Medal of Honor's Taliban Renamed To 'Opposing Force'

" Shoulda named them the Talibad, and given them all robot eyes. "

" yo check this out, they plan was to call them taliban, then when errbody forgets about the game they decide to rename the taliban to pump out a few news stories just befoh the launch of the game! "

" @MarkWahlberg said:

" Shoulda named them the Talibad, and given them all robot eyes. "

Or Taliapproved, or Talistickied, or TaliZorah Vas Normandy. "

Should have left it Taliban, who cares that it says it.

Wait...wouldn't you need to call both sides the "Opposing Force". It doesn't make any sense to say, "I'm on the Opposing Force" it basically saying, "I'm on the other team!!!" I think EA should have stood there ground, it just a title of a team in the game, not a true representation of the war in Afghanistan. EA should pack in a card with a DLC code to change the name back for people that understand that you aren't killing real U.S. soldiers.

Pussies

I think you're all forgetting that none of this matters because the game isn't very good.

Way to cave .......

" I bet somewhere they will forget to remove it. "

" "Opposing Force"? Has anyone made a Half-Life joke yet? "

" Shoulda named them the Talibad, and given them all robot eyes. "

haha whatever. oversensitivity strikes again. 

 Why is everyone upset by this?
 
The Opposing Forces are really robots remotely controlled by the Taliban who are hiding in the Tier 1s Beards.      
 
I'm looking forward to this game and also can't wait for Black Ops to come out because it means the amount of 12 year olds with headsets will decrease by 80% on MOH servers :)

cop-out 
 
o well. maybe now bases will have this game. before they were boycotting it.  
 
 
 
 i hope theyre still called that in the SP though

I was expecting this...

No one forced the americans to go there and get kicked in the ass by the talibans. They're fine with the thing that they're killing as many "enemies" as possible , but instead they "suffer" when losing some men. I wish all people who wanted this change to die from lung cancer.

I want a leaked audio tape claiming to be from Bin Laden with a review of MOH when this comes out.

"Most Afghans HATED the Taliban, and the Taliban weren't even Afghan! They were originally from Pakistan, and most of the Taliban leaders are not native Afghan people.   

Still will never forget SOCOM changing terrorist win to mercenaries win. I still think it just a video game and a name is a name. 

 
@Tennmuerti said:

" Considering that not everyone the American forces are killing in Afganistan is Taliban, this is oddly more realistic. "

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@Tennmuerti said:

" Considering that not everyone the American forces are killing in Afganistan is Taliban, this is oddly more realistic. "

My thoughts exactly. Waiting for an 'armed civilian' faction "

I'm missing the point of how this is going to change anything. Just because you give something a different name, it doesn't mean that the people who play it are going to respond to it any differently. I really don't think that a lot of the gaming community will see it as "Opposing Forces" given how the original name was going to be Taliban. They'll still see it as Taliban and there isn't anything that anyone can do about it. 
 
I mean, I could scoop up some dog crap and change the label so that it was carrots but its still dog crap. Change the label from Taliban for Opposing forces and its still the Taliban, imo.

" Fucking wEAk.  This is as bad as Pandemic flip-flopping on whether or not to use a swastika in The Saboteur.  Wait, EA was involved in that too.  Probably just lost a sale on this one for me.  I hate gaming being browbeaten into pulling it's punches with totally hollow gestures like this. "

" Yay!  Let's use censorship to perpetuate the power these terrorists have by being afraid to fucking say their name.    Jesus Christ, it's like I'm reading Harry Potter.  "The force who shall not be named." "

A Taliban by any other name...

So just before the games release, they change something trivial and get their game spread across every single video game website spawning discussion about the game - meaning the game is in the mind of most gamers.
 
Seems like a good move to me.

That's fucking dumb.

Should have been left as Taliban

The terrorists have won.

meh, I probably won't play it anyway.

Just occured to me, why exactly does everyone think this is a bad thing? Is there an actual reason for the name to have been kept as Taliban, or is this just the usual internet haterading on change?

Anyone who believes the Taliban is, or was ever, the single driving insurgent force in Afghanistan is wrong. The insurgency is largely a collection of local militias and irritated tribesmen that associate with the Taliban, and are sometimes armed and supplied by them. Opposing Force makes more sense to describe them, and not only that, but operationally the Taliban are rarely referred to by name in reports and returns - if there's a contact, it's not described as "Taliban", they're "insurgents". The idea that there's this single force of card-carrying Taliban members out there, organized into a giant army spread around the country, is false. It's part of the reason why it's so hard to fight the asymmetric war in Afghanistan.
 
 They DO exist and it DOES have a major role in terms of the fight over there, but it's far from the whole thing. I don't associate with the mindless lobbying to change it but I feel that, overall, it's a positive change for the game. Not that I'll be buying it anyway, the beta made sure of that.

Aaannnddd I now give a shit about the controversy. It should have stayed and always been Taliban. That was a ballsy-ass move in the first place. Now it's chicken shit genericness.
 
The local terrorists won this one. The terrorists abroad couldn't care less.

"It should have stayed and always been Taliban. "

" Just occured to me, why exactly does everyone think this is a bad thing? Is there an actual reason for the name to have been kept as Taliban, or is this just the usual internet haterading on change? "

• caved to political correctness from people who don't play videogames
• claimed the name change was to respect the "friends and families of fallen soldiers" and to maintain "the reverence for American and Allied soldiers"  yet it is blatantly superficial and changes nothing. You still kill American and Allied soldiers dressed as Afghan insurgents in Afghanistan.

What a fucking cop out

Changing the name from Taliban to Opposing Force does absolutely nothing. You are still playing as Taliban soldiers gunning down American soldiers. Changing the name of the enemy does not change who the enemy is.

" So just before the games release, they change something trivial and get their game spread across every single video game website spawning discussion about the game - meaning the game is in the mind of most gamers.  Seems like a good move to me. "

The Opposing Force?? how generic and straight forward can you possibly get?? XD

Cobra Commander...good one.

And the games industry caves to the media again.

" @Donos said:

" Just occured to me, why exactly does everyone think this is a bad thing? Is there an actual reason for the name to have been kept as Taliban, or is this just the usual internet haterading on change? "

Because they;

• caved to political correctness from people who don't play videogames
• claimed the name change was to respect the "friends and families of fallen soldiers" and to maintain "the reverence for American and Allied soldiers"  yet it is blatantly superficial and changes nothing. You still kill American and Allied soldiers dressed as Afghan insurgents in Afghanistan.

"

" @Zatoichi_Sanjuro said:

" @Donos said:

" Just occured to me, why exactly does everyone think this is a bad thing? Is there an actual reason for the name to have been kept as Taliban, or is this just the usual internet haterading on change? "

Because they;

• caved to political correctness from people who don't play videogames
• claimed the name change was to respect the "friends and families of fallen soldiers" and to maintain "the reverence for American and Allied soldiers"  yet it is blatantly superficial and changes nothing. You still kill American and Allied soldiers dressed as Afghan insurgents in Afghanistan.

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1) Again, how is this bad? Logically, if someone wants you to change something, and neither you nor anybody else has a reason to keep it the same, you change it. It's just common courtesy. 2) Changing the name removes a level of implied equality between the multiplayer game and reality. Does it entirely solve the problem? No, but it's a step in the right direction. Anyways, whether the change is significant or not, it's still not a bad thing if you can't give a reason to keep it the same. See 1). "

" 1) Again, how is this bad? Logically, if someone wants you to change something, and neither you nor anybody else has a reason to keep it the same, you change it. It's just common courtesy. 2) Changing the name removes a level of implied equality between the multiplayer game and reality. Does it entirely solve the problem? No, but it's a step in the right direction. Anyways, whether the change is significant or not, it's still not a bad thing if you can't give a reason to keep it the same. See 1). "

Meh, it doesn't really effect the game that much, and they're showing respect to people with family members who have died. That's enough to justify the decision to me honestly.

" Meh, it doesn't really effect the game that much, and they're showing respect to people with family members who have died. That's enough to justify the decision to me honestly. "