Some People Are Protesting New Medal of Honor

[steelbox]

One easy fix. Play as US.

 

[borisof007]

I like how the UK didn't have a problem with MW2 in which you play as British soldiers from 141 (essentially SAS as they all have accents), or rather when you play the terrorist/militia opposition who kills them.

 

[jwl3]

I understand that most of you are computer geeks or teenage imbeciles who know nothing outside of the video game or tech world. But this idiotic sympathy for the taliban (or at the very least equivocation with US troops) is borderline instanity. The Taliban murder every single family member of someone they think is cooperating with the US. They INTENTIONALLY murdered 9 UNARMED doctors and their interpreter for "spreading Christianity. " Not to even mention harboring al qaeda and training them for the 9/11 atrocity. The difference (if I even need to mention it to you artards) between us and THEM is that we try our very damned best to MINIMIZE civilian casualties. They try their very damned best to MAXIMIZE civilian casualties.

They are nothing more than animals that must be exterminated with extreme prejudice.

 

[fball922]

They should adopt a skinning system a la America's Army, where both sides perceive themselves as the American team and the other side the insurgents/terrorists/bad guys.

 

[Maxor127]

"Understandably, this has raised some issues..."

Not understandable. It's a game. Games have villains. Just like you can play as Nazis or Viet Cong. How about if they changed it to Americans soldiers killing other American soldiers? How well would that go over?

They could do what America's Army does and have your team always look like the U.S. and the enemy always look like the "bad guy" no matter what team you're on. Either way, people being overly sensitive. If they had their way, any mention or depiction of Taliban would be stricken from any media unless it met propaganda guidelines, and the U.S. could never be shown in a negative light.

 

[Maxor127]

[citation][nom]JWL3[/nom]I understand that most of you are computer geeks or teenage imbeciles who know nothing outside of the video game or tech world. But this idiotic sympathy for the taliban (or at the very least equivocation with US troops) is borderline instanity. The Taliban murder every single family member of someone they think is cooperating with the US. They INTENTIONALLY murdered 9 UNARMED doctors and their interpreter for "spreading Christianity. " Not to even mention harboring al qaeda and training them for the 9/11 atrocity. The difference (if I even need to mention it to you artards) between us and THEM is that we try our very damned best to MINIMIZE civilian casualties. They try their very damned best to MAXIMIZE civilian casualties.They are nothing more than animals that must be exterminated with extreme prejudice.[/citation]
What sympathy? Most rational people don't overract about a video game where you happen to have a Taliban player model in multiplayer. I don't sympathize with idiots who cry about a video game. Maybe if EA were releasing a game where the point of the game was to play as a terrorist, and even then I wouldn't care. It wouldn't be any different as a GTA game where you can kill anyone and destroy almost anything and team up with the IRA.

 

[cp8427]

People's logic never ceases to amaze me. Just for this I'm going on medal of honor to kill some "husbands of wives and fathers of children".

 

[christop]

It IS JUST A GAME GET OVER IT!!!

 

[cookoy]

Sometimes i like to play the other side to see what resources they have, what are their inherent skills, etc. It's like intelligence gathering, so next time you fight them, you use this intel to better fight them.

 

[husker]

I personally would not be able to play as the Taliban (the thought of it is repulsive), but if someone else wants to that is their problem. This is similar to any freedom of speech issue, which extends to art and other forms of expression.

 

[LORD_ORION]

Nobody was complaining when I was the GLA in C&C Generals, driving suicide bombers into Chinese bulldozers.

 

[pozaks]

If you win as the US you should get to capture the Taliban forces, ask them to please stop fighting you, then let them go after several months and hope for the best.

And if you're playing as Taliban, you should get to play a minigame where you stone adulterous women to death, or shoot them for being raped by you, or mutilate their faces with acid, nose and ear removal as a punishment for attending school, or something more creative. Is there a Wii/Kinect/Move edition? Because this could really work.

 

[Supertrek32]

By trying to censor the content of a game, you're working against what those men and women died to protect.

 

[necronic]

A lot of the counter arguments here have been that other shooters have portrayed Nazis/Red Devils and that's been ok, therefore this must be ok.

What if the counter is true, that those games weren't ok either? There is a part of me that understands where the discomfort is coming from. You may not have to agree with it, but you have to empathize to a non-gamer perspective, especially those who have a personal connection to the tragedies represented in these games. I remember a friend of mine was playing some WW2 game in front of his grandfather, doing the Normandy scene, and his grandfather had been there. Maybe he should have just said "C'mon gramps, its just a game!" Instead, he turned the game off, because he realized that it had some affect on his grandfather he didn't understand.

Maybe it's because most of the gamer generation hasn't been exposed to a really bad war. Some of us are old enough to remember Vietnam, but not many, and still fewer have actually served. Although.... every gamer I have met who has served loves CoD etc.

To me, what makes it have/not have value is how the topic is handled. I know a lot of people have said 'its just a game!' but that argument goes completely against what the producers of 7 days in Faluja said to try and keep that project alive. To them it was about trying to accurately recreate one of the most horrible battles American soldiers experienced in this war, in a way it was the kind of interactive media that will be integral to the next century. It was a memorial as much as it was a game.

Now, if everyone, including the producers, take what is a sensitive issue (if not for yourself than for others) and treats it with the roughshod grip that we often do, then I think a disservice will have been done to the gaming world. However, if a sincere attempt is made by the producers to capture the different elements (militarilly and otherwise) of this conflict, then you could have something really important.

 

[dokk2]

Y'know we are probably ONE of the few planets in the whole galaxy whose history is defined by how much we LOVE to KILL each other and we have the nerve to call it WAR....
"Not even smart enough to be stupid"............
?? Why can't the game devs create a fictional planet for their game wars....???

 

[someguynamedmatt]

It's just a game, you freaking pricks. Yes, people have died in war - that's what war is. Just because I'm killing fellow American soldiers in a video game, doesn't mean I like the Taliban. Think about how many Americans were killed in WW2. Now think about how many games were modeled after WW2.

These protesters can take this game and shove it. It's not like it's going to change anything... it's just the thought that these people have so little to do in life, they resort to protesting video games. Have a cookie, and join the Foxconn workers. (No offense to them... I do feel bad for them...)

 

[COLGeek]

OK....one more time. THIS IS A GAME! Nobody dies.

Every game that depicts violence makes someone mad. Get over it. If you can't tell the difference bewteen a game and reality, you have other issues.

Pixels aren't people.

 

[wawa sxm]

I gotta say putting out a game on a current war is of poor taste....games influence a lot of people, especially in the states where a big chunk of time is devoted to the tv...but its just a game, and in america most are level headed, i mean what are the odds that a kid playing this game looses his dad in afganistan and goes out and shoots anyone looking like muslim?
its so wierd how violence is promoted in america so much yet anything sexual is frowned upon....
I cant wait till that 9/11 game comes out so i can kill me some new yorkers in a plane...but its been so long since that happened, oooooh i know what americans would like to play, mexicans, in the game you have to sneak up on illegals and kill the whole family, bonus points if you get a pregnant mom before she can anchor the baby! now that sounds like fun
Exploitation...........

 

[someguynamedmatt]

[citation][nom]Maxor127[/nom]What sympathy? Most rational people don't overract about a video game where you happen to have a Taliban player model in multiplayer. I don't sympathize with idiots who cry about a video game. Maybe if EA were releasing a game where the point of the game was to play as a terrorist, and even then I wouldn't care. It wouldn't be any different as a GTA game where you can kill anyone and destroy almost anything and team up with the IRA.[/citation]

Sorry for the double-response, but you just nailed it. People soft, thick, and/or patriotic to the point that they refuse to accept that people (Americans) die in war should take their console and throw it down a well. I just don't understand what these people are thinking... it's just a game. A game. You hear me? See, when you're playing a game, what you do doesn't actually happen in real-time in life. That's why they make these so-called 'Video Games'.

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]pozaks[/nom]If you win as the US you should get to capture the Taliban forces, ask them to please stop fighting you, then let them go after several months and hope for the best.And if you're playing as Taliban, you should get to play a minigame where you stone adulterous women to death, or shoot them for being raped by you, or mutilate their faces with acid, nose and ear removal as a punishment for attending school, or something more creative. Is there a Wii/Kinect/Move edition? Because this could really work.[/citation]

I would just field execute everybody who surrenders!!