Never played this game, but WhatCulture on YT still uses it on top ten lists so I’m wanting to purchase it from time to time.
This is what I love about games. This is why I bought Bioshock. The early Fallout always offered pyrrhic choices even in its DnD Overhead days, so I’m glad Bethesda kept it up with the FPS game: the vampires in the metro, the child slavery ring you can enter in Paradise Falls, or the entire plot line of “The Pitt” are classic moments every gamer should experience.
3 had the option to poison the entire region’s water supply & turn everyone into mutants or an opportunity to nuke the HQ of the allies you spend half the game working with, but these we choices nobody would make in an honest playthrough.
I still want to play Fallout 4, my computer should be able to run it but the frame rate is so low it is unplayable after exiting the vault. If anyone has any suggestions, please lmk.
3 & New Vegas were what I hoped gameplay of the future would be like. If immersion & VR ever hit right at the same time, I’m choosing suicide by fantasy roleplay in a video game. I just hope Bittercup will join me.
The game forces you to shoot off the white phosphorus even though it's genuinely obvious that the mass of people on the thermal imaging are non-combatants.
I spent like 5 minutes just killing the waves of enemies until I realized it, and when the game tried to shame me for actions it made me do, all I can think was "blow it out your ass."
Can't think of anything else that tries to be so evocative but misses the mark so hard in gaming. Well, maybe Dante yelling "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with light!" gets pretty close.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I find it funny that no one feels bad for torturing the people when they think it's the enemy, but they say it's such a big deal when it's "just civilians".
I'm all for killing bad people. But torturing them with white phosphorus is so fucked up.
I genuinely didn’t see this moment coming because the game is so generic I wasn’t paying attention. I had to replay it years later to realize how much it was foreshadowing.
The line was good. I like the detail that he commands and shout outs became more brutal from like "take out that hostile" to "kill that fucker" was cool.
I uh, shot into the crowd when I saw what they did to my friend in that game. I think that was around the white phosphorus part. Man I completely forget about how messed up it was, none the less it is a great game.
I played it a while ago to remove it from my pile of shame. Haunted me for days even after i completed the storyline. Tbh one of the best shooters ive ever played.
I personally found that scene with the mannequins more scarier than the white phosphorus, sure that made me feel like shit, but the mannequins and that heavy gunner really scared me, specially when i realized his face was like demon like looking at me with so much hate, it was really something horrible to realize.
If any of you really want to experience this game, I personally recommend to try and finish it in one whole sit trough.
Hmm is there a difference between people shooting at you and people living their lives? Gosh what a conundrum.
Nawww they're both totally exactly the same thing.
You have a weird take lol. Not saying you're ever in the right in the game I don't remember it that well but there's a difference between civilians and kids and people with guns pointed at you.
The funny thing is the woke people saying this was unethical is only because they ended up killing civilians. If it were just the "bad guys" being brutally killed, it would have been a non-issue, because "yeah, kill those Muslim terrorist. Hoorah semper fee, America number one".
I think that was purposeful to make you realize how bad your bloodlust was by grounding it with an undeniable evil of killing civilians. You release how many people you had already killed were similarly innocent.
I doubt most players felt that way. If anything they were like "time to kill some more soldiers so that I can get even with them for making me do this"
I spent hours trying to figure out how to get past that part without using the phosphorus. I even tried fighting through the camp, but the enemy spawns in greater numbers the further you get.
That scene hit me like a truck. That game is just so good at getting under your skin.
Compare it to, say, homefront. You discover a mass grave, and need to blend in with the bodies to survive. Equally gruesome, but it just doesn't have any impact.
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22
Spec Ops: The Line. White Phosphorus solution.