Well .......

after digesting the whole charade going on with this upcoming new game release. i could only think, My dear God..... where the hell did all of these sensitivities from people with game affiliations come from ... did i say sensitivities ? I meant stupid as ****** . Of course sheepling is as old as the world, creating safety in staying with the group but yea, we all seen that movie back in the mid eighties right, where a school teacher went out to do a school project implementing nazi rule to end with letting people see how susceptible they are !

damnit !

I'm not sure what your point is, but imo a game with that title cannot be but tasteless, really repellent to use a bloody conflict within very recent memory for entertainment purposes.

Well, it does seem that an effort was made to tell a story, not so much all on the fun factor. Further i do agree to a certain height that the use of real life situations deployed in games can act as non beneficial, on the other side with games seen as a art and artists usually create from within by what is happening outside etc etc etc

We had games about the first Gulf war less than a year after it ended, I don't really see how seventeen years could be considered as being "too recent" to have one for Falluja.

That's some great incoherent rambling with absolutely no explanation of anything at all from the OP. I'd give this thread 8 mumbling drunks falling off a bar stool out of 10.

Doesn't contradict anything I wrote, those games were also in poor taste.
Don't even know how one could make a game about the first Gulf war, the conflict was so one-sided, turkey-shooting on the highway of death isn't good gaming material, no real challenge.

There is nothing wrong with making a game about recent conflicts. It's been done over-and-over by much larger series and companies.

How well will it be done? I guess we'll see.

IMO the outrage is ridiculous... but par for the course these days when people want to complain with their tweets instead of voting with their dollars. The drumbeat is loud lately to remove all guns from games due to violence.

I followed 6 days when it was originally in development many years ago... and follow it now.

I gotta go. My kid is playing Dungeon & Dragons and is probably being demon-possesed!

Sheesh

Why is it poor taste? You sound little different from the karens of the 90's complaining about mortal kombat.

Making an entertainment product about a conflict that is well within living memory (and which was very controversial at the time) just seems fundamentally wrong to me.
Mortal Combat obviously wasn't based in reality, so no comparison.
And stop using that idiotic term "karen", you're not even from America where this stupid term originated. Why do people have to ape anything they see on the internet?

Why?

imo it's disrespectful to people who were involved in the events and are still alive.
And while I don't want to start a political discussion, Iraq war was also very controversial, it wasn't a "good war" like WW2 (or maybe even something like the Korean war which was also about repelling aggression), but a war arguably started on false pretexts and whose effects are still felt in the region today. Using such a war as a setting for an entertainment product is just extra poor taste imo.

+1

It doesn't matter what a war was fought over or how it's perceived, apart from illegal content no topic should be out of grounds for video game developers. Also who are you to say it's disrespectful to those involved, are you an Iraq War veteran? I would assume most Iraq veterans would like video games being made about it because it spreads awareness of the conflict in the current generation instead of it being forgotten.

simon sez if u watchin the wave u must be a nazi

If young people are so interested in war, they should be sent to fight in one themselves.