EA Cuts Taliban From Medal of Honor
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Meh, Op For still works. No harm no foul. And hey, if it bothers yall that much, call them taliban in your houses when you get the game and stop having a titty fit.
Oh cool so all they will probably be doing is changing their name to something generic and doing nothing else and everything will be cool.
People are overreacting idiots.
People are overreacting idiots.
Well, they couldn't really say "Oh, we bowed down to media stereotypical media uproar demeaning video games as an inferior media and make a load of scare mongering"Poomanchu745 said:
This decision is a load of shit, and EA should be ashamed of themselves. Now when ANYTHING controversial comes to gaming, narrow minded eejits will protest thinking that they can get it removed, ignoring the fact that its portrayed in other media like films and books with no problem at all.
Fucking pathetic, GET SOME BALLS EA
Sad. People getting upset over their own negativity impacts on people trying to show the aspects of that negativity in a true light.
Feelings are more important than the truth now.
Edit: Perhaps they should have asked the SOLDIERS rather than the families and friends. Because, let's face it, they're the ones doing the goddam fighting.
Feelings are more important than the truth now.
Edit: Perhaps they should have asked the SOLDIERS rather than the families and friends. Because, let's face it, they're the ones doing the goddam fighting.
I don't mind that they changed, but I wonder, what about playing as communist or Japanese? Where's all the backlash to playing as Nazis? I'll tell you why this caused so much hype and why so many people bitched about it, because it's current, and the current voices are the ones that matter nowadays
Ask anyone who fought in WWII and if you told them that in this war game you could be either American soldier or a German Nazi and they'd freak out I'd guess and produce an uproar. However, people would turn them down as crazy or old and nothing would change.
I understand the sensitivity of the Taliban subject today, but if we can play as Japanese soldiers, who also attacked American Soil at Pearl Harbor, why can't we play as Taliban soldiers? Gaming is a way to express point of views we couldn't normally play as. I vote that the next MoH or CoD game that comes out gives us a campaign as either a Nazi or a Taliban or a Japanese or a Korean or Vietnamese soldier. It could give us gameplay that we never thought we'd experience. A German who joins the Nazis in promise of fighting for his homeland. Propaganda videos playing before you fire a weapon, the more you fight, the more videos you watch and speeches you view, the field of vision changes. Or Japanese soldiers where you have to sacrifice yourself in a bombing run and you see the afterlife and feel honorable the way they were taught. The Taliban where you spend your time in a desert environment planting explosives in the ground and such.
While I'm not saying that any of the parties above in their contexts are right, giving us new PoVs besides Gun toting hero American would be nice. I've got enough games where I can wear my American flag proudly, what about a new PoV developers?
Ask anyone who fought in WWII and if you told them that in this war game you could be either American soldier or a German Nazi and they'd freak out I'd guess and produce an uproar. However, people would turn them down as crazy or old and nothing would change.
I understand the sensitivity of the Taliban subject today, but if we can play as Japanese soldiers, who also attacked American Soil at Pearl Harbor, why can't we play as Taliban soldiers? Gaming is a way to express point of views we couldn't normally play as. I vote that the next MoH or CoD game that comes out gives us a campaign as either a Nazi or a Taliban or a Japanese or a Korean or Vietnamese soldier. It could give us gameplay that we never thought we'd experience. A German who joins the Nazis in promise of fighting for his homeland. Propaganda videos playing before you fire a weapon, the more you fight, the more videos you watch and speeches you view, the field of vision changes. Or Japanese soldiers where you have to sacrifice yourself in a bombing run and you see the afterlife and feel honorable the way they were taught. The Taliban where you spend your time in a desert environment planting explosives in the ground and such.
While I'm not saying that any of the parties above in their contexts are right, giving us new PoVs besides Gun toting hero American would be nice. I've got enough games where I can wear my American flag proudly, what about a new PoV developers?
I could understand taking the Taliban away as a playable faction, but this? This doesn't solve the issue! Everyone is still going to go after EA because all they did was change a name, and the gamers are going to go after EA because they changed it to a cruddy name! That's probably the stupidest choice EA coud have made.
"In other words, you can still play as an AK-47-toting, suicide-bombing extremist trying to kill American forces in an ongoing, real-world conflict, you just can't have the T-word at the top of your scoreboard. "
^^ Probably the most important line of that article. ^^
EA will do whatever it takes to make an extra few bucks. If changing a name is gonna keep the game off of FOX News as the latest "murder simulator" that now trains young Americans how to become Jihadists (And you know that's the kinda spin they would put on it,) they will do it. Bad press will cost them way more on game sales through the general public because "The news told us this is a bad game" than it will cost them sales of video games forum people being dissapointed about free speech.
Just take comfort in the fact that you still get to unload virtual automatic weapons at virtual brown people in a virtual sandy environment.
^^ Probably the most important line of that article. ^^
EA will do whatever it takes to make an extra few bucks. If changing a name is gonna keep the game off of FOX News as the latest "murder simulator" that now trains young Americans how to become Jihadists (And you know that's the kinda spin they would put on it,) they will do it. Bad press will cost them way more on game sales through the general public because "The news told us this is a bad game" than it will cost them sales of video games forum people being dissapointed about free speech.
Just take comfort in the fact that you still get to unload virtual automatic weapons at virtual brown people in a virtual sandy environment.