Where Politics And Video Games Collide

When WW2 and Vietnam-era FPS games started coming into vogue a few years ago, I passed by a common room where someone was playing one, though I do not know which particular game it was. I noted the game used a soldier's diary as a means to frame the campaign and set up for the next mission, which I thought was a bit of a nice touch the way they did it. However, after noting this, I hung back and watched some of the action, and I was more than impressed. I was impressed to the point of near-fright. And I appreciated it.

Wow.

Whoever made that game did a DAMN GOOD JOB, I must say. Kudos and congratulations to whatever design team put it together. And whoever wants to play that kind of game (within reason,) let them.

But could something like that game freak out someone who's coming back from a real combat zone? Yeah, having seen what I did, I could very easily believe that. It's not really such a stretch. I hope they find the poor guy that's gone missing and he gets help and it all ends well.

But as someone noted above, watching "Saving Private Ryan" could have had the same effect. Media is media. The fallacy is in thinking that ALL media everywhere HAS to be palatable to everyone equally and individually.