Linkin Park Totally Wrote a Song for Medal of Honor: Warfighter

This sounds like a room for COD Cuddies or CODIFILES. Keep playing with little boys COD fans, its illegal to be box whispering.

I would like to at least hear some Slipknot! Just saying, that was really music soldiers where listening too!

I don't understand everyone's problem with Linkin Park. They are a talented bunch of dudes that make good, unique music.

The "PREORDER FOR BATTLEFIELD 4 BETA" text is larger than the actual game's logo. What are they trying to tell us?

These guys look about as rockstar as Moby with aids.

I feel like this game trivializes soldiers' sacrifices more than anything else.

It's ok to like a band. Any band. Just as it's OK for me to think that same band is overused and spent much of their time writing and recording songs that didn't change enough for me to care after the first couple of albums.

@believer258 said:

Wanna know something crazy? I like Linkin Park. Still. Yep. Twenty years old and I will, without irony, listen to Meteora and/or Hybrid Theory, and I think A Thousand Suns has some pretty cool moments as a concept album.

There, I said it, I do not hate this thing that the internet condemns. For the record, I also enjoyed playing the 2010 Medal of Honor.

I didn't enjoy the 2010 Medal of Honor, but I do love me some Linkin Park. At least they're trying to be original still. Really, they sold out? No, I reserve the "sellout" tag for groups like Papa Roach, who turned into another generic love song rock group.

@nrh79 said:

@PandaBear said:

This won't sell any extra copies of the MoH: Warfighter, it just makes the product look lame, tired and out of touch.

I wonder about that. The Internet has a way different opinion than the general public it often seems. Just the other day I was in a restaurant, and a Linkin Park song came on. Quite a few of the employees were pretty stoked. One girl even said that it was something along the lines of her "jam." It was one of their new songs that I don't know.

I don't want to hate on people for liking "uncool" music, but I'm coming from a place of really liking these guys once and I really wanted to like the Minutes to Midnight album. But fuck, Linkin Park are just shadows for their former radio-friendly cheesy selves. They sound so juvenile without the decency to wink at the camera. (all IMHO of course)

...but someone calling a song their "jam" is either fucking stupid or I really am out of touch.

(I'm out of touch)

@Yummylee: That ending was weird, but I like the idea that early "gangster" Jesse was into Korn and bad nu-metal leading into Breaking Bad.

they were great once..

@RVonE said:

Hating Linkin Park is so cool.

Yes. Yes, it is.

Japan is better at creating ridiculously jingoistic american nu-metal than the real bands are. The fucking end titles song for Ace Combat: Assault Horizon was hilarious.

@Yummylee: Lol, Why does bad shit keep happening to that guy? he's awesome.

And KoRn arent that bad, they've aged better than most metal bands from the 90's.

All of this talk about KoRn got me looking up some of their music to see if I can still enjoy them so many years later. They're not bad, definitely more so of a guilty pleasure, however.

More importantly, this brief run down the musical habits of the 13-17 year old me helped me pick up on bloody Jesse Pinkman starring in a KoRn music video!

@thirteenyahs said:

I think we can now classify making a song for a video game as the "jump the shark" moment for bands. See: Incubus, Korn.

Don't forget Megadeth with their hit song Gears of War.

the subtitle on this thing is classic alex idiocy.

these people marketing medal of honor as some sort of love letter to the military make me wanna puke my guts out. what a deliberate and crass play on peoples emotions and even if they do have good intentions there is no way a multiplayer focused fps is in anyway an appropriate homage to people who undergo that kind of thing. its fucking fluff. its not deep. its about kill to death ratios. its just another attempt to get in on that cod money.

im mildy outraged.

I F&&*/$JKIBNG HGATE LINKEN PARK!!!!!!! !!J!!!!!@ FUCKEN EMO TRASCH!!11111!!!!!!!!!!!! i listen to REAL music such as led zeppelin and nas

Wanna know something crazy? I like Linkin Park. Still. Yep. Twenty years old and I will, without irony, listen to Meteora and/or Hybrid Theory, and I think A Thousand Suns has some pretty cool moments as a concept album.

There, I said it, I do not hate this thing that the internet condemns. For the record, I also enjoyed playing the 2010 Medal of Honor.

And this is why a whiskey site based on music would have been a terrible idea!

@Stokes said:

I've become so numb

I can't feel the shame

Of creating songs

Meant specifically for games.

Your a fucking genius lol.

I've become so numb

I can't feel the shame

Of creating songs

Meant specifically for games.

I actually really liked their song in the first MOH trailer a year or two ago. I'm also glad Linking Park is still around.

This shit is hilarious, i cannot contain my amusment over this.

~~*i tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter*~~

@nrh79 said:

If I'm at the bar or something, people tend to respond pretty positively to a lot of music that critics or people on forums dislike.

I, too, have noticed this in anecdotal circumstances, but I have never been able to pinpoint an idea why. Most of the time I just end up at this point where it could be that they hear certain songs on the radio so often that they grow fond of them, but the answer that is more likely is that the reason why is too varied from person to person to make a definitive answer.

@MordeaniisChaos: Just want to make sure that my emphasis was on the "out of touch" part for the mostly civilian population, not whether this will help sell a game. Reminds me of how often Nickelback gets crapped on, but their albums still sell in the top spot or close. Decided to look into it a bit on this specific example. According to Wikipedia, Nickelback's last album was at number 2, being beaten by Michael Buble by 419 copies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelback

If I'm at the bar or something, people tend to respond pretty positively to a lot of music that critics or people on forums dislike. This is anecdotal of course. Not really making much of an argument here. I'm just elaborating on some things I've noticed. If it makes any difference to help see what angle I'm coming from, I'll say that I don't care for either of the bands mentioned.

@nrh79: As someone who both interacts with a fair number of people who are not "citizens of the internet" AND real life "Warfighters" I can say that Linkin Park is divisive at best in the large majority of those demographics, so far as my experience can tell. I'm sure there are plenty of fans in the services and worldwide, but their not huge. I rarely hear anyone talk about them, and at best, it'll be a really old song of theirs that someones singing along to. Never their new shit and never just something that comes up.

If you want to make a 'connection' with the service folks, it needs to be some hard shit, or it needs to come from somewhere with significance to that particular demographic, and that is not Linkin Park in the slightest. I think a lot of people see "military tributes" on youtube that are all to some crummy Linkin Park song but my guess is most of those weren't made by service members. Just some teen who has glorified ideals of being a hero/martyr when he grows up.

Haven't heard the song so maybe it really is a 'touching' piece that really does communicate gratitude for the real "operators" (the use of that word alone shows this is all marketing and very little to do with respecting the service members of this country), but I doubt that and I doubt that it'll be all that incredible. Kind of a shitty band, and that doesn't change just because they appreciate the sacrifices being made by our military.

@MeatSim said:

Giant Bomb needs a green screen set that large.

Isn't the Gamespot green screen set bigger than that? It's pretty close, I think.

@PandaBear said:

This won't sell any extra copies of the MoH: Warfighter, it just makes the product look lame, tired and out of touch.

I wonder about that. The Internet has a way different opinion than the general public it often seems. Just the other day I was in a restaurant, and a Linkin Park song came on. Quite a few of the employees were pretty stoked. One girl even said that it was something along the lines of her "jam." It was one of their new songs that I don't know.

When I was younger I was way into Linkin Park and their first two albums (and that Live in Texas DVD/CD too) to the point where I joined their fan club. Looking back I'm not that embarrassed, they were cool to me at the time and I still like a lot of their old stuff, but I can see how cheesy now. It's juvenile in some ways, but hey I like it.

What I don't get is that they still have fans, particularly their old fans, that like their new sound. They sound so fucking bad now, like radio friendly shit. Seriously, I'm not a Linkin Park hater, but fuck Burn it Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxytyRy-O1k ) is so far removed from what they were (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9RY2Jhyo0). Once again, I know they weren't exactly cutting-edge, but their old stuff is better. Bands can evolve and change but these guys are unrecognisable now. I doubt they have any old fans left, just "don't call me an emo" kids who understand Chester's pain. Linkin Park's new stuff is the most middle-of-the-road shit on the radio... (before the flames, all of this is IMHO obviously).

This won't sell any extra copies of the MoH: Warfighter, it just makes the product look lame, tired and out of touch. Let the game speak for itself.

Gaming for me is like a religion, and MOH is the shit. It's really hard to hit up that kind of rush, but I think we rocked it

Boy, oh, boy. Isn't Chester Bennington looking old these days. Seriously, he looks sickly.

@Godlyawesomeguy said:

@Cyrisaurus said:

I don't get why people want to hate on Linkin Park when we live in a world where the most popular and most played music is a billion times worse than any LP song.

Do you guys want Justin Bieber and Katy Perry to make songs for games?

The audiences for Justin Bieber and Katy Perry are entirely different, and for those audiences, those artists can actually be considered good by those audiences. The target audience for Linkin Park, however, remains the same (and it does include the same audience that plays copious first-person shooters), yet their music is infinitely worse than it was ten years ago, and that audience acknowledges it.

Didn't Katy Perry sing a song in Simlish or some other bullshit for The Sims 3? She has her own expansion too. I don't know what items you get, though. Lollipop dildos? Probably.

@Cyrisaurus said:

I don't get why people want to hate on Linkin Park when we live in a world where the most popular and most played music is a billion times worse than any LP song.

Do you guys want Justin Bieber and Katy Perry to make songs for games?

The audiences for Justin Bieber and Katy Perry are entirely different, and for those audiences, those artists can actually be considered good by those audiences. The target audience for Linkin Park, however, remains the same (and it does include the same audience that plays copious first-person shooters), yet their music is infinitely worse than it was ten years ago, and that audience acknowledges it.

medal of honor is the shit your guys

lol

As a mature gentleman who likes mature things I hate Linkin Park and must always let people know. If you disagree you're wrong.

@The_Tolman said:

Fuck you Linkin Park and EA, for thinking your music in a fictional war game is somehow a thank you to military service members.

I love you for saying that. Nothing inspired this except the desire to make some dough. All that furr the trupps and furr amurrka bs is just insulting.

"What, was 3 Doors Down busy or something?"

You guys have earned my eternal respect, just for that line.

Whatever Fort Minor is awesome.

Giant Bomb needs a green screen set that large.

I think I read that 3 Doors Down has already signed on to write a song on Medal of Honor's next reboot. Assuming that the previous sentence I made up is true, you will get your wish in 2014, Alex.

Sorry, person who put this video together. Not even patriotism can keep me from fucking hating Linkin Park.

Hey it's the guy who did the music for The Raid.

@Soapy86 said:

"Gaming for me is a religion and Medal of Honor: Warfighter is the shit! I had to come up with a track that can hit up that kind of rush I get from the game and I think we really rocked it!!"

--Chester Bennington, Linkin Park

Has someone made that joke already?

About once a week for the last 5 years

"Gaming for me is a religion and Medal of Honor: Warfighter is the shit! I had to come up with a track that can hit up that kind of rush I get from the game and I think we really rocked it!!"

--Chester Bennington, Linkin Park

Has someone made that joke already?

@JamesJeux007 said:

I don't give a damn about Linkin Park or MoH Warfighter, but MAN do I still like Mike Shinoda ! This guy is an GREAT composer... And no, I'm not talking about the song LP made for this game, I'm talking about Fort Minor :')

Hell yeah! Mike uses straight up unaltered samples from audio libraries in his songs. Whenever "Believe Me" plays on the radio I'm thinking it's one of the five different commercials that use the same string sample from the Soundtrack Pro libraries. HE'S A GENIUS I TELLS YA!

Shows how memorable the first MOH was that everyone completely forgot they made "The Catalyst" for it, which played over the end credits. Man...that game sucked.

Fuck you Linkin Park and EA, for thinking your music in a fictional war game is somehow a thank you to military service members.

@believer258 said:

@vr00m said:

@Stealthmaster86: Halo 2

The song for Halo 2 was made by Breaking Benjamin.

Incubus contributed about four tracks to the Halo 2 Vol. 1 soundtrack. Only one of those tracks made it into the game.

Do PR people have any reservations about distributing their content if they know it's just going to be used to ridicule them? Or are they just totally oblivious?

@JamesJeux007 said:

I don't give a damn about Linkin Park or MoH Warfighter, but MAN do I still like Mike Shinoda ! This guy is an GREAT composer... And no, I'm not talking about the song LP made for this game, I'm talking about Fort Minor :')

Yeah his work on The Raid was really good, all things considered.