The CIA spooks in COD would probably be more likely to intentionally infect a gay or NB person with AIDS and then drop them on the streets of Moscow rather than employ them as an assassin or whatever the COD games are about I don't know I hate FPS.
These games have always been propaganda to recruit into the military. I have been playing Doom pretty much my whole life. It's probably my favorite game of all time and a few years ago when talking about Doom with a friend, I realized something with how fucked FPS games have been since Call of Duty. My friend said "Doom is so great cause it puts you on Mars and you are blowing up demons and zombies. That's better than murdering brown people overseas in some war simulation game". I never thought of it like that and it hit me. Most early FPS games from the 90s like Doom, Quake, Turok and Duke Nukem 3D had you fighting demons, aliens, robots, zombies and in a more fantasy like setting. FPS games became military propaganda shit after 9/11.
WWII was also a big theme in FPS games going all the way back to Wolfenstein 3D. Shooting Nazis never gets old or morally complicated despite what reactionary gamer weirdos on Reddit might tell you
Wolfenstein 3D is where it all started. John Romero has said that back when they first began designing Wolfenstein 3D, they all agreed in the office that killing Nazis would not raise any moral questions at all cause any sane person hates Nazis and should.
It's funny that Wolfenstein has had distribution issues mainly not because of violence, but because of portrayals if Nazi imagery
You skipped Halo. That's got plenty of military fetishism. And I don't think it was conscious, but making the baddies an empire of suicidal religious zealots as the War on Terror was spinning up was sus.
Skipped Halo cause I really know nothing about those games. I remember when they first came out but didn't have an XBox or any friends who had them. I lived with a roommate who played COD and I was able to witness that with a front row seat. He thought I was crazy wanting to play "old shit" FPS games rather than COD when it was newer at the time.
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They say society have progressed yet Allende was overthrown by cis straight men 😤😠 smh my head
I recently played whichever one had the Law and Order SVU guy in it, and it started with you exposing absolutely horrific crimes against humanity by the CIA, but then it turns out the real bad guys are the people trying to fight the CIA... because an AI is controlling them.
Never any talk of holding the CIA accountable for murdering a half a million (?) people.
Also, the guy who plays the player character is just a horrendous actor. Cringed every time he spoke.
I'm fairly sure there's a bit in a COD game where you open fire in the lobby of a civilian airport.
That's the infamous "No Russian" level in Modern Warfare 2. You play as an undercover CIA agent who accidentally helps a Russian ultranationalist frame the US for a terrorist attack on a Russian airport (oops!). In retrospect it was an attempt to top the shock value of the AC-130 and nuke scenes in the first MW and it pretty much worked. They've since kept upping the ante, and 2019's Modern Warfare is just a numbing slideshow of dead civilians and torture scenes, all the fault of someone other than the US.
If you press F too many times, an easter egg pops up with a message from the UN to please report your intelligence on Iran
Forgive me Chapo, but this screenshot makes me smile. I know COD is this and that, but I think this is a good use of creativity.
I'll call it total shit if you can't blow Reagan's brains out with a anti-material rifle.
Watch it on YouTube if you want a laugh, but every COD since COD4 feels like exactly the same game to me.
in this one tho the player is actually getting mk-ultra'd and can choose to side with the soviets and fight the americans
the stealth sequences are fun but a bit lightweight. the twist is stupid but the acid sequence is cool, and there's some optional nancy drew type puzzle solving if you like that.
