It's so obvious that the west sees gaming as nothing but a propaganda tool for recruitment. They're talking about games that involve real countries at war as if that's the only kind of game.
I don't even play games with real countries in them, unless you count things like Fallout, which hardly frames the USA as the good guy, or Persona, which only involves Japan.
Really telling when they only see media as a tool for control and manipulation, rather than a tool of creativity, fun and art.
Oh yeah. Fucking spoilt jerks getting school trips to other countries lol
Welcome to my 2 hour long theory video about how Persona 5 is canonically set in an alternate universe where the Japanese won WWII. In this video I will discuss...
In this universe Japanese teenagers killed him as a high school club activity. Sorry you had to find out this way.
Is that from persona? I was referencing one of the weirdest scenes from part 8 of jojo, which involves a girl thinking Hawaii was part of Japan that leads to an incel stating he doesn't believe in God, and has no bearing on the plot but I'm so happy it's in it.
I wasn't referring to any specific thing, just the general feel of anime shit.
I'm not trying to claim you ripped of EVA or anything. Arguably it looks more like the gates of gehenna from Blue Exorcist. I was just saying I was sorta getting that general feeling from it. You see what you know in art, I think.
It will be funny when China market overtakes US's one as most profitable and Americans find out that their entertainment industry has no allegiance to their country or their culture, only to shareholder profit.
I'm here for the delicious takes from the 'other' side of conflicts, like China and the DPRK in The Sacrifice.
they got some guy who does soldering as an expert on why china is bad
broke: genociding the Uyghas
bespoke: genociding the wiggas
Make a version of "No Russian" set in an American high school and watch the ensuing fireworks.
It turns out the first AAA game out of China will be a Souls-like. :felix-linus:
It sounds fun and looks great, but I'd rather Chinese companies start making better versions of games that Western publishers like EA or 2K have been milking for years.
I'd love to play a new GTA or Elder Scrolls, please.
Edit: I say Chinese companies will need to make these games, because there's no way a company like Microsoft or Activision will ever be sold off, even in part, to Chinese investors. The Call of Duty games especially are too important for propaganda and recruitment reasons to the US state department.
Do you really think a Chinese company would outbid EA for exclusive rights?
You can make a COD clone without support of the US army, you can't make a successful basketball game without LeBron.
There used to be superior sports titles, but EA killed them all by getting exclusive licenses.
Just make it completely unlicensed to make the Westoids seethe more about "muh precious IP!"
Oh yeah I remember when they showed the teaser for that. Looks legitimately cool
Tbh, it looks okay. I'd like to see more and for the right price I would probably play it or wait for a sale, but the combat doesn't seem quite there. It is probably much further along now though
And 中国 is starting to enforce labor standards in the tech industries. So we are gonna start seeing better games from people who are treated better and thats rad.
Chinese companies would never do that because
- they want money and mayos won't play a Chinese thing
- CCP basically doesn't even attempt soft power and propaganda
The most I could see them doing is shadowbanning/censoring players who say stuff about hong kong/taiwan. I'd hardly consider that propaganda though.
I think it just reads as Japanese (anime) to most people. I had no idea it was chinese.
CCP basically doesn’t even attempt soft power and propaganda
Uh... what? No.
There is plenty of CCP soft-power propaganda circulating. It's just delivered to Mandarin speaking audiences. Americans aren't their primary focus. We're a quarter their population and on the opposite side of a very large ocean. They are far more invested in cultivating public loyalty and trust among their own residents than "winning hearts and minds" in the states.
If you want to see Chinese soft power, witness the transformation of Hong Kong from a loyalist UK redoubt to a staunchly pro-Beijing port city. Or check out what's happening in Vietnam and Malaysia and Korea and even Japan. Check out the burgeoning friendship between Russia and China. Or Iran and China. Or Mongolia and China. Or Madagascar and Mozambique and China. This shit exists. It just isn't for you.
That last part is just The Simpson's Willy talking about Scottish people, or at least that's how it was replayed in my brain. Though, it started with "China and other China" instead of ending with it.
Video games have been around for over 40 years (3D shooters for nearly 30) and enjoyed by people all around the globe. And yet, to my knowledge there hasn't been one single game of any notariety made where the US is the bad guys and you shoot at Americans. That is telling...
There's Spec Ops: The Line. You start the game with your standard ooh rah marine shit and shooting arabs, and then after a bit you start shooting other yankees. The game is a trip for sure.
to my knowledge there hasn’t been one single game of any notariety made where the US is the bad guys and you shoot at Americans
Seriously? What about Bioshock 3? Don't you literally fight an animatronic George Washington?
What about Last Of Us? Or Half Life 2? Or... fuck, half of your Counterstrike rounds involve playing as a literal terrorist shooting at American / UK / French special forces.
Command & Conquer and Red Alert let you play as literal Communists. Red Faction, too.
There are tons of games where you're an insurgent fighting against a corrupt American government. And tons of games where you're "Both Sides"-ing a conflict between geopolitical powers.
I'd love a WW2 sim (preferably flight but FPS will do) that actually involves the Chinese Theatre.
Never underestimate g*mers' ability to get the exact opposite message out of a game no matter how explicitly it states its politics.
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