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Why Call of Duty WW2 Bosses Won't 'Shy Away' from History

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the executives,-not-level-bosses dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Bosses of the new Call of Duty game say they "touch on some really dark subject matter" in the new release.

The makers say creating a title based on a conflict that claimed about 60 million lives has been a challenge.

It's been 10 years since the Call of Duty franchise based a game during World War Two.

"In no way do you want to glorify violence, but at the same time you can't ignore it," says Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey.

"We spent a lot of time working on the right balance."

[...] "It would be insincere not to touch on what was really happening," Michael explains.

"From the politics at the time, segregation among the allies, the role of women, to the Holocaust.

"By turning away from them we would not have brought the right level of awareness or be able to honour what was really happening.

Fine, but they better not cut the classic wise-cracking Brooklynite from the squad or Call of Duty and me are done.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by idiot_king on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:23AM (5 children)

    by idiot_king (6587) on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:23AM (#592014)

    People can indulge their violent impulses guilt free because Nazis deserve it!

    ...they don't?

    Of course now we have a counter narrative seeking to mitigate the evil of the third reich

    ...so the Nazis were the good guys? Thanks for clarifying your biases.

    So perhaps future games and films will have armies of pedophiles instead.

    So you went from almost defending Nazis to defending pedophiles? What the hell is your argument even?

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:28AM (#592021)

    Stop getting triggered over words, you hypersensitive douchenozzle.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:06AM (#592039)

    You know, sometimes when people write words, they mean what they write, you don't have to try analyze it to find some hidden message. Glorifying violence against nazis is still glorifying violence.

  • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Saturday November 04 2017, @09:50AM (2 children)

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Saturday November 04 2017, @09:50AM (#592123) Journal

    Find me a single word in what I wrote in defence of nazis or pedophiles. If you can't, apologise.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:15PM (#592163)

      Nazis ... have a ... narrative seeking to mitigate the evil of ... games and films ... of pedophiles

      tbh they probably do

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @12:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @12:54AM (#592323)

      Well, there was nothing in your post glorifying Mao. That's tantamount to the same thing.

      These days, anyone who isn't a Maoist is considered a Nazi.