Everything GREAT About Call of Duty: Vanguard!

Here's Everything GREAT about Call of Duty Vanguard! I hope you enjoy the video! Vanguard was a breaking point for a lot of COD fans after years of breaking points. It was definitely a weird one to cover to balance the obvious real issues with the title while praising it for what it did well. I hope a struck a good balance and that you all enjoy!

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[mniakan]

The fact that you have managed to make a 24 minute video about everything great in vangaurd campaign amazes me cause I have played that campaign and I can’t find anything they’ve done right to save my life and I was one of only 10 people excited about a ww2 cod game in the new engine hoping for something like world at war

Edit: 9:14 I think all of us know that it was Resnov and Demittri who freed Stalingrad

[zoyo]

I had so many problems with this game. I'm a history major, going for a doctorate, and to say I love history is an understatement. My biggest issue with the game is that there were so many ways they could have gone with it to make it actually a stellar game. It had so much potential, so many options, and so many ways to go RIGHT... but they didn't do it. All the options they had to make this game amazing, they skipped over or ignored, and they pussy-footed between making the game historical or alt-history, and ended up mixing the two to the point of it being nonsensical and oftentimes pandering or just wrong.

My biggest wish is that they had focused on this 'Fourth Reich' that was attempting to rise out of the ashes of the Third, and how this team was responsible for killing it in its infancy. I feel like that would have been a much better game, and would have clarified the purpose of this game being alt-history with historical inspiration. It COULD have been a great game, great story, and it had the potential, but for whatever reason they CHOSE the route that dropped the ball. That's what makes me hate it, honestly, is that it was just such a disappointment when it could have not been.

[TrevRear]

my biggest problem with Laura Bailey's "I shoot Nazis, they die. That's my plan" line at 2:04 is that it does nothing to show her character of, at least according to CoD Vanguard's story, the literal best sniper to ever grace the eastern front. Sniping is very *very* much more than "point and shoot" as unlike what Vanguard would lead people to believe, but suppressors weren't really a mass produced thing so a Sniper knew that all they get is just a single pull of a trigger before the enemy realizes where they are, and the biggest gripe is that Call of Duty has already a "Woman Soviet Sniper who lost her family and dedicated her life to killing the german invaders" character before all the way back in Call of Duty: Finest Hour with Lieutenant Tanya Pavelovna. From the first mission where you play as Tanya:

Pvt. Sokolov: "You've got a clear shot. What are you waiting for?"
Lt. Pavelovna: "An Explosion. We need something to cover the sound of the rifle."
Pvt.: "Ah."
Lt.: "And if I shoot enough of these Germans, they'll send a tank to come looking for. Then we'll need to cover our sapper on the street so he can place a land mine in its path. This is it. Always try to shoot the officers first. . . Let's relocate."

In essence, the "plan" is the same as Laura Bailey's character's; shoot and kill nazis, but is explained by someone with first hand survival knowledge of a sniper hunting in the ruined streets of stalingrad, instead of just the lukewarm "edge" of "I kill nazis, that's my plan"

[matthewmcshane]

Glad someone remembered bear mcreary's awesome score. It actually got nominated for an Emmy.

[aphottix]

THANK YOU FOR REFERENCING HEROES OF THE PACIFIC! It was the very first video game I ever had the opportunity to play as a kid on my Dad's PS2, and is the main reason I have a love of Military History and CoD as a whole!

[pharty]

The fact that you made an “everything great about” a game like vanguard is so impressive to me. I can’t stand this game but I absolutely respect the positivity that you show towards every game. You are genuinely one of the most talented people on YouTube.

[ovs]

That Owen SMG that you thought was gobledegook was made by some kid in his garage aswell btw, dude was such a patriot that he broke the law to help his country and they used that SMG all the way up until and after Vietnam

[fundunc]

I gotta say, I liked what Vanguard was trying to be, with changes to the gunsmith, the campaign additions, they were all neat. But the problem with it all was that it was for WW2. I liked it though.

[lazypaladin]

"Ever heard of Okinawa?" _Those who've played L.A Noire, _*_Oh yeah_*_ we've heard._ Speaking of which, when's that GamingWins?

[thegreenjackal]

Having looked up Novak. I kinda wish he lived long enough to be covered because he was doing spy work in Yugoslavia and that’s a setting I haven’t seen very often. It would also be interesting to have the protagonist be a spy where the rest are just outright soldiers and his mindset might differ.

I am also always happy to see the SOE get mentioned. They were some fascinating people that came from all walks of life and played cat and mouse to aid resistance movements to such effect that most countries maintain the capability to one degree or another. Fun fact that the SOE and MI6 didn’t much like each other partly because the Executive was usually fixing to blow something up or assassinate someone whilst MI6 focused on traditional spy work of collecting information, developing contacts etc. you can imagine how the two goals collided on occasion.

[sgtroach]

Two things vanguard do really well are 1 it’s soundtrack and 2 it’s a cod campaign it’s always fun to just shoot people in different places yes even mw3

[Grand_Arkavist]

17:40 It's become a common problem in the military for incompetent leaders to become all too common. They reason having incompetent leaders has become so common is because anyone who would be a competent leader absolutely hates being in the military because of incompetent leaders. Leaving only the incompetent people to take up leadership positions. This then causes a vicious cycle of incompetent leaders accidentally making more incompetent leaders.

[VermillionRacing]

I think this game was absolutely a rollercoaster of fun. Doesnt deserve its hate, its a fictional story loosely based in history and theres nothing wrong with that. Being a massive history dork, I still love it

[Krondon-SSR]

Btw the scope isnt actually picture-in-picture. It just blurs the outside

[Thraxsis]

I see all the CoDs in an alternative history.

[AutobotSonicTheTelltaleGamer]

Vanguard is actually one of my favorite CODs, and I'm happy you give it the love it deserves. It's actually got my favorite campaign between it, MW19 and Cold War. I got to talk to the campaign writers a month before the game came out, and it was so cool to hear their love for the characters.

I just wish you'd reconsider doing a video on MWIII at some point as well. I personally love that campaign too, and it's very disheartening to hear that you think of it as mere trash. Yes, I understand executive meddling didn't make it the best, but the writers did the best they could in a shitty situation, which I still enjoyed.

[notaspider]

This game might've been an embarrassment, but it looks like a masterclass in storytelling now that MWIII's out 😂

[Makverus]

Each time he pronounces "Polina" I die a little on the inside 😂
Points for trying though.

[eli_da_man_]

The comment at 14:50 caught me off guard, I love gaming wins 🤣

[dafuzzbear]

Love that they've got Mozzie in this game. Martin is an awesome person and actor and I might play this game simply cause he's in it.