{"id":3309,"date":"2014-07-21T10:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2014-07-21T10:52:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:52:31","slug":"spec-ops-the-line-but-im-the-good-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2014\/07\/21\/spec-ops-the-line-but-im-the-good-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spec Ops: The Line &#8211; &#8220;But I&#8217;m the good guy&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I completed the game a day ago. I was moved, but also was as confused as the guy I played as. I feel like I see massive plotholes infront of me. It&#8217;s like the mindfuck ending of Bioshock Infinite.<\/p>\n<p>What I read by the game having a dark story and only getting darker, is very true. It really does show the horrors of modern warfare. Horrors, caused by your ill-timed choices, thinking you were being the &#8220;good guy&#8221;(since you&#8217;re <strong>American<\/strong> and <em>not<\/em> a foreigner)&#8230;. only to be seen as a murderer. It seriously had me in tears(thinking about it, I still am). It&#8217;s human nature to blame others for your actions, when these people forced your hand. Yet you know, you&#8217;re the one that made the order and not them.<br \/>\nAs much revenge as you want in return to those that caused you to give those&#8230;unfortunate orders, <em>you<\/em> still did the deed. Their blood, is on your hands. And you have to live with that guilt.<br \/>\nYou feel it&#8217;s not your fault. And&#8230; I&#8217;m going to say too much which will reveal spoilers. Damnit.<\/p>\n<p>This game serves as a wakeup call to all games with war in them. That not always, are foreigners the problem. Sometimes, it could be (who you think) a rogue American squad. As Dan said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AqcNUAyqBCU\" target=\"_blank\">his video<\/a>: &#8220;Bad people do bad things&#8221;.<br \/>\nWhich ultimately&#8230;makes you a bad guy. War is just fucking not worth it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>But enough of the story. Time to talk about other stuff. What I liked and disliked about the game;<\/p>\n<p>Good:<br \/>\n1. Graphics.<br \/>\n2. The gripping story.<br \/>\n3. Faced with grim choices you must think of. There is no &#8220;right&#8221; or &#8220;wrong&#8221; choice.<br \/>\n4. You can pause cutscenes by hitting the Esc key. Very few games do this.<\/p>\n<p>Bad:<br \/>\n1. You can only carry two weapons.<br \/>\n2. Why is the Spacebar bound to healing teammates and hiding behind cover?&#8230; Why?<br \/>\n3. Why can you not jump in this game except at scripted &#8220;DROP DOWN&#8221; sections?<br \/>\n4. Enemies hit way too hard even on the easiest difficulty. Yet I forget, they&#8217;re using high powered ammo.<br \/>\n5. Teammates getting cocky after ordering them to take out a distant target, causes both of them to run into enemy fire and bleed out, forcing you to run into enemy fire and die trying to heal them&#8230; with your spacebar.<br \/>\n6. Can&#8217;t order more than one enemy to be taken down?<br \/>\n7. Half the time when a scripted stealth section happens, I see this: &#8220;Hold it! Let&#8217;s go stealthy. Use silencers.&#8221; *equips silencer then orders teammates to take out targets with stealth* Teammate: KICK THEIR ASSES!!! *doesn&#8217;t use silencer and attacks, alerting everyone&#8221; *Benie facepalms*<br \/>\n8. You can heal your teammates, yet they can&#8217;t heal you.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; most of my complaints are about my retarded teammates and the way the game has the keys bound. Still, if you ignore these quirks, the game still has a lot of good in it. I can&#8217;t recommend this game enough.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Now to talk spoilers. Sorry, but I have to. These nagging plotholes won&#8217;t leave me alone. As always, if you haven&#8217;t played yet, buy the game and do so before reading this.<\/p>\n<p>Plothole #1: If Dubai was better off without you, then why did you come?<br \/>\nPossible Answer: You&#8217;re reliving hell that you as Walker created. You and your teammates died in the first helicopter crash, yet you don&#8217;t know you&#8217;re dead. Everytime you see a fade to black screen, it means events that actually happened. But when you see a fade to white, it means events of you as Walker are creating in your head.<br \/>\nRemember when you said &#8220;wait, we&#8217;re doing this again!&#8221; when getting in the helicopter? This is purgatory.<\/p>\n<p>Plothole #2: What was the 33rd doing there? And why did they have a seamlessly infinite number of units compared to you three?<br \/>\nPlothole #3: Who was leading the 33rd if Konrad is dead?<br \/>\nPlothole #4: Why was there sounds of fighting in the background after engaging the 33rd, yet seeing no one moving? Is this what our marines over fighting the war IRL deal with?<br \/>\nPlothole #5: If all the water in Dubai was in those trucks, then why did Konrad have a huge aquarium in his tower at the end of the game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I completed the game a day ago. I was moved, but also was as confused as the guy I played as. I feel like I see massive plotholes infront of me. It&#8217;s like the mindfuck ending of Bioshock Infinite. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2014\/07\/21\/spec-ops-the-line-but-im-the-good-guy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-game-reviews-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}