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War vets doing games is "pretty f***ing bizarre" - Haze writer

"There are some shooters that will bring in a war veteran to check and see whether their game is enough like that time all their friends got killed, so they can sell it as entertainment. Which is pretty f***ing bizarre!" Yescombe told Eurogamer during one of his Haze presentations at UbiDays last month.

"So what we're looking at with Haze thematically is, how are we presenting war as entertainment in videogames? Because, war isn't just black and white and good and evil; there's ambiguity."

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eques judicii - 938 days 20 hours ago

1 - i'm getting the feeling

that the haze developers are trying to curse as much as possible to get attention.

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sajj316 - 938 days 19 hours ago

1.1 - hahah

good point. I think its more about getting as much press for Haze as possible. Its not a good thing, its not a bad thing as ultimately its the game that either delivers or not. Given their history (developers that is), it will (cross fingers).

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PS360WiiRocks - 938 days 18 hours ago

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I was just thinking that!!! lol how funny is that I saw the headline and was like "damn these guys cuss alot"

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gta_cb - 938 days 13 hours ago

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first bit of news from a developer cursing lol.

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deep - 938 days 19 hours ago

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They are brits. Swearing comes with the territory...we don't "curse".

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 938 days 17 hours ago

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True, true,

when I studied abroad, for 6 months, lots of Americans there. In Dutch we have a word 'kont' which just means ass, where it sounded to them as 'c*nt' so they were shocked.

And I loved to say flying f*ck when they were around, so freakin' funny. I would like a game like Haze also to curse ingame, would be nice! :-)

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TruthHurts - 938 days 16 hours ago

2.2 - treasure this chain of comments.

this is a beautiful thing. that doesn`t happen much.

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deep - 938 days 16 hours ago

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just think of Billy Connolly...he swears his head of, but everyone loves him. It's how you say it as Karebare says. I don't think there are really such things as swear words...it's if they are used offensively.

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gta_cb - 938 days 13 hours ago

2.4 - @ TheMART

wasnt there news recently saying this game would call you a pu$$y?

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Karebear - 938 days 19 hours ago

3 - Ah the myth of the "curse" word

Believe it or not, this all comes from the Puritan's in the United States. They mistranslated some key passages in their scriptures and decided to expand upon it by making non-religious words taboo. It makes as much sense as unilaterally deciding the word pumpkin is bad and punishing people who use it.

Literally the word "profane" means anything that was outside the Temple in Jerusalem. You had the Holy and the Profane. They deemed any word that took ones mind off the Holy as profane, then they went on to define what they thought those words were.

How we break the chain of silliness I'll never know. I told a teacher one time to go apple herself and got detention for it. I asked what was so bad about the word Apple? She said it was how it was used and the meaning behind it. I countered with, well then what your saying as the specific combination of letters said means nothing its really all intent, so "bad words" don't exist. She looked confused and gave me more detention. *sigh*

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DirtyRat - 938 days 18 hours ago

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lol Karebear good comment have a bubble

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HandShandy - 938 days 18 hours ago

5 - Hahaha, Karebear.

Bubble from me aswell....

Nothing to really do with Haze, but has alot to do with censorship and the way so called "Profanities" are treated these days.

Excellent comment.

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PS360WiiRocks - 938 days 18 hours ago

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Haha and a history lesson all in the same day, perfect.

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TruthHurts - 938 days 16 hours ago

7 - on topic:

i`m glad someone said it. stop living in the past. any WW2 game i buy from now on need to get a 9.5 or higher, cause i`m done w/ that era.

off topic: i want a urban/city FPS (modern day), that`d be pretty cool.
(maybe like stalker, but better)

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calderra - 938 days 15 hours ago

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"WE'RE CRAZY(tm) AND KOOKY(c) BECAUSE WE DIDN'T GET WAR VETS TO ANALYNZE OUR WAR GAME! BUY OUR GAME BECAUSE WE CAN'T AFFORD AS MUCH REAL ADVERTISING AS WE'D LIKE! AREN'T WE JUST SO CRAZY(tm), HARD-EDGED(tm), AND NEXT-GEN(r)!?!?!?"

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Jason 360 - 938 days 12 hours ago

9 - I don't mind war vets helping to get games realistic

As someone who has worn his countries Uniform (during peace time years ago) It's nice to see vets being use for things rather than political steping stones.

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HaKeRsCanRotINHEL - 938 days 12 hours ago

10 - "We're not doing a John Wayne war movie; we're trying to do Apocalypse Now. It's not a war-game; it's a game about war."........

Fu<king A, mates. I fu<king like that about fu<king Haze, should be a fu<king spectacular game.

@ Jason xg1: True enough, homie. :)

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macalatus - 938 days 6 hours ago

11 - Offensive comment

"There are some shooters that will bring in a war veteran to check and see whether their game is enough like that time all their friends got killed, so they can sell it as entertainment. Which is pretty f***ing bizarre!"

That statement has got to be a really offensive comment. Despite his later comment that it is neither good and bad, I think the freakin' idiot is trying to say a political statement.

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