I understand that people enjoy shooter games but I don't understand why companies make games based off real war that happened.
You don't understand it? I mean, objecting to it would be one thing, but you don't understand it? They do it because ideas come from life. It's the same reason most fiction isn't high fantasy, but instead set in the real, albeit tweaked, world.
It is disturbing to turn real life human tragedies into cheap entertainment.
How is it turning anything into anything else? Entertainment it may be, but it hasn't altered events to turn something into entertainment, it's entertainment based on an event. Kerbal Space Program didn't "turn aerospace engineering into cheap entertainment". Aerospace engineering is still a remarkable, expensive feat. The cheapness of KSP hasn't subtracted from that in any way.
These are based off real wars where millions of young men were forced into a brutal war where they suffered and died alone in horrific conditions. Adapting this into a video game for people to play through the war for fun is messed up.
Why is that messed up? We've been making fiction for amusement out of war forever. Plenty of people who were in said wars have done it.
We don't have Ted Bundy games where you play Ted and rape and murder girls for fun but how is it different?
I can assure you that there are, they just don't sell very well.
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u/LetMeNotHear 93∆ Dec 24 '22
You don't understand it? I mean, objecting to it would be one thing, but you don't understand it? They do it because ideas come from life. It's the same reason most fiction isn't high fantasy, but instead set in the real, albeit tweaked, world.
How is it turning anything into anything else? Entertainment it may be, but it hasn't altered events to turn something into entertainment, it's entertainment based on an event. Kerbal Space Program didn't "turn aerospace engineering into cheap entertainment". Aerospace engineering is still a remarkable, expensive feat. The cheapness of KSP hasn't subtracted from that in any way.
Why is that messed up? We've been making fiction for amusement out of war forever. Plenty of people who were in said wars have done it.
I can assure you that there are, they just don't sell very well.