I wonder if there will be a bonus level where you intricately make dinner with your family and then the screen goes black as a Hellfire from a drone blows you all to pieces.

If that's DLC instead of core content I am going to be so pissed.

This whole idea is so weird, it's going to have the perspective of the individuals caught in a fetishized, choreographed, simulated war which only exists in the realm of video games, which really just tries to milk empathy towards NPCs in a video game, not real people.

As opposed to the weird perspective of individuals caught in a fetishized, choreographed, simulated war which only exists in the realm of video games, which really just tries to milk contention towards NPCs in a video game? What's your point?

If you are under the impression that video games do not promote violence, why would they promote empathy for those caught in the crossfire? Of course, that's implying some underlying motivation or whatever, but still.

Video games are a medium; whether they promote violence or empathy or alpacas is up to the artists' intentions and the audience's interpretations. The absolutist position that "video games do not promote violence" was simply political contrarianism from the time of Jack Thompson, and it's blatantly false if you consider videogames to have any artistic value at all.

And there are motivations behind everything people do. Especially art.

It is just a variation on a theme, but a stupid one.

It seems to be a pretty dramatic variation from what's become standard, which is interesting to me, as I'm pretty bored with most of what comes out of "the industry" these days.