Infinity Ward’s new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change with a potentially controversial real-world setting
  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 days

    I just want a mechanic where your character slowly succumbs to PTSD and tinnitus, making them unplayable, and then you have to navigate the VA to prestige.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 days

    It’s so hard for tactical games to find appropriate “villain countries” now. Not that many countries are not villains, but that they’re the main target audience.

    I remember long ago, The Great Ace Attorney didn’t get localized because the creators worried its story would be seen as xenophobic, in which a Japanese immigrant unveils massive corruption in the British justice system, as well as depicting London detective Sherlock Holmes as a blundering moron.

    It did eventually come out, and it’s one of my favorites. Honestly, I think we’re overprimed for Western nations to be shown as villains in media.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13 days

      This is the first time I’m hearing about this. Is it a phoenix wright game/spinoff? And does it translate well?

      • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org
        13 days

        It’s a prequel starring Phoenix’s Japanese ancestor in the 19th century. I haven’t played any of the games so I don’t know how it translates. I do know that Sherlock Holmes had to be renamed Herlock Sholmes because copyright can be ridiculous.

        • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13 days

          Wat. SURELY the copyright for Sherlock Holmes expired ages ago. Wasn’t that part of the reason we got a bunch of movies and shows about Holmes a handful of years back?

          • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13 days

            I don’t think it was purely copyright protection. While some other works feature SH (one involves the author’s Mary Sue being married to him), they usually show him as a cunning detective. This one is very unflattering of him, having Naruhodo constantly correct his dorky, inane predictions. Even if they wouldn’t technically have a case, the Doyle estate might act in a retaliatory way to them as they have done in some prior occasions.

            Tap for spoiler

            At the end of the game, it’s revealed Sholmes is really very clever, but acts in a foolish way to help inspire Naruhodo’s investigative confidence. Still, this doesn’t affect the marketing and brand impression much since it’s revealed so late.

    • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10 days

      It’s so hard for tactical games to find appropriate “villain countries” now.

      Anywhere but Kharg Island.

  • Anchorxiety@reddthat.comEnglish
    13 days

    Infinity Ward’s new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change

    “Call of duty” and “Change” do not belong in the same sentence.

    • EonNShadow@pawb.socialEnglish
      13 days

      The most change they usually do is the number on the end and the price from $60 to $70 to $80 for the base game

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13 days

    Why imagine a war when we have actual modern warfare. I mean, it would be weird to change the concept of call of duty to just drone warfare, but come on… It’s called modern warfare.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 days

    Is The Guardian trying to manufacture outrage?

    Didn’t The Guardian publish articles defending DICE when they did nearly the exact same thing with Battlefield V, the imagined / alternate-history (or however DICE called it after-the-fact) WWII game? They didn’t seem to have a problem with an alternate timeline war based game back then, and actually defended it.