Why Russia?

[Celtic_Kerr]

Потому что Россия является удивительным

I love you too man! You're so sweet!

OT: It's basically been said, playing off the whole "The cold war is dormant, waiting to turn into a hot war!" schtik

 

[T8B95]

Because the only other option for the lazy Western writers is to make another billion games with the Nazis or the Japanese as enemies.

Honestly though, I would have vouched for Russia during the cold war, so...

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Well Black Ops was about the cold war... and the Russians were kind of a big part of that. But also, Russia is awesome, and could actually pose a decent challenge if it came to full scale war.

 

[MrhalfAwake]

WHo GivEs a CrAP.

We WAnT to PLAy gaMEs AnD evERyONe WANtS to PlaY a NeW oNE eVErY otHER weEK.

PeOPLe on ThIS siTe ***** whEn the EnEMIES arE alIENs, ZoMBIeS, NAzIs, COMMiES, TERrORiSTs, COrPOraTE EmPLoyEEs, Or ANYTHING ELSE.

MiGHt I suGGesT yOU gO HAve a ReSOUnDINg GAMe oF PeGGLe or PerHAps FaRMvILLe?

Im sorry are you having a stroke?

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Because Russians were the last enemies that America fought which were on the same technological level as the US, and which were perceived as an actual threat.

I mean, what have we had since the Cold War? A bunch of terrorists, in ass backward countries using 60 year old weapons, and home made explosives. Sure, they can kill people, but there is not threat of them ever being a serious threat to the American government.

You make a good point, but what I mean is that there's no variety in antagonist countries lately. I'd like to see someone like, North Korea fight the U.S.(Not the Korean War) Even though the tension at the DMZ hasn't been too exciting, I'd still like to play that game, if it ever gets made.

Hence Homefront's release in March. NK invades the US.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I think its because the Russians kicked Nazi Germany's ass and were known for their brutality. That combined with the whole cold war espionage thing, the build up of nukes and the distribution of weapons to nations unfriendly to the Americans makes them evil. Even after that stuff has ended, this stigma remains.

I wonder how long this will last?

[sub]Ha! The girl next to me in the lab is on Russian Facebook.[/sub]

 

[LogicNProportion]

WHo GivEs a CrAP.

We WAnT to PLAy gaMEs AnD evERyONe WANtS to PlaY a NeW oNE eVErY otHER weEK.

PeOPLe on ThIS siTe ***** whEn the EnEMIES arE alIENs, ZoMBIeS, NAzIs, COMMiES, TERrORiSTs, COrPOraTE EmPLoyEEs, Or ANYTHING ELSE.

MiGHt I suGGesT yOU gO HAve a ReSOUnDINg GAMe oF PeGGLe or PerHAps FaRMvILLe?

In the spirit of all of this Cold War talk, I first thought, and tried to decipher your post, as it looked like it was harboring some sort of code.

I see I was wrong.

@OP: I think a developer should make an FPS where your side is the one without the shiny toys, etc, or at least, the less technologically advanced of the two. And I don't mean Halo/Half-life, etc. I want a realistic setting, something that's happening right now.

If it was tragic enough, I doubt that playing as a different culture of ethnicity would even upset the media, as the game would probably be seen as shedding light on a conflict many bleeding hearts that run the US media would see as revolutionary.

 

[thiosk]

If it was tragic enough, I doubt that playing as a different culture of ethnicity would even upset the media, as the game would probably be seen as shedding light on a conflict many bleeding hearts that run the US media would see as revolutionary.

Sadly, the best you will get is people either:

A: shooting american soldiers
or B: genociding other ethnicities

Both options will create so much controversy that no serious developer will touch the game concept with a pole of any length.

 

[Malyc]

They do it because Russia is cold.

 

[Spartan1175]

Because Russians were the last enemies that America fought which were on the same technological level as the US, and which were perceived as an actual threat.

I mean, what have we had since the Cold War? A bunch of terrorists, in ass backward countries using 60 year old weapons, and home made explosives. Sure, they can kill people, but there is not threat of them ever being a serious threat to the American government.

You make a good point, but what I mean is that there's no variety in antagonist countries lately. I'd like to see someone like, North Korea fight the U.S.(Not the Korean War) Even though the tension at the DMZ hasn't been too exciting, I'd still like to play that game, if it ever gets made.

Hence Homefront's release in March. NK invades the US.

Because Russians were the last enemies that America fought which were on the same technological level as the US, and which were perceived as an actual threat.

I mean, what have we had since the Cold War? A bunch of terrorists, in ass backward countries using 60 year old weapons, and home made explosives. Sure, they can kill people, but there is not threat of them ever being a serious threat to the American government.

You make a good point, but what I mean is that there's no variety in antagonist countries lately. I'd like to see someone like, North Korea fight the U.S.(Not the Korean War) Even though the tension at the DMZ hasn't been too exciting, I'd still like to play that game, if it ever gets made.

Hence Homefront's release in March. NK invades the US.

It looks cool thanx

 

[Woodsey]

Two of those games are CoD games - they don't deserve to have credited writers. Neither do most games for that matter, but still.

And it's because a lot of people still see things as Russia = Communist = Evil.

By 'people', you mean 'Americans', right? Go on, admit it. No-one minds.

Well, yes.

 

[Chickenfeed]

Can I just point out that all this talk about Russia being the only one possible to put up such a fight with America or whatever is technically wrong, as Russia is too underpopulated (And, as far as I know, very deep in financial problems.) to be able to invade America/Defend itself from a large invasion.

Unless it fired nukes, which is suicidal.

 

[Lord Honk]

Well, you see what happened when they tried to go Taliban in MoH, let alone Six Days in Fallujah. Everybody is accustomed to the russians, nazis, etc. (and of late, PMCs) are where the enemy hides, anything more topical than 40 years ago is taboo.

And thiosk: That typing is making me all dizzy, I'm all up on medication and random letters seemingly jumping at me (and I don't even wear my 3D glasses) are really not nice... well, a bit, but mostly not.

 

[Chrono212]

Common antagonists in American games:
NotIraqistan is an 'unfair' opponent.
I.e. It would be 'unrealistic' to give them a modern armed forces on a par with the US.
North Korea is also comes under that.

Europe has history so beating on Nazis is fine but modern Europe is their bi**h ally.
They also have a significantly large games market and Americans don't like killing Americans/Europeans either (unless they are Private Military Contractors, then it's ok).

So, it would be a 'fair' enemy, it isn't a Market that could kick up enough of a fuss to effect their place in games and you can totally see:
"Russian mutant radioactive zombie soldier program"
Compared to:
"Non-descript Middle Eastern County mutant radioactive zombie soldier program"

 

[Scarecrow]

Because in Soviet Russia....no, I won't do it. It's just because they are easy to make them look like bad guys to the American, or as I like to call him, 'Joe Dumb-face'.

 

[jamradar]

Because people are behind on the times and think that the Cold War is sill going on.

 

[Tomster595]

Yeah, why not have North Korea or something like that as an antagonist? Why Russia?

I have no idea, it would make so much more sense to use Korea. Seriously. The cold war is over.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

As a Russian I'm sick of it. The irony here is that USA is the only country actually guilty of horrid war crimes (Vietnam, Iraq anyone?). Yet games where you slaughter Americans are always low-budget titles released in Eastern Europe only.

On the other hand it warms the heart - poor bastards are still afraid of us, Russians. We still have nuclear weapons and some advanced types of rockets, the ones you can't defend from.

Попробуй они, голубчики, это в реале мы б им их собственные поджаренные задницы вернули. Как у нас говорят - вытащи у американского солдата из ранца туалетную бумагу и все - боеспособность на нуле.
Ничему не учатся, ей богу. Мы Наполеона порвали, Гитлера порвали, неужто есть еще желающие?

Now try and translate this. Google translator will kill itself.

 

[spartandude]

Because Russians were the last enemies that America fought which were on the same technological level as the US, and which were perceived as an actual threat.

I mean, what have we had since the Cold War? A bunch of terrorists, in ass backward countries using 60 year old weapons, and home made explosives. Sure, they can kill people, but there is not threat of them ever being a serious threat to the American government.

and yet they are still undefeated after nearly 10 years

 

[shootthebandit]

basically it started in the 80s towards the end of the cold war, ronald reagan was paranoid and he started propaganda campaigns about russian spies. its also because russians are conceived as communists, alot of people dont understand communism and people tend to fear what they dont understand. the thing is that modern russia is actually closer to facism but we still see them as communists

also russians are brutally hard, they are rougher than a bear arse and i think that antagonises them even more