Propaganda shit aside. What the fuck is this, man? The original betrayal was simple but the new one is convoluted, takes forever, becomes a John Wick movie, and le roooosia was behind everything!!!

  • VHS [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    the two things that stand out to me are:

    1. How corny the new skull mask looks

    2. The sheer ridiculousness of the opening firefight taking place at a range of 10 meters in the open. It's like a Nerf fight

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The game really is just corny as shit. All the "Operators" are wearing a bizarre mix of airsoft gear, fashionable hoo-ah shit from 2005, and like dive suits and shit. Just bizarre. The default Ranger skins are actually dressed like, you know, actual soldiers, so it's not that no one on the art team knew what was what.

      And yeah the skull masks just look dumb.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Boot-tasting bazingas have long claimed how realistic it all was, too. :so-true:

        • KnockYourSocksOff [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          The only realistic things about it were the weapon designs, graphics, and some of the weapon handling. Everything else is just call of duty but with more banter

          • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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            1 year ago

            They COD modellers semi-frequently add intentional mistakes into the gun models to tell when other companies rip their models for their games, too.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I think the skull mask looks pretty good :shrug-outta-hecks:

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      It’s like a Nerf fight

      With all the three laned maps and long time to kill weapons with laser bullets and no recoil, call of duty multiplayer has basically been a Nerf fight mixed with laser tag since black ops 2. With some weird jumpsuits in between in a few games. They tried to change it with warzone and the modern warfare reboot in 2019/2020, but I don't know how successful it was.

      • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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        1 year ago

        The average and slightly above average COD player has no understanding why the COD games are enjoyable to them, so all they did was complain. They complain about skill-based match-making, they complain about "noob weapon spam," they complain about having bad teammates, they complain about spawn camping, they complain when the maps are big enough to not have spawn camping. They literally judge the game by how well they do in it and anything that levels the playing field (i.e. they're not stomping kids in matches) makes it bad.

    • Anxious_Anarchist [they/them, any]
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      1 year ago

      Seriously, the old skull balaclava and goggles thing Ghost had in the OG at least looked like something someone would wear. All I can think of looking at new Ghost is how he had to get that mask custom made and then put on facepaint to match it before every single mission, it's so dorky.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    No one is immune to propaganda, least of all :freeze-gamer: . That's why this shit keeps getting churned out.

    • KnockYourSocksOff [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      It's not even that. If it was good shit I wouldn't be complaining. The original scene was melodramatic but the new one is just ebic operator black ops shit

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The original scene was melodramatic but the new one is just ebic operator black ops shit

        That's what I'm getting at. Doing it again But Now With More Russia is a deliberate propaganda move which at the very least carries whatever :ukkkraine: :brainworms: are probably wriggling through the producers' heads right now.

        • KnockYourSocksOff [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          The new Battlefield will have a Ghost of Kyiv character, I guarantee. There's no way they're gonna skip capitalizing on it and having him do crazy RPG jet maneuvers

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            That's a pretty safe bet that would feed the hogs and maybe even move some loot boxes/battle passes/whatever. :capitalist-laugh: :brrrrrrrrrrrr:

  • Snackuleata [any]
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    1 year ago

    If a stone cold one liner is awesome, imagine how much cooler it would be if everyone stood around and did banter at each other. Thanks Marvel!

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Shadow Company, get it? It's because they do black ops shit and dress in black all the time! :so-true:

    fash are always so terminally fucking un-cool that they have to figure out "badass" sounding names(or outfits) to seem cooler

    • KnockYourSocksOff [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      The company that made poll counting software for the Iowa caucus in 2020 was called “Shadow Inc” and had investors from the anti Bernie campaigns. They renamed themselves because I guess being seen as a cabal wast the best marketing

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I demand better writers for the simulation, these fuckers have stopped trying after the 80s atleast.

  • KnockYourSocksOff [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    I also learned that they included Ghostface Killer - yes, from Scream - in the game. And the best part? His origins is listed as KGB

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Wtf lol. Can't have the American general Shepard being corrupt on his own like the original, Russia has to be involved now. That is some state department shit. The original is 100 times better because at least the story has nuance and isn't just Russia= bad.

    Can't believe I'm defending the story of the original game, in which an American CIA agent shoots up a Russian airport with some Russian terrorists and gets caught, leading to Russia invading the US from the US east coast, because they took out all the US satellites! The Russians need arms dealers in Brazil for some reason, and a nuke is detonated in space, by the US, over Washington DC for reasons. And general Shepard just wants to keep the wars going for money and power, even if his own country is almost destroyed. Like it's absolutely ridiculous, but still way better than the new one.

    I still remember how badly battlefield bad company 1 and 2 made fun of those call of duty campaigns, and now those original call of duty campaigns seem like super logical and Oscar winning stories compared to the current ones!

    • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The original also made rounds back in the day for being covert imperialist propaganda lol, it's amazing how much worse it's gotten that the original looks tame in comparison now

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah the original made the idea of a "false Flag operation", which the CIA agent and Russian terrorists shooting up the airport was, enter popular consciousness. Which considering the events of 2009 with Sandy Hook, was uhh maybe not the best timing. Led to a bunch of idiots calling Sandy Hook a "false flag" because they heard about it in a video game and Alex Jones was saying it.

        The original was obviously propaganda, but at least it was subtle compared to the modern stuff and the "bad Americans" were also at fault on their own terms and get killed. Crazy that the propaganda slop has gotten so bad that we can say this now. Because the original modern warfare 2 story was not subtle at all for the time, it was the most obvious Amerika fuck yeah stuff.

    • DoghouseCharlie [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      The story makes no sense. An undercover CIA agent dies so the whole shooting is blamed on America. How would anyone know this corpse is an American? They literally say he looks like any other Russian. How would people not see Makarov on the CCTV when he's a well known criminal? How would a mass shooting start a war anyway?

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah it makes no sense, but it somehow makes more sense than the new game.

        I guess Makarov is in charge of everything and covers it up.

        • DoghouseCharlie [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          But then in the third game they show that new character that was there the whole time apparently. They shoot him before getting on the elevator that starts the No Russian mission. Did the undercover guy not see that and realize something was up?

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            The third game makes no sense lore wise, they even rewrite the story of the sniper mission in Chernobyl. It was a mistake.

            It was also made by a completely different studio to the first and second games, which explains the disconnect.

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    wait you're supposed to tell me the original COD MW2 guy survives getting shot in the stomach and set on fire

    lol

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I hate when lazy reboots reuse the exact same name :disgost:

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I played... uh... an unhealthy amount of arma and that little bird shooting dudes from a hover 3ft away is very funny.

    This game is just the stupidest shit. I lost interest before I even got to the comparison part.

  • Weedian [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    he died and had to redo the same part :data-laughing:

  • booty [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    why is the guy who betrayed them not even fucking there in the remake? the betrayal got delegated to some goon lmao

  • weeping_angel [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I've been playing bf2042 for the past week and the implied setting/plot (there is no single player campaign) is wild.

    Load into a map and the intro voiceover will be like "an earthquake revealed what the Russians allege is a secret military installation in the Canadian Rockies, and they are moving to secure the site. Get in there and kill every last one of them so our secrets dont fall into the wrong hands" :frothingfash:

    Another map, Russian side: "This Swedish arms manufacturer has been supplying Amerikkkan operatives around the world for too long. That stops today. Your mission is a full scale assault on the factory" :comrade-raccoon: