I think you overestimate the target audience for modern military shooters. Loud white Americans who are probably doubly pissed that not only is America under attack, it's under attack because some brown people stole the toy we were going to use to kill brown people.Evonisia said:It's weird that the message is "The only people who can beat America is America" with that laser, they can't be sympathetic when they practically caused their own downfall.
I'm not saying you have to be a paranoid racist to like Call of Duty games (BLOPS 2 was quite fun, even), but I do think it's marketed to the 'brown people are scary' crowd. Or, I think that's the subtext to a lot of the jingoism we're getting these days.
In short, I think America is sympathetic to the Americans this game is marketed to, at least in sufficient numbers.
I laughed at the bit about dying in a pose that would confuse future archaeologists.JoJo said:Brutal, as expected. My brother picked this up a few days ago but I haven't had the chance to give it a try yet.
Also, that ending was possibly creepier than anything even Jim Sterling has done on this site before.
You need to tell that to my friends list.Grach said:Everyone pretty much figured from the first trailer that it wasn't going to be any different from the previous one.
Pretty much any of them.
You know how zombies were originally an analogue for black people? Well, maybe you don't, but early zombies, before they were a commentary on commercialism or republicans or whatever else the writer wants to call mindless, they were an analgoe for black people. There was this fear that black people were going to take us by storm in the US, and America would be ruined by having....Slightly higher melanin in the skin? I don't know.Jman1236 said:Seriousally south america invades the US? I call BS!
I suspect this plays off the fear that 'Mexicans,' because pretty much anyone to the South of the US is called that it seems, are invading us and destroying America. I mean, you'd have to ignore the numbers, where the number of illegals is no longer increasing (and may actually be decreasing, depending on the source), but people seem happy to do it. If you believe Fox News, it's a miracle they haven't completely overrun the South and Southwest. And, because Fox wouldn't be Fox without race baiting, all those imaginary brown people seem to have some sinister plan to destroy America from within.
Brown people from our south attacking us with our own infrastructure sounds like someone played perfectly into that paranoid mess.
Basically, zombies became a thing in America based on the premise that black people are scary.
MMS would probably be a thing, period, but I'm sure cashing in on the notion that brown people are scary isn't hurting anyone's wallet.
don't be silly. Nobody buys COD for the multiplayer. Nobody.josh4president said:But what about the multiplayer, Yahtzee?