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someones making a 9/11 game, which is pretty sick, but check out
www.spong.com for news
www.spong.com for news
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Moral issues aside, and at the end of the day, there is potential to make quite an enjoyable game out of the events of September 11th and surrounding story. At the end of the day, many games have included or been based around tragic terrorist action. The only difference is that it's fictional.
Practical Magic's structure seems to be a good direction to follow - unlike the one specified on the website of this mod. Perhaps, however, it may be more tactful to make it a little later on than two years post events.
Practical Magic's structure seems to be a good direction to follow - unlike the one specified on the website of this mod. Perhaps, however, it may be more tactful to make it a little later on than two years post events.
I still think it's hypocritical to complain about a game which involves a largely western subject, yet it's okay for us to play games where we take out various foreign nationals without remorse.
Unbeliever if your parents or someone you loved had been killed in 9/11 you are telling me you wouldn't feel an injustice so early on? You would be lying if you said otherwise.
It was only gonig to be released. I just feel that so close to the event you would have thought people would have had more respect.
It was only gonig to be released. I just feel that so close to the event you would have thought people would have had more respect.
Well, first of all, the part of the game proposed "RESCUING PEOPLE" (or however it was phrased): after the first few hours NO ONE was rescued. No doubt, there were people still alive in the lower parts of the rubble, but no way to get to them. There were reports of finding groups of people all holding each other and that is the way they died. And no, I did not have to evacuate my home, but i did smell the burning bodies, burning HUMAN bodies. My neighborhood was a staging area for supplies being sent across the river to the WTC for weeks. And for the first few days, the park down the street was used as a morgue, and everytime I heard a helicopter bringing more bodies, I knew that more families were going ro be devasted, changed forever. This does not sound like a GAME to me. REAL people died, REAL lives were changed, this was REAL. That is the difference between killing people in a GAME and REAL LIFE. How sad: you seem to have lost your humanity. I pray that a tragedy of this magnitude never touches your life.
> ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Running around
> shooting people in a 9/11 mod is just dis-respectful and
> unneseccery.
But this mod isn't about that ??? Are we talking all people here in any mod here ?
> Running around
> shooting people in a 9/11 mod is just dis-respectful and
> unneseccery.
But this mod isn't about that ??? Are we talking all people here in any mod here ?
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
Running around
> shooting people in a 9/11 mod is just dis-respectful and unneseccery.
So? Killing innocents in other games is okay but when something is based on real life, is not okay?
Forget that. As long as people remember it's just a game, there's no problem.
Running around
> shooting people in a 9/11 mod is just dis-respectful and unneseccery.
So? Killing innocents in other games is okay but when something is based on real life, is not okay?
Forget that. As long as people remember it's just a game, there's no problem.
Not really. They are profiting from a different aspect. The 9/11 documentary by Robert De Niro is something I will get when I pick up a multi region DVD player. Proceeds of that DVD go to the funds to help rebuild the are surrounding and to the families. Running around shooting people in a 9/11 mod is just dis-respectful and unneseccery. With mods like Day of Defeat, Team Fortress and COunter Strike I can't understand the need for such a controversial mod so close after the event.
On another aspsect - many publishers have already released scores of DVD's, Books, documentaries. videos, images, audio tapes, rememberance items and so on, so are they just as bad ? Many authors also used the oppurtunity to release related books - Tom Carew with his Jihad - the secret war in Afghanistan, Holy War Inc by Peter L Bergen and so on...
pyramid wrote:
> The fact that anyone would even think about making a GAME on this
> subject....I am speechless. As someone who lives across the river from
> where the towers once stood, and had a front row seat for that day of
> devastation, I cannot even fathom the idea of a game made of this
> tragedy. Yes, maybe eighty years in the future, but for New Yorkers,
> this is still
> a gaping hole in our lives. There are plenty of other things to make
> games about..why would anyone even think of this? Certainly not
> something I want to relive, in a game or in my nightmares, where I
> already do relive it quite often.
did you have to evacuate your house? and run away? is your house dead?
> The fact that anyone would even think about making a GAME on this
> subject....I am speechless. As someone who lives across the river from
> where the towers once stood, and had a front row seat for that day of
> devastation, I cannot even fathom the idea of a game made of this
> tragedy. Yes, maybe eighty years in the future, but for New Yorkers,
> this is still
> a gaping hole in our lives. There are plenty of other things to make
> games about..why would anyone even think of this? Certainly not
> something I want to relive, in a game or in my nightmares, where I
> already do relive it quite often.
did you have to evacuate your house? and run away? is your house dead?
I'd buy it and relish the chance of killing some innocent civilians.
Lovely!
Lovely!
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