cool set pieces of cod to just complete a random objective. That and 1/4 of the levels are reused warzone areas
I loved the open missions, It makes a change from COD's linear "on rails" approach, though I can totally understand how others would prefer it to stick to the old formula.
@@chelfyn I like the concept but man it does not translate well with COD's gameplay. COD's AI is very easy to alert, so stealth just becomes incredibly impractical past a certain point, and I at least ended up just having to kill some guys, hide to wait for them to lose my location, push forward, rinse and repeat. Also I wish you could've chosen different locations to spawn in on, as I feel that would've added more replayability.
@@pupperjackcheese Definitely needs work. It's not like they haven't got a million other games to learn from that do this sort of thing well. I'm saddened by how poor AI has stayed in these games. I'm sure I've seen better 15 years ago.
This truly shows how this was meant to be a dlc originally, this would've been great as a mw2 dlc but as a mw3 it's just not enough
Even with it is was supposed to be a dlc most dlc for cod were like 10 dollars less than the game itself. In bo2 the dlc was 50 the game itself was 60 so it doesn’t really seem to different
@@davingibson3041 BO2 is 2 generations ago. A current-gen game can be as high as 70 to 80 quid and, in CODs case especially, will have additional costs in terms of microtransactions and season passes.
@@Lynch2507 that is a fair argument that back in the day we didn’t get battle passes and stuff but micro transactions have been in the game for years since at least bo3, I can see how not everyone is happy with it being it’s own game. It did feel like more so an expansion but we will get a whole new mode to the game so it really just depends on how into the story you are imo
Does dlc or game matter? Everyone is saying this, feels like an old person talking about the price of gas back in the day. Video games like this have been ~$60 for 20 years. I’d pay $150 for a top quality game for the 20-60 hours I’ll play. What matters is the game sucks dlc or not. Guess what? If this was dlc, it still sucked!
No, the saddest part is it literally wasn't supposed to be dlc. Call of duty has never done story dlc anyway. They actually thought we'd see this as a whole package.
Shocking that Soap was important in MW2, unlike in MW3 where he just gets killed for the shock of it.
I thought the tension between Graves and Shepherd in the court room was interesting.
They could have made them doubt and screw each other over while Makarov is making moves to take over and use that to screw both of them even more.
Maybe even cause the Shadow Company to split in two and fight each other.
Sadly that was thrown away by killing Shepherd.
In OG MWIII, the killing of Soap by Makarov was what makes it personal, and then when it’s revealed that Yuri used to know Makarov, and was tied in with the airport massacre that set off the whole chain of events leading to it, really shows Price’s fury. This culminates with the final mission, the assault of Makarov’s hotel while wearing juggernaut suits, and Yuri’s sacrifice to make amends for both being part of what set the world ablaze and the death of Soap as a redemption.
In MWIII 2023, it’s all just a bunch of loosely connected characters with little relation other than “I saw this guy one time”.
@@jesusofbullets yeah true and it was very intense that Price nearly shot Yuri for knowing Makarov.
Soap was important, you do play as him as well as in MW2 where Soap and Price were pretty much the only ones who knew about Shepherd's plan.
When you see the whiteboard, you know Milo is taking it seriously when it comes to storytelling.
It amazes me how Activision went from calling MW3 an MW2 campaign expansion DLC and some extra multiplayer stuff, and maybe zombies, straight to a "Premium stand alone CoD title"
And they only do it because they know people will buy. Cycle will never end unfortunately
"And at $70 USD baby!!!"
Technically it was all leaks. What Activision really did was stay silent until mw3 was announced as a $70 stand alone game just like any other year.
To be fair, it was never officially said to be a DLC originally.
It was just rumors and leaks
I mean if you didn't buy MW3 but still had to download MW3 to your MW2 client. I think that counts it as “offical” DLC.
I can see Activision bringing Soap back to life through the deadly combination of nostalgia and greed
We seen him actually die so therefore he can’t be brought back unless he’s in the store ofc
well, they’d already done it with Alex, but this would be even worse because Soap’s death was literally on screen, shot in the head, lifeless body and all
Well since Black Ops and MW series are connected. They could bring him back because of how Black Ops 4 does have cloning machines in the story.
What if that was Soap twin brother who died and soap came back and said sorry guys, that was my twin brother
@@BarbaricSloth black ops 4 and mw3 arent even in the same year
The heroes really should’ve failed in some missions against makarov’s plans, such as framing of the ULF to ignite WW3 or the heroes fail to disarm the chemical weapons in the train tunnels and giving more casualties giving Makarov more props and seen as a bigger threat to the world than we get in the story. Needless to say there were to many “heroes save the day” moments than the villain succeeding in his goals.
What makes it worse is that we succeed in all of these missions only for makarov to just keep continuing as if none of this is even happening lmao
Yeah it also tarnishes the idea that Makarov is an unstoppable force since you succeed in stopping him from doing what he wants.
MW3 feels like every day life at work. You do all these pointless things, and dealing with people, and eventually nothing memorable came.
My main complaint is that Makarov’s goals felt kinda disjointed compared to the OG story. His master plan this time was to cause random terror attacks and blame some of them on Farah’s group so they can retake her country so they can…?
Also the ending was very jarring. **SPOILERS**
But the ending goes:
>Soap’s dead
>wait no he’s not
>wait now he is
>feel sad that he’s dead!
>wait no, chase Makarov
>he escaped, feel sad again
>wait no there’s still a bomb
>okay that’s done feel sad agai-
*mission ends*
One very quick cutscene later, and the game’s over. There was no breathing room
I dont think he wanted to take Farahs countey back i dont remember seeing him say that.
I believe the stated goal is to make the ULF and the Us Enemies, and then Russia as well using the strike on the military base.
You forgot "after being calm, boom Sheppard!"
Real question is price and soap had basically a swat team with them the whole time they were in the tunnels so what happened to them when Makarov ran up on them and shot price and soap
@@jeremyalspaugh6843 they all die, price even has a voice line stating all the cops are dead
@@RaNgErs_Rep Makarov’s bio in MP states that he used to serve alongside Barkov when he invaded Urzikstan, so it’s implied he wanted to continue his mission.
Also important villain backgrounds being locked behind a MP bio instead of being told in the campaign lol
The original modern warfare games each had singular stories that connected across all three games. Each game was a full story and the repercussions of how each story played out brought about the next games conflict. They all had weight to their stories. The new games just don't have that at all. And I understand that the seasons are tied in but like Milo said, the story still needs to be a story. I feel like the people making these games now don't get it.
Not only that cod4 also tied in as a prologue the reason why Shepard became what he became the nuke that killed his men in his own words "I lost 30 thousand men in a blink of an eye and the world just fuckin watched"
Honestly I played the OG MW trilogy backwards and it didn't feel like incomplete. It made more sense as the stories were connected but on their own they were full stories.
I knew this version of the MW storyline was cooked when Alex, presumably dead at the end of MW2019, was confirmed to be alive in a trailer for Warzone. The switch to seasonal storytelling with Warzone is absolutely ruining the plot.
FUN FACT: The original MW games had a writer from NCIS (yes that one, the TV show) who made the story work for the maps they wanted to do. Turns out, a professional writer makes a huge difference even if they already know what they want to do.
You’ve officially become the Gordon Ramsey of COD, and I love it. Why hasn’t Activision offered you a lead writer position?
one thing that bothers me is that the flashback mission took place 6 months before mw2019 yet there is no single mention of Makarov in the game.
To think the original mw3 got the whole world is in war in the first mission when your on Wall Street with a m4
Metal-01 ❤
Sandman, Grinch, Truck, and Frost!
@@cjilagan3216I hoped to see them in this MW3.
@@quanganhvu6791 me to or just get the whole suburb (stuff on the us front )warfare setting would be cool thing to explore
After beating the campaign I 100 percent felt like this should have been DLC instead of A whole $70 game
i mean........what about THE REST of the game..? Like what? lol this is one small portion of a whole game, there is still two-three modes that arent even released. Even with a short campaign, that is enough to justify 70 bucks
@@Zaedin710you really think cod is gonna be different this year huh?
@@Zaedin7105 hours of mediocre warzone spec op missions is worth 70$ to you? Oh my god why can’t people have brains
@@Zaedin710multiplayer is remastered maps we’ve played and can still play to this day. Most of the operators are gonna be the ones carried over from mw2, all of the mw2 guns are also carrying over. There’s nothing original to mw3 besides the new weapons we’re gonna get and the new maps they’re gonna release down the line. Even with zombies, none of that is worth $70 if half the game is stuff we’ve already played
The whole of the campaign feels like a few Spec Ops missions
Plot point: Nolan is the first player controlled character, featured in the prologue “Prisoner 627”
You are never given any information about the nature of that attack, which was not important at the time the mission started, hence the “Blind Loyalty”.
In other words, player’s actions were “the inciting incident” to keep the plot moving forward.
I never thought campaign will ever be bad as Vanguard yet I was proven wrong
Vanguard at least HAD a campaign
Vanguard was literally ALL FLASHBACKS except for the first and last mission. I’d still say vanguard has the crown as the worst call of duty ever made
@@wildranger5833 The campaign was a bunch dumpster fire flashbacks that had no effect whatsoever on the players main mission Vanguard and MW3 campaigns is so bad it makes BO3 campaign look decent and THAT campaign is confusing as hell
cant wait for the story to get wrapped in a series of short 1-3min cutscenes in warzone
Makarov could have broken out of prison and shot soap in the first mission and that'd be an awesome start to a campaign
I think it would of been interesting for the story to emphasize more on how Soap is fueled with extreme rage towards Makarov and Gaz being the voice of reason that talks Soap out of doing something dumb and then instead of Soap dying in the channels, it's Gaz and now Soap is completely unhinged the entire campaign because they eliminated his bro like that. Granted I don't what this to be the main focus of the story, but I think it would of been an interesting side development, while Marakov is busy blowing up the white house and somehow framing it on the ULF, and then task force 141 rides in on a giant bald eagle along side the ghost of Ronald Reagan to save the day, kill Makarov, and avenge Gaz. Sledgehammer/Activision/Treyarch/Infinityward/Raven/EA/Respawn entertainment should hire me, I got the storytelling chaps.
Honestly? I fuck with the idea of Soap having that character degradation because of Gaz’s death, but they would probably have to establish more of a relationship between the two of them for Soap’s reaction to make sense. But I can just imagine playing as a rage-blind Soap and hearing some curt, throwaway lines from him as you mow down Konni forces.
Ugh, now I’m just waiting for someone to rewrite the MW3 campaign with this subplot idea in mind.
I love the mental image you conjure
The mission "Mind the Gap" from the OG MW3 alone is far better experience than the campaign.
Yuri: sup
*gives usb*
Yuri: bye 🏃🏃💨
MW campaigns are quickly turning into the Fast and Furious series
Cant wait to see the conclusion to the story in mw11
glad im not the only one that say this.. even the new Makarov is literally acting like he Owen Shaw from Fast Six.
you're only witnessing the beginning, it only goes downhill from there
@@johnfortnitekennedy8953 its been downhill since black ops 3.
No, that would mean they would actually have to be trying to at least be bombastic or entertaining…. This is just dull content of people taking themselves too seriously
Can we just note the fact that the whole missiles + chemical weapons are legit the same things from MW2022 and MW2019 now mashed together.
This is EXACTLY how I feel!!!! I was so disappointed because NOTHING FREAKING HAPPENS!!!! I've been telling everyone I talk to that I can tell them TWO events and they'd be ready to jump into the next one without being lost. Those two things being Soap and Shepherd die. I actually hate this campaign......
can the community just come together this year and not purchase this game to send a clear statement?
The multiplayer and zombies will likely still be fun. It’s just a bad campaign
@@khoward9512you really think those look like quality aspects of this game.
I honestly gonna skip this one ngl did not have fun in the beta and to think the story is this ass bet your bottom dollar I’m not spending
@@Bedric I feel the same! The beta was no fun and now this? I’m gonna pass and just continue playing ark survival ascended.
The most disliked thing on CZcams for a while was the Infinite Warfare trailer and that still sold extremely well to the point people look back on it fondly. The COD community is the easiest market for Activision because they just gotta wave Ghost about despite how much of a fcking nothing chatacter he was and the fans will eat it up
Love having Milo explain things with the whiteboard. Could listen to him talk for hours honestly
Yeah this campaign absolutely felt like it was missing the end
The line about Nik staying in the room wasnt a throwaway line. It signifies that the whole conflict with makarov is no longer about west vs russia. It was about a band of disavowed misfits band of warriors. In the OG MW3 even nikolai wanted makarov die rather than have price wasted time in trying to save his life.
It just felt like a prologue. I loved the cutscenes but it just ended so suddenly.
Yeah definitely. Feels 100% like the prologue.
Does anyone else think the story makes no sense and is all over the place?
Idk im only on mission 9 but i feel like it's just, empty. Like the story is good, but the missions are so quick
There’s almost no time for things to naturally develop and grow. It feels like the entire game is constantly stuck on fast forward moving at an almost breakneck pace.
Also new Makarov < Classic Makarov. Cant beat the classic VA and character model
@@ascreamingcloaker6755 new makarov has less character than kortac milsim
Bro there’s no ending it’s just all middle
@@sunkenhorizon5891 Which really is sad lol. He looks like a depressed office worker instead of a guy that would commit warcrimes or mass killings because he’s bored.
I love these whiteboard videos they’re always a fun time. And when you do do these whiteboard videos you always make everything so easy to understand you’re just such a natural storyteller you’re like Wendigoon lol. great video Milo.
This one video from Milo is a million times more entertaining and engaging than the rebooted MW storyline.
You know 💩 is real when the whiteboard is out 😅 thanks for the overview
Wow I really love these videos where you bring out the whiteboard and explain everything. Even though yes it looks a little silly considering it is just a video game, it really just makes me respect what you are saying a whole lot more.
I love this format of a review, very in-depth.
Man mw2019 campaign was so good, and now we have this…
Sledgehammer games was the lead dev in MW3. The same clowns who made Vanguard. MW2019 and MWII was 100% on IW (Infinity Ward). They make banger campaigns.
@tanos857 I was never fond of sledgehammer stories. It should've kept their onw game and finished it themselves
2019 was NOT good. what are you on about 😭
@@HalTheBot Meh, it was that good when compared with CoD standards set by near decade of underwhelming titles. Had clear graphical upgrade, new tone and ideas. It was good, maby great for some. It wasn't cheap nostalgia like MW2 from 2022 was.
I love this new milo. Absolutely roasting the bs and low effort of titan companies with facts and humor. I cant wait to see what type of other opportunities are gonna come from his talents.
New Milo roasting the devs? I guess you weren't around for BO4 zombies
I love the whiteboard videos, its somewhat unique and helps visualize topics you discuss
Completely agree. Folk online are going on about it being "short" but it isnt, its the standard length of a CoD campaign. The fact that absolutely nothing happens except Soap dying seemingly just for shock value is what really disappointed me, he died for nothing. 141 literally spend the entire game chasing their tails and it amounted to nothing, and thats to say nothing of them using basically ground war style maps to get around creating actual missions. I thought we'd get 1, maybe 2 open combat missions in the campaign, not make up 90% of the missions! You can absolutely tell the campaign was stitched together in a hurry so they had something to put out to call "content", but then, SHG have never been good at creating a good CoD story to begin with lol. Theyre a backup support studio put in charge of creating their own CoD games and it shows every time.
Unfortunately, SHG wasn't even in the wrong here they did the best they could with the time they had it's Activision fault. SHG was working on their own game set in the AW universe when Activision came knocking on their door being like hey make this whole game in 18 months and when SHG was making a side story campaign set in Mexico guess who walked back in the door and was like no this isn't going to work and made them scrap it and make what we have now "it was Activision btw"
Nothing will beat the black ops 1 campaign.
Yeah it was brilliant!!
So, you chose to speak nothing but facts
I'm sad honestly, the campaign was the thing I was looking forward to the most out of the entire game
I do enjoy getting an explanation from you. You keep everything straightforward. You should do more whiteboard content with other video games (I know that isn’t really your content but what if you did an explanation of all cod campaigns, especially black ops games)
I fully support a Milo whiteboard series. It's a legit banger when the dry-erase markers come out. Great job!!
If the campaign had a third act and led to a climatic final battle that changed the characters, this campaign would’ve been top tier. Instead it felt like it ended randomly at the end of act two with no act three.
They need to go back to the OGs - I would've loved to see a third act with a giant battle in New York, Washington or some other iconic city. This what I am really missing - this clash of actual armies with tanks, air force, infantry regiments vs. a spec ops group that kills off a couple hundred mercenaries every level.
That’s how I feel, haven’t played it just watched cutscenes but from the few I saw visually it was pretty good, shame they didn’t finish it…
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I think Shepherd's threat to Price loosely connects back to Makarov being able to kill Soap because of Price letting him live, the reason Price kills Shepherd in the end is because Price is not willing to bury his enemies alive again
I think Price killing Shepherd is meant to show a character change in him, caused by the loss of Soap. It plays into Shepherd saying the “you’ll be sorry you left me alive.” And Makarov telling him “Never bury your enemies alive.” So Price is taking that advice and decides to kill Shepherd, and going forward will now have a “take no prisoners” mindset. I think he will become darker and more cold, and puts him in a darker place to face off with Makarov.
Bro, that's only happening in your mind. Don't expect more developing of Price. Killing Shepard in the next game. He just killed him out of the blue and that's it
I think he took Makarov’s advice and Price did tell Shepherd he was going to go after him in the Ghost team cutscene.
What ever happened to taking the gloves off. "getting dirty so the world stays clean". Its like the MW2019 team all quit during cold war and MW2's development.
@@undercover1790they probably did😂
Your giving the franchise too much credit...the game had balls in 2019, the sequels are more neutered if anything.
I love the way you approach this type of content
I get so hyped when Milo puts on the turtle neck because it means this videos going to be a banger.
You know it’s bad when he has the whiteboard.
Watched tons of vids talking about this campaign and this is the best one ive seen
Nolan: *shoots former captain then assigned by Makarov as new captain*
Ramirez: *sucesfully defends BURGER TOWN and got nothing
Man that really sucks. I beat mw 2019 recently and it made me want to actually play the rest of the campaigns. But now I'm really unmotivated.
The MW2 one is good!
@@xpaddy7369 its really not.
@@Lynch2507ehh, its alr
Better off saving the $70 and watching a no commentary playthrough.
@@xpaddy7369the story isn’t but the characters are good but this game completely freaks up all those character developments we had in MWII
In my personal opinion, the biggest problem coming out of yesterday with regards to the campaign is not to do with the quality of it whether you liked it or not but it's the blatant disrespect that it showed based on what came before. Almost the majority of all campaigns that came before this one were 6+ hours or more and had more than 10 missions or so each. This one has 5 main missions with a couple of open world ones and it lasts around 3 or so hours roughly. For a 3rd game in a trilogy of games that we assume is going to be the last one, that's a lazy and terrible way to give it to us. It also shows that they really did not give the devs any time to make a full campaign, they rushed this game out so fast it's not even funny. I think it's pretty evident that Sledgehammer Games was forced to make this game, hell it's not even fully their game since zombies and ranked mode is all Treyarch. What has this franchise turned into that campaign even now is getting no respect or work put into it. Seriously, Microsoft needs to step in and stop Activision from destroying this franchise even more...
Where did you get 6 hour long cod campaigns from? Most of them can be completed in 2 hours
@@k9vendettathewolfofmordor529 you haven't played COD campaigns before if you think they take 2 hours. Maybe if you speedrun them yes but on average most if not all campaigns take more than 6 hours.
I wish I had seen this before I bought the game 😂 I got it literally just for the campaign and I got a whole lot of nothing. Makarov basically achieved nothing, there was pretty much no character development for anybody, in fact, I immediately started forgetting which characters were even there (totally forgot about the mission with Yuri, and also forgot that Nikolai was in the game), and the ones I did remember, I didn’t even really feel anything for them because they did basically nothing. Makarov was cool, but what did he accomplish? He got out of the jail that he intended to get into in the first place? Soap dying was sad, but that was literally the only bit of emotion I felt throughout the WHOLE campaign
Actually very liked this breakdown and was kinda disappointed to see that there wasn’t much of this stuff on the channel, waiting for more
Milo should just do a series called "WhiteBoard essay's with Milo" Where he just praise's or shits on videogame stories
Bro’s on that grind so hard he got this video out day 2 of the campaigns release. Appreciate the dedication milo
Goddamn bro I haven’t watched your videos in forever and I come back to you lookin like you haven’t slept in 2 weeks
One of my favorite things about the og MW series was the clear depictions between Price and Makarov, and how both were same in style but different in Morales, with Makarov in the OG series being nothing but evil who seeks to cause chaos and war while being three steps ahead of all counter insurgencies, however, Makarovs character was never really fleshed out until MW3. Makarov is willing to do whatever necessary to achieve his goals, even if it means causing some horrible atrocities, albeit directly or indirectly such as Russias attack on the US in MW2. Price is interesting due to how he can be interpreted, he may be the captain of the best special forces squad and legend in the SF community, but both Price and Makarov are ruthless in the OG games, with Price not even hesitating to straight up dome Al Asad in Cod4, and that African Warlord in MW3 2011
This game shows both Price and Makarov, but while Makarov is much more fleshed out in MW3 2023, Price seems to has his character development halted right until after Soaps death, which is weird considering his actions and mentality in 2019, it seems like IW held back some of the more questionable actions Price does in favor of keeping his character the same until the next part of the campaign post soap
Speaking of Soap, HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU STRAIGHT UP CAP SUCH A MEMORABLE CHARACTER THAT YOU WERE BUILDING UP JUST TO ADVANCE THE STORY? The best thing about both the connection between Soap and the player was that you see the answer evolution of a SAS recruit to a equal of Price who is in a league of his own, making his death in the OG more emotional since you have been attached to his character from the start. Reboot MW seemed to build Soap up to be an important character, I mean, dude got a teaser in the closing of War zones story and had plenty of memorable moments in MW2022, so to just ice Soap because it seems IW wants to end the Reboot story is just so rushed and done so wrong. I understand Ghost won't die given how he's pretty much the face of MW RN and how it would be like shooting their foot with a UNSC MAC round with Price, Gaz makes so much more sense in concept. We know Gaz and have seen his character become more and more prominent, but I believe Gaz is at his prime of character development, and his death would have the same impact as Soaps, if not more. Soap did not deserve to go out like that, he deserved such a better death, not just getting popped and having the story end. This has to be a clear sign that Activision has to drop the cycle, MW has proved to be Activisions Magnum Opus, to fail again means that CODs empire will fall
The OG MW2 also has hidden message warning against militarism. As the story only happens due to Shepherd and Makarov making the biggest gamble of all with "No Russian". War between their nations, the winner destroys the other
Just jumped back on youtube cuz I finished the campaign 10 minutes ago and instantly saw your video, very excited to see the discussion because oh boy that was certainly a game of all time.
I was in genuine disbelief at the MW3 campaign. They were so confident that it would knock our socks off that they made it early access and since it's not an actual game, you can just refund it as DLC. They were THAT confident which is kind of scary.
Really taking that meme of the dude ranting and writing on a whiteboard to the next level.
I love the thoughts and dedication going into your videos ❤❤
Yeah I just refunded my preorder which had 23 hours of early beta access playtime so I'm really surprised that actually worked. But now I got a good $70 back, feels good. I was never gonna play the campaign but seeing everyone call it the worst and finishing it in 3 hours made me rethink why the game costs $70. The MP was genuinely fun in the beta, just wish I could buy it separately and not with a 3 hour packaged "story" for full price. The zombies not having solo and being whack also already made me hesitant. This will be the 3rd year in a row where I don't buy a cod game now. Treyarch save us. Activison always disappoints
The treyarch games are also Activision. Treyarch last couple of games have been poor too. Their last good one was bo3
Just wait for the Xbox game sale or the after launch sale and pick it up for £10-20 or wait for game pass for free
@@redwiltshire1816 I ain’t playing console I’m on PC so can’t do that. But there’s plenty of other great games to play right now anyways
@@adamdunne6645 I know they’re all Activision but Treyarch can still make a great game in 2024 separate from all the annoying MW stuff that’s been released recently. They can go back to BO2 times or more advanced, zombies can become round based again like BO3s perfection of the mode, I think they can turn cod around
@@JustGavinBennett They definitely can do all that but I honestly don't believe they will. They seem set on making it open world and more of a generic spec ops style mode.
you know milo means business when he reps the turtleneck and whiteboard combo
First waffle video in awhile, was not disappointed😂
This campaign was a series of starting plot lines and going literally nowhere with them
What seems like the end of a 2nd Act (Makarov killing Soap) to propel us into the climactic 3rd act is where they roll credits. Frankly I think its a miracle that they pieced this together within a yea but even still this should've just been labeled what they called this originally, a bonus expansion.
Look at Milo teaching us like a COD professor
Love these vids Milo! Keep it up!
MILOS BEEN COOKING RECENTLY. I think you really got somethin goin on with the content you've been making recently :)
My boy Milo over here is doing the Lords work. I had a feeling MW3 would have been bad. $70 is $70 and I did not want to take the risk of a game that would bore me for that much.
Watched it on CZcams thankfully I didnt buy. It feels more like Warzone with cutscenes and fighting AI bots sadly 🥺💀
I had no idea Price kills Shepherd. Finished the game, and just said “that’s it?” Saw credits, and hit skip, and I didn’t get the cutscene. So I just learned it happened and I’m nothing but confused why they threw out their only way to “recover” the story.
Same here as well.
back then there was so much hype around makarov back then when MW3 was promoted they made whole video dedicated to finding Makarov called Operation KingFish
This shocks me, who would allow this!? This sounds like a story I’d make when I was young, this breaks so many things your supposed to do when writing a story. Characters make no logical sense and the way it just ends. Edit: I am so happy I didn’t give in because of campaign
You’re absolutely right. It’s ooooo look he does the bad thing but it’s okay because we’ll stop him anyway. There’s no stakes
The campaign feels like an intro of a 10-hour campaign forced to spit into several pieces
Worth noting, at this point, I don't even play CoD, but I'll still stop for a Mr. ROFLWAFFLES VIDEO.
Milo puts on a turtle neck and I’m immediately more invested in what he’s saying
Dresses formally like Steve Jobs, talks informally like a best bud
this couldve been a season or 2 not a "new $70 game"
Most informational yap session I’ve ever watched.
This video is perfect. The best breakdown of the MW3(2023) campaign. Bravo.
The final mission was so underwhelming. (seems like once again it's setting up for a 4th game)