Why can never play as the Nazis?

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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by Animavore » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:42 pm

chewy_barber wrote:Yeah but online flight sims are brutal. :irate:
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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by Jason » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:47 pm

chewy_barber wrote:Yeah but online flight sims are brutal. :irate:
There are a lot of talented sim-pilots out there. It's fun when people use proper combat tactics instead of dogpiling around 1200 meters - but when they do it's pretty easy to rack up a high kill ratio by boom 'n zooming them. :)

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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by PsychoSerenity » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:47 pm

Do you mean specifically as the Nazis in a historical WW2 setting? - I think mainly because they lost and it's no fun playing for a side that you know is going to lose. Everyone would say it's because it's distasteful, but I think they're rewriting history as much as anybody.

If you mean playing on the side of evil-doers in general, when it's fiction there are quite a few options. Play as the Sith; they get all the cool force powers! :sith:
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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:50 pm

PsychoSerenity wrote:Do you mean specifically as the Nazis in a historical WW2 setting? - I think mainly because they lost and it's no fun playing for a side that you know is going to lose. Everyone would say it's because it's distasteful, but I think they're rewriting history as much as anybody.

If you mean playing on the side of evil-doers in general, when it's fiction there are quite a few options. Play as the Sith; they get all the cool force powers! :sith:
Meh, you just have to play the right scenarios. "Fall of France", "Barbarossa", "Operation Retribution", "North Africa, Pt.I."

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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by Collector1337 » Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:27 am

I guess no one here has ever heard of the game Company of Heroes.

You can play as Germans all you want.

The sequel, Company of Heroes 2, is coming out soon.

It's a RTS. It's a great game.
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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by JimC » Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:03 am

Is there a series where you can play Black and Tans?
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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by Cormac » Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:37 am

JimC wrote:Is there a series where you can play Black and Tans?

Ooooh. Low blow there Jim C. :)

Unfortunately though, the Black and Tans, while good at turning up drunk, murdering ad raping civilians and burning down houses, villages, and towns, they were pretty shit when faced with actually armed and determined opposition.
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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by Jason » Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:43 am

Sometimes I forget Ireland was neutral in WW2. :fp:

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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by JimC » Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:50 am

Cormac wrote:
JimC wrote:Is there a series where you can play Black and Tans?

Ooooh. Low blow there Jim C. :)

Unfortunately though, the Black and Tans, while good at turning up drunk, murdering ad raping civilians and burning down houses, villages, and towns, they were pretty shit when faced with actually armed and determined opposition.
That would make the game play more challenging, then...

But, as I imagine you know, I was responding to Ani's OP in a way that attempted to, shall we say, turn the tables... ;)
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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by Animavore » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:15 pm

JimC wrote:
Cormac wrote:
JimC wrote:Is there a series where you can play Black and Tans?

Ooooh. Low blow there Jim C. :)

Unfortunately though, the Black and Tans, while good at turning up drunk, murdering ad raping civilians and burning down houses, villages, and towns, they were pretty shit when faced with actually armed and determined opposition.
That would make the game play more challenging, then...

But, as I imagine you know, I was responding to Ani's OP in a way that attempted to, shall we say, turn the tables... ;)
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Re: Why can never play as the Nazis?

Post by JimC » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:18 pm

:hehe:
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