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Yes it's top tier!! It's so nice watching a zombies video without people yelling through the whole video 😅

I really appreciate that! And I love that you saw that connection too, that brief period of late WaW and some of Black Ops 1 story was really unique with how secretive and conspiratorial it all felt. Thanks again, and let me know what you think of other later maps too, love to hear other opinions!

@@whitecliffgames Personally, my experience with Zombies pretty much ended with Zombies Chronicles in Bo3. I began with Nacht Der Untoten back in 2008, and played each installment throughout high-school. By the time Bo3 released I was in my final years of high school and it was almost like the end of an era for myself and the boys when the life cycle of Bo3 came to an end. I have mixed feelings about Bo3. I like the Lovecraft influence on Shadows of Evil, as again, it shares similar pulp vibes of the era, and I just casually enjoy the Cthulhu Mythos on the side, so I thought that was neat. I think Der Eisendrache was like an awesome return to the style of WaW maps but with Bo3 sensibilities in design and presentation, and I loved it. I didn't play a lot of Zetsubou No Shima when it launched, I have no strong feelings towards it one way or the other. I want to like Gorod Krovi more than I do. It has a very Der Riese layout, and the mesh of WW2, Diesel-punk and Dragons on top of the standard titular Zombies should be cool... but I don't know what it is that makes it sort of "meh", in my humble opinion. Revelations was cool. Its a fun map, and it probably should've been the last map in the original Zombies storyline, given that the map is one huge stroll down memory lane, but for what it is, I think it's a fairly harmless nostalgia-fest. If they had given the final custcene a more satisfying conclusion, I think I would've been happier with that than with what we evetually got. (Though, personally I think the story gets really weird in Bo3 and probably goes too far? Too far into epic-fantasy for my taste, since I prefer a more gritty, pulpy, fairly tongue-in-cheek tone to Zombies, but that's just me). I enjoyed WaW and Bo1 the most; Bo2 wasn't it for me. I didn't love the Victis characters, or the post-apocalyptic setting, it just felt like the same type of Zombies content everyone else was making, and the fact that Tranzit really didn't live up to the hype left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I enjoyed Nuketown Zombies as a test of skill, and I enjoyed Buried for brain-dead good times, but Mob of the Dead was a genuine classic Zombies Map, and my personal favourite from Bo2, and I enjoyed the over the top pulp Sci fi elements of Origins with its giant robots that look as if they were ripped straight out of a 1940s Fleischer Superman cartoon. I do find Origins incredibly tedious to set up on, however, and I'm not often overly eager to start a new game. I tried Bo4, and I really enjoyed the return of the pulp feel in Classified, I genuinely loved the opening cutscene to the map, but I thought Blood of the Dead wasn't as good as MoTD and I wasn't big on the vibe of IX or the other Chaos Maps (just less my thing, I guess). I never played Cold War or Vanguard, and from what I've heard I'm not missing much. Overall, when I think of Call of Duty Zombies, WaW and Bo1 instantly spring to mind, and the sort of sci fi, almost Wolfenstien with a horror twist that it leaves me vibing in. I enjoy a lot of Bo3, and I sometimes play the custom Zombies maps created by the community from time to time as a bit of new content, but for me, it'll never beat the days of Moon, Kino Der Toten, Der Riese, Shi No Numa, Verrückt, and that tiny bunker, somewhere in Germany where it all began. So, there you have my thoughts on Zombies in a very broad, overarching manner. This comment mutated into something much bigger and more monstrous than I initially intended. Apologies, friend XD

Absolutely LOVED reading this because my experience is almost the EXACT same! I started with Nacht back when it was just some secret mode as well, and BO1 was like my lifestyle, I played every single day. I started falling off a bit halfway through BO2 for the same reasons you said. I’ve still played every map that came out, but near the end of BO3 I absolutely felt that “end of an era” as well. Going back now I really respect how starting with Origins, it plus all the Black Ops 3 maps each had such a unique and different genre almost (Lovecraft for Shadows, Heavy metal for Gorod, etc.) It was different than the unified, alt-history WW2 of all the early maps, but it’s interesting to see at least. I’m also a Revelations apologist, I think the nostalgia trip is great and the map could’ve been a fantastic ending with some tweaks. For BO4, I think the sheer amount of content is amazing, every map has at least 10 little side Easter eggs, there’s so much content in those maps. I think the game gets too much hate because of a couple system changes, there’s so much to love about it. But you also really feel what you said about Origins, which only got more true in BO3 and extremely so by BO4: how it can be hard to bring yourself to load into a game because you know there’s just so much setup you have to do, it’s so daunting. And the story is still very much that dimension hopping fantasy genre from BO3, so if you’re not into that it’s tough to get into. Don’t apologize, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, I love it! (Especially love the Max Fleischer reference point for Origins, I know the exact Superman scene you’re talking about and it perfectly encapsulates what I love about how ambitious and out-there that map was). Thanks again, I love talking about that magical BO1-era of zombies whenever I get the chance.

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@@iostutorial740 bro me third

Same! I do think Black Ops 1 was a faithful continuation though

It was supposed to have a theater map which was probably gonna look like the one in the campaign, and a Paris map which turned into moon and the theater one turned into kino der toten.

pc has custom maps.

@@clonesolar it was kino wall the time, but the paris one was supposed to be in the catacombs

the reason there were so few is because they probably already knew Black Ops was about to release, and BO had a better engine so they probably just waited till it came out, in fact i think Kino Der Toten was supposed to be a WaW map

I feel that zombies after bo2 just got overly complex and turned lots of people like myself off.

@@miffydsi5063 I know BO3 is regarded as the best Zombies but yes, it was very complicated especially that first map, Shadows of Evil I think. Looking back, WaW and BO1 were pretty lackluster though kept true to the arcade and style - just survive.

Fellow WAW player here dont look into it lol

I think they completely stepped there game up in bo3 because they had cutscenes that felt so rewarding to watch after completing a semi complex challenging Easter egg to get it and looking back there even cooler because you can’t really see some of em in your own game without 4 people

in my opinion you could train properly on shi no numa before this

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Dey're Reese's

“Dare reese” is how I pronounce it.

Splits the spawn rate up of zombies especially for perk/pack runs