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war crime simulator 2025
The ol Ender’s Game approach. Interesting move. Let’s see how it plays out.
Sacrifice then all
Is this any different from the US DOD making a FPS featuring actual battles from Iraq?
No, they both should be banned.
You mean Conflict Desert Storm?
Both the developer, Pivotal Games, and global publisher, SCi Games, of Conflict Desert Storm are British. Pivotal Games closed in 2008 and SCi is a shell subsidiary of Square Enix. The publisher for the American release was Gotham Games, a subsidiary of Take Two Interactive, which closed down in 2003.
AFAIK, the Conflict series was not developed or funded by the United States government. To my knowledge, only “America’s Army” is a game directly funded and developed for the US government’s military branch. It also is published by the US Military.
“Operation Iraqi Freedom” America’s Army in its initial release would have maps uploaded weeks after fighting.
This game probably sucks. But I do want to play a game where you get the full russian conscript experience. Cruel and incompetent leaders, squad mates you can’t communicate with because you don’t speak the same language, equipment that doesn’t work right or that you are not trained to use making bootleg alcohol that can make you go blind and a button that lets you commit suicide.
I am sick of being special ops or some lame shit in every military game.
I wonder how people in the Middle East feel about Call of Duty.
Rami Ismail is Dutch but obviously cares about this topic. And when he seems to feel a particularly high level of self loathing, he talks about it online
https://kotaku.com/war-games-muslim-arab-call-of-duty-palestine-1851055848 is a great article that includes quotes from him and discusses the topic at large.
I’m sure the people of Gaza are always excited to play the “counter terrorists” on Dust 2 as well.
It took watching a bunch of videos on Israeli weapons development before I learned who uses the fucking Negev
You’re not going to find a weapons maker with an unproblematic background (part of the problem with sourcing arms for your SRA meetup) but IMI certainly has a bad one.
They’ve also got a number of totally iconic weapons though. Separate the art from the artist and all that.
Of the lines I draw in my gun purchasing decisions (you’re right they’re all war profitiers), IWI and the like is the only one that I actively disuade people from.
That being said, the engineering history nerd in me is easily compelled to learn about design philosophies
Another thing to add to my list of why steam is a fucking shit hole since green light went away.
Yes… Because all those games where you play as some American grunt fighting in the middle East is something totally different and not comparable at all.
I want to see you explain how Spec Ops: The Line is the same thing as this propaganda shit piece.
I get the gist, I agree that games like America’s Army shouldn’t be on Steam but you can’t just broad stroke all “grunt in the middle east” games as propaganda. They can end up being something totally different and not comparable at all.
Texas sharpshooter.
I’m not sure I follow. Are you acknowledging the very fallacy you stepped into?
And it looks like you don’t understand what the fallacy means.
Okay dude. Come back when you’ve stopped being a cryptic little shit and can communicate like a normal person.
A small fraction compared to the indie games and puzzlers, or are you one of those just shut the whole thing down so nobody is happy kind-of people?
No, I’m one of those “I hate double standards” type of people.
There’s always Counter Strike if you’re on the side that the terrorists are the good guys
Can I smack a downed drone with a missile launcher?
Of course Steam would allow this.
Notorious libertarian Lord Gaben has no issue taking fascist money.
Imagine getting thousands of kids addicted to gambling, while people still sing your praises. Cool world, cool people 👍🏼
So Russians are fascist now?
Is water wet?
… now?
Someone needs to do a mod where your armour is tissue thin and there are waves of fibre optic drones coming down at you.
Also, the soldiers are on crutches and there are side missions to loot toilets.
The developer better avoid driving any cars lol
Just going to install the game to leave a negative review because if anyone deserves a review bomb it’s this.
Play it just to sabotage my own teammates.
I’m going to pirate it then go and sabotage the ruskis
I thought to do the same, but I don’t want Russian software on my pc. Who knows what backdoors are built in.
"encounter and interact with civilians“
That’s one way to say SA/shoot them indiscriminately after kidnapping their kids
I don’t think they remove military propaganda from Steam. Fascist military sims from fascist countries are specifically allowed.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/203290/Americas_Army_Proving_Grounds/
What’s this? It‘s blocked in my region.
The last of America’s Army games, see this steamdb page for screenshots. I tried it years ago and got a vibe of proto-insurgency, it’s somewhat realistic, even the tutorial is decent, but as you can imagine they just wanted a good recruitment tool and this wasn’t it.
I played it back in like 2003. It was pretty fucking high class back then, when it came to realism. You could cook nades and decided whether you roll or toss them. You could also peek/lean. I believe it’s kinda common nowadays, but those were some fancy things back then. CS wasn’t even CS:GO back then, but like CS 1.5-1.6.
I never played it through Steam though.
Played on American servers and always had like 180 ping. Still managed to snipe decently.
But even back then I understood it was obviously propaganda, because you’re never allowed to play as “the bad guys”. You’re always an American, and you’re shooting people vaguely Middle-Eastern enemies. From your POV, you’ll rock an M16, but from your enemy’s pov, you’re using an AK47.
I think if they hadn’t tried forcing that bit, it might’ve seen more success.
Pure propaganda, sure, but I enjoyed it as a kid.
The mindblowing thing is that, if wikipedia doesn’t lie, the same developers also made fucking Moonbase Alpha
Makes sense. The government probably didn’t want to fund 2 games studios when 1 is fine.
John Madden!
It also had a link to thier recruit sign up page in game if I remember correctly. Also was one of the first free to play milsims.
Me seeing you reply with that GIF, then reading your username:
Back in 2018, Steam stated its approach to content on its platform was "to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling".
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A social media account linked on Steam to the game’s developer includes a post suggesting Ukraine’s refusal to surrender will provide “a lot of content to make more missions in our game”.
I’m pretty sure that qualifies.
