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"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
by tga_d 1y ago
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
- dawatchusay 1y agoI think it was Call of Duty 2 (when the franchise was still WW2-based) when they would show, in my recollection, an anti-war message including this one every time your character died. I think this was absent from later incarnations of the franchise.
- xboxnolifes 1y agoCod 4, World at War, and MW2(?) also did this to my memory. At least one of them did for sure. Not always necessarily anti-war, but historical quotes related to war.
- dawatchusay 1y agoThanks, I didn’t recall
- theoreticalmal 1y agoAnd the quotes showed up longer, like 5 seconds, so you could read them in full. Later games would display the quote for 1-2 seconds, which often wouldn’t be enough time to process the full text