Ok, so in Doom 3 you have the UAC Pocket PC and in Quake 4 you have the UAC Pocket PC, so does that mean the main characters each come from the same branch of the military
shareno uac pocket pc on the pc version
shareno uac on 360 but they both are marines
shareThey are pretty much the same game though, just with a few different monsters, not that its a bad thing, they're awsome!
Bodatious Rex was here
The protaganists of ID games are always Marines. I remember reading somewhere that a member of ID Software used to be in the marines. Kevin Cloud maybe, I can't remember exactly who. (The DoomGuy in Doom 3 was modeled on him, I know that much)
shareIf any of them were in the military, any branch at all, then they'd know a little more about rank, customs and courtesies, lingo, and overalls structure. In Quake 4, you a corporal, are addressed as 'sir'- a title that is reserved exlusively for an officer. That fact is branded into every recruit's brain in boot camp. It's an insult to call an enlisted guy 'sir', because the enlisted 'work for a living'. Even as candidates in OCS, where we had absolutely no rank whatsoever, we'd expect a 300 word essay due at 0500 if we ever called a sergeant instructor 'sir'.
You don't salute anyone indoors unless you're wearing a cover(some kind of a hat), and you don't wear a cover unless you're on firewatch or something.
Privates and PFC's don't operate complex machinery such as navigation computers. Most likely you'd have to be an NCO to do that. And NCO's are not doctors! A doctor would be an officer, at least an O-3(captain/leutenant).
Furthermore, the ARMY has medics, the Marine Corps. have Corpsmen.
Marines never ever, never ever ever refer to themselves as 'soldiers'. Calling a Marine a Soldier is even a greater insult than the one I mentioned above. Marines joke that ARMY is an accronym for Arent Ready for Marines Yet, not to mention that over half of the cadence pokes fun at the ARMY. So trust me, none of the ID staff has ever been in the Military.
And a good reason to use the Marine Corps. in the plot is because Marines are traditionaly the 'first wave' in a military conflict, hence the phrase 'First to go, last to know' and 'First to fight'.
How often do scifi shows/games even come close to representing military or military analogues though? Think about Star Trek, where in umpteen years of television you see a rough total of ten non-officers. On the note of the Marine-specific items, though, I would note that those are specific to the USMC, and the organisation portrayed in the game is the Earth Marines or similar - expressly not affiliated with any presently existing nations.
shareFOR THE LUV OF GOD MR. POWERMAN....THIS IS A GAME....TREAT IT AS A GAME DONT LET IT BECOME A LIFE OR DEATH MATTER....DO U ACTUALLY THINK ANYONE OVER HERE CARES THAT WHO WAS CALLED SIR N WHO WAS CALLED A MEDIC!!!! SHEEEESH!!!!!
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