What differentiates sad game from pretentious one?

>>713876657 (OP)
>cannon fodder
i want to go back ):

>>713876657 (OP)
GO TO YOUR BROTHA
KILL HIM WITH YOUR GUN
LEAVE HIM LYING IN HIS UNIFORM
DYING IN THE SUN!
https://youtu.be/BziD-zE9Rqg?feature=shared

>>713876657 (OP)
pretentious ones always have the emo autistic one who sulks a lot and just stands around looking moody.

if he's in the game, its pretentious

>>713876657 (OP)
>Spec Ops: The Line forces you to drop willy pete on a group of very obvious non-combatants
>Seriously you can stand there all day shooting american troops but you are forced to use the mortar launcher and fire it on the group of unarmed, huddling white-hot mass
Meanwhile
>Cannon Fodder is sad because even though your men are all the same mechanically and visually, they all have names and will rank up between missions, meaning loosing them is a setback both mechanically and emotionally

>>713876657 (OP)
I think this was one of if not maybe the first games I every actually owned. Though I think the first game on CD I got was Warcraft 2. That or XCom.

>you've won

but at what cost?