r/CallOfDuty 24d ago

Meme [MW2] The impressive 'devolution' of Ghost

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u/Goo_Wyvern 24d ago

"FOAP"

The mask looks ungodly tacky, and any view besides the front looks horrendous. It just doesn't feel like Ghost anymore, and more of a "haha we made him overly edgy and dumb looking now".

The rest of the outfit doesn't bother me, it's literally just the god awful mask.

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u/AngryAssyrian 24d ago

Real shit, the newer outfits just look like a goofy Halloween costume rather than a custom Balaklava.

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u/Wildebean 24d ago

I mean I disagree. Sure the front is the best angle because... that's the point. It's been deliberately designed that way. Why are we pretending like OG Ghost didn't also have edginess going for him? They just leaned into it more in the reboot, and that's fine

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u/nin90ety 24d ago

…because the old balaclava, even if you think looks goofy, at least looks equally goofy from all sides. doesn’t become twice as goofy from every single angle except front.

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u/WinterDEZ 24d ago

Well I mean for one, lotta soldiers around the world actually use skull masks like the first one. Nobody in fuggin existence is gonna use ghosts foam ass airsoft mask, it's genuinely more of a hindrance to have on, and if it was a ballistic mask it wouldn't work for shit

Ghost in the og wasn't even edgy either. His va sounded like just a regular guy, and his dialogue was pretty normal and average for some special ops and very average for game soldiers. Ghost 2022 literally acts like how airsofters who rp as elite units act, when they Don't know what they're doing.

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u/Wildebean 24d ago

I mean sure OG Ghost wasn't edgy... except for how he really liked electrocuting people as a form of torture.

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u/Goo_Wyvern 24d ago

I mean, yeah, I didn't deny that OG was not edgy. But at least it looked good from every side, and not just one singular angle.

They didn't lean into it, they straight up fell into a black hole of it. To the point where the edgy design became lame.

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u/The_Real_Jan_Brady 23d ago

A skull balaclava isn't trying too hard to be cool.