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Do you guys remember playing MOH 1 on ps1? Man was that great. You wanna talk about atmosphere in games like Bioshock, but I swear MOH 1 had it down right years before.
Hope the graphics are as good as they seem, really the only thing they need right now is Multiplayer everything hangs on that. We need more info on that aspect.
Okay, you can't really call it your "home country" if you've never been there, but I get what you mean.
This game sounds really promising. I'm actually looking forward to a hands-on preview. Also, am I the only one who's not excited about the multiplayer? I personally hated BC1 and didn't even want to give BC2 a try solely on how much I disliked the first.
This game sounds really promising. I'm actually looking forward to a hands-on preview. Also, am I the only one who's not excited about the multiplayer? I personally hated BC1 and didn't even want to give BC2 a try solely on how much I disliked the first.
Hamza is a terrorist in denial. True story, his side job is terrorizing. I also heard he can make a mean car bomb out of a bowl of pasta.
so, whats the difference between this MOH and Modern Warfare ? maybe "...sensitivity and respect" ? I'm so bored of FPSs based around modern conflicts (and WWII)
@ Chronic logic
Maybe there'll be an epilogue ranger mission where you have to cover up Pat Tillman's death.
Maybe there'll be an epilogue ranger mission where you have to cover up Pat Tillman's death.
Ah yes, the psychological impact of war, where they teach gamers that war is not a game. And they will question if what they are doing is right. They will have unethical generals giving orders to your characters to make you think what you're doing isn't all that clear and cut. Then you will encounter Muslim Afghan fighters who are reasonably nice and who doubt the Afghan government's policies, so as to humanize the Afghan soldiers and to point out to the player that not all Muslims are evil, the one's doing it are a "super ultra-radical right wing Muslim faction group". All that's missing is a "war is hell" line. That and dead civilians on a war torn streets after a battle so that the player can look upon it and despair about reality.
Whatever happened to slaughtering virtual people for shits and giggles and not worrying about Moral Guardians who rail against video games?
Whatever happened to slaughtering virtual people for shits and giggles and not worrying about Moral Guardians who rail against video games?
"This war is real, and EA is trying to approach the ongoing conflict with sensitivity and respect toward all parties." War sells video games, and in turn; video games are now selling war. EA can approach this with as much sensitivity as they want, but in the end we're still shooting each other.
If this goes with the new online pass shit, count me out. It was a great franchise in its beginning, let's see how they wash its face after three or so mediocre games.
@JohnGrisham
Yeah, and snipers shooting you through bushes, while you can't see them... Never ever finished that "infiltrate the rocket base" mission, as i remember.
Yeah, and snipers shooting you through bushes, while you can't see them... Never ever finished that "infiltrate the rocket base" mission, as i remember.
Hamza: Are you a Pashtun?
How cool!
When you say 'Afghan descent', do you mean that your family emigrated from Afghanistan to the US or something more complex?
My family comes from North India, Rohilla Pashtuns that originally migrated from Afghanistan some 400 years ago. It's funny because even Indians never know that I am Indian. They think I'm Greek or something.
How cool!
When you say 'Afghan descent', do you mean that your family emigrated from Afghanistan to the US or something more complex?
My family comes from North India, Rohilla Pashtuns that originally migrated from Afghanistan some 400 years ago. It's funny because even Indians never know that I am Indian. They think I'm Greek or something.
Hmm, having just recently returned from Afghanistan, I don't know how I will feel playing a game about it. If it's anything like really being deployed, 90% of the game will be spent being bored out of your mind and the other 10% will be insanely intense action filled moments of people trying to kill for what you feel to be extremely arbitrary reasons.
@Chronic:
There are other games for that.
@Hamza:
Your ancestry is pretty awesome. My old man traveled from Iran to Afghanistan twice when he was young, and he said the Iranian officials were always dorks and kicked him out of Iran each time for being a westerner. When he left and went to Afghanistan, he found the people incredibly hospitable and admirable.
There are other games for that.
@Hamza:
Your ancestry is pretty awesome. My old man traveled from Iran to Afghanistan twice when he was young, and he said the Iranian officials were always dorks and kicked him out of Iran each time for being a westerner. When he left and went to Afghanistan, he found the people incredibly hospitable and admirable.
Make the country better, Hamza? They will just jack all the resources while they are there, such as opium. I bet you they would not be there if there were not any resources to harvest. Keep politics out of articles. Kthxbai.
Afghanistan is very strategically located. That's why the mightiest empires have all invaded and set up bases there at one point or another.
Yeah ^ you are right. It makes them that much closer to the rest of the world, especially North Korea.
@ revolution:
Don't be so sensitive. Evidently Hamza's family is experiencing a better quality of life since they're no longer under Taliban rule. It's a simple honest statement.
Don't be so sensitive. Evidently Hamza's family is experiencing a better quality of life since they're no longer under Taliban rule. It's a simple honest statement.
"While the country is far from sunshine and rainbows, the American invasion did help make the country better."
BWWAAAHAHHAHAHA! Better than what? It's been nonstop war there for 30 fucking years. Poverty is still Poverty even if a nice foreign soldier gives you a few pieces of candy and rebuilds the road from your goat pasture to your poppy fields.
BWWAAAHAHHAHAHA! Better than what? It's been nonstop war there for 30 fucking years. Poverty is still Poverty even if a nice foreign soldier gives you a few pieces of candy and rebuilds the road from your goat pasture to your poppy fields.
I like how everyone says all this shit about how they know whats going on over there.
Listen, stop talking our of your fuckin asses. You don't have firsthand experience, so shut up.
Listen, stop talking our of your fuckin asses. You don't have firsthand experience, so shut up.
I never realized that you were from Afghanistan. Thinking about it now though, it makes a lot of sense.
The game looks great, but I'm curious about multiplayer.
The game looks great, but I'm curious about multiplayer.
Is it just me or does the soldier in the picture look identical to Marlowe from BF:BC2? Also, shut up about politics, we're trying to talk about vidja games.
Hey Cortes,
I wonder if you apply that same train of thought to everything else in life that you hear about. You probably need to go to the moon too to believe it is real. Amirite?
I wonder if you apply that same train of thought to everything else in life that you hear about. You probably need to go to the moon too to believe it is real. Amirite?
I'm definitely excited to see a portrayal of war like this. It's nice to know that EA has the balls to do what so few *cough* Konami *cough* can't.
I had no idea that the new MoH game was focused on a real war. This has made me a lot mor interested in this game now against MW2.
"getting to shoot at representations of people who have tormented my home country for decades offers me a way to vent my frustrations."
rofl
rofl
I usually do not reveal who / what I do for a living on gaming websites, as it tends to get me flamed or either called a "war mongering redneck retard"
I am a United States Marine with currently 3 pumps to the sandbox under my belt.
I cannot wait to see how John Wayne this game is and how probably inaccurate it is.
Modern Warfare makes my head hurt enough as is, BUT it does not mean to say the story lines aren't good at all, just way over the top.
Watching The Hurt Locker on DVD could only make me chuckle at the movie-making portraying the US Army....
Same goes with video games, they go way over the top.
Just saying.
I am a United States Marine with currently 3 pumps to the sandbox under my belt.
I cannot wait to see how John Wayne this game is and how probably inaccurate it is.
Modern Warfare makes my head hurt enough as is, BUT it does not mean to say the story lines aren't good at all, just way over the top.
Watching The Hurt Locker on DVD could only make me chuckle at the movie-making portraying the US Army....
Same goes with video games, they go way over the top.
Just saying.
Painuser, would you say Generation Kills portrayal of the Marines in Iraq is fair, keeping in mind it followed the events of a single battalion?
To Holy Taco, Generation Kill almost nails on the head how the Marine Corps really is as far how we walk, speak, act and are trained.
It is fair in the sense that it showed everything how it went down, without any of the Hollywood fluff, but the things that a single Battalion went through and saw are specific to that Battatlion.
I was in the intial push into Afghanistan along with Iraq. I have seen and experienced alot of things that games nowadays and from way back when that games glorify. Not to say that I would like a movie or game made out my experiences, but if something is going to get made in either medium, it at leasts needs to be real and not full of Hollywood bullshit.
It is fair in the sense that it showed everything how it went down, without any of the Hollywood fluff, but the things that a single Battalion went through and saw are specific to that Battatlion.
I was in the intial push into Afghanistan along with Iraq. I have seen and experienced alot of things that games nowadays and from way back when that games glorify. Not to say that I would like a movie or game made out my experiences, but if something is going to get made in either medium, it at leasts needs to be real and not full of Hollywood bullshit.
I thought that show did a good job of depicting the core, never been in any sort of army core so I really have no idea apart from peoples accounts of the action and films.
I can't imagine any fps game being able to convey anything as interesting as that about conflict. And however much rhetoric they spew about respecting the war and the people in it, it's just going to be another shooter which can't help being gung ho about the subject matter as that's the nature of the genre and the way people like to play their games.
I can't imagine any fps game being able to convey anything as interesting as that about conflict. And however much rhetoric they spew about respecting the war and the people in it, it's just going to be another shooter which can't help being gung ho about the subject matter as that's the nature of the genre and the way people like to play their games.
MOH is looking good so far, but multiplayer is where you make or break a shooter to me since most lack replay value campaign-wise. I'm looking forward to see what DICE has cooked up on the MP side of things.
The taliban were fine for the US until they didn't approve some oil pipeline or sth like that. Most dictators are fine too, as long as they ride with the US!
"The taliban were fine for the US until they didn't approve some oil pipeline or sth like that. Most dictators are fine too, as long as they ride with the US!"
Let's not bring politics onto this board. I'd appreciate that at least on this site. I don't come here to read someones opinion on world events, only their opinions on video games.
Let's not bring politics onto this board. I'd appreciate that at least on this site. I don't come here to read someones opinion on world events, only their opinions on video games.
So yet another game hitching on the back a real war.... this is such an original IP, and if it's not the middle east it's russia.
"Let's not bring politics onto this board. I'd appreciate that at least on this site. I don't come here to read someones opinion on world events, only their opinions on video games."
It is hard not to think about it though, especially considering the pro American slant this game will have when it's Americas fault that islamist fundamentalists are in power and subsequently the nutjob pseudo religious group the Taliban was created. I respect their decision to honour the soldiers or whatever and leave out the politics, the situation is far too messy and America has far too much blood on their hands to be playing with the politics of this war in a video game.
It is hard not to think about it though, especially considering the pro American slant this game will have when it's Americas fault that islamist fundamentalists are in power and subsequently the nutjob pseudo religious group the Taliban was created. I respect their decision to honour the soldiers or whatever and leave out the politics, the situation is far too messy and America has far too much blood on their hands to be playing with the politics of this war in a video game.
This is probably gonna be a game where they potray america as heroes that kill all terrorist and save the world.
No way I'm buying this
No way I'm buying this
Another mindless FPS game. Next generation gaming is really going downhills with the the shooter trend. How many FPS have already released in the past 6 months?
As for the game based real war thing, it's really a meh for me as I'm not politics at all, despite my job is highly related to it. But maybe because of that, war makes my disgusted. And unlike other media which can use different angles to portray it, when it comes to video game, especially FPS, it will eventually boil down to shooting each other in the face without brain activities. EA is just trying to hard to make it gimmicky.
As for the game based real war thing, it's really a meh for me as I'm not politics at all, despite my job is highly related to it. But maybe because of that, war makes my disgusted. And unlike other media which can use different angles to portray it, when it comes to video game, especially FPS, it will eventually boil down to shooting each other in the face without brain activities. EA is just trying to hard to make it gimmicky.
Everything I'm seeing from what has been posted seems like MOH is being taken in a very positive, story driven , and paced development path. It also helps that DICE is handling the multiplayer...because frankly...DICE can do no wrong in my book. They wrote the MP book single handedly and I hope they work their magic with MOH.
Thanks for the review and the blurb at the end Hamza. A little dose of reality at the end should temper down people. Too bad it did not.
Thanks for the nice shoutout in support of American efforts there, servicemen appreciate that kind of feedback. As-alaamu alaykum man!
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