Oh man, I'm proud of my Government today. Let the people who are going to buy the game decide if it's something they're uncomfortable with. Australia could learn a lesson here.
UK Culture Department Distances Itself From Medal of Honor Outrage
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Because the Falklands War was ridiculously one-sided?The Cheezy One said:
It's ridiculous to get upset over this. We've been playing as Nazis in multiplayer games like Day of Defeat for years, why get pissed over playing as a Taliban?
It's not as though the story, or even part of the story, revolves around a Taliban character. It's multiplayer, for crying out loud. Just shows how out of touch the media is.
Kind of but also bitching about it to anyone that will listen...but then never actually doing anything about it.D0WNT0WN said:
What can I say? I guess we're a nation that loves a good moan.
Because if you're Argentian it'd be the hardest game in the world and if you're a British soldier it'd be a "stand behind artillery and trade cigarrettes simulator".The Cheezy One said:
actually the SAS once landed a plane on an argentinian runway in an attempt to hit planes on the ground, but it was called offDesert Tiger said:
afterwards, when the argentinian command was told there would have been an attack on the airfield, they said "we expected that, and had the place locked down"
"we landed on your runway"
"WHAT?"
also the initial attack would have been heavily in Argentinas favour
VS
reminds me of the Unico vs. Mafia II garbage. Its always nice to see ppl judging a book by its cover.
Guess Killing Russians isnt as offensive as killing the REAL bad guys. (At the least in Western Eyes)
Kudos for the MOH team for sticking with a real war. Im sure they had anticipated this kind of outcry from the start.
Guess Killing Russians isnt as offensive as killing the REAL bad guys. (At the least in Western Eyes)
Kudos for the MOH team for sticking with a real war. Im sure they had anticipated this kind of outcry from the start.
Yea, this leaves me happy but rather confused. It also makes me think of this.Chipperz said:Oh my GOD! I don't like being happy with Tories. It feels all kinds of wrong.
Still, today, I'm happy with the Tories
Zero Punctuation said:
Perfectly okay for him to hate the game, I don't care much for the idea myself, but claiming it's un-whatevernationalityyouare just triggers my bullshit detector, I hate that expression, unamerican, unaustralian, unwhatever, it just freaking pisses me off.
I think the government did the right thing in making this statement, it's not up to them to decide what content adults can see outside of a few exceptions (such a explicit content), and that they have rating systems for a reason.
I think the government did the right thing in making this statement, it's not up to them to decide what content adults can see outside of a few exceptions (such a explicit content), and that they have rating systems for a reason.
Technically, it's inherently "un-British" because it features Americans and people from the Middle East exclusively.Terramax said:
But I think judging things by how "un-British" they are makes one sound like a BNP member, so I don't do that.
I don't want to be associated with those hand-shagging inbred racists, that is.
Personally I find the notion of playing a member of the Taliban to be incredibly distasteful, the same as I do a German or Japanese Soldier in WW2 sims, regardless of the fact it's only a multiplayer skin. Its inclusion in the game at all is an insult to all the men and women fighting right now for the freedom of the Afgan people.
What's more there is no way EA would not have been well aware of the potential for negative issues with the whole thing, but were more than happy to publish anyway. It frankly smacks of cynical marketting on their part that does nothing but give gaming on the whole a poor image.
Liam Fox walked right into a marketting ploy and made himself look quite silly, he'd have been better off simply stating that in his opinion the game was in poor taste and an insult to service personnel on active duty right now, and leaving it at that (if he even had to comment anyway). It's up to the public how they waste their money, and he didn't need to give the game any free publicity.
What's more there is no way EA would not have been well aware of the potential for negative issues with the whole thing, but were more than happy to publish anyway. It frankly smacks of cynical marketting on their part that does nothing but give gaming on the whole a poor image.
Liam Fox walked right into a marketting ploy and made himself look quite silly, he'd have been better off simply stating that in his opinion the game was in poor taste and an insult to service personnel on active duty right now, and leaving it at that (if he even had to comment anyway). It's up to the public how they waste their money, and he didn't need to give the game any free publicity.
I do not see what the big issue with getting to play the bad guys is, neither in single nor multiplayer.
You do not become any less patriotic by playing as (what most players will identify as) the bad guys.
I mean we play as the Scourge in WarCraft3, which are one of the games bad guys. And yes they are of fictional origins, but I think everyone that plays the game can distinguish them as the bad guys.
Just as I think we can distinguish that the taliban are bad guys in Medal of Honor.
You do not become any less patriotic by playing as (what most players will identify as) the bad guys.
I mean we play as the Scourge in WarCraft3, which are one of the games bad guys. And yes they are of fictional origins, but I think everyone that plays the game can distinguish them as the bad guys.
Just as I think we can distinguish that the taliban are bad guys in Medal of Honor.
I'm waiting for the daytime show with some gaming 'experts' and probably Nick Griffin on the panel.
Waiting with a recorder and lots of popcorn.
Waiting with a recorder and lots of popcorn.
