The cognitive dissonance on these forums over the last five or so years has become sad. Ever since most of you officially entered your "boomerdom" era, it's like collective amnesia set in and turned into a full-blown epidemic. The way people rewrite history around here would make a Soviet propagandist blush. Bad Company 2 - you know, basically the 2nd or 3rd best FPS of all-time and the one everyone here genuflects to as the "last great shooter" before "the fall"? Well, it also had unlocks, my guy. Weapons, attachments, specializations, all of it. You had to actually play the damn game to get your toys.
But the funniest part isn't the revisionism, it's the unhinged self-contradiction. This forum loves to rail against "zoomers". Oh, those impatient little dopamine goblins who "want everything handed to them" and "don't understand what it was like back in our day." Yet the same people crying about the youth's lack of patience are also the ones throwing tantrums because their entire loadout isn't unlocked within 30 minutes of booting up.
And the kicker is if the game did unlock everything up front, people here would still complain. "Oh my god, everything's unlocked right away! These teeny-boppers have such an advantage! X gun is so OP!" You want the grind, but not the grind. You want nostalgia, but only the selective parts that don't require effort. You want to feel superior to a generation you barely understand while holding them to a standard you can't even meet yourselves.
Every time I see one of these threads, I don't even get mad anymore. I just marvel at the consistency of the inconsistency.
