The Mind-Bending Story of Black Ops 3 [2025 - 2070]

[@samuelgallegos5107]

If only took 9 years for someone to truly explain the bo3 campaign the right way

[@ironchapel7]

why

[@Aristocrat1cs]

M3rkmus1c should watch this video

[@ironchapel7]

yoooooo@@Aristocrat1cs forgot about him

[@RynoGunner24]

train go boom@@Aristocrat1cs

[@Axel060793]

​@@Aristocrat1cs he won't understand shit from this video

[@Butter_Warrior99]

To think this story was made by a CoD zombies dev. No wonder why it was so crazy.

[@CptJumper]

Explains a lot 😂

[@Anxmaly666]

Jason Blundell was on something when he made this story

[@Krexel]

​@@Anxmaly666 He was on something when he made the Zombies story too

[@Franz0818]

⁠@@Krexelbros on that Aether joint when making the Zombies storyline

[@CodLoreFacts]

Blundell was a campaign dev well before he got into the zombies stuff.

[@Pipperdude]

I forgot just how much of a mind-melter this game was, trying to figure out what actually happened. Thank you Harry for your hard work and effort!

[@hate-chan4369]

It’s not a “mind melter” it’s an AI that hacked into your brain, and cause the events because of its beliefs it got passed down by its creator and misinterpreted it all. In the game, you have brain augmentations. Which is connected to a network along with your other augmentations. It’s not super natural or some shit lol

[@SuperXD_64]

Fr

[@Aegis---]

i feel like this story would of landed so much better if it was a seperate title rather than a highly anticipated sequel to the black ops franchise, its a shame bo4 ditched the campaign entirely

[@Gallalad1]

Definitely. Its wild to think Treyarch could actually tell a complex, mature story like this. But it was definitely put in the wrong title

[@Gallalad1]

@AlexMason.1933 fake link. Nobody touch it

[@acidrage5206]

Black ops 4 didn't just ditch the campaign it was more all their work went into Rebirth and Zombies leaving the campaign less than finished so they just didn't release one. i actually prefer this from them.

[@Aegis---]

@@acidrage5206 they ditched it for blackout actually, which ironically, was really fucking poorly made

[@TRG_R17]

Reply 5

[@diobrando6737]

Apparently, bo3 campaign was supposed to be an open world experience but due to time constraints and activision bullshit, Treyarch had to scrap the open world game for a linear story hence why everything in this game is so out of whack in terms of story telling. You were supposed to find the lore pieces yourself as you explored the open world but that never happened. There's a ton more info about the development of the game from other youtube sources as lots of people have already covered it.

[@Derivedwhale45]

Lucky this year's entry will be open world ish during the Gulf War n won't be like MW3 2023 rushed open world experience since they have 4 years to work with

[@GlobalOutcast]

​@@Derivedwhale45 I wouldn't get my hopes up m8

[@acidrage5206]

@@Derivedwhale45 fuck this open world shit i hate it!!! i buy cod for story based campaign and Zombies. This DMZ Outbreak idea is just nonsense. i don't know about anyone else but without a structure of a mission i get side tracked and then just bored of the game. i hated outbreak and DMZ MW3 zombies is trash i want black op 1 n 2 style of horror within zombies and a dark gritty tale of the gulf war.... take me back to WaW sorry not BO1 n 2

[@TheBoss.-tq2vm]

That sounds AWESOME.

[@Malam_NightYoru]

​@@acidrage5206the thing is, open world doesn't equal to bad bro. You only think it is equal because it has been poorly made over and over again.

[@praetor-009]

Taylor: "Conclusion? Train goes boom". My conclusion?: "I go boom".

[@brevingraham6143]

Brain go boom

[@AdamantWind2071]

Outcome? Train go boom 🙂

[@Danilio.]

*Brain Go Boom*

[@StokenP]

Best Black Ops 3 explanation video I’ve ever seen on KZbin. This is the most in-depth one. No one else has covered what happened after Black Ops 2 before Black Ops 3 which is very important to the storyline. Thanks for taking the time to make this. This is definitely one of my favorite campaigns because of how great the mystery of what is actually going on is.

[@acidrage5206]

people deffo have cause i've seen them all

[@ptrcrispy]

DXFromYTs Chasing Rabbits video has the best explanation

[@El_Negro2003]

I think that infinite warfare takes place on the black ops universe My explanation: -The tablets in bo3 are in IW BUT they look a bit better (higher res), which makes me believe that it isn’t just a reused asset thing. -the robots in IW look like advanced versions of the GI units in bo3 -a lot of weapons in IW look similar to bo3’s -and it makes sense -the tech (cars and etc) -the sdf skelters look like the fighter in bo3 I don’t know when IW takes place but it’s definitely a bit after bo3 if my theory is correct. And there some stuff that don’t line up, like why they don’t use DEADs and use (what I think) are normal cannons (AATIS or smthn). Also the ‘ASPs’ in IW are much smaller, maybe they stopped using ASPs because they go haywire (like in nightmare mode)

[@VRock32]

Thank you Harry, the story of this game lived rent-free in my head since i played BO3.

[@arinleoczko1250]

None of this speaks on the most important piece of BO3 Lore: How FUCKING USELESS Hendricks is as an AI companion.

[@MorningstarESQ]

I disagree; im playing realistic mode rn and he is carrying a lot of the weight for me

[@thedilfofwallstreet5385]

it depends what difficulty you’re on. if you’re playing on the higher difficulties he carries a lot of the baggage.

[@MorningstarESQ]

@@thedilfofwallstreet5385 i dont see how that invalidates what I just said. He is great for taking on his share of the baggage

[@agw2468]

​@@MorningstarESQ he wasn't responding to you

[@yonagunivevo835]

fr, he carried out my first realistic run

[@koltonlomas7111]

Hey, I know you said that the treyarch zombies storyline you'll probably won't do because it's too complex, but we're about the storyline from different developers like sledgehammer or infinity ward. I personally would like to see you do world war II zombies is lore

[@Vkiller711]

Yeah some infinite warfare content would be awesome too

[@thequietstag4366]

IW and WW2 Zombies are so underrated

[@koltonlomas7111]

Especially world war II. I thought its story and atmosphere was so good

[@realbowlingbunny]

As a massive convoluted lore junkie like myself, this has given me a newfound appreciation for the story of BO3's campaign. Great video!

[@The_Qure]

As I was already a huge fan of Ghost in the Shell before this, this game’s plot was fantastic. Just barely enough information hidden within tons and tons of world info, and a rogue AI that becomes a philosophy major. Chef’s kiss

[@cynicalmemester1694]

Black Ops 3's campaign has elements of the quintessential Cyberpunk storyline.

[@BNP_-rb8ic]

@@cynicalmemester1694the basic plots of BO3 and Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty are similar to the point of being ridiculous. With both of them having some shady projects resulting in malicious and homicidal AIs trying to genocide humanity

[@cynicalmemester1694]

@BNP_-rb8ic There are similarities for sure but Cyberpunk 2077 is based on a TTRPG that came out in the late 80s, it was already exploring these themes before COD was even made.

[@deathraven7314]

The black ops 3 stroy is one of my favorite stories in the whole franchise. It's incredibly deep and complex with just a hint of tragic. The ideas it's built on and the themes throughout are fascinating and cathartic. Train go boom

[@abbcc5996]

there are like 5 different psychological horror sections and 2 different zombie sections. i think it makes the game very unique for a fps. also i loved how corvus interpretated the frozen forest as a literal place, or rather the ptsd of the soldiers turned it into a literal place within corvus

[@kokdolfn]

@@abbcc5996 I thought it was interesting until the end, where it kinda fell flat and spent WAY too little time developing brand new concepts

[@C01dEyes]

By the time I actually sat down and played Black ops 3 the modern warfare reboot was out for a year. So I personally didn't know anything about it outside of everyone saying they hated it. I had got my hands on the first two Black ops games and enjoyed playing through the campaign so when I saw ops 3 on sale I snatched it up. I remember feeling like something was off as I played through the game. Especially once you started doing the Cairo missions. I remember thinking to myself "Wait a minute isn't the uprising supposed to be behind us already?" Then you throw in the small details like why would Hendrix go through the same procedure as you did? How come you never hear your character's name spoken? Even to the point where if you have captions on the identifier says player and nothing more well everyone else is dialogue has their name next to it. The things going on between you and Rachel. Then to top it all off you've got Corvus and the symbolism that entails. When I made it to the end of the campaign and you hear Taylor's name spoken I went from thinking "where is this going?" To an immediate "wtf?!"... I took a break from the campaign to enjoy the amazing zombie mode but I jumped right back into the campaign to start piecing it all together. Even before I started looking up videos about this campaign plot I had a feeling we were dealing with a Jacob's ladder situation here. Personally I love the creativity behind it. There was no hand holding with this story and I personally think it's a masterpiece even with all of its flaws. It's way more interesting and creative than any of the bombastic Michael Bay level wankfest that we've seen in the franchise past and present. Treyarch should be commended for the balls that it took to step forward and put something out like this. Honestly I would love to see what they could do outside of COD using this kind of writing in a different type of project.

[@El_Negro2003]

I have a theory that infinite warfare takes place on the black ops universe My theory: -The tablets in bo3 are in IW BUT they look a bit better (higher res), which makes me believe that it isn’t just a reused asset thing. -the robots in IW look like advanced versions of the GI units in bo3 -a lot of weapons in IW look similar to bo3’s -and it makes sense -the tech (cars and etc) I don’t know when IW takes place but it’s definitely a bit after bo3 if my theory is correct

[@CERRYGREENBAY]

The gameplay of bo3’s campaign had me replaying it constantly. It’s very good. Story is so weird but man it’s a blast to play through.

[@yonagunivevo835]

every mission is a different trip, my fav is the VTOL one

[@KKmonkey]

Yes I loved it but had no idea what was going on. Like couldn’t they have done more to make it a little less confusing.

[@NdtXBL]

agree with this heavily. started speedrunning it and never turned back. story is very ridiculous tho imo but if you look past it I think the game is fun

[@waytothudawn]

Dude you've been killing it lately with these vids; appreciate you laying BO3's story out like this, no way in hell I would've been able to guess what specifically had happened. Got close though!

[@insertgoodchannelnamehere]

Finally someone who can put all the BO3 plot together and present it to the world. Ive loooooved the bo3 campaign ever since i first played it, and it is so frustrating for people to say its garbage just because they dont bother to stop and think about it.

[@liamferreira8912]

This is the kind of story you split up across 3 games…💀

[@wolfylegend5982]

I have to say, this channel is probably one of the best in terms of explaining the stories of Video Games! Thanks Harry!

[@XabzintheNBAGuru]

Perfect, I just started with my popcorn, right on

[@youngstunna1594]

I see I’m not the only one who dove into the computer memos and see things that now scarily look like reality

[@JeyVGaming]

The storywritters of this game probably saw the plot twist of Black Ops 1 and thought it would be amazing to have a whole campaign like that.. only problem is they forgot to reveal and explain about the twist in the story. I honestly like the idea about an AI virus manipulating the player's vision, confusing reality with simulation created by the virus.. plot like that has the potential to have multiple choices and endings but shame it was poorly executed and could've also just been a standalone game, rather than connected to Black Ops series.

[@karolclark791]

The concept is really cool I agree. But they should've carried on the story of BO2. We all wanted to see what David Mason did after killing Menendez. I remember people theorising that Taylor was David Mason's son. We were desperate for some connection to the story and our favourite characters. But there was no connection there unfortunately

[@El_Negro2003]

I think that infinite warfare takes place on the black ops timeline (or bo3 would’ve taken place in iw’s timeline) My explanation : -The tablets in bo3 are in IW BUT they look a bit better (higher res), which makes me believe that it isn’t just a reused asset thing. -the robots (the small ones) in IW look like advanced versions of the GI units in bo3 -a lot of weapons in IW look similar to bo3’s -and it makes sense -the tech (cars and etc) I don’t know when IW takes place but it’s definitely a bit after bo3 if my theory is correct

[@TheWunWhiteWolf]

Black Ops 3 will always have a special place for me because it had one of, if not the best zombies seasons COD has ever delivered.

[@tigerwoods373]

I was really enjoying mw3 zombies for a few days until the server crashed way too frequently. I can forgive an occasional crash but this was multiple times per day for 5 days straight. Probably more but I quit after I found the scorcher schematic just to get dc'ed.

[@kokdolfn]

bo3 zombies is overrated pay to win garbage with far too much saturation and godrays, making it look like shit. There must have been a different visual guy for the campaign and the zombies because the campaigns color grading is so much better. And the sliding instead of dolphin diving sucked, the weapon selection sucked, they had all these classic weapons that never got put in as wall buys for some reason, and the way you hold guns looks like you have your arms coming out of the sides of your head or you're wearing a bodycam or something. And for some reason black ops 2 had more advanced tech in multiplayer with the mms and target finder than bo3? And the ""advanced movement"" is just shitty tacked on wallrunning and the thrusters which are basically useless with the amount of invisible walls on mp maps. And the over exaggerated sprinting head bob, and the audacity to lock fan-favorite multiplayer maps behind a bo4 pre order is insane. The overall game feel and the hot bowl of dogshit that is gobblegum, made me hate bo3 zombies.

[@cynicalmemester1694]

​@kokdolfn BO3 zombies had a great map selection and the weapons were great. I also have no idea what you're talking about, the way you hold guns in the game seems normal. You could also get gobble gums for free, you didn't need to pay for them. You could've just used liquid divinium, most of the useful gobblegums are unlocked pretty easily. Besides it's a PVE mode

[@coffinboy556]

@@kokdolfn I ain’t reading allat. Black ops III zombies was goated🗿.

[@Deadblud]

ah sweet, black ops three video

[@ryanmooney217]

23:57 hilarious that they have a tool specifically designed to cut off hands

[@genichiroashina1]

Nnn, it's a tool designed to cut door locks (we use it in first mission to rescue Egypt president) player multipurpose d it to cut a hand.

[@ThePurgeMan]

They for my opps

[@coffinboy556]

@@ThePurgeMan the only opps you got are vegetables and school🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Swagenstein]

Some shit inspector gadget would pull out of thin air for a plot point

[@WhyBeUgly]

LETS GOOOOO Been waiting this one since the Black Ops video dropped

[@joseand5814]

Years after no one explains BO3 well organized like Gaming Harry yes the game is a Mind Bender but Harry did very well and very professional how to deal with BO3 props to you ❤

[@InfinitusVX]

This story should be turned into some kind of series for Netflix or Prime or any other media. The plot is too convoluted for a game but for a series it would be mind blowing. Jason Blundell should really look into that (He directed the campaign for BO3).

[@KKmonkey]

Yes!!!!!!!!!! I loved this campaign even when I couldn’t understand the story. It genuinely surprised me to find out people hated it. It should have been a standalone game. It would have worked way better and I think way more people would have enjoyed it.

[@pranker199171]

First game i ever played on the ps4, played the campaign and didn't know wtf happened. I'm listening to this while doing deliveries and I still don't know wtf is happening. Good video tho, u did your best I'm subscribing.

[@hokanh579]

Thank you Harry for the video! I have never personally played CoD: Black Ops III, but I have watched several game movies and never understood what happened. This video actually clears it up!

[@Sir_Slimbread]

The BO3 Campaign is underrated(not top tier, but not as bad as it's made out to be). The story is actually really good, and the gameplay is fun. The main problem is that if you want the real story you have to dig deep into the Terminal, and read the comics. It being tied to the Black Ops name is also a major reason it's looked down on, because BO1 and BO2 are just that good. I imagine the original vision of the game had more real tie ins to the previous titles, but all that they could salvageable was the Menendez reference, and stuff in the Terminal.

[@MATRetroVideoGaming]

Excellent narrative so far! Cannot wait for explaining of Black Ops 4 story!

[@MATRetroVideoGaming]

I've finished your video. And, I do think about two theories of mine. 1) Player never died and John Taylor took over Player's DNI and controlling him. That's it. 2) Player died and Corvus created a simulated world within Taylor's memories by DNI. Taylor then erases Player and Corvus from his own body. P.S.: I do NOT think that Life mission based on your telling is NOT exactly what happened! "Hendricks is not there, Taylor just went there and promised to keep quiet after what he learnt about Krueger's tests etc." I say the first theory is TOTALLY right by me. Now you'd say all characters (Diaz, Maretti) are different than reality, and it's a lie. So... basically... Why shouldn't scrolling texts be just a lie for creating such plot twists?! Come on! If it was all lie, Kane'd say wtf Player: Controlling these robots are going to drive Hendricks insane just as Taylor. We have to stop him before he tears Zurich apart. Kane: You're TAYLOR already! Sorry but this video got me really confused. Or may be I'm just an idiot.

[@DavidWaker]

Such fantastic videos and content. Awesome work Gaming Harry 👍🎉

[@ThenWhen]

I would like to see a similar video like this on the Nightmares Mode of the game. Like the videos keep up the awesome work!

[@vaxisme]

Been watching bunch of your videos recently, these r top tier, thanks man.

[@vaxisme]

I love black ops and have the numbers tatted on my chest, funny ice breaker when someone asks what do the numbers mean

[@SenseiLlama]

I've always been a lore gremlin, i enjoyed the campaign immensely when i played it, and was confused why other people didn't. Rewatching this i get it now. It was a tad convoluted, certainly could've presented better.

[@Jacket430]

I have been hoping someone would cover this story with the respect it deserves since it dropped, and FINALLY someone has. Thank you, holy shit.

[@WAFFENFABRIK]

This is a much-needed video for everyone, great stuff. I've always found the worldbuilding of Black Ops 3 to be really well-done, but it just sucks that most of the intense lore can only be really found in the console at safehouses.

[@ebonymilfhunter]

this was my first ever cod game and being young not understand/caring about the story and just wanting the action i replayed this game about twenty times cuz of how amazing it was gameplaywise being able to control the drones and the mini tank things was so sick to young me and flying the jets in that one mission everything came together to make the perfect game for me and now understanding the story myself i can say that this game is far from bad infact its one of the best call of duties.

[@andrewbravo5113]

Thank you I really enjoyed this story explained! It was confusing but it was so good now I like this story!

[@Mo-Fozi]

Insert “old guy raising his hands saying cinema”meme is this shit is wild that’s why I love call of duty Black Ops three

[@damiantang8941]

Yooooo, thanks for the hard work man!!

[@nolwil3659]

story was way too confusing for me. Needed this 🙏

[@David-A.]

after replaying the campaign couple of times and watching this video the story of bo3 is not that bad and to a degree in my perspective it makes sense, the game was giving us a warning how technology in future will become so advanced and AI which makes the future scary to think about, technology what we use and rely the most, in other words it gave us an opportunity to explore how further technology would take us before we become disconnected from reality. in huge relation to the movie ready player 1. bo3 story was confusing at first but is actually very interesting and it arguably the most interesting best premise. my only complaints are the confusing parts were not explained so i had to do research and ofc the characters are not that memorable compared to previous black ops games. i think bo3 campiagn is overlooked. definitely overhated

[@erickmellapeti2922]

Thank you for taking your time to help me understand this story after replaying this twice. I seriously appreciate your effort and this game that was made!!

[@Tudor198-i9j]

Wow nice explained videos on black ops storyline ! :)

[@GGkING260]

You did a great job and the video made sense. I am now more enticed to play the campaing more than ever before because its now so interesting to me. I think the player is Corvus and John Taylor is battleing for cotrol and suceedes. I think it would have been interesting to see two versions one good ending (the main ending we have now) and like a bad ending where Corvus takes over as Taylor loses control and leads to some kind of disaster.

[@sp4cepigz174]

One thing this game didn’t get enough credit for is the amount of content they gave us and it all worked offline

[@Cewdipie]

I love this campaign thanks for the detailed video ❤

[@matthewmcshane399]

There's a cool detail that, in the mind of the player, corvus represents life in a twisted way forever in the Frozen Forest simulation while Taylor represents acceptance of death. They're 2 sides of the same coin. That's why corvus' voice is an altered version of Taylors voice.

[@stitchfan93]

Great work Gaming Harry ❤😊

[@felixsalazar2241]

My brain Is melting As someone who skiped over BO3 due various reasons (not really because I wanted) this is hell'a lot to take and digest

[@The_Punisher]

Dude I like BO3 and it even confuses me

[@crisomamber8463]

I still remember when the player scream the line of frozen forest, the fear and desperate in their voice are something I never seen in COD series

[@supersonicx7216]

This game was a freaking fever dream and for some reason, at the age of 14, I understood more than Bioshock Infinite 😂! The campaign was messy and disjointed but I still enjoyed playing it. It put the fear in me that AI can become even more dangerous when mix with human emotions!

[@Generlc_Human]

Shit like this is why I love the smallest detail in the Black Ops series, everybody's name is red, you don't know who you can trust, even yourself.

[@Koichi72976]

God my head is spinning just from finishing this video

[@aity3669]

Damn bo3 is probably the darkest cod campaign out there EDIT: over waw, which is my fav campaign 15 years later

[@thedemonicstudio39]

Amazing ❤you did a wonderful job explaining the game and yes it’s very interesting and complex

[@Springfield_7.62x63mm]

He promised the content and he delivered, couldn't have done it any better. Love your lore videos so much Harry.

[@Doughnuts]

I finally appreciate BO3s campaign... Doesn't mean i like it, but i appreciate it lol. Absolutely incredible video, so well done!

[@cozmichazard9725]

Thank you, Harry. The BO3 story was always so confusing to me.

[@InsertNameHere.1719]

Brother thank you i’ve been trying to explain the story to so many others who rate this on a lower tier. Like I’ve said, in the beginning, this is and for a while, will be probably my favorite cod campaign. Blundell is truly a master storytelling architecture.

[@montyshxlygrail]

i absolutely loved this campaign, didnt get any of it even though i’ve played thru it multiple times, it just felt really good. the set design was awesome, the character/enemy design was awesome, the gunplay and guns themselves felt really good as well. lost my old ps4 copy and want to get another one to experience it again

[@Derivedwhale45]

I know Henry isn't the only one that gotten a headache while trying to explain the "plot" of this story here like everyone else did after playing this game

[@Hypersp4ce]

I just finished the campaign for the first time and I gotta say...HOLY SHIT!!! What a game! This video helped me the most in trying to understand this mindfuck of a game haha

[@starstruckp4808]

I had a feeling it was heavily complex but loved it because of that fact. I’m happy that you’ve managed to clear up the insanity. Plus, I’m genuinely curious to where did you get the soundtracks for this video, they sound incredibly fitting, but I don’t recall them from Black Ops III. One theme I picked up and wished it was talked about more is the concept of death and how it’s perceived. A shame that a majority of people missed it or don’t wish to talk about that sensitive subject.

[@beck4715]

Holy crap all of this was lost on me when I played it. What a convoluted beautiful mess of a story, I love it!

[@srtgffykcgkcycficitcihhh8792]

amazing I finally understand what the hell happened in the campaign thank you 👍very well done video

[@zynet_eseled]

Train go boom...hang on a minute...Im, starting to wonder if underneath the meme of it, was meant to be a reinforced idea. The repetition of it, about how no matter your actions you undertake, it still leads to the same end result, the train blowing up, could be a metaphor for trying to find ways to defeat death itself. About trying to change the inevitable. Which, truthfully speaking, could end up being a pretty compelling case here. The "train" here is death, while the "boom" is inevitable. Train go boom, Death is Inevitable. This whole story, then, is a dying dream, about accepting the end. And being able to finally welcome it. The frozen forest, then, is what happens when someone cannot accept death. Its akin to purgatory. Frozen Forest, being lost in the time between life and death. Frozen, in time. Frozen, in time, lost, in a forest.

[@ShyitFard69]

No.

[@danielandrade643]

I like the way you think...

[@Malam_NightYoru]

And it connects very well to when, at the end, the player decides to kill corvus and the DNI interface, basically accepting his death, and saving Taylor. AND MORE, all of the game puts Taylor as the evil that should be killed... Because we are inside his head trying to control him. WE ARE THE EVIL FORCE. Holy shit what a fucking game, give them a fucking OSCAR.

[@cynicalmemester1694]

​@@Malam_NightYoruThere was infinitely more care and thought put into BO3's storyline than in any of the COD games that came before and after it.

[@dudewithtude4476]

mind bending? my minds more bent than my touchy feely uncle

[@trollpatrol1177]

When you use the Girls Frontline mod, everything suddenly makes more sense. It's not a black ops story, it's an anime story.

[@BogTaraham]

Cringe-mod

[@dishanthakur8570]

Imagine making a movie on this story.

[@HistoryMonarch1999]

I feel like the background conflict was a little better like this idea of the NRC and Egypt fighting over the Nile river and the background politics rather than the whole DNI and Corvus stuff over it. I don’t think the problem was the story itself I think it’s that it’s deliberately left out a lot of things and the real story is in the background or context found in a comic or fast moving text. Like when it’s all laid out it sounds like a great story it’s just the structure.

[@mauriziochirca8939]

The data vault is in the game and you can read about all the topics he explains in this video. The comics I don't see them that much relevant. Their only use is to have a context of who are the people on the scrolling text. Also the scrolling text, except for some details, it explains exactly the things you are playing but without the corvus infection. so this campaign was meant to be played as a whole community and not a singleplayer experience as usual. That's why of the coop. I think treyarch wanted to make a story like zombies with this campaign with people discovering things

[@jay_wats_]

Much respect to you, Harry. You've definitely made this alot easier to understand. However, I will forever consider this story a dumpster of hot trash. Steaming, burning hot trash.

[@BogTaraham]

You wrong

[@cynicalmemester1694]

Call of duty campaigns have always been steaming burning piles of garbage but the one time the campaign doesn't decide to be generic American state department propaganda to try and recruit teenagers into the military and CIA, and actually tries to tell a compelling story that is more than just "good guy (who is white) vs bad guy (who is a Russian or a colored person), your ape brain lashes out.

[@vibecheck5114]

Great video! I would have liked to see more explanation about the formation of the Nile River Coalition and why the NRC is at war with Egypt, which from my memory of the console is because Egypt dammed the Nile River, cutting off most of the water supply for NRC nations (like Ethiopia and Sudan). However I can see you did a ton of work to make this video, so well done.

[@mauriziochirca8939]

The NRC was in contact with the CDP in order to become part of the CDP. Then, Hakim (the man you smash his head in lotus tower) gives his rare minerals in e chance of advanced weaponry. The NRC dammed the Nile River and put taxes to the water. Egyptians said that was not allowed by the international rules and declare the war against the NRC. But, Egyptians didn't know NRC were more prepared due to its pact with CDP and they Lost so much territory that the last stronghold it's the Cairo. All of this it's explained in the Data vault with more other things like Druon hackers which leaked NRC conversations with the CDP (which can be readen in the Data vault) are the successors of Cordis Die (if you decrypt the Morse code in the Data vault page)

[@Mr.noboody11]

Yeah, I never understood the story. For over a decade I never understood it. This uh, still leaves my brain scrambled. But there's structure to it!

[@XxFatJesus360xX]

God I love your vids.

[@soccerandtrack10]

6:24 this is the reason the campaign is crazy,your seeing the middle points of stuff connecting=/rewriting itself.

[@kaibrizbon]

It's crazy hearing you say Khalil with your accent, Great job! 💯

[@lucasphilip4822]

Just goes to show that overcomplicating a story doesn't make it better, seriously what a mess. I respect you for going through this borefest and actually making an entertainment watch.

[@023Whiplash]

Terrible opinion

[@1Devul]

😂 funniest shit I've seen today

[@cynicalmemester1694]

I'd say complicating the story in this regard delivered.

[@ReSpark141]

until now i found it funny that the nightmares campaign made more sense that still holds true

[@mcwildstyle9106]

In all honesty, i actually enjoy this campaign. I think (and this is my opinion so take it as you will) you might be able to enjoy it more if you consume other media like it. For example: Serial Experiments Lain, Ergo Proxy, Jacob’s Ladder and maybe Ghost in the Shell and Psycho Pass if you wanna feel frisky

[@MightyMurloc]

I have the BO:3 "Ember" trailer saved in a playlist I use for videos with cyberpunk themes, it's 99% Akira and Serial Experiments Lain AMV's, but I keep it there as, effectively, a short film about where we could head.

[@ARCtrooperblueleader]

This campaign snapped my brain honestly. It was the first CoD campaign I quit and refused to play. “Train go boom.”

[@1Devul]

Ive beaten this campaign more that 10 times and i enjoy it

[@MUSTANG_P51]

Watching this video, I think BO3 has a better story than we remember, especially when the game did have more connection to the previous games than we thought. I think because of the absolute hellish development Treyarch was going through, and Activision's constant interference, the game's story was a mind-numbingly confusing mess. I believe it was a unique way to tell the story, and would have been better if Activision hadn't interfered and made a bunch changes. Thank you for telling BO3's story in a more straightforward way. I think it was just the right campaign and story at the wrong time.

[@The_Punisher]

I honestly hope they make a direct sequel someday

[@LostProphet195]

This is one of the few campaigns i didn't finish just because of how mind melting and confusing it is.

[@theogpaulmolnar3547]

Well, ur gon get a few view form me cuase i got a watch this like 4 times to digest all of it. Thx for the vid

[@RoCKbOy245]

I enjoy watching your take on Black Ops 3's complicated Campaign. I'm also glad that you mentioned some bits of lore on what's been going on after Menendez's death and the fate of his company, Tacitus. However, I see you're one of the people who believe in the "Dying Dream" theory. Although this theory is very common in the community, looking back at it, I think this theory is false due to some observations in both the Player's and Taylor's perspective in their story. Taylor's perspective during his time in eliminating his former team differ from the Player's as the Player's perspective in the story uses the DNI and prosthetics as the main focus of the story given how advanced the DNI can do. In 45:30, you did mention that Javier, Conrad, and Fierro were eliminated in the exact same way in the simulation. Not all of them went down exactly as how they ended in each of their perspectives. One of them was Hall. When she was interrogated by the Player, the Player uses an interface to dive into Hall's mind as how you see it in Demon Within a messed up scenario of Bastogne, which can be the Frozen Forest she was looking for and how they interrogated Salim before the mission begins. This isn't exactly the same in Conrad's case as she was in disbelief as to how and why the CIA would do such inhumane experiments under the Coalescence building of Singapore. Another difference is that Hall asked the Player to kill her only to let her pain go away while Conrad was eliminated right away by Taylor after acquiring the necessary intel needed to look for Fierro and Stone. 45:47. No. Stone never had a DNI. There was no mention of him or his team augmented with a hardware. The only time Taylor mentioned it was Hypocenter, according to his report during their mission of eliminating Stone's team. In Taylor's perspective, while he was injured and critically wounded by Stone in their fight in Lotus Tower, Stone was actually about to kill him. But he was shot dead by Hendricks. In the Player's perspective, Taylor DID rip out his DNI symbolizing his rejection to Corvus's control and he was able to return to his senses. 47:18. If you're talking about how the GIU's emerge in the Player's training before accessing the computer to look for Jirtzel, that was one instance of their trauma not their death. This and Krueger pulling the life support out of the Player, 48:39, are not what led to the Player's death. The cause of their "physical" death, to what I understand, is the last procedure of Project Prometheus, the surgery that replaces their limbs to prosthetics. This procedure triggered the Player's trauma and Taylor was trying to find a way to bring the Player back to them. It's possible that he had to connect them again like he did in New World only to be attacked by Corvus via the Player's trauma and was transferred to Taylor's DNI. The same happened to other Cyber-Soldiers when they tried to help Taylor only to be taken over by the AI. This then led to the events that the Player believed that it has been 5 years since they had a successful surgery and continued to serve the Winslow Accord with Hendricks. The missions that happened in reality according to the Player's perspective is Black Ops, New World, and Life. Although New World is a simulation, this was where Taylor and his team trained the Player in using their DNI in real time. Life, although still a confusing mission, takes place in reality as the Player was able to take control of Taylor's body temporarily to aid Kane and the ZSF against Hendricks's terrorist attack and the execution of Krueger. Life is a mission that tackles the Player's dying mind as their DNI is about to succumb to Corvus's infection as they struggle to fight reality and fiction that was thrown to them by the AI. Once the Purge is complete, while on countdown, Taylor was able to comfort the player before they die by using Frozen Forest as a "lullaby. By the time the Player said Taylor, after the countdown ends, their consciousness dies out and Taylor was able to gain control of his body again leaving him as the only survivor of Project Prometheus. Black Ops 3 has a confusing Campaign and we'll never know what actually happens as its ending is left ambiguous for Players to find and conclude the story themselves. And like you said, it has little to do with their predecessors, but I think this one did well in making something new while carrying the themes that Black Ops is known for, CIA conspiracies and Mind-Control.

[@ajperk7598]

I subscribe to the theory that the last mission is real, and The Player is unintentionally using Taylor's body as a flesh suit. Since Hedricks went through the cyber soldier surgery after the first mission, Corvis infected him and sent him to Zurich to find Krueger. When The Player enters the Frozen Forest after killing Hendricks, what remains of Taylor's consciousness essentially tricks The Player into purging himself and Corvis from Taylor's DNI, thus giving back Taylor control of his own body. Don't remember where I originally heard this theory, but I like it. It's like Cyberpunk 2077 with Johnny and V.

[@BogTaraham]

Maybe you seeing that in reddit?

[@soccerandtrack10]

1:20 Quincidencidentally shows the end part of the life mission in bo3.

[@ardenhagman2148]

Great video!!!

[@danielvitale7788]

I also loved that Mitchell from Stargate (Ben Browder) was the PC voice actor

[@jayjustjay7871]

That ending reminds me of the Callisto protocols dlc ending, where things happened in the story but to us the player looking at it from afar nothing we did really mattered as our fate was already sealed. The twist works better when there is a bit more of a fleshed out epilogue, I think.

[@joshh115]

It has Ben Browder from Farscape voicing the player character. Makes perfect sense that the story was hard to understand

[@KingPeezy14]

This video is so good, but the game’s campaign was so ass 😭 during the other BO video, every single part of the plot, I was like, “Oh, I remember that!” But every part of the plot in this video, I’m like, “When tf did that happen?” The only thing I remember is, “Imagine yourself in a frozen forest.”

[@OmegaRejectz]

you don't remember Train Go Boom! ?😅

[@kokdolfn]

not ass, just confusing. Which is unusual for cod. That combined with the fact that it was barely connected to bo2 after bo2 being praised for being a direct sequel, and the poor pacing near the end of the game with trying to cram a whole lot of plot into 2 missions, made the campaign bad. The story itself is actually really interesting.

[@SicKno-i5r]

The story is still about a "Black Ops" team. Black Ops operation teams don't just consist out of a few characters. Clearly they wanted to move on from Mason and Woods. At the same time they were ambitious and wanted to present a Christopher Nolan type of story and move CoD into a different direction (doing the same thing over and over again is not a good thing) but it ended up biting them in the ass So now it's just back to "Good americans VS evil foreigners that have nukes" type of stuff, because the masses resonate alot better with simple stories like that.

[@Jerry66884]

I would love to see how you decipher the call of duty zombies lore

[@KKmonkey]

I used to play BO3 all the time with my brother and finally beat it like two years ago with a friend. I loved playing the campaign. The story though was definitely handle wrong. Making a separate game entirely and doing more to add less confusion to the story would have been better though. It definitely would have gotten less hate that way.

[@HouseofXAY]

I will continue to say that Black Ops 3 is what Advanced Warefare should've been The gameplay and story telling is FNAF levels of lore and backstory that was too much for the Black Ops franchise. BUT if they kept Black Ops grounded with no tech, gave Advanced Warefare this amount of story with the cyborgs and took out the exo suits, Advanced Warefare would've been had a sequel. Advanced Warefare would've had a large ass fan based for the amount of theories and predictions to come out of every installment just like Modern Warfare and Black Ops

[@El_Negro2003]

I think that infinite warfare takes place on the black ops timeline My explanation: -The tablets in bo3 are in IW BUT they look a bit better (higher res), which makes me believe that it isn’t just a reused asset thing. -the robots in IW look like advanced versions of the GI units in bo3 -a lot of weapons in IW look similar to bo3’s -and it makes sense -the tech (cars and etc) I don’t know when IW takes place but it’s definitely a bit after bo3 if my theory is correct

[@vBUMPERv]

Harry has done what most people who played this game, simply cannot. He understood the story.