Baresark said:
Petromir said:
While theres potential for a game based around the event, it needs to be done in a tastefull manner. This was not the way to do it.
That said it doesnt look worth the effort to ban. A modern mindless shooter doing it perhaps.
If you're going to cover a sensitive historical event then do it sensitively, especially in a medium thats not got out of the get attacked at every turn stage. If you dont then you'll make the suituation worse not better.
I can't agree with you. The way you talk about tasteful is just a way of dumbing it down. There is nothing tasteful about the way Muslims are depicted in modern shooters. But you don't see the public outcry there. No one complains when a "terrorist" depicted in games gets killed, we cheer and go about our day. Where is all the tasteful sensitivity then. No, it's because we are talking about the complaints of Jewish folks, most of which were not alive at that time.
I'm not trying to jump down your throat, but you can't be sensitive to one group, then joyously destroy the likenesses of others. I think we could agree that there is no video game with this premise they would ever allow through, without a big fight.
Theres pleanty of outcry when specific groups are used in anything but the most serious of simulations.
The whole reason for the relitive lack of outrage over terrorist based games is that their methods are whats wrong not their reasoning. Its intersting as well that you immediately assume terrorist=muslim and that a certain style of dress = terrosist, and indeed that arabian dree= muslim. There are pleanty of terrorist groups out there that are very different to said recent steryotypes. There are also games that have covered them.
It should also be noted that if you can link in with current evets, even if you distance yourself from a potrayal of the actual events. This is genrally done by takign some defining chareacteristics of the conflicts going on (prefriable involving the forces of you're target audiences country, so genrally in western FPS's the US often with a UK contingent). THis means in recent years pretty much you're going to end up with a middle eastern conflict, with the US involved. Other connections are likely to include an ex-soviet block or chinease arms connection.
Modern world or historical sttings will by their very nature revolve around the relevant political blocks of the time. And yes there has been pleanty of outrage about some of the more foolish picks. Hell most mainstream games try to avoid implicitaly suggecsting that religion is at the core of any conflict.
Even so most games that do touch on such things tend to avoid the truely controverial incidents. This game did not, it went straight for it, and ignored any potential depth and just went for the lowest common denomintor. This would have been substandard for a game set in an entirely fictional setting, with no hint of genocide.
Being sensitve to one group alone would be wrong, but I see little evidence of this.
