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Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks

The Onion · 4.5M views · 2011-01-04 · 2:51

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Overview

An Onion News Network parody of a 'hyper-realistic' modern warfare game whose gameplay consists of paperwork, waiting for orders and repairing trucks.

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HN people bring it up as a joke when a thread is about games or simulators that chase realism and end up tedious.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2018–2025

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EliRivers · 2025-04 · Joke / meme

People say they want realism in games. They don't. That's just a thing people have learned to say. [VIDEO]

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D_Mil_Realism · 2025-03 · Joke / meme

I never played Arma, to be fair. I always gravitated more toward the "brain-rot" games! But you're right of course, realistic games use more realistic ballistic models (and everything else). One reason I never got too into the simulator games was that the line between "real" and "game" is always going to be very arbitrary. No simulator will replicate the experience of slogging over a marshy mountain carrying 100 lbs and a GPMG! The Onion said it best: [VIDEO]

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sireat · 2020-11 · Joke / meme

This looks great! Not doing anything in particular was also a lot of fun in GTA games. Also I am reminded of the Onion's modern warfare simulator video: [VIDEO]

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