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exindguy on 21 January 2009
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stof said:

And to everyone who is saying "Bush Bashing is stupid"... In your game set in the current Iraq war, what would the banter between soldiers sound like? "I sometimes contemplate if this policy was in the best interest of my nation. But in a time of war we should not doubt our commander in chief."

A game about the Iraq war with realistic dialogue would have people bashing bush in it. And yes, that's different than the game bashing bush. Of course, if the game itself wanted to bash bush (with comical speeches by an idiot baboon manchild)... Well that would have been pretty awesome too.

Actually, knowing honest-to-God service people (clearly, unlike you), no, they don't actually sit around and bash Bush nor do they spend an inordinate amount of time questioning what they, by and large, feel is a just mission.

Believe it or not, the vast majority of service people are actually pro-Bush (poll after poll has demonstrated this, as has the vast majority of hte military vote going to Bush and then McCain) and they, like most everyone else that isn't suffering advanced Bush Derangement Syndrome, don't spend their time coming up with the latest (and lamest yet) monkey joke--jokes that, if they were ever funny, stopped being so around, oh, 2004--they spend their time like the rest of us: playing, talking about women, working out, talking about their families, home, etc.

So congratulations on your smug self-righteousness: now that Bush is out of office you'll have to find some other target at which to direct your inchoate rage--I suggest pointing it at the comedian in the mirror, for starters.

Galaki said:

+1

I'd like to see some political humour in video games.

I don't see why it would fail seeing how successful The Daily Show and Cobert Report are so successful.

You'd only like to see it as long as it's skewering that with which you disagree.

And the reason you don't see it is because it's a great way to alienate vast swaths of your potential audience.

And if you want to see some political 'humor', there's "Hail to the Chimp" and "Area 51", both of which are pretty lousy games undergirded by lots of crude, idiotic humor.