Gamers are already drawing battle lines over the Battlefield V trailer

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@TheWombat

I’m just sort of baffled, though I should not be, that folks would be worked up about a WWII-themed shooter being an unrealistic theme-park type game. Um, yeah? I admit that marketing people get carried away sometimes–especially in the early days they did–and present these games as “gritty realism” or some such rot, but they’ve always used the historical setting as a good way to have identifiable sides, a lot of gear and weapons, and some context in to which to put the virtual mayhem. That’s about it, really.

I mean, I grew up with boardgame wargaming, where everyone was trying to outdo everyone else in their grognard-ness and ability to deliver withering critiques of this or that game’s lack of realism or accuracy, as if the level of fidelity they were asking for was even possible or desirable. But wargaming did grow directly out of history geekdom, so I could grok that. But FPS games? As noted, this is not the genre to do realism.

Concur. I’m merely aghast/bemused that their new alternative to “gritty realism” is “empowering women”. Really??? In your cotton candy game??? EA/DICE can’t be wonderfully empowering with their game and tell me I should take seriously while simultaneously telling me it’s sugar rush trash and to not take it seriously. Which is it?