They should do the Iran war.
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Any american war. "The gameplay is fun, but boy, there is a lot of rape"
Why is 1/3 of the missions "murder the Iranian negotiator"
Strait is open
Strait is closed
Strait is open
Strait is closed
Can I play on DPRK's side?
I thjnk the cold war one there's a "bad ending" where you betray all your cia friends and nuke DC
based based based based based
How can we be sure there weren't posadists in the writers section
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You misspelled "based ending"
Asking the real questions
I mean probably in multi player?
Would absolutely play a game about the DPRK taking over lesser Korea except I get to play as the good guys
Fuckin cowards, put your money where your mouth is and make a mission aiding the IOF in Gaza
Press F to commit genocide
If it's the IOF, you would need to constantly do a full QTE to avoid doing a war crime or genocide.
They play-tested it but gamers got bored just clicking the "send missile to hospital" button
Gamers already played No Russian
No Russian was controversial when it was released but now the hogs would probably demand more Russian civilians be killed for Slava ukraini reasons
Ok but they wouldn't just be indiscriminately bombing the city of Seoul would they. They'd be bombing the US military base and a few key targets and defences.
But nah they'll pretend the communists would be indiscriminate in their destruction.
It is, as always, projection. Reminder that more bombs were dropped on DPRK than during the entire World War II Pacific campaign. The US destroyed nearly every building in the entire country and killed around 282,000 people, 20% of the population. They literally ran out of targets to bomb.
June 25, 1951, General O'Donnell, Commander of the Far Eastern Air Force (FEAF) Bomber Command, testified (in answer to a question from Senator John C. Stennis, "North Korea has been virtually destroyed, hasn't it?"): "Oh, yes; …I would say that the entire, almost the entire Korean Peninsula is just a terrible mess. Everything is destroyed. There is nothing standing worthy of the name… Just before the Chinese came in we were grounded. There were no more targets in Korea."
During the Korean War, the United States dropped about 635,000 tons of bombs on Korea, essentially on North Korea, plus 32,557 tons of napalm, exceeding the 503,000 tons dropped in the entire World War II Pacific theater. The bombing destroyed North Korea's major urban and industrial infrastructure: 18 of 22 major cities were at least half obliterated, and by fall 1952 every significant town, city, and industrial area had already been bombed. A Soviet/Razuvaev estimate put deaths from bombing raids at 282,000. Broader estimates of North Korean war deaths are higher: Armstrong estimates 12% to 15% of the North Korean population died in the war overall, while Curtis LeMay later gave a rough 20% figure for war deaths from direct casualties, starvation, and exposure. By 1952, US forces had effectively run out of targets where dropping more bombs would have made any military difference.
- https://apjjf.org/charles-k-armstrong/3460/article "The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960"
- https://apjjf.org/2014/12/37/sahr-conway-lanz/4180/article "The Ethics of Bombing Civilians After World War II: The Persistence of Norms Against Targeting Civilians in the Korean War"
- https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2001/06/25/ZYQ4COOYEH2IJJJUABQARTJDGQ/ "Report Shows N.Korean War Dead Only Half Previous"
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D301-PURL-LPS48716/pdf/GOVPUB-D301-PURL-LPS48716.pdf "Strategic Air Warfare"
- https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2017/7/25/64-years-after-korean-war-north-still-digging-up-bombs "64 years after Korean War, North still digging up bombs"
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/21/we-burned-down-every-town-in-north-korea/ "We Burned Down Every Town in North Korea"
- https://www.census.gov/popclock/world/kn "Population Clock: World"
They would fire the spooky north korean nerve gas artillery they supposedly have aimed at seoul and everyone would just be dead instantly.
They already did that in advanced warfare in 2016 or so
Oh cool, after that can we have the prequel where all of NATO did an attack against the newly decolonized Korea thus creating a North and South and making them fight forever? That would be fun
98% of westerners believed the “North Korea” invaded “South Korea” and “North Vietnam” invaded “South Vietnam.” Call it the Wars of Northern Aggression!
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too bad this propaganda can't do shit about north korea having nukes. Eat shit imperialists
Ah yes, the infamously invasion-heavy DPRK
Look, if they let people use Nazi tanks in World of Tanks, it’s going to be 15 layers of bullshit if they won’t let me play as DPRK soldiers
They pull an America's Army and everyone plays as South Korea, but sees the opposing team as North Korea
Who's buying these fucking games?
I think it's the same people who watch Avatar movies
The guy that cuts my hair like once a year is my age, i think a bit younger. Ao let's say he's 38. He always does the same Smalltalk and he always says: you play video games, right. And i nod. Then he asks what games, and i name a few games he has never heard off, some indie games, some popular games. When i ask him, the answer is always fifa and call of duty. We have that conversation once a year for 15 years. Video games for him is fifa and cod, laterally
12-38 year olds
they're popular in non western gaming circles. i don't know (and im not saying this as a pejorative i genuinely don't know) why people insist on buying the same game every year like COD or FIFA and not having any taste in games (not bad taste, literally no taste, they do not like or dislike any particular game they just want the newest thing to pass the time). i suspect it's the same thing as being a football fan and i have no clue why that is.
If you only buy one game a year, you don't have a reason to keep up with game recommending media, so you won't run into everyone saying Silksong is better, just whatever game gets its advertising blasted into the general non-gaming media with the largest marketing budget.
(Also I think there's something good about releasing a game every year! If you play a game at 12 years old and the next game in the franchise takes 8 years, you're not anticipating the next release, you're in college.)
people here are not exposed to that marketing budget though it's genuinely word of mouth from others (who are exposed to it probably), but then why don't they play any other game with word of mouth that is not slop?
plus no one buys any games besides centralised server multiplayer games and those aren't cheap. most people literally pirate this slop (as well as all other games). even for consoles you can just pay someone to install games for you. on top of that most multiplayer games on pc are either peer to peer or server games with dev released or reverse engineered server executables. most of them don't even need steam anymore, an entire infrastructure and suite of software has been developed that makes this process as smooth as possible, free of charge or with minimal cost.
centralised server multiplayer games and those aren't cheap
Ah but that means they take up your whole game budget, so why waste time finding out about other games that you won't be able to afford?
(I mean yeah you can buy 10 copies of Cinco Paus for that price. I know these games suck shit and are a waste of money. You know these games suck shit and are a waste of money. But I understand how someone can fall into this trap.)
im not even saying it sucks, i just don't get why people can be obsessed with something so bland.
language barrier, you don't need to read 6 million lines of dialogue to shoot the guy infront of you.
there's a lot of other games without the language barrier though. there isn't a game binary between mainstream blockbuster slop and boutique bible sized critique of capitalism, most games are about having fun shooting the guy in front of you in various ways.
It's what their friends play and they haven't been playing games long enough (usually in their late teens early 20's) is usually why.
If they are older than that they are just slop enjoyers.
here gamers older than that broadly fall into three camps: FIFA and mortal combat pilled ('game cafe' console games essentially), slightly older folk that are into their own youth games like WOW private servers, CS 1.6 and GTA: SA online, or slightly younger that are addicted to CS:GO, DOTA 2, LOL or rainbow six siege. the first group is annoying, the second group is harmless and the third group is a toxic cesspool to be avoided at all costs. slop enjoying is spread between all of them but more prominent in the first group.
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As someone who works in the Middle East: Arabs
I've been told Saudi Arabia has one of the world championship teams
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And you're there to help liberate the people of South Korea right?
Edit: Liberate them from the South Korean government in case that wasn't clear
American war games: huge variety in enemy nationality
Global South war games: the enemy is either America, France or the UK
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