The Complete Call of Duty Single Player Campaign Critique (For PC) 

Which game was he talking about with that line? Sorry it's a two-hour long video so i don't remember.

BO2.

1:33:41

Someone else have to write a comment in 2 years from now.

Ah, but why wait so long ;)

F for ruining cod with supply drops

The funniest part of that is how culturally ubiquitous it's become, while I frequently forget that advance warfare exists

Yeah like how in a lot of multiplayer games people will spam F in the chat when someone dies or the game is won or lost

Its the one meme that never dies

@@Handonforehead that fact alone is ironic as hell given the context of its origins

Thanks for watching it and putting in the time, man!

Look it's the gaming historian. Love your videos dude

This is an excellent endorsement! Gaming Historian has even taught me things I didn't know even being there at the times deep into the "hobby"! You are both extremely good at your chosen crafts. It is appreciated!

@@broadcaststsatic Great video. However i feel/think COD: Black Ops is Overrated and kind of offensive/xenophobic with with its portrayal of the Vietnam War and the Cold War. The omission of South Vietnamese allies and opposing north Vietnamese women and young teenagers (who also fought) and the blatant lie of Russia using chemical weapons in Vietnam (when it was actually America with Agent Orange)

@@broadcaststsatic COD:Black Ops even failed at showing the gray morality of the Cold War with America being depicted as the universal "good guys" and Russia being depicted as the generic evil "bad guys" like they are in Hollywood movies. In my opinion CoD: Black Ops Cold War is better than the original Black Ops mainly because it showed the gray side of the Cold War with America/CIA being depicted as being very shady and at times "evil" (brainwashing the main male or female character into working for them) not helped by the character of Adler. The KGB/Soviets are depicted in a similar light but aren't as bad as the Americans/CIA and the game does give you a choice of either siding with america/CIA or the Soviets.

Well it did end up being one of the best maps in the history of CoD multiplayer, so I'd say its worth it. Besides, the multiplayer should have no bearing on the singleplayer's narrative at all.

@@Bone8380 It kinda does cheapen the feel a little of what happened kinda at least a little.

This game was s awesome it had awesome storyline

I always figured No Russian was a pure publicity stunt. So many people wanted to play that game after seeing the outrage it was causing on Fox News. It’s the same reason GTA V is one the most popular games ever. Pissing off a bunch of boomers is great for business.

its obvious why, that part of the game is fucking stupid and was never intended to be anything different. it was meant to generate controversy and get the game free advertising by way of concerned fox news reports

***** I like your interpretation. It puts into words the reasons I enjoyed it so much. Of course, it was also my favourite multiplayer in the whole series. Fuck trying to beat it on Veteran though.

chompyoface Everyone always talks about how hard it is on Veteran. I didn't believe them. Then I tried it. It was possibly the most frustrating couple of days of my life. I eventually put the playthrough on pause. Not because I sucked, well maybe, but because after trying to beat "Their Land, Their Blood" for about an hour and a half my Xbox froze. Right at the end of the mission. All that work, gone. Then last year I beat all 3 Modern Warfare games on Veteran and it was interesting seeing them get (IMO) easier. After struggling with MW1 (fuck No Fighting in the War Room) I found myself beating MW3 in about 6 hours. Veteran needs to be harder again, just for people to have some reason to go back through the campain. Oh and yeah WAW is my fav in the series also.

***** Read about the "Rape of Nanking" and "Unit 731", the scenes of brutality in CoD are quite tame compared to what they historically did. This is a foe that is prepared to disobey orders for the sake of "glory". General Tomoyuki Yamashita ordered his troops to pull out of Manila. In spite of this however they disobeyed orders and without aid of nuclear weapons, killed a hundred thousand civilians in the Manila Massacre "100,000 burned, bayoneted, bombed, shelled and shrapneled dead in the span of 28 days. Unborn babies ripped from their mothers’ wombs provided sport: thrown up in the air and caught, impaled on bayonet tips...Hospitals were set afire after their patients had been strapped to their beds. The corpses of males were mutilated, females of all ages were raped before they were slain, and babies’ eyeballs gouged out and smeared on walls like jelly.” From: globalnation.inquirer.net/99054/february-1945-the-rape-of-manila/#ixzz3WLkI9tnd

Simon Jones the only reason i found WaW so difficult was the enemy grenade spam, which is lazy difficulty i think. seriously, its a constant barrage of 3-4 enemies throwing grenades one after another

Oh I know, "Their Land, Their Blood" was a bitch for that. Tight trenches with dudes around each corner, lobbing grenades at you. Arrrrggh!

I see what you mean, but the point could've been made stronger. Players more often than not completely ignore that plot point.

Is it the developers' fault that many players ignore the storyline altogether? Usualy if someone's into the story, they focus on the story, if not they dimiss it from the get-go (or very quickly). Anyhow, I fully agree with Johny's view on WaW. Treyarch's games are, in my opinion, probably the most throughtful, subversive and anti-war out of all the CoD tities, but it often goes under the radar because people often focus on what's on their forefront (excess violence and brutality) without caring much with the details (which often change the way you view that violence and brutality in the first place).

Completely agree.

+purplexenno Actually the German foot soldiers were kept in check and not permitted to do things like that. The SS did terrible things to civilians, but the regular soldiers were heavily discouraged from doing so.

Nathan Eskin yes, that whole "discouraged" buisness. Wish real life worked that way (please note, I have talked to people who were there. My wife's family is from Kiev and i've heard what happened from the people who went through it. Things aren't always the way governments or armies say they are)

I'm afraid, that multiplayer games are not really Noah's thing... But on the other hand, Battlefield games tend to have really terrible singleplayer campaigns, so there might be a lot to unpack by Noah, and I would totally love to hear him rambling.

I know this is a really old comment, but if you want more of this, I'd suggest checking out face full of eyes, he does some good analysis of the aesthetics and themes of World at War and Modern Warfare.

i agree

wooden table How can you do anything? You are just a wooden table.

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Enemy At The Gates is trash. The Russians have made their own films about it. WW1 was when not everyone could have a gun. By WW2, they didn't have that problem. Human wave attacks also weren't a thing. Charges supported by tanks and artillery, yes. Just swarming with infantry? No.

@Daddy George ok boomer

a lot of germans had ptsd from killing unarmed russian soldiers

@Daddy George fun history fact - all Nazis were issued a gallon of piss to chug each day; whole legions of dog-brained vile fucking losers, just going to fucking _town_ on a hot jug of piss every day until they all died like a pile of earthworms getting run over by a cement mixer Today they are succeeded by some embarrassing shit-assed teenagers and grifters who carry on their proud piss-guzzling legacy of making the world worse on purpose, smugly

You need to do some reading. Russian leadership was garbage in the early days of the war due to the purges. They bought their skills with gallons of blood.

I know right? I just assumed CoD was a series not worthy of higher thought.

Dalton Siler I have a lot of fond memories of the first few games from when I was a kid. I remember playing Call of Duty 4 as a teenager and being blown away by it but was really turned off by Modern Warfare 2's Michael Bay action movie aesthetic the game chose to adapt. So I haven't played any of the Call of Duty games as an adult, now I kind of want to go back and play them again.

+Kolbe Howard I think I may hold off for awhile longer before I decide to go back. I've never cared much for CoD's shooting and it's jingoism in the later titles exausted me. It's nice to see CoD trying to do something interesting recently, though. Hopefully that continues

Noah happened

***** Long comment ahead. Seems you've looked at this too much in tunnel vision. Being exposed to hyperbole and "feelings", most likely; the video has too much political bias over cold pragmatism. Case and point, complaining about racism, regarding black people, in a game series with predominantly white villains; or this was just regarding nationalism bias, in witch case the NPCs race should not have been brought up, yet it seems to be so intentionally. Also, this is playing fiction police; I'm not convinced this has any sort of merit. Nevermind the notion calling apathy racist. How do you logically follow from "it doesn't care" therefore "it's racist"? You can't realistically expect political correctness in real life, so why in fiction? That complain felt out of the "firemen have men in the name" or "feminism has female in the name" type of critique. And politics don't work in a critique due to their lack of empiricism. We can calculate and make algorithms when we're dealing with atomic theory, we can't do that with right wing/left wing/fascism/libertarianism/etc. What's to objectively say about whether or not to allow freedom for neo-Nazi views or ban them for the sake of alleged cultural progress? I'd like to think we were better in the past, before politics and activism came in. Those cause alienation, conflict, paranoia and conspiracy theories. Back in the day we praised The Longest Journey, now we call Life is Strange tumblr shit; back then we laughed at Postal, now we call for Hatred to be burned at the stake; those pair of games are really not that different, the cultural . Being Romanian, so eastern European, I can confirm the extreme Russian nationalism from MW2 is not that far off the beaten path. Being a society grown in communism and being cut off the rest of the world does strengthen national pride to fanatical levels. Plenty of people here are still rather critical of democracy, social and financial freedoms, etc. and demonizing United States as a result; my grandfather does think they are run by Masons and he's not senile or anything. Though the real problems with that story are logistics in nature, bending the space-time-continuum, actually. And how did they know that what's his face was a CIA agent or that he didn't try to stop Makarov? CoD is designed through marketing parameters and presented as such. The games themselves are rather useless, with the exception of 2-3 games, to have such an approach in their regards. I mean look at the video itself: 1) World at War was oversaturated violence; 2) MW2 and 3 was marketing with shocking biteless scenes; one was an airport with no children cause political ethics were a thing in its development (fun fact: notice how the overly controversial Hatred does the same thing; ), the other smokes stuff out of your view; 3) Ghost is popcorn material; Critiquing symptoms rather than causes, or in some cases things that simply aren't there is rather useless and misguided. This armchair philosophy does become an issue in parts of this video and videogame discussions nowadays in general. I think Matthewmatosis put it best in his Bioshock Infinite Critique; people want to justify their existence, so they'll add meaning and blow things out of proportion giving the impression there is something to be said when there really isn't; look above, I've summed up 4 games in a few sentences. If you still don't believe me, ask yourself this: what choices can you now make in the real world, with real predictable consequences? That's the only way I see value been given to any sort of analysis, something even Tolkien took into consideration when writing LotR (and why it does not have any allegory in it, yet people still claim the contrary; another example as to why you shouldn't read too much into things). On a more, perhaps, aggreable note, war games that feel real could be created. Brothers in Arms were really good in that regards. Maybe with game mechanics from Bohemia Interactive shooters they would truly feel real.

In my opinion treyarch should have done that tone with a WWI shooter. WWI was the most brutal of all, stalemate,illness, poisin gas, starvation.

It's just a retread of stuff the series already did with more ham acting and nihilism. There's no point to miss if the game as a whole is pointless.

+Triscuitable, except it's not (a retread pointless, etc.)

Completely agree.

Yosef Yonin Nothing's wrong with me. I said "retread". Read more closely next time.

This is a truthful depiction of the historicity of the war - what you lack is the understanding that Call of Duty isn't actually based on the history it pretends to portray - it's based on media. It's based on film and television. You would never have Peleliu and Okinawa levels without the Pacific - you would never have the violence without the fact that The Pacific cranked up the violence and degradation and the viscera beyond what had been shown in the plucky Band of Brothers sister-series in order to be more truthful to the setting - there would be no Stalingrad fountain sequence without a Stalingrad fountain sequence in Enemy at the Gates - no desperate house-to-house fighting without desperate house-to-house fighting in 1992's Stalingrad. No Berlin destruction without the depiction in Downfall. Call of Duty's greatest lie is that it attempts to portray history when it absolutely does not - it portrays a derivative facsimile of a place and time that once was real, its violence isn't a reflection of real-world violence it's a reflection of its source material being violent - without The Pacific, there is no World at War - don't let this game fool you into thinking it has a lofty purpose or goal. It doesn't. The violence in the game, is just violence - any justice it does to history is as accidental as its equal amount of historical farbs. "The first man takes the rifle..."

@Fuzzy Dunlop The Pacific came out in 2010. World at War came out in 2008. I believe the game isn´t trying to show how it really happend just trying to be a fun shooter while getting players interested in history, to get players to study it for themselves. I enjoy learning about WW2 I also enjoy playing WW2 games and watching WW2 movies/TV shows knowing fullwell that there are many inaccuracies.

Yea he kinda dropped the ball at that point in the video for me.

No

+FNsquirrelhatesyou Then you havent shearched that much.

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Bob Lobos Sorry man,English is my third language.

True.

Good idea on the German campaign. Fighting against all odds despite the bleak probable outcome, would be right up their alley. Done well, it would tell a deep story on the price of ideology, whichever the ideology might be, no matter which side you are fighting on and for. Sadly, in these times where people are afraid to offend anyone over anything, and pander to whoever has the cash to buy the game; I doubt we'll see such a campaign in a major game franchise. An indie studio would be the only ones to take the chance with their perception to the general public. We know publications would have a field day crying outrage over, even portraying the third reich as anything other than pure monsters. Though everyone in WWII had an ideology, and was willing to fight to death for it. Human wars are funny that way, ideology and greed make them happen, nobody really wins, nobody really learns. Just like a fist to the face never changes anyones mind about something.

@@emprsnm9903 "Just like a fist to the face never changes anyones mind about something." This along with some of the other stuff you said kinda makes me think you want a game where you can play as Nazi German soldier for different reasons than you're implying.

@@SOMEGUY7893 Do you truely believe that beating a person into submission makes the world a better place? Even in these times of anti-bullying? I think education trumps force every time. Either I failed to express my point of view properly, or your operating under a number of preconceptions. To be direct, I indentify with Mahatma Gandhi's actions and beliefs, and not national socialism. If that doesn't make my pov crystal clear, nothing will. What I expressed, was the same ideological struggle humanity fought for in 'The Lord of the Rings', as well as the rebels in 'Star Wars'. Is it 'wrong think' to play as Sauron, or 'The Empire' for a change? I can seperate my personal views from a video game, or movie to be entertained by a narritive. Where the stuggle itself is worth exploring, the humanity of that stuggle, the failings of humanity in that narritive. Learn the 'why's' and 'how's' of history and humanity, not just the labels and facts. Thats how you truely don't repeat mistakes of the past. Additionally, some of the most moving stories are of when one realizes they were fighting for 'the wrong and evil' side, personally I love a well crafted redemption arc. It worked for Darth Vader :)

This sounds like something I could get behind playing... but I doubt a company would be crazy enough to try it. Building it would be an INCREDIBLY wobbly tightrope of tone and message, and even if they get it right, FOX news and its ilk would be on the developers ass like white on rice. Still, if someone had enough brass in their system to try it, would like a playable version of the 1993 German Stalingrad movie

Chandler Hull Same here bro. WaW first, then The Line. After that... come Black Ops 2, the first CoD where you only want to get the bad end because you love the Bad Guy.

My guess is, he didn't get to watch The Pacific, which was for World at World what Band of Brothers was for first Call of Duty games

kireta21 He'll knowing history it was a cruel fucked up conflict. Also judging war crimes on culture is a cop out. Japanese war crimes were still atrocious even if their Emperor ordered it.

Chandler Hull Yeah, this was where he lost me on the more 'social' commentary he was throwing into the overall review. What he, and others, perceived as 'jingoistic' elements were historically accurate (though modified heavily) and it seemed a big disgusting that he would excuse their actions for no particular reason, especially since Japanese war crimes are often ignored and forgotten, making World at War somewhat important in reintroducing the concept to the current generation.

+Chandler Hull Its racist and jingoistic in a similar way CoH2 is towards Soviets, it only shows the atrocities, one after another, it only presents the Japanese as cartoon villain baby eaters, there is nothing showing the Japanese mindset or that in reality the Japanese army as well was made up of mostly conscripts forced into a "holy war", which is why he brought up Letters from Iwo Jima, to show that the Japanese were humans as well and had their own nuanced cultural justifications for what they did. Also another scene of note shows the Soviets as evil as well, the burning of PoWs. This scene is actually from a Soviet movie, Come and See, but the difference is that the Soviets decide to just shoot the Nazis

Indeed.In every single video of him you can see how much effort and care he put in. For someone who doesn't do YT fulltime that is really impressive.

It's more first person cutscenes. It's stupid

Take away the button prompt and the funeral could have been unremarkable. Maybe it makes for a worse cutscene and a worse game, but I'm glad it's there.

because combined with the music and aesthetics, it's trying to be cool.

The problem isn’t with the depiction of pacific front barbarism the problem is the badass distorted guitars and overly edgy tone of the whole thing

***** You have been enlightened by a Call of Duty review, alright pal calm down

TheDominitri _enlighten_ verb [WITH OBJECT] Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation. -Oxford Dictionaries

+ for ginger tea

Yah calm down with those big words hot shot. Your gunna give me a headache.

***** + for "trenchant, - for "ginger tea" ;)

Same. Its the only time that I haven't been anywhere near the same page as Noah on a review. His take on WaW kinda lives in my head rent free, not gonna lie. Like, everything about it is wrong. Its like he played it with blinders on or something, i don't even know.

El Mooo Gonna need refills for this video

Minime in the wild! Love your videos mate

Same. Plus multi-player and zombies in that game was incredibly fun

@@trombonegamer14 So many fond memories of me and my brother playing split screen, constantly hiding in buildings with bouncing betties and just having a good old time

He does also ignore how imoral the Japan army was at the time. I mean, while portraying them as being "genetically pre desposed to barbarism" is fucking sickening, I doubt the government that funded unit 731 is all that concerned with the Sanctity of Human Life.

@IntrepidFinch well, they where uniquely cruel during that time, mostly because the imperial Japanese congress didn't ratify the Geneva Convention, wich is what led to Unit 731's creation. This is also why the Pacific theater of War had the highest percentage of prisoner death of W.W.2. But the U.S. isn't the bigger man during this, we granted those scientists immunity in exchange for exclusive access to the data they acquired. The U.S. also bombed boats carrying U.S. Prisoners. Japan was also not the only country to sign but not ratify the Geneva Convention, the USSR also did not ratify it.

@IntrepidFinch During the Rape of Nanking two Japanese officers had a contest to see how many chinese heads they could cut of in a minute. Thats not propaganda or hyperbole, that is a true verifiable fact. The japanese army during ww2 was cruel to a point rivaling the worst of the Nazis

+astupiddvdcase thank you, the further i got into the WaW part the more I had an itch to write some text to the same point. completely agree

I honestly think that the point would have been drivin home better if they did the first world war than WWII

Completely agree.

WWI was a different beast to WWII, although WWI had death on an industrial scale (somme, verdun etc), it still very much rested on old empire values, valour, service to empire etc. It was the war in which British sangfroid got crushed by the reality of industrial total war and modern weaponry. Generals couldn't merely believe in the superiority of the fighting man to get the job done, it wasn't like the Napoleonic war anymore where pitched battles was won by the discipline and bravery in the face of danger in musket to musket battles. There was simply no way for these outdated beliefs to realistically counter automatic machine guns and dug in infantry combined with deadly artillery. Whilst WWI was more and old world war between empires, WWII although about empires as well was also an ideological war, fascism vs communism vs democracy etc. This meant that there was also that extra step in ideological leap where war was racially motivated. The germans were there to take over slavic land and enslave the german population, the Japanese were superior to the Chinese and the Japanese were demonized by the Americans after news of their treatment of prisoners etc. But watever, wrote too much

Also I mean as a soldier in the ground you don't really have the time or care to be non racist or even caring about the enemy, you are a soldier, you are told go fight those people, and you do, to be honest I am sure that many soldiers during the war did think quite poorly of how the japanese fought, the use of suicide bombers to ambush american GIs, the torture of prisoners, the fanatic zeal, to a soldier in the pacific I doubt they cared much about why the japanese threw themselves at the enemy, they just knew they did and fought them, I think it is a more realistic aspect of war, than if we over complicated the story with showing the Japanese perspective. In the end you are no more than one soldier in the larger war trying to survive one of the most brutal theatre's of war from WW2, fighting against an enemy who uses both conventional and unconventional tactics.

That section screams white guilt to me. I don’t remember Japanese people having a problem with how they were depicted in the game.

I don't get it? This is exactly feel like american civil revisionism These new Yanks generation ignore the brutality of the evil Japanese Empire and painted them as "just following order" I refuse to believe that bullshjt with many evil action the Japanese people themselves justify

3yrs late but he never excused them?

Yet you excuse the atrocities against Baghuz, Mosul, Raqqah, Diyala, Fallujah,...

***** For a few months i've been hunting for somewhat insightful and smart video producing channels (you can probably erase the "Somewhat" part on this channel IMO) but there are A LOT of channels that put up near, same or better quality content all of them get 1% of what a channel like AngryJoe or TotalBiscuit get with the exception of a small few. Not to say that those 2 do not posses the qualities i attributed to this channel, but my point (and yours kinda too) is: It is a crying shame that these valuable channels don't get more eyes on them...

***** it's in his dry "documentary narration" way of doing things, as opposed to the "post-Nerd" school of raging at The Man for churning out shitty games

***** Not just the best 'youtube gaming' ever got, but in some ways the best games writing we've got, in general. Excluding some corners of academia, of course, but that stuff often isn't penetrable to the average reader. And I think the importance of these video essays is that they're quite digestible to anyone who treats games as more than mere toys. Hopefully these dudes will help to curb the tendency towards anti-intellectualism that I've noted in the wake of recent.... cultural rifts.

Mostly it's other COD games that tried to recreate that feeling. Death of a beloved friendly soldier character near end of movie? Check. Shocking scene that gets the plot going? Check. It becomes so formulaic after a while.

You didn’t even say how high? You just said jump lol?

How do you google something you don't know exists?

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YCCCm7 I figured the choice out myself. Shot his leg to see what would happen.

I think i shot him in the knees ans that worked.

While you can't shoot the others sure, to the game's credit he's wearing mason's clothes.. Not only that, if you had been doing the optional objectives and paying attention to the game when you scope mason it says stuff "they've got a mole.. they are framing the CIA" or whatever so it does try to push you into making questions

He's a Jew

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais i would like to see your opinion on the metal gear solid series. admittedly it is a confusing and hard series to get into but I think it is a great series overall. even though I think that metal gear solid 4 was easily the weakest in the series.

Agreed

World at War is a children's game in comparison to Spec Ops.

@@GoldenGyroBalls only children play videogames, go read a book

7 years late but keep in mind that Ghosts was a product of a gutted Infinity Ward, after MW3 IW was shattered as the majority of their staff went off to make Respawn. i have heard rumors that Ghosts was supposed to be MW4, but personally I think Ghost's issues was that of the tight 2 year development cycle because the support it got post launch was second to none. PC port was solid and there was so much DLC and experimental game modes that it stands as a sleeper hit on what Infinity Ward can do even during their slumps

But the game did it poorly. World at war's campaign was more of a wolfenstein style "rush in with a 50 cal machine gun and blow them away!"

what? unless you play 'RECRUIT" difficulty there is no fucking way you can go guns blazing! didn't you read about how brutally hard and unforgiving the game is? trying to go guns blazing will result in dying 20 times in a row. hell, this game is notorious for being the hardest CoD ever made (although i argue that united offensive is harder

Yosef Yonin I played on regular and harden difficulty and I was still able to rush in and do that

your skills must be godlike or you are straight up lying. World at War is wildly famous for being the hardest CoD ever made.www.xboxachievements.com/forum/showthread.php?t=351344 there is no way you could just rush your way through the bunkers and buildings like you described, without dying like 20 times in a row

World at War is the hardest CoD ever? You didn't play the first game on Veteran then. WaW was infamous for being hard on veteran because of the insane amount of grenade spam that resulted in plenty of cheap deaths. From a gunplay perspective it wouldn't really be any harder than most Call of Duty's if the grenades weren't always constantly forcing you out of cover and then dying without even being given a chance to fall back.

Treyatch still uses real things in its ridiculous over the top fun narrative (mk ultra project blue bird the dangers in the advancement of technology etc.)

Ooooh bou

Your a little late

Your not forced to commit a war crime but he talks about it like you are

@@Regularguy220 You are forced to commit a war crime. The Nazi soldiers you can kill either quick or slow (at the subway entrance) have surrendered. Killing soldiers who have surrendered is a war crime, even if you attempt to do so "mercifully."

@@antonyduhamel1166 you dont have to shoot them. Chernov in his monologue looks up to dimitri if you dont and reznov admonishes you if you dont as well. Your still there and they will still kill them but whether you kill them yourself is your choice

Absolutely agreed on that one.

Watching this as a channel fan five years after release for the first time, was about to go to the comments to make a joking jab about this, glad I wasn't the only one who noticed, ha.

@@nessabethany7068 same

yeah i think his entire take on WaW was shit

Yah, Imperial Japan was pretty fucked. The Japanese people hold it as a grand embarrassment within their current culture

Explaining the causes for such atrocities isn't the same as justifying the act.

@@c.jarmstrong3111 and yet they've never officially apologized . . .

@@LostShipMate maybe they will some day, who knows. It took Canada until just a couple years ago to finally make an official appology to our Indigenous peoples

@@tacodude98 You could say the same for germany

I don't want to be rude buuuuut... War is war. There is no law in war. There is no ethics in war. There's no honor in removing the life of someone else. The moment you are invading, you are already a monster. For me at least, all the rape,murder and genocide that japan did are part of war. Look at it this way, you can't morally kill someone. You can have a motivation that make it... sort of excusable in the extreme, like if the person raped your entire family and plan to kill them. But murder is murder. The act of murder is morally wrong. Only the motivation can be moral.

​@@clapointe151dumb

SamuraiPie8111 "all of their single player campaigns have been enjoyable" except finest hour and ghosts

lam neth did you find finest hour to be spooky? i always thought it was

I think of cod as just a simple fun shooting game which lets you be the heroic action hero soldier we as kids always wanted to be. it's multiplayer and the community ruin it though.

Agent Bill Wilson this holds true for ww2, even if people hate it I still had good dumb fun with it

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