Yes, but not because it's offensive regarding setting, but rather because it's offensive that game designers would rather remake MW2 than something cool and creative.
Poll: the new medal of honour; offensive and tasteless, or is that just me?
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I wouldn't say i'm offended by it, but I can see where you're coming from by calling it tasteless. Setting a war game during a current conflict is certainly more likely to be lacking in tact, depending on how far they go with it, but I'll reserve judgement until nearer the release date when I can do a bit more digging on that score.
Hope your buddy comes back ok, I really do.
Hope your buddy comes back ok, I really do.
I some times have a hard time to fell sorry for western soldiers in Afganistan.
They are there by own choice, no one forced them, they were informed of the risk.
The afhan opposition were not ALL by choice. Some are breed into it, some are forced with the threat of eternal damnation.
Most of them dident travel thousands of miles to join the fight, they simply opened their door.
They are there by own choice, no one forced them, they were informed of the risk.
The afhan opposition were not ALL by choice. Some are breed into it, some are forced with the threat of eternal damnation.
Most of them dident travel thousands of miles to join the fight, they simply opened their door.
i find it intresting to note that war games are all fine and good so long as your the all american hero gunning down waves of unambiguously evil baddies, but turn the tables and all of a sudden its 'offensive' or 'distasteful'. hell, i bet everyone who played the airport level in MW2 didnt bat an eye becasue it was Russian civilians beings mowed down by russian terriorists and one undercover american operative.. i can see if you yourself, or someone you love is serveing in that area, and thats putting you off buying it. thats understandable. personally though i might not buy this game simpyl because its set, AGAIN, in the middle east. im tired of gunning down taliban or insurgents. lets have a game set in an altertanive cold-war era where you fight invadeing russian forces. IE battlefield badcompany2
So basically: "If you don't agree with my definition of insensitive, you are a fucking retard."FieryTrainwreck said:
Such a shining example of debating skills, sir.
Why is Modern Warfare 2 any different?
My father was a former spetsnaz in "alfa" group, and I'm Russian. Did I get offended at you killing Russian civilians in MW 2? Or the killing of Russian soldiers in dozens of FPS'? It's all subjective, if you choose to take offense at a game covering a modern war then that is your choice, but to me, i don't think anyone should really be that sensitive unless the game treats the situation un-respectfully.
Wait, hold on. Back up. FOUR dead in a week is 'SLAUGHTERED?'
I've never understood the vast disparity in death counts. It takes thousands in a few hours for third world death tolls to be news worthy (but tens of thousands over the course of several months or years isn't), it takes hundreds of first world civilian casualties before the news is interested, but less than one soldier dying per day is a national tragedy.
Jesus fucking christ.
I've never understood the vast disparity in death counts. It takes thousands in a few hours for third world death tolls to be news worthy (but tens of thousands over the course of several months or years isn't), it takes hundreds of first world civilian casualties before the news is interested, but less than one soldier dying per day is a national tragedy.
Jesus fucking christ.
I was about to ask, was that photo taken in Vienna by any chance, then of course the link that sows up when I hit the quote button reveals it was. Kind of cool, that means I've likely seen that very same flak tower up close. They really are brutally ugly constructions (one fo the few ugly buildings you would see in ViennaLord Mountbatten Reborn said:You might be interested to know they actually exist.AgentBJ09 said:
), though it just shows how robust they are that they are still unable to demolish them to this day....Anyway, to the topic at hand. Well, as I don't know anybody serving/who has served in conflicts in Afghanistan, it's unlikely the game will offend me in anyway. Given that it's a more recent theatre of conflict, it's more likely there will be people around today wo could potentially offended by the thought of a game taking place in a part of the world where someone they know has fought and perhaps even died. As for how "oofensive and tasteless" the game actually is, we can always count on the mainstream media to tell us that once they get wind of it...
From a strategists point of view, 4 dead is a minor loss, not a slaughter. And no, I don't think it's universally offensive and tasteless, because I think that people who find something offensive and tasteless should be allowed to find it offensive and tasteless AS LONG AS THEY ACCEPT the fact that not everyone else agrees with them. I know the single player won't allow you to play as Taliban, but personally, I think that would be an interesting point of view, see both sides of the conflict. No war is black and white anymore, or have ever been. And I agree with Cynical Sceptic. Even though it's sad for the immediate family of one dead soldier, it isn't newsworthy and most certainly not a national tragedy. "We are at war! Oh woe is me!" No, this is not an exaggeration. One dead soldier is newsworthy, at least in Norway, hell, they aired his funeral on national fucking television.
My only problem is that it wasn't done sooner. In every war, there are two sides. Why is there a lack of games that let you play as the "bad guy" besides the idea of "oh no! you're the bad guys!"? I sympathises that some people may see it as an almost re-enactment of some soldiers' death on the battlefield. I guess I just can't help but view soldier as an occupation and just that, one that may be over-rated.
If anything, I'm more willing to pick it up. If it's a game that makes light of the conflict, yes, that's offensive, but I think that the very act of setting the game in a contemporary conflict makes that considerably less likely.
It's a video game. Get over it. Unless the new Medal of Honor let's you put a bullet in a character with the same name as your friend, who also looks exactly like your friend, then I can't possibly see how this is even remotely offensive. It's set in present day and it's relatively accurate. What is offensive about that exactly?
I never really cared for modern warefare. Oh, you were talking about the new medal of honor...which looks exactly like mw2.
In all seriousness now: Never played medal of honor, new one looks like direct rip off of MW, tired of fps's
In all seriousness now: Never played medal of honor, new one looks like direct rip off of MW, tired of fps's