10 Video Games That Hold Your Hand WAY Too Much

Ever since the Call of Duty franchise was reinvented with 2007's highly influential Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the series has received flak for the aggressive linearity of its single-player campaigns, which generally just hurl the player down a shooty-shooty corridor with incessant instructions to "follow."

But there's one game above all others which invited an avalanche of ridicule from the wider gaming community, and that's 2014's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Even accepting that the game marked a major, divisive leap into sci-fi territory for the series, there's a moment early in the campaign which left even the most die-hard Call of Duty fan guffawing with second-hand embarrassment.

Protagonist Jack Mitchell (Troy Baker) attends the funeral of fallen comrade Will Irons (Paul Telfer), at which point the player is prompted to "hold [button] to pay respects," or most infamously on the PC version of the game, "press F to pay respects."

The scene near-immediately went viral on social media, with many not only mocking the tonal impropriety of such a prompt, but highlighting it as an example of how excessively "on-rails" the Call of Duty campaigns are.

Could the player have not simply been encouraged to walk towards Will's casket, at which point the game could wrestle control away from the player for the ensuing cutscene? Instead, a scene intended to move the player was largely met with unintended laughter.