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4 years agoThe worst part about this game is that war crimes are framed as inevitable. I literally can’t progress in the game without gunning down civilians or shooting white phosphorous at the troops™
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.
When you’re joking around and one homie takes it too far and ya gotta look at him like https://c.tenor.com/FsD1MijyJEEAAAAM/cut-it.gif