Thread 718249402

Why did Spec Ops The Line filter /v/ so hard?

Nobody knew this game existed until it was delisted

>>718250081
You know that’s bullshit anon

>>718249402 (OP)
Why did this get delisted? I don't remember any licensed music and 2K still exists.

>>718250475
Israel
Gaza

how did it "filter" /v/ when the writer agreed with the meta interpretation?

Spec-Ops is just Kane & Lynch 2 for people with a single-digit IQ

>>718250475
It had a ton of licensed music

>>718251704
It did? It's been almost a decade since I've last played it so I genuinely don't remember.

>>718249402 (OP)
Too much melodrama, wannabe SH2
>>718250665
/thread

>>718251771
Had a few Jimi Hendrix song's from what I remember

There are people on /v/ who STILL think the game is repudiating the player instead of Walker

>>718252478
anon the writer literally said that was the idea.
Walker is meant to be (You).

You did stop when he told you, didn't you chud?

>>718252561
No, he didn't. The most he ever said was that the interpretation of, "Just turn off the game," was a valid one, but not an intended one because it was actually the interviewer who came up with it.

>>718252478
honestly i wish yager were allowed to expand the campaign a bit instead of having to shoehorn in a shitty multiplayer mode

>>718250383
>>718251993
I had a lot of psychedelic rock and prog-rock. It even had a Bjork song in it.

>>718253404
The multiplayer mode was the publisher’s one concession to the game being made.

>>718249402 (OP)
The gameplay in this is pretty mid
>yeah, that's by design. War isn't supposed to be fun
Yeah but that doesn't change the fact that the gameplay is fucking mid.

>>718252616
Would have been cool if there was a secret easter egg ending where you could actually have just turned around after making contact, kinda like the Far Cry games.

>>718253842
Feel like it could have watered down the narrative, tbqh

>>718249402 (OP)
I tried playing it a few years ago and it was painfully boring.

>>718253634
It's wasn't by design, tho. There are some neat mechanical stuff, too bad the sand gimmick amounts to very little.

>>718249402 (OP)
I'm not a woman.

>>718251771
Music companies are very litigious, anon.

>>718254061
It does go against Walkers hero complex, but it just being a fun easter egg ending that's available in the first ten minutes makes it a non issue imo.

>>718250081
>>718249402 (OP)
Wait what the fuck I can't find it on steam or GOG. I literally owned this game what happened?

>>718253634
It's a casually fun brainless arcade shooter
Who gives a fuck, it's short

>>718249402 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjnyQ1_JAmE

>>718250081
I played this game before I knew steam existed.

brown n bloom 4 hour shooter

>>718253634
I think it was mid because the developers didn't know what else to do with it. "So what are we going to make this Heart of Darkness but in the desert gameplay? Eh, just make it a third person shooter"

>>718255728
How is it an arcade shooter? Have you ever been in an arcade and played the shooting games that were there? It's just a standard third-person cover shooter, one of many pumped out in that time.

>>718257703
The game actually started with the premise of “gameplay focused tactical shooter set in Dubai”, and then 2K suggested that they make it a loose Heart of Darkness adaptation similar to how Bioshock drew inspiration from Atlas Shrugged.

>>718254203
I feel like they probably wanted to do more with the sand stuff, but the tech and budget probably limited them to some environmental hazards, explosives kicking up sand and scripted sandstorm sequences.


I get the feeling that the game would have been way more ambitious than what it turned out to be if they actually had the budget for it. It’s good what they managed to produce with what they had though.

>>718249402 (OP)
Most /v/ermin are double digit IQ underaged mutts, situations in fiction that are meant to impose cognitive dissonance are interpreted as a personal attack
>Walker did this, but the game is messing with me
Is interpreted as an affront and the response is instant emotional kneejerk of hostility instead of of going "I know what you're doing, game".
Had most underage shitskins here played Eternal Darkness, they would have complained that the game made them think their TV's were turning defective and there'd be a slew of unending threads talking about how it's "dogshit" for doing so.

>>718258349
Eternal Darkness IS dogshit tho?

>>718255535
People kept playing it over and over again and that was making the devs mad over their lack of media literacy (you're supposed to not play it I guess) so they took the game down.

>>718253842
Same
>>718254061
No it wouldn't, it's was going to be perfect

>>718258717
Nice fanfic

Honestly it was solid experience, it deserved overrated internet fame

>>718250081
>no /v/ didn't seeth on this game for the last 10 years.

Sure newfag.

>>718249402 (OP)
>surface level, the game's about a guy slowly going nuts and killing everything on his way to save/"save" the city
>medium level, the game's there to punish the player for liking violence in videogames
>the actual plot: main guy died in the first helicopter crash and the rest of the game is his purgatory (with a little aimed at you too), and this is why you're being railroaded so hard and why shit like the WP accident happens, why some background shit changes based on player input, and why Walker's eyes are literally broken
The fact the lead writer (/dev?) had to go out of his way to clarify this in an interview years later is just funny to me because I'm pretty sure literally zero people (outside of the "haha Ash is in a coma" memelords) knew Walker was dead.
Cool idea for a game, but shit execution.

Also the game's gameplay was a bit too generic, it caused a lot of people to instantly dismiss it as a generic shooter in a tidal wave of generic shooters, instead of blowing a bunch of normalfags' minds. It needed more "pop" to pull in normalfags, and "dynamic sand tech" isn't it, chief.

@718258717
Ffffanfiction!

>>718250475
>>718255535
Licensed music. Kind of a shame considering the game probably didn't "need" licensed music (like most games don't need it outside of crime sims like GTA and music-focused games like Guitar Hero, Hi-Fi Rush, and Brutal Legend.)

>>718249402 (OP)
I felt "above" its message and attempts to be subversive with my expectations.
I finished it and expected some kind of mind blowing moment but I came out thinking it was just mildly interesting.

>>718251771
One of the first shootouts is with Hush (Deep Purple version). And is pure kino

>>718249402 (OP)
Is this some grandpa game?