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honestly shocked that call of duty isn’t hated more considering they pumped genAI into the last 3 games.

Do you think CoD players care about AI? They eat slop day and night

i would call cod players pigs but that’d be insulting to actual pigs.

its got a mission where you play as north korea and its like press X to execute civilians for the supreme leader which just hits different when that's a bullet point in basically a side project for a corporation currently actively entwined with one of The Great Atrocities Of History

those ads i get flashed with every fucking day where stuff like "LOYALTY" "DISCIPLINE" "OBEDIENCE" flash on screen next to murder make me feel insane. like oh this is where we're at huh

unironically those ads like. genuinely came off kind of offensive somehow in a way i couldn’t pinpoint.

ten years ago as a critic i would respond by analysing it as a piece of propaganda, considering how it produces and reflects culture but that feels so pointless now. who cares. you just look once and see what it is. they aren't hiding it. it is funded by and funding in turn an actual genocide

Last I played was first modern warfare reboot, for review, after having touched nothing since Black Ops, and that early level with the house raid was one of the grimiest things I've seen in a game, in a game full of grimy shit. Reading peer's reviews about "gun feel" made me feel insane

It feels so “ailing empire” too. Out of baddies that they can use due to overuse or aging out, they have to go to NK after many a media franchise has tried and failed miserably to make them the new Soviet drop-in

I was so shocked when I saw a trailer and they were actually doing North Korea. I think I audibly said "my god they're going full homefront"

i had Expectations the moment i saw the game's logo, realized they had chopped up hangul to make the "4," and was like "oh this one's gonna get *extra* weird isn't it" "No Russian but it's North Korea this time" was still not on my bingo card

We’re eventually gonna get a mission where we gotta shoot armed child militants in a non-descript Middle Eastern country that’s just called “The Islamic Peoples Gulf Republic” and it’ll be the Arabic-Sino-Russian terrorist’s fault for making our poor soldiers do war crimes.

It won’t even treat the children with any dignity, it’ll just be about how sad it made the soldiers to shoot them. And then it’ll turn out the ICC is secretly controlled by the aforementioned terrorist, and so we gotta detonate a nuke over the Netherlands to clear our character’s good name.

Objectively evil but also it was pretty funny when they released a game where you could be nonbinary during Regan and Ronald Regan himself would get your pronouns right

cold war was the one good call of duty game because of this alone