i think the ghost x price confrontation is a lie (i mean the specific scene from the teaser).
hear me out.
trailers always lie. i think that's a truth everyone into movies/tv shows/video games has universally acknowledged. so far, we've only seen a teaser of the game. it is meant to draw hype.
so, price has been established in the previous games to be extremely loyal to those he holds close. he's loyal to the 141. he's loyal to kate and farah. who else? idk. but he's loyal to them specifically. and sure, his arc in this game is him facing the consequences of his actions in mw3 and following a timeline of reckless and dangerous acts that's been established since the first game. but i think when push comes to shove, price won't harm ghost or gaz. i don't think he has that in him, and not because he doesn't have the capacity -- he's more than capable of taking on simon or kyle in a fistfight, and in the trailer we see him beating someone to death -- but because he doesn't have the willingness to harm his former teammates, the ones he led and bled with, especially after soap's death, which really threw him off the deep end.
so what happens with ghost? from the patch in his arm we can interpret that he's joined the SAS again, and maybe he's been tasked, along with other operators, in hunting him down. that "you broke a lot of rules, price" line sounds more reluctant than not. maybe simon's conflicted about the whole thing. maybe he's just doing as told. maybe there's something deeper going on. we can't know.
my theory is that, while ghost + the sas are definitely hunting price down to make him answer for his war crimes (he did kill an american general, after all), ghost and price will eventually team up. whether simon leaves the sas or not is unclear. i also think gaz, whom we still haven't seen or heard, has a lot more to do in this storyline. he's literally price's protegé. this moral conflict between doing what's right, whatever the means, and following the rules has been his storyline since mw1 ("we get dirty and the world stays clean").
the scene we see on the trailer, plus the audio snippets (you broke the rules/no more rules) belong to different moments entirely. maybe simon says that line the moment they capture price after beating that person to death. i don't know. i might be grasping at straws here. but i do think the ghost/price confrontation is a lot deeper and not what we've seen in 5 seconds of a teaser. time will tell.
i feel ill every time i scroll upon a post or open a comment section because i can't dump my theories and opinions about mw4 to everybody ever. i'm gonna throw up my hopes for this game are higher than they should be but i've adored outlaw price for so long.
information has been indirectly provided by the Infinity Ward team. do not take all of these as facts. this is all stuff i've gathered through youtube videos, a couple of articles, and my own head.
unnecessary note: i've seen people who don't even know why price is on the run to begin with and genuinely think the creators have lost the theme entirely. like did we play/watch the same game? price literally kills general shepherd at the end of modern warfare 3. did we think he could just get away with shooting a general in his office and leaving his very own fingerprints behind?
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- first off, none of this is happening solely because of soap's death. that was the final straw that led to price killing shepherd, who betrayed the 141 TWICE and tried directly killing them. no, they would not spend all that time sulking over the sergeant. they've most definitely faced very similar situations and lost peers of greater or less value to them. yes, they can get upset, but they are soldiers. they are not ones to brood or act irrationally over soap ffs. shepherd's betrayal was simply a brick in a tower that caused the entire thing to topple over, subsequently leading to the murder of price's own man. price planned this out, knew the consequences, yet chose to do what must be done for the great or good. he believes he has the right to strike back when someone hurts what belongs to him.
- i've heard a few people say how perfect it would've been if they didn't kill off soap, that way the captain mactavish plot from the original trilogy would occur, but it just WOULDN'T WORK. unlike the og, ghost and soap both made first appearances in the same game. it would be strange to brush past ghost, who's a rank higher, and run with captain mactavish storyline. IW doesn't want to copy and paste the same exact plot.
- after the 141 disbanded, i could guess that ghost either was transferred oooorrr he was promoted to captain and runs his own team (if the timeline is still aligned with real life). however, laswell is confirmed to be in the game, and there's a chance that she's the one who sent ghost after john for reasons i can not decide on.
- the fight. it's pretty clear in previous games that ghost doesn't let himself get attached. although it seems like the captain and him had a decent bond (based on past dialogue), ghost is heavily work driven. gets the job done with little to no protest. he was sent to capture price. a part of me believes that the scene is deceiving, and they only have their knives out because of their frayed trust. a commenter pointed out how they both seem to have gun holsters on them. there is no gun in price's, and it's difficult to tell if ghost has one or not. but if he did, he would most likely be pointing it at him, right? it'd be unnecessary to go hand to hand when he has john right where he wants him and without a firearm. either A: ghost also lost his gun in whatever grapple they got themselves in before the scene or B: they aren't going to brawl.
- i have to add that ghost and price aren't "enemies". i seriously doubt that simon would blame anyone but makarov for soap's death, and he definitely isn't taking revenge for shepherd. price isn't the villain. yes, he is an adversary, but it's apparent we'll get to play as him and learn more about his perspective. the bigger antagonist of the game is a part of the korean war.
- on another note, ghost is definitely NOT going to look the way he does in the trailer. i know he's worn that outfit before but the sunglasses seem oddly unnatural in this scene, given he's standing up after presumably falling; but he's also kept his sunglasses after jumping off a cliff into a lake, so who knows. these games aren't great when it comes to physics.
- GAZ. sergeant garrick, my beloved. i just found out that he's confirmed to be in the game as well. meaning he should be working alongside ghost and potentially laswell. mind you, this is only the first trailer. there will be more to come from now until september/october. hopefully the next one at least gives us a glimpse of gaz. he's been the main playable character from the start. it'd be absurd not to. even just a teaser PLEASE.
- price and valeria, the korean war, and makarov are all tied together. i could elaborate further. i'm just unsure how much some people want to know.
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anyway the doomed yaoi content between these two is gonna go so hard.
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