This is pretty rich, considering that a) most of the people in China who played (and loved) the first one didn't spend a single cent on it and b) these comments are coming from a country of rip-off games such as Zheng Tu.

Thank you for withdrawing your snark. That's much more gracious than a lot of people I've encountered on these commenting sections.

Sadly enough, that quote would be considered eloquent on 4chan these days.

Okay, I'll back up, then.

They probably saw all of those memes

Goddamn do I fucking love memes. Can you check your pockets and see if you have any leftover memes to spare? I want to take all of these memes home and whip up a tasty quiche. Or maybe knit a blanket out of these fluffly memes. Can't get enough of those memes. More memes, please, thanks.

You're alright.

1. Made in response to your comment about terrorism, NOT actual countries

I'm talking about actual time being spent into coding and creating assets for a very specific fantasy tied into an actual, real-world tension that could potentially boil into a military conflict. Granted, it's not what either side wants, but this game is promoting propaganda beyond "China good, Japan bad," and it's…

You didn't read my entire statement. I said actual countries, but my larger point was on toying with scenarios founded on present-day tensions with lots of historical underpinnings. Western devs like IW aren't making game modes based on the American occupation of Iraq, for instance, or a revenge mode where you wipe…

Except the enemy the player being pitted against in Glorious Mission is not a terrorist organization, nor a state-funded terror group; it's an actual country, and the offending scenarios that play out are largely steeped in current-day tension (Senkaku Islands) informed by China's scars in the past (the Shanghai level…

Working at a game company in Beijing, most of my co-workers all owned decent gaming rigs and played predominantly Western games (some even played text-heavy games as Torment). There's a huge disparity in "gaming literacy" out in China, where lots of addicted individuals will pour hours upon hours of time into a shitty…

Yes, in terms of the "otherizing" of the enemy, I could see that. But something Call of Duty isn't doing is explicitly drawing on current political tensions and referencing them verbatim in a free-to-play, widely-distributed shooter game. Also, CoD doesn't have the built-in hate-spray that happens when you stand over…

"Yeah, that was pretty cool. Too bad you're really just an empty cup of Top Ramen and this is all happening in my head."

You're an outlier and not an example, unfortunately :(

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that what these so-called "geek guys" hate isn't geeky girls; it's what they perceive to be showboating under the guise of some kind of moral imperative.

Same reason indie kids get ultra-defensive when you imply they like a band that could be considered mainstream: they feel like they paid their dues and stuck with the band in their darkest years, and now that the band's mainstream and accepted, they're up to their necks in people who just jumped onto the bandwagon…

"No, dammit, you're not going anywhere until you answer my question: Are you cosplaying as the Barbara Gordon-Batgirl or Cassandra Cain-Batgirl? I mean, you OBVIOUSLY love the comics, so this should be an easy one for a REAL GEEK GIRL like you, right?"

"Bro, who's that stuffy British guy? Isn't that Michael Caine from Batman? Who? Jarvis? You mean the computer voice from Iron Man? No, no... bro, I've seen all of the Marvel movies and THAT is not Jarvis. Got 'em all on Blu-Ray and shit, woulda caught that shit. Trust."

Just putting this comment here without affiliation, but dear Christ almighty. This goddamn fucking conversation is making my head hurt.