Chasing Rabbits - An Interpretation of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3

DX analyzes the infamous campaign of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 and deciphers its hidden messages to find its true meaning.
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[@DXFromYT]

Outcome?

[@trulybarr3988]

Very good analysis makes now I feel like I should've gave the Train go boom campaign a chance

[@beefyonyt]

Train go boom

[@blackraptor1154]

Chris Meloni is in a shooter and it isn’t a cop game and he’s not my partner.

[@beefyonyt]

@Agado Network based

[@utisti4976]

_Train Go Boom._

[@Kinnakeeter]

DX is still a hugely underrated content creator on this platform. He deserves a lot more attention for all the hard work he does for us.

[@BaronOfZLand]

I may never be the biggest fan of BO3's campaign, more burned by the fact that we got cliffhangered by the ending of BO2 but watching this has helped me kind of "get it" seven years later. It's not my favorite campaign ever but the story is a lot more meaty and full of intrigue to me now than when I felt like I was playing a campaign that felt contrived and full of itself. I hate to say it, but this campaign was smarter than me.

[@LieutenantBeard]

This is why I love your channel so much. I'm genuinely impressed on how you transitioned from point A to point B. To me the reason why you stand out so much as a video essay channel it's because of the interesting opinions you have. For example, you think a game that is horrible but finished is much much worse than a game that is horrible but unfinished, or how you Believe The quiet Man is the worst game of the decade because of of it not being what the Creator supposedly wanted it to be despite all of the right circumstances in place. I feel likerecently in your career you've been playing much more of a devil's advocate. this video and your video on Wolfenstein Young blood being my greatest examples. I absolutely love it though because despite so many people hating those two games, you give a much deeper understanding and even meaning to those games. you're the reason I bought Wolfenstein youngblood 32 hours into and I don't regret it, it was genuinely a lot of fun. DX, you genuinely inspire me, so much that I've been able to give interesting outlooks on certain things. Thank you for the years of content and thank you for the years of even shaping me to the person I am today. I hope to someday get into a career in video essays. Thank you for everything DX

[@DXFromYT]

Thank you very much for the kind words! There will definitely be many more interesting outlooks on games soon, have a couple opinions swirling around in my head that will probably ignite some interesting conversation.

[@LieutenantBeard]

@@DXFromYT well, to give you my opinion to stir up a conversation. I think fallout 76 is the worst game of all time. You've shown me that a game to be worst game of all time doesn't necessarily mean that has to deal with the quality of the game itself. It can even deal with what's happening behind the scenes just like with the creator of The quiet Man. There was many good circumstances where the right choices could have made The quiet Man good or in the least representative of what the Creator wanted. The reason why I think fallout 76 is the worst game of all time it's because of how it blatantly treats it's audience. fallout 76 will eventually become good but I will still consider it the worst game of all time just because of how disrespectful it was to the loyal fans. I'm willing to believe that without you I wouldn't have been able to think this way. To think in a way where or it doesn't have to be with the direct product itself but with the circumstances behind the scenes.

[@de1168]

Your videos are so underrated

[@carbuncle1334]

Yeah! But they’re really good, there are too much KZbinrs to watch.

[@sciencetifik8238]

I am beyond amazed. You always took game videos to massive extents, but this was different. This was so deeply researched and analysed, that it competes with the analysis people do in University. Thank You for that, You're a pioneer of game reviews that everyone needs to watch. I loved to see Your videos get better since GIFH: Cheetahmen, and every single one of them is better than the last one. Finding peace in the Frozen Forest is not for everyone, but You made it more accessible. Thank You for revealing the full truth behind Black Ops 3.

[@wymanrtaylor]

I think you’re the first critic/video essayist I’ve seen who actually digs this game - at least the first of any note. Finally. ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US

[@DXFromYT]

There's dozens of us.

[@kenlieck7756]

@@DXFromYT Hence "us", one would think. Right?

[@CyanideBlizzard]

I've been waiting to see this idea realized for two years, and it was very much worth the wait to be realized. You just keep evolving as a creator, and I am very much about every single video that represents that. Tremendous work!

[@nyodesu]

Man...just finished the game today with a homie in Co-op and we were left so confused afterwards. However, after seeing all of this...I have a newfound appreciation for this game's story and really the game as a whole now. Uninstalled the campaign at first...then I reinstalled it after seeing this just out of respect for it. Never expected something so deep to come from DX of all people, but that just makes this so much cooler! Awesome stuff, DX!

[@meeeeooooww]

Even though I was 11 when I first played through this game’s campaign, I still knew there was definitely something more to it. It made too little sense to me to not have some deeper meaning. I loved this campaign, though it was probably better served to some other shooter series. COD players never look this deep into things, and most hated it because of how experimental it was for the series. They just want to play the game where you take down the bad guys and win. It truly was a puzzle to put together.

[@daytonmargramarnsom1641]

It’s too bad professional gaming “journalists” don’t even attempt to aspire to the level of quality seen by amateurs on KZbin. Excellent video

[@ptrcrispy]

Granted, its next to impossible to do these levels of analyzation days before your review embargo lifts, and going down the list what the game includes content wise and how good it is is much more useful to the consumer looking to buy the game.

[@daytonmargramarnsom1641]

@@ptrcrispy I would disagree that professional games journalists understand game design well enough to comprehend what a game includes content-wise, and would heavily disagree that professional games journalists are capable of telling whether a game is good or not. But I see your point with the embargoes and with how the way they make money is by keeping up with the games that are new rather than actually analyzing them or discussing them beyond how “juicy” they are. It’s just a shame, because I believe that the state of the games journalism industry is one of the biggest things holding video games back from being considered art by the mainstream

[@ptrcrispy]

@@daytonmargramarnsom1641 the ways you can review a game vary greatly. Most major journo outlets aren‘t THAT competent at videogames compared to hobbyists or smaller KZbinrs, but I also found a lot of competently made videos that give you a simple rundown of the games features, mechanics, and how well they were implemented, over the years. Their point isn‘t necessarily to know every single corner and the in and outs of a certain game. The bar they have to reach is pretty low so some reviewers mostly succeed in that regard. The videos are usually aimed at a casual audience, so a whole essay isn‘t needed. Also, if a game is good or not is subjective and can be for any reason. Anyone can say if they liked the game they played, and if it was well-made in general.

[@daytonmargramarnsom1641]

@@ptrcrispy yeah I get what you’re saying, I get that there is and should be an audience for the type of content professional games journalists produce. I guess it’s just that personal wish that every person who loves an art form has, which is that everyone loved it and cared about it as much as they do. And I disagree that whether a game is good or not is subjective (same thing with like 90% of other art forms). Whether somebody *likes* a game or not is subjective, and it’s okay to like bad games and to dislike good games. “Liking” something is a totally separate thing from whether it’s “good” or “bad.” Some of my favorite games are objectively bad. But there are established “rules” of game design that people train and study for years in order to produce a game that is, objectively, good. Same thing with music, painting, architecture etc. One’s personal interpretation of a piece of art is subjective (and entirely valid), just like everything else in life. But art of all breeds must be viewed from an objective lens first if we desire to keep pushing artistic boundaries

[@vaudevillain_2]

Rewatched this video almost a year after it was released. While there are aspects of your content that I'm more indifferent to, this video is precisely why you're one of my favorite gaming KZbinrs. Holy shit, this was incredible.

[@dankpikmingodwashere4158]

Still find it crazy how black ops 4 said fuck it to a campaign.

[@DXFromYT]

It had a campaign. Was reportedly scrapped two years into development and we got Blackout instead.

[@dankpikmingodwashere4158]

@@DXFromYT yeah I still remember. Was truely disappointed. Well cold war alternative ending did give faith in black ops series again tho.

[@stevewhitehead5001]

@@DXFromYT Are you gonna do a Face Reveal soon DX?

[@DDXofficial]

@@stevewhitehead5001 he has no plans to.

[@Chuked]

I just like campaigns even if they suck like Cold Wars and BO3’s, they just make me happy to play another every year and thats what gets me

[@RoCKbOy245]

Thank you so much for giving your thoughts of Black Ops 3. I love its Campaign. The story was a psychological trip that made me want to go back, look at its attention to details, read the game's information and events, and understand what made the Campaign so different compared to previous COD games. But I must admit that yours was different from mine mostly because of how the game portrays in Cutscenes and Journal logs. I've always believed that Taylor was trying to revive the Player by performing an Interface to keep them together while they experienced an attack. This was after the Player woke up from a short coma, the end of the Training Simulation of 2054 Zurich, as they saw Kane, Krueger, Taylor, and Hendricks in the hospital as the Player was prepped for limb replacement surgery which is the final phase before they officially become part of WA's Black Cyber Ops. Life happened in reality as the ZSF and Kane are trying to stop the terrorist attack that Hendricks had conducted under the control of Corvus. This was when Kane asked the Player if, "They're still in there?" The Player takes control of Taylor's body temporarily to fight their way to Coalescence Corporation of Zurich as it is the place where the Corvus Project fulfills its true potential. Inside the facility, the Memory Palace, the one you mentioned in your video, begins after the Player shot themselves and experiences Corvus's Frozen Forest. Taylor, who was helping the Player fight Corvus, never gave in to Corvus's and the Frozen Forest's influence after he removed his DNI at the Immersion's Lotus Tower. By the time he came back to the Player, they fought against Corvus's illusions to purge their DNI before Taylor controls his body again and the Player's consciousness disappears. I can also understand that both Corvus and Taylor are the same especially how Corvus's voice was a distorted version of Taylor's. But let's not forget that Corvus was born underneath the Coalescence Corporation of Singapore, SP/Corvus. Its birth creates sentience from the minds of the test subjects, including Jae Xiong. Its birth also caused the suffering and death of 300,000 people who were victims to N6 that was leaked in that same facility. The AI was lay dormant again before it reawakens via the Player's attack during limb surgery. Searching for the Frozen Forest, it uses Taylor's memory to find it and use it as a place for DNI users to rest, despite not having the authority to create such an afterlife, playing God to DNI users, or Tulpa in the Data Vault, only to kill more lives than making things better and easier for these people. What really stood out and made it more interesting is the reference to Alice in Wonderland and the importance of Raven in the story of Lewis Carroll and Black Ops 3. What made me understood was how the game references the song, "White Rabbit" and how it has a connection to Alice in Wonderland in BO3 which to me is fascinating. I've read in the game that the Raven has a lot of symbolisms in the Data Vault, one of the the symbolisms in the Vault that made more sense in BO3's theme was that the Raven represents Life and Death. And I've believed in that meaning this whole time. Another fact about Corvus is that the name is a Genus to a scientific name of a common raven, Corvus corax. Coincidence? Sebastian Krueger was the founder of SP/Corvus, so he must had an interest with Carroll's story and using CIA archives of 1960's (Black Ops 1) as reference for the Black Project. I really enjoyed your analysis as I was able to discover something new to BO3's complicated story writing that made me enjoy more as I look into it again. It may not be your ordinary COD game, but BO3 is a special COD game when it comes to searching for clues and conspiracies in lore and history that made me want to go back and be immersed by its deep writing.

[@locodesert2]

I seriously gotta start archiving some of the videos I watch. I’ve been looking for this video for years and all I could remember was “oh it’s like Alice in wonderland.” And I could never find the freaking video.

[@skpeter_]

this video feels like such a "last piece of the puzzle" for me after playing through BO3's campaign all this time since the game's launch. after i finished the campaign, figuring there was something more than meets the eye, i went and did my research on the hidden lore behind all of its details, and though i did find it amazing that they went the extra mile to make for such an interesting subversion of the story i never figured out "how" and "why" - what was the logic behind telling a second, backwards story and, really, to what end, so i never really reached into the true meaning of "us being taylor". i also never got any of the references to these works you've mentioned (i guess the parallels to BO1's narrative choices did stick with me though). it's really incredible the research and production that went into this. definitely subbing to see more of your content.

[@skpeter_]

if i got the last five minutes right, while the "unnamed soldier" is going through their interpretation of taylor's memories, taylor himself is also reliving them through the soldier's lens, right? that's why "the player is taylor" parallel is made. was he physically experiencing these, maybe as a sort of DNI hack by corvus?

[@captainmartinwalker2848]

This is my vindication for loving this campaign and being obsessed with the secrets

[@172frankie]

I've always praised Black Ops 3 for its creativity and cool use of some in universe "Mind mumbojumbo". I love this game.

[@matthewmcshane399]

i think the twist of the characters in taylor's memories being switched out with characters that have cybernetics before they're meant to is hinted by the ww2 sequence, with the player character using their tech in the 1940s. it also may be hinted by the fact that the bosses who were replaced by Taylor's team didn't really use their cybernetics in direct battle with the player. The closest to one of them using their cybernetics is when Hall is interfaced with, and even then, that event didn't really happen.

[@ldragon2515]

And to think, Act Man called the campaign a complete disaster and got nothing out of the twist. If only he looked deeper.

[@SlyJordie]

he still calls it terrible to this day. after his MWII review i'm pretty sure he thinks BO3 is the worst campaign.

[@xboxisbetta]

The fact that it took me multiple viewings of this video to understand your analysis… and you somehow came to these incredible conclusions on your own and presented it in an interesting manner. Wow man, well done. I learned more here than any literature class I have taken.

[@DXFromYT]

Thank you! This was an interesting video to put together.

[@jakey5418]

Ive waited forever for this!!!

[@Romrojal]

One thing that I find interesting about the black ops series is that there's always some kind of trigger phrase in the games in some form, whether that's because of brainwashing or trauma. in order and Spoilers. BO1: "Dragovich, Kravchenko, Steiner. they all must die." Reznov's brainwashing towards Mason as the aforementioned trio's attempt to brainwash him don't seem to work. "The Numbers." this one is rather self explanatory and fits with BO1's asthetic, with numbers stations being part of quite a few conspiracy theories or even easter eggs (In Fallout 3 one of the radios you can tune into actually starts saying numbers which are a cypher) and there's always that doubt over what happened to JFK with Dragrovich's retort to Mason at the end of the story and whether or not Alex Mason will ever be free of the Numbers. BO2: "Suffer With Me" Admittedly the weakest in this sense, acting more like Arc Words for Black Ops 2. it's the title of the last 80's mission, it's what Menendez says to a young David Mason and that gets him to remember as Harper just randomly says it before sparring with him. BO3: "Imagine yourself in a Frozen Forest" while the "Train go boom" line has gained the meme notoriety, the frozen forest has a massive significance to the plot, being what the doctor used to calm the test subjects, what the rogue agents are looking for and by the end the player is even using it as a mantra of sorts to keep themselves sane but it's slowly falling apart (if you play this as the Male Player you get to hear Ben Browder going nuts and it's beautiful and not the first time he's played a character slowly losing it) BOCW: "We Have A Job To Do." a more straight forward example back to a BO1 style, here it's what is used to control Bell for the story to keep him on the CIA's side by Adler. funny enough in the Bad/Non Canon ending when sending your team to the wrong location you have the option of calling for reenforcements for the ambush and one of the phrases to trigger the attack is for Bell to say They Have A Job To Do, effectively bookending Bell and Adler's interactions.

[@rodolfoleal7295]

Really missed your content man, glad you're back!

[@MyurrDurr]

Hmm, this is fascinating, since Nightmare mode plays the campaign in yet another order.

[@ISELLSALT]

still cant believe we went from rest in piss to this

[@Anijah2001]

Same

[@DDXofficial]

this may have "spoiled" the game for me but that won't stop me from playing it and having my own experience :^) amazing work as always DX.

[@MostafaAli-hu7pv]

Another banger by my good man DX!

[@tomsim22]

The player's mind gets absorbed into Taylor's body after Brave New World, with Corvus attached. Through the replay of Taylor's memories, when Hall, Marretti and Diaz died in the memory, they died in reality, as they were all connected to the same training program with their DNI. The mission Life is happening in reality, with the players consciousness moving Taylor's body. After the event in the Frozen Forrest, the Player purges/reboots his DNI, deleting Corvus and his mind, and giving Taylor back control of his body. Whats your name solider? Taylor.... Most Call of Duty players wouldn't be able to wrap their head around a story like this, Jason Blundell was just trolling the community.

[@lucas169]

Jason Blundell makes stories for fanatics and nerds like me who like to be trolled and dig into every detail. It's obvious that the average FPS joe wouldn't enjoy this.

[@tomsim22]

@@lucas169 yeah exactly. I always thought of it as ironic that a game with such a heavy narrative would end up being a cod game.

[@beefyonyt]

I needed this video. i was 15 when i played the black ops 3 campaign so i wasn't thinking very critically while playing. But i can see why the campaign was so confusing for me, it's because it's so deep

[@tomsim22]

Keep in mind that Taylor is spelling out LET ME GO YOU MUST LET ME GO in phonetic alphabet, attempting to contact the player while he's hijacking Taylor's mind.

[@evangedeon2194]

To paraphrase Lebron James slightly: "What in the Matrix, Serial Experiments Lain, Spec Ops: The Line, Revolutionary Girl Utena level esoteric hell?" Honestly impressive, not gonna lie. XD

[@Zymemaru]

After watching this video and replaying the campaign myself I honestly think the solider doesn't die but lives. The evidence for them surviving is pretty strong IMO. First The phrase "stay with me" is prevalent throughout the entire story. This is obviously something said by someone trying to keep someone else alive. It come up A LOT though the story in one form or another. I think this is someone on the outside saying this Second Hendricks' monologue at the start of the final mission works if you view it as him talking to the solider when you consider he was planning on retiring after the Ciro mission. This would imply that the solider is still alive during the final mission which brings me to point 3 Third The text at the beginning of life says the solider is alive. "An error? What do you mean there’s an error? Can't you see they're still alive?? Can't you see they're still breathing! I don't care what the encryption is! Do it! Do it now!" and "Hey are still with us? I need you to focus on me. Come back to me. You can't do this! Don't shut it down don't you dare shut it down!" Someone from the outside (Likely Taylor) is arguing that the solider is still alive. They're likely only brain-dead from everyone else's point of view while the body itself is still active. Forth If we view the frozen forrest as an inverse as this video suggests meaning the frozen forrest represents death, it makes far more sense in my opinion, considering the only way to get to the frozen forrest is by dying. When people who died but came back they typically claim they saw a "white light" in the end. During the mission life after the solider shoots themselves they see a white light that takes them to the frozen forrest. I think this IS the solider dying to some degree. However Hall says "This isn't the frozen forrest, not really. You're still fighting it" meaning the solider isn't quite dead yet but in something of a limbo state. At the end of the mission as corvus approached and is held back by taylor a white light begins to engulf the solider. This is likely true death, however while the white light ALMOST completely takes over it fails to completely engulf him. I believe the Life mission of resetting the DNI to purge corvus was real and the player's conscious or subconscious entered the DNI to fix the problem and fought off corvus (death) Fifth At the very end of the mission when the solider is asked "what's your name" and they answer "Taylor" the screen cuts to black. I think this is the player waking up since it's a contrast to the white light of death we saw before. If you close your eyes you see black meaning they more or less pulled though and woke up Sixth The song that player the moment the screen cuts of black is "I live". If we are to take the songs of choice to mean something like white rabbits, then the final song of the game being "I live" says a lot

[@kingnull2697]

I don't know if the survival of the soldier matters insomuch as they decide to return to the truth instead of hiding in a lie. They choose life & what come with it either way.

[@StableDruid130]

Taylor's journal that takes place after the main events of Taylor's journey of Bo3's campaign confirms that the person we play as in the beginning and the other teammates we had are for sure dead. Plus that's that flash in New World with Taylor being pulled away from our body because of our life support being taken off, most likely due to too much bodily trauma for the DNI transplant to work well, and the fact that people surviving that surgery is slim to begin with.

[@daxler9864]

This feels like the Evangelion of Call of Duty campaigns lmao

[@BogTaraham]

Evangelion from FPS-world

[@dylancameron382]

Replayed the game after watching it his video and holy shit its way better than I remember

[@Rheisler1475]

I bought this game in 2015 when it released. I just beat the campaign this year. The story was great and I loved the dark futuristic tone to it the final level and the demon within level were my favorite. I absolutely loved fighting the robots because I am a huge fan of the Terminator series so this was a big win for me.

[@krzysztofkluzek355]

Bo3 is a masterpiece. Almost. If activision removed the supply drops, and made the plot a bit easier to follow. This cod had the most content, and the best mechanics.

[@thrillainthemanilla1409]

@@G.Freeman92 2 is garbo in terms of Mechanics. Having snipers be the best shotguns, mid range and long range was retarded

[@grandfathernurgle1634]

Great fucking job on the video dude, you've outdone yourself. Keep up the good work

[@johnnybensonitis7853]

Always a joy to see an upload from you! Makes sense you would make a video like this, one that goes into somewhat recent piece of media and give an entirely different look into it than anyone else. I sure as shit never expected to see this game be looked at in any other way than it has since it's release. Once something becomes widely known as terrible/great it becomes easy content. The essay format has developed somewhat of a bad reputation as of late due to this and it's completely understandable KZbin is getting more and more heavily saturated with this style of content and most of it is delivered by some dickhead why goes into explaining why something already given universal hate/praise is good/bad. I could go on about all that, but I say all that to illustrate why I appreciate this channel and all the work you've done here. You're at the top of the food chain of the best of essay-style content as far as I'm concerned and you set a good example for other aspiring creators to go by. Fitting it would be you to once again provide a new lens with which we can view something everyone had been in agreement needed no further discussion. You still put the subject above yourself, which I believe also makes you of strong moral character. Appreciate ya & the effort you put in!

[@eon827]

Ive found you from your critique vid of bo4 from 2 years ago and i gotta say this is gonna be a treat!!

[@infinitsai]

Its still my least favourite cod campaign, but this video make me appreciate it a lot more

[@SofaKingStupid]

My god this game's plot is complex but it's just so interesting.

[@testname4464]

Holy shit, someone once told me that black ops 3 was about taking down a robot uprising and was a borderline incoherent mess.

[@daveemooowostreams192]

Truly I loved black ops 3 I've played the campaign many of many times over and over again, I've never witness that ending scene when you play co-op with friends they didn't really stick around for that little attention to detail with every player being merged into Taylor. Truly I've felt like this was an alice in wonderland experience because the game is absolutely crazy in detail and story, but I've always felt like there was more and now that I've seen this video I feel fulfilled in having questions answered and the story told from your perspective of the game and its story telling and how the story was told. Thank you.

[@hankraymond4524]

Extremely underrated yt channel

[@accent1666]

The game plays too many mind games for me to understand

[@wladyslawderstreiter9078]

great video DX

[@TheBatMav]

I honestly hated this campaign more than anything, because to me Black Ops is Mason & Woods and I was so angry and rageful they didn’t follow up with the story (Black Ops 4 was worse) but, with this video it’s shown me what they were trying to do with the campaign and how profound they were trying to be.

[@Kn_nick]

this is insane and i love it, i never even noticed the references or the hints that we were Taylor, i just thought we were the soldier

[@Bimbows07]

Man this game is so much deeper than I thought, I was incredibly confused when I played through it around 2016. This is pretty helpful breaking it down

[@JustABegginer]

So what you're saying is that BO 3 is secretly a masterpiece & not a shitty game what I thought of it as .man I traded this game for something else .I'm gonna buy it once again & play it again for me to properly understand it this time

[@krzysio_misioo]

This should have like 1 milion views

[@DXFromYT]

Thanks!

[@Funnylittleman]

I maintain that this is one of the best campaigns in the franchise. The gameplay alone is so much more varied than the others. There are so many more options to kill the enemies besides playing whack a mole with them behind cover. Also, it’s just cool. It reminds me of a good movie you’d see on the syfy channel or something with better writing.

[@landismithCOJ]

Just what we needed

[@birthdayfruitecake8158]

Wooooowww this was a treasure trove of inspiration! Thanks for uploading!

[@monopelon]

Finally another great video

[@fangaming790]

makes me think about mgs5s story and meaning behind it all but I know not everyone seen it the way I did

[@tacticolty1552]

Amazing vídeo. But i have a question. If the memories are modified. That means that Hendricks never went rogué ? We never killed him? That's the only part i can't understand

[@CODMWRplayer]

That is correct, you don't kill Hendricks because the last mission never happened in the real events. In the last mission "Life", we see Kruger get shot by Hendricks, but in the 2nd misson where you see the player is on the operating table, which is chronologically the last mission, we see Kruger alive. Reason for this is in The Lotus Towers mission where Taylor ripped his DNI out and then gets shot by Hendricks, the real events is that Taylor and Hendricks beat Dylan Stone on top of the tower, thus Stone never completed his mission of finding Kruger. Sorry for overexplanation, just wanted to add a bit of context.

[@tacticolty1552]

@@CODMWRplayer nono, thank you so much, i was really confused

[@BogTaraham]

​@@CODMWRplayer"Life" happening after simulation Taylor's mission

[@GamingEthos]

VICTORY! UR BEST VID

[@adamled99]

I miss you GridZero

[@StableDruid130]

Is there a way to compile the audio logs that Taylor has into a google doc or a file(s) to download? I'd like to go through them and listen to them all in a isolated setting. I don't have a PC so I can't go into the files myself.

[@parsafakhar]

we miss your anime reviews :( please consider doing more of those

[@YarotoGod]

The part most confused me is Why Taylor is still alive after player-controlled him shot himself?

[@zeuskujo324]

hey i was wondering are you gonna continue the anime analysis series? really loved them

[@eulalawrence4885]

Wussup dxd fan. you're very funny and i love your old videos

[@celebalert5616]

Never played the game but I'd love to add it has one of the best game soundtracks I've ever heard EDIT: Oh it is mentioned!

[@Rclarke115]

Where did you get the John Taylor journal quotes? Where they hidden deep in the game or were they self made?

[@DXFromYT]

I found them in the game's files but I've never found them in the actual game itself. I assume they were cut content.

[@ashar8192]

@@DXFromYT or an easter egg by the developers to be found by players lol

[@StableDruid130]

Hm, I can't seem to find them anywhere else on the internet, is there a chance someone could compile them and make them into a doc or file to download?

[@dangerousjGD]

One day people will call this game a masterpiece

[@shawklan27]

*IMAGINE YOURSELF IN A FROZEN FOREST*

[@raiaanahmed8804]

Dxfan619 great video and what's you're opinion on tlou2?

[@DXFromYT]

Haven't played it, going to be playing the first game for the first time soon.

[@twolve156thethird]

Hell yeah dx is back. Hey man I love your movies I f'ing hate videos, and I couldn't help but wonder your thoughts on the 2nd fifty shades movie. The way you broke the first one down and showed how hilariously awful it was just a timeless vid imo

[@HEagle72]

Damn bro, this is fantastic. Love your theory as to the player, basically being the nameless assassin in the animus. There ya go, an Assassin's Creed connection too lol and your connection to EAP's The Raven as well was incredible.

[@PlankJunior]

been watching you for years and im always excited to see another incredible video from ya. keep up the good work man

[@wildfiremicro6877]

Damn good video. You'd make a great author

[@sciencetifik8238]

After every single one of these videos I get left with lots of food for thought. Amazing

[@mirutanku]

sensational

[@qkey01]

Very very nice video! The one thing I would have liked to see was a quick rundown of the story in the beginning, since I also like to watch theories on games I've never played before.

[@Tony-Down-Under]

I think this is my least favorite COD story but I love that you made it much more clearer.

[@alwayshome2610]

Incredible video, DX

[@VanillaSixtySix]

Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOO

[@SandoraElite]

Oh baby it’s finally here

[@johnnysins9054]

Yes a new video

[@SockEater4293]

I hated bo4. This story doesn't have much of a connection to bo1 and 2 other then name and some references, but I think if this campaign got a prequel, which should have been bo4's story, it could've made a nice transition to the campaign of bo3 to the other games, but instead BO4 scrapped that idea and thought that the problem would be gone if they didn't make one at all. BO4 was the one that made stop playing the franchise, and even though that some of it is stemmed in bo3 (with the multiplayer/zombies), the lack of a traditional campaign made me much more distrustful with the series moving on. I hear that sledgehammer is making another ww2 shooter, but that's been done so many times (even in cod itself) that I'd play World at War or Wolfenstein: New Order 1 million times before I touch it.

[@albertoon3385]

Now explain the zombie's campaign.

[@Хорошийигровойканал]

Поезд сделал бум

[@McPyore]

I was missing you

[@utisti4976]

Black Ops III may be mediocre at best, but I freakin' LOVED the setting. I think it was perfect in that aspect.

[@Riskofrain527]

Black ops 3 as a whole is a great cod game in my opinion.

[@karinadelma]

Thank you for waiting a video. I be wait for days and months.

[@H-Himbo]

I appreciate a campaign going far and beyond in terms of its story telling and hidden meaning, however the game should not have Black Ops slapped onto the title. I understand that Hernandez gets referenced in the game and it has some subtle things from Black Ops, but other than that, it isn’t really related to Black Ops nor does it feel like the kind of story that would be told in something like Black Ops. Black Ops, I feel, does a better job of leading you onto the game’s final twist. I’m not referring to what really happened with Reznov. The game’s final cutscene sets up the open ended idea that Mason may have killed JFK when it cuts to an image where Mason is present at that moment. Even Cold War does a decent job with it’s main twist as well. While not nearly as good as Black Ops 1, it does have a good set up and an interesting payoff when you consider that it’ll affect which of the three endings you pick. I feel like a theoretical alternate history and alternate outcomes help what made those twists work so well and how those two games guided you to the answers and leaving open ended answers. Did Mason truly kill JFK or was it all a massive coincidence? There’s no concrete answer. The major issue with BO3 os that it pretty much relies on references to delve deeper into the game’s meanings past the true twist that your character is dead and the entire game’s a flashback. Call me a fool, but I don’t think something like BO3 tried to do doesn’t really work as well considering that, in my opinion, you have to go through a repetitive campaign to get to that realization. Also, Nightmares, as a mode, feels more like a “Oh, you didn’t get the story, here’s all the answers” thing instead of good additional content considering you have to go through the repetitive campaign for a second time but just slightly different and character interactions that made me think that they were referring to me as a moron.

[@ashar8192]

so the DNI project isn't considered as a Black Operation for you?

[@krzysztofkluzek355]

Weird, the plot of cp2077 is very much like bo3. About accepting death, connection with another

[@danielkalisch5205]

I know im late and nobody will see this, but i just wanted to say... Outcome? Train go Boom.

[@DXFromYT]

Train go boom.

[@danielkalisch5205]

@@DXFromYT Whoa, didnt expect an answer from anyone, especially that fast haha

[@davidjfjedi2262]

Nice vid

[@ease-l5330]

oh my GOD

[@Diego35HD]

Hell yeah I've been waiting for this

[@benhillman8384]

Neat stuff as ever- the split second text in the ending was always a neat brain worm. How does all this tie in with the massive pile of soundclips and text files unlocked in multiplayer by dark mattering the various character unlocks? iirc all the operators are trapped endlessly in a simulation controlled by one of the characters (initially it's implied it's reaper, but later implied this was probably to wrongfoot you) and there's all these mentions of someone else invading the simulation.

[@HAWKEYESOLO]

The campaign is interesting but the presentation and execution made it just really confusing. I hate the fact that I already knew you were Taylor because someone else figured it out years ago without going this deep. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpmmeoiCqs-CsKs I think the link between the Matrix and Alice was meant to be analogies for the happenings of the campaign and not how you solve it because of the aforementioned video. Despite that I think adding in these nods without any clear answer in the game itself still made it confusing. Great findings though. This is like red line conspiracy shit and I mean that in the nicest way possible. These are the kind of stories I find interesting but God, they could've done a better job.

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

Fascinating

[@coffee6058]

Day 3 of asking DX to review sword art online season 3

[@mariabobia69]

holy shit dude

[@raiaanahmed8804]

Dxfan619 not sure if you're going to answer this but have you played Balan Wonderland and saw the reviews?

[@DXFromYT]

Nope, haven't seen it