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Last time, I prepared you for what I thought, showing the history of the FPS' evolution as a genre which emulated the even plane of sport, and how 2007's Call of Duty added an RPG-like progression system that changed all of it. Now, let us speak on the two most recent games, and how they are both more and less than a clicker game for your phone. Is that too revealing? Oh well. --- It is helpful to think of Call of Duty not as a game, but as a platform. And then, forget thinking about it like a platform, because that's insane corporate blather, and instead - consider it like a casino. If you're just playing Warzone, the battle royale mode, it's free, but if you want the rest of the business, it'll cost you a cool $60. That's a standard price for a game, and it rarely goes on sale, but there's so much in there! Right? With your $60, you're welcomed into the grinder. Every action in campaign, in MP, and in Zombies, in Warzone, all of it grants you XP, ...

Last time, we discussed Universal Paperclips , a minimalist idle/clicker game for browser & phones. Now, let's talk about not entirely, but also sorta, different. And first, a primer before the explication. --- The lineage of the first person shooter genre begins, as all great things do, in hell. Sure, there was shooting, and there was being a first person - which is to say, inhabiting a digital body and seeing as it sees, moving as it moves - but DOOM made it visceral and immediate. Much has been said on the topic (see Tim Rogers & other DOOM YTers ), but still it must be said - DOOM made the shooter into a country, and we've lived there for decades now.  From Quake to Unreal Tournament to Goldeneye to Medal of Honor to Halo to Far Cry, we became dudes who did the shooty, and it was good. We could journey through a hackneyed plot on our own, or go onto that world wide web and destroy each other, or knock shoulders with our brothers as we fought for the sniper rifle....