**Я больше никогда не смогу вкатиться в шутеры и вот почему... — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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Umizuka shares why he can never fully enjoy shooters, reflecting on missed golden years and modern games' shortcomings.

## Key Takeaways

- Nostalgia and timing play a crucial role in gaming enjoyment, especially for shooters.
- Modern shooters often fail to replicate the emotional impact of classic titles.
- Gaming habits and preferences can be deeply personal and influenced by life circumstances.
- Hyped releases may disappoint, leading to frustration and disengagement.
- Community and shared experiences are important but can also highlight feelings of exclusion.

## What the video covers

- Umizuka, a long-time gamer, explains his lifelong struggle with fully engaging in the shooter genre.
- He recounts his early gaming experiences and how shooters like Battlefield and Call of Duty never captured his full interest.
- Bad Company 2 was the only shooter he genuinely enjoyed, but subsequent shooter releases failed to evoke the same emotions.
- University life and lack of stable internet further limited his gaming time, especially for shooters.
- He expresses nostalgia for the golden era of shooters and frustration with modern titles that fail to meet expectations.
- Umizuka discusses the disappointment of hyped games like Battlefield 6 and annual Call of Duty releases that often get criticized.
- He feels a sense of loss for missing the peak shooter years and doubts he can regain that passion.
- Despite wanting to be part of the shooter community, he feels disconnected and skeptical about future releases.
- The video is a candid, non-analytical vent about his personal gaming journey and emotional relationship with shooters.
- He invites viewers to engage in dialogue to help him understand or overcome his feelings about the genre.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction and personal gaming background
2. 01:07 Early gaming experiences and genre preferences
3. 01:58 Limited engagement with shooter games
4. 03:02 Shooter games around 2012-2013 and competing titles
5. 03:58 University years and limited gaming time
6. 05:05 Nostalgia and emotional connection to shooters
7. 06:03 Disappointment with modern shooter releases
8. 07:08 Reflection on missed opportunities and future outlook
9. 09:33 Closing thoughts and viewer engagement invitation

Answers

## Questions about this video

Why does Umizuka feel he can never fully enjoy shooters?

Umizuka feels disconnected from shooters because he missed the genre's golden years and modern games fail to evoke the same emotions he experienced with classics like Bad Company 2.

Which shooter game did Umizuka enjoy the most?

Umizuka enjoyed Bad Company 2 the most, appreciating its gritty military style, graphics, and ballistics for its time.

What impact did university life have on Umizuka's gaming habits?

University life limited Umizuka's gaming time due to lack of stable internet and other commitments, reducing his ability to engage deeply with shooters.

## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown

00:00

Speaker A

Hey guys. It's Umizuka, the best video game channel in the Russian-speaking segment. And I'm a gamer. Yes, I realize that sounded like I’m at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, but please, hear me out. For many years now, or rather, my whole conscious life,

00:18

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one thing has been bothering me so much that I couldn't think of anything better than to make this conversational video to share my thoughts with you. No regrets about why I’ll never be able to become a fan of the shooter genre.

00:36

Speaker A

And it doesn't matter if it's tactical, team-based, arcade, extraction, and so on—any damn shooter. This video is made in the hope that either you’ll help pull me out of this strange and localized depression, or that I’ll figure things out for myself. But

00:52

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through a dialogue with you, dear viewers. In any case, this video isn't analytical at all, which is a bit unusual for this channel, just a place to vent. I hope you understand me. So, what is the core of the problem? I’ve

01:07

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been a gamer since early childhood. I played Heroes IV and Zuma on my dad’s laptop. On his work computer, I was tearing through Orion. And when I got my first PlayStation, I played just about everything. From Spyro to Tomba 2,

01:22

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from 007 to Terminator. Then the second PlayStation came into my life, and it was my best gaming experience.

01:29

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By the way, a PC showed up later too. Anyway, there was always something to play, but there was only one genre my path never crossed with at all. And that’s shooters. It could be a hybrid shooter, could be a sim, Resident Evil

01:45

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4, damn it, that could be it, but a pure shooter without mixtures of high-tech, cyberpunk, and so on. Yeah, hardly. I mean, Battlefield, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and Wolfenstein.

01:58

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Absolutely all of that was skipped by me. And you know, I’m sorry that happened because I lied a little. And the games in the genre that I did touch left an indelible impression on me. On your screens right now are all the

02:16

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parts of Battlefield and Call of Duty. And, as you can see, only one game is highlighted that I actually spent a decent amount of time in. I liked that game. I really enjoyed playing Bad Company 2, that masculine, gritty

02:33

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military first-person shooter with simply stunning graphics and ballistics for that time. But things didn't really go beyond that game. And I might not even have played that one if I hadn't accidentally seen it on my dad's computer. I played Battlefield 3, which

02:49

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caused such a stir in the market with its multiplayer, for a negligible amount of time, because I was more interested in playing Skyrim, The Witcher 2, Portal 2, and Deus Ex that were released the same year. Well, it's

03:02

Speaker A

generally clear that every one of these games was a banger, so that’s probably not surprising. The next year, Black Ops 2 came out, which I actually liked a bit more. However, that same year saw the release of Far Cry 3, Max

03:17

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Payne 3, and Dishonored; in short, you get it, I had other things to do again.

03:23

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As for Battlefield 4, Hardline, and Ghosts, they didn't interest me at all, which is why my further interest in that side of the shooter market ended for good. In 2015, I finished school and went to university, where, much to

03:41

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my regret, I had practically no time for computer games for various reasons, including the lack of stable internet in the dorms, which meant I even had to play Divinity with my friends only on weekends. And then, in 2016, during my

03:58

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second year of university, the first shooter that really interested me came out: a Battlefield game about World War I. Oh man, guys, I’m afraid to imagine how many hours I would’ve dumped into that had I had a bit more

04:13

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free time or at least slightly more stable internet, but once again, only gaming on weekends did its dirty work, and I very quickly abandoned those amazing horse rides and shelling enemy positions from a dirigible. But by the time I finished university, there

04:32

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wasn't a single game in the genre that interested me. Such a game still doesn't exist to this day. But right after graduation, I didn't need it anyway. I switched from being a Fate blogger to a gaming blogger, started

04:46

Speaker A

doing what I was truly interested in, what became my outlet. But even then, I was periodically drawn to Overwatch, or Fortnite, or somewhere else. And yet, I never stayed anywhere long, because even though my soul craved shootouts, all the products of the twenties

05:05

Speaker A

couldn't give me even a drop of the emotions I experienced back in Bad Company 2. There was a period when I watched Deadp regularly and even envied, in a good way, the emotions he felt while playing Call of Duty and

05:19

Speaker A

Battlefield. I liked watching that totally brainless montage of running and gunning, but only because I couldn't get any pleasure out of modern shooters myself, even though I really wanted to. Like, in reality, I'm not even a "shooter larper" in the usual

05:35

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sense of the word, because these days I don't discuss them with fans, I don't play shooters, and I don't try to act like I'm in the know when I'm not. I just want to be in the loop. But for me,

05:48

Speaker A

it’s probably already too late. As soon as I finally decide to give another shooter a chance, it turns out to be the hyped-up Battlefield 6, which starts getting trashed by the very same people who sold it to me just yesterday.

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Did something change in the game? Yeah, for f\*\*\*'s sake, they added a skin.

06:07

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And that is exactly where the main problem lies. My wallet isn't made of rubber. Call of Duty comes out every single year. And every year, Call of Duty gets trashed. But as soon as something comes out that everyone likes,

06:20

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and I hopefully jump into the game, it turns out it was just a lie to farm engagement and make money. Well, a blogger would say it’s my own fault for listening. But the funny thing is, while I’m trying to figure out if

06:34

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it’s supposed to be this crappy or if I’m just a noob who needs to endure it because the peak is coming, I don't really know shooters that well. The cherished 2 hours, within which one could return the game to Gaben, fly by

06:48

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unnoticed. And a month or two later, a video comes out where some "Dedpy" explains that the game is actually trash with no content, and he advertised it thinking everything would be fine, just not right away. Then "MW" is better than CoD this year, and that

07:05

Speaker A

makes me genuinely sad. Not because the money was wasted, but because the game didn't give me back what I lost by skipping the golden years of shooters.

07:16

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I played over 30 hours of Battlefield 6, not because I was stingy about the money, but in an attempt to drink the ocean, to at least slightly quench my thirst and fill the void inside. I’m not f\*\*\*ing kidding. I feel like I lost

07:31

Speaker A

something irreplaceable that can’t be recovered by buying old, good shooters. Because that kid inside me won't be happy that I bought a new release where you can blast away with all kinds of firearms. Simply because old games aren't relevant, they aren't new

07:48

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releases. They could be masterpieces of the gaming industry 200 times over, but if I were playing, say, Ghost in 2013, not in '26, I would be a hundred times happier. Every time I see another video about someone reminiscing about their

08:05

Speaker A

best years in Battlefield 3 or being nostalgic for Modern Warfare, MrBeast talks about how he grew up on CoD videos. Something inside me desperately clicks, wanting to be a part of it all.

08:19

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To live the same damn life that those people lived. But I can’t live that life all over again. First and foremost, I can’t do that because they don't make good shooters at all anymore.

08:31

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It’s not about missed opportunities, it’s that modern developers are total morons. But all you can do is just accept it. The new Modern Warfare is supposed to drop this fall, but I feel like if the game ends up being [ \_\_ ] and

08:44

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I actually buy it, it’ll finally, for [ \_\_ ] sake, be the death of me.

08:48

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Honestly, I’m scared, guys. And, let’s be real, this game costs a [ \_\_ ] fortune. That’s also important to consider. Although, hell, I know that shooters aren't the be-all and end-all, an

09:04

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thanks to my wonderful parents and grandma, who bought me Devil May Cry 3 and The Incredibles for the PS2, and from whom I begged for the first licensed disc of my life, Assassin's Creed 2, for a whopping 500 rubles. A

09:18

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huge thank you to them for all of that. And they didn't hide shooters from me either, of course. I hid them from myself. I have wonderful memories of playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 with my friend. And when a girl from

09:33

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the neighborhood asked me to hang out, I'd reluctantly tear myself away from the console and ask: "But what class are you going to be? Fire mage or necromancer?" Around that time, I was replaying Resident Evil 4 for the

09:44

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fourth time, arguing with friends about who was best waifu, Morrigan or Leliana . But those stories that gamers all over the world look back on with warmth , about sleepless nights in Battlefield or CoD multiplayer, just don't exist

09:58

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for me. They are like my own personal phantom pain. Only I’m not mourning because things used to be better, but because I didn't even get to experience them back then. Although the problem isn't even that I didn't play those

10:10

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games. The problem is that shooters are probably the most social genre in existence. Yeah, there’s Dota and League of Legends, but come on, that’s just [ \_\_ ].

10:20

Speaker A

Oh yeah, let's play along and be all anime about it. Like, man, you can spend hours discussing with a friend why Baldur's Gate is trash and, say, Divinity 2 is legendary. But the emotions from Battlefield memories—repairing a tank

10:34

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while your useless friend blasts away at some damn village, not hitting a single enemy target—no RPG, and certainly no CRPG, can ever replace that. And most importantly, you won't hop into a giant Discord server for, say, Baldur's Gate 3 with those topics.

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You won't find random party members who will create fond memories with you. Or rather, they will, but not in the form of clips with vivid moments that stick in your memory. And besides, you don't really need randoms for those kinds of

11:05

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games. Because you have friends, but sometimes you just want, you want unity —not just with ten friends, but with the whole world. Look, get me right, I literally created this YouTube channel in an attempt to build this world for

11:18

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myself. And, it seems to me, I somewhat succeeded. Thanks to my subscribers for that. By the way, we chat a lot on Telegram, so you should jump in too.

11:29

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Now, what was I talking about? Oh right , unity with the gaming community. I just want to say that shooter battles in shooters are like a group hangout, similar to an MMORPG, but with a gun in your hands. And I miss that feeling, a

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feeling I never actually got to experience. I lived through the era of shooters, physically, I was alive when they were coming out. This isn't some nostalgia for Tsarist Russia, which I wasn't even a glimmer of a thought in,

11:58

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but emotionally, I completely missed this era. And honestly, the funniest part is that objectively, there are more shooters now than ever before. Not just flagship ones like CoD or Battlefield, but extraction shooters, whatever-shooters, hero shooters. I mean, there's something for every taste

12:16

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, just pick and play. It’s a pity there isn't a single good shooter among them, and they’re all garbage. The saddest thing is that it’s impossible to catch up on all that now. It feels like I’m too late. I missed the time

12:29

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when the genre was for me, when I could hop into voice chat after school and scream that I was gonna kick everyone's ass, when instead of studying for uni exams I could blow them off and spend the whole night in Call of Duty,

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sipping a White Monster and snacking on Doritos, when I could have become a part of that whole culture naturally.

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In that period of my life, when I was ready to sit in games for hours, I was interested in completely different genres. And besides, as I said before, there wasn't much time for games in university anyway. But now, when I’ve

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finally become interested in shooters as a phenomenon, not only do I not have the time to play them, there isn't a single shooter I could really dive into headfirst. Maybe the new Call of Duty will fix this situation, but for some

13:13

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reason, I highly doubt it. The only thing I regret, the only thought that won't leave my head, sounds like this: Damn, what if I should have chosen not Skyrim, not Far Cry, not The Witcher back then? Honestly, I like my

13:32

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established taste in games and the gaming experience I've managed to have throughout my life. But if I didn't whine right now, I wouldn't be able to move forward as a content creator on YouTube. This thought has poisoned my

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heart for so long that I’m just glad to finally exhale and share with the world my phantom pain from loving a genre that might be too late to get into. If I find like-minded people, I’ll be happy to read your comments

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under this video, and we can decide together if it’s worth buying, for example, the new Call of Duty. To everyone who made it through my whining up to this point, I want to thank you for watching and ask you to subscribe

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to my channel. If you enjoyed the video , much love and hugs to you. Goodbye, everyone.

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