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Dreamcaster on 02 May 2017
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VGPolyglot said:
Dreamcaster said:

I never stated that there were none, however, women did not serve on the front-lines in combat roles for the military of the United States. The game implies otherwise, and as such borders on revisionism.

You said that you disagree with the decision of having female characters in the multiplayer. It's not like the United States will be the only country represented in multiplayer.

It isn't a matter of whether the United States is the only country or not, if it is one of many then it is still a potentially harmful misrepresentation of the truth. For example, if China and Japan were to be included, and yet the only playable characters were to be white men, while this would be a true representation for some countires, for these it would not and would as such be a perversion of the truth.

SpokenTruth said:
Dreamcaster said:
I disagree with the decision not because it's unrealistic, but rather because it feels like they're bordering on revisionism. Obviously if there's a Nazi zombie side-game, everybody knows that it is fantasy just for fun. Alluding, however, that the way the war was fought was different to how it really was is a dangerous thing. Once you begin to tread the path of slight alterations to the portrayal of events in works of entertainment, those 'slight alterations' can become greater and greater in the name of concepts such as 'diversity' and 'inclusiveness'. A perversion to history can lead to a perversion in the thoughts of the impressionable masses, and such is never a good thing as has been seen time and time again.

It's a video game, not a historical document.  It's also multiplayer, not the single player campagin.

Light forms of entertainment such as video games or movies sculpt large parts of the thoughts of the majority of people. While you may be able to play a game of this nature and see the inaccuracies and disreagard them due to your 'a posteriori' knowledge, if an impressionable young person's initial exposure to the setting of a game is that game then they would not be able to discern fact from fiction and would continue into adulthood with false knowledge.