EvaUnit02 on 15/6/2009 at 07:27
Mission X... amount of years delayed.
Mr. Sensitive needs to learn to take a joke.
Anyway this HL2 mod sounds great.
Yakoob on 15/6/2009 at 07:54
Going back to the mod...
It looks really cool. But what's up with all russian games being some sort of dramatic nuclear-wasteland type of thingies?
EvaUnit02 on 15/6/2009 at 08:41
Quote Posted by Yakoob
It looks really cool. But what's up with all russian games being some sort of dramatic nuclear-wasteland type of thingies?
Because nowhere in Russia does it look like the Nevada Desert.
Koki on 15/6/2009 at 08:49
Quote Posted by Yakoob
It looks really cool. But what's up with all russian games being some sort of dramatic nuclear-wasteland type of thingies?
That's just how everything east of Germany looks. Communism is nuclear.
june gloom on 15/6/2009 at 09:45
Lots of wilderness, lots of Soviet military/science installations, and not a lot of money to support smaller cities after the collapse of communism means there's a lot of abandoned towns, cities, and bases.
A lot. Like, 1/6th of the world's landmass used to belong to the Soviet Union.
Yakoob on 15/6/2009 at 10:22
Quote Posted by Koki
That's just how everything east of Germany looks. Communism is nuclear.
I come from the same country as you.
No it doesn't.
Also, even though that may be a staple Russian territory™, why don't we see more of their imagination fly? I mean, shit, even the Polish were able to come up with The Witcher...
Ostriig on 15/6/2009 at 10:39
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Lots of wilderness, lots of Soviet military/science installations, and not a lot of money to support smaller cities after the collapse of communism means there's a lot of abandoned towns, cities, and bases.
A
lot. Like, 1/6th of the world's landmass used to belong to the Soviet Union.
Eh? Cut down on the Cold War fiction, towns get abandoned a lot harder than you seem to think. It's more likely for small villages, granted, but nowhere on the scale you're trying to suggest. Small towns are gray and boring, big cities never sleep. As for industrial installations, as a general thing the only ones to fall into ruin are from the smaller ones, most of everything else gets sold to Western European companies for official peanuts and big unofficial bribes. Note that I'm referring to the former Eastern Bloc in general here, not exclusively to the former USSR. The latter indeed is said to have had a higher rate of settlement collapse due to economic reasons during the fall of Communism, but this at least doesn't turn Russia itself into one giant fallout zone.
All in all, regardless, the reason this aesthetic is predominant in games is simply because it's far more interesting. What you're seeing is recycled Prypiat, which is pretty damn compelling for such purposes by providing a context where the environment itself appears oppressive to the observer.
Quote Posted by Yakoob
I come from the same country as you.
No it doesn't.
No offense intended, but it should've been easier for you to catch on to his sarcasm, then.
Trance on 15/6/2009 at 11:35
Quote Posted by Ostriig
No offense intended, but it should've been easier for you to catch on to his sarcasm, then.
I come from the same forum as you.
No it shouldn't.
Ostriig on 15/6/2009 at 11:51
I come from the same Jashin School of Debate as you.
Yes it should.
