What the fuck happened to COD zombies...

>make a new story with a new setting since the old one became a complete clusterfuck with a nearly incomprehensible story filled with paradoxes and time travel bullshit
>fans get mad because waaah it's not the same old shit repeated
>they go back to the old shit and scrap the new story just as it was getting good

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Imo they should have focused on good maps before gimmicks. Blops 2 was such a wasted opportunity. And don't get me started on them trying to take the lore seriously

Gimme a quick rundown

I think people are just waking up to the fact the current "writers" are dogshit. I'd bet my life the next series of maps will go over just as poorly

They shouldn't have tried to pull some new shit in the first place. People don't like that sort of changing.

The maps weren't that good so it really is irrelevant. The only decent one was like
"A rich man's dinner party is interrupted when an evil cult uses one of the items in his fabulous collection to zombify the party goers"

Once the story stopped being fun little Easter eggs you could find and started being the actual focus of the maps, they lost me.

It went full on fucking kleptomaniac autistic wet dream. I came to fight zombies not do a checklist of inane bullshit

The original Aether story was "finished" in BO3 but it ended on a pretty shitty ending where it just said the protagonists where in an infinite cycle they repeated forever.
BO4 was going to feature remakes of some Aether maps + a completely new storyline (Chaos) featuring new characters and a setting based on greek mythology.

So the new storyline wasn't all that well received by fans, mostly because it was still in the phase of setting up it's characters and setting. They ended up only making 4 maps for Chaos and the rest are all going to be remakes of old Aether maps instead.

Voyage was pretty mediocre and dead of the night was alright but IX and Ancient Evil where pretty great.
I would have been happier if the new Aether maps where actually original maps instead of lazy remakes.
Alpha Omega just being nuketown is really disappointing after them teasing them going to fight in the great war in classified and the trailer.

>BO4 was going to feature remakes of some Aether maps + a completely new storyline (Chaos) featuring new characters and a setting based on greek mythology.
Yeah, that's the one I played, but I didn't make much of it. Just that people went back in time by mistake. Those are just zombies though, no?

Aether story was good until Jason happened, and Chaos story is crap.

I had admittedly lost interest by ancient evil, a friend told me it wasn't great and I trust his tastes to align with my own. I think at this point it's just a mistake to try to give zombies these big epic stories, theyd be better off sticking with interesting one offs like Shadows of Evil originally was. I also agree making all the Aether maps remakes is lazy as hell. Especially since all the maps worth remaking have been at this point

I agree, making simple one off stories is a way better idea since people can play and like the map without needing to then wait for more maps to explain what is even going on and why.
It doesn't help that the Chaos maps where released out of order too, so the first introduction for the player is a new gang doing something with no context who they are and why they are doing something.

Is the chaos even done? What the fuck was going on?

SOMEONE JUST SUMMARISE THE STORIES

I have actively tired following from WaW to BO3 and I missed on BO4 map and now i have no fucking clue what is going on, lack of doctor monty and some fucker becoming tranzit electro man and both old and new crew working torgether

It's good to see a fellow zombies fan with similar thoughts.

I unironically hate Dr. Montey. It's just Blundells faggot self insert
>"all the wierd science in zombies actually comes from ME! I just PUT the ideas in everyone's heads!"

It was better in WaW where the zombies and all the other crazy stuff was caused by ancient artifacts being researched by crazy Nazis.

No, the last Chaos map ended on a fucking cliffhanger and it looks like they have halted it for the time being

>what was going on

So there are these ancient gods that have knowledge too great for humans, but they set up a set of challenges that involve zombies where people get stuck in to prove if they are worthy of said knowledge.
It basically involves an evil cult trying to gain said knowledge while the 4 main gang tries to stop them. Each map involves the gang getting to a location and participating in a challenge that then gives them knowledge to find the next one. It is also revealed that half the gang is brainwashed by the cult so they are probably going to backstab the rest?
In the last map, Ancient Evil, they find an oracle in the ancient city of delphi that tricks them into saving her and ends up being medusa. The story as of now ends with Medusa leaving to do evil stuff probably

Aether story is too big and convoluted to summarize easily.

How does the cowboy map fit into all of this

Theres a big ass poster you can look up that has the Aether story but it's a hard read I'm not going to lie. Once it started talking about a secret illuminati lab under Alcatraz with complete sincerity, I really just couldn't take it.

>People don't like that sort of changing.

>wah cod is the same formula over and over
>they shouldnt have changed
Damned if you do, damned if you dont.

If you really want to know...
After the world got blown up at the end of blops 1 the people who survived the nuking were just kind bumming about until they got lead to the cowboy map by either Richtofan of the electronic ghost of maxis to do something that rests the universe I think?

Pretty sure the only cowboy map was buried in BO2, which was part of the Aether storyline and has nothing to do with Chaos at all. Chaos is it's own story separate from all the other previous zombies map
Anyway, if you want to know about buried it was part of the Victis sidestory where some retards did some weird tasks for maxis or richtofen to enable some pillars or some shit. It doesn't really matter honestly those maps all sucked ass and those guys never came back or had any real significance to the story.

Well now they're pussying out because people don't like it. You're alone on this.