Most Realistic FPS Ever Released

[civ_king]

where is the awesome level about joining the USAF and you have to sign about 3 pages saying you are not gay but only have to check a box saying you are fine with basically dropping a bomb on a village of civilians, my cousin joked about this at a family party (he joined the USAF)

 

[hossam]

Does it come with the bonus level where your LT shakes his head at you while you explain how much you really love that stripper you married and gave power of attourney to three days before deployment?

has that actually ever happened?

 

[Patroklos]

Yes. Multiple times.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Multiple times to you?

(And by "to you" I mean, as the Lt., unless . . . )

 

[Patroklos]

I was the Disbursing Officer on my last ship so I was a sort of financial advisor/enforcer for the crew. Didn't pay bills? I got the letter. Skipped a few child support payments? I got the letter. Emptied your checking acount drinking overseas and now your children are starving? I got the angry phone call from their wife.

Married a stripper or gave your stripper girlfriend power of attourney before deployment and came home to an empty bank account and a lean on your house and no stripper to be seen? I got to listen to you cry about how much "your really loved her!" while locking down your pay.

 

[RedRalph]

I was the Disbursing Officer on my last ship so I was a sort of financial advisor/enforcer for the crew. Didn't pay bills? I got the letter. Skipped a few child support payments? I got the letter. Emptied your checking acount drinking overseas and now your children are starving? I got the angry phone call from their wife.

Married a stripper or gave your stripper girlfriend power of attourney before deployment and came home to an empty bank account and a lean on your house and no stripper to be seen? I got to listen to you cry about how much "your really loved her!" while locking down your pay.

Didn't you tell me once most USN personnel were intelligent and well-educated?

 

[.Shane.]

This video should be required viewing for every FPS player who ever whined about how game XYZ is not realistic.

Tx for posting, Patrok.

 

[civ_king]

Didn't you tell me once most USN personnel were intelligent and well-educated?

on a ship of 3000 if you subtract the intelligent and well-educated ven if they make up most you still have bunch of not so smart people

 

[Flying Pig]

they forgot the part where your legs get blown off and you go home in a wheel chair.

For most of us that doesn't happen. It's still pretty rare, but recently it's more common. I don't get that annoyed ar realism games - if they get people to respect the army more or maaybe even join up, I don't care.

 

[BirraImperial]

I was the Disbursing Officer on my last ship so I was a sort of financial advisor/enforcer for the crew. Didn't pay bills? I got the letter. Skipped a few child support payments? I got the letter. Emptied your checking acount drinking overseas and now your children are starving? I got the angry phone call from their wife.

Married a stripper or gave your stripper girlfriend power of attourney before deployment and came home to an empty bank account and a lean on your house and no stripper to be seen? I got to listen to you cry about how much "your really loved her!" while locking down your pay.

Crap. Sounds like a pretty annoying job.

 

[Annex]

I haven't laughed this much since I saw the World of World of Warcraft preview by the same people.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play

For those who havent seen it

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

The only thing funny in that video was the Wii controller at the end.

 

[Joecoolyo]

The only thing funny in that video was the Wii controller at the end.

killjoy

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The only thing funny in that video was the Wii controller at the end.

So who wants to hear a story about a bridge?

 

[gangleri2001]

I've an idea for a NATO expansion pack, just keep reading.

You're a 20-year old spaniard. You're walking down the street and see some propaganda about something called "Army". Then a uniformed guy comes closer to you and asks you if you wanna join the army. Then you laugh thinking about the crappy salaries of the army, say "No" and keep walking. This is gonna be funny as hell.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I thought this thread was going to be about this recently released game:

http://www.tampabay.com/features/mo...port-stage-wages-battle-on-good-taste/1051330

Any serious gamer is reading this with bleary eyes and nursing blistered fingers, because they've been playing Modern Warfare 2 since its release last week (myself included).

The game raked in an estimated $310 million for 4.7 million copies in its first day alone, according to PC World, which would make it not only the fastest-selling video game in history, but doubling the $155 million opening weekend of last summer's blockbuster movie The Dark Knight. No small feat, that.

But the success of the game was a foregone conclusion. What's so out of place in this story is a tale you've likely heard by now: the ability to play as a terrorist in one of the game's levels.

(For the spoiler-conscious, tread lightly from here on out.)

The game's now-infamous "No Russian" stage, set five years in the future, features you as a gunman in a group stalking travelers through a fictional Moscow airport (Zakhaev International should sound familiar to fans). And I don't mean shooting at the odd airport security guard: You mow down unsuspecting civilians and then relentlessly pursue survivors as they flee helplessly through the terminal.

Developer Infinity Ward's defense of this mayhem is that your character is a CIA operative infiltrating the cell, and that he is warned his mission will cost him his conscience. They have wisely included numerous warnings that there are parts of the game that may be disturbing, and allows players to opt out. Maybe I'm getting a bit too old for this, but after playing through the 10-minute stage, which also involved lobbing explosives at riot police and executing the wounded as they tried to drag themselves or others to safety, it strikes me as a true turning point in video-game violence, an oft-debated subject, to say the least.

The BBC's Marc Cieslak perhaps summed it up best: "I wasn't shocked by it but I felt a little bit saddened. I thought the games industry had moved beyond shock tactics for shock tactics sake. And that's what I thought about this particular level: it was controversial for the sake of being controversial. I didn't think it necessarily needed to be included in the game."

The hardcore nerdery has been defending the massacre as central to the plot (indeed, it sparks a Red Dawn-style Russian invasion of Washington, D.C.), but this is missing the point.

Besides hoping the CIA wouldn't truly empower an agent to slaughter hundreds of foreign nationals, I couldn't help but feel the entire narrative structure of MW2 strayed from the formula that made the original's single-player campaign a success. Previously, you fought only armed combatants on various battlefields, and despite a few darker undertones illustrating how and why governments would carry out illegal assassinations and interrogations, the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare promoted the theme that you were doing the right things for the right reasons, even if they seemed wrong. Not so much, this go-'round.

This mars an otherwise superlative game, which carries on the title's best traditions in great ways. But the argument that simulating the murder of the innocent as part of a largely nonsensical plot is necessary for narrative cohesiveness is ridiculous, bordering on vulgar. In fact, Australia considered banning the game, which is rated M (17 and older) in the U.S. and 18-plus in the U.K., but only 15-plus in Oz.

Perhaps the stage should have made you a survivor under attack, running to escape those very same terrorists. That would be more believable, more visceral and more amenable to the idea that, in the end, you're supposed to be one of the good guys.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

It's funny how the game doesn't show American civilians in the Russian invasion.

 

[GenMarshall]

LOLZ, hauling equiptment and paperwork. The Government certainly loves it's paperwork .

 

[Dachs]

$60/copy and Infinity Ward couldn't be assed to come up with a real plot?

 

[Flying Pig]

I think it's good that if a game portrays special forces soldiers that it doesn't make it so clear-cut about 'you're the good guy and everyone else is the bad guy'; there are a lot of situations in that sort of job where you have to do illegal and often completely wrong things in order to save (here comes the cheezy bit) yourself, your mates or your mission. However, they probably went a bit too far with that. Having to shoot injured people sometimes happens; but never shooting harmless people.