COD: tl;dr

[SillyBear]

You is big american hero, you killz all evil non americans, go go go!

And that is pretty much the modern shooter rubber stamp.

What?

The main protagonists in the Call of Duty series are both English.

Since when?
Soap is Scottish and im pretty sure all the other player characters are American

Actually you only play as an American in the missions that are clearly headed by the Americans. Its like saying that CoD 2 is bad because you play as Russians in the Russian Campaign. Also, there's Captain Price and Kamarov, two main good characters that aren't American.

Im only talking about the Modern Warfare games (i thought that was implied seeing as thats what the thread is about), and i clearly stated im only talking about the player characters... When playing as the SAS you play as "Soap" who is Scottish. When you're playing for Task Force 141 you play as Soap again or "Roach" who i dont know where he's from. And then you can play for various American Units where.. you are of course American.

The person i quoted said that the main protagonists are "both english" which doesnt make sense because there are more than two protagonists, and arguably none of the player characters are English (although Roach possibly is)

You is big american hero, you killz all evil non americans, go go go!

And that is pretty much the modern shooter rubber stamp.

What?

The main protagonists in the Call of Duty series are both English.

Since when?
Soap is Scottish and im pretty sure all the other player characters are American

Price Is English, Soap is either northern English or scottish, so is Ghost(Gaz), and all the SAS. and tbh, I find them quite interesting characters

Im only talking about the Modern Warfare games (i thought that was implied seeing as thats what the thread is about), and i clearly stated im only talking about the player characters... When playing as the SAS you play as "Soap" who is Scottish. When you're playing for Task Force 141 you play as Soap again or "Roach" who i dont know where he's from. And then you can play for various American Units where.. you are of course American.

The person i quoted said that the main protagonists are "both english" which doesnt make sense because there are more than two protagonists, and arguably none of the player characters are English (although Roach possibly is)

You is big american hero, you killz all evil non americans, go go go!

And that is pretty much the modern shooter rubber stamp.

What?

The main protagonists in the Call of Duty series are both English.

Since when?
Soap is Scottish and im pretty sure all the other player characters are American

CoD 1 had Americans, English, and Russians
So did CoD 2
CoD 3 added Canadians
MW 1 and 2 have 2 British SAS members as the main protagonists. Playable Americans as well.
WaW had an American and Russian protagonist.

The only Call of Duty where you only played as an American was Black Ops, and even it had a bit where you played as a Russian.

Im only talking about the Modern Warfare games (i thought that was implied seeing as thats what the thread is about), and i clearly stated im only talking about the player characters... When playing as the SAS you play as "Soap" who is Scottish. When you're playing for Task Force 141 you play as Soap again or "Roach" who i dont know where he's from. And then you can play for various American Units where.. you are of course American.

The person i quoted said that the main protagonists are "both english" which doesnt make sense because there are more than two protagonists, and arguably none of the player characters are English (although Roach possibly is)

Soap, Gaz, Price, Ghost and Roach.

The five main characters throughout the modern warfare series.

None of them being American.

That was my point. You don't need to nitpick.

 

[PonceyMcTosserFaic]

The trick to enjoying the single-player is to abandon all pretense of realism. Have a sense of humor about it. Pretend like you're in the middle of a big, dumb Michael Bay movie. The games are so over-the-top that they're practically science fiction, just without the aliens and pulse cannons.

Maybe that's why i never did too well in MW2. i thought it was a realistic shooter, and so i played it like one.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Price doesnt really count, you play as him for 2 levels in a flashback.
And you never learn Roaches nationality. Given that Task Force 141 has members from many nationalities its a bit presumtious to assume he's British.
So 1 Scot, 1 unknown, 2 Americans and 1 English which if you really want to count given the tiny playtime you should really count the American CIA guy aswell.. so you can make that 3 Americans.

So yeah i stand by what i said.

Really? You'll stand by "all the other player characters are American" when you've just pointed out that there's 1 English and 1 unknown as well as the non-American series protagonist?

That's... special of you.

No whats special is your apparant talent for selectively reading.
I've already said i wasnt counting price as one of the main playable characters.
and im only wrong when i said that "im pretty sure most of the other player characters are american" if you forget that i said MOST and you assume that Roach isnt american.

 

[Ariseishirou]

No whats special is your apparant talent for selectively reading.
I've already said i wasnt counting price as one of the main playable characters.
and im only wrong when i said that "im pretty sure most of the other player characters are american" if you forget that i said MOST and you assume that Roach isnt american.

Nah, you said "all". Backpedalling isn't very effective when you can just go back and look at the previous page to check.

Since when?
Soap is Scottish and im pretty sure all the other player characters are American

Yep, you said "all". Not "most". And you're full of it.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

No whats special is your apparant talent for selectively reading.
I've already said i wasnt counting price as one of the main playable characters.
and im only wrong when i said that "im pretty sure most of the other player characters are american" if you forget that i said MOST and you assume that Roach isnt american.

Nah, you said "all". Backpedalling isn't very effective when you can just go back and look at the previous page to check.

Since when?
Soap is Scottish and im pretty sure all the other player characters are American

Yep, you said "all". Not "most". And you're full of it.

Okay well i forgot the exact words i used. I still said "im pretty sure" as in, i know im might not be 100% correct.

And you're still being a pedantic arse.

 

[Ariseishirou]

Okay well i forgot the exact words i used. I still said "im pretty sure" as in, i know im might not be 100% correct.

And you're still being a pedantic arse.

Not really. Not only were you absolutely incorrect in fact in your original statement, you are also incorrect in theme. As the above poster pointed out, not only are Soap's playable comrades not all Americans, the vast majority of the memorable characters, playable or otherwise - Price, MacMillan, Gaz, Ghost, Roach (?) - are not American either. Far from the insinuated and stated "one Scottish dude and everyone else is American" rather the opposite is true.

There's nothing pendantic about pointing out that your statements about a series are way off base, and don't resemble the actual series in fact or in spirit in a discussion about that series. CoD has always distinguished itself, in fact, since the beginning as inclusive of members of a varity of nationalities (including British, Russian, Canada, and even Polish campaigns) whereas other FPS series (e.g. MoH, both classic and modern) are in fact US-centric.

In other words, you're offering a false and distorted impression of a series in a thread about that series, and behooves fans of that series to correct you as thoroughly as possible.