For those of you who don't remember it (Christ, you might actually be too young), Six Days in Fallujah was going to be a realistic shooter set in the Battle of Fallujah. The game itself was announced in 2009, approximately 5 years after what we now call The Second Battle of Fallujah, and also about 5 years from would be around the war's approximate end.
The game was originally going to be developed and published by US Marines who had fought in the Battle itself. The purpose of the game was to be a decent tactical modern military shooter, but also to be a vehicle for telling the stories of the Marines on the ground who had actually fought in the battle.
Back in 2009 I was well aware of this game, and I said that video games as a way of bringing the stories of real people to life would likely be a real concept that could be done going forward. It may not be exactly "With The Old Breed", but for servicemen who grew up playing video games, this might be one of the best ways to really explain what it's like.
As I slowly age, I realize more and more as a veteran now, that these stories that are the most important moments of your life will be lost to time and will only exist as distant memories that only you, your brothers, and your enemies, will ever truly understand or even remember. The most intense moment of your life will be at an intersection that didn't have a name, and no one could recognize today.
I feel like after Medal Of Honor: Warfighter was released, and one of the Special Forces operators negatively sanctioned for releasing classified information to the game developers in order to develop a level (I think it was a literal Black Op mission in the streets of Pakistan that was never supposed to be known about), I've always felt that video games as a story telling medium for real events would be something that has a provable creative demand.
However, Six Days was canceled, and I've been surprised to see that people are not mentioning why it was canceled.
Simply put, Fox News, along with the Corporate Media Establishment (and possibly with what I suspect were elements of the US government not wanting to have any potential embarrassment for a war that had not been going well) created a moral outrage about the game. Fox News did a hit piece on the developers and accused them of trying to dishonor and trivialize the the lives of the soldiers and Marines who were killed in the battle... despite the fact that the game was explicitly being developed with veterans of the battle to tell their stories. And despite the fact that the developers did not want to make the game explicitly political.
11 years later, and the developers are trying to republish the game, and IGN... who originally made passive attempts at reporting on the game and defending it, seem to be aiming to do what Fox News did a decade ago.
Six Days in Fallujah is the most concrete evidence I can imagine of how full circle the Culture War has come. I consider it a vindication of my choices so far.
Think about how many leftists today like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney because they were Never Trump.
The left used to vehemently hate Bush and his administration.
The left has dropped their mask and shown that they have no concrete policies, they will do anything to gain and consolidate power.
I am not surprised that they are adopting Fox News's 2009 position of this Fallujah game.
That surprised me back in 2016, but they've totally taken up the Neo-Conservative positions, even down to perpetual warfare.
Imagine being retarded enough to think that Joe Biden was going to keep us out of war.
A few of my colleagues at work are actually retarded enough to make that argument AFTER the recent airstrikes.
These Democrats actually said that the airstrikes were about promoting peace and that Trump disengaging in the Middle East made us all unsafe.
Neocons most likely have a permanent erection. Through the brain crippling of TDS, they achieved the sad fact that now a majority of leftists actually support forever wars in the Middle East because Biden can somehow do no wrong.
Unsurprising given the brain rot, but seriously? Trump is the first president in my life who did not get us involved in any new foreign conflicts
Ranked in my opinion from best to worst:
Clinton - Haiti, the Balkans, Sudan Bush 1 - Iraq 1.0 Obama - the Arab Coup, oh wait I mean Spring. Bush 2 - Iraq 2.0 and Afghanistan
You can argue all you want about whether or not any of those operations were justified or not if you want, you can argue that Trump should have tried to do more to disengage the US from places if you want, but the fact is that for 3 decades it was just constant escalation of Team America World Police sticking it's dick into other countries private business. And yet, the first president in years to try to calm stuff down - which people on the left were shouting from the rooftops that we needed to do from 2002-2008 - is the one making us unsafe?
Can someone tell me why the US military keeps staying in the middle east when they've been tgere for decades and there's STILL no plan to conquer it.
https://archive.ph/cialb https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/16/trump-us-military-peace-agreement-war-afghanistan/
After growing up and coming of age amid all that crap I say let them blow themselves up all they want. The American people got nothing good from those "peace" actions.
Not after you conquer it and turn it into a vassal.
Plus accusations of access to oil
But just let it implode on itself, there’s no reason to stay involved
I actually made the argument on T_D many months ago that Trump is objectively one of the least war-making presidents post Vietnam, and probably post WW2.
The only person who comes close is Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. And, that mostly depends on whether we can lay the blame of the CIA's actions in Angola at the feet of Jimmy Carter, because it's not clear that he knew what the CIA was up to.
Airstrikes of peace. Good. GOOOOOD
Now it's perpetual war so Syrian and Iranian children can attend Drag Queen Story Hour.
"We want the bombs back"
After Six Days was effectively cancelled and the project dropped, the game's core structure was released as a game called "Breach" on Xbox Live. The game was tactical in nature, but you could tell it was the developers desperately trying to re-coup the losses of cancelling Six Days with what they had.
It was a multiplayer only cover based modern military shooter, with objective points and team battles. The maps didn't have too much thought put into them because it feels like they were mapped out for regular FPS, or an arcadey cover based shooter that was popular at the time. Breach's mission could basically be won early on if you established dominance over specific areas quickly early on. If you didn't, the game became a bit of a slog because taking territory was so difficult considering the high lethality of bullets. Cover, concealment, maneuvering to new positions, and marksmanship were absolutely critical simply to move forward. If the players were functioning more as an organized fire-team, it could have worked better, but the players were effectively not told how to co-operate as fire teams. As such, I tended to find gamers taking up every last inch of the map trying to get a couple good angles on an enemy strong point.
It was clearly competent, and it clearly looked like Six Days was trying to go down the right path, but Breach just kinda proved how much damage the media had done.
Rutger Hauer came to the same realization, completely off script, and he was merely pretending to be a veteran for a movie.
Frankly, I've kinda seen it. I don't know that I'll ever tolerate the Islamo-Leftists and Jihadis because they're fucking savages and deserve all the utterly terrible things that should happen to them. But, I can easily understand why former enemies end up making peace. He's literally the only person left alive that knows what happen because he was causing it to you. If you're lucky, he might even regret it in a way.
Problem with our Generation Kill group is that we're fighting fucking savages. No WW2 veteran is going to forgive an SS officer for the shit they did, but he might forgive the Wehrmacht or Japanese Imperial given time. But the Jihadis? Never. They had too much fun mercilessly slaughtering the innocent.
Wasn’t the game originally being developed by Capcom? Probably would have ended up fighting zombie Iraqis with an unlockable Mega-Buster.
I think Atomic Games developed it under the publication of Capcom
I reposted this to kia2 on ruqqus https://ruqqus.com/+kotakuinaction2/post/8occ/full-circle-six-days-in-falluja
(without the links because I couldn't figure out how to paste them easily)
Thanks man.
I've heard of this and a little bit of the kerfuffle that was going on but I was busy with school and stuff at the time to really pay attention. But you can tell from the person called "Rebekah" that she's just muckraking to get clicks.
Still wanna play it though.
Well said