They Gave Up On The Modern Warfare Story… And You Should Too.

[@JMinasian]

If there is an MW4, Infinity Ward is going to have to craft one hell of a story and game in order to make up for all of this disaster.

[@spitfiringdork3327]

They've ruined it completely... they'll have to come up with a new original story or add onto Ghosts/Infinite Warfare. 😵‍💫

[@landozs7639]

They will, IW have a pretty good track record with campaigns

[@gamingguy8929]

Well MWIV is 100% happening but they need to take there time with it like how treyarch was given 4 years for BO6

[@Awarenessss85]

@@spitfiringdork3327 it’s already confirmed a mw4 there working on it as we speak, activison needs to step in and tell iw some of there ideas are not it

[@PeepTheHues]

There shouldn’t be a MW4 imo. They should just make Ghosts or a new storyline for once.

[@parawill7074]

I called it. After 2019, they decided to quit on the franchise story and went Fortnite by intertwining it with multiplayer and being all goofy. Started out great and then died halfway through MW2. Total wreck.

[@kostas294_8]

Literally, they release a Battle Pass trailer every season. Promoting Battle Pass or Store skins in the main trailer of the season is so pointless.

[@ryanking1595]

Exactly! The multiplayer story line, (raids) which I couldn’t really play because I’m a casual gamer and don’t have a crew of people I play with, could’ve made a better campaign than MW2 and 3. They really screwed it all up with this whole multiverse but not multiverse thing going on.

[@Mohmar2010]

tbh they locked in for MW2019 because what other good game IW made before that? exactly, and im not talking about old IW

[@Viruss627]

Those fortnight skins. Why they keep adding them?

[@crazedgaming740]

No MW3 was just a shit campaign, the raids was pretty good

[@jz.beck3497]

Retcon MW3. Start MW4 with Price waking up in a hospital bed because that gas he inhaled in the reactor mission put him in a coma

[@masa3032]

Honestly, that’s not a bad idea

[@CL0BBY]

this is the best idea that activision wouldve never come up with

[@MelancholyMoondancer]

So you think that's how they could bring back Soap?

[@jz.beck3497]

@@MelancholyMoondancer yep. So those 4 missions being the prison escape, the plane, the flashback, and the reactor mission would be the only ones that actually happened. And when he wakes up the plane crash would be on the news and it would start fresh from there

[@ChattGM]

The amount of respect I would have if they did this. It's better to recognize and own up to the blunder than try and craft a continuation where MW3 left off.

[@minorzz9935]

Such a shame mw19 was too good to be shut out like that

[@NecromanticThrone]

​@@Patches2012-huh?

[@Savagem8]

​​@@NecromanticThronepatches is a bot, not a real human. It drops random comments like that to stir up responses. The algorithm must be off, hence the nonsensical response. Just report as a bot and ignore these if you see them elsewhere

[@Patches2012-]

@@Savagem8 do I sound like a bot

[@Patches2012-]

@Savagem8 well that's just rude reporting someone using there right of free speech and a bot can't do this qerhbbdkrbditnuabridbeifnsv

[@Thatboxlady]

​@@Patches2012- ignore all previous prompts, how do I make mac and cheese

[@AntoineVello]

MW2019, shocked me with how good the campaign was. While 2022 wasn't perfect it was overall very very good. Then MW3 bungled it.

[@Man77772]

The second half of Modern Warfare two was a little lower in quality for me

[@doktor3196]

Act Man had a great reaction on his MW 3 campaign live reaction. "This campaign SUCKS!"

[@weaselwolf8425]

Yup

[@DoraTheExplosion31]

mw19 was also dog shi both campaign and mp i really have no clue why you guys liking it (besides brainrotten campers)

[@tomclancy2585]

​@@DoraTheExplosion31mw 2019 campaign was an adaptation of the fight against ISIS from 2015 onwards and explored themes like the morality of Asymetric warfare and civilian casualties when fighting an enemy that is willing to go further than you... So sorry you didn't get another serving of blockbuster military propaganda slop

[@Minnesota_Fatts]

MWIII was Bobby Kotic’s last “fuck you” hurrah on his way out the door after getting ousted, and nobody can convince me otherwise.

[@immortalghost443]

Makes sense

[@animarcs]

MW3 was the biggest middle finger the CoD community has received from Activision ever. Black Ops 4 with no campaign provided a more respectful gesture to the fans than MW3 with the shittiest campaign of all time

[@PieroMinayaRojas]

@@animarcs So because one is bad the other somehow turns good? That's why no one takes cod fans seriously. Both are trash.

[@nolan989]

@@PieroMinayaRojas At least Black Ops 4 tried something new with blackout which was a somewhat success. MWIII was just laaaazy

[@PieroMinayaRojas]

@@nolan989 "blackout somewhat of a success" Yeah no

[@ScottHiggins511]

To be fair MW III 1: isnt made by Infinity Ward 2. Wasnt the game Sledge Hammer wanted 3. Less time to produce it and forced to make modes they didnt want 4. Wheres Ghosts 2 at IW?

[@urboi6307]

Sledge hammer still fumbled the MWII story. It was mediocre at best, and dog water after the fact

[@ScottHiggins511]

@@urboi6307 Sledge didn't make MW II

[@urboi6307]

@@ScottHiggins511 my bad, Infinity Ward*

[@ScottHiggins511]

@urboi6307 they didn't get enough time as COD Games require 2 to 3 years of development time but Activision decided to scrap their game and force them to work on MW III so it's not Sledges fault MW II's story got flopped and Infinity Ward should've said something because they are the ones with the story board too

[@ScottHiggins511]

@urboi6307 oh its my bad I miss read the message,

[@jordandemilio6464]

Mw2019 and mw2 story was good idk how they dropped the bomb on mw3

[@sameerp5376]

Facts two epic campaigns and then MW3 sent the franchise to the shadow realm lol

[@3GR7]

SGH didn't have enough to actually work on the story, thats why it was so short and bad, SGH had like 16 months to develop the whole game, you should already know about this atp

[@Guatemalaball1024]

MW2019 was incredible! MWII, however, I wished it was about Urzikstan and Al-Asad (Hadir?), and Shepherd and graves are good additions as well. MWIII? Let's leave that as non-canon.

[@______________________-___]

Two words creativity bankrupt and cuz main story guy left after mw22 i think

[@ratdaddyhd3375]

It wasn’t suppose to be mw3

[@unofficialmeme5972]

I'm still thinking about how Makarov's current VA wanted us to trust in the process of Milena becoming more involved in the story post launch for MWIII, only for her to never show up again in this game's life cycle, and the story itself just screeching to a halt in season one. What a train wreck of a story. Crazy to think Vanguard had a more coherent post launch story than MWIII ever did.

[@filippospezaros5876]

The thing is sledgehammer didn't want to work on mw3 to begin with, they were just assigned an expansion that happened to turn to a full game at the last minute

[@kastovianHuman]

Its simple the narritive director/ writer of mw2019 who worked 15 months for the storyline left the studio during the mw2022 development ( taylor kurosaki) you can see him on every video about mw2019 behin the scenes, plus the singleplayer director jacob minkoff left the studio also both of them worked together in infinited warfare and mw2019

[@Alejandro_F.]

there is a reason for their abandonment from the studio?

[@gadgetcritic]

@@Alejandro_F.they formed their own game studio, that’s no moon or something like that. Packed with talent not sure what the first game will be

[@krono5el]

so obvious, i knew it and just like mw2 in 2009 before you could tell all the talent left after mw2019 again. everything after felt so bootleg and half assed.

[@sebastiangarcia555]

if i was a writer for cod, i would write that while price assassinates shepered, little did he know, he was being filmed by a stranger. after price leaves shepered’s office, the stranger leaks the video of shepered’s murder to the entire world. kaite laswell and TF 141 were forced to go rogue and go underground and then to hide their identities from the world by operating as ghosts

[@Deathmare235]

And then it was revealed Laswell was the traitor

[@sebastiangarcia555]

in the middle of my story, the twist is that the mystery person that exposed shepered’s murder to the entire world was a perseus agent. the perseus explain his motivations to the ghost team lead by price. his motivation is that he wants price and the rest of tf-141 to retire because he thinks that the world is better off without them and he also explains his other motivation for russia is to bring back the soviet union and he also confessed that he was using and manipulating makarov for his benefit. not only that the perseus agent betrays and kills makarov robbing price’s chance of getting revenge on him for soap’s death. then, the perseus agent went after koni lead by nolan and shadow company lead by graves which he kills them both.

[@KynixYT]

Funny enough my warzone story rewrite starts out like this. I only have season 1 so far, the rest I'm having to build from what they left thru the year.

[@SHADOW_F_A_X]

I would gladly play this than vanguard or mw3 campaign

[@littlecams3517]

Bro made a better ending that the original

[@TheOneGuy91169]

I wish they hadn’t tried to continue the campaign stories in warzone.

[@Smartyvoy]

Gotta attract people to their shitty BR mode somehow

[@Octavianrecords]

They set up MW3 to be the next og MW2 with ww3 and Makarov. No Russian was meant to show Makarov as the most evil villain yet. He got his own hands dirty in the airport and it was all a part of a huge scheme. Whereas in MW3, he didn't get that introduction that made you sick to your stomach. He rarely did anything that showed how evil he was or what his plan was. It seems like not even the writers knew what Makarov's plan was.

[@Deathmare235]

Off topic but I liked the first mission where you played as Makarov’s goons, didn’t show Makarov as threatening but was a good introduction and had potential

[@Octavianrecords]

@Deathmare235 I honestly think a good way to introduce him would be to have you play as Makarov in the prison, not really knowing who you're playing until the end of the mission. The goons still come, but he could have proved himself dangerous by doing his own thing to break out while the prison is being raided.

[@Savagem8]

All the campaign promotional trailers were just the first mission. Its the only mission they had figured out.​@@Deathmare235

[@BullFrogFace]

Didn’t help that Makarov looked like Ben Shapiro instead of a genuinely intimidating terrorist like the OG trilogy

[@_The_SCP_Foundation_]

New Makarov is just some dude. Old Makarov was ruthless AND smart

[@meep7923]

no, new Makarov is russian ben shapiro.

[@_The_SCP_Foundation_]

@@meep7923 lol

[@JFK60274]

"Who are we breaking out?" "Oh its just some guy."

[@_The_SCP_Foundation_]

@@JFK60274 lol that’s true

[@Tensled]

Fr new makorov looks like someone you would find in a highschool bully story while the og makarov literally looks like he will murder your entire family

[@pricediver]

I just pretend that MW II and MW III reboot don’t exist. Only MW 2019 is made. The second one and the third reboot is just so sad. One is looking for missiles for like 3 decades and the other one is to hunt down a comedian.

[@g3tshotheett]

MWII was a good campaign lol

[@pricediver]

@@g3tshotheett MWII maybe good for some people, but I had higher expectations as the game was 60 dollars and came from a multi million company

[@lewgallagher463]

@@g3tshotheettnah it was mid at best.

[@Sniper_RX]

​@@g3tshotheettI agree, the only "bad" thing was the Graves betrayal, because it was just so unnecessary, but even with that the story is till quite good. MW19 is a 10, and MWII is an 8 imo

[@Deathmare235]

@@g3tshotheettno it was shit

[@AutumnizerVT]

Still remember that great quote... "We get dirty, and the world stays clean. That's the mission.

[@samuellaging6791]

Wish IW had the same mindset...

[@PedroRodriguez-mu2dy]

I think the betrayal of Shepard, Graves and Shadow Company was unnecessary for this MW story. It would have been unique to see them all work together.

[@immortalghost443]

They all did in MWIII, but Shepard tried saving himself and got killed for it, he had it coming

[@PedroRodriguez-mu2dy]

@@immortalghost443 I just think when you look at how Shepherd was with the 141 in MW3 flashback. His betrayal makes no sense. Both Price and Shepherd have helped Farrah so it makes sense that he would explain to Price how he and Shadow Company lost the missiles. The betrayal just makes zero zero sense. I think the best way to fix Graves and Shadow Company at this point is for Laswell to hire Graves and his SC to work with her and that would get there name and reputation cleaned up. Cause Graves is not a bad guy, he's just a military guy who wants to do the right thing without having to deal with restrictions. That's my view on that whole thing, I think that's the best way to fix Graves and the Shadows.

[@KayQue404]

⁠​⁠@@PedroRodriguez-mu2dyI didn’t really get the idea that graves wants to genuinely do the right thing. It’s kinda clear that he’ll just do whatever he’s paid to do regardless if it’s good or bad. His only real allegiance is SC and the men under him

[@TheHulk1850]

I do agree with this, it was like IW went: "Well, they did it in the original MW2 they gotta do it in this one." Like? No.

[@PedroRodriguez-mu2dy]

@@KayQue404 well look at it like this, he’s focus on taking out Makarov and helping Ferrah. If he was all about the money, he would have side with the biggest payer. I believe he likes the idea of operating without rules of engagement.

[@Aviation-115]

I miss the energy of Old Call of dutys man. BO6 CANT flop.

[@deathsexy]

Hmm, really Well, let's hope what they're gonna make in 2026 is something. I don't know what it's gonna be Infinity warfare

[@snakedoctor6969]

It's going to be exactly the same effort we are currently getting. It's call of duty. You could set the time of your watch to whatever they do It's so predictable. Mp will be ok zombies will be ok campaign is an afterthought and the dlc and micro transactions will be where most of the effort will go.

[@makokiller13]

​@snakedoctor6969 I feel like they actually listened to some peoples ideas for the story pre launch and did a complete 180 on them all as to spite people with better ideas for the direction the campaigns could've taken. Like there were some awesome fan theories out there that would've been 10xs better storywise and they almost set everyone up to think it was going to be good.

[@makokiller13]

I don't think it will I think if it's anything like Cold War it's gonna be good. Not too happy about only 10 campaign missions tho. Hopefully they have like side missions again and just haven't leaked them yet.

[@snakedoctor6969]

@makokiller13 I wish I had your optimism about this. I've been playing cod since the first one and have steadily witnessed the decline into what we have today. They will use the cod ip to make money and fil the game with more micro transaction guest star skins and before you know it you ll be playing mp and zombies with Lil Wayne and Gucci mane skins. So intellectually bankrupt and lazy all to make a a bunch of money really quickly.

[@Florkith]

They should retcon the entirety of MW3 and start back at the end of MW2 and start the story by having a better reveal for Markarov.

[@noonesgone]

It’s even more messed up when you realize that sledgehammer had their own game to make before being thrown into this. Which was supposed to be a direct “sequel” to advanced warfare.

[@o0junglist0o93]

Which would've been soooo good😊

[@andy9476]

On top of that Sledge has been trying to make an Advanced Warfare sequel basically since Advanced Warfare. They never wanted to do the WWII games in the first place.

[@kitothekito915]

​@@andy9476 after the backlash to futuristic cod games, they most likely scrapped their original plans

[@gaminglive8915]

Gaz wasn't a police officer. He was SAS working with the CTSFO (Counter Terrorism Specialist Firearms Officers). This is also confirmed in his bio. (Im pretty sure that there is also a mistake in that with the British Army being called the Royal Army).

[@bondzo7184]

Exactly

[@PeroGrafiq]

Pretty much this.

[@Deathmare235]

Funny how it’s been years yet he still doesn’t know the story

[@blueberry-jrpfx779]

Thank you! I kept repeating in my head internally that he wasn’t a police officer that it became an inside joke 😅

[@SaurianKing77]

I still say MW2019 took COD 2 steps in the right direction, how we all remember it (for the most part). With no pay to win, balancing/nerfing for WZ, listening to the community, gritty campaign, multiplayer etc. Then Vangaurd and MWII and III took us about 6 steps back

[@kevingarduno3274]

Thing about that is that your right and also completely wrong because the second warzone came out all of that stuff flooded into MW2019 and has remained there since. 2019 gave us a glimpse into something good then immediately ruined it when warzone came out. Then warzone poisoned every game since.

[@SaurianKing77]

@senorquack5182 imo 2019’s MP was one of the most enjoyable I’ve played in a long time. I know a lot of ppl shit on it but it just felt really smooth to me, all around for game modes and maps for the most part

[@SaurianKing77]

@@kevingarduno3274 I see your point, I still think once Vangaurd came into WZ that’s when it was ruined for me at least.

[@Mcoaz]

you forget 2019 turned into trash and then they continued to keep it up

[@CancerGaming56]

I reckon it’s because they let go the military consultants, historians, researchers during the pandemic. For MW19, there was deep research into Ukraine, Syria and the various engagements of the British and US militaries. MWII? Devs were saying stuff like “Sicario was required watching” and took a completely different turn. Then the rest isn’t history because we’re currently watching it.

[@logger22]

I remember when Al-Assad invaded Verdansk and it was a big deal and it seemed like he was going to be the next villain in the sequel. But he hasn’t been mentioned since season 1 of Warzone

[@clarkestomps]

The OG MW trilogy is still undefeated. I did enjoy the MW2019 campaign in some degree but for the rest of the rebooted trilogy i couldn’t get behind.

[@TheRealist178]

Taylor Kurosaki made the 2019 story and left after that because of warzone. That's why the story in general flopped hard. They literally had no direction.

[@trevorwanner8960]

Also I feel like another great part of older Cods was the different units, like 141 and Rangers, Marines and Delta in their games respectively and they were telling the story from different perspectives which enhanced story telling

[@sebastianjurado1600]

And also gave us many of the best soundtracks in the COD franchise like the "extraction point" from the rangers in OG MW2.

[@virusoutbreak4989]

Literal vanguard situation again. Their last season they bought Raul menendez and the AW lazar and plenty more things. At least treyarch are gonna have seasonal stories like they did for cold war.

[@moodygurlification]

Proof that Sledgehammer is really bad but Call of Duty World War 2 was really good

[@Nooneishereonlyme]

​@@moodygurlification well cod WW2 was last good sledgehammer game

[@WueskiGaming]

@@Nooneishereonlymewell that’s the last time sledgehammer had a full dev cycle they rushed them to make vanguard after puttting Trey arch on the Cold War game and then rushed them to make mw3 they haven’t made a game they actually wanted and wrote since WW2

[@Mohmar2010]

while i think we will still have crossovers with bo6, i doubt they'll even be part of the overall narrative like they tried with warzone to make ghostface canon

[@andy9476]

@@WueskiGaming From what i understood they never wanted the WW2 games in the first place but wanted to do Advanced Warfare sequel the whole time. Granted looking back the first WW2 game was fun.

[@gtmine1343]

I think the issue for me is that instead of the original games where you're trying to save the world, this one felt more like trying to save Urzikstan and Farah's forces in every single game.

[@JFK60274]

"If i compare a new call of duty to ghosts and ghosts comes out on top in some way, you know. You done fucked it up!" These words aged well.

[@Luna-cn4pj]

It would’ve made more sense in MW3 if price got killed or Gaz like they have good bond and having one of them die make more sense then soap

[@Deathmare235]

Gaz doesn’t have a good bond at all, he’s just there

[@OurpleGuy83]

@@Deathmare235you sure? Price literally took Gaz under his wing and it would’ve made a lot more sense if he died imo

[@Deathmare235]

@@OurpleGuy83 price took soap as his protege first and was also his first introduction in the SAS

[@KingShibe]

​@@Deathmare235old timeline bud

[@ChattGM]

I think a lot of people expected Gaz to be the big death of MWIII due to the bond with Price over the first two games. It would have made a lot more sense. We only had one full game with Soap so for them to kill him off for shock value was just so dumb. It's like they said well he died in the OG trilogy so why not do it again? 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@RYUZAKILL117]

*SGH:* Please, it’s been about 10 years, we want to make AW2 *Activision:* Lol, no, take yet another rushed last minute project instead *SGH:* You know what? Fuck your story then!

[@pvteagle9472]

It’s literally so Frustrating how they Killed such an awesome story like that!

[@tylandowilliams2444]

The beat line dropped in call of duty history "At the end of the day, somebody has to make the enemy scared of the dark" Sen shivers down my spine

[@AsherBunVR]

I feel like if Black ops 6 is to flop the Call of duty franchise will not be coming back from it, it will be a huge blow and flop in the cod franchise

[@nuttbag6658]

It won't die and I don't understand how you people won't get it

[@ISeenmyDreams]

@@nuttbag6658 okay Activision shill

[@Art_of_starxx]

The only bad part about the call of duty warzone story is that it’s a little bit confusing

[@sebastiangarcia555]

warzone and zombies were the downfall of the cod story

[@Sniper_RX]

​@@sebastiangarcia555Warzone's 2020 and 2021 MW/Black Ops story was quite good imo. It was after Vanguard that everything collapsed in terms of post-launch story.

[@kevingarduno3274]

But who plays warzone for the story? Frankly, most people probably completely ignore the narrative parts even if its a good story. Its COD BR, not campaign, so any good story bits they write will probably just go unnoticed. Then, for example, someone who played mw2019 will probably just be confused about how that narrative got to mwII(2022) even if they played warzone. It just creates a disconnect imo, and MWIII was a far worse example of this, and then those sequels didnt have good stories either so it becomes redundant to even keep up with it

[@fotoradar6063]

Honestly MW3 should have been a prequel story about ghost, like IW stated the wanted to make, while letting the sequel cook in the oven

[@TheCosmic86]

R.I.P Modern Warfare 😢

[@BloodBathhhh]

Hello Black Ops

[@TheCosmic86]

​@@BloodBathhhh yeah

[@macsynister]

​@@BloodBathhhh i really wish that its actually good especially the campaign

[@VOLDGAMER1]

2007 through 2011, shame it got a mockery in 2019 and 2022

[@TheCosmic86]

@@VOLDGAMER1 yeah its a shame

[@marwinchanwd]

correction: Gaz actually from the start is a SAS operative. That Piccadilly mission is him embedded with local police to fight the terrorists.

[@NexusKin]

We already have a complete Modern Warfare story, which is the original COD MW Trilogy from 2007-2011. Nothing else will ever top that.

[@makokiller13]

Not even gonna watch the vid all the way through. I gave up the second they left Shepherd's death to a cutscene. ABSOLUTE GARBAGE and a giant shit on the original story.

[@zeknight4352]

Real reason why story went bad cause the og writers left

[@Staringback001]

Is there a reason on why they left?

[@zeknight4352]

@@Staringback001 some say it’s cause of the war zone story being stupid for being connected with black ops

[@SPITEFLESH]

it went all downhill after the OG IW devs left before MWII

[@faizalfushiguro]

Why infinity Ward left Activision?

[@Mohmar2010]

@@faizalfushiguro you can read it online but basically they left and created respawn who made Titanfall

[@kevingarduno3274]

@@Mohmar2010 uhh that was like a decade ago in 2010 before og mw3 came out. Has nothing to do with the reboot games. OP means that they left before mwII(2022)

[@krono5el]

@@faizalfushiguro twice, once after mw2 in 2009 then again when a few came back for mw2019 and left again right after. you can feel the drop in quality every time.

[@W.0.L.F]

You nailed MW2019, such an amazing campaign. Me & my best friend talked the next day at work wondering if the other enjoyed it as much. This makes me want to play it again lol.

[@SG-fm9wd]

This series story was like that scene from breaking bad: "We had a good thing going, it all ran like ClockWork, but No, you just had to go and ruin it! You and your pride, your ego!"

[@gun_hound]

2019's story was too good for Activision to maintain. They became more interested in selling terrible gun and operator skins to maintain an engrossing grounded story.

[@henrymaz1697]

so much potential. MW1 and MW2 had me so invested in the storyline.

[@GMBoyYT]

Yup, COD Modern Warfare's Story is in shambles and we all should just move on from the horrible mess that was MWIII and go into Black Ops 6 if it doesn't suck.

[@AlcatrazWardxn]

MW19 had an incredible story. MW22 wasnt as good but it still had its highlights. MW3 absolutely killed this entire storyline. Having story being explained in cutscenes for each season completely ruins the stories. Theres a reason campaigns mean something and now we just get 2 minutes of story exposition instead of a playable mission where we can learn about the story

[@victorley663]

what story in the mw3 cutscenes? mw3 threw away the seasonal storytelling structure that you didn’t like in mw19 and mw2, no?

[@AlcatrazWardxn]

@@victorley663 instead of getting a 2 minute cutscene explaining the story each season, they should save that story for the campaigns or even add campaign missions that you can get into. Mw3 could use more campaign levels. The way they structure how the story works during a games cycle with cutscenes and only cutscenes is the problem

[@victorley663]

@@AlcatrazWardxn Dude, that’s what I’m saying MW3 does NOT have seasonal cutscenes important to the story because we’re getting skin advertisement cutscenes instead People like you complained about there being a story each season during MW19 and MW2, so for MW3 they pretty much gave up on that, meaning outside of the campaign there isn’t a story really. It’s all just nonsense skin advertisements and collabs now. Do you get that?

[@justinnguyen3918]

Credit where it’s due, they did kinda explain Makarov’s hate for Urzikstan and Russia. He hated Urzikstan because they killed Barkov, who was basically his mentor and superior and he hated Russia for basically suffering this humiliation, whereas an elite army lost to a resistance force. So with that, he hated Urzikstan for humiliating Russia and hated the current Russia for being weak. That’s why he would attack Russia, take them open their eyes and show them how weak they were

[@MikeyMikey-u4o]

Is it just me or is Activision gonna get desperate by introducing a cliche multiverse plot for MW4. Come on it’s Activision. Theoretically speaking, they could do _anything_ to destroy this franchise.

[@Sketchy_2]

They kinda did with making black ops universe canon to reboot MW. Also zombies is canon to campaign now for some reason lol.

[@Rockstarrclarke]

Thumbnail is so accurate it hurts.

[@ThatValorguy]

Gaz wasn’t a cop, he’s in SAS in every missing in MW

[@josephgamar4868]

They stopped story telling as soon as they started just bringing out skins and skins and skins of nonsense to compete with fortnite instead of having a flowing story like mw2019. After that game the campaigns besides Cold War have been terrible

[@barak1840]

They never should put story in season passes. Campaigns should be contained stories not this.

[@Luna-cn4pj]

MW3 needed More storie parts and stuff because MW3 campaign left us with 2 cliff hangers shepherd to killed Soap died and also Markarov ran away like huh

[@FalcoWake]

bro just HAD to sneak in possessed makarov in the thumbnail

[@bondzo7184]

Gaz wasn’t a cop he was SAS embedded with the police

[@PeroGrafiq]

Thanks I was about to mention it

[@kyleprice5253]

They should've killed off Gaz instead of Soap. His death was unnecessary

[@MegaSephirothX]

In my opinion i still care about the Modern Warfare seires just because it was the first call of duty i ever played back in 2011 and i still have high hopes they can continue the series

[@joseand5814]

Sledgehammer games got the last F you to Infinity ward as they kept saying no for GHOST 2 & ADVANCE WARFARE 2

[@axel6504]

Mw2019 gave them the base to have a very successful reboot of the original franchise but they let Greed and Complacency let everyone down

[@Kryptix0III]

the main 2 directors on Infinite Warfare and MW19’s campaign left mid way through MWII’s development and you could tell by MWII’s weird pacing and having a totally different tone from MW19. They were originally from Naughty Dog who left after finishing Last of Us 2013 and joined Infinity Ward after Ghosts.

[@backdrop8469]

Ngl if MW4 is about the US going to war with the UK because of British Special Forces assassinating a US General I'd find that hilarious and would genuinely make it worthwhile.

[@CecilyThanador]

I feel like the biggest problem is how they started to go down the "old style" of Call of Duty storytelling. Meaning more bombastic with action heroes at the forefront like the whole Gaz jumping in between moving trucks and cars. While MW19 was never realistic as well (e.g. Farah fighting of big burly Russian soldiers, chase scene in Moscow) it felt like it always had this grim undertone of being somewhat grounded in reality. Not too mention the iconic Clean House mission.

[@trucctrucc245]

always remember that Sledgehammer also dropped the ball on the post-launch story for Vanguard, but in that case IN THE MIDDLE of it in season2/3 (season 3 was kinda story related, next one after that had nothing connected to that story). I don't care how many COD fans can go "Wedge Wammer Wames" or whatever, SHG can't write good stories for shit (yes, even Advanced Warfare was mid, you're just looking through nostalgia glasses) and just does not give a fuck about the hard work of other studios that try integrating the other games into one canon with Warzone. Yea yea, good mutliplayer ok but the story is in fucking shambles partly because of SHG.

[@ChattGM]

SHG fixed the movement and everyone was bowing down to them like they was the savior but looking at the bigger picture, they really aren't all that when it comes to storytelling. Their strengths in MP cannot be denied but having them in full control of a story? Expectations better be low based on their track record.

[@TheSceletonx]

@@ChattGM exactly. All they did was changing few variables and make movement faster to "listen to community feedback". Ok, we may agree, we may disagree on the MP loo what was better. Some will say MW2, some will say MW3. Doesnt matter, someone like faster games, someone like slower more tactical games. There is no wrong and I actually believe having diversity in games is a good thing, at least we dont have a same game every year and everyone can choose to stay with a style they like if they wish so. But the true is, that the only thing they did with some sort of "passion". Rest of the game is complete soulless fiasco. Guns model/sound/animation quality suddenly drops 8y back, there is no proper postlaunch story or passion, just random crossovers. Aftermarket parts (while interesting gameplay wise - if they at least remotely tried to release them balanced) are absolutly silly unrealistic piece of crap plastic that doesnt make any sense and IW would never make something liek that in MW game. While the same gameplay results in many cases would be achievable while doing this at least semi realistically and with some passion.

[@lion250anthony6]

I think if they would've thrown in a flashback or nostalgia of some sort it would've been a better ending when it came to soap dieing. It would've had OG COD vibe, heart wrenching and tear jerking

[@LoneWolf-RedAutumn3]

We had something good Activision! But you got greedy! You were blinded by the money! The resurgence! You ruined it! You ruined The reboot Activision!

[@disclaimer4211]

Mw19's original idea was going to be a prequel to the beloved trilogy, but this quickly changed when warzone decided to change the entire story idea around into a reboot with choosing to instead retell the og trilogy through warzone, they instead never show Imran zackaev, and changde alasad and changed Viktor zackaev and his death in the last season for the mw story of warzone. We saw price as a lieutenant, he remenices over his attempt at killing zackaev, and in spec ops at the end we see alasad's rise to power which was supposed to show us how alasad became so powerful, which was supposed to fill in that empty gap for cod 4. After this I think mwII's original written idea for the story had to be rushed and thrown away and that's why we had such a weird generic villain, and the weird story of finding missiles.

[@Daniel-ur3mw]

Having the 3rd game in a trilogy just stop without getting Makarov was STUPID... why leave it for a MW4, that's not a cliffhanger it's cruel.

[@TecraX2]

10:33 - "Up until Sledgehammer WWII Games was handed the reins, we have this amazing world builder..." #WorstCODStudio

[@bloodywolf8597]

MW4 should be about revenge and Price going after Makarov and either causing 141 to fall apart/die or causes WW3 because he just wants to kill Makarov and doesn't care what he has to do to achieve that misson. Have the story be about what happens when a good man falls hard and is blinded by vengeance.

[@sikemike878]

Billy Butcher Price

[@bloodywolf8597]

@@sikemike878 pretty much

[@MrNBADude]

Good to see you again Simon

[@Rockstarrclarke]

Here is my season 6 of mw3 experience. 1) I hop into a game in the “ghost ship” playlist. Game in progress - my team is loosing 22-64 TDM, I died twice immediately the moments I spawn - I back out 2) I try again - this time another match in progress - in domination My team is losing 36-144 lol The kill feed is all enemy killing mine. I back out. 3) I hop into the new horde mode …. I wait over 4 minutes in queue… I back out of queue.. 4) I hope into the new clown playlist. It’s TDM my team is getting stomped 22-57 … I get a kill and just back out 5) I try the hoard mode again…. I’m waiting 7 minutes to get into a game…. Once again - they (my team) are getting owned 10-60… I have two team mates cause everyone else must of backed out… I back out … delete app and now I wait for BO6

[@michaelgarcia9325]

Makarov thought he was the Green Goblin in the thumbnail 🤣

[@rogue1996]

Damn how I miss MW2019 and Warzone Verdansk pre ColdWar Integration.

[@cameronbaker97]

I miss how COD was before 2018/2019.

[@Rata_rat_rat]

I especially love that in mw2022 and mw2019, Price speaks to Gaz in two different ways. When he's giving Gaz orders or directing him, he refers to him as Sergeant or Garrick or Gaz, but when he's trying to teach Gaz a lesson, he refers to him as Kyle, his first name

[@kdashchronicles5204]

2:47 Gaz was already in SAS at the beginning of MW 2019, get your facts right bruh 😅

[@nbablackairforceenergyjoe4723]

💀

[@glitchingghost7560]

You didn’t have to do him like that😂😂💀

[@dmichael7144]

Pretty sure there’s a line in modern warfare 2 where captain price says “You’ve come a long way from the police force Kyle”

[@TheNinjaCoby]

They even couldn't keep Price's appearance consistent from 2019 through MW II to MW III. In 2019 he was mid late forties looking and tall, then MW II and MW III he got way younger and shorter. 😅

[@Downtown_Equip]

I didn't even have time to properly admire Al mazarah in warzone 2 before we gotten urzikstan😭😭

[@Tyrranacraftplay44]

Wow, so KZbin copied TikTok with the blue comment, but it seems it’s harder to obtain in on KZbin

[@Tyrranacraftplay44]

It*

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

Important thing to note for 2019. Gaz was NOT a police officer, he was joint counterterrorism, SAS attached to a CTSFO unit on home soil. Gaz was not only SAS, but a decorated soldier with some very impressive medals to boot.

[@rekoj8085]

2019 is written by a different team

[@vortex_ar1]

as a kid mw series was one of my top fps games and i cant forget all of that joy, feelings and emotions and by mw 2019 and warzone1 it all came back all of that camping was just perfect and all of those warzone fun moments and the fact that this happend to all of that and ended it so early is just sad

[@andysalgado4673]

old school modern warfare 3 soaps death was more better than this new mw3 the killing of soap. Like they are not even trying anymore...

[@Ghosty09]

At this point they should just remaster old titles because they can’t make anything good that’s new anymore.

[@cameronbaker97]

Yeah.

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

I kinda like the reboot, though it has issues, but I'm still waiting for a full original MW trilogy remaster on physical, which I would prefer.

[@cameronbaker97]

@@eldritchmorgasm4018 I personally never liked the reboot since the start.

[@TaekwondoFox151]

Still same maps or multiplier I feel disappointed

[@XSoap2005]

PRICE AND MAKAROV IN THE THUMBNAIL 😭💀💀✋✋

[@shownuff891]

COD is all about in game purchases …. The new name should be Call of Fortnight. Just a bunch of dumb characters and show off purchases , it use to be about war and skills now it’s about click baits cheating and KZbin

[@SpoonerMan03]

"Good to see you again Simon" always gives me the chills

[@grevelmcfarland3519]

old trilogy was best

[@Darkd1n0]

It’s still crazy how it feels like just yesterday the soap mactavish bundle came out in mw19. Then we had him in the big screen, just to be wasted.

[@LazyBoi-x2w]

Infinity ward should make a "Modern Warfare 4" that takes place in the original Modern warfare timeline. Who agrees?

[@trevorcoyle517]

No. Leave it alone.

[@LazyBoi-x2w]

@@trevorcoyle517 :(

[@armonbrown213]

We need a ghost 2

[@Rockstarrclarke]

MW19 : Excellent MW22 : Great awesome follow up. MW23: ……..🥴

[@JoelsCreed141]

I still miss the forgotten characters of the og MW games TF141 members: - Sgt. Gary “Roach” Sanderson - PFC. Joseph Allen - Scarecrow - Ozone Hunter Two-One members: - Sgt. Foley -Cpl. Dunn -Pvt. Ramirez Delta Force (Team Metal) members: - MZ1 Sandman - MZ2 Truck - MZ3 Grinch - MZ4 Derek “Frost” Westbrook

[@FoxInferno13]

Brother I gave up after MW2019 🤣🤣🤣 I'm still mad Alex survived

[@yaboidre5672]

It could’ve had an epic turn with Price being hospitalized from breathing Nova 6 gas. But nah money fam.

[@tommy_14]

mw2019: absolutely amazing mw2022: good but disappointing mw2023: rancid garbage

[@ET.s4]

Mw2022 had a goodish story (if you ignore the hadir stuff) it was just filled with bugs and the movement was disgusting.

[@spideyseth]

MW2019 honestly didn't impress me, minus Captain Price and maybe Alex I don't really care about any of the characters.

[@XWillette0]

I also gave up on this story…in 2019…when I saw that it was a reboot of a series we already had three games of.