COD and the military

[idarkphoenixi]

Pretty much 99% of WWII games.
They turned a decade-plus bloody struggle into a cartoon. I'm not saying you can't make a game based off a real war either past or present but have some dignity about yourselves! It doesn't mean they need to be 100% realistic, movies are constantly taking liberties with history, just make it very clear these are real people in a real fight.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

It's an entertaining look at things. Wish they'd give it a rest with the yanks though, take a more in-depth look at other forces. I am seriously bored of playing as the Americans. I appreciate that yes, you can play as the Brits and Russians, but you don't spend much time with them in more recent games and I want to experience these factions to a greater extent. Especially from the point of view of the regular infantry rather than just the elite units. Elite and Spec Ops have been a little over done lately.

 

[Lord_Nemesis]

I love to play COD but it is nothing like real life.

I heard a story from a lad I served with about a guy who signed up for private security and at the interview he was asked where he got his training and his experience, he stated "I have played all the Call of Duty games". Not cool.

 

[The Funslinger]

I don't care.

It's a game, games are designed to entertain - I doubt any rational human being actually plays COD and believes they are experiencing realistic warfare as experienced by Infanteers in Afghanistan or Iraq in the last 10 years.

Those that do are ignorant, but ignorance is not a crime.

In short - I'm in the military, I play COD, I don't see the two as being related.



For what it's worth, however, I find it irritating that they never made 6 Days in Fallujah, as I understand it, the controversy surrounding it was heavily contrived by the media, who effectively used the grief of families who had lost loved ones, to their own ends. I'm not saying I had any special desire the play the game, I just don't like people bending other peoples grief to their own ends (I'm also a bit cagey on allowing Grieving people to influence things because of their personal experiences.)

Im a gamer, I am also nearly in the Army.

I'm training for the Royal Marines, and one thing that hits me when playing CoD is the amount of hits you'd take. Obviously in CoD you'd just shrug them off. Obviously, CoD doesn't give you the same maneuverability you'd have in real life. Still, it's startling how easy it could be to get hit in a firefight. And obviously, in reality, it's that much more likely you're going to get fucked up by said hits. Made me give my choice a serious rethink, but I'm still doing it.

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No, that's not the point I was making. I mean to say that it's so easy to take a hit, even while playing a game and it makes you think. In a pitched fire fight, it would be that easy to get hit. In most other respects, it may not be realistic, but once you cut through all the bullet soaking, games like that certainly give you an example of how hard it would be to survive battles like that. It's just a bit of a sobering concept for a prospective soldier, isn't it?

 

[LobsterFeng]

My friend just started Basic Training for the Army. His favorite game is MW2. Me and my other friends like to make fun of him because we think he only joined because of CoD, but he denies that accusation.

 

[go-10]

you can tell its a game
the real battlefield is one filled with orders and jobs. No one man will/can do everything so CoD games portray more of a perfect soldier, a super hero if you will, rather than a real soldier/battalion.

 

[tendaji]

you can tell its a game
the real battlefield is one filled with orders and jobs. No one man will/can do everything so CoD games portray more of a perfect soldier, a super hero if you will, rather than a real soldier/battalion.

And yes occasionally you don't get to be on the front line, instead you get stuck on some boring task. That's my problem with most shooters is that they are always 'WAARRRR YOU ARE IN IT!" by throwing as many explosions and bullets at you as possible. Even CoD talked about how they go back through their game to determine if they should add more explosions are make them much bigger.

 

[Dawns Gate]

Video games are designed to be fun and over-the-top (usually). If their are idiots who think that they are accurate then introduce them to wikipedia.

Don't take this the wrong way but, my father's friend who he served with in Bosnia and Afghanistan said to me that his favorite pastime's is the COD: modern warfare franchise, he says they're fun and they (supposedly) can help sharpen your reflexes. With all the fancy and high tech training we have now that is also practically a video game (using real weapons that shoot IR lasers at 'bad guys' on a screen running around from cover to cover and such), he says "War is like the best video game ever." My father more-or-less agrees.

 

[StarCecil]

I don't care.

It's a game, games are designed to entertain - I doubt any rational human being actually plays COD and believes they are experiencing realistic warfare as experienced by Infanteers in Afghanistan or Iraq in the last 10 years.

Those that do are ignorant, but ignorance is not a crime.

In short - I'm in the military, I play COD, I don't see the two as being related.



For what it's worth, however, I find it irritating that they never made 6 Days in Fallujah, as I understand it, the controversy surrounding it was heavily contrived by the media, who effectively used the grief of families who had lost loved ones, to their own ends. I'm not saying I had any special desire the play the game, I just don't like people bending other peoples grief to their own ends (I'm also a bit cagey on allowing Grieving people to influence things because of their personal experiences.)

All this is pretty much what I was going to say.

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You know what the military is really like? Like, really, really? Imagine that fake trailer for Modern Warfare 3 by the Onion and don't laugh about it. It's like that. All day.

 

[emeraldrafael]

having family, no it doesnt. no war game does. You dont get back up after getting shot and then hide somehwere and get completely healed. And the only "health pack" is six months in a hospital followed by intensive physical therapy that will be even more excruciating.

Thats what its a game. Its not supposed to be real cause that would be boring, or just plain horrifying. Just pick any of the games that take place in WW2 or Vietnam. do you really want to seem your NPC team mate get burned alive in realistic detail as tehy run screaming to you with their skin blackening and flaking off while their eyes met out of their skulls?