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Military bases still boycotting Medal of Honor photo

Despite Electronic Arts bowing to the minority and "removing" the Taliban from Medal of Honor, military base stores still plan to boycott the war-themed shooter on the grounds that it would still be disrespectful to sell the thing. 

The US military officially stated that it wouldn't stock the game in its stores out of "respect to those touched by the ongoing, real-life events presented as a game." One wonders if it the military had previously allowed the past two Modern Warfare games which, let's face it, were exactly the same but just carefully chose its names and locations. 

Game stores at military bases had yanked the game after the ludicrous Taliban controversy arose. Apparently, renaming the Taliban to the pussified "Opposing Force" isn't good enough. We'll see if EA now responds by renaming Afghanistan to Eternia and the US Military to the Power Rangers. 

Military stores continue to oppose MOH, force it out of stores even after Taliban removal [VG247]








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djiminezgamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 08:43
djiminezgamer
I don't blame them... the beta sucks balls.. its just like BC2 with diffent skins and small inpovements with some stuff taken out.. i played it on ps3 and now pc... it sucks.. i am not afraid to say.. The Medal of honor before WAS GREATNESS.. this.... THIS... makes the old versions turn over in there grave and crrry..
personz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 08:46
personz
go go power rangers!
TheLupineOne's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 08:49
TheLupineOne
I KNEW it would be Jim Sterling...
BattyAdroit's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 08:50
BattyAdroit
It's their store, it's their decision.
Turbophoenix's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 08:50
Turbophoenix
It's a valid complaint. Stores near me don't stock Mario games because of the ongoing war in the Mushroom Kingdom, and I support them 100%!
Clance's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 08:55
Clance
This whole modern warfare thing is done to death now anyway... I miss WWII shooters.

Yeah, I said it.

And robots and stuff.
nanowerx's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:02
nanowerx
See what pandering to "special interest" groups gets you, EA? Stop being pussies, it's obviously not working for you.
Gaidenrider's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:03
Gaidenrider
In the future we should resolve our differences with videogame matches. He who wins the match, wins the war!
sprldr's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:04
sprldr
I'd laugh if they put the Taliban back in the game over this.
Sexualchocolate's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:04
Sexualchocolate
Surely troops are too busy bombing schools and hospitals with drones to be playing video games anyway?

Right?
lolipantsu's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:05
lolipantsu
I guess its OK to shoot up every other race then...
PsychoGrinch's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:07
PsychoGrinch
Has anyone tried the beta ? I don't care if you put cute babies versus old people bound to wheelchairs, if the gameplay sucks I never gonna buy it.

@djiminezgamer

I actually liked BC2, and I agree with you, this looks CTRL+C, CTRL+V, but this game feels crappier.
frangeek's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:08
frangeek
@djiminezgamer SO... it's BC with different skins, with improvements and stuff taken out? so what's the similarity then?
Roager's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:09
Roager
Didn't people around here bitch and whine about how stupid it was to call them Opposing Force?

Isn't... Isn't COD's faction (OpFor) the same? (OpFor = OPposing FORce)

But nobody bitches.

This is what happens when you promise something controversial and don't deliver. The customers you attract with it are turned off, and the ones you pissed off beforehand are still pissed off.

No matter how good or bad the move actually was.
wardprod's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:13
wardprod
WHO CARES? No offense, but this is really irritating now. Release that crap already and it'll be silence again, thx.
Max-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:25
Max-
If one word springs to mind at all, it's the word "retarded", and besides if people wanna buy it they can just go steam and gg.

Also, contrary to others opinions I like the multiplayer, it's pretty fun and feels like a nice mix of battlefield and cod4, which is only a great thing in my opinion
frangeek's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:32
frangeek
@Max- +1
D-roy's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:34
D-roy
There are NO similarities except for the standard shooter stuff between BC2 and MoH.

MoH is more like Modern Shitfare.
lokhe's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:42
lokhe
People trash talking eachother over CoD, MoH and BF is almost as entertaining as reading YouTube comments. Oh the joy!
Sexualchocolate's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 09:47
Sexualchocolate
It's difficult to find an accurate impression of this game.

You've got the "CoD is GoD" crew saying it's shit, because it's not CoD.
(bitch please)
You've got the hardcore Battlefield crew saying it's shit because it's not battlefield, some because it's too similar to Battlefield.
(durp)
You've got the "it's just CoD" crew saying it's shit because it is like CoD.
(durp durp the best selling, yet most generic game of all time has other games in the same genre that are similar? Really? Nevar!)

I want CoD (the core gameplay is fantastic, but the overlaying bullshit destroys all enjoyment of the game), but without the broken perks and stupid spiralling killstreaks. I want a CoD where you don't spawn in front of the enemy and you're not just doing laps of a tiny little map shooting people in the back. I LOVED Bad Company 1 & 2, but would really like a smaller, faster, more close and personal version of BC2 (although I do love the long range warfare of BC - OPTIONS!)

So is this game for me?
fetusmilk's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 10:00
fetusmilk
im gettin it for the single player. im tired of this multiplyer garbage.
Sexualchocolate's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 10:12
Sexualchocolate
@fetus I'm the opposite, i'll play stacks of the mp (if it's good) and might blast through the sp once, eventually.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 10:13
mix
Waaaaa waaaa.

Oh well, I bought it and will enjoy it as I'm shooting 1s and 0s and other 1s and 0s and can tell what's real and not.

Oh and everyone who says it sucks because it's like BFBC2 make me smile and that is the most hours I have logged in an online FPS this year, twice as much as CoD.
Roberto Emilio Cordero Muoz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 10:43
Roberto Emilio Cordero Muoz
this stupid ignorant boycott from the US army is EMBARRASSING, and should be EMBARRASSING to every american gamer.
wardprod's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 10:45
wardprod
I think the ones who refer to MoH like it's all BC2 are the ones who say it after they saw a vid / news about the vehicle stuff. After those it's the Frostbite thing maybe (stupid).

If someone played more then half an hour with BC2 then can't even compare the two gameplay wise.

My problem after the open beta with the game still is, that it feels too stiff. The weapon handling, movement, and these kind of things are way to sloppy after BC2 for me :(
the guy with the hat's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 10:45
the guy with the hat
Does anybody actually ask the soldiers what they think? They're the people who are fucking risking their lives out there. If they want to play Medal of Honor let them do it.
Syncmaster's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 10:48
Syncmaster
shooting virtual people is very very wrong, do it like us, and shoot real people, with brains, blood, family and friends.

yeah, way to go smartass
Afrothunde6's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 11:12
Afrothunde6
Change it back right now. If you can't please them with Opfor then just sell it as it was supposed to be. I feel sorry for you Americans sometimes....
Dace Falar's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 11:19
Dace Falar
This is so irrelevant.
Leviticus's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 11:38
Leviticus
Dear US Military,

Please stop being afraid of what you don't understand and use logic. If you can't even see why a game about real-world events isn't a travesty, then I truly can't believe how the US's military can be the strongest military force in the world and yet be so lacking in common sense.
Neroisonfire's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 11:46
Neroisonfire
Honestly I didn't pay much attention to the story in mw2. I guess that's the brogamer in me, but I thought I was fighting the Taliban the entire time D:
shadowfox952's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 11:46
shadowfox952
@Sexualchocolate: I know exactly what you mean, and sadly, MOH doesn't come close to what we want. The spawns are awful, camping is the most profitable strategy, teamwork is close to nill, killstreaks are overpowered at high levels and only encourage camping a hallway with an LMG. People die with only 2-3 shots, which encourages spraying and running&gunning rather than flanking and teamwork. Movement is clunky, lag is atrocious, ADS is less reliable than firing from the hip, etc. Don't get this for the MP. Stick with BC2 for the realistic emphasis or TF2 for the balance.
Zepinephrine's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 11:47
Zepinephrine
out of"respect to those touched by the ongoing, real-life events presented as a game."

OK... 'America's Army' is an official US Army recruiting tool. Pretty f-ing hypocritical.
KingSigy's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 11:48
KingSigy
This is garbage. Just sell it. We all have the freedom of speech, or so I thought.
v0odka's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 11:51
v0odka
"We'll see if EA now responds by renaming Afghanistan to Eternia and the US Military to the Power Rangers"

Instant buy if the do that!
BoomingEchoes's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 12:02
BoomingEchoes
This doesn't surprise me considering that the reason bases weren't going to carry the game was somewhat different from the reason the entire military wasn't going to support the game.

Even if the name of the Taliban is changed in the game its not going to stop kids from going into the on base stores and doing what the bases fear they would: Asking mommy if that's where daddy is.

In my opinion the damage was done when it came out that there would be playable Taliban. The people who know the game for having Taliban in it, and have written it off because of that, aren't going to hooked back in. "Opposing Force" or not, no ones going to see them as any thing but Taliban and the game will be in Afghanistan no matter what they'd do to change it.
shadowfox952's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 12:17
shadowfox952
@Sexualchocolate: I know exactly what you mean, and sadly, MOH doesn't come close to what we want. The spawns are awful, camping is the most profitable strategy, teamwork is close to nill, killstreaks are overpowered at high levels and only encourage camping a hallway with an LMG. People die with only 2-3 shots, which encourages spraying and running&gunning rather than flanking and teamwork. Movement is clunky, lag is atrocious, ADS is less reliable than firing from the hip, etc. Don't get this for the MP. Stick with BC2 for the realistic emphasis or TF2 for the balance.
NotoriousBIG420's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 12:21
NotoriousBIG420
To anyone who's played the beta:

Do they have squads like in BF:BC2?
HammerShark's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 12:24
HammerShark
The godlike Q responds to Captain Picard’s loss of two hundred crewmen. “If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's WONDROUS, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.” - Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Pain. Deal with it. Play some vidya games and enjoy the filth. I refuse to grieve for more than a week. After that I just remember friends and family that've died and think of good times shared. F**K depression. Hard.

I'm gonna chill with the people boycotting this game for and hour. After that I'll walk in and buy the damn game. Then run like hell to my car yelling, "WHOO! I'M GONNA PLAY THE SH!T OUT OF THIS GAME!"

Hypocrisy, it's fun to fight fire with fire.
mrplow8's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 13:24
mrplow8
So first people in the military aren't allowed to be gay, and now they have restricted access to buying a video game? Yeah, they're showing a lot of respect to the troops...
Spaz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 13:29
Spaz
Just goes to show you.
Syn's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 18:18
Syn
...but would it make me a terrorist if I wanted to be a Master of the Universe instead of a Power Ranger?

I suppose it doesn't really matter. The dumbass Govt's definition of terrorist probably already includes me.
LifeCarrier's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 20:15
LifeCarrier
LOL Afganistan to Eternia, good one Jim.
Fuents's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/06/2010 21:08
Fuents
You know I really hope the different sides in the game aren't referred to by name. That would make this whole drama dumber than it has already become.
wisearse's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/07/2010 23:29
wisearse
"We'll see if EA now responds by renaming Afghanistan to Eternia and the US Military to the Power Rangers..."

XD

-the 188th 'Power' Rangers...awesome. :)
TREND-KILLER's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/09/2010 13:33
TREND-KILLER
well i'm keeping the taliban in the game
MOH psn taliban_wins add me
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