Post by trashcanman on Oct 2, 2010 22:14:18 GMT 2
So the upcoming military shooter Medal of Honor has this mode where opposing players get to kill each other. i believe this is what's referred to as "competitive multiplayer". Must be some new thing. Anyways, it is customary to have two opposing sides in these modes, Americans (yay!), Nazis (boooo!), and whatnot. One set of players takes one side, and the other opposes them. Well, in this new game one of the options is (was) to oppose the Americans (yay!) by playing as The Taliban (boo!). No big deal, you'd think. Beats slaughtering the British or the hapless French. we kind of like those guys. The Brits, anyways. Kind of. Western games allow you to slaughter Native Americans, and Grand Theft Auto lets you wantonly kill every living thing in the game if you wish. It may not be politically correct, but these things are meant for people with the ability to differentiate between video games and real life. So who cares if the name of your team happens to be Taliban? Oh. Right. Those guys.
xbox360.ign.com/articles/112/1124805p1.html
"Opposing Force' just doesn't strike me as somebody you'd feature in an "authentic" military shooter. You know, you'd think the American military would be a little thicker-skinned, what with the training to be unfeeling death machines and all. All it takes to deeply unsettle them is to name a group of people in a fucking video game Taliban and they collapse into a pile of snot and tears. Hope the enemy doesn't get wind of this. They could lock POW's up and force them to watch them play a mod of Medal of Honor where the Taliban brand name is restored and they are totally pwning American noobs. That's payback for all the homies at Gitmo! And as for the families of those who died at the hands of The Taliban: it's nothing compared to how many have died worldwide from our armies. Sorry. Maybe they should be getting upset as to why America's government put their sons and daughters in harm's way in a region we never had any right to be in in the first place instead of obsessing over A FUCKING VIDEO GAME. Real life beckons, people. Fuck you very much.
xbox360.ign.com/articles/112/1124805p1.html
"Opposing Force' just doesn't strike me as somebody you'd feature in an "authentic" military shooter. You know, you'd think the American military would be a little thicker-skinned, what with the training to be unfeeling death machines and all. All it takes to deeply unsettle them is to name a group of people in a fucking video game Taliban and they collapse into a pile of snot and tears. Hope the enemy doesn't get wind of this. They could lock POW's up and force them to watch them play a mod of Medal of Honor where the Taliban brand name is restored and they are totally pwning American noobs. That's payback for all the homies at Gitmo! And as for the families of those who died at the hands of The Taliban: it's nothing compared to how many have died worldwide from our armies. Sorry. Maybe they should be getting upset as to why America's government put their sons and daughters in harm's way in a region we never had any right to be in in the first place instead of obsessing over A FUCKING VIDEO GAME. Real life beckons, people. Fuck you very much.
