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‘Call of Duty’ Doesn’t Just Depict Bad History—It’s Pro-War Propaganda (progressive.org)

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I just started playing COD Black Ops Cold War because I got it through my PlayStation Plus subscription and wanted to try it out. I've previously played some others like Modern Warfare (1 and 2) and WWII. While it always felt a bit over the top and propaganda-ish, I really liked it for the blockbuster feeling and just turning your mind off and enjoying the set pieces. However, Cold War has a section in Vietnam and I suddenly started feeling really uncomfortable and just turned the game off.

In WWII you can easily feel like the "defender", and even Modern Warfare felt like fighting a very specific organisation that wanted to kill millions. Here however it just becomes so hard to explain why I'm happily mowing down hundreds of clearly Vietnamese locals that I was unable to turn my mind off and just enjoy the spectacle.

I turned to the internet and started browsing and found this article and I really agree with what the author is saying.

I don't know if I will be continuing the campaign or not, but I just feel that I don't want to support these kinds of minimizations of military interventions.

I just wish there were more high budget / setpiece games that don't glorify real life wars. Spec Ops The Line was amazing in that sense, but it's also quite old already.

I would love to hear your opinions on this subject.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a game.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This sort of response shows that even some people who care a lot about games, think little of them. Like they are all inconsequential playthings.

Can you imagine anyone saying "it's a book" to try to say that they don't matter?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you imagine anyone saying "it's a book" to try to say that they don't matter?

Atheists do it all the time when talking about the Bible

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In comparison to “the inspired, living word of God”, only the edgiest would argue it hasn’t been an important piece of literature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my time, I've encountered edge sharp enough to cut the very universe itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sure, but that is a whole different argument. When atheists say that that the Bible is "just a book" it's not a dismissal of the value of literature, it's saying that they don't need to be bound to what it says, that to them it's no more than any other book.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It being a game doesn't change anything. A film can be pro-war propaganda and it continues to be a film.