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this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2021
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The justification is "not playing the game is also a choice" which is very silly, you can't do an artistic message that involves the 4th wall like that (at least in Spec Ops' particular case; obviously just not playing the game isn't an option IRL, so it undercuts its resonance with reality).
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People talk about the WP scene, but I actually think the better one is where a mob surrounds one of your squad members. I'm not gonna lie, I absolutely fired in to the crowd before learning they disperse if you fire warning shots and felt pretty ashamed.As someone who played it back when it released at the height of call of duty's popularity I always thought that:
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The really effective thing about the WP scene is that it kinda tricks you into doing it, quite a few of the CoD games had sequences where you fly a drone or an AC-130 and just blow away endless little white silhouettes without thinking about it. And the WP bombing plays on that expectation and makes you realize what you've been doing without thinking in all those other games.