As a matter of fact, in the US those games are frowned upon by hunters. It's like how an actual Top Gun pilot views jet combat on BF3.More Fun To Compute said:German people buy them unless it's a hunting simulation then people from the USA buy them. In Germany learning a skill or trade is seen as good aspirational thing like as in the USA getting drunk and shooting wild animals is.
I am getting tired of seeing "simulation" and "call of duty" on the same sentence. It's like saying Mario is a plumbing simulator.Buretsu said:I once played a war simulator game, and it was just awful.
I think it was called Call of Duty.
You seem very serious about this so where is your evidence to back up your busting of the stereotype that people who like to shoot guns also like to drink heavily? A quick google search quickly gives me references to studies showing that gun owners in the US are much more likely to be heavy drinkers and that gun incidents are often linked to alcohol.ElPatron said:As a matter of fact, in the US those games are frowned upon by hunters. It's like how an actual Top Gun pilot views jet combat on BF3.More Fun To Compute said:German people buy them unless it's a hunting simulation then people from the USA buy them. In Germany learning a skill or trade is seen as good aspirational thing like as in the USA getting drunk and shooting wild animals is.
Also, getting hammered before touching a weapon is VERY frowned upon by gun owners everywhere.
I am an European and at least I don't pretend to know everything about other cultures, so I don't think anyone has the excuse to cling on unfunny stereotypes.
Now excuse me while I call Germans nazis and claim that every British person knows the Queen.
That's exactly why it is frowned upon. Ask any driver if it's cool to get drunk and then drive.More Fun To Compute said:that gun incidents are often linked to alcohol.
This post is more about games like Train Simulator, not awesome games like Zoo Tycoon. You know, the ones that are realistic and don't have dinosaurs in them.SmarterThanYou said:I remember really liking Roller Coaster Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon as a kid. Or are you talking about different games?
I wasn't being positive about it myself but it people getting drunk with guns is something that happens enough in the US for it to be something that happens even if many people frown on it. It's like saying downloading movies from pirate bay doesn't happen because the MPAA frowns on it.ElPatron said:That's exactly why it is frowned upon. Ask any driver if it's cool to get drunk and then drive.More Fun To Compute said:that gun incidents are often linked to alcohol.
Compare the number of accidental firearm deaths to the number of estimated gun owners.
People have pirated the shit out of copyrighted content since the days of cassette tapes. If instead of people who pirated for their whole life we had people that would outright stop talking to you if you were a pirate, you wouldn't do it.More Fun To Compute said:It's like saying downloading movies from pirate bay doesn't happen because the MPAA frowns on it.
Ehhh heh... I really hope you aren't serious in thinking Call of Duty is a war simulator. I mean, I actually like CoD, but trust me. Try playing something like Operation Flashpoint, ARMA 2 or hell even Operation Flashpoint 2 (and that one is even berated for being unrealistic in comparison to ARMA and OpFl1) and try to say CoD is a simulator in any shape or form. I dare you...Buretsu said:I once played a war simulator game, and it was just awful.
I think it was called Call of Duty.
Just because there is a market for something doesn't mean its a viable one.Skywolf09 said:Ehhh heh... I really hope you aren't serious in thinking Call of Duty is a war simulator. I mean, I actually like CoD, but trust me. Try playing something like Operation Flashpoint, ARMA 2 or hell even Operation Flashpoint 2 (and that one is even berated for being unrealistic in comparison to ARMA and OpFl1) and try to say CoD is a simulator in any shape or form. I dare you...Buretsu said:I once played a war simulator game, and it was just awful.
I think it was called Call of Duty.
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OT: Well, believe it or not, there is a market for practically everything these days. If something exists, there will be someone who wants to buy it, no matter how silly said something is...
[small]And, well... I won't lie, ever heard of Euro Truck Simulator [http://www.eurotrucksimulator.com/]?
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Yeah, I bought it... and as boring as it may sound, it's actually a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. And I don't even like trucks in reality...[/small]
...Skywolf09 said:Ehhh heh... I really hope you aren't serious in thinking Call of Duty is a war simulator.Buretsu said:I once played a war simulator game, and it was just awful.
I think it was called Call of Duty.
Right, you can remove the word 'simulator' from your post. Flight's a total abortion!Owyn_Merrilin said:I'd imagine it's the same sort of people who bought Microsoft Flight Simulator before it went free to play and, ostensibly, casual. That series used to be a hard core, real time simulator of laying in flight plans and flying commercial airplanes from one city to another. And people not only bought it, but spend hundreds or thousands on complicated joystick, rudder, and throttle setups for it.