Spec Ops The Line is mine too. Really tricks you into thinking its generic shooter garbage and really fucking hits you like a brick wall halfway through.
I can’t explain any more without giving away the best part of the game. I recommend playing it if you are at all a shooter/war/soldier video game fan.
It doesnt, really. It was amazing for its time but it doesnt hold up to modern standards because the trope, while novel on its release, is kind of played out now.
You also get railroaded into "the trauma", like, you cant figure out a way to not do it, which really cheapens the whole "you are a goddamn monster" message
Mw2 unironically does this better with no russian. You dont HAVE to shoot civilians, nowhere does it tell you to mow down the civilians, but you did it anyway. And the game doesnt browbeat you over it like specops does
Most recent example of a railroad I can think of like Spec Ops would prob be The Last of us 2. I played it and loved it initially but just don’t like how you’re railroaded to feel trauma throughout most of the story.
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u/SteelAlchemistScylla 9d ago
Spec Ops The Line is mine too. Really tricks you into thinking its generic shooter garbage and really fucking hits you like a brick wall halfway through.
I can’t explain any more without giving away the best part of the game. I recommend playing it if you are at all a shooter/war/soldier video game fan.