See, people keep saying like "it's no big deal, we've all killed civilians in GTA before" and I think if anything the media is going to portray gamers as a whole in an even more negative light for taking that sort of standpoint.
Gamers want mature games, then a genuinely mature game comes along and people can't talk about it in a mature manner. The point FOX News and all that make, is that while you're shooting at pixels, they're still representative of something. Pixels put in the right places can still make you feel something.
I hold a huge amount of respect for IW for putting the airport mission in. Why? Because they know it's really, truly horrible imagery. It's not a pleasant mission to play through. First time I played it I felt a little sickened, but that's the fucking point. 90% of people that try and justify the missions content against bullshit "news" shows like fox are going about it in the wrong way. Rather than playing its content down, it needs to be played up, people need to be shown that gamers can respond maturely to mature content, then maybe shit like this will stop being so fucking controversial when it doesn't need to be.
Respect for you for not pulling the trigger, shows you're not some sort of spiritually dead fuckwit who thinks it's all okay because THEYRE JUST PIXELS MANNNN. The reason that mission is so fucking amazing is because they're more than just pixels. They're pixels that represent innocent people that are getting shot down in cold blood, and that's the point.
