Profile of Dullahan

Who would want to play that game?
Who would want their children to play that game?

Censorship is about what the majority feel is inappropriate to encourage. You cannot always be there to give guidance, so censorship acts as a gate, to help stem the flow. Self-censorship is simply pre-empting the majority reaction.

Art is expression of perspective. It is a thin line between art and propaganda when you involve intent. Would you consider either of these hypothetical games as art?

9/11 Flight Sim
Khmer Rouge Farming Simulator

Games don't "encourage" things. There are countless studies that back this up. Unless you support the ideas of Jack Thompson or Joe Lieberman and are seriously worried about the effect games have on our kids. In which case, you should consider that the most popular game among kids is Call of Duty.

"Hatred" is one such game, I dunno if you've seen the trailer for it. It's a dual joy stick shooter where you play as a mass murdering shooter, mowing down innocent people and cops. The point of the game is to lampshade the extreme amount of brutal violence in games by removing the "greater good" or "ends justify the means" narrative that usually accompanies these games. Most modern games involve gratuitously violent takedown kills and mass murder of hundreds of enemies, but there's applause not outrage when Joel blew the head off a guy pleading for mercy in The Last of Us at E3, while Hatred has been heavily criticized for the content of its short trailer.

1. because Nazism is evil. and i am not saying it like an eighth grader who just learned about hitler for the first time.


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2. every action should be justifiable. i literally have no idea how one can disagree on this. if you can't justify your act, it just means you did it for no good reason.

and again, like i told reforever, swastika in this game is censored because there is no good reason for it to be there. if this game was made to spark an educated debate about nazism and its place in the world etc, or if the game was going for a total historical accuracy, i would understand.

The ideas of "good" and "evil' are over-simplifications. If your argument is that we can't portray evil things in games, then Wolfenstein shouldn't be allowed because mass murder should be considered "evil", no?

Why should being an evil character be discouraged or not allowed? Many games certainly offer the option to play a morally bankrupt character who commits murder on a whim, so why is it suddenly worse for those acts to affect virtual children (Illegal in the US) or wear swastika while you do it?

I think that dehumanizing the Nazi's is just as criminal as anything the Nazi's did. It underestimates how easy it is for anyone to commit atrocity, regardless of ideology. Regardless, it shouldn't matter how a game chooses to portray nazism. It's either all okay or none of it is okay.


If a game has to justify it's portrayal of nazism, shouldn't it also have to justify any other deplorable content? Why is it okay to feature an alien race that promotes eugenics and racial purity, but when it's real humans it's suddenly a problem?

Censorship of any art is an awful thing. Criticize it, if you object morally. That's a fair thing to do. But to say that they "shouldn't" do it because you don't agree with it is quite ignorant. I think such ideas, whether they be about the portrayal of nazi's, or women, or race or violence etc really hold games back because there is so much pressure to please as many people as possible that developers are forced to create analogues for the same thing. Fake-real countries are very common, for example. Everyone knows Far Cry 4 takes place in Tibet, but god forbid they call it Tibet.

At guns work well in the mid game.

m8A1 scott can also shoot indirectly with accuracy if you use attack ground, and is pretty effective.

You can also use smoke to temporarily negate the buildings, allowing you to get close with flamers or even plant demo charges.

I'd like to see the blizzard mechanic make a comeback. Right now there's only one map in 1v1 automatch that has them.

0. wolfenstein is over the top ridiculous murder-all-nazis fps. because of its such arcade-ness made it more ok imo. while coh2 is technically an arcade, it isn't so trivial like wolfenstein

You need to justify why it isn't okay for a more serious game to portray WWII Germany accurately. Why can Schindler's List or Band of Brothers do it, but not Company of Heroes?

1. nazism caused the most deadly human conflict and very recently. soviet symbol is just as bad to me, but since they were technically invaded by nazis and that they were allies during the war and existed for longer time, which brainwashed a lot of ppl ( i had a half ukrainian and russian roommate who was defending stalin lol) make them ok i guess. i don't agree with it, but that's just how it goes.

It's easy to point at "nazism" as the cause of WWII, but it's not really accurate. Attributing all the deaths of WWII to Nazism is ridiculous as well. The "good guys" killed lots of people too.

2. all german armed forces was invloved in systematic murder of jews, occupied subjects etc etc. but since it is better to forgive and forget, people generally don't hold grudges against ww2 wehr soldiers etc etc. but what SS, especially ones assigned to guarding death camps and carrying out systematic killings, went too far to be either forgiven or forgotten.

We executed the leadership (who weren't useful to us, such as the scientists.) because we wanted to hold someone responsible. That doesn't lighten the load of everyone else who committed atrocity in WWII and elsewhere. The Soviets raped their way all the way to Berlin, for example. The Japanese treated China in a similar fashion.

3. that is because russians are very very proud of their nation and history, to put it nicely. i palyed the campaign many times, but it makes superior officers and stalinst government look evil, but noooooooooooooo, even that is too much. you mustn't offend the great bear.

just watch stalingrad(2013) if you want to know how some russians see the was as.

Propaganda is a wonderful, scary thing.

It's a bit hard to gauge what is obscured, generally if there's a vehicle wreck or smoke grenade anywhere between you and your opponent, you probably can't hit them. (Even if you can see them)