Earthbound64
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Grammar Nazis will point out that the topic title shouldn't have an apostrophe in it.
Exactly.
Exactly.
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Nazi's really are the best all-time villian
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CrackPebbles
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I grealty enjoy killing Nazis can't wait for the new Wolfenstein.
potatohead
Member
I like the helghast space nazisw even better than normal nazis
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I actually kinda dislike the helghast because of the absurd lengths Killzone's plots go through to include "they aren't that bad and are actually victims of your faction" into the lore and such. When they look like this:
The eyes of their helmets have literally gotten angrier overtime...
onemanasylum
Banned
We got some bad ass grammar police in the house .
joe_zazen
Member
Boer War. Brits invented concentration camps there, love to play a Boer war game. Or maybe use the time the US Army overthrew the Hawaiian government to make US businessmen happy. I'd love to play a pissed off Hawaiian out for revenge in 1890s.
Suburban Thug
Member
Those shield guys in Crash 1 piss me off. Nazi's are petty bad tho.
Stiler
Member
Maybe on the surface, and how they are designed in most games it's easy to because the games often portray them as your stereotypical Nazi's and nothing more.
Germany used pow's and conscripted many people into its armies who didn't want to fight for them.
IE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostlegionen
No game is really going to touch that kind of thing though when it comes to games.
Germany used pow's and conscripted many people into its armies who didn't want to fight for them.
IE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostlegionen
No game is really going to touch that kind of thing though when it comes to games.
Killer Queen
Banned
Barely.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Punching, kitting, shooting and stabbing Nazis will literally never, ever get old.
Jawmuncher
Member
Nazis definitely look the part. They're so stylishly evil, just look at Wolf 2. Evil as fuck, but they look good doing it. Reminds of why people like the helghast from killzone, since they're basically a mix of storm troopers and Nazis. If they didn't look as cool as they did, I doubt we'd have gotten 4 games out of them.
joecanada
Member
Dino's also tried to rule the world but failed assholes
miller.skippins
Banned
also, nobody (Germans notwithstanding) will get offended if you decapitate a Nazi...so they were pretty much the safest human based enemies a player can fight without triggering anyone.
potatohead
Member
No that's only if u played the last game or just bandwagon on popular opinion not surprising
martincrimson87
Banned
I don't know. Nazis, Communists, Arabs, Africans, Koreans, Chinese... It get's boring... I'd like to be from one of these factions at least once and face Americans or Allies "the good guys" as the enemy. But we all know it won't happen... studios won't withstand the backlash from way too many easily offended folks during these days.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I played 2, 3, and shadowfall.
nkarafo
Member
Real Nazi officers looked great too. Those uniforms by Hugo Boss look stylish and intimidating af.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Hmm, that's a really interesting observation. Stealth games are my favorite genre due to the gameplay (I enjoy slinking around in the shadows, it's a real power fantasy), but you do have a point. In most of these games though, if you're discovered you are generally attacked on sight, so there's some form of justification at least.
I've always wondered about this. I think a game where you kill Americans would be a breath of fresh air, but the developer/publisher would have to have balls of motherfucking steel to release a game like that and withstand the inevitable barrage of criticism and disdain from conservatives, the alt right, and anyone who thinks that Americans have never done anything bad (even though anyone with even a passing interest in history could list off a parade of genocides and dictators that were propped up, funded, and supported by the US of A).
It's why I'm so interested to see how Far Cry 5 turns out. That could be a watershed moment in flipping the script on Nazi/Russian/Arab villains in games.
kenmasters
Member
ITT ppl are brainwashed by the american popcorn version of history
Yeah that's how I usually feel playing shooters. Aliens, zombies or robots are my more preferred enemy type, or at least having non lethal stealth kills - I don't want to have to think about who I'm killing, because front line soliders generally aren't the bad guys.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Essentially every strategy, tactics and simulation game with a ww2 theme has nazis as the most popular faction by an enormous margin. It's only really campaign focussed shooters where you don't see them as player characters.
Every second game of CoH2 saw you facing down people with online handles like "SS_Panzergrenadier_Division_Adolf_Hitler" and "Tiger_Ace_88".
Gnome Scat
Member
Spec Ops: The Line and Far Cry 5 sound right up your alley.
Pretty much. Many Nazi's refused to shoot.
What an explosiv comeback.
This reminds me of Battlefield 1 having an American campaign but not a German one.
Psychoward
Banned
Yeah old blood was great for that
It had one of the best nazi quips around
https://youtu.be/dnp6HiftUGc
(No spoilers)
BJ the goat
It had one of the best nazi quips around
https://youtu.be/dnp6HiftUGc
(No spoilers)
BJ the goat
CD'S BAR
Member
Many nations and people hate Nazis, not just America.
And yet they still managed to murder 6 million Jews and piss off half of the world.
Shooting Nazis in games is better than shooting Zombies in games because Zombies never made the choice to be evil, Nazis had to make that choice.
Hell, the Germans banned everything to do with Nazis after the war.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Damn right. Fuck Nazis. New Colossus looks goooooood.
And with the modern political situation being what it is it's only gonna be more cathartic on release.
And with the modern political situation being what it is it's only gonna be more cathartic on release.
Or he could just come out and say he enjoyed every second of Hatred.
NippleViking
Banned
Maybe of humanoid encounters.
Give me exciting creature design or engaging Aliens any day over Nazis.
Give me exciting creature design or engaging Aliens any day over Nazis.
markstuckert
Neo Member
Son of a Submariner
In this thread it seems people do not know the difference between a German soldier and their divisions, and the Nazi Party and the SS.
Yes there were soldiers who did not agree with the regime, surrendered, even plotted against Hitler but they were not Nazis.
No one needs to feel bad for killing members of the Nazi Party, their beliefs and goals were despicable.
Yes there were soldiers who did not agree with the regime, surrendered, even plotted against Hitler but they were not Nazis.
No one needs to feel bad for killing members of the Nazi Party, their beliefs and goals were despicable.
Gnome Scat
Member
Well sure, at the microscopic and individual level not all Germans living under Nazi rule or serving in the military were deeply passionate about taking over the world and eradicating "inferior" races; some were just serving their country (like Rommel) and other were coerced/drafted into service to fight for the Third Reich. While anti-semitism grew rampantly under Hitler's rule, I doubt (or at least hope) the final solution would be popular among the public and was not common knowledge to many at the time.
However, in a video game, when you're blasting through level after level killing Nazis, the game doesn't view them at the micro level, but rather the macro level. It's not like the game is trying to represent the individual people who made up the army - I mean it's pretty much the same five character models recycled over and over again - it uses the enemies in games to represent the enemy faction, being a physical extension of their ideals. And that's why killing Nazis is so satisfying in video games, because when you blow up one of their heads with a 12 gauge shotgun, you're not killing Hans Müller, father of three and a patriot of Germany, you're killing some Hitler-loving fuck who wants to take over the world for the master race.
Yeah his comment did come off kind of edgy, but I just gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed he means the bad Americans, such as how Nazis are just bad Germans and the Communists were viewed as bad Russians/Vietnamese at the time. If he meant just killing Americans for the sake of killing Americans, then he can fuck right off with that request.
nkarafo
Member
You sure German citizens had a choice?
That's a genuine question. In many European countries there is no such choice. Plus, joining the military for some time is mandatory. Basically, you either go with the flow or you get labeled as a traitor or a deserter which can mean a death sentence in some occasions.
Earthbound64
Banned
ftfy
Call of Duty and Spec Ops: The Line have you covered.
EYEL1NER
Member
I can't stop watching that first gif. Does that first shot that hits the face of the second guy really blast his skin off of his head or am I seeing things?There day 1 for the new Wolfenstein:
Fucking hell I can't wait for this game.
Argh, I started playing TNO back in 2015 and shelved it in favor of other games. I really need to get back to it.
Versipellis
Member
Eugen's Steel Division - Normandy 44 (a real time strategy game just published by Paradox) has Ostlegionen as deployable troops. They are pretty weak and with very low morale - the game even explains why, through an info sheet.
NightShift
Member
Nazi's are easily to hate but the new Wolfenstein still does a good job of establishing the villains despite of the fact.
Alexander DeLarge
Member
Not only were these guys KKK members, weren't they into human trafficking or something?
Many soldiers on all sides intentionally shot above people. Most deaths were from artillery.
Denazification was a policy of the occupying powers. The Germans didn't really have a choice in the matter.