How did we get into a video game discussion in the politics thread?
Anyway, I think there should be some WWII games that do it accurately and some that do imaginary WWII stuff.
MFM’s problem is the ones inbetween. The ones that are just kinda sorta maybe somewhat accurate.
I don’t agree though that adherence to historical accuracy need be binary. I do agree that people are stupid, and that corporations market to stupid people because stupid people have money, but it’s the stupid people who are ruining society not the entertainment made for them.
It’s cyclical since the video game market apparently has shifted to desire ahistorical crap so obviously the entertainment will reflect that, but I blame the entertainment too. I think it’s done in this case for PC points. The reception to the trailer was largely negative.
My point is, if you want to make a game about a weird awesome lady with a cybernetic arm and blue face paint that fights Nazis, then make an Inglourious Basterds type game that throws historical accuracy out the window. That would be great and I’d probably buy it, but don’t do a WWII setting that’s just faithful enough to the time period to make it somewhat grounded in reality and then add shit that makes it totally ahistorical. It’s stupid. It’s lazy.
It’s a fucking fictional game. Get over yourself. Why does it have to be one thing or the other? Why can’t it just be?