Former Marine Claps Back At Call Of Duty Developers By Explaining How War Actually Looks
There is nothing more tragic in this world than war and the fact that it seems to be neverending. While some risk their entire lives and future in order to protect their country, others might not understand the seriousness of it all, and it often sparks a debate whether or not anything that happens in war can be portrayed or interpreted by anyone who didn’t experience it.
Recently, Call Of Duty creators have been under a lot of criticism after revealing there might be a scene in the new game that will premiere this October where the player will be able to choose whether or not he wants to shoot an innocent baby while fighting a terrorist – if the player decides to do so, the game will somehow understand if he did it on purpose or it was an actual incident. What sparked an even bigger outrage was the fact that developers aim to recreate the actual grief somebody would experience after killing a child. This type of war portrayal did not sit well with those who have actually been to war and found this part of the game completely cruel and toxic. One Twitter user who is also a former U.S marine decided to share his opinion about this entire situation.
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Share on FacebookI don't think that it's about video games(movies, books, etc.) being overly hyper-realistic, bloody or gory, as some comments here go... but the fact that the developers and big game companies thought it was a "good idea" to put the option to kill or not kill a baby in the game play to make it "more realistic". Sure it IS more "realistic" but seriously, why include that aspect in a GAME!? In a game, you can always hit reset... down range, there isn't that choice. While I wasn't where my brother-in-arms has been, (I was "safe" behind the wire on a military compound) - I've seen the aftermath of the pain that the choices these men and women have had to make, often in a split second. In real life, there isn't a "second life" or reset. I believe that is the point this post is making.
Tears in my eyes and chills that won't stop running all over my body... As a military spouse - to someone who had a very similar experience as the one depicted - this hits home.
I'm sure the OP suffered countless days, nights, and hours of mental playback and horror in his mind after writing all of this. I thank him for his brutal honesty. I regret I was never able to follow in my dad's footsteps and join the Marine Corp, due to my legal blindness. I wanted to be an accomplished woman in the USMC and make him proud. (I hope I made him proud nonetheless...) After reading this, I wonder if I had no idea what I might have been getting into, had I been sent into a war too. I would have done my best. I would have fought for my country, even if it meant years of PTSD. My dad served in Vietnam as a "Point-man" and stepped on a land mine, blowing his leg up. He received two Purple Hearts. There was so much about that war that he would NEVER tell my mom, nor I, about. A bad thing now is that anyone can have a cellphone ready to capture the torturous moment of physical harm to a captured soldier, and put it on the net immediately. :-( Proof of horror.
Call of Duty and "realism". lol But sure let's blame video games, it's not like there aren't dozens, if not hundreds of fictional movies, tv series and books about war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3K0tI-EyGY
"Hyper realiatic" games aren't really my thing, and there are plenty of movies "reslistically" depicting war. I do get that the designer want to confront their players with some uncomfortable truths about war, but I know plenty of players who will never see the "AI characters" as real humans. They will just shoot and try anything to see if they can. And laugh about it. Doesnt mean they are evil, they just will not let themselves get immersed enough to care.
Maybe this guy, unfortunately, has an understandable trauma due to his experience BUT i think he misses the shot. Are you going to say those words to kids playing war (yeah, kids do and did that) because "war is not like f***ing that"? Maybe, just maybe, he and people like him, which i respect the most, should focus on those big fat suited a***es in the Congress and Senate who trigger and then send them to war.
you don't realize how horrible its gonna be until you get there...
Load More Replies...Err.... Did you actually read his tweets? Nowhere he blames video games for anything, he's just criticizing the way they are advertised and the expressions they choose to describe the product.
Load More Replies...I don't think that it's about video games(movies, books, etc.) being overly hyper-realistic, bloody or gory, as some comments here go... but the fact that the developers and big game companies thought it was a "good idea" to put the option to kill or not kill a baby in the game play to make it "more realistic". Sure it IS more "realistic" but seriously, why include that aspect in a GAME!? In a game, you can always hit reset... down range, there isn't that choice. While I wasn't where my brother-in-arms has been, (I was "safe" behind the wire on a military compound) - I've seen the aftermath of the pain that the choices these men and women have had to make, often in a split second. In real life, there isn't a "second life" or reset. I believe that is the point this post is making.
Tears in my eyes and chills that won't stop running all over my body... As a military spouse - to someone who had a very similar experience as the one depicted - this hits home.
I'm sure the OP suffered countless days, nights, and hours of mental playback and horror in his mind after writing all of this. I thank him for his brutal honesty. I regret I was never able to follow in my dad's footsteps and join the Marine Corp, due to my legal blindness. I wanted to be an accomplished woman in the USMC and make him proud. (I hope I made him proud nonetheless...) After reading this, I wonder if I had no idea what I might have been getting into, had I been sent into a war too. I would have done my best. I would have fought for my country, even if it meant years of PTSD. My dad served in Vietnam as a "Point-man" and stepped on a land mine, blowing his leg up. He received two Purple Hearts. There was so much about that war that he would NEVER tell my mom, nor I, about. A bad thing now is that anyone can have a cellphone ready to capture the torturous moment of physical harm to a captured soldier, and put it on the net immediately. :-( Proof of horror.
Call of Duty and "realism". lol But sure let's blame video games, it's not like there aren't dozens, if not hundreds of fictional movies, tv series and books about war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3K0tI-EyGY
"Hyper realiatic" games aren't really my thing, and there are plenty of movies "reslistically" depicting war. I do get that the designer want to confront their players with some uncomfortable truths about war, but I know plenty of players who will never see the "AI characters" as real humans. They will just shoot and try anything to see if they can. And laugh about it. Doesnt mean they are evil, they just will not let themselves get immersed enough to care.
Maybe this guy, unfortunately, has an understandable trauma due to his experience BUT i think he misses the shot. Are you going to say those words to kids playing war (yeah, kids do and did that) because "war is not like f***ing that"? Maybe, just maybe, he and people like him, which i respect the most, should focus on those big fat suited a***es in the Congress and Senate who trigger and then send them to war.
you don't realize how horrible its gonna be until you get there...
Load More Replies...Err.... Did you actually read his tweets? Nowhere he blames video games for anything, he's just criticizing the way they are advertised and the expressions they choose to describe the product.
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