Black Ops Zombies - How turning on the graphic content filter changes voice lines

[@SixxWolfZx]

The voice actors are noticeably bored on the safe lines lol

[@super_kami_dende]

Except for Nolan. Those Richthofen lines even censored were still pretty good

[@Gabriel-ki7uj]

Because he is saying them still like a metaphor

[@thearchangel9948]

@@super_kami_dende Dude, sounds like he would want to stay in the booth all day. Absolutely devoted and passionate at their job.

[@toucan6109]

They sound annoyed lmao like "ok so we have to redo our lines for an 18+ game"

[@sera7860]

@@toucan6109 they loved their jobs

[@jayjaythefolf]

the fact that Dempsey doesnt have a line shaming the player for having Content Filter on feels like a missed opportunity

[@drunkengibberish1143]

“… Really? You know this IS rated 18+ right? Go back to playing super plumber bros or something.” “I’m not paid enough for both this AND giving up my 1st amendment rights.” “I’m waist deep in zombie guts and war and yet you still care enough to censor me? Have some self awareness player!”

[@emma6648]

Shaming someone for a personal preference of swearing being off doesn’t sound like a good idea

[@milkman2231]

​@@emma6648yes it does

[@toasterfighter]

@@emma6648 Perfectly fits in with the humor of the lines that dempsey has already

[@Gandalfthegoldenbird]

@@emma6648babygirl these games center around blatant murder 75% of the time it’s mass murder 😂 a little swearing is TBE

[@cheeseydoodoo]

Call Of Duty for the brand new 4kids console

[@duncanmcknight4622]

No thanks. I had enough of 4kids vibes or reminding just ruining everything.

[@mcknightmorgan2021]

​@@duncanmcknight4622Yeah. Me too. Never liked 4kids what they done back then.

[@i.d.9754]

Meanwhile, TMNT 2003

[@CryptidBuddy]

Kid Ops 6

[@cheeseydoodoo]

​@@CryptidBuddynow I'm imagining it replaced with paint guns lol

[@LeeryGiant4149]

1:57 so instead of calling Nikolai a cheap bastard in the censored version, Dempsey attacks his ethnicity.

[@Hazygarcy]

I was expecting him to say cheapskate

[@JammingCat21]

Yeaaa lmao. This was 2014-2015, so right before all the superb woke standards got pushed onto us. Not trying to make a statement but it’s just evident that we are more sensible today than 10 years ago. For better and or worse.

[@NecromancerNed]

Yes it's what us Americans do. Get use to it

[@RyanCooperRU]

​@@NecromancerNed How you expect us to get used to it when your black neighbours can't get over it?

[@ZackShark1]

@@NecromancerNed you're weird

[@senatorium]

The censored lines for 'hell' are the funniest ngl

[@DNC_Patrik]

thats when there is a line. Most of them are just straight up taken out XD lol

[@toucan6109]

Damn and crap too like what

[@GahlranCosplay]

Ironically Richtofen's "Being shielded from the fires of a....hot place....down there" actually sounds a bit dirtier (at least to me, anyways) than just saying hell lol.

[@toucan6109]

@@GahlranCosplay -o-

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

The voice actors must have had enough by the time they got to those lines lol

[@FPSpsychoYT]

You can just tell the VA's heavily prefer the more raw/uncensored lines lmao, but still this just goes to show how talented this crew really was. Glad to see Nolan North back for Bo6!

[@notanithefox]

Spotted youuuuuuu

[@johngellare3507]

Oh, damn, FP's here? Love your content, mate.

[@PhotoSang]

The goat is here

[@mrstronk]

I love how they censor words on a fucking game rated 18

[@ALX_6.11]

You know that almost like half of the player base are under 18

[@toedtick6178]

​@@ALX_6.11There are worse things than saying slurs on a game about killing human beings, don't ya think?😊

[@rabthonse]

@@toedtick6178 They're killing zombies lol come on

[@toedtick6178]

@@rabthonse Not in the campaing. And zombies were once human wtf

[@rabthonse]

@@toedtick6178 They aren't when you're killing them 🍤

[@ssjkara224]

“crap”, “sucker”, and “lord” being considered vulgar is insaaaane edited to add lord

[@Azarath415]

I mean to be fair... We have Christians and other religious groups who will be such crybabies if you say anything negative about their God.. so I guess it makes sense

[@monhi64]

Yeah feels a bit far but I guess if they’re gonna go to the trouble of making all those censored lines mind as well do em all

[@richardwattersonhaterclub]

@@Azarath415 crazy how they can’t say lord but are okay with gunning down millions of human shaped creatures with guns and tons of blood

[@CopyCurrent]

They gotta be safe enough for the small catholic and christian children.

[@ZimaNoMori]

​​@@Azarath415As a Christian, uh... no. We don't care. I much prefer the raw version.

[@ponceeh]

“they say war is bad, but this looks like a war with the real bad”

[@Pissnburg]

Most Call of Duty Campaigns in a nutshell by Dempsey

[@Pissnburg]

( 2:59 )

[@ceoofdaperc]

🤣🤣🤣

[@BigBlackVeasel]

i love how the "fuck-ugly" line at the end has a kid-friendly version despite him talking to kids in both versions

[@Phantomjoeseph]

5:41 actually sounds good because the fact he mentions kids and says kiddys make it sound like the censors on purpose for the kids

[@kxjab]

Yeah that's exactly what they're for.

[@Phantomjoeseph]

@@kxjab I know but the censor actually fit pretty good instead of feeling outta place at least from my perspective

[@kxjab]

@@Phantomjoeseph I mean some of the ones that just cut out words are iffy. I don't think any of the censored versions even need to fit that well. They're just for tech literate parents to feel a bit better about their kids playing M rated games. Don't understand why so many people in the comments are upset over an optional censor toggle, but it's the internet so I can't say I'm surprised.

[@WarDragonOfTheLight]

@@kxjab Thank you! I'd understand if it wasn't an option or even default but damn.

[@rihud8343]

why do they censor the least offensive words

[@slayerofdarknssdmt9697]

This is something I question with every filter Like "pissed off" shouldn't need to be censored any kid can use the word piss when referring to the bathroom and its fine but using it out of stable context like that makes it a slur?

[@chefpyroisin]

​@@slayerofdarknssdmt9697I don't think anyone has ever considered piss a slur, I think it's just considered a swear in every context

[@BraydenBomb2006]

@@slayerofdarknssdmt9697when I was 7 I wasn’t allowed to say piss in place of urine edit: thats why I did Dilaudid in minecraft yesterday

[@slayerofdarknssdmt9697]

​@@BraydenBomb2006 id assume you arent the only one but to most people (and kids) piss isnt a bad slur and to some its not even a slur in general its just a more adult way to say pee ffs

[@BraydenBomb2006]

@@slayerofdarknssdmt9697 when I was 11 I wasn’t happy tree friends. so glad I OD’d on h*roin at 17, thats karma to those who raised me like a christian boy.

[@Zed-97]

these are some 4kids level censorship lmao

[@Stealthy_PandaxX]

So the graphics filter turned on is the 4kids dub. 😂

[@b_f_d_d]

this is some actual BS lol

[@justafoon]

Twilight pfp spotted. Peak detector off the charts

[@Zed-97]

@@justafoon why thank u :)

[@spaghetti0356]

We need a REAL 4kids dub, change all the names to American names and make all the zombies have green goo instead of blood.

[@TonyGawk]

I love how they couldn't think of anything other than "the damned" so they just awkwardly cut it off

[@Li-Fu7]

Top quality work

[@CharlieBravo1118]

Right? They couldn't have just said "the dead"? It's the same sentiment anyways!

[@capperbuns]

⚡ THUNDER⚡

[@LoganoPiano]

I love how it sounds like they’re KZbinrs trying to avoid demonetisation

[@SoulTwinky]

I really never understood why "pissed" or "pissed off" is considered a swear

[@nateghast6456]

My guess is that it is related to how crap and shit are swears despite being synonyms of poop at the end of it all.

[@SoulTwinky]

@@nateghast6456 I never understood "crap" being a swear either. Social rules are dumb sometimes

[@slayerofdarknssdmt9697]

​@@nateghast6456 in Australia and Europe the word piss can be used as a slur even if it isn't a common one As for why it needs to be censored I have no idea cause imo it's honestly better than bitch or shit (2 words that are mostly related to slurs and not much to their actual meanings)

[@colin3ds1]

Regular show on cartoon network used "pissed off"

[@mrbleachclean6656]

They changed it later

[@MrGuiga]

"They say war is bad, but this looks like a war with the REAL bad!" good lord

[@zegroselia2504]

3:07 actually funnier

[@super_kami_dende]

Richtofen's line after this is pretty good too 😂

[@zegroselia2504]

@@super_kami_dende yes, i commented this while i was still watching.

[@fireblade7542]

@@super_kami_dendeyeah it makes it sound like an innuendo

[@alexwei8666]

What’s gonna raise when Dempsey fires the gun 😂I wonder😂

[@b_f_d_d]

it's more funny when you start it from the beginning 3:03

[@devilspygaming4493]

At least they kept Scottish Nikola

[@thelag152]

2:59 "they say war is bad, but this looks like a war with real bad"

[@mrdragonboi]

5:16 First time I ever saw heck in a CoD game O_O

[@1SilverDollar]

There's a few hecks in the classics.

[@MrLachapell]

An also "fudge" at @05:35

[@minecraftsteve2504]

Censorship aside Its interesting to see how lines were rerecorded for these

[@Idkausernamelol69]

Except for lines mentioned "the damned" which just mute it

[@Vergilcore]

5:02 when The box gives me the XM-53 twice in a row

[@CatCrossed]

multiple of these sound way more suggestive in the safe version 😭

[@ileftmywifeandkids]

1:26 DEMPSY DID NOT SAY THAT

[@JustGonnaChangeToWhatsNew]

Imagine Dempsey as a Yandere

[@Chrispy]

wut da hell kinda emoji is that 😹😹😹

[@muttakeenhabib4299]

Oh my god! I never knew that setting actually changed the voice lines! That's amazing! What a neat little detail lol

[@Platsu]

"They say war is bad, but this looks like a war with the real bad" 🔥🔥🔥

[@thehighwaygoddesssss]

i like how all the words are replaced with a nicer version except damned which is flat out silenced like its a car radio song

[@TempeRTroll]

At least they had fun voicing the censored voice lines too

[@inShapeJamesSherman]

It seems as though their purpose wasn't necessarily to censor for kids, but the devs probably had dads in mind that may or may not have a headset on or maybe dad lets his kid play with him, it's just more family friendly with safe mode on. Well... as family friendly as call of duty can get 😂

[@checkoffgames]

It's funny to me that the developers' graphic content rules consider bigotry toward Nikolai _less_ profane than calling him a bastard.

[@PhoenixPalmer88]

I remember playing Black Ops 1 as a kid and not understanding why I couldn’t make crawlers.

[@Yuhyeauhuhsurebuddy1]

Yea, turning on censors turns off gibbing. The German version of BO1 has gibbing disabled regardless if you censor it or not

[@SFGreggs]

Wait seriously? what if you were playing co op with someone who didn't have the filter on? I genuinely don't think I've ever turned the filter on in any cod game I've played so I never even considered that as a possibility lol

[@PhoenixPalmer88]

@SFGreggs I think online play always force the filter off. I just used it when I wanted to play Kino but my mom was in the room and I didn't want her to hear Dempsy say "fuck"

[@score5724]

the amount of effort put into some of the re-recordings is pretty cool

[@ECWPlays]

Steve Blum's censored lines really makes it seem like the dialougue would fit right into Bee and Puppycat (A cartoon he acted in)

[@THEWALLPAPERK1NG]

Idk how I haven’t heard the Scottish one until now 😂

[@RochRich.]

Dr Monty also has censored lines. The one I can think of is in Gorod Krovi where instead of saying “good, because it fucking is”, he says “goood, because it iiiiiss”

[@lefthandedscout9923]

1:57 we can't let the kids hear the word "bastard" so let's make it imply racism instead!

[@PickleAndPearBTBM]

nah because Dempsey couldve said "cheapskate" or something like why did he say "russian" with the hard R 😭

[@maxpayne4107]

It’s actually reverse racism so it really nothing

[@JKneisley]

Russian isn't a race???

[@snowballtacoburrito8758]

In both he implies the same, because commies want free shit xDnt, only the second one makes it explicit while the first one is implicit

[@ningyo5855]

If anything, it'd be Xenophobia. Russian is a nationality, not a race lmao

[@SonsofWarMC]

You can hear the enthusiasm in their voice go in the safe versions lol

[@SoNoizzE]

1:07 Steve should’ve said trash imo 😆woulda been funnier

[@dan74695]

Is "trash" a funny word? Lol

[@SoNoizzE]

@@dan74695 In this context, yes, it would be, imo. Since he said ass, it would have closely rhymed with trash. Thats what would make it funnier to me

[@ym-lw8wo]

To be honest it feels weird and way off when they don't swear

[@CARNAGEdotwav]

blood and violence: ✅️ naughty words: ❌️

[@hag2615]

I'm flabbergasted that they don't break the 4th wall and make fun of the censorship at all. They used to be a lot more fun.

[@chipsdubbo4861]

3:07 Dempsey and Rictofens lines here are a pretty clear jab at the censorship.

[@yazidefirenze]

They're not Ultimis. Primis is a more serious team.

[@dcobs123]

It's kinda funny how they deliberately avoided saying "heck" for all the "hell" censors despite later using it anyway for other edits.

[@Jlu_r116]

5:13 hearing Dempsey say heck is so weird lol

[@Copiaswife]

How can you buy a zombie game that’s violently and then turn on safe mode 😭😭

[@TheSkypetube]

When someone is babysitting for example

[@Copiaswife]

@@TheSkypetube ahh never thought of that

[@ZackShark1]

@@TheSkypetube why would a babysitter let the kid play cod zombies

[@LazyRikii]

@@ZackShark1 I think they thought more about the babysitter or parent play when the children are around.

[@ZackShark1]

@@LazyRikii children have eyes

[@biggsonalexander490]

Some of these feel natural, like they could be alternate lines you would occasionally hear instead, but then some are so forced that they dont sound right.

[@tannerdodge6029]

I never heard any of these variations before, some were actually pretty funny

[@MikeE_wf]

imagine having a content filter to a game that involves murder, zombies but the language part is important lmao.

[@slayerofdarknssdmt9697]

Not to mention getting your limbs torn off in the story from a first person view Relative close-ups on exploding balls of shrapnel And let's not forget the lovecrafitan horror that is SoE and rev Hang on don't they also sware in the cutscenes? Yeah that too

[@_Epidemic_]

@@slayerofdarknssdmt9697 I think with the reduced graphic content the mutilation cutscene is censored. Still wack tho.

[@BlakeIzayoi]

I had no idea the graphic content filter changed the voice lines. Some of these are pretty bad too lmao.

[@itscs1175]

World at war has graphic content disabling. Standard: News just in, Dempsey is a fucking badass. Safe: news just in, Dempsey is one bad killing machine.

[@Farfigschiter.]

Dempsey without swearing is like life with no bloody breaks

[@Farfigschiter.]

Pretty much necessary to be a no commentary zombies KZbinr in 2024

[@felixamari157]

I believe these also have gameplay differences with the mode turned on. Mainly for crawlers as you just can't make them with the mode on cause there's no gibs. (Was way back when I played BO1 so idk how accurate it is)

[@dillzilla4454]

yes and no. you could make crawlers but the crawlers would still have their legs. funny enough though you could still shoot their heads off. it was only the arms and legs that were censored

[@gavinrolls1054]

that was only true in waw-bo2 i believe

[@CyborgFranky8]

Feels like The Giant was on a budget cause they didn’t even bother making new lines

[@plutolunaplays]

"they say war is bad, but this looks like a war with the REAL bad" what the fuck does that even mean

[@DnDJordanL]

Nice to know players can still enjoy the characters without the innuendos

[@BorsPepsi]

I honestly didn't even know this was a thing cause i never touched the filter.

[@elliesteele2107]

Dempsey saying What The Heck should be a fucking meme I swear to God

[@Dave_Chrome]

Nikolai is known for calling the zombies hellpigs too...

[@cyo_mh]

I dont understand why any M rated game has a censoring option like this

[@Simok1234]

Kids with strict parents convince them to buy an M rated game for them when they say there's an option to turn off graphic content, at least that was how my friend got to play Black Ops 1 when it came out lol.

[@BraydenBomb2006]

when I was 8 I was allowed to play black ops 1 zombies but with the dialogue off cuz my sister said zombitch!

[@theitalianmexican1035]

I feel like when Ultimis Dempsey said the censored version of his “fuck-ugly” line, he should’ve said something along the lines of “It means something I for some reason can’t say”. That or he should’ve had a line referencing how he suddenly can’t swear if you have the censor option on, and maybe even telling the player to be a man and turn it off XD. They missed the opportunity to play on his “knows he’s in a game” thing.

[@galaxysheep444]

3:07 accidentally making the safe version worse due to interpretation potential

[@Goobertron9000tm]

OH GOD IT GAVE ME A SECOND😭😭

[@JaycodaJr]

I imagine this saved a lot of time and money for Black Ops III KZbinrs.

[@Raka-like-payday2]

1:03 sounds like the postal dude or duke

[@CenturionLXXXII]

1:50 HOLY CR*P

[@larsh.3023]

Wow, this is interesting! I myself play with Graphic Content reduced, so I notice a lot of differences between both versions.

[@L0n3ly43th3arc]

They could've used Netherrealm instead of hell or Dempsey could've called Nikolai a nitwit or nincompoop.

[@slayerofdarknssdmt9697]

Nether would've totally worked but they mightve gotten copyrighted by minecraft or mortal kombat if they did

[@uldisbergvalds1]

@@slayerofdarknssdmt9697 🙋‍♂ 'underworld'?

[@slayerofdarknssdmt9697]

@@uldisbergvalds1 yeah but it doesn't roll off the tongue as good 🤔

[@Devari_Cogison]

I never knew this was a thing. This is really interesting. Some of the line I don't mind, especially after hearing the same ones over and over while playing. But yeah, the other half of them are genuinely pretty bad.

[@liltoad9050]

Tldr: keep your game uncensored for funny lines

[@CarpetBanana]

2:51 thunda

[@countrycenturion1393]

Developers: Cuss words and other non cuss words like crap, no the poor little kids must not hear, but playing that same game where you can shoot zombies, blood goes everywhere and you can pop their heads off? Thats alright 🤣🙄

[@CommissarChaotic]

To be fair, I for one as a kid knew about violence first before sexual stuff.

[@SirCheeseEater]

These censored lines only play when the censorship mode is on... Which removes all of the blood and guts that you talk about...

[@countrycenturion1393]

@@SirCheeseEater yeah I remember back on 360 they had something for that

[@nightlightmiscc]

5:06 it would be good if they replaced it with "fudge off" without saying sorry to the box.

[@akramirez]

I wish more games had something goofy like this, this is great

[@Remorseless2]

"Woah... this place is pretty fugly. That's fuck ugly for all you kids out there." Are they expecting children to play their games or just trying to avoid karenism?

[@dillzilla4454]

at that point (BO4) they already knew damn well that the M rating on their game was just a decoration

[@CryptidBuddy]

Squeakers on cod aren’t particularly obscure

[@codelyandmore]

Okay, but it is geniuly funny how some of these changed lol

[@Caldilsee]

You know what’s funny. I was a kid when this game came out and convinced my mom to let me get it bc of the content filter… I played a multiplayer match in front of her to prove it, chose Outrider and the very first voice line she said had a very uncensored “F*ck” in it. Thankfully they let me keep it🤗

[@patjeff8207]

2:59 “They say war is bad, but this looks like a war with a real bad” - censored dempsey

[@jandatorres6017]

Sad, they didn't really try to do anything interesting with the safe lines like the older games.

[@Duke0fDroogs]

Even if i dont get the inclusion of this its a nice touch that they made different voicelines for all these

[@BorgBunnie]

didn't realize this was a thing...neat

[@Autistic_Cl0wn]

It’s like they all realize Samantha is listening.

[@LastGenRichtofenn]

I was today years old when I found out that enabling content filter also affects character voicelines.

[@SteamyScottdog]

If Shadow The Hedgehog can say damn, so can Tank Dempsey

[@Novsev9069]

2:32 this one was the weirdest like they didn’t even substitute it with anything they just cut it out

[@blaniac6591]

Mind boggling how they went from the perfect zombies formula to this weird shit they have now

[@theindestructibleone483]

i find it so funny they censor words like pissed, in a game where you go to war to kill people, or in this case kill zombies until they inevitably kill you

[@Apple_8124]

I keep thinking about TF2 while watching this video.

[@anthem_gaming]

How dare Dempsey say "s*cker". Such a naughty word!

[@xmason8562]

Why did they even need this though?

[@grimace3983]

i like how so many of these really didn't have to be censored, like what 12 years old aren't allowed to hear the word hell or something?

[@Splatterbrainprime]

2:05 so the censored version is racism

[@Krondon-SSR]

"race"

[@AeridesEntertainment]

Not racism. Xenophobia. Russian is a nationality, not a race. Get off the computer every once in a while.

[@DNC_Patrik]

@@AeridesEntertainment Why would he. He got corrected and educated on the computer. Chill your ass

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

4kids версия

[@Themanhimself677]

Hi blundell

[@exoconn5553]

I swear on my life i've heard some of these before even though i don't play safe mode.

[@thedaynester]

I remember for bo1 and i think also bo2 on 360, one day I hopped on for campaign and everything was censored, no bad language at all. Even subtitles were censored. For the life of me I didn't know what I did. Conclusion was I left my kinect on, and Mr. Bill Gates, you know, the guy who monitors all of xbox live. Listened in and deemed little kid me as a sailor mouth, and permanently turned off graphic content. 10 years later and I still don't know why this was.

[@oatmeal710]

thank goodness they put content filters in an m rated game, imagine the horror if adults heard a guy in a game say balls

[@Cyann33andaThird]

the censors really said “do not speak so lightly of hell”

[@T0moko2001]

4:18 killed me. The safe version makes them sound like dumbasses lmao. Way funnier imo

[@reploidzero9058]

I just noticed that Richthofen sounds a lot like Willard Wyler from iw zombies 😂

[@DalekovDRA]

I somehow really expected that there was a voiceline where Dempsey yells at the player for forcing him to not swear.

[@EruditeFeline]

What the hell is even the point of the ESRB rating anymore

[@internetguy2760]

All the work-arounds for “Hell” could’ve easily been fixed by replacing it with “Hades,” but it wouldn’t have been as funny.