Noah Caldwell-Gervais has been responsible for some landmark critiques of video games that focus on the gameplay and story-telling aspects of the game in a nearly dispassionate manner. There’s something to his way of thinking and analysis that I greatly appreciate and since he upgraded his equipment around last year, he’s been producing videos every month for a growing YouTube audience instead of two videos a year. (Note to self: I need to contribute to that Patreon campaign he’s running.)
This month’s video is about collection of single player campaigns featured in the Call of Duty franchise, a series of games with humble-enough intentions that turned into a formulaic, yet incontestable, genre-defining standard-bearer. It’s a fascinating two-hour-long look into the installments released for the PC.