If you omit the first paragraph this actually sounds hilarious.WanderFreak said:
Anyway when talking about rape in video games didn't one of those recently kick up a bit of a fuss?
Things that the world's most controversial game would need to include in order to be controversial?
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Anyway when talking about rape in video games didn't one of those recently kick up a bit of a fuss?
Man Hunt 2 except the enemies are children and you have to rape them before and after you kill them. Make it in America, have all the characters Japanese yet make them all speak French and there we go.
Sim Death Camp. As Camp Commandant at Auschwitz you must enact the Final Solution as you see fit.
-Earn DeutcheMarks by increasing lampshade and soap production, as well as gold reclamation.
-Cull unproductive workers in the shower block.
-Keep sex-slaves.
-Earn DeutcheMarks by increasing lampshade and soap production, as well as gold reclamation.
-Cull unproductive workers in the shower block.
-Keep sex-slaves.
Oh my God, you are made of Epic Win Cookies. That sums up Japanese gaming perfectly, though I mean no offence to the Japanese, I absolutely love them in general.WanderFreak said:
Disclaimer: If anyone is offended by my comment about this being related to the Japanese, send me a PM and I'll take it down as soon as I get said message.
The problem with most of these ideas is that they, as TV Tropes calls it, "cross the line twice." They cross it the first time by being utterly tasteless, then they cross it again by being so tasteless that they're no longer offensive but, rather, hilarious, even for those people who should be offended by them. This is how they get away with anything that they show on Adult Swim. Toning those shows down would only make them more offensive than they already are, so they just keep going further over-the-top.
So how's this for my idea: a World War II shooter where you play on the German side. In the campaign mode, not just in team deathmatch. And they're portrayed as the good guys. Nothing simple. No baby-raping, or necrophilia, or bestiality. At least, not from the "good" guys. Instead, those traits are given to the enemies -- the Soviets, the Americans, the Jews, the Poles. A sizable chunk of your character's witty banter with his war buddies involves talking about "the enemy" in these terms. To have your character committing these actions would not only subconsciously tell players that the Nazis are evil, it would expose the fact that the game's sole purpose is to shock the player, both of which would lessen the impact of the game's subject matter. Instead, by telling the player that the "undesirables" engage in these acts, the game is telling the player unironically that the Nazis were the good guys during World War II. And that, my friends, is far more offensive than throwing dead babies and gore and nudity and little boy booty at the screen.
So how's this for my idea: a World War II shooter where you play on the German side. In the campaign mode, not just in team deathmatch. And they're portrayed as the good guys. Nothing simple. No baby-raping, or necrophilia, or bestiality. At least, not from the "good" guys. Instead, those traits are given to the enemies -- the Soviets, the Americans, the Jews, the Poles. A sizable chunk of your character's witty banter with his war buddies involves talking about "the enemy" in these terms. To have your character committing these actions would not only subconsciously tell players that the Nazis are evil, it would expose the fact that the game's sole purpose is to shock the player, both of which would lessen the impact of the game's subject matter. Instead, by telling the player that the "undesirables" engage in these acts, the game is telling the player unironically that the Nazis were the good guys during World War II. And that, my friends, is far more offensive than throwing dead babies and gore and nudity and little boy booty at the screen.
You're right that it's not really controversial unless people disagree vehemently on it.KevinR1990 said:
There's an interesting alternative history discussion to be had based on the idea of German forces withdrawing in good order from the west to slow the Soviets while the western Allies let them go then advanced fast. It might well have been a far better idea not just for Germans (especially the ones in the eastern western middle bit) and Germany (especially at reunification) but also for the west in general because the Soviet bloc would have been a little bit smaller and a little bit further from the Atlantic.
No comments on a Vietnam FPS campaign game that includes My Lai and doesn't warn you in advance?
How about an Israeli POV in southern Lebanon in the '90s? You get all the US hardware and ammo you want, and you're trying to stay alive until your tour ends and maybe stop a few Katyusha launches, but off-screen every tank shell into the girls' school and every burst of 12.7mm MG fire into the village increases the hate meter and the recruitment rates. For real ugliness points, put in landmines, and make the bastard things realistic. You know, non-fatal, crippling, indiscriminate, pretty much invisible, liable to move in landslides, ...
Graphic depictions of Cannibalism.
Titties. Lots and lots of titties.
Killing, raping, and/or eating babies, women, children etc.
Basically get one of those wacky Japanese rape games, and add cannibals and titties.
Titties. Lots and lots of titties.
Killing, raping, and/or eating babies, women, children etc.
Basically get one of those wacky Japanese rape games, and add cannibals and titties.
Depends on the society you're making it for. In the US, if you throw in the following:
Full Frontal Nudity
Sex
Unnecessary levels of gore
Swearing
Depictions of non democratic forms of government being pretty sweet
Mistreatment of women, children, and animals
Depictions of war that make it seem like Americans are anything but heros in any given conflict.
Assertion that there is no god.
America is the villian
I think that about covers it, as it crosses enough taboos that almost everone would be incensed about some portion of it.
Full Frontal Nudity
Sex
Unnecessary levels of gore
Swearing
Depictions of non democratic forms of government being pretty sweet
Mistreatment of women, children, and animals
Depictions of war that make it seem like Americans are anything but heros in any given conflict.
Assertion that there is no god.
America is the villian
I think that about covers it, as it crosses enough taboos that almost everone would be incensed about some portion of it.
You know, if you removed the whole holocaust bit from this, and changed it to an evil fantasy theme instead it wouldn't be controversial and may in fact be awesome.Benny Blanco said:
I agree with this /thread. Doesn't get much more controversial than The Aristocrats.Cliff_m85 said:
Why not a game where you're hitler but include holocaust minigames where you do all of the above in addition to other atrocities that occurred during the holocaust?Benny Blanco said:
I would imagine that were actions against jews and other undesirables undertaken properly germany would win the war in that game.
