How do you feel about playing as Nazi or Japanese troops doing the same thing?kotorfan04 said:
EA Cuts Taliban From Medal of Honor
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Ah...to which of the two concepts do I thank for this outcome? Mindless political correctness or shameless controvesy marketing?
I wonder which of the two is looking uglier at the moment. Yeah...games are art aren't they? But when push comes to shove naaaw. We're 'just making games ovah heah!'
*sigh* Carry on.
I wonder which of the two is looking uglier at the moment. Yeah...games are art aren't they? But when push comes to shove naaaw. We're 'just making games ovah heah!'
*sigh* Carry on.
I've lost a friend over in the middle easy due to an IED and it doesn't bother me at all when I see those in games because I know it is just a game. Yeah, changing the name doesn't do a thing, but please people that might be offended (and for some reason 'political correctness' just came to mind). I'm sure there are still people that are offended by Nazis in games, and there was even a facebook group trying to get STALKER banned because Chernobyl was 'such a bad event'. What ever happened to 'if you don't like it, don't play it'? It is like everyone is trying to stick their fingers in our pie. :/Irridium said:
Yet it's totally fine for people to play as US forces and kill pixellated "Taliban" forces. For all of the hype, they're not evil, they're not the bad guys. They're fighting for a cause just the same as the Americans. Not to say I agree with them, but because they're fighting the Americans doesn't make them evil. To make this alright, it should either include both the US forces and the Taliban or neither.kotorfan04 said:
Well, that's disappointing. Not that I was after the game at all, but that was the one factor that interested me. But if the group is apparently not distinguished by more than its name, I'm assuming nothing important was there anyway.
Call me crazy, but I'd like to see a game from the stereotypically 'evil' side's perspective instead. After all, American's aren't the only ones who suffer because of war, and their opponents aren't the only ones causing suffering. There's other factors, but ultimately it's a matter of perspective, and I'd personally like to see another one for a change.
Call me crazy, but I'd like to see a game from the stereotypically 'evil' side's perspective instead. After all, American's aren't the only ones who suffer because of war, and their opponents aren't the only ones causing suffering. There's other factors, but ultimately it's a matter of perspective, and I'd personally like to see another one for a change.
So you can play as the Nazi's and Japanese in COD5, but you carn't play as the Taliban in MOH? And this is all because some whiny middle class parents don't like it, what do they know about gaming? (Hell, this is like Six days in days in Fallujah, only not so bad.)
I actually laughed when the Taliban upon reading the Taliban were named "Opposing Force"- what kind of name is that? I feel such a silly name would dilute the multi player gaming experience. I hope on the PC version someone makes a mod changing that.
I actually laughed when the Taliban upon reading the Taliban were named "Opposing Force"- what kind of name is that? I feel such a silly name would dilute the multi player gaming experience. I hope on the PC version someone makes a mod changing that.
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I dont know if Id put godless in there, they tend to have much more god then we have, which is kind of the problem but its a moronic change but at least they arnt changing them to russians, how many times can games beat that dead horse, the cold war ended long agowooty said:
You know, I was actually interested in purchasing this game because of the Taliban inclusion. I was looking forward to see how they were going to handle everything... Looks like they just got rid of my main interest in the game.
Just when you think a company finally manned up against the negative media and grew a pair they go and neuter themselves.
They've probably pleased about 50 people and annoyed thousands more.
Have they ever seen Counter-Strike? Half of the players are forced to be on the "Terrorist" team. Mind you, it's not a known terrorist group, but it's the same basic idea. I've never hard much controversy over that, and I fail to see how this is significantly different.
Have they ever seen Counter-Strike? Half of the players are forced to be on the "Terrorist" team. Mind you, it's not a known terrorist group, but it's the same basic idea. I've never hard much controversy over that, and I fail to see how this is significantly different.
Pussies, if you don't stick to ur guns, you give all the cretins credence, and you'll never be taken seriously. way to fail on behalf of all gaming EA. You suck.
Of course we are disapointed in them, they said that they were going to do something, knowing what would happen, and obviously not believing to be disrespectful. then, they caved cuz they didn't have the courage to go through with it, in so doing, achieving nothing except to give gaming a bad rap, and to show the world that gaming doesnt have enough powere to do what it says it will. how could you not be disapointed in them?Poomanchu745 said:
Pussies. All part of the plan I suppose: whip up contraversy so that everyone knows there's a Medal of Honour game coming out and at the last minute suddenly (whiney voice) "Oh oh oh we're terribly sorry we put in the naughty name look we toom it out, we're good honest!"