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[NateDog]

Playing through COD4 for the first time - specifically, Modern Warfare: Remastered. Really having a great time and can't believe I missed this (I think, like many other people, once I'd got my hands on WAW/MW2/BO1, I just didn't bother to look back - those offered everything + more I could want) but I'm loving this and I'm lowkey kicking myself for not playing it sooner, because I'm actually a bit of a sucker for the Modern Warfare storyline.

Something really fun I tried just on a whim in one mission genuinely filled my heart with joy and gave me nostalgia back to when COD was a bit more of a properly developed franchise with some legit ideas. Spoilers ahead for MW/MW2 and specifically Modern Warfare: Remastered: 

Spoiler:

On the mission where you attempt to assassinate Zakhaev, I remembered that in MW3, Makarov and Yuri are retroactively inserted into that scene and are talking in a jeep just behind the deal, watching it. I looked around with my scope and saw the two having the conversation as they did in MW3. They fucking added them into the game wtf!! Thought to myself 'Fuck it, let's see what happens if I do this.', shot Zakhaev and then rushed to shoot Makarov too and I'd completed a hidden objective called 'Change the future' and unlocked a trophy called 'Time Paradox'. Really cool Easter Egg tbh and singlehandedly made my playthrough of this game on Veteran feel really worth it, wondering what else is hidden.

That's a pretty cool easter egg. CoD4 was the peak of the FPS genre for me and nothing has matched it since. That window with that around and then BFBC2 a few years later was incredible.