16 years later, No Russian is still disturbing as hell

Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

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Fucking mass shooter simulator right here. I still find this sequence to be the most chilling and fucked up scenario I've ever seen in a AAA game. And I know it's optional.



Has Call of Duty ever topped this? Has anything?
 
Not trying to get political whatsoever ✌🏻

I just wanna talk about seriously fucked up moments in games that reach that level.

Spec Ops with the white phosphorous was pretty fucked up for example. But it ain't No Russian.
 
I played the German version back then, which was hard mode, as you got an instant game over if you hit a civilian lol.

does anyone know if they changed that for the remaster in the german version? pretty sure they just went the save route to get it out in time and not risk a re-evaluation by the USK should the uncensored version get rejected... so maybe the remaster didn't have that in the german version.
 
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Postal games could proably fit the bill as well.

Can't think of many other fucked up games tbh.
 
Chuck Berry said:
Only took five posts to reach the tough guy I'm too desensitized to be affected posts 😂
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I dislike real life gore or movies that depict realistic gore. I'm not desensitized, I understand context. I was 24 when I played the game and thought it was a cool set piece. Because its just a game.
 
Games back in that day didn't held themselves back, most developers were man.

The Aphrodite sex scene in GoW III in today's gaming scenario would be a big no no
 
It was and still is pretty extreme. Probably the most controversial thing cod has ever done?

It is really uncomfortable and shows the brutality and senselessness of violence.

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Nah that wasn't disturbing.

This was disturbing:
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I think it being not especially removed from 9/11 made it a little more head turning. Not sure it would pack the same punch if it came out in 2025.
 
The forced scripting killed it. Tried to play it as someone who wouldn't just gun down a cop but the game just stalls with an endless gun battle.
 
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The forced scripting killed it. Tried to play it as someone who wouldn't just gun down a cop but the game just stalls with an endless gun battle.
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that is an issue with CoD Campaigns in general. they are essentially lightgun shooters with manual movement.
the issue being that they try really hard not to seem like they are instead of fully embracing it.

Call of Juarez Gunslinger is also like CoD Campaigns, but it fully leans into the arcadey nature of that type of design and therefore there's less of a disconnect between presentation and game design. add to that the way the story is told through an unreliable narrator that can change scenes mid fight and jokes around at times, and you have a more cohesive feeling game.
 
Chuck Berry said:
Been on a Patrice binge lately. It's what caused the thread 🤣
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He was really something else. He would say the most profound things off the top of his head, then have you laughing your ass off 5 seconds later. His rant about Hollywood and Tracy Morgan lives rent free in my head to this day.
 
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He was really something else. He would say the most profound things off the top of his head, then have you laughing your ass off 5 seconds later. His rant about Hollywood and Tracy Morgan lives rent free in my head to this day.
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And after the Ludacris interview. His documentary is really great too.
 
I'll be honest, even then I never thought it was controversial. The entire game is about killing people. Shooting more people even if unarmed was no big deal.
 
Synless said:
I'll be honest, even then I never thought it was controversial. The entire game is about killing people. Shooting more people even if unarmed was no big deal.
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also... it's a videogame. it makes me a but uneasy when people can't distance themselves from fiction enough for them to be actually affected by fictional depictions of violence.
 
Chuck Berry said:
Fucking mass shooter simulator right here. I still find this sequence to be the most chilling and fucked up scenario I've ever seen in a AAA game. And I know it's optional.



Has Call of Duty ever topped this? Has anything?
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This segment was 10 years too late. Would have been mindblowing in the late 90's and early 2000's.
 
Chuck Berry said:
Fucking mass shooter simulator right here. I still find this sequence to be the most chilling and fucked up scenario I've ever seen in a AAA game. And I know it's optional.



Has Call of Duty ever topped this? Has anything?
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Pretty sure that was the point...

It was always designed to be a controversial, disturbing set piece mission (with a message of course)
 
No Russian is still in the top 5 moments of "what the hell just happened/did I seriously just do that moments." There's no way that would occur today.
 
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Chuck Berry said:
Fucking mass shooter simulator right here. I still find this sequence to be the most chilling and fucked up scenario I've ever seen in a AAA game. And I know it's optional.



Has Call of Duty ever topped this? Has anything?
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Not just that but the whole Russia-invading-the-US-campaign was pretty big for me tbh. Saved the game for infinite replays.
 
Chuck Berry said:
Fucking mass shooter simulator right here. I still find this sequence to be the most chilling and fucked up scenario I've ever seen in a AAA game. And I know it's optional.



Has Call of Duty ever topped this? Has anything?
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Definitely an electric moment, you can't sleep on dying or rebooting in cyberpunk. That was a huge deal.
 
No less disturbing than violence being glorified in US entertainment like a dumb ass who goes killing half the country just because someone killed a dog his dying wife gave him. Yeah, that guy is a superhero apparently...

Yeah, come at me, you violence lovers.
 
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One of the best missions of all time. Shit was cold. No one would have the balls to do something similar in 2025
 
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It's been a while since a game made the entire world around me disappear for a minute because I was horrified at the shit happening on screen. No Russian did that.

IIRC, Modern Warfare 3 had another similar "horrifying playable cutscene", though it left a lot to imagination. It was trying to be shocking but, thankfully, didn't go as far with it.
 
Chuck Berry said:
Only took five posts to reach the tough guy I'm too desensitized to be affected posts 😂
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I can't speak for anyone else but games have always been just games to me. Back when GTA1 was controversial I asked my mum if she thought I was going to steal a limo because of the game. I was 9. I've always known where the game ended. For better or worse I'm just not affected by games like that.

I have the same thing with horror films, which is why I don't bother with them. People talk about how horror films are scary and I just can't agree because they aren't real so they aren't scary to me. I know where the film ends so I'm unaffected.
 
It didn't bother me in the slightest back when it originally came out. And now, still nothing. Maybe because I've seen some serious shit, or because I can separate game from real life. I don't know. I think the opening to The Last of Us is 100x more jarring. But maybe because as a father of 3 girls (16, 6 and 3), I find it more gut wrenching to lose one you have a little bit of time invested in (Joel's daughter) over senseless killing of randos.
 
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