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StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Also the failson cook in Italy whose apartment has a shortcut to the villa

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Digital Osmosis
Nov 10, 2002

Smile, Citizen! Happiness is Mandatory.

oh and the extremely niche pc game "pillars of eternity 2: deadfire" is good though because it's about founding and defending the fantasy kingdom of hawaii from imperialist and capitalist forces and the three factions are written well enough that it doesn't fall into any noble savage crap and gets people online legit arguing that colonalism is the only way to "fix" the native society. plus the other main plot of the game is teaching the players the lesson of "well, this is going to piss off and kill a bunch of people but it's the only way to make the world a better place."

you can try and do the badass gamer go at it alone thing and everything sucks for everyone because gently caress neutrality

this has been my thoughts about which video game is good, thanks for listening

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

Deadfire was really good and I enjoyed the anti-colonialist sentiment reflected in it. The VTC was written with some unsubtle mirrors to Dole.

Good writing, I was completely unsympathetic.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

does Call of Duty still flash quotes about how war is bad when you get merc'd

HerraS
Apr 15, 2012

Looking professional when committing genocide is essential. This is mostly achieved by using a beret.

Olive drab colour ensures the genocider will remain hidden from his prey until it's too late for them to do anything.



whatever, I'll be over here playing Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe
What about a Modern Warfare where you're a dude (or a lady, it's a modern war) and you're in a militia that the CIA has just declared a terrorist group. They were previously supporting you for a couple of months so you've got some new weapons, but the rest of your stuff are junk you inherited from the last century. Anyway the main problem is that the CIA also gave you a couple billion dollars in cash and gold, by accident, and that's why they want to kill you.

So you have a home base of sorts which is a convoy of cars, technicals and trucks, roving between fights. You're trying to escort this pallet of money somewhere and the US has declared war on you and has put a couple million in bounty on so everyone else wants a piece as well. You gotta manage your people and your scarce resources.

Main enemy: opposing militia, daesh fodder. Not well equipped at all.

Elite enemies: actual regional soldiers with real body armour, fighting vehicles and all that.

Boss fight: the US forces themselves. Every single enemy is heavily armoured and filled with combat stimulants so they're a slog to kill. If a fight lasts more than a few minutes you're going to be pounded by air strikes and artillery. Fortunately the CIA gave you some neat toys so you can actually take down tanks and helicopters surprisingly easily, but the more dollar damage you inflict the bigger the bounty gets.

I don't know what the ending could be. Maybe a fistfight with Dick Cheney on top of the USS Ronald Reagan.

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

so this is just a second thread about video games now huh

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Farm Frenzy posted:

so this is just a second thread about video games now huh

there is an infinite supply of both threads and video games

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Ayn Randi posted:

achievement unlocked: we tortured some folks

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Farm Frenzy posted:

so this is just a second thread about video games now huh
one is for "video games are good" and this one, i guess, is for "video games are bad"

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
okay but will Call of Duty Modern Warfare have an easy mode for people who just want to experience the story?

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
“Remember, no Russian,”

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

no chapo thread and two videogame threads. jesus

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Farm Frenzy posted:

no chapo thread and two videogame threads. jesus
the chapo thread was already talking about the twitch stream before it got gassed

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

get that OUT of my face posted:

one is for "video games are good" and this one, i guess, is for "video games are bad"

is this dialectics

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Atrocious Joe posted:

is this dialectics

Eventually the threads will get gassed and a third will open - synthesis

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
Synthesis: video games are a necessary evil

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Studies seem to suggest that after around age 5 (so, when you should be able to start discerning fantasy from reality) violent video games aren't really causing antisocial behavior. There's nothing inherent to video games that makes them bad.

It's more just about lovely greedy corporations who exploit everyone they can to make number go up and also the military gives them number to make pro-military plotlines.

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

Synthesis: video games are a necessary evil

Synthesis sucks but the next league, legion (as in "Legions of excellent gaming to come") is going to be way better

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
video games are just media

they have basically the same problems as movies, except their half-assed social aspects mean they also have many of the same problems as social media except with even less moderation, plus the industry actively caters to angry nerds which gives it a lot of the same problems that comics and tabletop gaming have

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
video gam’es

a Loving Dog
May 12, 2001

more like a Barking Dog, woof!

Farm Frenzy posted:

no chapo thread and two videogame threads. jesus

sounds like a big improvement lol

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014

finally, just what cspam needed: more video games

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

How is any of this new? Video games featuring the military have been Hanoi Hilton and Rambo 2-3 style propaganda for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JUmTHkkFQ

Check out the voice actor for Sergei Dekker when he has a gun to Hawks' head. The line was so drat stupid it almost sounds like the VA ironically had a gun pointed at his own head in the recording studio.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
Just give me a shooter where you play as the Viet Cong heroically defending their homeland.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

MonsieurChoc posted:

Just give me a shooter where you play as the Viet Cong heroically defending their homeland.

battlefield vietnam

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

We already got Farcry 5 where we can shoot the dicks off Trump supporters, fairness dictates that they get a game where they can masturbate furiously while shooting brown people.

coathat
May 21, 2007

bird with big dick posted:

We already got Farcry 5 where we can shoot the dicks off Trump supporters, fairness dictates that they get a game where they can masturbate furiously while shooting brown people.

Durr why defend Vietnam against imperialist invaders you can play this game about hurting the bad Americans who don’t vote Democrat

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

coathat posted:

Durr why defend Vietnam against imperialist invaders you can play this game about hurting the bad Americans who don’t vote Democrat

you say that like it's a bad thing

antifa supersoldier simulator 2020

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

bird with big dick posted:

We already got Farcry 5 where we can shoot the dicks off Trump supporters, fairness dictates that they get a game where they can masturbate furiously while shooting brown people.
the reviews for Far Cry 5 pissed me off. they all admitted that it's a good and well-made game, but it didn't deliver the hard hitting political commentary they fully expected from previews (completely forgetting that AAA video game companies probably aren't gonna be delivering that), so it gets a bad score

admittedly the plot is poo poo and says nothing, but if that ruins your playing enjoyment then you suck

coathat
May 21, 2007

Ghost Leviathan posted:

you say that like it's a bad thing

antifa supersoldier simulator 2020

Shut the gently caress up you capitalist pig dog

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene

Taintrunner posted:

game seems rad, actually
great hot take, love cspam

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

very inteeresting

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