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My understanding of the game's story with all this cool new information I never thought to dig for is that Corvus occasionally messes with the simulation specifically to keep you immersed, keep you from having a chance to question anything, or at least to distract you when you do start questioning. It hurts the simulation's accuracy, but Corvus would decide that it's worth it if it keeps the Player calm and contained. Corvus is probably saying "It's just a game, don't think about it too hard" with such tricks.

The naming scheme behind CORVUS goes even beyond the whole raven imagery (Corvus being the latin name for Raven). The corvus was was also a military device used during the time of of ancient Rome. There is was used by their navy to board enemy ships and take them over, just like CORVUS does over the DNI of the different team members.

If anyone wants a quick rundown on what the actual story of BO3 is before watching (especially since the video gets some things wrong), I've got you covered: All of the missions except for Black Ops, New World, and Life are taking place in Taylor's memories, but not exactly as we the player experience them. Before any in-game events, the events of those missions occur in a similar way, but instead of Player, it's Taylor going with Hendricks to track someone down. The person we see as Taylor in game is actually someone named Dylan Stone. Hall, Maretti, and Diaz are also stand-ins for three other operatives named Alice Conrad, Joseph Fierro, and Javier Ramirez. None of these four were augmented or had DNIs. (So Conrad was not interfaced with the way Hall was, she was interrogated via more traditional methods before being executed by Taylor.) Then the events of the levels Black Ops and New World occur, exactly as seen in-game. After all of his old team were killed for defecting, Taylor was put in command of the three we just spoke about. The player does not die immediately at the end of Black Ops. They are sent to a hospital and given emergency treatment, and implanted with a DNI alongside Hendricks. The training we see in New World does actually happen in "present time." However, Player doesn't survive the procedure, but somehow they "infect" Taylor via some weird Corvus shenanigans. From this point on, the real world Player is dead, but their consciousness lives on in control of Taylor's body. Taylor at this point is basically trapped in his own subconscious and/or the Frozen Forest. Hendricks begins to suffer the actual symptoms we see in the game, but not in those contexts (since again, those events aren't actually happening). The final mission, Life, is actually the final mission chronologically. The first part of it takes place in the real world, where you play as Player in control of Taylor's body. This is true up until Player shoots themself, at which point the level entirely exists within the "mindscape" up until the DNI purge. This purge effectively eliminates everything within the Frozen Forest except for Taylor, putting him back in his body. Why we experience Taylor's previous missions but modified isn't entirely clear. Also Kane was in a relationship with Taylor at some point. It's also unclear if she knows that Taylor isn't actually the one controlling his body during the actual events of the game. Any questions?

This game did alot of good things...especially for Multiplayer and Zombies. The campaign was ok but nothing to go crazy but the customization is impressive

This game to me is like Tenet in game form, a piece of art that's too interested in being smart and outsmarting the audience and therefore not having great storytelling, which is what people expect from you know, stories

Black Ops 3’s campaign would have been intriguing if the twist was actually conveyed properly instead of being in rapid fire mission text that you would think is just for aesthetic purposes Treyarch wanted to make something cool but then didn’t bother actually leaving tangible narrative hints and expects you to read a comic to understand more.

The campaign was ok but zombies was damn near perfect

After playing this for the first time, my reaction was “okay, that was fun but what that hell just happened?”

I have played this campaign about 8 times, even completing it on the hardest difficulty, not because of the story, which I thought was alright, but because I really enjoyed the gameplay and level design. And I also love the choice to play this campaign with 3 of your friends.

Keep up the good work after your done doing the cod franchise do the Battelfield franchise please. I hope you do advanced warfare next.

Someone else who appreciates the BO3 campaign? And here I thought I was alone. I love this acid trip of a story. I do think Treyarch made it a bit too difficult to figure out on your own; I had to look up videos where the mission text was slowed down. But once it clicks, it's awesome.

Katee Sackhoff playing Sarah Hall in this game is so cool. she plays Bo Katan in Clone Wars and the Mandalorian.

Getting the Platinum trophy for this game was absolutely brutal. I started out loving the campaign, and ended up despising it after playing each mission like a dozen time.

You did a great job covering most things in the story, but there's still so much you didn't cover. My favorite weird mystery: Reznov might secretly be a major player in this story. There's a LOT of smoke here, iIm not sure if there's a fire but it's interesting. First of all, Reznov didn't actually die at Vorkuta. Look up John Trent from the Black Ops 1 CIA server, as well as the serial numbers in BO1 translating to "Reznov is dead, or is he dead, there was no body, is he who he says he is" We know that the test subjects have an influence over Corvus from Jae Xiong.With that fact in mind, there are two collectibles in Bastogne that are quite strange and out of place. We have a Russian Field Compass and an Ushanka Hat. First of all, the Ushanka Hat was later used in Black Ops 4 as Reznov's special item. And secondly, the Soviet Union had zero participation in this battle and there's no reason for these items to be here. My idea on this is that this is Reznov's influence on Corvus shining through. The mission takes a strange turn after Bastogne, as we are suddenly in Stalingrad. None of our 2060 characters have any connection to Stalingrad, as far as we know. But Reznov does. Corvus constantly shows us crows and ravens. For the ravens, the youtube video by DX "Chasing Rabbits" has a great explanation. As for the crows, the first time we ever see Reznov in World At War, we see crows picking at the dead. We see in the Black Ops 3 Data Vault that the CORVUS program actually took test subjects from Vorkuta Labor Camp. We also see that Sebastian Kreuger asked the CIA for information about Reznov (amongst other BO1 characters). Both Corvus and Reznov were victims of mind control experiments, and tried to turn that mind control against the people who first perpetrated it, obsessive about revenge on these people. In the last mission, Corvus leads Kane to dying the same way Dmitri did. As this happens, Corvus says "I... was born in the minds of others." Taylor's Journal entry from the last mission is a jumbled mess as he is infected by Corvus. But one string of text stands out. For some reason, Corvus spells out the following phrase: "Delta-Romeo-Alpha-Gold-Oscar-Victor-India-Charlie-Hotel-Kilo-Romeo-Alpha-Victor-Charlie-Hotel-Echo-November-Kilo-Oscar-Sierra-Tango-Echo-India-November-Echo-Romeo-Tango-Hotel-Echo-Sierra-Echo-Mike-Echo-November-Mike-Uniform-Sierra-Tango-Delta-India-Echo" of course, if you spell this out it is D R A G O V I C H K R A V C H E N K O S T E I N E R T H E S E M E N M U S T D I E There's so much more to the Reznov mystery but it gets into the weeds of the Black Ops 4 "story" and is outside the scope of this video. There's also plenty more to BO3 including Nightmares, the data vault, tons of interpretations on the last mission. But anyway, it's nice to see a big channel stepping into what I consider my super niche obsession.

BO3 has one of the best campaigns and I’ll die on that hill. People bitch moan and complain when the narrative is handed to them on a silver platter, but then bitch moan and complain when they have to hunt for well hidden plot details. This story displays and intricacy and twist that most wouldn’t expect from a cod game, and I appreciated it

Holy hell this story is way more complex than I realized when I first played it. That's kinda awesome

The frozen forest is a reference to the Bastogne Forest the same ones from Band of Brothers one of the worst experiences that Easy company encountered because of lack of supplies.

Keep up the good work man I love the black ops series and I honestly think this game got a bad rep I mean yeah it wasn’t perfect but it wasn’t bad either way good video!!

You forgot the crazy "Zombie campaign" stupid hard. All in all it was a crazy trip and okay to play. Great work, can't wait to see more.

I like your positivity, even if the game isn’t great, you find the good in a game.

hey, just rediscovered your channel and actually finished a video and got immediately hooked so i watched all of your videos on games i have played through, this being the final one. Loved all the videos and love how much effort you put into your videos, keep it up! maybe do mw2 as soon as possible. Ooh and the gears of war franchise I always preferred it to halo. Or neither because ultimately you should make the content you want to make (but seriously mw2 is the most loved cod ever you know you'd get all the views)

Love the homage to the BO2 campaign start with the flames at 5:56

One of my favorite bits was how Hendricks went from caring about others, and being concerned for people to only caring about Taylor and the AI. Shows how his how deeply Corvus was affecting the characters. Makes me wonder how the others were changed when Corvus got in their heads?

BO3 was the first cod game I actually got to play at home on my own system, and I really loved it. I see now that it's not objectively the best but I will always have a soft spot for it.

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Great video. My understanding of certain references like the DNI is very Ghost in the Shell to me. Lots of brainhacking and cybernetics. The dreamlike themes of life/death remind me of the film Jacob’s Ladder (the OG in the 80s).

Fun Fact: Blops 3 was my first COD game I still haven't finished it love your videos, GamingWins!

These videos are so great each time!

Honestly this is probably my most favourite cod campaign other than maybe bo1, and I absolutely love Christopher melonis voice acting in this. He plays Taylor and I’ve known his acting for 10+ years from law and order and he has amazing acting range and abilities

To help anyone having trouble understanding the story, you play as Taylor, most mentions of "Taylor" like the attack in Egypt where they take Dr Salim, or where they kill the personnel at the blacksite , even the guy Hendricks caps on the roof; it's actually a guy called Dylan Stone from the prequel COMIC. which helps you understand the story SO MUCH BETTER.

Zombies deserves its own series honestly

For me, I love a lot about BO3. The multiplayer was fantastic, the 4 player online co-op for the story was awesome, especially since things would change, like on the first mission alone you might be sitting off to the right side instead of the left, or instead of being behind the window in the interrogation room you could stack up on the door. The only thing I never really liked was how confusing the story the game was trying to tell was. Like I somewhat got it but never fully processed it.

Honestly realizing that Hall saying "you don't know what this'll do" in the later mission when you interface with her being before she gives us the lesson on interfacing between people, where the character may not and probably more than likely had no clue what would happen like we the player do

Call of duty ghosts next?

Never played this one since I was stuck with a seventh gen console for the longest time but it always sounded so fascinating to me.

B03 and it zombies. Oh how that takes me back to when things were simple.

My first shooting game ever and I still remember that twist ending, spent so much time trying to figure it out.

i was very young when i played this story and never played it again so i quite literally have no clue what hes talking about but i will still watch the whole video and drop a like cuz i like him

I can't remember what mission it was in or where, but I remember finding nova 6 canisters before the big moment. Nice little foreshadowing for people that took time to explore the environments.

Completing this game on realist almost cost me my sanity. I remember that I ended up having more deaths than kills on the last mission. It was crazy. I think this must be the best CoD to play on veteran because all the power might make it challenging yet satisfying unlike most other veteran runs.

so i'm curious, will you end up going through the Modern Warfare series as well, at some point? MW3 was the game I started with, and would love to see your video on it!

Love your stuff keep up the great work on cod

Man I know it was technically never one released video game but released over multiple games. But itd be so dope if you covered Call of Duty Zombies. It blows my mind how these DLCs were this great lore narrative game that relied on longtime fans playing multiple CoDs.

"Don't lie and pretend you know what's going on in this game, nothing Matters in the end"

Oh man I can't wait for you Infinite warfare video. It's underrated. I like it better than Titanfall 2 and BF1. Both these games came out at the same time as cod iw and I think that made everyone not pay any attention to how good it's campaign really is

Tbh, the narrative of the Story reminds me of the movie sourcecode.

I live in Iran and the time of using internet is now random times of the day and I had the luck to see your new video

The hint is Krueger wasn’t lying when he told Corvus who he was. He wasn’t even being a asshole. Just humored that at what basically Google or Bing asking “What is my purpose”. Corvus was a software program designed to run the project to monitor people thoughts. The mere fact he gained self awareness and became an AI was just as the game characters said it was; “a glitch in the system” and “a mistake.”

Your explanation of events gave me a headache in the best way!

man the multiplayer was just the most fun I had with friends in PS4 use to play this game everyday relentlessly

The greatest thing about this game and CoD BO4 is that they have nothing to do with the story of the first two so they don't sully the name of BO1 and 2

"Train go boom." Why does that makes me smile?

I got a game series I'd love for you to do: Legacy of Kain. A long forgotten masterpiece in story writing and voice acting.

Absolutely amazing video!

Fun fact; one of the black Ops Cold War multiplayer maps features a destroyed train and the name of the area on your hud is “Train Go Boom”

I sadly only had the demo and only got some black ops 3 multiplayer abilities. I never even knew it had a campaign until this video lol

Finally someone that likes BO3. I cant belive people hate this masterpeice of a game

U should totally do a video on spec ops the line

Another take I read about regarding the story was that the player dies at the end of New World but his mind is scrambling so he thinks he’s ok and about to enter surgery. Then yes, player relives Taylor’s memories with constructs in place, however he’s also fighting for control over Taylor’s body and Corvus has woken up, thanks to player’s and team’s new memories. But Hendricks, having gone out of surgery, likely calls Kane to try to get through to “Taylor”, as his team, who also interfaces with him, die off one by one. The “Taylor” and “Stay with me” is her first thinking she woke up the real Taylor and then realizing she didn’t. Also the very distinct “Where is Taylor going?” As if she’s playing along. By the end of Lotus Towers, Hendricks has had it. Having had second thoughts about the Stone mission, having had to kill his comrades, having lost his entire new team on the first op of a seemingly much safer job, having witnessed his friend and his whole team die off due to a virus, he’s had it and he goes to attack Coalescense. And that’s where the simulation ends and Life mission happens.

He returns!

Bro you explained it and I still don't know wtf was happening in that game.

You guys Remember the nightmares campaign? I remember when people played it. It’s a underrated bonus mode

Nice video! Can you try doing ULTRAKILL its a very good indie shooter game

Hey my friend! I was wondering if you could make playlists for each franchise for easier viewing?

This is my favorite COD. Not because of the gameplay or the story. Its my favorite because of all the memories I had with my friends absolutely destroying each other in multiplayer.

You should do the mafia series cuz I just finished the whole series pls

Me and my friends have this little inside joke about that line… “train go boom” so like when an outcome happens in siege “hostage go boom” GTA when a hiest goes south “safe go boom” especially COD III ( TRAIN GO BOOM )

fun fact, if you upgraded the cyber core abilities enough you can take control of every robot in the game except for the gi units

Idk if they did a sequel to this campaign,it would probably do good ,since we were left on a cliff hanger

I remember when i was a kid, and i played the hell outta this on my ps3!

I played it when it came out, and completed, I didn't understand shit until the ending where player was in Taylor mind, then I understood a little bit more but still i didn't care about understanding it more than with the simple thing that it provided me

My first black ops game it’s confusing but fun Fun fact: you can control every mech with the hijack mod when upgraded it takes a moment but it’s so fun

It did take me a few play throughs but how I interpreted the story was the belief that cyber augmenting are the future for infantry soldiers as we can see. Stronger, faster, more aware, sturdier, and so on you become super human having your body augmented with technology. But with that benefits if technology you also have their weaknesses and the biggest weakness as we seen portrayed with Corvus a computer virus and how Corvus completely messed with the player and everyone to the point of insanity. So it raises a question of which is better augmentations or natural. Training and being ol natural has it’s limits cause the human body has limits and that is were augmentations excel at but as I mentioned with cybernetics wired to your brain you are subjected to viruses and hacks (as we can even see in gameplay) and possibly even EMP type attacks that can shut down your cybernetic parts possibly even killing you.

You should do Infinite warfare after Bo4's campaign (oh wait there isnt one) But really infinite warfare campaign legit made me cry, those death messages broke me man

it really is one of the CoD campaigns ever made

It’s mad how I remember certain snapshots from missions in this but couldn’t have told you literally anything about the campaign

Honestly, I suggest you should play Infamous Second Son. I'm confident you'll enjoy it.

Yoo when ya gonna cover borderlands 1 and 3

Kinda surprised you aren’t going to do KOTOR and KOTOR II

I can’t wait for you to play infinite warfare since the campaign was soo good

When I played this campaign years ago; all I got from it is "wHaT iS tHe FrOzEn FoReSt?!" And the robots really enjoy punching

To gain the best understanding of Black Ops III, the best video to watch would be *Chasing Rabbits - An Interpretation of Black Ops III* by DX

BO3 is Deus Ex: CoD Edition and the soundtrack is godly, Ignition and Safehouse are just *chef's kiss* They just chose an extremely inconvenient way to tell the story.

there is no such thing as a flock of ravens, it is called an unkindness. Which is even more fitting to use at 5:36 because of context

Random Question, have you ever considered making videos on the Kingdom Hearts series?

One of my favorite cods and the campaign was decent I loved the load outs and the core abilities and realistic difficulty was a nightmare

Have you done far cry new dawn? It has a lot of neat little things I enjoy from the art to the bad guys.. I mean gals it could be worth a second look

Me: Noooo you can't just tell me the outcome! Taylor: Outcome:Train go boom

Nice vid

I now have even more questions about black ops 3’s campaign

To be honest, I didn't really enjoy this game when compared to previous two black ops and even Advanced Warfare. To the point that when the game crashed on me during the section with Hall and the frozen forest I didn't end up picking the game back up again (it didn't help that the crash also deleted all my progress). I felt the same way for the most part, that I was just kinda bored and it wasn't at all what I was expecting since I had really enjoyed BO 1&2 and as a result I actually stopped playing CoD until Black Ops Cold War came out. But otherwise your break down of the game was once again really well done and I am looking forward to seeing what game you go over next.

Please please please do the mass effect trilogy, specifically legendary edition if you can

I never finished this campaign annoyingly so I was kind of lost on this video but yeah could've been better because I was bored when I played so I tried to play it with friends but never we finished it. But this campaign will always stay in my memory because playing this story was when I started to believe in ghosts LOL I was eating my dinner while playing left my chips (I'm British) went down stairs for a minute came back up and they were gone. Parents and dog was downstairs and my friend who I was playing the campaign with didn't hear anything through the mic. We were also on the 1st mission so I know I didn't eat them LOL. Anyway BO3 was my most played COD game with multiplayer and zombies with this story wasn't so complicated and boring to play would've probably been the best COD game.

Plz do some RTS games!

“Train go Boom”

The lore in bo3 is still confusing but hey at least you made it easier to understand

7 years later and this campaign still makes my brain hurt

i just wish the story was more closley related to the ember trailer. shit would have been a perfect cap off to the black ops story, and flowed much better.

the scene of your character getting their arms ripped off gives me nightmares