I'm in a COD SP type of mode lately and I remember I never played this, only the multiplayer. Sounds like it may have leaned towards being mixed or slightly negative? Any impressions would be grand, thanks!
How was the Black Ops III campaign?
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Awful, the most incoherent of the bunch. There is some video that explains "oh the answers to everything are hidden!" which is interesting but the experience of playing it is terrible and unenjoyable.
I love CoD campaigns, but it's the worst, by a long shot. They're trying to do the trippiness of BO1 without the good writing, set pieces, or memorable characters. Train wreck lmao
I love CoD campaigns, but it's the worst, by a long shot. They're trying to do the trippiness of BO1 without the good writing, set pieces, or memorable characters. Train wreck lmao
I genuinely love it despite conceding it's actually not that good. It depends entirely on how much you can vibe with the vibe the game gives off. This article in particular reflects how I feel about it a lot. https://www.vice.com/da/article/qbx...eflects-the-desperate-side-of-video-games-550
EDIT: more than anything, I'll say this for it: it's at least trying to do something unique, which few CoD campaigns really do (I say that as someone who enjoys most of them).
EDIT: more than anything, I'll say this for it: it's at least trying to do something unique, which few CoD campaigns really do (I say that as someone who enjoys most of them).
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lol, yep. I've been playing and loving Infinite Warfare's campaign so I was itching for more
I fucking hated it. First there was this whole overlong intro with Chris Meloni repeatedly saying "train go boom" and then in the end it was basically all a dream
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Well, it's a COD campaign. Same gameplay, same kind of setpieces, same type of one dimensional characters and everything else. The story is pretty interesting even though it doesn't really make sense until the very last words spoken but that's also assuming you remember some dialogue spoken in literally only the first two levels and are paying attention during some other incoherent stuff.
That being said, some of the setpieces were legitimately fun and it's pretty memorable and the gameplay in the campaign is on the better side for COD gameplay in my opinion. If you can get the game cheaply I definitely think it's worth a play
That being said, some of the setpieces were legitimately fun and it's pretty memorable and the gameplay in the campaign is on the better side for COD gameplay in my opinion. If you can get the game cheaply I definitely think it's worth a play
its horrible on many levels :
- its CLEARY written to be deep but it was cut and recut because video game stories and cross media franchise so you are thrown in and its obviously missing tons of shit but you are expected to get on board as if you were born into this universe but that train never stops for you and tons of shit never gets explained.
- it has many good and original ideas and the best of it, like many people here will tell you, is obviously the Frozen Forrest concept and level. Its so good, unique and a payoff the best concept of the game, its so meta and genius in its use of imagery and throwback... it feels like a accident in this giant mess, making the entire campaign more frustrating because there is glimpse of brillance in there.
- but the gameplay is generic and forgettable. If only one level stands out, its not a good campaign. Get Infinite Warfare, that's a killer sp.
- its CLEARY written to be deep but it was cut and recut because video game stories and cross media franchise so you are thrown in and its obviously missing tons of shit but you are expected to get on board as if you were born into this universe but that train never stops for you and tons of shit never gets explained.
- it has many good and original ideas and the best of it, like many people here will tell you, is obviously the Frozen Forrest concept and level. Its so good, unique and a payoff the best concept of the game, its so meta and genius in its use of imagery and throwback... it feels like a accident in this giant mess, making the entire campaign more frustrating because there is glimpse of brillance in there.
- but the gameplay is generic and forgettable. If only one level stands out, its not a good campaign. Get Infinite Warfare, that's a killer sp.
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Thanks for the replies. Not gonna lie, all these "it's awful" and "terrible" takes makes me want to play it even more.
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I keep meaning to replay the campaign of this one day, because I remember liking it quite a bit, and then reading threads about the game and realizing basically no one agreed with me! It genuinely made me wonder if there was something wrong with me because people hate the campaign near-universally for multiple reasons, and I can't really say they're wrong (it's not like I found "train go boom" particularly amazing either) but I also can't shake the feeling that it's one of the better COD campaigns I've played because at least it was interesting and played with some neat ideas.
Weirdly, the one thing that made me like it less was when people came up with a post-facto theory for a bunch of stuff that then got semi-verified by people who worked on the game. That, I felt, seemed too clever for its own good, but I also just didn't think the game needed it; let it be this impressionistic, faintly terrifying mess that has no satisfying explanation. Better that than dying four hundred times trying to roll barrels of napalm down a hill in Black Ops 1 so I could eventually hear "THE NUMBERS MASON."
EDIT: Fuck it, it's the long weekend.
Weirdly, the one thing that made me like it less was when people came up with a post-facto theory for a bunch of stuff that then got semi-verified by people who worked on the game. That, I felt, seemed too clever for its own good, but I also just didn't think the game needed it; let it be this impressionistic, faintly terrifying mess that has no satisfying explanation. Better that than dying four hundred times trying to roll barrels of napalm down a hill in Black Ops 1 so I could eventually hear "THE NUMBERS MASON."
EDIT: Fuck it, it's the long weekend.
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I don't want to spoil it for OP if he does play it but the mission focusing around Katee Sackhoff's character is something I would never expect to see in any AAA shooter, let alone a CoD campaign. That's gotta count for something.
Easily one of the weakest. Mostly due to what could have been an interesting story told very poorly and in an overly confusing manner.
Gameplay and setpieces are fine and there's a couple of levels that are actually pretty memorable like the one where you go inside that lady's mind, a lot of the characters are kind of awful though. The MP and zombies are pretty great tho fwiw.
Gameplay and setpieces are fine and there's a couple of levels that are actually pretty memorable like the one where you go inside that lady's mind, a lot of the characters are kind of awful though. The MP and zombies are pretty great tho fwiw.
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You should really give Infinite Warfare a chance, it's fantastic.
Let me just say that I've been in the same mood, been replaying through CoD games left and right, and BO3 is one of the few that I don't want to ever replay again, it was pretty damn mediocre at release, there's no need for me to go through that again.
Everything I could possibly say. Black Ops II at least somewhat did well at being deep. This one tried way too hard at it and failed epically, to the point the story is almost impossible to follow without a guide.
also i think fighting robots in a Call of Duty game is super boring.
Advanced Warfare and Infinite Warfare at least had like mechs and stuff but you largely fought humans the whole time, but this has actual robots.
Advanced Warfare and Infinite Warfare at least had like mechs and stuff but you largely fought humans the whole time, but this has actual robots.
Black Ops III had one of the worst fps campaigns that I ever played
MP was cool tho, and the last cod that I really put time in online
MP was cool tho, and the last cod that I really put time in online
Not great, but it is fucking bonkers at points and the thing that happens at the end of the first mission made me gasp when I first played it.
Don't do it.
It's arguably the most dumb campaign I've ever played. The story is an absolutely clusterfuck
It's arguably the most dumb campaign I've ever played. The story is an absolutely clusterfuck
It's painfully dull nonsense and a waste of four hours. You'd be better off watching paint dry or banging your head against the wall.
It was utterly awful. The worst CoD campaign of the 2010's
It at least had decent multi at the time.
It at least had decent multi at the time.
I've played every single Call of Duty campaign. Black Ops III was the only one I didn't finish, it bored me. I may go back and finish it some day, but its not good.
Was this the one that let you choose missions to do from the start? Like you could do the final mission from the start?
TRAIN GO BOOM
Imagining yourself in a frozen forest is better than playing the campaign, I can assure you.