Top 10 Quotes from Spec Ops: The Line 

Reminds me of a quote from a french biologist named Jean Rostand : "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.". This quote was just slightly altered by Megadeth in their song Captive Honour, which is how i discovered it

@@Nate_M_PCMR one of the loading screen tips is “Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”

That is so fucked up, but damn, it just fits the character of the game. It sums all up. "He is going to kill us" is a very powerful sentence, especially said by an american soldier, who is fighting another american soldier.

@@Kaanuesh Friendly fire: the game

@@scottm8292 PTSD: The Game.

It is so unfair it is insane.

Haha FUBAR

Well looks like he was the lucky one

I saw that one

"If Lugo would've survived, he would have PTSD. So really, he's the lucky one."

@@KionTheLion would PROBABLY have PTSD*

notice that lugo points at you, not Walker

Seems like konrad also blamed dubai failure on walker they both played a part

@@BrawlyDaStar No he didn’t. The scenes of Konrad blaming Walker was walkers delusions

@@BrawlyDaStar Konrad was dead long before Walker showed up.

@@LordVader1094 By the state his corpse was found in, I'd say 2 weeks max. The campaign's events took place during 2-3 days.

Game: "You pulled the trigger. You are holding the gun." You: "You gave me the gun. You ordered me to pull the trigger." Don't hate the player, hate the game. If the game, or your commanding officer, or your country, or whoever asks you to do something and tells you it's the right thing to do, the only thing to do, and then gets mad at you for doing it, there is a problem. - Andrew Vanden Bossche, author of Video Game Morality Play

Collateral damage can be justified, if the gain outweighs the cost. How much do you think Adams and Lugo are worth?

@@taurterus8306 not enough

@@andrewhendl3821 Does it matter? You don't need to be a five star chef to see that a dish sucks, and you don't need to be an award winning author to see a glaring plot hole in a story. Even Spec Ops: The Line has plot holes, you know.

@@andrewhendl3821 I did listen. And I came to the conclusion that the narrative is ridiculous. Most would think to themselves, "did someone put a gun to my head and force me to play this violent video game? No. Gasp! Oh my gosh, this is the most brilliant thing ever! Anyone who didn't get it must be a violent manic who plays shooters to feel like a hero and blah, blah, blah." And to that I ask, "did someone put a gun to Walt William's head and force him to make this violent video game? No? Then it's not the most brilliant thing ever. Because nothing is above criticism, not even super serious deconstruction games."

Game: "You pulled the trigger. You are holding the gun." You: "You gave me the gun. You ordered me to pull the trigger." Don't hate the player, hate the game. If the game, or your commanding officer, or your country, or whoever asks you to do something and tells you it's the right thing to do, the only thing to do, and then gets mad at you for doing it, there is a problem. - Andrew Vanden Bossche, author of Video Game Morality Play

Lol poor kid you I was 10 playing through that scene Couldn't eat for an entire day

@@princepeachfuzz I was 10 too. Didn't really hit me that hard. Video games don't really effect me for some reason.

@@princepeachfuzz y’all are sum pussies I played it at 7 n was fine

@@Mark-fc7tuquit reposting the same bs, enough people have told you why you're wrong, give up.

@@Mark-fc7tu 1. This is a 1 year old thread. 2. Shut the fuck up nobody cares about your stupid quote fanfiction.

@@Mark-fc7tu you spammed this on every comment quoting a loading screen. Didn't you?

@@Demospammer9987 He literally spams stuff on every video related to Spec Ops The Line. It's just pathetic

@@pyropilot1421 so I've noticed! It's bizarre

Well, usually breaking 4th wall in game is used for comedic purpose (Dead Pool, Conker, Psycho Mantis from MGS1 telling us what games we played or telcoms that we played a game too long). I think Spec Ops is first game that using 4th wall more serious.

metal gear did some serious 4th wall breaks,like the ones on the naked raiden segment

Or try to save him from himself...

"Wait!, this isn't right!" -"what's not right walker?" -"all... This... We've done this before" -"what do you mean?" -"ahh fuck it let's keep going"

“This edible ain’t shhh”

​@@shoeboi4596 lmao

And not in a fun way

And if the truth is undeniable, you create your own

Stronger than you were...

vxid You played this game when you were a kid? There’s a reason some games are rated M.

Lazlo Vader Then again. Not everyone take the ESRB ratings too seriously. Especially the parents that had no idea about ratings in video games. Tell that to those parents that purchased GTA for their kids and not expecting it to be violent.

I never fully understood until I could no longer watch any clip relating to the ending and white phosphorus a few years after I stopped playing. I can never get myself to play it again.

No-one ever does, Walker. Three...

@@thenoble_stryder3610 Four! ...Is this what you really want?

So be it...FIVE! *BANG*

There's a line men like us have to cross. If we're lucky, we do what's necessary, then we die. No, all I really want, Captain, is peace.

@@DylanoRevs It takes a strong man, to deny what's right in front of him.

I'd actually like to see a prequel that takes place during Kabul.

"We were talking...about nothing really." "I said something about going home. And you, you said:" "Home? (Chuckles) We can't go home. There's a line, men like us have to cross." "If were lucky, we do what's necessary and then we die. No all I really want captain...is peace."

His voice is grating as hell

Lewis Davidson No. Not at all. Some of us have done horrible things. Things that can never be fixed.

Absolutely

Three....

Four...

Is this really what you want? So be it... Five!

REMAKE

Are you?

Utilitarianism

@@a.p.6580 Precisely. All of that causes their cataclysmic acts to run rampant and thus eventually spread chaos. While Walker wasn't of Utilitarianism once he started to take matters into his own hands, it became quickly clear that his enemies may or may not have been the poeple he was trying to save.

Open your eyes, Walker. I need you to see what you've done.

Try to think about what these games are trying to tell you with its story, gameplay, message etc. We might like to think that we shouldn't involve politics in video games, since it is just a medium of entertainment. But video games are a product of its time and does reflect realities or beliefs that exist in our world. PBS Idea Channel has an interesting video discussing games like Call of Duty. Since the game company pays gunmakers for likeness fees of their trademarked designs, can you consider buying and playing Call of Duty a political statement? There are other videos and essays that delve into the complexities of this genre more deeply and I encourage everyone to take a look at them so that you can come up with your own conclusions.

Dont stop playing them, but take a second to think about why you play them and how they inform and teach us.

@@zamkusen Neglected looking into this video of yours admittedly, but I'll just leave this one grim aspect of Spec Ops: The Line's message that I've already expounded elsewhere: This game's message and themes are so powerful, that it actually transcended the "modern military" shooter genre it deconstructed and criticized. It's actually a deconstruction and critique of video gaming in its entirety. Spec Ops: The Line stripped thoroughly the suspension of disbelief we always had and took for granted in playing video games to show how messed up it really is killing and hurting in games (blowing out the "it's just a game"/"don't take it too seriously" card out of the water), and most importantly how shallow and empty that power/hero/achievement fantasy is in the medium (saving and helping someone, earning prizes, the scores, the trophies, and yes, the _surprise mechanics)._ It applies to not just shooters, but of course to other games regardless of how innocuous they are or how unrelated they are to the ostentatious scope of SO:TL. For my personal experience, SO:TL's biggest victim was not a shooter, but a JRPG: Chrono Trigger. Like how SO:TL started, CT was about taking the opportunity to save the day (i.e., time traveling to save the world's future from Lavos). And then, as shown in Chrono Cross, the consequences of those time travels made things go from bad to worse, resorting to sort of a damage control in the process (which was successful for the most part). That realization made me look at CT differently, where it was no different to what Walker did in SO:TL. Spec Ops: The Line is going to make us look at virtually every other video game in existence through the former's perspective, make us think twice about (re)playing those games, right down to the ones that defined our childhood and helped us grow up through trying times, and ultimately render them unenjoyable, unplayable, and morally messed up. And the only few video games that are still left playable would be the ones that could dare match SO:TL's themes on the human condition and the medium.

Thats just for trophies/achievements.

No lol

No, he just that, a radioman, surely his job was to inform the troops and civilians about the situations since Konrad killed himself

It was a battalion, a large one

Playing games IS harmless, mostly. Learning about this stuff will help us understand the difference between defeating a non living bot and killing actual people