Poll: Modern Warfare 3: Would You Buy It If...
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I'll buy it if it is like COD4, and has more sneaky missions, and you know what, while I'm making useless demands, lets have the main character be a chick, that'll change things up 
I'm buying it. I must know what happens in the story. I have a great idea for the first level too:
You play as either Toad or Archer. For the first few minutes, you provide sniper support--like in the mission--then you see the betrayal and the rest of the mission is spent with you two trying to escape from Sheperd's forces. I haven't decided how they'd survive, but I think they should and somehow link up with Price and Soap eventually.
P.S. Pretty sure half of the game will be spent killing Russians, as the United States isn't going to left an invasion and destruction of their country go unanswered.
You play as either Toad or Archer. For the first few minutes, you provide sniper support--like in the mission--then you see the betrayal and the rest of the mission is spent with you two trying to escape from Sheperd's forces. I haven't decided how they'd survive, but I think they should and somehow link up with Price and Soap eventually.
P.S. Pretty sure half of the game will be spent killing Russians, as the United States isn't going to left an invasion and destruction of their country go unanswered.
Maybe I'm jaded but I assume EVERY political group in power to be involved in some shady shit. LIFE is morally ambiguous.razelas said:
I don't really care if MW3 criticizes NATO and the US, and I would be surprised as hell if it did. I don't need my video games to spoon feed me political idealism, from one end or the other. Yeah, the whole AMERICA FUCK YEAH thing that some games have (though, I would say, not really CoD:MW games) is tiresome and stupid, but I'm playing a stupid fucking ACTION SHOOTER. If I wanted political machinations and ethical subtlety I would play... well, nothing, really, most games don't have that much depth. I guess I'd read a book or watch a film.
To summarize, I am totally ambivalent to this topic. Except that I would really enjoy a game where I shoot fat southerners. MW5: The New American Civil War! Fat southerners vs fat northerners! AMERICA FUCK YEAH!!!
Cod 4 - One of the top 5 shooters I have ever played
MW2 - Fun at first, but eventually things like Danger Close OMA noob tubes made me stop playing. Good entertainment while it lasted, but it didn't last as long as Cod 4
Black Ops - Held my interest for about three weeks, haven't played it since.
Not a good trend. It seems like every CoD game after CoD 4 has just been banking off of Cod 4's success, not really innovating in any major way.
MW2 - Fun at first, but eventually things like Danger Close OMA noob tubes made me stop playing. Good entertainment while it lasted, but it didn't last as long as Cod 4
Black Ops - Held my interest for about three weeks, haven't played it since.
Not a good trend. It seems like every CoD game after CoD 4 has just been banking off of Cod 4's success, not really innovating in any major way.
NATO...
I thought Russia was in NATO. And that the major enemy was an AMerican.
Anyway, yeah,I would. It would be refreshing, thougha little awkward.
I thought Russia was in NATO. And that the major enemy was an AMerican.
Anyway, yeah,I would. It would be refreshing, thougha little awkward.
I feel like most of the voting and commenting is coming from people who either weren't or were going to buy the game regardless of who they'd be fighting. I'd like to see a poll with these options:
-Was going to buy it, and still would regardless of who I'm killing
-Was going to buy it, but would't if I had to fight American/NATO
-Wasn't going to buy it, and this doesn't affect my decision
-Wasn't going to buy it, but would if I got to fight America/NATO
I think this would provide better data on how fighting America/NATO would affect sales. Personally, I'd be in the first category, so I'm not really a significant data point here. It's more about the relationship between #2 and #4.
-Was going to buy it, and still would regardless of who I'm killing
-Was going to buy it, but would't if I had to fight American/NATO
-Wasn't going to buy it, and this doesn't affect my decision
-Wasn't going to buy it, but would if I got to fight America/NATO
I think this would provide better data on how fighting America/NATO would affect sales. Personally, I'd be in the first category, so I'm not really a significant data point here. It's more about the relationship between #2 and #4.
I'm not quite sure how I gave that impression; this dialog is merely in reference to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. I ABSOLUTELY feel that games can be about more than mindless fun, and I love to see that explored (Bioshock and Mirror's Edge are good examples, as are Braid, Limbo, Downfall (PC adventure game), and some others).razelas said:
It would be correct to infer that I am uninterested in seeing modern political conflicts play out in a realistic military FPS, because I don't really care about that. Modern politics disgust me in nearly every possible way, and the idea of playing through a literal representation of one take on the situation, no matter how clever or insightful, just isn't my cup of tea. If it was a fucking AMAZING exploration of the concepts I suppose I would be interested, but I don't expect that from a massmarket videogame aimed at the 14-35 (or whatever) American Male demographic.