The Girl With a Sensitive Heart

[Gunner 51]

Darn it, it appears that you have ninja'd what I was going to say. Though I always thought that Cpl/Sgt Joe Hartsock

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getting crippled

and poor Sgt Baker had to tell him the bad news.

This scene really packed a punch for me especially as I had the good fortune to have played BiB: Earned in Blood which really focused Joe's side of the story.

Yeah, that scene had me crying, le sigh.

I played the games on PC first, recently I bought it for PS3 (to replay it at home on a huge tv screen, found it pretty cheap), and seeing the intro movie, it had me all teary again.

I quit EiB 2/3 into the game, I really should play through that one completely... him losing his finger was already a "oh, shit." moment, but still nothing compared to

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"You're going home..."
And then the music...

For those curious, yet not willing to play through the game. Huge spoiler warning, start from 2:46:

The saddest part of this all is, Red is the lucky one.

If only the whole Brothers in Arms series were available on the '360/PC/PS3. Mind you, it'd be nice to see other games putting the effort into their writing and voice acting that the BiB games did.

 

[Mr. Mike]

You guys realise that the wars depicted in modern warfare 1 and 2 are nothing like the wars going on in iraq and afghanistan right now? many soldiers never see battle, including myself

Loving all the quotes you're getting?

OT: I'd have to say you're reading into everything too much here. Call of Duty is far to stylised for it to evoke emotion. If you wanted realism, the nitty gritty raw emotion, the game would get you tied to a whole bunch of people, then kill them all off horribly before your eyes. There would be blood, screaming, death everywhere. As far as emotion goes, COD makes it all a joke.

NOTE: I've never experienced war, nor understand the atrocities one must face on the front lines. But my point still stands.

 

[Loves2spooge]

What's a "pople"?

You need to fire your proof reader; a spelling error on the FIRST LINE of the first paragraph?

 

[Kojiro ftt]

I had this experience with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (which I recently learned was developed by the same guys, the future IW). That game actually made you feel like you were in the war. And it was fucking nuts. Normandy was a nightmare. They worry that these games desensitize you. But that game did the opposite. I don't think any movie could have communicated as well how crazy WW2 was.

 

[Kojiro ftt]

Sadly, I do not expect game developers will have the courage to take a German perspective on the war. Plus, there is the general perception that WW2 shooters are overdone, even though the only reason for this is that the games generally tend to follow the same pattern and thread the same ground. =/ Oh, well...

But CoD could do the German perspective. They are in a position to make a bazilion dollars, no matter what they do. Heck, I think they could make the next game based on a Taliban soldier, and they'd still sell out.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Cod1, I loved. Cod 2, alas, I never played.

You've covered 1+2's plot, so...
Cod4 was a brilliant, emotional storyline. They managed to make you feel emotionally connected. When that nuke goes off, and the chopper spins out control, you can feel yourself think "Oh, fuck, no!" and when you crawl out of the wreckage, limping around a completely obliterated environment, only to collapse and die, you're left speechless.

And then again, as you reach the Russian nuke base, only to witness the first shots in what could be World War 3, you feel completely defeated.

And the final stand is juist heartwrenching.


Call of Duty has (at least up before Modern Warfare 2) been a brilliantly made narrative. Then MW2 came along and did to Call of Duty what Michael Bay does to "complex narrative". It was epic, but nonsensical. True there were a few good points in the plot, and the most pulse-pounding ending to a game in years, but other than that, it lacked the gritty realism and believeable plotline of cod4.

Ah well.