Let's ban Taliban game

Takeda Shingen · 08-23-10, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Dowly

There's plenty of games out there that have taken the basic layout from the 'war on terror', the faction just isn't called "taliban", but 'insurgents' or 'x' rebels.

Big deal, it's a game.

Didn't we have something similar about Battlefield 2, year or so ago?

I'm not saying that it is unacceptable; just that it is probably not a good idea now. Could you imagine a Vietnam video game being released in 1975?

TarJak · 08-23-10, 12:34 AM

No my IBM 5100 portable wouldn't run it due to an error in the basic compiler.

Seriously though the difference here is that in the 20 years of the wars in Vietnam, computer games were not really part of popular culture until the last couple of years of the conflict. This war has been going for 9 years and computer games have been there all the way through. Opportunity + time = product.

Castout · 08-23-10, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by TarJak

No my IBM 5100 portable wouldn't run it due to an error in the basic compiler.

You Sir must be bloody rich to afford one of those devil machine

Dowly · 08-23-10, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Could you imagine a Vietnam video game being released in 1975?

Ow hell no! Who'd buy a game with the graphics of that era?! Was there even home gaming systems back then?

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Takeda Shingen · 08-23-10, 12:42 AM

You guys know what I meant.

TarJak · 08-23-10, 12:43 AM

Yeah Tak but we can't help ourselves can we?

Takeda Shingen · 08-23-10, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by TarJak

Yeah Tak but we can't help ourselves can we?

That's what I like about SubSim.

Dowly · 08-23-10, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

You guys know what I meant.

Depends. Did it include jelly wrestling?

Castout · 08-23-10, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

I'm not saying that it is unacceptable; just that it is probably not a good idea now. Could you imagine a Vietnam video game being released in 1975?

Sssshh I've been wanting an Israeli-Hizbollah ArmA 2 expansion.

I hope peace would work its way out so that I can get my game

08-23-10, 12:34 AM	#2
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	No my IBM 5100 portable wouldn't run it due to an error in the basic compiler. Seriously though the difference here is that in the 20 years of the wars in Vietnam, computer games were not really part of popular culture until the last couple of years of the conflict. This war has been going for 9 years and computer games have been there all the way through. Opportunity + time = product.

08-23-10, 12:42 AM	#5
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	You guys know what I meant.

08-23-10, 12:43 AM	#6
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Yeah Tak but we can't help ourselves can we?