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Originally Posted by Novotny
Contentious stuff, this 'shooting men dangling from parachutes' business.
I'd rather we didn't lose sight of the fact that this is a game and at some point, we have to decide where to draw the line in simulating the business of war - which is, of course, killing.
Take Red Orchestra, for example. It can be fairly gruesome, and the scream of a wounded man can sound pretty harrowing. I for one am grateful that it's but a brief shout, and they don't go onto simulate the agonizing slow deaths that many combatants suffered, otherwise the soundtrack to many rounds would be mostly the pitiful crying of the mortally wounded.
As I said, you have to draw the line somewhere, or it ceases to be entertaining for many.
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The bottom line is that this
is a game and that in this and many other games it's fun to shoot at people, because it's a game.
And even if there were a difference between shooting a person in a plane or hanging from a parachute in real life that doesn't necessarily mean that someone playing that game have to care about that doubtful difference.