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Trying to think of a cawadoody that isn't some flavour of this. The WW2 games are all verbatim repeats of the worst myths about russia's great patriotic war, CoD4 is SAS propaganda in which a "group of russian ultranationalists" is resonsible for a coup in Notafghanistan and someone is gonna launch nukes about it. The subsequent MW games just do that more, up to and including a russian attack on US soil. The Black Ops games are all just "bro we should have won the cold war harder bro, we should have done Rambo 3 for real bro" with some Tom Clancy near-future bs on the side, but the crown jewel has to be Ghosts in which ALL NATIONS OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENT GET TOGETHER TO INVADE THE USA.
These games are so fuckin stupid, I couldn't be fucked keeping track after Black Ops 3. At least Big Train Go Boom...
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CoD portraying Amerika as this poor victim from a long deserved retaliation from the South American continent is par for the course. Imagine if a dev made a game where the Amerikan soldiers are the enemy and you kill them.
How would they react? Predictably:
Always thought it would be so sick as hell to play a game as a guerrila fighter in the Liberation Army of South Vietnam...
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In the 90s in Half-Life you kill a lot of US soldiers who are portrayed as illiterate goons who can't do anything except murder. Except in the German version where that's censored.
Reactions would be a lot worse now though. I blame social media and the rage it incentives.
I think it's because they aren't really the "US Army" but rather a unit that are specialized specifically for situations like Black Mesa. Them being called HECU (Hazardous Environmental Combat Unit?)
So like a fake faction.
Ghosts is the one that does extremely on the nose great replacement shit, with the south american superweapon being "smaller but much more numerous" giant space dicks and the imagery of the guy who changes sides showing his skin getting turned black.
hahaha oh my fucking god
Oh no I forgor
holy shit Ghosts is so bad
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Dan Olson scarcely covers how awful this game really is
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Kid me completely unable to parse their propaganda and coming away thinking the ussr and comrade Reznov were rad as fuck. It helps that the ussr levels in world at war are the best in the entire series
Reznov when you don't execute the nazis:
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if anyone has cause (and nearly everyone does)
Oh yeah and a navy seal defects to the south american union lmao. He's supposed to be the big bad, because I guess they didn't wanna risk making thd "bad guys" look cool again (soviets in World at War) lol
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IIRC he didn't defect, he was brainwashed, and they're only able to win because they brainwashed the big strong american.
After all, one white Amerikan => 1 billion Untermensch. Why else would the news make such a big deal out of 1 Amerikan soldier dying in a foreign country, while nothing but crickets when Amerika's victims are in the millions?
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I think COD4 definitely takes the least worst award. It seems self-aware that almost all events in the campaign are self-inflicted and the US/UK forces could just back off at any point and nothing else would happen. Imran Zakhaev (hey what if our bad guy was both Russian AND Muslim?) was a much better villain than le epic joker Makarov too. Also your Russian allies are wearing Soviet insignia.
But yeah this shit is still bad. Even if there is a deliberate theme of the folly of endless western escalation all the g@mers are not going to be picking up on it.
I genuinely think least worse goes to Black Ops Cold War on the technicality that you can be an 80s enby that ends up shooting your various western intelligence teammates who brainwashed you in the head and then win the cold war for the USSR by detonating stay-behind nukes all over europe
Ronald Reagan respecting your pronouns sure is a choice for a Call of Duty game to make lmao
Least-worst is still a low bar, I don't really think cod4 is that self aware. It's nominally anti-war in a way that fits DoD narratives and shit: 'The REAL HEROES are the HARD SAS BLOKES doing DIRTY WORK BEHIND THE SCENES who NEVER GET ANY CREDIT', underscored by the news headline that's read after you kill Zakhaev. Anti-War-Pro-Soldier, so like First Blood but without any officers down. Plus the russian ultranationalists are depicted as complete bastards even though what Zakhaev says in the intro is pretty much true about the post-Soviet USSR.
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The only good campaign of the modern games was the space one. It's actually decently done for a call of doody game