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MicroProse revived as military simulator publisher

Hace El Oso

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Desert and Nuclear Strike are favorites of mine, but neither was doing the silly humour thing. Together with openly calling it ‘nostalgic’ makes me feel like I’m being taken for a mark.
 
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Hace El Oso said:
Desert and Nuclear Strike are favorites of mine, but neither was doing the silly humour thing.
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Yes and no, at least for Desert Strike. The game was far from as narrative heavy as any goddamn modern game is, but what cutscenes or writing it did have was over the top, just not as in your face due to how the narrative was restricted primarily to the intro and briefing texts. I imagine that if the developers had the time and budget for more elaborate narrative within the missions it would be more obvious how silly they wanted it to be (although the intro IMO is anyway making it quite obvious).

I mean look at the intro and the back of the box, the tone was definitely comedic and non-serious.

Dictator Kilbaba bitchslapping his deputy Deidranna "Elliot you idiot!" style and the typical ebul cartoon villain dictator cliches. Also is that prisoner dumped in a vat of acid or what? They removed it in other versions of the intro IIRC.

News Anchor: "The pilot must be very qualified indeed."

Briefing: "Unless you stop the madman it will be world war III or even worse."

If those lines weren't deliberate cheese/camp I would be very surprised.



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Hace El Oso

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It’s acid. It was made right on the heels of the Gulf War and all the stories of Saddam Hussein gassing rebels, launching SCUDs and electrocuting the national football team so ‘dictator ham’ was the order of the day. ‘Elliot you idiot!’ indeed. :-D
But it’s still not as ‘goofy’ as the voiceover prodding the fourth wall in the Cleared Hot trailer. I'm not writing it off, it just makes me wary.
 
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Weird gaining a publisher a year after the fact. But oh well whatever gets them publicity.
 
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