Call of Duty: WWII was free on PS4 this month (basically to pump sales of the expansions), thought I might as well play the campaign

Man, I forgot how much I hate CoD writing. Like the Battlefield games tell war stories with missions set in significant operations or theaters, but CoD is like caricature stuff where your character is personally central to every memorable event.

Like there’s a mission that’s reminding me of the WWI-set Battlefield One, and maybe it’s the different tone in re: WWI vs WWII, but there victory is understood as “you survived, and through some objective played a part as the war machine advances another push” and here it’s like “fresh off personally leading the Resistance to liberate Paris, you turn the tables in a Kraut city by personally winning the air war from the ground, leading a decisive tank battle, and clearing the stronghold with your men”

(Also not fond of Naughty Dog writing, all aspiring to middlebrow blockbusters)