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The Outfit:
[URL]http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/648/648782p1.html[/URL]
Destructable Environments.
Destruction on Demand.
Its Mercenaries but in WWII.
*Drools*
[URL]http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/648/648782p1.html[/URL]
Destructable Environments.
Destruction on Demand.
Its Mercenaries but in WWII.
*Drools*
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Splutters? You've lost me....
Your Honour wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Go back and read the posts again.
>
> One half comment in one post and then pages of slating is hardly
> making a point now, is it?
Dear oh dear.
Go back and read the posts again.
See any re-iteration of that point? Why yes, there it is.
> Hedfix wrote:
> Go back and read the posts again.
>
> One half comment in one post and then pages of slating is hardly
> making a point now, is it?
Dear oh dear.
Go back and read the posts again.
See any re-iteration of that point? Why yes, there it is.
Your Honour wrote:
>
> "But he started it!"
>
> Looks like I'm in a school playground afterall...
Hardly.
If someone splutters allover a post: then I find it funny.
>
> "But he started it!"
>
> Looks like I'm in a school playground afterall...
Hardly.
If someone splutters allover a post: then I find it funny.
Hedfix wrote:
> Go back and read the posts again.
One half comment in one post and then pages of slating is hardly making a point now, is it?
> Go back and read the posts again.
One half comment in one post and then pages of slating is hardly making a point now, is it?
Bonus wrote:
> As for the game about serial killers, it's about an FBI agent trying
> to track down the serial killer, don't know if that was missed too.
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Nope it wasn't missed, I read the article.
But it's still using serial killers as the basis for videogame entertainment.
The window-dressing is different, but the moralistic outrage is just as viable.
Why is not ok to want to vanquish Nazis and play, albeit in shoddy videogame form, a part in halting the spread of facism yet it's ok to enjoy a survival horror game and try to (I presume) stop somebody/something from butchering members of the public?
And, although I may be wrong, from your "Do we really need more World War 2 games flooding the market and glorifying an era which saw millions killed, persecuted and treated like mere animals?" comment, you were aiming for the moral highground?
Or "something as fundamental as whether or not the lives and deaths of innocent soldiers sent into battle should be glorified and the severe risk to their lives belittled by capitalist games companies such as EA etc. hoping to make a quick buck off of the climate of war we find ourselves in." that would indicate you are outraged that we should want to play a WWII game because America is invading countries again?
Capitalist Games Companies?
So what are the makers of the serial killer game then?
> As for the game about serial killers, it's about an FBI agent trying
> to track down the serial killer, don't know if that was missed too.
------
Nope it wasn't missed, I read the article.
But it's still using serial killers as the basis for videogame entertainment.
The window-dressing is different, but the moralistic outrage is just as viable.
Why is not ok to want to vanquish Nazis and play, albeit in shoddy videogame form, a part in halting the spread of facism yet it's ok to enjoy a survival horror game and try to (I presume) stop somebody/something from butchering members of the public?
And, although I may be wrong, from your "Do we really need more World War 2 games flooding the market and glorifying an era which saw millions killed, persecuted and treated like mere animals?" comment, you were aiming for the moral highground?
Or "something as fundamental as whether or not the lives and deaths of innocent soldiers sent into battle should be glorified and the severe risk to their lives belittled by capitalist games companies such as EA etc. hoping to make a quick buck off of the climate of war we find ourselves in." that would indicate you are outraged that we should want to play a WWII game because America is invading countries again?
Capitalist Games Companies?
So what are the makers of the serial killer game then?
Hedfix wrote:
> I believe someone had just told me to 'blow a goat' or some such
> thing. So if you're looking for someone to mention childish school
> ground comments to I'd look elsewhere.
"But he started it!"
Looks like I'm in a school playground afterall...
> I believe someone had just told me to 'blow a goat' or some such
> thing. So if you're looking for someone to mention childish school
> ground comments to I'd look elsewhere.
"But he started it!"
Looks like I'm in a school playground afterall...
Exactly.
I dont know about that nor do I really care, but I was just confused as to why Bonus was getting all huffy about "more World War 2 games flooding the market and glorifying an era which saw millions killed, persecuted and treated like mere animals?" when he likes the idea of a game that glorifies serial killers and uses those as a basis for entertainment.
I fail to see the difference myself but hey.
I fail to see the difference myself but hey.
Bonus wrote:
>
> As for the game about serial killers, it's about an FBI agent trying
> to track down the serial killer, don't know if that was missed too.
But making the game still glorifies serial killers whether you're playing one or capturing one.
>
> As for the game about serial killers, it's about an FBI agent trying
> to track down the serial killer, don't know if that was missed too.
But making the game still glorifies serial killers whether you're playing one or capturing one.
Goatboy wrote:
> Fair enough, but I'd offer that I can't see why you would want to
> play a game about serial killers and the ending of life when you
> appear so moralistic about war-based games?
> Plus I'm an adult and can differentiate between a company like
> Infinity Ward who put an awesome amount of effort and care into a
> title like Call of Duty and a nation that operates almost as if it
> were independant from the rest of the world and is led by a corrupt
> chimpanzee.
I didn't say there was a problem with all war games, I said I had a problem with it being franchised and turned into yearly updates. Good quality games could be used to raise awareness of what is actually going on with some things in the world. Good world war two games could actually show people something other than shooting people in the head kills them quicker.
As for the game about serial killers, it's about an FBI agent trying to track down the serial killer, don't know if that was missed too.
> Fair enough, but I'd offer that I can't see why you would want to
> play a game about serial killers and the ending of life when you
> appear so moralistic about war-based games?
> Plus I'm an adult and can differentiate between a company like
> Infinity Ward who put an awesome amount of effort and care into a
> title like Call of Duty and a nation that operates almost as if it
> were independant from the rest of the world and is led by a corrupt
> chimpanzee.
I didn't say there was a problem with all war games, I said I had a problem with it being franchised and turned into yearly updates. Good quality games could be used to raise awareness of what is actually going on with some things in the world. Good world war two games could actually show people something other than shooting people in the head kills them quicker.
As for the game about serial killers, it's about an FBI agent trying to track down the serial killer, don't know if that was missed too.
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