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和平精英 shouldn't be translated into Game for Peace, more like Peace-Keeping Elites (connoting an elite military force that will fight to achieve peace). Doublethi
by wholien 7y ago
和平精英 shouldn't be translated into Game for Peace, more like Peace-Keeping Elites (connoting an elite military force that will fight to achieve peace). Doublethink accusations in this thread are interesting - when I read the title I immediately knew it was a shooting / battle game. Maybe this is doublethink... maybe this is how Chinese words work, especially in a language where a character can mean 2 or more things.
Peacekeeping means they will fight right? Is it a doublethink to call the UN Peacekeeping force a peacekeeping force if they have guns and stuff?
I don't see any other links with the Chinese Airforce, aside from the Weibo shoutout to 空军招飞局 (Airforce recruiting) on the Weibo post.
- tdb7893 7y agoI think a lot of what makes the game weird is the combination of fairly realistic characters with such obviously silly animation and gameplay. It's very counter to expectations and makes the game feel very sterilized, if they had gone for something more weird and stylized (like Splatoon) it wouldn't seem strange. Also if they made a game about UN Peacekeepers shooting people and called it Peace-Keeping Elites it would still be pretty funny to a US audience. They they might be called Peacekeepers but if you made a game about them shooting people and called them that no one would miss the irony of that.