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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 79 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Fuckin cowards, put your money where your mouth is and make a mission aiding the IOF in Gaza

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They play-tested it but gamers got bored just clicking the "send missile to hospital" button

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gamers already played No Russian

[–] fox@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

No Russian was controversial when it was released but now the hogs would probably demand more Russian civilians be killed for Slava ukraini reasons

[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Press F to commit genocide

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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 72 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Can I play on DPRK's side?

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

Asking the real questions

[–] goferking0 18 points 1 month ago

I mean probably in multi player?

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I thjnk the cold war one there's a "bad ending" where you betray all your cia friends and nuke DC

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Would absolutely play a game about the DPRK taking over lesser Korea except I get to play as the good guys

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] cisco@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

98% of westerners believed the “North Korea” invaded “South Korea” and “North Vietnam” invaded “South Vietnam.” Call it the Wars of Northern Aggression!

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Or even better they should make a game where you're a Palestinian forced to fight for your survival while your friends and family die around you

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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."

[–] znonymous@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

They would fire the spooky north korean nerve gas artillery they supposedly have aimed at seoul and everyone would just be dead instantly.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 56 points 1 month ago

too bad this propaganda can't do shit about north korea having nukes. Eat shit imperialists

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, the infamously invasion-heavy DPRK

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

They pull an America's Army and everyone plays as South Korea, but sees the opposing team as North Korea

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Who's buying these fucking games?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As someone who works in the Middle East: Arabs

I've been told Saudi Arabia has one of the world championship teams

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Tracks

Dude I told these guys these games are made by people who hate them and they're like 'it's just a game', and then I asked them if they think Westerners would play a game where it's their country engaged in a war with a Western one and they rolled their eyes at me

BRO THE GUYS WHO MADE THIS GAME HATE YOU AND WANT YOU DEAD, DON'T YOU ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME!

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Basically every other person who owns something that can play games on it

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just don't see the appeal, it's the same run and gun quick scope bullshit since like 2008

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

That's why it's popular

Relatively mindless violence with no real strategy behind it

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and has a few hundred gigs free.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

US propaganda is poorly optimized

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.)

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[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It sucks, since I love DOTA 2, CS:GO, and Rainbow Six, but the community makes it impossible to pub. I just play indie games now with my friends lol

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the community makes it impossible to pub

As someone who doesn't understand the proper strategy in playing LoL, I played it the way I play every game: to enjoy myself, not to compete; I used to 'jungle' as they call it, because I love PvE content and couldn't be bothered with the PvP content (yes, this was my thinking when I picked up LoL); a few games full of angry team mates later I realized this was not the game for me

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah jungle is literally the most difficult position, which requires extremely specific timings based on a myriad of things (the heros people are playing, how well they are farming, if they have gone back to buy etc. etc.).

There is a reason the old school pub method was just to farm as Master Yi and try to max level as quickly as possible. You don't have to worry about anything else. Meta changes too fast for me to care, plus, LoL is extremely boring compared to DotA. Either way though, both communities are intolerable, where even if you do put in the research and understand the timings, people will not forgive you for not literally being fucking Faker (which is an extremely old school reference at this point.)

[–] Blep@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Faker still plays, nothing old about that referencr

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[–] cisco@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

12-38 year olds

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

anakin-padme-2 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

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If slander is spoken and libel is written, what would this be? thinkin-lenin

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

Master Chief's Kiss

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago
[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They should do the Iran war.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why is 1/3 of the missions "murder the Iranian negotiator"

Strait is open

Strait is closed

Strait is open

Strait is closed

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[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

They already did that in advanced warfare in 2016 or so

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