S15 • E2 Aug 29, 2025 44m
Clickbait Title: Call of Duty: Ghosts is the worst game I've ever played
This video has been a long time coming, I originally played Ghosts around the launch of Advanced Warfare as part of a Twitch series called CoD Fishing where we explored the roots and evolution of the cinematic shooter genre. Even at the time I found Ghosts to be repulsive in a way that would take me an extra decade and several failed attempts at writing it down to really put together. The real challenge is to keep everything in scope, which is hard in two directions. First of all, it's still just a video game, and one with a contentious reputation at that, it is not a load-bearing pillar of society and it would be disingenuous to give it the credit for "causing" anything societal. Second, "just a video game" isn't absolution, these things still reflect us and our society. As Gareth, lyricist for Los Campesinos! put it in To Hell in a Handjob: there's salt in all the sugar.
This video has been a long time coming, I originally played Ghosts around the launch of Advanced Warfare as part of a Twitch series called CoD Fishing where we explored the roots and evolution of the cinematic shooter genre. Even at the time I found Ghosts to be repulsive in a way that would take me an extra decade and several failed attempts at writing it down to really put together. The real challenge is to keep everything in scope, which is hard in two directions. First of all, it's still just a video game, and one with a contentious reputation at that, it is not a load-bearing pillar of society and it would be disingenuous to give it the credit for "causing" anything societal. Second, "just a video game" isn't absolution, these things still reflect us and our society. As Gareth, lyricist for Los Campesinos! put it in To Hell in a Handjob: there's salt in all the sugar.
