Apparently, in the future, people are dumb as hell and condem themselves to being torn apart by the unending armys of creatures with no goal other than to kill all living things that cross their paths. I am SO sick of this "no weapons" thing. The ONLY argument against them is "oh, the devs hate guns". All it is is the dev's bringing politics into the game. There is no logical story argument.
We are not "bringing" politics into the game. The game was conceived and designed from the very beginning to be about avoiding the use of lethal weapons as a way of solving problems. If that frustrates you, I'm sorry, but it's not going to change.
But you need to understand that we're not forcing an agenda or pushing politics into a place where it doesn't belong, because of course it belongs here. Every single creative work has a political component to its message, even if it's no more complex than "I am comfortable with the status quo and therefore have nothing I wish to say about it". We've chosen to make a game without lethal weapons because we are interested in exploring those ideas, and because some of us, myself included, weren't very keen on making another game focused on guns and combat.
It's not politically neutral to make a game where your primary mode of interacting with the world is through a weapon; even less so in the case of games like Call of Duty which are largely about solving geopolitical issues through the use of weapons. I'm not saying you can't like that or support that, but I am saying that it's disingenuous to suggest we're forcing politics into a politics-free zone. We're just taking a stance you happen to disagree with, possibly even questioning something you took for granted.
I have a question, Would a lightsaber like tool that acts as an upgrade to the thermoblade be considered a weapon? I mean sure it may be effective against leviathans, but it would have other uses. It could cut through rock and metal cook food, or even provide light.
I would also like to say that I believe that the Call of Duty developers were not even thinking of militarism as a political tool. Because Call of Duty is like the Michael Bay of video games.
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I have a question, Would a lightsaber like tool that acts as an upgrade to the thermoblade be considered a weapon? I mean sure it may be effective against leviathans, but it would have other uses. It could cut through rock and metal cook food, or even provide light.
I would also like to say that I believe that the Call of Duty developers were not even thinking of militarism as a political tool. Because Call of Duty is like the Michael Bay of video games.