COD and the military

[tendaji]

you can tell its a game
the real battlefield is one filled with orders and jobs. No one man will/can do everything so CoD games portray more of a perfect soldier, a super hero if you will, rather than a real soldier/battalion.

And yes occasionally you don't get to be on the front line, instead you get stuck on some boring task. That's my problem with most shooters is that they are always 'WAARRRR YOU ARE IN IT!" by throwing as many explosions and bullets at you as possible. Even CoD talked about how they go back through their game to determine if they should add more explosions are make them much bigger.

 

[Dawns Gate]

Video games are designed to be fun and over-the-top (usually). If their are idiots who think that they are accurate then introduce them to wikipedia.

Don't take this the wrong way but, my father's friend who he served with in Bosnia and Afghanistan said to me that his favorite pastime's is the COD: modern warfare franchise, he says they're fun and they (supposedly) can help sharpen your reflexes. With all the fancy and high tech training we have now that is also practically a video game (using real weapons that shoot IR lasers at 'bad guys' on a screen running around from cover to cover and such), he says "War is like the best video game ever." My father more-or-less agrees.

 

[StarCecil]

I don't care.

It's a game, games are designed to entertain - I doubt any rational human being actually plays COD and believes they are experiencing realistic warfare as experienced by Infanteers in Afghanistan or Iraq in the last 10 years.

Those that do are ignorant, but ignorance is not a crime.

In short - I'm in the military, I play COD, I don't see the two as being related.



For what it's worth, however, I find it irritating that they never made 6 Days in Fallujah, as I understand it, the controversy surrounding it was heavily contrived by the media, who effectively used the grief of families who had lost loved ones, to their own ends. I'm not saying I had any special desire the play the game, I just don't like people bending other peoples grief to their own ends (I'm also a bit cagey on allowing Grieving people to influence things because of their personal experiences.)

All this is pretty much what I was going to say.

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You know what the military is really like? Like, really, really? Imagine that fake trailer for Modern Warfare 3 by the Onion and don't laugh about it. It's like that. All day.

 

[emeraldrafael]

having family, no it doesnt. no war game does. You dont get back up after getting shot and then hide somehwere and get completely healed. And the only "health pack" is six months in a hospital followed by intensive physical therapy that will be even more excruciating.

Thats what its a game. Its not supposed to be real cause that would be boring, or just plain horrifying. Just pick any of the games that take place in WW2 or Vietnam. do you really want to seem your NPC team mate get burned alive in realistic detail as tehy run screaming to you with their skin blackening and flaking off while their eyes met out of their skulls?