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Originally Posted by Skybird
The Taliban's point of view is and should be of no concern for us.
I indeed supoort the idea that shooters should not enable the player to identify himself with any faction shown in the game, especially when the faction is trying to simulate a faction from reality. Psychologically it makes a difference whether you shoot at the "blue Alliance" or Red Bots, or at Nazi figures, Allied aces or UN blue helmets. In the first case, you game against bits and bytes and oixels. In the second you haven given it a face, making you shooting at something that is a bit more human than just bits and bytes and pixels.
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Aren't you going too far on this. It's just a game. Using the same logic then the ban would also apply to street racing game, fighting game or any game that has any sort of simulated violence in it with semblance to real place and real people and which makes possible the breaking of law in it(and which state law would be used). Even some sports game like an olympic game should be banned to your defense because once you play a certain country in that sports game you take side and identify with that frakkin country and try to punish and humiliate any other country that you play against with in that game. No more FIFA World cup game for us too!
Next they're going to regulate which color to be banned and racial proportion and gender proportion in all game 3D models....and after that what to think and what not to think when gaming!
Where do you stop. . . once you begin politicizing a game?!
I can tell craps too such as these:
Do you think those who're playing Taliban in next MOH game would really kill British Forces or play them to practice killing them in real life?! That would be plain stupidity.
Or wouldn't British troops who play Taliban in that game benefit from acquiring real practical experience on how the Taliban fight? That actually can save their lives in their actual deployment?
The game could even garner public support for British forces in Britain if the young generation sympathize with the British forces in game and couldn't agree with the method of the Taliban.
Would actually playing Taliban make one to hate the British and the other way around? It could very well give them respect to the capability of the RL British forces. . . .
You see the man's reasoning has NO BASIS aside from his sentiment. It's called politicking though he chose the wrong subject by bringing game into his politics. Doesn't he have more important job than trying to regulate how a game should be designed? If not he ought to be a game programmer than a public officer.
Where do you stop. . . once you begin politicizing a game?!
Come on politics in gaming?!