Originally Posted by
JayTac
I apologize if any of my comments rubbed you the wrong way and looking back I could see how some of them could have. No, I'll never know exactly what it's like to be a soldier, and I don't play videogames pretending to be some virtual commando. I have had various family members serve and I hold all of our service members in the highest regard. I've never looked up to sports stars, instead I've admired guys like Patton and Adm Mullen. I have hours upon hours of military documentaries, reports, etc, various books, and I do visit military news sites daily. So, while I've never been there and will never debate what it's like to be on the ground, I don't think that diminishes my overall opinion on the grand scheme of things.
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Also, me calling a computer game realistic in a videogame forum is not meant to diminish the real thing at all. I know and agree with you that no game will ever remotely compare to the real thing and the two shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath. I realize that they're two distinctive things and I've never brought the two together. But, understand where I'm coming from in that all of the games I mentioned, aside from one were developed by retired soldiers/commanders and are in use by the Army. IMO those type of games deserve a different classification than your typical Command & Conquer style of game. Me calling it realistic is simply realistic in a videogame sense only.