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JFK assasination game...WTF?

Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
<-- still loves the First Amendment
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The First Amendment applies to British companies?
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*blush* Missed that part.

But the first Amendment should allow it to be sold in the US. I agree that the game seems rather morbid and I have no desire to see or play it, but if there's a market for it, let 'em have it.
 
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
And today is the 41st anniversary of the shooting in Dallas.

Where were you when you heard about it ?
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Why did the words, "Jumping from ball to ball trying to keep from being a bastard." suddenly spring to mind?
 
i believe it's a tasteless game, but can understand how it's significant

i still don't think it should be marketed as a game, and think it should be some sort of documentary type media that is restricted to adults
 
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
i believe it's a tasteless game, but can understand how it's significant

i still don't think it should be marketed as a game, and think it should be some sort of documentary type media that is restricted to adults
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What about Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942, or Medal of Honor? All those are realistic portrayals of historical nature that involve taking the role of a gunman and shooting people, and they are all marketed as "games" and sold to kids.
 
I just can't get behind a 'Pop the Pres' game.

I can see the first shooter games of the 'Combat/Warfare' types,
but a historical event re-encation of a cultural tragedy ?
 
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
I just can't get behind a 'Pop the Pres' game.

I can see the first shooter games of the 'Combat/Warfare' types,
but a historical event re-encation of a cultural tragedy ?
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What about our boys getting slaughtered on the beaches of Normandy? Wasn't that a "cultural tragedy" as well? Hasn't that been re-enacted countless times in film and gaming?



(yeah, I know I'm playing devil's advocate here)
 
I wouldn't call this much of a game...

Now, if it were a real video game, JFK would dodge the first bullet, whip out a .45 and start gunning down the crowd Matrix style. These game designers have no imagination.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
I just can't get behind a 'Pop the Pres' game.

I can see the first shooter games of the 'Combat/Warfare' types,
but a historical event re-encation of a cultural tragedy ?
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What about our boys getting slaughtered on the beaches of Normandy? Wasn't that a "cultural tragedy" as well? Hasn't that been re-enacted countless times in film and gaming?



(yeah, I know I'm playing devil's advocate here)
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Good point, but I think the underlying difference is that those games don't pinpoint specific people... ie, each soldier is not an actual person that was involved in those conflicts. However, this game is extremely specific in who is being targeted, etc.

Now, the least theyc ould have done is created the President Assination Game in which the player can choose any President... at least that would have been equal... lol.
 
There have been many 'First Shooter' presentations of war as games,
hell - the Army actually uses them as a recruting tool and in training
exercises for Urban Combat, I know there are games that glorify the
Viet Nam experience, but somehow they just don't play out like the real thing.
It doesn't come with a body bag to send you home in when you get sloppy.

I guess that it's just the perceived position of power of the Executive office.
It just feels so wrong to place on into a sniper role with a government official.
Maybe it will sell big time in Saudi Arabia though, they can just change the name.
 
Originally posted by: daniel1113
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
I just can't get behind a 'Pop the Pres' game.

I can see the first shooter games of the 'Combat/Warfare' types,
but a historical event re-encation of a cultural tragedy ?
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What about our boys getting slaughtered on the beaches of Normandy? Wasn't that a "cultural tragedy" as well? Hasn't that been re-enacted countless times in film and gaming?



(yeah, I know I'm playing devil's advocate here)
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Good point, but I think the underlying difference is that those games don't pinpoint specific people... ie, each soldier is not an actual person that was involved in those conflicts. However, this game is extremely specific in who is being targeted, etc.

Now, the least theyc ould have done is created the President Assination Game in which the player can choose any President... at least that would have been equal... lol.
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this is the key, as opposed to making a game about the event, they made it about the murder. think about it, you get points, for a clean kill on kennedy. MoH didn't single out any single soldier that stormed normandy

that's why this shouldn't be marketed as a game, it's not the violence that's at question, it's the nature of the violence.
 
"ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"

LIKE NOT BUYING THAT GAME!
 
Originally posted by: KidViciou$

this is the key, as opposed to making a game about the event, they made it about the murder. think about it, you get points, for a clean kill on kennedy. MoH didn't single out any single soldier that stormed normandy

that's why this shouldn't be marketed as a game, it's not the violence that's at question, it's the nature of the violence.
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Wait, killing wave after wave of unnamed, anonymous people is ok, but once you attached a specific identity to a face, it becomes "wrong"? What's the logic behind that?
 
Originally posted by: dahunan
What next? Someone creates an expansion pack for it that includes other past American Presidents?
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i'd rather have an expansion pack that includes the current president 😛

uh-oh, is the secret service tapping this forum? better UNREGISTER!
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: KidViciou$

this is the key, as opposed to making a game about the event, they made it about the murder. think about it, you get points, for a clean kill on kennedy. MoH didn't single out any single soldier that stormed normandy

that's why this shouldn't be marketed as a game, it's not the violence that's at question, it's the nature of the violence.
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Wait, killing wave after wave of unnamed, anonymous people is ok, but once you attached a specific identity to a face, it becomes "wrong"? What's the logic behind that?
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For one, remaining family of the deceased? How many family members are reminded daily when someone loads up Counterstrike?
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: KidViciou$

this is the key, as opposed to making a game about the event, they made it about the murder. think about it, you get points, for a clean kill on kennedy. MoH didn't single out any single soldier that stormed normandy

that's why this shouldn't be marketed as a game, it's not the violence that's at question, it's the nature of the violence.
Click to expand...
Wait, killing wave after wave of unnamed, anonymous people is ok, but once you attached a specific identity to a face, it becomes "wrong"? What's the logic behind that?
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For one, remaining family of the deceased? How many family members are reminded daily when someone loads up Counterstrike?
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Do you experience the same outrage when a comedian makes fun of the OJ trial? I mean, Nicole Simpson was murdered! How does her family feel about the constant references and jokes at her expense?

It just seem like it's rather easy to pick and choose what constitutes poor taste.
 
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