Why?! Make your game the way you want it to. When you start letting your game be changed by the public, even if its small, that just cuts away from how you wanted your game.
EA Cuts Taliban From Medal of Honor
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I'd have loved it if EA did it in a really snarky way. Like calling them "Definitely not the Taliban" or something.
And here I was actually respecting EA for that. Fuck um, they dont have balls, and all that talk about it being realistic with real experts and focusing on the reality of the combat is just crap now. Who cares if the Taliban are in? Old white people thats who, they changed the name to "Oppossing Force". So bullshit theyre going for athenticity, they couldnt sell it in some military stores because they're run by old white people so they desided to change it to make a couple extra sales. Instead of a realistic authentic shooter, now its "The saintly army"" vs "Evil brown people". This actually has really brought down the game for me and I honestly dont want to get it anymore. Theres too many games coming out to go get another Call of Duty Modern Warfare, because now the authenticity is the same, "Good Guys" vs "Browns and Russians"
If a game was about the IRA I want the IRA to be in it. Not name them "oppossing force" and then try to bill the game as an acurate authentic portrail of the Troubles in Ireland and the conflict between the IRA and the British. If you have that little respect for your material I am so turned of from the game its not even on my radar anymore
If a game was about the IRA I want the IRA to be in it. Not name them "oppossing force" and then try to bill the game as an acurate authentic portrail of the Troubles in Ireland and the conflict between the IRA and the British. If you have that little respect for your material I am so turned of from the game its not even on my radar anymore
Just like Call of Duty...Assassin Xaero said:
I'm not trying to start a flame war or anything, but thats really what its like."Op-For" (which is actually "Opposing Force") doesn't fool anyone.
They're the Taliban. Plain and simple. Changing the name won't make them go away.
I'm disappointed EA. Very, very disappointed. Hell, lets listen to this passage:
So your telling me the voice of the military currently fighting the Taliban, their families, and everyone else don't matter compared to those who lost family?
How utterly pathetic, it's ok for us to shoot them up, but not vice-versa.
Not particularly surprising though, it's not like a medal of honour game has ever shown an un-biased view of war.
Not particularly surprising though, it's not like a medal of honour game has ever shown an un-biased view of war.
Hearing that the controversial Taliban faction, has basically become the OpFor faction from Modern Warfare made me lol. I'll laugh some more if some people will still fight to get this game banned, cause now EA can just redirect their attention to Modern Warfare's terrorist faction. ^_^
Well give it time, cause the PC crowd will definitely add a Taliban mod in the 1st week.
Well give it time, cause the PC crowd will definitely add a Taliban mod in the 1st week.
Can't say I blame him, I'm disappointed in EA as well. It's a negligible element of the game that media just negatively publicized and the developers should stand behind their work. I really doubt people complaining against it are anything other than ignorant idiots, people who hate gaming as a medium, war nuts who don't actually have anyone over there and similar groups of people who are just happy to complain for the sake of it and getting attention.Poomanchu745 said:
Even if some people complaining are actually those relevant groups of people with friends and families lost in the war or the 9/11, it's still a negligible part of something they have no vested interest in. It's like Christians complaining they can't wear shoes into a mosque, completely irrelevant.
Especially considering it's just a name censor. It's still the same faction, you just call it different. Like writing f*ck. What's the point? Everyone knows you said fuck, words are a means to getting a message across and everyone understands you meant fuck, whether you wrote it as is or with an asterisk.
Sometimes we, wanting our realistic games these days (why, again?), push the envelope to far. It's a touchy subject and I have the feeling they included it just to create some buzz for the game.
They probably did intend to go through with it but I think it would have been controversy for the sake of controversy.
They probably did intend to go through with it but I think it would have been controversy for the sake of controversy.
I agree.Onyx Oblivion said:
Hell the controversy was the only way they were going to make any real money from this.
That was just a cynical marketing ploy from the start, nothing more. They don't really care about soldiers' feelings or anything, they just wanted some cheap controversy. And if EA reads this comment and somehow gets upset over it... well, go on and prove me wrong.
