• DaDragon@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    And maybe that was the point of that mission. To cause you to think about the violence that you normally included upon your virtual enemies without a second thought. If you play a FPS game, you won’t question why you’re shooting the other team, you just do it. The same way it doesn’t technically matter why the crowd of people in said COD level are your enemies. What matters is the developer telling you to shoot them.

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      6 months ago

      Oh, that definitely was their intention… to make you stop and think about your actions. They gave you a choice.

      I believe they even give you an achievement for NOT shooting anyone in that scene. Unfortunately, I shot a couple innocents before realizing what was happening.

      The first time I played it, I just figured it was just a messed up level. But then I thought about it and wondered why they included it. Totally changed my opinion.

      If some conservative parent who doesn’t normally play videogames were handed that without context, they’d be all for banning the thing. And yet they wouldn’t realize it was teaching you a lesson.

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        6 months ago

        If you don’t shoot anyone your cover is blown and they kill you. So you either skip or don’t play the game

        Edit: wait no I made that up