True in movies too. Most Russian speaking actors in the business must be relieved that Russians are the universal villains again.
Of course, the Arabic speaking actors are out of a job now.
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Russia image...?
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Zangief - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zangief
Chelnov: Atomic Runner (1988) - MobyGames
https://www.mobygames.com/game/chelnov-atomic-runner
Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen (1991) - MobyGames
https://www.mobygames.com/game/gorby-no-pipeline-daisakusen
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Not in Escape from Tarkov, there the Americans are the bad boys while the Russians are the saviours of all.
Come join us! Run with us, loot with us, die with us.
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Yet still have the "Russian bias", where Russian units are usually the most ridiculously overpowered in the entire game. :D
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Russia, and what the person above said. :D
On a side note, Stålenhag is currently very popular in Russia. Two of his books were already published here and I think the rest is on the way.
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germany [Of course we are in alot of games EVIL ]
We have either tryhards in gaming
or the kids playing cod screaming your ears
Alot of games are based on german background/Mythology .
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Spain: bullfighting, flamenco and in a pinch, anything latin american, specially mexican.
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With villagers that can't even speak proper Spanish... "es hora de asssplastar(sic)!"
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Blasphemous is influenced by Spanish lore. Awesome game.
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Hungary. Gibberish language, somewhat weird but distinctly eastern european culture, incompetent organised crime maaaybe, otherwise kind of nothing?
Though I have to add that the family name Farkas ( Wolf in Hungarian) is relatively often used compared to how much the country doesn't matter in any other way.
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United States. Usually on the protagonist's side, but there's some diversity with villains as well (example: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has an American antagonist).
I won't call myself spokpannkaka, because that's nonsense
What about "spöökypannkaka"? ☺
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What about "spöökypannkaka"?
If a site allowed the ö then they wouldn't need an alternative name if the first place.
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 features one mission set in war-torn Sarajevo and......that's pretty much it. Bosnia is usually a location for war-themed shooters and such if you wanna be a hipster about it since the Middle East is overused now.
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Not represented too often, but usually it's as mercenaries and bad guys. Guess the gaming world is still stuck in the 80s when Apartheid was a thing.
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How to accurately represent France in a videogame:
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Use classic vocabulary like baguette, croissant, and omelette du fromage, but don't even think about using proper grammar and syntax, even French people can't do it anyway
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Set the story in some postcard vision of Paris that stopped existing years before videogames were even a thing
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Male characters need to hit on anything that moves
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- The Eiffel Tower has to be visible from everywhere
- Yes, even from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
- French berets?
I guess it's both good and bad if your country has enough identity to be stereotyped and made into a checklist.
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The Eiffel Tower is everywhere! Seriously, in every street in France, there's a massive one.
Also some accordion music is playing. All the time.
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Tellement vrai :-D
Bien le bonjour (de loin) ;-)
et bon WE
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Small country, not many dev studios, but definitely a pinball Empire, some nice HoG and one of the best Tower Defense from Hungary:
Sunward Games
Hidden Object games, published by Artifex Mundi. Like:
Secret Order 1-8
Endless Fables 1-4
Game in a Bottle
Gemcraft tower defense games
NeoCore Games
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 1-2-3-Final Cut
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr
Deathtrap
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy
Zen Studios
Pinball FX
Operencia, game based on Hungarian folklore cough Epix exclusive cough
Kite Games
S.W.I.N.E.
Sudden Strike 4
Digital Reality
Imperium Galactica 1+2
Sine Mora
Zadbox Entertainment
Quern - Undying Thoughts
XReal Games
Zero Caliber VR
Magic Pixel Kft.
Zaccaria Pinball
Probably there are much more, I don't remember for any other notable.
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I think you misunderstood OP, it was about how the country shown in videogames, not country's representation in video game development.
( I didn't know about Endless Fables being developed here)
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oh yeah, now I see, my bad. Thought about game developments, not about games/stories located here.
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Belarus.
Part of the USSR (WWII) or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Middle Ages)
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Many foreigners know, but in Belarus they are not popular.
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There are many more bands in the region that have more interesting lyrics and music.
A more explicit post-punk example https://youtu.be/PP5GF3AhQi8
Molchat doma in their interviews talk about the incredible Europe and bad Belarus. Refuse to play concerts at home.
One of YouTube’s algorithms began to promote their music. They say they are lucky. Sounds like a lie.
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Blitzkrieg 2: Fall of the Reich
Civilization 6
Cossacks series
Empire: Total War
Medieval 2: Total War — Kingdoms
Mount & Blade
NHL 11
Operation Bagration
Syndicate
Tom Clancy’s EndWar
PS
Andrew Ryan from BioShock was born near Minsk (Belarus)
PSS
Arma 2 (ex-soviet state of 'Chernarus'). Cherna - translated "black"; Bela - "white".
Battlefield 4 (Morse secret msg from JJJU)
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You Swedes also have The Samaritan Paradox if I remember correctly?
Anyway Italy here. Off the top of my head, I am thinking:
Tomb Raider II and Chronicles (some levels set in present-time Rome and Venice)
Some point-and-click games (Broken Sword IV, Shadows on the Vatican series... there's bound to be more)
...but if you set aside the "country" concept and go back in time, then you'd have the Total War games (ancient Rome), Assassin's Creed (Renaissance Florence), and many more I'm sure.
So, to sum up... Location? And oh, mafioso villains. (which come off goofy most of the time, but maybe it's just my impression)
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Hadn't heard of it, that game looks really Swedish lol.
I'm jealous of the Assassin's Creed games though, I'd love to run around like that in my country. Though maybe it'll happen with the rumored Viking game.
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Hey, you're forgetting about the most famous plumber and his family company: John Leguizamo!
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Syria
Assassins creed 1
Syrian warfare (Russian rts)
COD modern warefare (Indirect way)
Rise of the tomb raider
I think the representation was okay in all of those games other than Syrian warfare which was a bit biased
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Sweden is very popular in popular culture in several aspects:
- Vikings are a trend for some years at least.
- Norse mythology is popular. I am talking not even about Marvel's Thor, but about a culture that pretends to be something: when the New York Jew makes an artsie movie about Norse religion in modern days (Ari Aster with "Midsommar") it says something.
- Black metal is popular, and neofolk and pop-neofolk in the last decade.
- Greta Thunberg.
I don't know the main reason, but I guess it's because Sweden is rich, and riches always create cultural influence.
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You're right, and we're also a very big general music (like Avicii) and gaming country. Though I wonder why when we actually do have a game set in Sweden, it always seems to be in that same setting.
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Don't know about general music, is it something like EDM? Sweden always had great pop-music producers, and to black and neofolk I'd add many great avant-garde jazz musicians, but I can't call it cultural influence, nobody listens to avant-garde jazz. ) The reason why musicians like Mats Gustafsson exist is still money - Sweden has a program of artists support that works basically like USSR "house of culture" program, but more effective and more funded.
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I meant something like music in general. But you sure seem to know your music! To think that some Swedish saxophone player would be known outside the country.
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While vikings are hot in media, most of the vikings we see would likely be Danish or Norwegian. I know, I'm being nitpicky here :P
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Those vikings who established the first Russian state were from Sweden.
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Yeah, the vikings in Russia were mostly Swedish, that's true. Many even likely to have been from a place very close to where I live
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Umm not much representation IN games... but we have Path of Exile shrugs
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A lot of sport and car racing games.
Anthropomorphic animal series.
A lot of g'day mate kind of characters.
...If you can't guess: Australia haha
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apart from 1 game partly set where my actual town is I couldn't think of any english games. Searching it up also showed alot of racing type games.
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It's because the world is not yet ready for all the giant spiders and everything else that tries to kill you in Australia. I mean, just imagine a game like that. Oh, how it would cast a shadow on the likes of Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Telling you, the world is not ready yet. :D
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Ahahahaha, theeeere we go!
You find yourself following a bloody track where strange sightings have been recorded, from spectral women beckoning people into the fog, to spiders as large as wolves, Australia is a dangerous place to live in…
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Mad Max and Beneath a Steel Sky!
Both in the future, neither a nice future :D
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Barely? I don't think I've ever played any non rally game set in Argentina, it's either that or some other type of racing game.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_set_in_Argentina
Nazis! Nazis and terrorists everywhere
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So it's nazis, racing, and sports with some occasional adventure... good to know?
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Serbia here. Usually as bad guys, with what little attention we get anyway. Same with movies. Also, the Serbian language spoken by chracters in both movies and games is more often than not gibberish or it contains broken grammar and such.
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One of them, yeah :D I just cannot unhear the "Serbs" from Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 xD
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Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4xjg4pCCv4
Jesus Christ Almighty. I wish people in this thread could understand Serbian just so they can tell how unbelievably bad his Serbian is.
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Ahahahaha I haven't! Džontra Volta killed it in this one. The language, I mean :D 🤣
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Recently found out that Estonia's got a map in Squad.
Though before that we've kinda popped up here and there. Whether the first ship from Call of Duty MW1 being Estonian, a map from Counter-Strike CZ Deleted Scenes being from a local city or some minor co-op map in Splinter Cell Blacklist being some small settlement here.
Of course, Euro Truck Sim's got us too. Basically we're side attractions at most and minor flavorings at worst. Eh, it's fine imo. That's what you should expect with any minor country.
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Games made in Serbia https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28391010-Games-made-in-Serbia
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Ghost Recon Wildlands?
edit: aha Ubisoft Belgrade, evo i ova je naša proizvodnja https://store.steampowered.com/app/698670/
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Latvia - Metro 2033 comes to mind. Theres not really a setting in Latvia per say, but there is one station in Riga which is capital of Latvia. So not really set in country, but it does have hypothetical metro station which is located in Riga, Latvia.
Aside from that I can only mention racing games that include Bikernieku track (http://www.bksb.lv) in itself as we hosted World Rallycross Championship. So now the track is in Dirt Rally 2.0, Assetto Corsa, Gravel
Those are only ones I can recall. Maybe someone else can add more examples.
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Its not located in latvia or riga, it is simply NAMED Riga, youre crazy if you think before that station youre in russia, in riga station youre in riga, and in the 3rd station youre back in russia, youre mental. Its just a name, not the actual location, use your head, look at the metro map during loading screens.Those are the only ones you recall? Then read my comment to see what i know of.
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Never read the books and played the game maybe for half an hour only, so I didnt really pay much attention to that. Just noticed its called Riga and from diologue it kind of sounded they are going through to europe. So I just kind of pieced these things together and there I am thinking its in Latvia. (Even if theres almost no logic behind that)
But thanks for clearing that up.
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I can count on fingers as to how many time i have seen India in video games.
I first saw Dhalsim as any Indian in video game in some old street fighter. He seemed pretty overpowered.
There was a mission from COD MW3 in india, i suppose the country was better represented than Russia from MW2.
Then FarCry 4 even though it takes place in a totally different country.
Then there is AC Chronicles India.
There is a full location in Hitman 2 from India. I should play it someday
Indian mythology is there in a few games but hopefully in future Kratos will turn his head this way.
And of course there is Gandhi from civilizations with his trigger happy finger.
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Only brazil game reference i can remember, think of, is, Rainbow Six Sieges Favela map and its two local Ops, Caveira and Capitao.
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"Most detailed' is subjective. The entire game is extremely detailed and only about a 1/4 is in the slums
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I didn't play MP3, but what I found about it isn't good: It's a mix of slum and florest.
The portrait of Brazil in Max Payne 3
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the Takedown mission is on Rio de Janeiro. (and of course it's slums)
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Let me start off by saying that I'm from Sweden. If any of you have ever wondered, the "pannkaka" in my name comes from the Swedish word for "pancake", because that's my favorite food. Actually, I prefer to call myself "spökpannkaka" (ghost pancake), but since most websites don't recognize ö as a letter, I usually become spookypannkaka instead. (And I won't call myself spokpannkaka, because that's nonsense)
But that wasn't what this post is about. Recently I've been thinking a lot that damn, why do so many games place Sweden in a post-apocalyptic setting?
We have Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, which is based on the Swedish role playing game with the same name, and developed by a Swedish studio. I haven't played it but I'm assuming that's where the game is supposed to take place based on that and some funny references.
We also have Generation Zero, which is set in 80's Sweden in, that's right, a post-apocalyptic setting.
Recently I played Whispers of a Machine, which I guess isn't directly said to be in Sweden but it features typically Swedish names (with butchered pronunciation of course) and the town has signs that are in Swedish (skola and matsal for example). Aaaand it is in a post-apocalyptic setting!
Bonus: This is not a game, but Simon Stålenhag does some amazing post-apocalyptic Sweden art, and you should definitely check him out.
The users on SteamGifts are all around the world though. How is your country represented in gaming?
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