The Worst Lore in Modern Gaming 

I always find it funny to imagine all the fans paid for tickets to watch a building, because there’s no indication they can see what’s going on inside the stadium building

An anti terrorist team being turned into a paintball esports team sounds like the plot of a south park episode

Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to give an anti terrorist game an anime Tournament Arc?

The fact that this is all connected to the Splinter Cell canon and Sam is spending his retirement coaching operators for e-sports is also pretty crazy.

"Most players are too distracted with the amazing gameplay" Is this gameplay in the room with us?

Deimos is real af, just said “Rainbow use to be cool and now it sucks” and kills the guy that made it the dumb Olympics

An anti-terrorist secret agency becoming airsoft sport celebrities is the dumbest story I ever heard. Like, not even fun B-movie dumb, just plain dumb.

Back when the stadium cinematic dropped I remember thinking "oh that's cool, the Six Invitational is right around the corner, so they made this cinematic to hype up the event, having the pro players and their passion represented by the very operators." Never in a million years would I have thought that that was actually canon but here we are

Rainbow Six Siege is a game where most of the time I thought smoke's gas was the same as the white masks.

>this is why rainbow is formed >this is what you all been trained for >OLYMPIC DOORBREACHING

They say that the servers are maintained purely by the energy created by the speeds Tom Clancy achieves by rolling around in his grave.

remember when ''Tom Clancy's'' meant grounded narative and feeling ''it could have happend '' ? been decades since i did

The fact they wrote an entire explanation to justify having a super secretive elite military counter terrorist force be an esport team and use that as a jumping off point in the story instead of just saying its all non canon scenario is wild.

Reminder that there is canonically a story in the R6 universe where Ash, Tachanka, Blitz, Frost, Ela, Iana, Fuze and Doc were transported to anime Narnia and Ash becomes a catgirl in that story.

i cant believe the "Rainbow 6 start a paintbull club" was canon, i thought it was some noncanon for fun event just for the esports or something 😭😭😭

One of my “favorite” parts of the Nighthaven shit is that some R6 operators left with them…Government owned, Special Forces operators, being assigned from their countries to team Rainbow…just left on their own to join a PMC…are you fucking crazy?

Siege Ops at launch: A former FBI agent volunteers for an International Legion of Anti-Terrorist commandos who specially assist in hostage situations Siege Ops now: I was good at Paintball and I got drafted into the local SWAT unit

Who TF prints its organization name on the fuckyng bullets they use, wtf.

Team Rainbow is a bunch of countires working together to fight terrorism so the operators still serve under their respective governments. They wouldnt be able to just leave and join a PMC group while still being enlisted

Jesus Christ, I had no idea where the lore went after outbreak

this is essentially just like a high school drama anime but ubisoft did it so it's worse

You know it's bad when the gacha game collab has better and more thought out lore and personality for the R6 characters than the actual game

Tom Clancy is rolling in his grave so bad he could probably power a whole country

I wonder what happens if you buy tickets to a Rainbow match and all of a sudden there an attack an all of Rainbow Six needs to go and take care of it. Do you get your tickets refunded?

You know what I hate the most? This whole stadium and operator vs operator escapade feels like the biggest cop-out in order to avoid any further PvE modes.

Best Part is that random chinese company who bought the rights to use Team Rainbow for a collab in their anime tower defense game (Arknights) took better care of the Lore of the individuals, their goals and ways than what modern R6 does with its cast.

E-sports and it's consequences were a disaster to PvP shooters.

3:31 You can get demonetized for saying “Terrorist” now ? What happens if you were playing Counter Strike and the announcer says “Counter Terrorists win” ?

I don't really buy that the stadium plot was to make the story more escalable. What I think happened was that they realized making a game about anti-terrorists is inherently political, and they needed to tip toe around a lot of stuff to avoid offending anyone. They want to keep the game as apolitical as possible to attract more players. Think about the backlash they could have gotten if they had released any of the Russian ops now with the Ukraine war going on. Or what if suddenly one of the units featured in the game gets involved in a controversial situation like violations of human rights? Then an ignorant news station could run a segment about the game that let's you play as them. That's why they stopped featuring real anti terrorist units in the Operator's background. Deimos is an attempt to go back to the anti-terrorist roots, while keeping the conflict mostly internal. He doesn't really follow any political agenda, his whole motivation is focused on Rainbow itself.

I don't understand why AAA games are so allergic to realistic / "mil-sim" type stories. The same thing happened with the MW reboot, they'll pretend to be serious for about a few months until they start adding in zombies, dabbing emotes and Snoop Dogg skins. It's not even that "realistic" games aren't popular, games like Arma and Tarkov are huge. I'm just so burnt out with how unserious most stories are in games now, it's sucks all the immersion out.

There was a point in ghost recon wildlands where Nomad (the protagonist) asked Caviera about Operation Patriots, to which she replies, "it's classified." hinting that the events did indeed happen, the game just didn't.

So you're telling me that while the Marine Corps were laying brass all over the Middle East, Rainbow Six was playing mock-battles in a stadium?

I need to say that, in regards to the stadium, having all the operators live together in one location has got to be the worst security risks I’ve ever heard of

Remember when Rainbow was such breach of international law, that NATO and the UN would disavow them in a heartbeat if the world found out the true nature and origins of their organization? (John Clark specifically told you this) Yeah, apparently Ubisoft forgot that part when they made Team Rainbow and airsoft team. When this first dropped, even I couldn't believe what they were trying. This was as far removed from the setting as they could get.

as a very new siege player, i thought that the defenders and attackers had deep, interconnected lore that would explain why they are on separate sides and that they actually didnt like each other and viewed each other as enemies. turns out theyre all best friends training in front of thousands of people 💀.

I was never wrapped up consistently in the lore updates for siege. But I do remember thinking, why did they make the leader for rainbow a hippy therapist?

Dude the article 5 cutscenes and original operator videos were so badass. After your operator walks out of the decontamination tent, grabs his gun and rejoins his teammates as the music swelled.

Thank God Tom Clancy isn't alive to see the shit they did to his beloved franchise.

So Deimos just wants the counter terrorism unit... to do their job and kill terrorists? But instead of like acting as an advisor to Rainbow like Zero, he just hunts them down and kills them to I guess prove a point that they're all pussies now?? It's funny how they wrote a villain who's main point is correct but his actions make no sense in relation to it. Deimos was a major missed opportunity to really dig into the morality behind a covert counter terrorism unit with no government oversight. If I could rewrite him, I'd make Deimos believe its dangerous to have CTUs exist unchecked, and decides he only trusts himself to run a Rainbow esque unit. So his goal is to essentially cannabalize every non-government CTU and for-hire groups like Nighthaven until hes the only one running what would basically be his version of Rainbow. So he'd first try to recruit anyone from other CTUs including Rainbow and Nighthaven, and those that said no or disagreed with his vision had to be eliminated. Additionally, and this part is slightly in the current lore but I would focus on it more, he actually wants covert ops to be, you know, covert. So the whole airsoft olympics thing very much pisses him off. Ok in a perfect world the stadium just would be scrapped entirely bc its obviously stupid as shit but it was already there before Deimos so I gotta work it in. He wants his CTU to be impossible to track for tactical efficiency, especially considering he's going to war with other CTUs, hence why he kills anyone that knows about him and doesn't join the cause. To tie his motivations together and make his beef with Rainbow personal, his backstory could be an op that went wrong and his whole team was killed. They were like family to him, and they died because whoever was running Rainbow at the time (I like the idea the leader is just called Six) didn't listen to his input on the op. Something like maybe he wanted to keep the op quiet but Six communicated with a local government for information, that info got out and led to an ambush. Then he has specific motivation to run Rainbow the "right way", seeing Rainbow as his white whale and ultimate goal of his crusade. While he initially reaches out to some ops about joining, maybe swaying some Nighthaven ops, his undisclosed goal is to kill Harry. Maybe he frames Nighthaven for Harry's death, causing a civil war between the two teams so he has less ops to contend with, leaving only the best ops alive and very open to join a well run CTU after their's was destroyed. He'd be the only one left for them to work for.

Look at old footage of the game. The game used to be dark in visual style, deep black shadows, no goofy Rick n Morty skins, clearing a building was terrifying. Now its just Overwatch with destructible walls.

They really should have stated that Deimos is just a gameplay aspect and him playing along with their "training" is mostly non cannon. Heck they could have just hired a double for him and basically say "Hey, we think this is how this guy will operate. Play with/against him just so you guys can dip your toes on be ready when you fight him for real" Instead of basically saying "Yeah, this is the real guy. Why is he participating on the activities he hates so much? I dunno- I mean... It's some super secret reason, yeah. He's totally a 5head gigabrain and it is all part of his plan."

The moment that made me drop from the lore were when the ducking writers decided to pick up a elite anti terrorism unit and make them fitgh themselves in a damn stadium, where literally ANYONE can go in and watch their tactics and strategies, like you know what I will end this comment here before I say a lot of bad words.

Ubisoft has basically looked at the lore team and went: "yeah we'll just make new operators, you just do... whatever makes you happy..."

The lore plays out like a WWE storyline between tag teams. They literally duke it out in the field, have beef when they’re not training, then they duke it out again. Except with WWE, their storylines are atleast coherent

Its like if the Rescue Heroes stop doing their actual job and saving people to do a special training all the time

didnt even know siege had lore 💀

Baffled by the arena thing entirely. Dude saw 1 anime with a tournament arc pop off and was like yeah I'll do that

I enjoyed Seige when it first came out, but i hate the direction they took the game. It went from being a serious and gritty game to yet another hero shooter with ridiculous and quirky characters. Its a good game, but it reallt shouldnt have Tom Clancy's name attached to it anymore.

It's important to keep in mind that the first Rainbow Six novel was about trying to stop terrorists from releasing a lethal virus at the Olympics. For some reason, the writers thought it'd be a good idea to have the world's most dangerous task force in public, showcasing military tactics all under one roof at their own Olympics. Terrorists could literally just study Rainbow's tactics, or even better just kill all of Team Rainbow in one place. Insanely stupid writing, even for Ubisoft. And then, there's Nighthaven...

Tbh the graphics for siege kind of went down over the year aswell as the story. Tactical shooter goes downward into anime drama levels of writing

Team Rainbow in Arknights has a more serious story with a more realistic tone. And that story starts with Ash, Tachanka, Blitz, and Frost getting Isakei'd into a world where they have to fight magic mutants along side a talking lizard man and cat girls

Tom Clancy games used to mean something when the man himself was still alive and had some oversight over games bearing his name. To show how deeply he cared about authenticity, he almost nixed Sam Fisher’s iconic goggles because at the time, dual night vision and thermal goggles were impossible. He only relented when devs convinced him that swapping separate goggles would be too cumbersome for gameplay. Every game had to be authentic and use either existing or near future experimental weapons and tech. And all the soldiers and spies looked and acted like professionals doing a job and being badasses. Now it’s all complete bullshit.

I think that Deimos killing Harry is representative of the devs attempting to go back to a more grounded story without the stadium and games bs. Ever since Harry was killed off, they’ve had a more direct story of Keres versus Rainbow, but I can’t be bothered to learn about it past the surface level because there’s no gameplay content to experience the story in.

I miss the old r6, when it took itself serious. Nowadays I'm fighting fuckin pickle rick

so the devs made “Deimos” as the evil personification of the OG players who wanted rainbow to go back to its original form yet they have the guts to make him bad and then turning him into a just a regular airsoft operator.

Tom Clancy has to be rolling in his grave knowing how they turned his grounded IP into a E-Sports mega-simp cringefest.

I often think about how ace is supposed to be a natural disaster rescue guy saving people that works for a private mercenary group

You can tell by character design when the story shift happened as well. You cannot tell me that those that designed and wrote ops like Glaz and Kapkan are the same people that designed Sens, Junkrat and Roadho…sorry, Mozzie and Gridlock, Osa, Azami, Fenrir, Kali, Amaru, Iana, etc…

Why this game needed more than "special forces fight against knock off KKK who gas people" for its lore?

Also, don’t these operators still belong to their own countries and units? If they aren’t needed by rainbow anymore because the global white mask threat is defeated, then it would make sense that they return to their countries to be used by their countries for missions and operations.

The whole tournament thing can work if instead of being a public event it's a private event which is used to recruit new operators and test their skills, you can have drama between the old and new operators and if still want audience you can have military guys cheering their buddies

Arknights made a better story regarding (some of) the operators than Ubisoft themselves. They even care more about the IP of them being a counter-terrorism unit

I miss the good o'l days where I can fire up T-hunt with my friends and chat while we farm credits in a somewhat chill fashion

A much better way to keep it in-line with the Tom Clancy Brand is have the two-team drama be because they joined competing PMCs who disagree on rules of engagement (one is by-the-books, one is shoot-first-ask-questions-later). An op goes wrong and hostages get killed, Rainbow splits up. Boom, _drama._ It’s not original but it’s *something.* A lot of modern media is losing its identity by stripping away its own lore/tone/aesthetics and replacing it with colourful, safe garbage because corporate execs who never even engage in that media want to appeal to the broadest audience possible.

When that loading screen of the game changed I knew it was the beginning of the end. No more Terrorist. No more maturity, no more tactical decisions or politics. Just a generic shooter with some destruction. I really was hopping it wouldn’t come to that, I held hope, but year after year I finally saw the writing on the wall and deleted the game, for it wasn’t what I originally bought it for. While the skeleton is there the soul is gone, and I miss it. It’s not a Tom Clancy game anymore, it’s a Ubisoft Game with a Tom Clancy Sticker over it. :( RIP

Deimos was the only good thing they added in a while and then they arrest and and take him in after just adding him in a trailer he ain’t even last a couple months 💀

It's a shame they gutted Rainbow Six: Patriots to make this game.

Wow. I mean, just...wow. I had no clue that this was the direction that the game’s story went. Granted, I’m a 100% PVE guy, so I’ve never played it, but I remember watching the trailers for the base version of the game and thinking it looked really cool. You’re absolutely right, this seems like it’s gone utterly off the grid in terms of being ridiculous and removing itself from the grounded, realistic tone set by the early days of the franchise. Thanks for taking the time to make and share this; even for someone like me who’s never played the game, I still found it fascinating!

Tom Clancy must be rolling in his grave. It's the biggest "F YOU" to the source material that I've ever seen.

They could’ve just had the White Masks funded by a rogue state of Whateverstan lead by a charismatic dictator and have them be the main villains for awhile.

Imagine if instead of a stadium it was all based around intense training in a covert kill house training ground somewhere. Surely someone thought of that instead to be more grounded and achieve the same thing

I really like the stadium cinematic's first half. Training at the ABANDONED stadium. Using the training dummies as targets, having those obstacles and reusing the location is so cool... But then they made it a public event.

Ngl I was so happy Deimos dropped Harry

I don't think story is a main part in r6 because the target audience isn't interested in it. Like you said, they're in it for the gameplay, and the company notices that.

I grew up with R6 Vegas and Vegas 2. The switch from a grounded story of an anti-terror group stopping terrors to E-sports was like going from GTA 4 to Saints Row 3.

The true worst part is, that someone got paid in "writing" this.

The stadium idea works just fine, but they should have explained it by saying something like: ‘The stadium is a showcase of new state-of-the-art production military hardware (operator gadgets) and tactics, with the intent for military contracting.’ Essentially, all of the operator gadgets are new technology developed by private companies (or by the operators themselves) and are being showcased in simulated setting, with the intent of selling them for military production. Makes a lot more sense than this being a sporting event

Deimos is just a playable character he’s still a villain not on team rainbow

pretending that Rainbow 6 Sieges lore was any good from the beginning is the funniest part of this video to me. As an old Rainbow fan, I would have much preferred Rainbow 6 Patriots that was scrapped for this E Sports magnate they created instead.

eSports and it's consequences have been a disaster for FPS games

that’s because it was all for fucking esports. it’s always about greed or clout. greed is ruining the gaming industry

I love how in Overwatch, you can pair Doomfist, the main baddie that Overwatch is hunting down, with the Overwatch team themselves and nobody cares

Ever since Fortnite and battlepasses became popular, the story which is true for other games as well is where games pursued the live service model which was when cosmetics and quirky characters were emphasized over realism and integrity.

The world’s most elite secret and classified counter terrorist group is playing sports with their names and faces for the world to see with melo drama and romance. Just like Tom Clancy wanted. A fucking sports game with a M rating. 🤢

Just make siege 2 already and go back to 1980's

Bro Deimos is literally all of us who say f*ck Siege that thing shits all over Tom Clancy's legacy and they should've just continued with R6 Patriots ... at least Ghost Recon hasn't been turned into cartoony esports game like come on none of these games are going to over throw Counter-Strike why even bother.

Look at how they massacred my boy. The old Vegas games were so good and I remember enjoying the story with the white masks when the game first released. What happened to Ubisoft

'Basicallyhomeless' on youtube made a bunch of entertainment focused videos where he hacked in ranked R6 MULTIPLE TIMES. And then he got invited to host a R6 event, he was hyped, told everyone, went to the event, stayed chatting with everyone, and got the sneaking suspicion they didnt know exactly what his content contains. Like an hour before going live he went up to the event manager and said "hey btw you know what my content is?" "No" was the reply "I hack R6" he educated, before being removed as host. They never cared.

My only knowledge of the Rainbow 6 Siege lore before watching the video was the following: -Please be patient, Jäger has autism -Breaking Bandit -Vigil is literally Batman -Zofia was nearly drowned as a child and one of her weapons is an airsoft gun -Deimos. Idk -Castle is a nerd -All praise be to Lord Tachanka

Deimos could’ve been a 1v5 mode, with Deimos having a bunch of buffs, like higher health, full knowledge of openets, and a base that had a lookout and maybe a drone or cannon or smth

The second Tom Clancy died, some men in suits screamed "BURN HIS LEGACY TO AASSHHH"

What's funny is that The Finals does what R6 basically does, but way better because it was always supposed to be a goofy premise for a multiplayer FPS. There was never a serious grounded backstory to trample on.

1:41 Caseoh just made my phone 100x heavier with his presence

They found out that it was much more lucrative to toss out all the PvE and the writers and start shilling nothing but cosmetics and over hyper-focusing on the overly competitive scene.

I knew R6's lore was silly, but I didnt realize the paintball arc was actually supposed to be a major part in the lore, that is actually criminally stupid. Making Outbreak canon would've actually been a less ridiculous decision.

I quit R6 near the end of Year 3. I had no clue it devolved into this stupid story. So glad I quit before things got cringy.

Tom Clancy is spinning like a turbine in his grave. (Even his most ridiculous plot lines have nothing on this mess).

rainbow's story stumbled so that for honor story could fall of a cliff

Wasn't this game about swat guys busting down doors with hammers and breach charges?

COD isn’t far behind with their Saturday morning cartoon show characters