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Originally Posted by Uber Gruber
Sorry El Duci old chap but I have to strongly disagree with you here - especially the "bordelines on bigotry" bit. I'll be honest up front and say that I have little to no interest in the Pacific War and never have had. I do not see America's war with Japan in the same way I see the war in Europe. In fact I personaly think the Pacific War was more of a side show in comparison, speaking purely geopolitically.
But my views on the above are irrelevent to the real reason why I disagree with you. SH4 is a game, regardless what the manual says. War isn't a game, far from it. So to see SH4 as some form of iconic effigy for the Pacific War is quite worrying, and is detrimental to the sacrifices made by all sides during the war.
SH4 is simply a game, why not mod it for the Atlantic ? Why not mod it for WWI as well while we're at it ? Its just a game, its essentially just a graphics engine with some parameteres in flat files...its nothing more.
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Why not mod it indeed, still I hope the Pacific side of it gets the right treatment the Atlantic has. I agree about war and games.
Don't agree the Pacific was a sideshow..well yes and no. Of course "Germany First" and all that... First of all and I keep repeating this and repeating this, it was
not just a war between the USA and Japan. Forgot the ANZACS or the Brits and other Commonwealth in S.E. Asia? Forgot how many millions of people in China (WWII was abig factor in China becoming Communist) Korea, the Phillipines etc. and the end of the old colonial empires. The game focuses only on US vs. Japan but the theatre is much more. If someone is more interested in ETO cool but don't be so dismissive.