The Wasted Potential of Call of Duty Black Ops 4 

You may have seen my other BO4 retrospective, but I felt inspired to make another one since there’s so much new stuff, plus I’ve really grown as an editor since my last one. Consider this video the one that does BO4 a justice for me

How come black ops 4 had the best weapon camos and since then we haven’t had a cod with weapon camos anywhere close to being as good as BO4?

The multi-player is really fun to me. Lots of action. High ttk and manual healing makes it more skill based.

Black Ops 2.5 is a perfect way to describe what to me was a very fun version of the mutiplayer. The right mix of same but different. Very much a ymmv situation though.

My friends and I were addicted to the core 5v5. We loved the movement, abilities, extra health, custom emblems, maps, and game modes.

I just realized that the Roman numerals for 4 isn't what they put on the cover lol

i enjoyed this game to the fullest. defiantly not perfect but the fun factor was crazy. first game in the series where i grinded for dark matter, reached max level, completed zombies easter eggs, and the countless wins in blackout

BO4 easily has my favorite CoD multiplayer after the golden era, and I thought zombies was underrated, but it's just overall sad to think about it. I still wish for a campaign

Ancient evil has the best map layout of all time. It is so nice that no matter where you go, you will end up where you want to be.

I am a BO4 lover but man does the title nail it on the head. Love the Ancient Evil appreciation. Easy top 5 zombies map and the fact that it could've been better blows my mind.

This was my favourite game in the series to play for its multiplayer, no lie. Loved the time to kill and manual healing and it just had a really great 'feel' which I've yet to find anywhere else. Only thing I didn't like was all the hero shooter stuff.

Adding onto what you said in the intro, its hilarious how they kept saying that it was a prequel to BO3 even though with the cutscenes and maps it was CLEARLY set after BO3.

I just wish BO4 didn’t feel like a watered down version of BO3. It had a lot of potential it just didn’t life up to the hype. Great video as always

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I absolutely loved this game. Sure, there were things that didn’t pan out as well as we expected, but the design itself is SOOOO good. Multiplayer was competitive af, with amazing maps and scorestreaks. Zombies was full of content with in-depth Easter eggs and cool bossfights (only 2-3 of the maps aren’t great but a lot of them are to me) Blackout is a cool BR, it just should’ve been free-to-play

I genuinely loved the multiplayer. I got dark matter and played 18 days of game time. I think if it had more content at launch it would have been liked more because it’s genuinely a great game now with everything added.

i enjoyed blackout a lot. i have tons of fond memories of that game and still wish i could go back and play

I loved BO4 but really wish this game got more love. Easily one of my favorite CoDs. Top 5 for me

I personally love Dead of the Night ❤️

Damn, TWO black ops 4 retrospectives

I didn’t buy it because there wasn’t a campaign. I am old now, but I’ve ALWAYS played the campaign between multiplayer with my friends

Bro jus dropped this at the perfect time been rewatchin old zombies content and this came at the right time thx bro

This has been the most odd game looking back in retrospect, my friend is a hardcore multiplayer guy, says this is his favorite multiplayer, I'm a hardcore zombies guy and love bo4 zombies.

Love these videos and topics Chopper. Good stuff.

21:20 dude that was sick. Was I the only one who noticed that triple collateral ?

Thank u we needed this. And no offline easter eggs live service

To whoever edits your videos: Really nice touch with the Chapters/Parts with the Black Ops Campaign reference overlaying classified text feel. But add a black screen as the top layer and fade that in, instead of fading each layer out when fading to black. This helps keep the timing consistent because the faded black "classified" marks, fade out revealing the faded text as that layer fades out. Much easier to just have black.png and fade that in over the top so that everything gets blacked out. Then you can fade the next scene in without overlap by fading out the black. Both easier & better looking from my experience. As far as the rest of the editing goes, it's unnoticeable, which in a video like this means you did a great job! Should be smooth and support the narration and do nothing to draw your attention to it, except for cheap tricks! Editing software can mislead us with it's fade out transitions being so exciting but nothing beats a good ol' black.png :)

Love the remake of this video especially the little detail of marking over words like in BO1

I was waiting for this vid! Very well done

if they took the morse code step out of blood of the dead the game would go up a letter grade

you're pumping these out like clockwork! much respect. doing the lords work man

Those transitions between parts were really cool, great job

I personally loved the BO4 MP experience, especially before the heavy microtransactions push started and got even worse when we got supply drops with ranged weapons in it and each item as an individual piece per weapon

Voyage of despair is one of the best maps ever made for non casual players - I wish the chaos story line didn’t get so much crap because it had such incredible potential

bro you dont even have a chance how im hyped for this video omg. Ive been waiting for montths for video abt bvo4 thats not zombies only

I absolutely love what zombies contact we did get down to even the small things were tells you how many times you beat the Easter egg in your highest round in the speed at which you did it

Great video chop!

This tha second video you’ve made on this game, wonder what will be different here. Thanks for tha new video

i remember the day this game came out i turned on syndicates stream during lunch at school and he was playing voyage. it was one of the most exciting times to be a zombies fan; a five remake, mob remake, a small map that we thought could’ve been melee only, and the fucking titanic all in one game? the month after was so painful as the excitement was wearing off and all i could think about was what could’ve been

bruh i know there’s only a few cod reviews left for u to do, but god damn i get so hyped for each vid. the presentation of the info, the editing, and your insight make these vids such a cut above all the other retrospectives. lov ya chopper keep it up my man

My little hot take is BO4 is one of my favorites of the series. Probably one I spent the most amount of time (and money) into next to Advanced Warfare. It taught me to be a more aggressive player and get better with my aiming. I think it's why I really enjoy Call of Duty:Mobile, since it doesn't just use characters, guns and maps throughout the series, but it pretty much has the same multiplayer modes; Battle Royale actually surprised me when they added the Blackout map from BO4. The multiplayer is solid. Though the Zombies mode is really, really watered down with just one map. It'd be cool to see you take a rip on the Mobile game.

ngl Blackout BR was honestly the best BR I have played to date, good map and good weapon balance. I would love if it was popular again

If I’m being honest Black Ops 4 is the most fun I’ve ever had with a video game. Something about it was just so addicting and I’m only 6 minutes into the video but it’s kinda sad knowing already just how much content was removed

Black Ops 4 is definitely one of the games of all time.

FINALLY A NEW CHOPPER VIDEO

So black ops 4 campaign was supposed to be like galactic conquest from the OG battlefront 2. That would have been awesome

Excellent video ❤😊

The cemetery snow scene was👌👌

I loved being able to get a death effect and equip it to ANY weapon

Black ops 4 multiplayer looking back had a great multiplayer. The movement in comparison to what we have now. The weapons just sounded different in the best way. I liked having to think about my health with stims (i know alot of people hated that). It was’nt my favorite game ever but i do miss it a little. The zombies on the other hand… i hope we never see anything like that again.

19:45 that clip was pure gold

Zombies was the biggest letdown from this game they changed the system that wasn’t broken, and tried to get us to care for a new story while finishing up their current one.

I remember wanting to buy BO4, but turned down on this idea when I saw there was no campaign :P

This was the last game I ever pre ordered. Ever since then I waited till there was reviews of games before I buy/play them

I used to hate Black ops 4, but now I do appreciate it. I'm BO4 defender and maybe even lover.

Bo4 was a staple for me because in 2018 I was going thru a severe depressed state in my life. It kept me occupied and kept me coming back despite how frustrating it was. However charging $100 for the complete version was criminal. A bitter-sweet (mostly bitter) game that brings fond memories

"Penultimate" does not mean "Super-ultimate" it means "before the finale." Black Ops 4 was intended to be the ultimate Zombies, not the last-before-the-finale

It should've been named Black ops Legacy or World. Calling this game Black ops 4 while not delivering campaign and a Compromised Zombies mode with trend chasing BR and the mp was just atrocious. The hype was unreal at that time, and it all came crumbling down.

i was so excited to play black ops 4 when it first got announced. my and my friends made plans to play the campaign together until we found out it didnt have one and we ended up never playing the game at all

The fact that there’s so many remastered victis map assets in multiplayer and blackout makes it painfully obvious they were preparing for a chronicles 2

I genuinely always forget this game even happened. My memory just goes from Black ops 3 to tv static then Cold War

Those punch cards in Classified you can pick up convince me there was gonna be an actual main quest Edit: I swear half the reason this video exists was so you could quote “Waste your life over analyzing zombies maps from 2018” lol

Where are you getting the cutscenes in this video? That looks like an interesting game.

I was fully on board and pretty hyped when I heard about the whole faction stuff coming too the game , was pretty bummed when it didn’t come

This was such a fun cod, first cod i hit a nuke in, cordite with the unlimited ammo clip size in hardcore made kill chains very easy on nuketown, no sbmm take me back. i havent bought a cod in 2 years now

As someone with with over 7,500 hours in this game, it was easily my favorite call of duty multiplayer experience, and also why i refused to buy any call of duty after. I enjoy the community (even though its one of the most toxic ones ive ever found, but still met great friends and had fun), i enjoyed the movement, high tkk, maps, weapons, camos, healing, and even specialist. Id still be playing if i hadnt moved to PC Also, the community and game is still very much alive. I primarily played Search, but i had no troubles finding matches in any modes thru the whole time i played (up until about two months ago) Itll be rough for new players, but on PS i highly recommend it

If only Activision trusted their devs and studios more... I think the most tragic part of all is the fact that treyarch lost its best employees, like blundell...

On my old channel I made a video about fixing the connecting to online services screen freezing. And it’s my most viewed video at like 26k views..I have less than 200 subs on that channel. BO4 was unoptimized at launch and I couldn’t even play it until that January

Me and my older brother called it crash op 4 and zombies was such a big downgrade in quality. We fell of Cods for a while . I dream for a WAW remastered. That campaign.

Black Ops 4 was so much fun in terms of creativity in multiplayer. I just wish they were given the chance to get the career mode out and all the support they originally intended on sending out

Awesome job!!

Man BO4 saved my zombie experience as a near 40 year old lol. I love BO4. BO3 zombies felt more buttoned up and suited while BO4 allowed me to be myself. Idk how else to explain it but BO4 had vision and longevity in the weirdest way that other Cods didnt have

I remember watching the reveal and I was so hyped and then it was just not what was advertised

Since your doing a video on every call of duty are you planning to do one on cod mobile

I loved BO4 so much. The last cod I had some real fun in.

Still love to play HC on this game, one of the most fast paced newest multiplayers that we had gotten, comparing to MW19 and CW even.

good video chop

this was a call of duty i got the night it released i watched no yt vids on it or anything, i hit prestige 1 the first night amazing game and a lot of the cods to come after it took a lot from this game

I started really getting into COD with Ghosts and Advanced Warfare. I wasn't really a fan of Black Ops 3 because, like many, I was over the advanced movement. I will say though that I am super excited to play Black Ops 4 once it comes to Game Pass. I'm hoping that access brings a lot of the older games back to life.

Would actually love a full video on the history of COD BRs

20:18 ironic that part aged interestingly, since MW feels tactical

If bo4 was cross platform it would still be alive. I think the multiplayer nailed the arcade cod feel with the higher health and rushing focus gameplay (no camping in corners, they high health means better player can easily turn on you) but its literally impossible to play on pc now sadly..

Only real 1s were in Mozu gang during the blackout beta.

19:44 idk why just had me dying it’s so comical for the game

I loved the MP and aesthetic. It was so bright and still has the series best cosmetics imho.

Wasted potential is the perfect way to sum up bo4. Personally my favorite zombies mode all time in the state it was given. All 8 maps are great but there is a better version of this game we will never know

I loved b04 but now that i dont have a ps4 anymore i really dont wanna start over on xbox or pc. It took me forever to get to prestige master in zombies.

Its sad how much was cut from zombies

Blackout is just a tiny bit behind peak verdansk as far as BRs go. Would love that map coming back

Bro legit just been grinding for dark matter zombies lol much love from New Zealand gg

If they never changed the perk system I guarantee this game would never had bombed

Sad how this game was the last time we had Woods and Mason’s original voice actors for the cutscenes and as operators (although Mason sounds like he isn’t even trying but damn better than he does in Cold War)

I liked BO4 for a while. I think it was a little weird because it was a lazy evolution of BO3, but didn’t make much sense with the movement suddenly being changed to no jetpacks. Like, we went way in one direction with the jetpacks (which was done best in BO3), and then suddenly we’re in basically the same timeline/era but different movement. It was just strange.

you do know the BOTD morse code has the answer around the map, there are 3 bouyies around the map you can see when using the shield that flash a number in morse code, add those numbers and input the total into the thing

Everything just seemed it all was cut short. Mp, zombies, blackout all had great ideas that just needed time.

There’s people on my friends list who I’ve only played bo4 with, everyone had this game it was fun and competitive, good times

Lol i just realized it has the tarkov menu music in the back

It would be really cool to see you give opinions from both the casual and the more competitive side of the communities. Yea maybe bo4 didn’t have any memorable original maps from a casual standpoint but there was definitely some good ones for comp like frequency

A couple things, one how does the BO3 campaign set the stage for the third mode? Other than the weapons nothing comes from the campaign not even close. Second, you can only manually choose your respawn point when there is a tac deploy down. And that's an options so you don't have to repeated spawn and die is your teammate put the beacon in a dumb spot. Third, this was also the last game with the traditional prestige system. Fourth, blackout walked so warzone could run. In my opinion it is way better than warzone, and its a shame that it didnt get the the support that warzone does.

I'm 100% sure that if 3Arch had more time to develop the game team based mechanic could've worked really well. All they needed to do was to balance system a bit differently between modes like TDM and hardpoint