Comments on: Konami dumps Six Days in Fallujah

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:46:25 +0000

@Jason:

I hear ya!
What I find amazing is how people don’t pick up on that story, no matter how many ways you present it.
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By: Monkey D. Luffy

Monkey D. Luffy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:10:17 +0000

SunKing took the words right out of my mouth. In addition to that, none of the people complaining about the game were going to buy it anyway, they should have ignored them and released it. I can still remember the HUGE outcry against Mortal Combat, which sold VERY well. Listening to the pissers, moaners, and hand wringers is not going to help you in the video game business.

By: JasonN

JasonN — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:10:17 +0000

Let’s see if I get this right, it’s OK to SELL a real and unjust war based on lies to the public, but it’s not OK to SELL a video game based on it!

By: SunKing

SunKing — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:14:16 +0000

Well, I’m not quite sure wtf Shakespeare has to do with this but, moving on…. We have many WW1 and WW2 games.

So then, what is the time period before you can make a game about a war? 5 years? 10? It’s less than 40 obviously.

Sounds like the obligatory knee-jerk reaction to me.

“Considering the enormous loss of life in the SECOND WORLD WAR, glorifying it in a video game demonstrates very poor judgement and bad taste… These horrific events should be confined to the annals of history, not trivialised and rendered for thrill-seekers to play out… It’s entirely possible that GERMAN/JAPANESE families will buy the game, and for them it may prove particularly harrowing. Even worse, it could end up in the hands of a fanatical young NAZI and incite him to consider some form of retaliation or retribution”

STFU.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:47:53 +0000

Looking at the limitations put upon Shakespeare as to what he could write plays about, this is nothing. And if this game comes out under another publisher, even with the notoriety it wouldn’t be as well remembered even 50 years after publication as, say, “Cymbeline”. (Yes I have chosen the least-well remembered of Shakespeare’s plays to be fair.)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:51:52 +0000

ah, real life events could incite a revolt among certain ethnic or religious groups. ah.

Why suppress history?