This video 1% review of WW2 99% review of the human psyche using WW2 and in extension video games as a medium to describe points and make them relatable. I will look back on the days I watched your videos with the same fondness you describe when looking back on your early years. Thank you for being awesome.

12:27 "They can Copy and Paste the game, but they can't Copy and Paste your life" Wow, that *actually* legit hit me right in the heart....

12:30 "They can copy and paste the game, but they can't copy and paste your life." 🔥

Why did I start crying at the end of this video... not tears of longing, but if shame. Our first serious love of gaming is not only dead, we've been playing with it's corpse for 60 bucks every year trying to remember the good times... and now it stinks, rotten, and the police are knocking with a warrant... it's time to move on...

Did he review cod or life?

came for the thoughts on CoD, stayed for the hard hitting philosophy. well-goddamn-done.

I feel like you are reading poetry at times

I think this video got me over my ex

"Getting to round 44 on kino with your cousin" Screw you batman I came for rambling not for feels

You've had some fantastic videos, but God Damn, this was incredible.

When you take a drug more regularly, you'll naturally build up a persistent tolerance to it, meaning that the effects you feel are lessened. Nothing will ever feel as good as that first hit, you're chasing the dragon. You've become desensitized and accustomed to this experience and it will never feel as overwhelming and pure as it did before.

The craziest part of it all is that there IS 14 year olds waiting to get out of school to play, this is their Black Ops 1, M3RKMUS1C is their WhiteBoy7thst, and this is their escape. They’re making the same exact memories as us, just growing up a few years after.

COD is not the same, the nostalgia is gone and there are so many greater games out there today.

The year is 2010, you’ve just finished school and gone out to play in the local park with your friends after buying sweets in the store, after playing on your scooter/bike you return home and fire up your Xbox 360 and put in mw2, life is good

Yo bdobbins I cited your pubg vid in an expository English essay. I also used a clip for the presentation about social interaction. The class got a kick out of it, and it was very fun. I may have gotten a D+, but nevertheless, thank you

Am I crazy, or did this video sound like an Eminem rap?

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"you can copy and paste a game, but you cant copy and paste your whole life" i will be using this quote and rephrasing it for my English exams in may.

This is why I love titanfall 2, and this is why I'm pissed that it's never mentioned. Because it was released alongside IW/cod 4 remastered, which was a combo of nostalgic bullshit and shittily done innovation that's still going to sell because it's call of duty, and on the other side is BF1, which claimed to be innovative and it was for the most part, but it still only have one good new mode, operations, and even then it was decent at best, nowhere near the Innovation we needed. And then there was titanfall 2. The diamond in the rough. It tried to be boldly new and interesting, but it was beat into submission by the two franchise titans that were realesed within two weeks of it. This game, my favorite game of all time, had a diverse and emotional campaign that offered true difficulty without being entirely rage enducing, and the multiplayer was only crippled by it's unforgiving nature. Average people would play a few games, get shit on, and quit forever to go back to MWR and BF1 because they hate innovation. This man is right. Innovation is dead, and nostalgia killed it. P.s. I know that this will be lost in the comments, and even if it's not I know that few people will take the time to read it all, but I speak the truth. I'm not saying the game is flawless, I'm not bashing the other two, as I've had fun on both of them, but still, you get my point.

damn, this opened my eyes. thank you.

Yo at one point I thought he was spitting barz

BREATHE MAN, BREATHE!

Can someone put the start of this to a beat? Reminds of Eminem's "Stan" without all the screaming.

Dame dude....I hate myself

I used to hate you because you hated on cod and bungie and I stopped watching you. Then I grew up and I understand the things your saying and want to say ur content is amazing. It’s what people want to say but won’t or are not smart enough to. Thank you for being u I guess lol

Batman, this might be the best video you ever made. You really hit home hard for me and probably everyone who's watched this as well. I honestly could not believe why everyone hated Modern Warfare remastered so much when its pretty much the same game that everyone knew and love with a few added stuff but then I realized its cause these people are too blinded by nostalgia to admit that Cod 4 has aged badly and refuse to admit it so they just say its MWRs fault instead of the game that came before it. Also the message you sent near the end that you should cherish what you have now rather than clinging to the past hasn't been more true than now, I very well know that 5 years from now I'm gonna look back and say how much I missed the good times I had with Rainbow six siege and Persona 5 and when the time comes there's gonna be even more games that I'll end up being nostalgic for in 10 to 20 years. Cod will never be great again because in order for to be great you'd have to go back in time when you were a kid or a teenager and playing them for the very first time. People just have to accept the fact that its impossible to recapture those memories and move on to better games more worth their time

"brother went to war and friend went to college, I miss when those things were more than just memories" Dude, this hit me way more than it probably should've... you have my most sincere condolences for your loss.

"The best moments in life are never spent trying to recapture other moments" Absolute Gold

Wow BDobbins. The amount of dedication and thought going into these videos has impressed me more and more every time. I hope you keep growing and informing everybody. Thanks man, and keep up the great work

Man, this video hits hard. We should create new memories to be nostalgic about ten years later instead of trying to relive the moments of your past. People want to relive the days where the squad hops on MW3/BO2 and play multiplayer and zombies every night after school... but that will never happen again. Those moments were amazing, but why would I want to relive them again? The reason they're special is because those moments are limited and you cannot recreate them, thus giving them value. Nostalgia is good once and every while, but create new experience and try different things to make your life fulfilling.

I feel, I just got fired from my first job due to the fact that I’ve been so crippled by depression that I couldn’t get up on time, and every part of my mind has been and is still fighting me just to function. Gaming, it is an escape, it is the feeling and not the game that we want. You are right. And with that, you’ve brought me a form of peace that EDRM therapy hasn’t been able to. I’ve been stuck in the past for the likes of four years and I’ve missed a lot of things related to memories but not the memories themselves, it’s the feelings of positivity I had in those memories. You just helped me move on. Thank you.

This video makes me sick, ive never felt that bad in my life i wish back those times i played bo2 Zombies with my girlfriend, but i dont think i realy wish back those times or even that gamefeeling, i want to be the same person i was back then. BO2 zombie with my ex was all i had in this time, when BO3 got announced i injured myself realy realy badly in the Gym and my lifetime dream died and i think the person i was back then died to. I treated everyone even my GF and my Parents realy bad. my life back then completly broke this video helped me a little to understand why i hated every CoD after bo2 so much, might give them in the next time all an honest try. Guess you´ll never read this but i have to give you a little thanks.

A true linguistic scholar

Maybe, we a collective have just outgrown cod and yearn for something deeper. Battlefield used to be too needlessly complex in my mind, but now it's the baseline complexity I need to have fun in a shooter and I'm not the only person who feels that way.

yeh man. i feel ya about zombies. i used to have a little squad. two other guys. only a few months back but fuck has shit changed. we played bo3 zombies all fucking day. we never met irl (atleast i didnt) but we were like brothers. we attempted easter eggs and once, me and one of the guys actually beat one. most satisfying day in years. then one day they slowly eased out of cod and i left ps4 and moved to pc. its been a few months and ive re made contact. one is somewhat eager to play but i think the other hates me. i deserve it though, i kind of went cold turkey off ps4 no warning. i just want things to be the same when bo4 (subject to change) comes out. i want him to be my friend again but who knows. people change. man. i miss the good old days. zombot man if youre reading this come on, lets be mates again.

I still remember discovering Nacht at the end of WaW. The Nazi Zombies of old for me was good because it could be spun as this urban legend. Then it just gradually began bashing its head against the wall. Creating a plot with little resolution. I just realised the last cod game I enjoyed was Black Ops 2. The campaign was alright, mp had its moments and zombies was still fun. Although still wish we had Paris over Moon. I feel at that point, they wrote themselves into a corner

I like how you went on that mini rant on the new Star Wars movies 😂😂

You okay, bro?

I'm officially declaring this the greatest YT video I've ever watched.

This shit hit as hard as a truck, because it is the fucking truth... Now that I've heard it, I know it is. Trying to relive the same memories with the same people with a new game is impossible and I know it is, still I ache for the feeling of 25/12/11; jumping in MW3 domination on Mission, rocking the standard smg class which was the UMP45, i guess, not knowing what to do, but my friend helped me out, saying where the chokepoints were, where I had to look, aim for the head and shit like that. But that time is over and I need to accept that to make new memories even better as the last ones, enjoying every single game I play and broading my now cluttered view of gaming, by changing genre, going from RTS to RPG back to MMO. Encountering new people, going places and enjoying every damn minute of it, instead of longing for a time that won't return.

Bruh.. this is good shit.

all jokes aside i have nostalgia about minecraft but it sucks now

This man sounds like he’s constantly starting a fat rap lyric, but only starts and never finishes

I come looking for your thoughts on a video game and leave questioning wether my life was ever good or are these memories just telling me it was. I’ve been watching you since ghosts and it’s safe to say I’ve learnt more here than I ever could in school. You teach philosophy through cod and it’s fucking genius

My dude done went and killed nostalgia!! I fucking love it!! Let's go Dobbins!!!

Half a decade later this still rings deep... The gaming community is truly the most fickle community to please

I watch this video once a month since it released, it still gives me chills because of how accurate it is. I hate nostalgia, I really hope one day, I will able to let go of it, and start creating new memories, instead of holding onto something that can never comeback..

God damn, your videos are so good. Thank you.

God Damn... Your videos are so incredible... You put structure and words to things I've thought about... But those thoughts are just blurry and scattershot..Your video makes the picture crystal clean 4k...your right about so Many things.

the last 6+ minutes of this video may have just changed my philosophy on life. thank you.

I get my rocks off every time I hear BDobbinsFTW make a truthful and legendary review about games before and after they come out. Love your Vids

I wish you made videos more........ IDC what its on, the flow you talk at, and the smart ass remarks make me laugh :) Great video as always man

Was this a review? Or poetry?

That opening minute rant hit close to home... subbed, great video glad I found this channel

i was literally cheering the whole way through this video, you said things that honestly hit deep throught the video, i've never played cod, i dont know who you are, but what you said in this video is absolutely amazing, the nostalgia, of it all, that's what we want, it's not about the video game, it's truly about the bigger picture, its about your whole life, coming home from school thinking about playing with your friends, back then this seemed like somthing normal, boring even, but now, it's something amazing, something we all wish for, we all wish for something to drive us in life, a motive, but when we lack this motive at a certain point in life, we tend to look back at what we had, what we can never get back, and honestly the only way to get over this, is to move on, find a new game, or maybe quit gaming as a whole, do something new something exciting, something that makes you wake up in the morning and go, ''LET'S DO THIS'', i think that's the ultimate goal in life for us as human beings, we want something to keep us moving, because without that, we just end up a husk of our former selves, depressed and dull, waiting for the next big thing to drive us forward and excite us yet once again, in truth it all boils down to us wanting happiness. my thing... was fallout new vegas, that was my motive and drive back then, but now with fallout 4, a disappointment in my eyes, i felt so empty, where did it go wrong, was it the rpg elements, the dialogue wheel?, no, no it was the nostalgia that was missing, it was the drive, it was the excitement. my advice to you all, is to find something new that makes you feel excited and happy again, and that... is the real struggle in life, that is the pursuit of happiness. thank you my man, you gave me so much to think about, i will set this video as a benchmark for me, if i ever hit rock bottom again, and use nostalgia to escape, i will watch this video again. i dread the day where i will be nostalgic about this current time in life, because when that happens i will know that i've hit a deeper rock bottom.

This shit too real man you rappin and im just stoned

You've hit it right on the nail again, man. You need to go viral

Dude watching after 3 hits from the bong is an absolute roller coaster!!! Keep doing what you're doing while blowing my mind!!

It’s been 2 years but this video still sits in some corner of my mind

this made me sad for some reason. made me realize I’ll never feel the way I felt back in the day.

This video is an existential crisis

Dude BDobs i cant agree more with everything you said in this video! We are the same age and its like you just narrated my whole childhood and dumped nostalgic tears all over me.... you are by far my favorite youtuber and i could not of said this better myself goood job man

well , i m subbing love your videos , you also give me a hope , now im start serching for new instead of trying to recapture the past , your sentence ( the great memories in our mind were created by new things , not by recapturing old things ) is so refreshing and inspiring , thank you from the buttom of my heart .

THEY CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH DUDE YOU’VE BEEN SPITTING TRUTH SINCE THE ORIGINAL DESTINY GAME BRUH KEEP IT UP 🤟🏻

I remember I think 8th grade health class introducing ourselves and this was when mw2 came out and I got up there with the usual my name, I like movies, comic books, video games. Then the teacher asks "what games you play?" And I said modern warfare 2 and every guy in that class just goes Ayyyyy.

Bro you have a talent of keeping your audience hooked. Idk if it’s your tone or the music, but I can listen to your talk all day long.

Thank you so much for this fucking video man real content like this is what the community needs you've actually made me appreciate ww2 a little more and have made me want to play straight after I get off work keep it up bud

From someone who deals wit depression as well try to stay strong man, I can relate SO MUCH when you said @ 0:35 about childhood and the nostalgia from playing Cods and your friends and just how simple life was back then, funny how we thought life was hard then Ha if only we knew

One of your best videos yet. Nostalgia can be a very blinding thing. I wish more people understood that.

This video literally had me bawling, reminiscing about those good times. Thank you for relieving me of this constant stress and depression I have with games now. I’ve always understood how nostalgia works and all, I could just never piece the words together as well as you have. Nothing will ever bring back those days of shit talking, getting headshots and W’s on cod. Again, thank you.

i love your videos so much Dobbins, keep it up!

Badass video. F**k nostalgia. We gotta make new memories. As long as we breathe, we live in the moment.

We regress to the past, to escape the present and worry about the future, as we worry about whether our future comforting memories will exist, or not. The present is sacrificed daily, by dismissing it as something which is not as important as regressing or projecting. When we have brains that can imagine infinity, our subconscious will create terrors to chill our souls and pleasures to satiate our senses. This, is a deadly concoction of narrow perception, capable of distorting the emotional connection we have to events past, present and future. Be warned, you must be.

"They can copy and paste the game, but they can't copy and paste your life no matter how hard they tried," that one hit me hard.

Your intro man is so powerful I feel you I subscribed

Shit just changed my goddamn life. Bless this man.

Last good cod was BO2, i haven't played a cod after that.

I still come back to this video cause the entire first 10-13 minutes is such truth about life

Your videos are fantastic. i love these and i enjoy your thoughts on it because they remind me of my own thoughts about life & gaming.

The second half of this video is so brutally honest I had to watch it twice. Fantastic video as always, I love it!

Thank you for this, it was quite cathartic hearing you explain the feelings that I've been struggling to understand for years. Even as someone who mostly understands the effects of nostalgia on my relationship to CoD, this really made me think. Such a great analysis of the situation. I think your channel is quite underrated, to me you are the underappreciated / misunderstood genius of the CoD community. Sometimes I fear that you will stop making videos because a large part of the gaming community is a bunch of MLG squeekers who don't yet have the maturity or the intelligence to appreciate your point of view. Hopefully you get more recognition in the near future, and please keep on doing KZfaq!

I remember watching your videos a little over a year ago and seeing how many comments you put in that were along the lines of “you’re stupid” and it is really good to see how few there are now. ✌🏻

Just came to this video and its teaching me about the importance of relatability. If I could weave together thoughts and ideas like you do and then summarize them all in one song (like the way you referenced your childhood in this video and went more in depth in your latest why everyone is quitting their jobs video) I would be able to write music way more efficiently. You probably wont see this or reply, but watching your videos is helping me in a lot of ways right now, and I really need it. Keep making videos man you have talent.

CoD doesn't change as much as people do.

Lol who else listened until the very end?

Stumbled across you randomly from related videos, your range of topics and honest and articulate speech is refreshing. Earned a new sub, keep it up.

Your energy is on point. Great video man, I agree with a lot of your points. Especially when it comes to going back just to play a game that seemed so good in such a sad part of my life.

Where's my lotion

This guy has maxed out his speech skilltree in skyrim lol

This is one of those videos where I like just doesn’t cut it. Awesome video man, this was poetry

Once again, great video! Keep them coming...

Damn this is depressing.

Perfect track. Well played.

I agree with literally every word that came out of your mouth. You have a way with words Bdobbins and you seem to know exactly what I am thinking/feeling. That being said , I feel sad that it feels like we can never return to to those glory times of Mw2. There was just something special about that period of time. Nostalgia sucks.

God damn it dude your vids are so awesome man please never stop making them!!! :)

As soon as he started talking about how he and his friends would spend the final hours of the school day setting up plans/strategies for zombies/MP later that evening, it honestly brought a fucking tear to my eye because that's exactly what I would do with my squad with basically every Cod from MW2 to BO2.

I got one more year, till me and my friends graduate high school, We been playing together since middle school, I’m going to miss them.

I really relate to this video, first things first this video here is one of the best videos I have seen hands down, I never comment on videos this might be my first comment I've had on here since like years back on another account so yeah this video really impressed me. I was literally making these points to some friends about a month ago while playing some PS4. I miss having fun on video games even though I do have fun on them, but I had realized I just missed the nostalgia. The feeling of being with the squad of friends having fun. Not having a care about anything but having fun with the squad

This is so honest and true what you're saying bro. I haven't heard any one review a Cod game like this... Brilliant..

I honestly can't even lie, this video might be life changing. You have a great lineup of videos but this may be the best. Keep doing what you're doing dobbins!