Qz501: Honest question, I don't want to be an ass, but why does the setting matter and why are you guys getting worked up? I play a lot of games that go beyond my political standpoints in various directions as well. In most WW2 games i main the USSR or Germany despite being an American. In Warhammer I play as the Eldar despite being human, when push comes to shove we all know in the lore there will be an ultimate race war between humanity and the eldar craftworlds. Does that make me anti-human? Am I a communist Marxist for playing as the USSR too?
So, a game on steam greenlight is about fighting the Islamic State trying to take over the west. Isn't that what Battlefield 2 was about? Command and Conquer generals? Every COD game?
Yeah, they're going off shock value, but it's not like people are going to radicalize over something due to a game's setting. If 'money see monkey do' was such an inevitability why haven't I become a craftworld eldar farseer leading a Panzer 4 and T34 mixed battalion?