Neo Dan

Alright so the USSR failed because of mismanagement from the Stalin era, but by the time it collapsed most of those issues had been erased, we see now with China and Cuba that communism can work But MW is propaganda, it wouldn't want that

And what is it these ultranationalists trying to do again? What's their endgame, is it the destruction of the world or is it the reconstruction of a certain ideology the US is known for hating to the point of bombing and starving countries for having?

You're weirdly misunderstanding two very simple video games

CoD 4 creates scenarios vaguely resembling what was on the news at the time, and it justifies waging war against those things. The Ultranationalist Russians are collaborating with scary Mid-East country to nuke the West. It also makes it fun to shoot at them the whole time

Your point was that the intense gameplay and overall experience couldn't be construed as cool, despite obvious attempts by the developers to have the game play like an action movie (and even nodding directly towards those influences).

I don't think you get what spec ops is about if you think it's just an anti war game I'll be real also the anti war interpretation of COD is too charitable for a franchise partially funded by the US army.

When you're personally shooting down and dodging crashing helicopters, leaping off a sinking ship, stopping a nuclear launch, getting caught in car chases and rescuing a hostage before parachuting out of a plane it can be reasonably viewed as cool.

Its only anti-war in the sense of "Oh look what they are making our poor troops do" bs. The only time it gets close is a nuke scene. Everything else is just them blindly accepting DOD's exceptionalist version of the world. SO: The Line discards any notion of that self-pity.

He's trying to dethrone Thel right now.

People will claim Halo 5 'failed' When in reality data shows that it was the fastest selling game at the time, had the highest player retention since 3 with a much smaller console install base and having far more competition in the FPS console market 5 was a huge success

Probably the most bizarre thing to come out of the discourse around Halo Campaign Evolved is this revisionist history where Halo 3 was never good, never really popular, and people didn’t like its graphics. Makes zero sense and is verifiably false, but I people keep spouting it.

Everyone in Halo 3 was incompetent. Gravemind only almost won instead of fukky win because he was stupid. He captured High Charity and all its ships at the end of H2 and didn't spread spores through the galaxy.