"Kill Castro" Mission Leads to Black Ops Boycott Call

[Lion Ellus]

HOW THE HELL DOES THIS COUNT AS PORNOGRAPHY?!?!?!
Porn is sex, not gory gameplay.

por·nog·ra·phy: obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.

This definition came along with a mountain full of other definitions, mostly referring to sexual connotations. It's still acceptable to use in this sense as a pronoun though. My mom confused the hell out of me when she called Dexter's portrayal of murder 'pornographic' as well.

This entire post reeks of bullshit. Games need as much respect as any other medium, and if the game isn't intended for underage consumers, then parents need to stop getting their panties in a twist over the content, and focus instead on the retailers. Gamestop, I'm looking at you.

 

[Enigma6667]

Okay seriously, this is getting old. You fucking people always do this same old song and dance, and you always make yourselves look like idiots.

 

[VZLANemesis]

"Kill Castro" Mission Leads to Black Ops Boycott Call
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"Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and dozens of other retailers in your community are today dealing this pornography to the children in your community,"

Not a childrens game. Same way southpark is a adult oriented cartoon. Get over the fact that even though videogames like cartoons are usually assossiated with small children it is not exclusive to them.

"Kill Castro" Mission Leads to Black Ops Boycott Call
The group wants people to demand the removal of the game from store shelves and offers some helpful advice on how to go about making it happen.

Imposing your values to others by force... that should make the group look good.

"Kill Castro" Mission Leads to Black Ops Boycott Call
"Tell the retailers in your community that the game is a violation of your community's values and you demand that they take it off their shelves."

Again, imposing the retailer what they can or cannot sell based on THEIR values instead of those of those of the individuals.
Angry mom's are hilarious.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

They do it everytime on Purpose to gain a PR boost ! that's just Dull.

 

[DalekJaas]

This just in!

The Alliance for Global Justice is full of retarded people.

Back to you Tom.

Haha good post, ends the thread.

 

[Comrade_Beric]

To be fair, how do you think Americans would react if they'd included a mission to assassinate President Obama in it? Yes, they're allowed under free speech, but don't expect his supporters to be happy with you. Same thing applies here. Castro is a world leader and he is still alive. Making a mission to murder him in cold blood is in bad taste, I believe.

I never tell anyone to stop saying what they're saying, and the makers of Black Ops have a right to say whatever they want with their game. That said, I am never picking up this title, and that mission helped me decide not to.

 

[fanklok]

Before the main menu even comes up

Call of Duty: Black OPs contains disturbing, gory, and highly graphic content.
Allow graphic content.
Turn off graphic content.

I think penetrating Castro's head with your phallic bullet fired from your penis gun in a hard release of slo mo ecstasy counts as graphic content.

 

[Blind Sight]

I went to the site of this organization and read their "printable form letter" for people to protest this game with. First, they say that if it had been about the assassination of a U.S. president than the creator would be arrested and prosecuted. WHAT? How many examples in American media (games/tv/film) have examples proving the opposite.

Especially considering a game about this has already been made (pay attention, all of you asking questions about 'would you play a game where you kill Obama?')

http://www.freedownloads.be/downloaddetail/821-JFK-reloaded

This is JFK Reloaded, where you play Oswold and try to make your shots exactly the same as the ones in reality. It's actually somewhat fun, I saw it as an interesting thought experiment (the creators made it to help negate the 'grassy knoll' myths).

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

What would happen if the public discovered some of the shit that goes down in Shin Megami Tensei?

You know, I'm suprised it hasn't gotten in shit, when Killer 7, an even more obscure game, gets flagged down for a clothed sex scene. Really damn suprised. Especially with things in it like:

Fighting a revolver wielding Jesus look-alike.
Summoning the fucking Morning Star.
Actually having gay characters that aren't flaming stereotypes.

And of course, the big one,

But no, I guess Fidel fucking Castro who wasn't even assassinated, is a bigger deal. And come on, don't you shoot JFK or some shit in that game?

 

[cobrausn]

Most of their reasons are asinine, but I do agree that it's wrong to portray any real nation as villains; it's childish, and if anyone was the bad guy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was America. Even their NATO buddies were sceptical about the embargo.

I was waiting for the obligatory 'hurr but America was the bad guy!' post. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a very complicated event where fears of nuclear attack (something people were probably right to be afraid of) forced a lot of people to act in what they thought was their best interest. To call any one side of that 'the bad guy' is childish.

The Soviets publicly balked at the U.S. demands, but in secret back-channel communications initiated a proposal to resolve the crisis. The confrontation ended on October 28, 1962 when President John F. Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reached an agreement with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to dismantle the offensive weapons and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for an agreement by the United States to never invade Cuba. The Soviets removed the missile systems and their support equipment, loading them onto eight Soviet ships from November 5?9. A month later, on December 5 and 6, the Soviet Il-28 bombers were loaded onto three Soviet ships and shipped back to Russia. The quarantine was formally ended at 6:45 p.m. EDT on November 20, 1962. As a secret part of the agreement, all US-built Thor and Jupiter IRBMs deployed in Europe were deactivated by September 1963.

The Cuban Missile Crisis spurred the creation of the Hotline Agreement and the Moscow-Washington hot line, a direct communications link between Moscow and Washington, D.C.

Yeah. Bad guys.

Also, pretty sure the game portrayed Castro and his army guys as the 'bad guys'. When I played through it, I noticed you were working with Cuban rebels to bring him down. You know, just like in the Bay of Pigs invasion.

 

[Jodah]

I can understand Cuba being upset. Anyone else? Not so much.

 

[subject_87]

Like I've said multiple times before, I think that most of this is just ineffective parents projecting their own bad judgment onto the Government, which has enough to do already.

 

[BrownGaijin]

You know, I really didn't like the game that much, but because of all the hoopla, I'm forced to play some Zombie. Thank you Alliance for Global Justice, thank you very much.

 

[omega_peaches]

GEE, THIS SURE SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR ABOUT A TOTALLY UNRELATED GAME...
Really? CoD Begs for Controversy.

 

[Luke Cartner]

Why would any child play an 'M rated' game anyways..
Simply put this 'alliance' is trolling the internet for cheap publicity.. They know they are doing this why else would they close the comments section...

 

[Chris^^]

But then...it's been done before.

damn, you beat me to it =P

all I have to say is that publicly slandering such a popular game as CoD only serves to make it more appealing.

YOU'RE GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT!!!

also, I'm surprised they're not upset by the part where you imagine shooting Kennedy..

 

[badgersprite]

This is silly. And, to be fair, it's actually historically relevant. The US tried to assassinate Castro something like 650 times. I'd call that significant. You'd think they'd have to include that in anything about the Cold War.

 

[Fox242]

I get the feeling that if that mission involved McNamara or Nixon, then they wouldn't give a shit. I think that dipshits are the kind of people who think that men like Castro, Che, and Hugo Chavez are (well "were" in Che's case) are great men who have been and still are fighing the American imperialist scourge. Screw these people! Castro has brought nothing but suffering to Cuba ever since he took power. Besides, this is a fictional account that did not actually take place. I'm sure that there are other forms of media which depict attempted assassinations of living world leader, so why is this game coming under such heavy fire for this? Damn hypocrites.

UPDATE: It appears as though my suspicions are confimred because one of the core capmaigns of the group is the "Venezuela Solidarity Campaign" which apparently means that they support letting Chavez have free reign to gradually erode the country's democratic institutions which is ironic considering that they also have a "Respect for Democaracy Campaign". How can you have a "Respect for Democracy Campaign" when you appear to support Chavez and try to limit people from buying games here in the states? As I said before "Damn hypocrites."

 

[Cogwheel]

It DID always seem a little ridiculous to me. The whole Castro-shooting thing, that is. Still no reason to ban it.

After all, who bothers with single player for Call of Duty? Really now.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

This is why I don't like modern military games. No one (except very strange film critics) ever even imagine that a game like Halo could be controversial. Call of Duty is great, but every single time a new one comes out, some idiot in the media screams about this.