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new video game ,"out of line maybe"
gonepostal
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Does anyone else think this is a bit out of line
http://www.conflict.com/conflictVietnam/default.htm
a Vietnam video game ,and all this from the people that cry "your not pc"
http://www.conflict.com/conflictVietnam/default.htm
a Vietnam video game ,and all this from the people that cry "your not pc"
Comments
Rugster
"Toujours Pret"
I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected.
Why do I feel it is different than other games?
Because this war caused more traumatic stress than any war before or since ,if you seen the game in full I guess you would get a better understanding of my thoughts ,very graphic ,and with the same generation that makes these games are the same ones guilty of today's pc crowd which makes me sick {do as I say not as I do bullsh!+}
What source are you basing this on?
I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected.
My son plays "Medal of Honor" on his Nintendo game cube, and sometimes, when he's pinned down on the Normandy beach and he cant get up to the pillboxes with the Germans in them, he'll move down the beach and start wasting US soldiers that are supposed to be on his side. He thinks this is fun, but it makes me mad cause I'm thinking its a desecration of the memory of the guys that really died on the beach. He's just looking to have some fun and I'm taking the situation in a whole different light.
If they had the "digital Mai Lai MAssacre" or "Flying VC Helicopter Interrogation" that would be over the top. The truth is, these are just games to some people and bad memories to others and they can mean nothing at all to the people that play them, or they can be taken seriously by those who play them. I'm sure some Vietnam vets do not view this as a game. But these games were made for kids, not for Vietnam vets.
My son plays "Medal of Honor" on his Nintendo game cube, and sometimes, when he's pinned down on the Normandy beach and he cant get up to the pillboxes with the Germans in them, he'll move down the beach and start wasting US soldiers that are supposed to be on his side. He thinks this is fun, but it makes me mad cause I'm thinking its a desecration of the memory of the guys that really died on the beach. He's just looking to have some fun and I'm taking the situation in a whole different light.
Exactly games are just that games, they are not meant to be realistic and usualy are not trying to push a message or idealism.
And even when they are what is the difference from a movie, just because you are playing the main character should not change the fact that its just entertainment.
These are just GAMES and thats all. Iam a Vietnam Veteran and dont feel at all offended by someone making electronic games derived from the war I fought in. The more power to them.
Myself and the vast majority of Vietnam vets managed to get back home without P.T.S.D. (post tramatic stress disorder) even though I served in an infantry unit. One never forgets his experiences over there. You just store them away and move on.
There will be games made of every conflict our country has and will be envolved in. There is no need to be thin skinned and let yourself get all worked up about it.
Joe
"Never let school interfere with your education"
Thus far, no game I've seen has approached the bar of political incorrectness set by even the tamest Vietnam movie.
But that's the point, it's not the actual content of the game that has you upset, it's that they dared to make any sort of a game with so impudent a theme as Vietnam.
"Our finest tribute to our fallen dead would be to convince their sons that we were not Rambo and neither are they. -Gus Hasford