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Earlier this month I visited Killing Floor and Red Orchestra 2 creator Tripwire Interactive to play Rising Storm, the upcoming standalone expansion to RO2 (look for a preview on Monday). After the demo, Tripwire President John Gibson and I got talking about the state of first-person shooters, and Gibson laid out a detailed criticism about the way Call of Duty “takes individual skill out of the equation.” Gibson also expressed frustration over how difficult it had been trying to design a mode for Red Orchestra 2 that appealed to Call of Duty players.

John Gibson, President: I think that single-player shooters are getting better. I think they’re finally coming out from under the shadow of the Hollywood movie, overblown “I’m on a rail” linear shooter. I’m talking about Call of Duty-style shooters. In the late ‘90s, you had the original Deus Ex, which was an RPG-shooter. And those kind of games almost took an eight year hiatus. And I’m so excited to see them coming back with interesting gameplay. Like the Fallout games, even though their shooting mechanics could really use some improvement, just mixing a really cool story, but not a linear story, one that you create yourself. The melding of RPG elements and shooter elements has been great. I’ve seen this reflected in a lot of the reviews, it’s like, “Okay guys, we’re tired of this on-rails experience.”

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Fiction wrote:lol I thought it was gonna be about how COD makes most kids pseudo experts on guns..

heroo wrote:Any parent or person who claims that Call of Duty is making children violent, shouldl ook at themselfes. Any normal thinking person with a proper upbringing can make the difference between a video game and reality. And if you can not make that difference, then you were a threat to society in the first place.

heroo wrote:Any parent or person who claims that Call of Duty is making children violent, shouldl ook at themselfes. Any normal thinking person with a proper upbringing can make the difference between a video game and reality. And if you can not make that difference, then you were a threat to society in the first place.

penfold1992 wrote:

heroo wrote:Any parent or person who claims that Call of Duty is making children violent, shouldl ook at themselfes. Any normal thinking person with a proper upbringing can make the difference between a video game and reality. And if you can not make that difference, then you were a threat to society in the first place.

well if some peoples upbringing are by bad parents who sit there children in front of call of duty games, they wont know the difference. in just the last few years we have seen plenty of people telling courts how they re enacted what they did on video games using it as a sandbox practice.

penfold1992 wrote:call of duty has brought a generation of violent youths and gun crime, not to mention mass gun murderers.
just look at sandy hook and the dark knight screening.

Blindfire wrote:

penfold1992 wrote:call of duty has brought a generation of violent youths and gun crime, not to mention mass gun murderers.
just look at sandy hook and the dark knight screening.

No AR-15 in CoD, had to be something else.

Fiction wrote:I think everyone has those feelings, amiright?

*BlackFox wrote:

Fiction wrote:I think everyone has those feelings, amiright?

Nah... you're quite wrong

TheDrop wrote:Im confused now. you are not allowed to make a really retarded point and go back on it saying "lulz im trolling =)"
This is the Internet. We have rules here

Snazzi wrote:I do believe that was sarcasm, but anyway. Agreed with heroo. And that first thing you said, penfold, not sure if srs, but o_O was that where you were trolling?

penfold1992 wrote:yeah im know im just trolling =)

Ganja wrote:Or how all the young kids are overly aggressive when playing online and how they all seem to have banged my mom.

penfold1992 wrote:yeah im know im just trolling =)

penfold1992 wrote:

heroo wrote:Any parent or person who claims that Call of Duty is making children violent, shouldl ook at themselfes. Any normal thinking person with a proper upbringing can make the difference between a video game and reality. And if you can not make that difference, then you were a threat to society in the first place.

well if some peoples upbringing are by bad parents who sit there children in front of call of duty games, they wont know the difference. in just the last few years we have seen plenty of people telling courts how they re enacted what they did on video games using it as a sandbox practice.

penfold1992 wrote:call of duty has brought a generation of violent youths and gun crime, not to mention mass gun murderers.
just look at sandy hook and the dark knight screening.

Tasdik wrote:

penfold1992 wrote:yeah im know im just trolling =)

First rule of trolling: Never admit to it and/or be deemed a troller. The best trolls are the sneaky ones.

penfold1992 wrote:

Tasdik wrote:

penfold1992 wrote:yeah im know im just trolling =)

First rule of trolling: Never admit to it and/or be deemed a troller. The best trolls are the sneaky ones.

first rule of SRF, do not read any part of the thread other then the first three posts...

it appears like the above two posters didnt read what you wrote, or i wrote.

Fiction wrote: or you're using the excuse of trolling to get out of looking stupid. Either way, usually one of the first rules of grammar that we learn is to always capitalize the first letter of a sentence... Try it.

A tip on trolling... Don't do it.

Fiction wrote:So either you're trolling about trolling, or you're using the excuse of trolling to get out of looking stupid.