bad guy is a opinion
One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter
alexmurray
The world isn't that black & white - it's idiotic to divide the world into "freedom fighters" and "terrorists". Frankly, that's why someone should have the guts to do a WW2 game depicting the struggle of German youth. What's it like to live with that sort of nationalism, that sort of propaganda and pride? What was it like conquering countries, fighting the allies, and watching the war machine? What of the technological revolutions we still owe Germany for, from the Nazi era?
WW2 was a horrific time, we made incredible gains in psychology, psychiatry, physiology, physics at the cost of human life and the very humanity we attest for fight for - it's such a common game, and theme because the Nazi regime was committing attrocities that were so obviously evil - and perhaps why it's so rare to tell the story from the other side.
We have "evil" in gaming but it's most fantasy evil - it's rarely the nitty-gritty real life sort of evil. The sort of "Walmart converts 10,000 full-time employees to part-time employees" grey area evil of the real world. That stuff happens and no one blinks and eye - so maybe there should be a game that makes that sort of evil more apparent - instead of the over-the-top violence and fantasy "muahaha Satan is eating puppies" evil, why not have a game that showcases the subtle evils, the ill-defined choices of the real world?
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