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[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 54 points 5 months ago (4 children)

CoD games have always been absolute bottom of the barrel politically and historically, but this one is shaping up to be outright fucking cancerous

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 5 months ago

They blamed the fucking Highway of Death on the ebil ruskies. Propaganda overdrive.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They became extremely insufferable after straying away from their futuristic nonsense and rebooting their contemporary imperialist “realism”. Now instead of having goofy Russian villains and B tier action heroes, you have a bunch of “””operators””” dealing with “””real””” issues

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There was a real brawl in the early 2000's over who wore the crown of WWII shooter, CoD, Medal Of Honor (remember those games?) or Day Of Defeat. Personally I like MOH

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oh shit how did I forget bf1942?

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Because you are a filthy casual

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Oh, of course. I was in the middle of those fights as someone who loved all three.

I was originally a bigger MoH fan but DoD eventually became such a daily game for me, and so much fun in the golden pre-1.6 days when people actually played objectives well, that I have to give it to DoD. I was even recently talking with my friend about installing it again to see if anyone still plays or if it's just bots. MoH never really had a chance once online gaming began in earnest, both DoD and CoD quickly had it beat, but its local multiplayer was so much fucking fun. I've said it before, though, that CoD always impressed me for letting you play Soviets. It was my very first perspective on the Soviets as a kid and, maybe I misunderstood but, it left a very good impression.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

I knew a guy who cheesed hard in MOH by binding the fire key to the mouse wheel. He'd run around with the garand and if he saw an enemy player he'd spin the wheel and mag dump in like 1 second. Kid was a genius.

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 47 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Are they gonna show how the CIA helped him with his gas attacks? Or do you think they’re gonna have a cutscene where he’s inspecting WMDs then hands out viagra to his soldiers before grinding brave American POWs in giant meat grinders

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

Doing the bit from the first Modern Warfare but instead of getting nuked, the protagonist gets lowered feet-first into a meat grinder.

[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

"Remember, no Russian" my colleague says to me, as he pulls box cutters out of his bag on American Airlines Flight 11.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

It should be modern day and they should do a 'somehow Palpatine has returned ' for Saddam. Also he should be playable in multi-player.

Also like, obviously this is all military propaganda but barely euphemistically calling something Call of Duty: War Crimes is really on the nose and doing it 6 times had made it pretty obvious thst normal people have no idea what Black Ops refers to IRL. They think top tier operator missions not Honduran death squads funded by drug money cause a black op can't be on an official budget and needs operating capital from somewhere.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

south park Saddam Hussein voice 'hey buddy! Relax!"

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Robo Saddam

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

pretty obvious thst normal people have no idea what Black Ops refers to IRL.

They think top tier operator missions not Honduran death squads funded by drug money

No, they know what it is, and they support it. They always have.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

You are seriously overestimating jelly-brained gamers' abilities to know anything

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago (4 children)

They're gonna say that Russia funded Saddam, aren't they?

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They might even blame it on China

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Gamers were mad when the previous black ops trailer (the one with the anti communist paranoia John Birch interview) removed a 2 second clip of the Tiananmen tank man since Tencent owns some of Blizzard/Activision lol

[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They'll 100% blame Saddam for a Highway of Death-like event. Instead of iraqis being charred to death, it'll be some people from one of those laughable nations CoD invents like Puchikistan or whatever the fuck. The massacre will be carried out by the Republican Guard.

I know they did this exact thing before and blamed it on Russia, they will recycle.

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

Depends who america hates more according to the pentagon who funds cod games, russia, china, yemen, iran, palestine, venezuela, dprk, cuba?

[–] GrumpigPoopBalls@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ramirez, present this yellowcake to the United Nations

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

Press F to show yellowcake

[–] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry what year is this?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

Hello I am Saddam Hussein I am so damn insane and I did 9/11, press F to quick knife me and cry.

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

Ah right the annual US propaganda in vidya game form is coming out. I unfortunately just remembered that

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago
[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

No way in hell they'll get John Benjamin for the role

[–] poppy_apocalypse@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Looking forward to the cut scene with ~~Rumsfeld~~ some high level envoy of Fidel shaking hands with Saddam

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Saddam Hussein speaks English for the 2.5 seconds he's in the trailer because making cod players read a subtitle would constitute a war crime.

[–] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

I remember in 2006 cod campaigns were considered derivative. I guess anyone still involved is just young or too far gbone

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

They're on six now?

Wasn't a discount Saddam Hussein/Assad hybrid the antagonist for the original COD4 Modern Warfare?

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Some say this will be about the first gulf war in the 90s, I'm guessing they'll do the "Palestinians gave locations of Kuwaiti guards to Iraqi soldiers" line of propaganda.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

cod is army propaganda

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