Poll: Would you play this game?

[Joseph Valdez]

Would you play Call of Duty/Battlefield style game where you:

A. Get to gun down and shoot Osama Bin Laden
B. Play a level that takes place either in one of the twin towers or one of the planes that crashed into it on 9/11.

 

[kenu12345]

??? i dont really care i get this was a big tragedy but it has been years plus people have been getting in planes on games and crashing into tall buildings saying its 9/11 for a long time now

 

[genericusername64]

I'd play a game that treated the Twin Towers as one more act of war instead of skirting around it like its a Jupiter-sized elephant in the room.
Yeah, it was a tragedy, loss of life and blah blah blah. So? Why is its depiction so taboo amongst games/films/books? Are the Americans so deathly afraid that they are infact vulnerable to this sort of attack that its impossible to expand on the subject?

Maybe because not everybody is a giant dick who wants to kill innocent people

 

[vrbtny]

Sure, why the hell not. About as original as everything else in the market today.

 

[Bambi On Toast]

Well there'd have to be something else to the game other than the aforementioned controversial events. They would probably have to use fictional locations and organisations as well.

For example, what would the player be doing in the Twin Towers? Just going to walk around as the building collapses then you die? Sure, that worked for CoD4 when you controlled a dying marine as he crawled around a town hit by a nuclear blast. But then you'd need other character to control. Or maybe you could be one of the firefighters in the Towers? There just isn't much action going on inside the Towers, but it's a great spectacle. Maybe you could be one of those people who jumped to their deaths. Slightly out of the ordinary for a game series where you spend 90% of your time shooting stuff.

And as for shooting Bin Laden, that's a lot easier to justify for a game where you usually shoot terrorists. But I doubt they would be able to even use his actual appearance and name, which defeats the point really.

 

[hazabaza1]

So long as it's fun. That's what matters in most games.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

probably not no, but not because i'd be offended by it, purely because i think it would probably actually be abit boring...

 

[the spud]

I'd play a game that treated the Twin Towers as one more act of war instead of skirting around it like its a Jupiter-sized elephant in the room.
Yeah, it was a tragedy, loss of life and blah blah blah. So? Why is its depiction so taboo amongst games/films/books? Are the Americans so deathly afraid that they are infact vulnerable to this sort of attack that its impossible to expand on the subject?

Maybe because not everybody is a giant dick who wants to kill innocent people

That was...A little uncalled for. He was not trying to be a troll, he was just stating his opinion.

 

[Zhukov]

No, I think I've had quite enough of the US military jerking off in my face while I try to enjoy a video game.

Quite frankly, it's getting rather tiresome.

 

[Stall]

It strikes me all as rather tasteless if those levels are in the game just for the sake of controversy. I couldn't see any way to work in those situations without it just coming off as cheap pathos or outright exploitative.

 

[Eomega123]

As long as it's well made and fun to play, fine by me.

 

[Rawne1980]

No, I think I've had quite enough of the US military jerking off in my face while I try to enjoy a video game.

Quite frankly, it's getting rather tiresome.

Pretty much this.

Slap it in something like Borderlands and you'd have a deal but CoD/Battlefield .... nay ta.

 

[Windcaler]

Probably not for a few reasons. The subject matter is still a sore spot for me. When I was serving I the US army I was sent overseas a few times just because of 9/11 and well, war is hell. So I dislike any reminders of the experiences I had to endure

Beyond that Im getting a little tired of the modern shooters.

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

If 9/11 was treated tactfully, sure. It probably won´t happen anytime soon though.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

It strikes me all as rather tasteless if those levels are in the game just for the sake of controversy. I couldn't see any way to work in those situations without it just coming off as cheap pathos or outright exploitative.

Yeah I can't think of a way for those to be either fun or interesting without thinking of those two things you mentioned. If a game did put those levels in a game I probably couldn't take the game seriously after that, and possibly stop playing afterwards depending on what they did with it.

 

[GraveeKing]

B sounds rather fun....
Oh god please don't hate me - it's original at least! and it'd be a great game!!

 

[Jamash]

No, but mainly because it is a COD/Battlefield style game rather than because of any "controversial" content.

If they made a Magicka DLC where you were in the Twin Towers when they were attacked, or if you had to hijack a plane and Magick it into the Twin Towers, or had to infiltrate a compound in Pakistan and kill OBL, then I would play that.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

No.
First, and most importantly, i don't even like Call of Duty or Battlefield.

Second, because we know what happened and it doesn't seem like it'd make for very interesting game scenarios.

 

[The_Echo]

No, I wouldn't. Too many shooters these days, and that sounds pretty goddamn boring if I'm honest.

It'd definitely be trying to cash in on the inevitable controversy such subject matters would produce.

 

[b3nn3tt]

I voted no, but only because CoD/Battlefield games don't appeal to me. I think that there could be game potential there, but it would have to be done extremely well, and I don't think there are any developers capable of pulling it off. Also, the controversy it would generate would be far too great for anyone to even attempt it anyway.

Sorry, the whole thing is based on if the game was hypothetically actually made. In which case, my first sentence still stands; that style of game doesn't appeal. Maybe if it was a different genre.