Modern Warfare is a Comforting Lie

[Monsterfurby]

You do not seem to understand the idea of projection in storytelling, so let me explain...

Also, you play MW for the story? That is like saying you listen to Niki Minaj for her artistic integrity. You do not seem to understand what a story -at its fundamental level- is, if you actually believe that modern warfare actually has one. MW simply has a string of unfounded and non-contextualized notions that it throws at the player, not a story.

I am not sure what exactly in what I have written warrants such a condescending answer. Look, there is such a thing as subjectivity. I wrote about my personal experience with the game, that may be supplemented by my own imagination and the way I consume media. Do not presume that your own limited view of such things applies to everyone else.

Very tempted to stoop to your level, but I will leave it at that.

 

[Ryan Hughes]

You do not seem to understand the idea of projection in storytelling, so let me explain...

Also, you play MW for the story? That is like saying you listen to Niki Minaj for her artistic integrity. You do not seem to understand what a story -at its fundamental level- is, if you actually believe that modern warfare actually has one. MW simply has a string of unfounded and non-contextualized notions that it throws at the player, not a story.

I am not sure what exactly in what I have written warrants such a condescending answer. Look, there is such a thing as subjectivity. I wrote about my personal experience with the game, that may be supplemented by my own imagination and the way I consume media. Do not presume that your own limited view of such things applies to everyone else.

Very tempted to stoop to your level, but I will leave it at that.

Well, if you do not understand, I will say it straight out:
The fact that you like MW's story means that you disgust me on a moral and philosophical level.

Capcha: point-blank

 

[Monsterfurby]

Well, if you do not understand, I will say it straight out:
The fact that you like MW's story means that you disgust me on a moral and philosophical level.

Capcha: point-blank

Wow, you have... issues.

Captcha: send packing

It's sentient already...

 

[Ryan Hughes]

Well, if you do not understand, I will say it straight out:
The fact that you like MW's story means that you disgust me on a moral and philosophical level.

Capcha: point-blank

Wow, you have... issues.

Captcha: send packing

It's sentient already...

No, I don't. You are taking me the wrong way. There is a huge difference between disgust and hate, and it is not like I hate you or anything. However, your taste is damaging you and preventing you from seeing the truth. I am just telling you that harshly.

 

[Monsterfurby]

Well, the story of MW is as flat as a sheet of paper, but there's nothing wrong enjoying it.
But when you called CoD an "intriguing storytelling medium" I had to chuckle.
Still, you don't have to justify why you like something, so just ignore him. Smells like troll.

Thanks for that, good to see some reason in this thread.

Of course, my original statement was slightly exaggerated. This is not grand literature, but within its own genre (military action), MW has more "heart" than most of its competitors, mostly thanks to very colorful characters.

I don't enjoy many action movies, so maybe I value the fact that MW actually made me care at some point about characters like Captain Price (who admittedly is basically the single most escapist character in the entire thing) and the whole nuclear detonation sequence in MW1 a bit too highly.

What I tried to say in possibly a way that was somewhat off (I hate using the non-native speaker defense, so I won't) is this: Yes, I do play MW for the SP campaign, because I enjoy the story it tells. It is not War and Peace, Romance of the Three Kingdoms or A Song of Ice and Fire (to use three very random examples), but accepting what it actually is, it still tells a pretty good story.

I believe that there is merit in a dumb masochistic military action plot being told really well.

 

[omega 616]

I'd say if you're calling it a game, which you are, you can't be realistic 'cos then it would be a sim.

If you want realistic warfare get arma 'cos it's as close as you're going to get. Thing is it's not very fun 'cos it's a sim.

Games like these are based on realism but don't follow it to the letter, things have to be made "gamey". You can't exactly say COD isn't based on realism 'cos if it wasn't you would have all kinds of guns, equipment and lunacy. They use real guns, with maybe some artistic flare (if anybody knows the peacekeeper).

 

[Charles Phipps]

Well, I only played the game a couple of weeks ago so I looked this up and thought I'd get some insights. So, BEHOLD MY NECROMAY.

Wow, did the OP actually play the game?

The games about the dangers of nationalism, the consequences of war, and horrible numbers of deaths which all ended in a peace treaty because in the gameworld (like real life) complete victory is impossible? The Ultranationalists and Americans and Europe sign a peace treaty because it's a stupid war.

Life goes on.

Lots of innocent people are killed. Lots of heroes die. Lots of average people.

It's entertainment but the idea the games are one-dimensional entertainment or jingoism is just...stupid.