Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Talk about a hard-on for Soviet authoritarianism.

[quote name="fucking newbie"]I swear, every time some boring motherfucker from Eastern Europe with no aspiration of any kind except to be a fifties-style patriarch in his own family talks about games I cringe, and that's before they start their mutterings about how defiling the Lenin's corpse would feel so satisfying. We Eastern Euros like strategy games because chess is the default and has been for the last fifty years easy. We like them because we know them and are bored of the one we have. To say nothing of Paralogic, which is a story game in the classic Russian sense where often story = dark motherfucking shit. Even the Witcher is based off a series that's darker than the conventional western stuff because Eastern European fantasy tends toward the kind of plot elements you see in the Brothers Karamazov. The Russian children's storybooks I was given to read from infancy had strong depictions of cruelty and violence, it's what we're raised on. Then someone gives us, what, Fable? Come on. I will note that Evil Islands, made by Neval, has a more bland fantasy (probably for western appeal, ha) but it also has the meanest action-RPG system for called shots I've seen in a while. Want to stab someone? Choose the body-part. Bloody their shins, hamstring them, they won't walk. Fuck up their arms. Standard fare? Sure, but it's a requirement for success in a 3D visual package I'd never seen the like of before when it was released. Anyway, maybe Warsaw Pact countries also aren't dominated by the kind of marketing you have in the rest of the West that pushes for family friendly bullshit so they're not bound by content concerns. After that, they just make what they know.[/quote]