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So has anyone followed /v/ on 4chan? I think a new meme has been spawned. Several threads refers to a scene from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare where a QTE makes you press F to pay respects at a funural. Several threads have already been made and all general CoD:AW threads has a reference to it.

Wow. That's a pretty ridiculous command. I don't go on /v/, but I'd understand if this was a meme.

Can you provide some picture?

GOTY! GOTY!

Well… They do pretty fucked up stuff in other games too… In Homefron you jump over a mass grave, in South Park the Stick of Truth (does it count?) you can fart in an aborted nazi fetus…

I know it is pretty WTF, but is not the worst thing in a game.

The Da Vinci bro hug QTE in AC 2 hands down best QTE.

Well, this isn't the first instance of a meme through a simple stupid action in a game. An earlier notable example was Press X To Jason from Heavy Rain (a game filled to the brim with quick time events btw).

But it's up to the internet if this becomes a notable enough meme. Right now the game was just released and this is a moment gamers and reviewers alike can cringe about. But will it receive derivatives and the like?

It's not "fucked up". It's just stupid and breaks what emotional response the scene would otherwise invoke.

After the MW nuke, everybody is trying to repeat "the shocking moment" or invoke feels in the player. "Feel sad about this one soldier and then go out and slaughter hundreds."

That's why I love Spec Ops: The Line.

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As usual, COD's attempts at innovation have all already been done better. Not even something this simple is safe.

This was probably front paged on reddit at some point

Also, Metal Gear and AC did it as well I'm pretty sure.

But how else is the player supposed to simulate being 150% god-fearing true American hero who fights nazi communist atheist muslim ethnic-minority if they can't press a button to display PATRIOTISM?

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