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Cormoran: Is this for a German campaign? (I ask because that's not something I've ever seen in World War 2 themed games, they're all from an Allied perspective.)

If so I'd completely expect it to look like Nazi propaganda. Commanding officers and political leaders aren't going to tell their troops that what they're doing is outright evil and that they're fighting the "heroes" of the war, that's bad for morale.
Actually, I would like to see a WWII game with a campaign told from the Germans' point of view, but one focused on Germans at the front caring little for Nazi ideals and more about their own survival/the survival of their friends. Movies/story like Das Boot and All Quiet at the Western Front show that such a game could be done that way while still underscoring the evils of Nazism.
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Cormoran: Is this for a German campaign? (I ask because that's not something I've ever seen in World War 2 themed games, they're all from an Allied perspective.)

If so I'd completely expect it to look like Nazi propaganda. Commanding officers and political leaders aren't going to tell their troops that what they're doing is outright evil and that they're fighting the "heroes" of the war, that's bad for morale.
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rampancy: Actually, I would like to see a WWII game with a campaign told from the Germans' point of view, but one focused on Germans at the front caring little for Nazi ideals and more about their own survival/the survival of their friends. Movies/story like Das Boot and All Quiet at the Western Front show that such a game could be done that way while still underscoring the evils of Nazism.
How about one from the French point of view? That would be so cool! No matter what button you pushed your character would immediately drop his rifle and run away.
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Crosmando: Nah the footage I watched was of the Soviet campaign. It was basically an exact copypasta of "Enemy at the Gates", even the crossing the Volga in boats under fire scene was copied, and then the evil Commissars sending the conscripts to their deaths etc. It looked pretty cringeworthy and it's annoying because almost all WWII games rely almost entirely on stereotype and not on historical research.
Then I wonder what they thought of Medal of Honor whose Soviet campaign started with that exact scene, complete with Commissars executing a conscript that jumps overboard right after the boat gets riddled with gunfire. It's second mission also showed retreating conscripts being gunned down and you even get shot if you turn back and 'retreat' towards the start of the level.

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rampancy: Actually, I would like to see a WWII game with a campaign told from the Germans' point of view, but one focused on Germans at the front caring little for Nazi ideals and more about their own survival/the survival of their friends. Movies/story like Das Boot and All Quiet at the Western Front show that such a game could be done that way while still underscoring the evils of Nazism.
As would I, I'm guessing that even now it may be a bit too taboo to have a wargame where you play as the Nazis. I can understand this though, I just did a cursory search for such a thing and came across a certain racist forum where they were looking for a particular type of game that dealt with the administration of concentration camps. Suddenly I felt way too uncomfortable to continue any type of search. :(
Post edited July 25, 2013 by Cormoran
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How am I trolling exactly? Jesus GOG is full of hysterical little girls
A troll is anyone who lives under the Mackinaw Bridge, therefore I am the only one here who is NOT A TROLL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NMGsRmZTFQ
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Crosmando: Muricans gonna murican
Relic Entertainment, developer of Company of Heroes 2, is a Canadian company.

Jean-Jacques Annaud, director and writer of Enemy at the Gates, is French.

Not sure why I thought hopping back onto the forums would be a nice break from Amnesia. Oh well.
Post edited July 25, 2013 by SeduceMePlz
"Heroism of the Soviet people", i've read enough.
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Crosmando: How am I trolling exactly? Jesus GOG is full of hysterical little girls
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Crosmando: Muricans gonna murican
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SeduceMePlz: Relic Entertainment, developer of Company of Heroes 2, is a Canadian company.

Jean-Jacques Annaud, director and writer of Enemy at the Gates, is French.
That pretty much says it all.
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Arteveld: "Heroism of the Soviet people", i've read enough.
This^
This article has a rather more level headed discussion of why exactly some Russians are so up in arms.
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Arteveld: "Heroism of the Soviet people", i've read enough.
Obviously you didn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuti_Militari

Eat shit, Nazi asshole.
These are the threads that make me want to turn my back on the gog forum. Thank goodness these threads are typically a minority.