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Copy Clerk Posts: 57 Joined: 26 Sep 2009     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1875 Joined: 27 Apr 2009    |
Out of interest, why? It's no different from attacking Iraq or Russia. If the storyline works, then anywhere should be allowed to attack anywhere. |
Paperboy  Posts: 16 Joined: 29 Jul 2009     | huh McMillan sniping on top of the tower...awesome. |
Honorable Mention: Escapist Film Festival  Posts: 343 Joined: 11 Nov 2008     | I'm going to file this complaint under "W," for Who the fuck cares... it's a game. |
Paperboy  Posts: 17 Joined: 14 Jan 2009  | Oh, bloody f*ing hell it's PC again. For those who do not know, PC states that it's okay for one and not the other. In other words, segregationalist (can't remember how to spell that one...). It's pathetic. The country of a dictator gets nuked, it's fine. America gets nuked, it's an outrage. Folks, either it's ALL okay or NONE OF IT is okay. One or the other, Christians. You should shut up now, preferably before you start digging the hole (or putting up the cross). If you're not comfortable with seeing the destruction of a nation, we have a problem. It's a nuked city. It is a mass of concrete, steel, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc that has been blown up. STOP YOUR DAMN BITCHING and stay the hell away from me. I WILL NOT be held accountable for what happens. And the Christian Science Monitor? It's little better than the christians condeming Harry Potter for promoting Witchcraft. What God and Jesus did could be considered Witchcraft, no? Well, I think you hypercritical, hypocritical idiots have to shut up as well. Harry Potter is a fantasy book. COD6 is fantasy game. The only difference is in interaction levels. It might not happen. It's simply because it's hitting too close to home that it's not okay. Grow thicker skin, ignore it, just leave the game and its fans the hell ALONE. Just don't try and push your own opinions onto others. I've not read all of the comments. Just checked the first page. Let's see where my post leads... And before anybody here complains about the third word in, it's censored. Deal with it. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 89 Joined: 14 Apr 2009     | I dont think it goes far enough i want to see the nation burn :P Still back to the game i would love to be playing as the other faction distroying washington :P killing inersents and president blacky, bush or whoever is ment to be president at this time of the game |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 6 Joined: 13 Oct 2009 |
Really CSM, we don't have to worry at all. The world is going to end in 2012 anyway....... |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 52 Joined: 19 Oct 2008   |
The idea of Britain invading America is retarded. It's a diplomatic nightmare. |
Paperboy  Posts: 23 Joined: 19 Oct 2008   |
Or that mayan astronomer decided to take a break and never got back to calculating the dates. XD I'd say striking. I mean come on. Its a game, its supposed to entertain and tell a story. A story that has DC in ruins. I mean I'm quite sure there are plenty of stories and games where they show other countries' capitals ruined and burning. but DC? OH NOES. BAD GAME! BAD! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1875 Joined: 27 Apr 2009 |
Didn't bother reading the rest of my post, huh? |
Muckraker  Posts: 338 Joined: 16 Apr 2009   | if by going to far you mean creating something mother flipping awesome and making me want to by that game i agree with you. |
Paperboy Posts: 18 Joined: 28 Sep 2009   | I wouldn't say it's gone too far at all. In a game about modern combat against threats upon our country where else would the ultimate battle take place? Of course it would eventually have to spill to our own soil, and what more iconic a battlefield than our capital city. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 549 Joined: 21 Jan 2009    | Darn patriotic Americans (not all of you) not worrying about a Middle Eastern city being nuked but DC being the centre of a battle is just going to far. I think it being depicted in DC gives it some sort of striking edge to the game when you see the Capital of a world Superpo.......nation being destroyed it can make connecting emotionally to the game that much easier. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 55 Joined: 25 Mar 2009   | I realy bet that when IW put America into the game, they knew something like this was going to happen, which I commend them for to not be afraid of poloticians. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 69 Joined: 3 Feb 2009    | These humans need to get over their losses and realize that there are worse things that can happen. |
Muckraker  Posts: 304 Joined: 28 Jan 2009  | Where the hell were all of these critics when Infinity Ward NUKED a METROPOLIS in the first Modern Warfare? |
Muckraker  Posts: 264 Joined: 29 May 2009 | Anyone seen Independence day? That had the white house blow up. Sure it was made before 9/11 but it's been on TV since. Besides, 9/11 was 8 years ago, surely some game where you get to shoot some guys in DC isn't that much of a big deal right? Loosen up! You don't even see the White House crumble or anything! Just a but of paint peeling off! Jeez! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2663 Joined: 20 Jul 2008     | Quite ironic how in the video, one of the voices talks about how they have yet to experience war on their own soil and this will show them the true horror of war. They seem fine if there's a game where you bomb the shit out of a different country, but when it's America, that's going too far. Love the voice of the sinister character too. |
Paperboy  Posts: 47 Joined: 16 Jul 2009   | It'd be no worse if it were a large town or city in any other country. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 124 Joined: 26 Jul 2009   | wow lots of posts... wonder how many pages will fit on the page bar thingy.. anyways! get over it. stop with the double standard. independence day was an awesome movie that everyone loves despite the WH being lazered. this game is going to rock my socks. i cant wait to see that scene in-game |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 750 Joined: 23 Jun 2009  | ...So it's okay for Fallout 3 to take place in a almost completely destroyed D.C., but not Modern Warfare 2? Fuck you, CSM. On a side note:
I agree. And I am American. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 8 Joined: 23 Sep 2009 | I think it's an amazing opportunity for IW to play off of a lot of fears, what's wrong with feeling uncomfortable sometimes? |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 9 Joined: 22 Feb 2008   | Of course, the implication here is that "post-apocalyptic scenes of carnage" are acceptable so long as they aren't being played out on US landmarks. I'm as fond of my capital as the next guy, but there's no difference from people setting the White House on fire in MW2 and me blowing the hell out of Aachen in CoD: Finest Hour. My cousin and I are still of the opinion Resident Evil 4 could be improved by having Saddler let Leon and Ashley return to DC and then having to gun down zombies in the White House after DC had been completely wiped out by the parasites. |
Muckraker  Posts: 307 Joined: 24 Feb 2009  |
Thanks for offending ALL Christians--even those, like me, who don't care if the game nukes DC. Be a little more understanding that it's ONE person saying this...not all of us. |
Paperboy Posts: 17 Joined: 14 Jan 2009 | yeah, I thought there was an edit or two I forgot to do before hitting 'post'... I wasn't having a go at all christians, though, Armageddon. I meant to have a go at the idiots who condemned COD6. I would edit the post, but due to the large number of replies since, I shall refrain from doing that. I f*cked up. I've admitted fault. I don't see any need to change it anyways as I'v tried to rectify it here. So let's rephrase some of it here. 'It's little better than the christians condeming Harry Potter for promoting Witchcraft' Deffo should read along the lines of 'little better than when they condemned HP for promoting witchcraft'. And the 'One or the other, Christians'... That last word should read folks. Hopefully you'll be able to let it slide.... |
Muckraker  Posts: 330 Joined: 9 Aug 2008  | God, what a bunch of whiners. Did the British complain when the Houses of Parliament were blown up to an orchestral piece in V for Vendetta? Did the French complain when their Eiffel Tower was blown up on numerous occasions? No. The entire POINT of this trailer, if they'd read, was to get across the point that it was on their own soil, as shown by the speaker's lines. But, of course, there's always some spoilsport whining 'Ooh, think of the [insert], imagine how this could impact [insert]!' |
Paperboy  Posts: 41 Joined: 11 Oct 2009  |
Hmm, I'm kinda curious; this thread is 15 pages in, and I've only looked at the first two pages and the last, but has anybody yet pointed out to everyone going out of their way to take a swipe at Christians over this that Christian Science Monitor is not actually the sort of newspaper that they think it is? And in fact, this is a rather uncharacteristically lousy article from what has historically been a journalistically esteemed publication? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2943 Joined: 4 Oct 2008    |
Well said. Personally, I think that it's Infinity Ward's decision, completely. It's their game, and since they proved that they're capable of handling that kind of modern setting in an FPS- as in COD4- I don't see why they can't set their game anywhere they want, anytime they want. It's not as if Modern Warfare 2 won't sell over 10 million copies, no matter what 'controversy' pops up. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 107 Joined: 16 Oct 2009  | Christians think everything is going to far there is nothing shown in that trailer that i have seen in a game before if not worse. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 82 Joined: 23 Aug 2009 | who cares in 2012 we will all be dead anyway |
Copy Clerk Posts: 94 Joined: 17 Apr 2008 | Well...wtf? As I understand it you are fighting to SAVE the city, even if it is getting destroyed. I don't see why this is so offensive. Ooo, D.C. got bombed in MW2, so what? It's not like it's real. I mean, did they complain when the nuke went off and killed a huge amount of American troops in CoD4? Except for Griggs's mysterious survival. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 89 Joined: 19 Mar 2009  |
*nudge* Rather than saying "The people who refuse to accept that something terrible could happen are those that allow it to happen" or "All is fair in love and video games". Instead I'll just say: "Christian Science" makes me think of dry ice. Or oxy moron. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 94 Joined: 17 Apr 2008 |
Dude, my calendar ends on Decemember 31, 2009. World ends sooner than 2012, hate to disappoint you! |
Paperboy Posts: 41 Joined: 11 Oct 2009 |
Christian Scientists are hardly scientists (they don't believe in modern medicine), and they deny the divinity of Christ, which plenty of people will tell you means they're not Christian, either. However, the only real links the Christian Science Monitor really has to Christian Scientist is that a) they were both founded by the same guy, b) there's a small religion column in the paper, which is emphatically not a platform for evangelism and c) editor-in-chief has occasionally been a Christian Scientist. The paper's actually won its share of Pulitzer prizes, and was one of the few papers that actually provided much-needed objective coverage of crap like Iraq and the like. In terms of journalistic integrity, it's pretty near the top of the pile. This article is pretty bad, but also strikingly uncharacteristic of the paper as a whole. That said, there are plenty of scientists who are also Christian. That's a different matter altogether. Islam probably had more, though, back in the day. |
Beat Writer Posts: 208 Joined: 29 Aug 2008 | O.o hmmmm so we can fight over 'unspecified towns in eastern Europe' but not DC.... wash that cabbage water out of your brain. Its a game people are looking forward to playing. Not a goal people are looking to complete. |
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i doubt it, how is a mostly american playerbase supposed to relate to attacking DC. even as a non american i dont like that idea