Zero Punctuation: Call of Duty: Ghosts

[Evonisia]

I thought this game was going to a prequel be about the guy Ghost from MW2.
Hell, where does Ghosts fit in COD Canon anyway?

I know that:
COD4 > MW2 > MW3
and
Black Ops > Black Ops 2

But unless this is a different timeline...

I know it's nitpicking, but why else would they base the Ghosts off Ghost from MW2?

Ghosts is a part of it's own mini-series.

So Ghosts > Ghosts 2 > Ghosts Origins.

 

[Evonisia]

I'd also like to point out the lack of mention for Extinction. I know Zombies got no mention in the Black Ops II review (which was barely justifiable, Green Run was different and tried new things), but I don't see why Extinction is completely forgotten.

MW3 > No mention of Survival
Black Ops II > No mention of Zombies
Ghosts > No mention of Extinction.

They're all another third of their game and they're singleplayer.

 

[Pogilrup]

So I guess you could say it didn't have a Ghost of a chance?

This is the best post in the thread and it will likely never be topped.

I think CoD is in a sort of uncanny valley period where the narrative still has yet to catch up to the universe. Most of the people who take a moral high ground over the series had no issues mercilessly slaughtering Russians in the old arcade side-scrollers of the '80s because there just wasn't much context to tie it into real-world logic: the worlds portrayed were cartoonish and ridiculous and the story was non-existent. Compare that to today's military first person shooters that attempt to shoehorn in graphic realism and vast political plots, yet still take the same care-free attitude of the "vaguely nationally themed and that's it" military side-scrolling shooters that preceeded them. Suddenly "shoot the person of a different color" takes on several new meanings.

Simply put, these developers are trying to apply old design philosophies into new environments where they're not nearly as compatible or as plausible.

Call of Duty should just go the route of G.I. Joe.

Establish a cast of reusable heroes and villains.

The heroes are an international military coalition established to maintain the status quo. The villains is composed of various groups that get short end of the stick in the current world order and thus want things to change ASAP.

 

[Deadcyde]

This is the first video with a halt in the flow of speech.

Surely there is a trophy in it?

check it out 3:35, it stands out like a bollock from the leg of your high school phys ed teacher's gym shorts.

 

[Sergey Sund]

1) I hope those are not supposed to be links to the audiobook at the end of the video. Because clicking them doesn't work. Not even 2 minutes in a row.
2) Ghost Dog is an awesome movie. Made me read Hagakure and other Samurai knigge books.
3) CoD is getting more douchy? YOU DON'T SAY!?!
4) Seriously, watch Ghost Dog.
5) I'd even recommend getting the DVD instead of the game. Then again, I'm a massive Battlefield-junkie, so take that with a grain of salt.
6) Criticism: a bunch; CoD: zero.

 

[Scorpid]

Anyway, Yahtzee, did you seriously expected Ghosts to actually feature a weakened US? Everyone pretty much figured from the first trailer that it wasn't going to be any different from the previous one.

One can always hope.

I'm still waiting for the game where some US analogue is treated as the bad guy and the protagonist is horribly outnumbered and out teched.

Yeah, there is plenty of disturbing shit being done by the US. Like perhaps the fact we launch UAV's over non belligerent nations and blow up their citizens. Or the fact we kidnap torture people all the while holding them in detention indefinitely, classifying them as not prisoners and not POW's.

 

[TomWiley]

I liked the first three Modern Warfare games (yes all of them). I freaking love Riley. I don't give two shits about hardware requirements. Should I buy this game?

 

[Allan Foe]

Well, who the hell buys CoD for singleplayer anymore?

Please, stand up and say your name, so that we may oggle at the oddity that is you.

That would be me, Yahtzee (since he has to review these games) and Jim Sterling (who gave MW3:9.5, BLOPS2:8.5 and Ghosts:5 respectively). Of course Jim and I play a bit of the ol' multiplayer occasionally (not together, sadly), but I'm not very good at it and I stop playing as soon as the first DLC comes out.

MW1's singleplayer I remember very fondly, MW2 was still pretty decent and BLOPS2 had a fair amount interesting stuff going for it.

 

[Allan Foe]

Your response is exactly what i wanted;

Oh you're a claver cat creature, SILENTrampancy.

All right, you win this round. But this isn't over yet, not by a long shot.

 

[gamegod25]

Actually the funny thing is that the real enemy is another white American dude. He is the one who is always pulling the strings and laying the traps, he is the one taunting the main characters at every chance like a cartoon villain, and he is the one surviving a sure death just to bait a sequel. The South American soldiers are just kinda there as generic cannon fodder, you could find replace every reference of south American to Russian and most people would probably never notice.