new battlefield game you hunt white tea party folks as the bad guys ?

[NCPatrolAR]

Wasn't there a similar complaint about the upcoming Ghost Recon game?

[MountainRaven]

When have white Tea-Party folks held up banks? That is what Obama's good friends in the Weather Underground did. Where is a game depicting members of the DNC knocking over banks? There are not any because it is not PC.

Maybe one day, they'll do a game where you play an investigator in the midst of the race riots and other unpleasantness of the 1960s and get dragged into trying to stop Weather Underground at some point. But probably not until we have truly moved into a post-racial world.

And, frankly, the Heat-esque professional criminals knocking over banks in this day and age are going to be the retards of the criminal world, not its hyper-competent, slick and stylish supercriminals. So there's already a problem that pushes the game into fantasy territory, anyway.

Wasn't there a similar complaint about the upcoming Ghost Recon game?

That was Rainbow Six: Patriots. I don't know what the problem was because the bad guys were a combination of Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. But they canceled that game and have completely revamped it with a focus on multiplayer, with footage showing one team being a group of hostage takers who try to harden their location against a hostage rescue team in real time while the other team relies on a small drone to help them plan their rescue, including the method of insertion.

[Kain]

Look hard enough and you can find something racist, biased, or psuedo trying to brainwash the masses or whatever in pretty much any game or media you want, it all comes down to perception.

Hell, I'll go first, Super Mario Brothers pushes the agenda of those who want to legalize drugs because there are mushroom and allow the character to do superman type shit. No I am not pushing that, but I have heard that as a reason why someone who not let their kid play the game, but they were perfectly alright with the kid, who was like six by the way, playing counterstrike because there was nothing wrong shooting terrorists in the head and hearing twentysomethings cursing like sailors because there is a whinny six year old on the server while another two players run around with the usernames Larry Philips and Emil Mătăsăreanu with AKs screaming "kill the pigs!"

Anyway, doesn't really matter which one you pick, if you want to read into shit hard enough you can find something to complain about. In my experience, as far as videogames go, most of the players are either not going to be smart enough to notice or aren't going to care since they are simply there for cheap entertainment and have a strong enough grasp on reality to know bullshit when they see it, and the ones who will notice and be influenced probably shouldn't be playing the game to start with, because they are either five, don't have a strong grasp on the reality, are heavily medicated and nutz, or are five mentally and all of the above. Also, they probably have parents who will blame the game, that damn devil music, or the system when the kid acts out, tried to off themselves, tries to kill someone, or what the hell ever else.

What does kind of amuse me though is that people start screaming racism with some of these games even though there are really games out there that have honest to god racism in them. Like, that is a slave race, or one that is constantly downtrodden, or hunted down, ect, ect, ect. And yet, that never makes the news. Mostly, because it rarely involves someone of color. Hmmm.....

[Honu]

if they really wanted current events the game would be fighting muslims but that would not fly ? if they did that the masses would be in outcry over it
instead they pick this ? something that has never happened and is not about what tea party people are about ?

and if you want to make the claims of domestic terrorism we need to look at who again ? lets see who did the boston bombings ? who tired to do the taxi bombs ? hmmmm lets see all of them were muslim if they wanted to go against mass shooting idiots ? then why not progressives and what did the occupy wall street crowd do compared to tea party protests ? so why are they not doing that ? OH yeah no political agendas with people these days and no brain washing kids ? I mean the schools are teaching honest stuff and not trying to brain wash kids at all

OK, a few points based on my experience/knowledge in this area:

1. The Battlefield series focuses on the online multi-player experience. The single-player "story line" is always very short, commonly taking less than 2 hours to complete, and is really just a trainer to get a player used to the controls and moving the character around, etc. People will then spend hundreds of hours playing the multi-player mode.

2. I participated in the Beta testing for Battlefield Hardline and played the game (multi-player) for about 20 hours. It is framed as a "Cops vs. Robbers" conflict, which was a welcome change from the "Modern Military" format for me. In the Beta testing, only one map was available, but I never noticed any political overtones during the week that testing was conducted.

3. When Battlefield 4 was announced, critics said Dice was run by a bunch of Neo-Cons who wanted to go to war with China. Now they are Ultra-Progessives programing the youth to destroy American Patriots? Wrong, they grab themes from current events and Domestic Terrorism has been getting a lot of air-time recently. Dice is trying to make money, not a statement.

[7.62WildBill]

if they really wanted current events the game would be fighting muslims but that would not fly ? if they did that the masses would be in outcry over it
instead they pick this ? something that has never happened and is not about what tea party people are about ?

and if you want to make the claims of domestic terrorism we need to look at who again ? lets see who did the boston bombings ? who tired to do the taxi bombs ? hmmmm lets see all of them were muslim if they wanted to go against mass shooting idiots ? then why not progressives and what did the occupy wall street crowd do compared to tea party protests ? so why are they not doing that ? OH yeah no political agendas with people these days and no brain washing kids ? I mean the schools are teaching honest stuff and not trying to brain wash kids at all

Dice should make a game about shooting muslims (I mean terrorist), but they are scared because they wouldn't survive the public outcry. Of course that game would sell like hotcakes.

[Wake27]

The first modern Battlefield was Americans fighting the fictional Middle Eastern Coalition. Not terrorists, but obviously Muslim.

They need to redo 1942. WWII on the current or upcoming engines would be siiiiick. Plus that's about as PC as it gets when it comes to killing people.

[Wake27]

I cannot recall a critic who has reviewed any of the recent Call of Duty, Battlefield, or Medal of Honor games who has NOT suggested that the writers for pretty much every modern shooter being a closeted neo-con, racist, whatever (because they all involve shooting persons of color while being the stereotypical white American male soldier... Never mind that unless we go to war with, say, France, most conflicts involving the American military will involve lots of white guys shooting lots of Hispanics, blacks, Asians, Arabs, whatever).

Russians have been bad guys in most of the recent Battlefield games IIRC.

[Moose-Knuckle]

You didn't happen to miss the NRA reference in the fourth Lethal Weapon movie did you? Until there is a balance in Hollywood screenwriters, we'll need to get used to taking our lumps and to not let it get us down. People who hear those jokes and laugh the loudest aren't the ones we should be trying to convince any way. They've made up their mind.

Yup, I think there were posters in part II and in part IV was the reference to mentioned. Needless to say, as I posted in the worst sequels thread the best one was first and they went down hill fast after that.

[Moose-Knuckle]

I cannot recall a critic who has reviewed any of the recent Call of Duty, Battlefield, or Medal of Honor games who has NOT suggested that the writers for pretty much every modern shooter being a closeted neo-con, racist, whatever (because they all involve shooting persons of color while being the stereotypical white American male soldier... Never mind that unless we go to war with, say, France, most conflicts involving the American military will involve lots of white guys shooting lots of Hispanics, blacks, Asians, Arabs, whatever).

I don't doubt that BUT, these are games where the player is "fighting/killing" non-American combatants across the pond. Not the Crips or Latin Kings in say L.A.

[Moose-Knuckle]

Look hard enough and you can find something racist, biased, or psuedo trying to brainwash the masses or whatever in pretty much any game or media you want, it all comes down to perception.

Exactly. I've read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and I'm from the school of thought to use ones own enemy’s tactics against themselves. This is why I will sound off and scream it from the roof tops until the day I draw my breath no more.

Hell, I'll go first, Super Mario Brothers pushes the agenda of those who want to legalize drugs because there are mushroom and allow the character to do superman type shit.

Not to mention the fact how they stereotyped Italian-Americans and blue collar workers like plumbers!