I want to be clear here, I am not apologizing to Activision in the slightest, because after everything that’s gone down recently, they don’t deserve anything of the sort. In light of my questionable past thoughts, this is me admitting that I was wrong, and issuing a formal apology to Call of Duty. To me, games were the next great vehicle for innovations in storytelling, and some mindless shooter that was rereleased every year stood for everything that I thought was holding the medium back. Seeing as I considered myself some sort of arbiter of narrative in games (maybe it was the TED Talk that went to my head), I got up on a high horse and talked shit on CoD, like, all the time. The first games I truly got into were The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, and Telltale games like Tales from the Borderlands.
I’ve been an avid reader my whole life, studied classic literature in college, decided I want to be a writer, etc, etc. See, I got into games because of the single-player story stuff. It feels impossible to imagine now, but there was a time when not only did I not play Call of Duty, I actively disliked it for reasons I will explain. I played the beta last month, which is actually the first beta I’ve ever been part of, believe it or not. With Call of Duty: Vanguard right around the corner, I’m kind of beside myself with excitement.
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