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https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Video-Game-Thread/id/1456
here’s some more video game PC revisionist history bullshit.
Battlefield is supposed to be historically accurate?
I don’t know about Battlefield, but older WW2 games, the kind I played as a youth in order to distract myself from how much everything sucked, paid great attention to historical accuracy. Everything looked and felt like WWII, including, by the way, women and black soldiers fighting in settings where they actually fought. In an old Medal of Honor there were black soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge levels because the military was desegregated for that battle. And women were Russian snipers and were in the French resistance. I don’t get the need to lie about history and I hate fake history. I’m a big history buff.
Yes, women were in the military but they were not in roles designated for combat. But again, it’s a video game, and it doesn’t have to reflect historical accuracy.
It should. I find revisionist history to be quite sickening.
But I don’t think COD or BF should have to be confined by “that didn’t actually happen”. Yes, portraying the Nazis as open to racial diversity is completely ignorant of the core ideology of the Nazi Party itself. But having women, bionic or otherwise, in a video game designed to entertain the modern market, doesn’t really have anything to do with rewriting the past for some liberalist agenda.
It’s not a liberalist agenda, it’s a corporatist agenda and all it shows is that the modern market is stupid, as are the people making the games. I hate bad “art” and I consider video games an art and if they want some weird ahistorical game in the WWII setting then they should make a Wolfenstein type game, not a WWII game. Or, better yet, just make it actually historically believable. Focus it on a woman in the french resistance, or a Soviet woman sniper, or a black unit in the US army. Of course they would never be brave enough to have a game where the entire unit is black, that’d be way to much for the corporate suits to greenlight so they’ll settle for sugarcoating history and putting a token black guy in the background. I’m sick of being expected to pat the corporate suits on the back for some BS PC quota that they filled. I hate it, I hate them. There’s nothing shocking here. 99% of all things and all people are full of shit, so this is just one of many stupid cultural things for me to complain about.
It’s just a story told to entertain. One might as well complain that the real John Adams didn’t actually have a telepathic connection to his wife as portrayed in the film/play 1776… or complain that the actual Declaration of Independence shouldn’t be depicted as physically signed, pen to paper, by all the delegates on July 4th, since the reality is that it actually wasn’t.
Those are very specific things that are done for dramatic developments in those stories. Better examples would be portraying the Declaration as having been signed by people with bionic arms or by American Indians. All it shows is a total ignorance of history and it’s done to appeal to unintelligent people that are won over by such things. It’s also, ironically, kind of offensive. Portraying America as a place of racial harmony back then is an insult to the people that overcame the racist bullshit back then and today. Portraying Nazi Germany as a place of racial harmony is sickening and downright disturbing.