Why Was Call of Duty: Ghosts SO HATED?! And... BAD?! 

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I feel like I’m one of the only people who didn’t think ghosts was that trash

Worst part of Call of Duty Ghosts: It's not an origin story for Ghost.

I think that "Ghosts" was the last CoD where you actually got a lot a real full campaign experience. A lot of gameplay and not just cutscenes like these days. The story is a bit lame but the game is actually pretty good, and the graphics are not bad at all. MW3 was also somewhat mediocre but such a packed singleplayer-mode is awesome. Sadly these days the CoD games are MP and the campaign itself is the "movie" so that we get a backstory to why we're playing.

Honestly, compared to some of the newer cods (Vanguard, WW2), this doesn't seem bad, honestly.

Camping with a thermal scope was so common in ghosts that even the bots would do it in an offline match

Call of Duty ghosts will always have a spot in my heart because me and my dad would always play it together and it was always fun.

You can always tell when a game is fucked over by corporate meddling. Because the music, the art, the landscapes, everything is beautiful, but the story is middling at best and appalling at worst. The artists who work on these games put their heart and passion into them, laboring for many hundreds or thousands of hours to make everything pristine and stunning, only for their corporate overlords to take their art and put over a rotting corpse of a story, which must feel like a sledgehammer to the chest.

I will never understand why people hated this game, I loved it and it is one of my personal favorites.

Honestly I think BO4 and Advanced Warfare are far worse than Ghosts.

Act man you clearly didn’t give the game a chance, did you see the fish A.I.?

The Clockwork mission could be a stealth mission from start to finish, the idea of disguised as an enemy to sneak into their base is fun and thrilling, but nope their disguises has been found out by the enemies in the end turning it into open fire chaotic hot mess

The only problem I had with the campaign was the ending of course, Riley getting knocked aside by that soldier that stabbed you, with no effort at all. And Rorke being invincible. But besides that I loved the campaign.

Everyone shitted on this game so hard we got 3 fucking futuristic ones in a row

Ghosts happens after Modern Warfare, so my head cannon is that Simon "Ghost" Riley is reincarnated as a dog. Which explains why Riley is such a good dog

I loved ghosts for 2 reasons and two reasons only The story, ignoring the stupid logic And the absolutely beautiful campaign level design

this game has a place deep in my soul. my dad introduced me to it when i was 7, taught me and my brother, and we played vs bots for 4 years. me and my bro got onto multiplayer and i quickly figured out my playstyle was camping (thank you father, for now i have no movement) and i LOVED sitting in some obscure part of prison break with the ghillie suit (thank you father, for grinding online for 4 years). me and my bro would split screen, where he would go run and i would watch out for him, kill some nerds, direct him where i couldnt shoot, and sometimes he would just stand near me and camp, so they would go for him and let me get kills more easily. he died, i avenged, i died, he avenged. easily had multiple spots to play in in case i died. never stopped being fun getting 25/0 just for sitting in a bush helping out my little brother. one time i got 42 and 3. still have the picture on my dad's phone. love ghosts to death.

Well they solved this problem... By making shitter games so people would forget about it. Pure. Fucking. Genius.

Ghost: “I am the worst” Vanguard: “am I a joke to you?”

I think the point of the mode where you pit two bot teams against each other might be to test out different loadouts against each other. Maybe set two bots up with specific loadouts to see if one can counter the other.

I'm pretty sure you got a kem strike from the field order cuz you were on strike zone which was the only map that would change its environment when a kem strike launched, you could get them in care packages on that map too but only strikeout

The story doesn’t make sense Laughs in bo3

COD Ghosts was okay, but it was obviously the point when the franchise became stale.

Meanwhile me patiently waiting for the past 10 years to see what happened to my bro, getting overly excited everytime Activision announces new game immediately getting dissapointed when it turns out not to be Ghosts2: ;_;

As someone who played only gun game for multiple years from ghosts through infinite warfare onto where I actually cared mw19, it’d been fun only because I had no comparison and is nostalgia now

People back then: ghosts is trash! People now: *perhaps I treated you harshly*

I really want a COD: Ghosts 2; Riley goes to the past to kill Hitler.

MI just need to put this out there. A Call of Duty Ghosts Reboot. Imagine: - an actually good story - mechanics reminiscent of the Modern Warfare 2 remake stealth missions, with the prybars made out of fan blades etc - ACTIVISION TEAMS UP WITH THE GUYS THAT MADE GHOST RECON / SPLINTER CELL - so we actually get the stealthy geurilla warfare we all thought we were going to get. - As such, have tie ins with either Ghost Recon or Splinter Cell (even subtly, like Scott Mitchel/ Sam Fisher doing briefings etc) As a result, this would create a direct link with Call of Duty Ghosts, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, Rainbow 6 (as R6 ties in with Ghost Recon) and The Division (As it is confirmed R6 and T.D are set in the same universe) - ACTUALLY USE MW GHOST, TYING IN WITH MW. This would create a point of convergence, between Call of Duty and the Clancyverse, also meaning characters could be shared between games. Keegan could be an R6 operator. Nokk or Jaeger appearing in Modern Warfare. Kozak appearing in the next Division. Price being mentioned in a Splinter Cell (as if they're ever making one of those again) This is never gonna happen, but imagine if it did. A Ghost Recon Future Soldier style (in gameplay) COD Ghosts Reboot that ties in (if not in a "My aunt's married cousin's husband's son's daughter twice removed" kinda way) with the Clancyverse. Unique and compelling gameplay and story, with many chances for Activision to make a fuck tonne of money to our ENJOYMENT. That would be fucking crazy. Awesome, but crazy.

2023 Mw3 makes Ghosts look like a masterpiece

“Ghost is the worst cod game” Me: *coughs in bo4*

How can anyone hate this game? Fish will move out of the way when you swim towards them. This is a revolutionary masterpiece. It even has a dog. For you dog people.

I remember playing Ghosts after school with my boyfriend 9 years ago before AW came out. I really, truly miss it. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I believe this game came out during the wrong time. Had it come out now, it would've been better received than the garbage Activision puts out today. I miss it and had great memories of the multiplayer. I never got mad at it, or any older COD. Today, I can't play a single COD match without enduring a player who acts like their life depends on a win

I will say. The oil rig mission is actually really good

No greater feeling of loneliness than being the only one who enjoyed Ghosts.

"Look at that texture in the water dispenser." Cause yea, thát's what CoD players care about.

Anyone that played this game knows rorke literally earned him a spot in top 5 best villains in cod but he doesn’t get his recognition because of the game

Is it bad that this was my favorite call of duty game I’ve ever played. I loved the emblem system, I loved the dogs, I loved the random Michael Meyers, I loved the guns. It was the first call of duty I played and got into. Also the clan battles was awesome

"You assault Rorke's train." Outcome? *Train go boom*

"COD : Ghost is the most hated COD" infinite Warfare : Am I a joke to you?

I think the voice acting on the first cutscene for the story was amazing, always gave me chills when he said “sad stuck to their skin like a shroud, changing them, anointing them”

Clan Wars was the best time I ever spent playing call of duty. The community was weak as hell and still is tbh. Nowadays they're more concerned with movement tech than actually being good at the game.

"If I accidentally opened this game I would think I was playing Black Ops 2." they have absolutely no resemblance to each other.

>ghosts comes out >"worst game ever" >infinite warfare, bo4 released >"y'know... ghosts wasn't as bad as people say it is"

I know I’m not the only one one to say this. Nevertheless I used to play COD Ghosts with my Dad when I was younger it was a lot of fun especially when my Dad would use the CHAINSAW LMG and would complain about the bots killing him every time he’d reload it was really funny hearing him complain (and yes at the time when I was on the PS4 playing it I had no PlayStation Network so we just played offline) On another map of which I don’t know the name of all I know is that it had an elevator anyways. One of my favourite things to do was stand in front of the elevator and wait for a bot to go up. Upon the elevator door opening I would gun him dead. Change of topic The Act Man already talked about the interactivity with the maps but what he missed is the things you can destroy with equipped weapons like on the map with that dumbass area in which you could drown if you fell in there was a bus dangling off of a cliff and I think if you hit it with a rocket or a “trinity missile” it could fall of I could be wrong though. I may have grown up to hate it yet I still have some fond memories of it. What I’m saying is that COD Ghosts will always be in my heart. That is my typical RU-vid essay writer comment.

The mission where you crash in a jungle and get to sneak around and take out enemies all stealthily was really good then after that segment it just devolves into another run of the mil cod mission.

For anyone who's wondering why Ghosts suddenly looks a lot more appealing nowadays, it's because at the time of Ghosts' release, this wasn't the stellar CoD that the first couple of Black Ops installments and Modern Warfare trilogy were. It failed to live up to those CoDs, which tend to commonly be seen as the golden years of Call of Duty. The reason Ghosts looks so appealing now, is because since 2013 came along, we've had nearly a decade's worth of worse Call of Duty games than Ghosts.

As someone who didn't have internet access, Ghost was one of my favorites. It's like the only one you could play tdm, s&d, domination, etc against a full team of bots.

They could've done so much with Rorke, maybe instead of using Elias' pov, you filled the shoes of Rorke and it would show just what exactly the federation did to him to brainwash the dude to fight for them. It'd give us insight into the federation and Rorke, and show us just what makes them tick

This was my first call of duty and I loved it, but I didn’t get internet access till after everyone moved on so I only got to experience offline play. One thing you didn’t mention that I didn’t like was the at in the campaign and I think extinction there were weapons that I really liked but couldn’t use in multiplayer

ghosts developers:the fish swim away from you mario 64: im about to end this mans whole carrer

I wanted to slap the guy complaining about the writing on the water cooler, you can tell he was on the hate bandwagon and was looking for reasons to validate his opinion

Possible hot take. Ghosts is better then Vanguard because Ghosts actually tried and had some original ideas, say what you will but a ton of effort went into this game. It may have been misplaced or missed the mark in some areas, but there is clear love and attention to detail. Vanguard felt like they just asked chat gpt to write a ww2 game

While this is all valid criticism, and I agree, I still can't completely agree; I used to play this game offline in local multiplayer with my sister. It was our game, yk? I have so many shared memories with this game. I know I'm biased, but I still feel this way tbh.

Everybody will hate me but cod ghost was really fun to me

Even though it sucked Ghosts had some of the coolest weapons like the Honey Badger, Remington R5 and Chainsaw.

something that REALLY bugged me with Ghosts was that the fancy new blur around the scope was horribly optimized, even on a very good PC for the time. the game itself ran at 100+ FPS for me, but had horrible stuttering and was dropping FPS into the low 10s when aiming down sights.

I think my favorite thing about ghosts is that underberral shotgun/launchers replaced your lethal so you could just press r2 instead shaping to it from left direction

*Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for The Act Man to do a "Why Fallout New Vegas Was So Awesome"*

all I can remember about this game is: 1. 3d arms 2. fish animation 3. polished dog

I appreciate how you genuinely try to find something positive in every review. It's one of my favorite things about your channel.

When I returned my copy to GameStop a week after release, they had just one question. "What took you so long?"

I'm still running around Stonehaven trying to find someone to kill in 2019

Call Of Duty Black Ops 3: Train go boom Call Of Duty Ghosts: new dog models

But the actual ending is Logan’s Pov looking up from a caged hole in the Jungle, and I think that’s sick

I played the crap out of ghosts when it came out. The story was about a legendary group of soldiers with new blood coming in and one was "left behind" in the past causing him set out for revenge so the plot made sense enough. I think extinction was a net win, infinity ward kind of has a track record of a linear decline of "good" DLC's throughout a cod game (advanced and infinite warfare) but PoC, nightfall, and mayday were really fun maps imo. Adding the teeth system and seeing dual class and a panacea ammo type made me want to grind the mode. Multiplayer was for sure the weakest part for me. The guns felt good and I believe it started the trend of not having blacked out sniper scopes but it had some amazing killstreaks. The maniac juggernaut was always on my loadout and The reskin to Michael Myers on the cabin map made playing Mike Myers all the better. The LOKI satellite is also my favorite max killstreak in any cod it was unique and i never took it off. Ghosts multiplayer really failed in the map department however. There were some maps that I didn't mind like fog or prison break, but generally there were only maps that I either didn't mind or didn't like. Stonehaven is a different case. Stone haven is an affront to god and I blame most of the problems in the world on the creation of that map.

"Ghosts was the first to do soldier customization." Black Ops 1: Am I a joke to you?

Call of duty ghosts was the last ever COD that people had mics and talk shit like MW2 days 😐

what was that tiny map they made a 24/7 game mode for? that was actually really fun

I loved ghosts. Particularly the multiplayer. It felt different from other cods. Likewise i think stonehaven was a great cod map. Some people want an arcade feel, some people want something between cod and battlefield.

"The fish swim away when you get too close to them!" - Infinity Ward, not realizing you could do the same shit in Mario 64

“If I opened this by accident, I’d think this was Black Ops 2.” Don’t disrespect Black Ops 2 like that.

cod ghost was super fun for the month i played the multiplayer on pc, i bought the game months after release and had to upgrade my pc from 4gb to 8gb just to get it playable for multiplayer. since it was one of the first games to require more than 4gbs of ram with it being an odd 6gb. The last cod before i played ghost was mw3 so the leap in advancement in the create a class was amazing. I ran knife only super fast ninja builds with my favorite killstreak being the running maniac. The only change i didnt like was the melee animation was a real animation sometimes and not just a swipe to kill people so it was harder to chain knife kills but was still super fun with the perk that gives you a UAV blip every time you kill someone so you could always find another person after your first kill. The campaign was better than mw3's, wwII, BO2, BO3, and cold war's. And the game had the best Intro

My friend and I just recently got back into COD, and were talking about the older games, he brought up Ghosts and how much he enjoyed it. I literally was like “I do not remember anything about Ghosts other than it was the reason I stopped playing COD”

I swear, the part where Rourke shoots Logan is a perfect example of "Getting hurt in cutscenes vs getting hurt in gameplay"

"The Federation United all of South America under one banner" That's already unbelievable because no way in he'll would Argentinians and Brazilians ever work together no matter how much was at stake

Loved ghosts, purely because they weren't afraid to do something new. Nowadays developers make the same shit that brings alot of cash and are too scared to make something new. Same with infinite warfare, the campaign in that game is outstanding, visually and creatively.

Bruh, MW23 makes Ghosts look like The Last of Us 1

I remember playing Ghost after Black Ops 2 and thinking that I got the bad ending

Extinction is massively underrated. Mayday's bossfight was insane

Crazy thing is, this was actually my first real introduction into tournament multiplayer. I almost want an Xbox One. I was beaten out by little Asian girl using a honey badger. The weapon had been banned in the tournament, but because she was so young, nobody bothered to correct her. I believe she was 11 LMAO I made it to round 3 😂 my point being, the multiplayer was so lit that it even pulled me in from whatever corner of gaming I happen to be interested in at the time

there were tow things that I loved about Ghost, infected mode (not extinction) and the honey badger (one of the best COD smgs)

I heard a legendary quote once “train go boom”

“This is the worst Call of Duty ever” Vanguard: *allow me to introduce myself*

Somebody at Activision definitely saw this video and was like: “You think you know what’s bad? You don’t know nothing yet, kid”

This was one of my favorites...im sorry. The squads mode was my favorite too! I loved building, leveling up, and customizing my squad of operators to pit them against others

“OFC I’m going to hate the maps, because I can’t find anybody to shoot.” Maybe that’s why they called it ghosts

"The maps aren't bad, they are just bad for CoD!", Perfectly said my mind!

I personally enjoyed the game a lot. And my brother did too. My favorites ever I think it’s the OG modern warfare and Black Ops 1. Also new Modern warfare when warzone launched. But ghosts has a place in my heart due to many factors. It was different. People always ask for change and when they get it they cry about it. I don’t understand that.

2022: Perhaps we treated you too harshly

Fun fact: at the very end of the campaign, there is a short cut-scene that shows Logan in a pit. That pit is located in the jungle and what the cut-scene means is that Logan is being brainwashed, by having him alone in pit in the jungle. Look up it up

Ghost was actually good, it just got released after black ops 2 so everyone was expecting something better then bo2, so it looked shitty but it was alright

I played the campaign (I sorta enjoyed it, it held my attention). I played the multiplayer for a couple days and I didn’t have fun. I just kept on playing for about 7 months. About a year later I’d get on just to troll and I had fun doing that. 20/20 sensitivity, search n destroy, Riot shield, bulldog w/ extended mags, and throwing knives. It was goofy as hell.

This is the first cod game i ever played. I always liked good campaigns or story modes. But just like every story….it ends….and I still want to play something

Imagine if the released date of black ops 2 and ghost were flipped

you know what, they SHOULD make Call of Duty: Ghosts 2, finish the story, give the federation more lore, the multiplayer will have more people to fill the maps, and increase the maximum players.

After watching your video, i believe you bring up some valid points about the storytelling. I actually grew up with COD Ghosts as it was my first cod game. The game is my favorite in the franchise of cod and holds a special place in my heart. I enjoyed your video, and i respect your opinion of the game. Even if it differs to mine. I really like ghosts and i respect your review, even if you dont like it as much as I did. Your vids are cool Act Man :)

I remember playing it with my brother. I don't consider it bad but that's maybe because I was too young to deduce the multiplayer was bad. Although, the Campaign was one of the best in all the franchise, in my opinion. Like if you're still waiting to see what happened to Logan lol.

the snoop dogg voicepack is the best purchase i’ve made in my life.

Rorke was hit over the head multiple times, shot through the heart with a .44 magnum, dragged to the bottom of the sea, drowned to death, then teleports back up to the surface, beats you up, grabs you and drags you to Mexico. Ok, makes sense.

I don´t agree with that "a story needs conflict" argument, if that was true the whole Slice of Life genre wouldn´t exist