Especially the campaigns, and especially how certain characters and moments are presented in the campaigns.

It's like right on the borderline of being a chuddy glorification of the military and being an absolute pisstake of things that chuddily glorify the military, and I genuinely can't work out which way it's trying to go with it.

  • the_bavarian [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I swear MW2 is like, almost there, but no, they’re playing it straight, which is kind of incredible in its own way, in retrospect. MW2 having a disgruntled critic of the invasion trying to get whatever they could past the CIA and MIC editors is a particular brainworm of mine that I like to entertain, though.

    to this day I'm convinced MW2 was supposed to have an entirely different campaign that they somehow cut up in the very last minute. There are so many scenes from the trailer and entire levels like that bridge that's under a drone attack that never made it into the campaign, but were clearly meant to be single player levels. Or that weird nuke suitcase chase through the suburbs or whatever that was - went nowhere! There's absolutely no story payoff to that! Also the whole Shepfer turning evil and you having to chase him through Afghanistan felt weird and fake, like wtf there just plain are no fucking aircraft boneyards in AF, and also no shadow US Spec Ops Army could like hide out there, like why would they even do that and all.

    No, it was supposed to be an entirely different game and I'd really like to know who fucked up and when.

    Sorry for rambling, just had to get that out of my mind, I turn 40 this year. Fuck.