I want to take this time to point out a comic by Scott Kurtz yesterday, http://pvponline.com/
As many of you know I served tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq, as a UH-1N Crew Chief (Door Gunner.)
I found this part very interesting, as I love first person shooters, this particular comic hit a little too close. I can play fantasy, I can play ultra sci-fi, and even some historical such as some of the WWII ones, but anything that gets dangerously close to current times, I can’t do it.
The past two years, a lot of the games that have come out, and classified as awesome (such as Call of Duty 4 etc) take place in _modern_ warfare. I know it’s a game, I know it has no bearing, but yet, I can’t bring myself to even look at the box art and give it a shot. Why I am so enthralled by the comic, and sharing it with you guys.
Back to your regularly scheduled gaming stuff.
November 13th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Thanks for sharing T. I get irritated with War style games in general. FPS games are one thing, but making a “game” out of any war bothers me to no end and it gives no sense of what the soldiers of any war truly went through or accomplished or suffered for to the kids that play them. I find it even more tasteless to take current events and turn them into games before they’re even over. It’s a really good comic.