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.
So Oklahoma! is offensive because people never thought Oklahoma was so wonderful that they would break out into song and dance about it?
It’s a totally different art form.
I’m just saying that storytelling doesn’t have to be true-to-history. If people are stupid enough to cite the fiction as fact, that’s on the stupid people for not doing their research, not the writers of the fiction. It’s not akin to peddling fake news that dupe the gullible, as Fox News does, since the game never claims to be an accurate depiction.
Actually they do. They’re all about “war like never before” and other bullshit marketing gimmicks. And stop with this “storytelling” bullshit. This is corporate drivel and their focus groups have told them that women with cybernetic arms fighting in WWII would bring in more customers.
I understand that Gladiator and The Patriot are largely popcorn movies. And Apollo 13 has obvious inaccuracies if you know anything about NASA’s standard procedures. If people use these films as sources to cite actual events, that’s on them for being stupid.
I can forgive minor deviations. The overall setting was still accurate though. For example, in Forrest Gump the Ford assassination attempt is portrayed as having involved multiple gunshots instead of one. I can forgive that inaccuracy. If the film had said that Ford was stabbed by a Soviet Union spy, then that would be a problem for me. I’ve never seen Gladiator and I don’t even like the Patriot so I don’t know what to say there. I don’t know what you’re getting at with people citing things as actual events. I don’t give a fuck what people cite. (I do hate people, after all.) My problem is that another thing that I kind of liked back in the day, first-person shooters in a historical setting, has been ruined. That’s my problem.