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SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#151: Apr 1st 2020 at 3:23:49 AM

If it's only the campaign then I'll pass - it was the Spec Ops mode which truly sold the package and made MW 2 so replayable for me. I'm not fond of the campaign because that's when the plot started to go apeshit and completely implausible.

What's more annoying is the gossip that the multiplayer was actually completed, but Activision decided to cut it out at the last minute in order to not interfere with MW 2019's playerbase. Can imagine lots of hardcore MW 2 fanboys will be upset.

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#152: Apr 1st 2020 at 11:39:52 AM

Ah yes, the classic plot of Russia invading American East Coast. The most plausible invading plan out there.

I just enjoy the game for Ramirez doing Ramirez things.

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#153: Apr 2nd 2020 at 6:11:42 PM

So "No Russian" has people mad. What reason is there for it this time that's different from the original release? Is it buggy? Does it disable killing civilians even though that was Makarov's intent to use Allen as a guinea pig?

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MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#154: Apr 2nd 2020 at 7:42:02 PM

Probably refreshing the original controversy from back then.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#155: Apr 2nd 2020 at 8:02:02 PM

Indeed. I figured something like this would happen.

But yeah, if they really wanted to do a plausible Russian invasion they should pull a World in Conflict and invade Seattle, not DC.

MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#156: Apr 2nd 2020 at 8:11:37 PM

^ Seattle is kinda pushing it. Jumping the Bering Strait into Alaska though...that I could see. The strength of the Russian military is on land, not at sea and the Russian Pacific Fleet is pathetic compared to the US Pacific Fleet, they'd never make it to Seattle undetected and intact. I could see them capturing Nome and the Yukon delta region with a push for Anchorage to use as a springboard into Canada and the northern CONUS.

Of course, Call of Duty can't do that one because that plotline was already done by Red Dawn in 1984. Then again by Fallout (only substituting Chinese for Russians) and then a bit later by Battlefield Bad Company 2's epilogue.

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#158: Mar 23rd 2021 at 8:30:03 PM

So, I've been playing Call of Duty and Call of Duty: United Offensive...on Hardened difficulty.

I'm curious, does suppressing fire work on the AI?

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#159: Sep 15th 2021 at 9:35:38 PM

Alright, I have an actual, really important request: Can somebody help me decipher this chart?

It looks really interesting but it's hard to tell what corresponds to what.

Edited by fredhot16 on Sep 15th 2021 at 9:35:53 AM

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#160: May 24th 2024 at 7:37:06 PM

Some news from the Texas Tribune - Activision is being named one of the defendants in a series of lawsuits made by families of victims of the recent shooting in Uvalde for making guns seem appealing to young people through the Call of Duty games. Other defendants are Instagram and the gun manufacturer Daniel Defense.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/24/uvalde-shooting-lawsuits-gunmaker-instagram-texas/

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SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#161: May 24th 2024 at 11:14:37 PM

Don't see the lawsuit going very far. Activision's already been using off-brand weapons with slight altercations to avoid royalties lawsuits from the gun manufacturers for some time. And their whole argument rubs me the wrong way since it's perilously similar to the "Satanic Panic" regarding Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy media from the late 80s.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#162: May 25th 2024 at 1:51:15 AM

Yeah and the people responsible were the gun manufacturers and cops who did nothing.

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Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#163: May 25th 2024 at 2:55:09 AM

Looking at it, the gun maker were apparantly running targeted instagram ads specifically to people who played Co D.

Could Actiblizz have done more? Sure, like Youtube videos on how to make Co D guns out of parts from different guns should be DMCA’d. And like warnings and such but… not this.

Targeted gun adverts on sites that do not have a hard 18+ age gate should be banned. The gun companies and instagram should pay through the nose for being THAT scummy.

Edited by Memers on May 25th 2024 at 3:21:15 AM

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#164: Jun 9th 2024 at 11:01:10 AM

And so we have left the Cold War and are going to the Gulf War.

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dArtagnanMusic Since: Oct, 2022
#166: Oct 31st 2024 at 4:43:17 AM

it speaks to the power of US media propaganda that Cold War had a "the US was ready to nuke the entirety of europe during the cold war just to avoid having it 'fall to communism'" as a plot point, and they aren't treated as the bad guys of the franchise after that.

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#167: Nov 1st 2024 at 11:46:36 AM

[up]imo they are; that the optional ending allows you to retain loyalty to the USSR and rightfully get the US blamed for setting up WM Ds in the first place compared to your brainwashing handler shooting you unceremoniously

black ops 2 also had a sympathetic portrayal of its anticapitalist Big Bad and the fact that so many people were rightfully raging against a broken system. if anything it is still incredibly prescient even though it was just copying the original Occupy Wall Street protests

Edited by MsOranjeDiscoDancer on Nov 1st 2024 at 11:47:15 AM

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Omega1065 Since: Nov, 2023
#168: Nov 24th 2024 at 9:24:51 AM

[up][up] Isn't that a case of Black-and-Gray Morality (as in "The americans, while the protagonists, aren't squeaky clean and willing to commit bad actions). It's just that the Big Bad wants to nuke all of Europe.

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