Are you comfortable killing your country's soldier in a videogame? - General

I would prefer it

I think I'd feel pretty bad for shooting a Finn's brains out in a videogame, especially if it was a game based on the Winter War or Continuation War (Ignore Flagdog yet again) Though I don't really know any games with Finnish soldiers :v:

Hey, nobody likes the British less than the British.

Sure but I don't really think there is such a game

Oh man, I'd like to see a game where you shoot IDF. The shitstorm would be amazing

I kill my brother all the time in video games.

The thing with such games is that the characters are just copies of a base entity. Once you "kill" one, another will spawn. Same applies for unique bosses as copies will appear as you restart the campaign or mission.

Yeah, i have no issues with it. Hell, some of the most fun i've had in games recently is playing Insurgency and getting teams that are really into their roles as Terrorists or Soldiers and having fun with it.

Haven't had that oppurtunity but I get patriotic as fuck when I play canada in Project Reality. [editline]11th March 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=NotAName;47304557]Oh man, I'd like to see a game where you shoot IDF. The shitstorm would be amazing[/QUOTE] CS:GO and project reality

Kinda depends on the game. I don't really think about it when playing a nonserious game like CSGO. If it was a more realistic and serious scenario I wouldn't be too happy about it.

It's a video game who gives a shit

HL's HECLU soldiers were sort of unredeamable bastards, other than that i've never really played terrorist simulator:2015 (CSS terrorists aren't like today's terrorists)

Given there's fuck-all for games set in Canada, I'd have a hard time locating any Canadian soldiers.

My comfort level depends on the context. Am I suppose to be the good guy? If I am, what is my reason?

[QUOTE=paul simon;47304522]Sure but I don't really think there is such a game[/QUOTE] MOH:WF have Swedish and Norwegian spec-ops in Multiplayer. [editline]12th March 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=ZestyLemons;47306165]Given there's fuck-all for games set in Canada, I'd have a hard time locating any Canadian soldiers.[/QUOTE] Again, MOH:WF have Canadian dudes in MP that you can shoot up.

Sometimes I frown and feel a bit odd, but I generally just deal with it if it's a good game.

No because me fighting the New Zealand Armed Forces in a game would result in me fighting against a force that [I]doesn't fucking exist.[/I] Seriously, the entire NZ armed forces just barely outnumbers the population of my backwater hometown. I even lived next to a Navy training facility and at most, there were about ten people on-site at any one point in time.

I don't care about killing scripted pixels.

I don't really care it's fictional after all if I play as terrorists in CSS and kill an SAS soldier i wouldn't quit the game out of rage lol

i don't think my country's army exist in the virtual world, even if it did i wouldn't care about killing

there are some minor spoilers in this post it makes me feel uncomfortable, but at least it makes me feel something. mindlessly killing evil people in video games is boring, and situations like in Black Ops 2 where you had to kill your allies to avoid blowing your cover, or GTA where you play the bad guy and spend a good chunk of the time killing cops, or even in Half Life where all those zombies you kill used to be your friends and coworkers. it's just better writing than the typical big American super soldier kills all the evil drones controlled by Hitler or Kim Jong Un or whoever else the villain of the hour happens to be. [editline]12th March 2015[/editline] of course in multiplayer games I think of it as beating someone at a game, not killing an American soldier. I don't know of anyone who gets immersed in multiplayer games in that way.

[QUOTE=3bwii;47304626] CS:GO and project reality[/QUOTE] Well, I guess that counts, but they're (almost) symmetrical multiplayer shooters. I'm talking more like a Call Of Duty campaign where the main villain is Israel instead of Russia for once

It's a video game, so no, I'd have zero issue with doing so. That soldier is literally just a bunch of zeroes and ones, it does not feel it is not an actual US soldier. So, yeah, if I need to drop it to progress through the game it's getting two to the chest. Or, as I've encountered most these days, an 85mm or 152mm Russian shell to the turret. I have no qualms about blasting Shermans and Pershings with my T-34/85, IS-1 and KV-2 in War Thunder!

It's hard to find a game with Swedish infantry in general so i've never been put into that situation.

I have a feeling this is going to be a difficult question for Germans who pretty much only got to kill their countrymen for about ten years of gaming. Personally, I don't really care. I hate terrorists but I have no problem playing as a terrorist on CS. There are finnish planes on IL-2 and I don't feel particularly strongly about shooting at them. I think if I had a problem with it, it would probably be with how the FDF is portrayed in game.

i'd prefer it over nazis or russians

We've been doing nothing but killing russians in videogames ever since the mid 2000s. When I was little I was a bit worried what my parents would think, but now I don't care. In fact I find it fun since I can understand what they're saying. Half the time they have really terrible accents and pronunciation. :v:

I'm from New Zealand so theres about 7 reasons why this will literally never be a problem.