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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dieselpunk is literally a fascist aesthetic derived primarily from the third reich. Like the primary examples of dieselpunk art are the more recent Wolfenstein games. It's literally just fascist tank worship.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Like the primary examples of dieselpunk art are the more recent Wolfenstein games

I enjoyed the ones I've played so far, but have some real mixed feelings on the setting. In a vacuum there's nothing wrong with an alt-history world like that, but since it isnt in a vacuum, i hate how it buys into and therefore promotes the idea of Nazi scientific superiority and "superweapons" and over inflated sense of the wehrmachts power. It also completely erases the Soviet Union obviously. I don't remember but it probably puts forth human wave theory as why they lost

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

On the other hand, it's pretty fun to gun down nazis

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The second game also has cool Communists and Black Panthers in it which made gamers big mad.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Grace is cool as hell and she got more hate than the actual nazis or the abusive father figure. Stay mad anti-cracker-aktion gamers

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Actually saw some real freeze-gamer brained people saying "yeah B.J.'s father is terrible, but it turned B.J. into the ultimate Nazi killer so that's good." The gamers have never been alright but damn

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Oh hell yeah it is! I just played The Old Blood so this minor gripe was fresh on my mind.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly, the soviet government surrendered after getting nuked

It's on a newspaper snippet in the HQ in the first game

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Oh cool, that's a way better way to write that happening. Glad to be wrong on that. It's been a while since I played The New Order