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[DrunkShogun]

Konami pachinko would make most sense.

 

[El-Suave]

God of War - set in ancient Egypt could feature Isis as a boss goddess.
But after the trophy controversy in Ascension I'd guess they'd rather rename her than to make people upset.

 

[MNC]

An Archer game from the russian perspective

 

[Deft Beck]

I think there are more creative, more effective ways of writing an antagonistic force that doesn't just rip something from the headlines.

It's just not worth the trouble.

 

[scoobidoo112]

How do you even figure that? Don't put words in my mouth. What you think, and what I think, is not what the big publishers and their shareholders are going to think.

Which is what half the posts in this thread are saying.

Sorry, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I just wanted to point out that we (whether as people or companies with shareholders) should stand up to terrorism, rather than be afraid of it, which is the whole point of terrorism.

Of course, when you are a business (which wants to make money) that perspective is different.

 

[autoduelist]

I really doubt any major publisher is going to put out a game involving ISIS as a major plot point until well after conflict is resolved in the middle east. So it might be another few decades.

If only.

 

[eizarus]

Along with the reasons people mentioned like ISIS then wanting to target them for the insult etc. I think one issue is that there would be a lot of controversy if civillians weren't done properly. If they're made to be no different from ISIS (from the player's in game perspective), pretty sure there'd be a lot of activists groups, for better or for worse, trying to get the game shut down/changed.

Having said all that, I read on reddit yesterday that in Just Cause 3, once you liberate a town from government forces, rebels eventually take over, so that you're not left with a game with no enemies. It would be interesting to see a similar system featuring ISIS so we can do grapple-hook-superman-punches to them.

 

[DownGrader]

The problem with using real organisations like ISIS with multiplayer is that half the people playing are on that team. Who wants to be part of ISIS, even in a game?

They can do like, IIRC, America's Army - every team is American but players see all enemies as terrorists. No matter who won, the democracy always wins.

 

[djtiesto]

Final Fantasy Legend 2 is the first game to have ISIS as a good guy:

 

[DrArchon]

Yeah, I was gonna say that no big AAA game would have ISIS as an antagonist, but then I remembered:

South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Honestly the only one I could see doing it.

Those crazy bastards could and would do it.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

None, games will just continue using Ambiguous Terrorist Group X to portray them. Barely any games actually specifically mention Al Queda.

 

[Daingurse]

No one probably, unless we get an indie modern war game. Only ISIS you'll fight is the Egyptian Goddess.

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

No dev will. While ISIS is still prominent, there's no way I see a major dev incorporating them as an enemy.

 

[MillionStabs]

There's a mod for Insurgency that changes the terrorists to ISIS models, but that's about all I can think of

 

[Breads]

I think it's a little early. The daesh are pretty unpredictable and we still don't yet know how far their reach is so it's an incredibly dangerous proposition for developers to do something like that.

 

[True Fire]

That's called "giving in to the terrorists". I say mock them in as many entertainment media forms as possible, ala Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

Have you been watching the news at all? France has been hit by two significant terrorist attacks just this year for not "giving in to the terrorists."

If a game company mocks ISIS they'll be held hostage and blown to pieces. No respectable company would risk people's lives over a few cheap laughs.

 

[br0ken_shad0w]

I dont think any, at least they wont be labled as 'ISIS'.

Typical Middle Eastern terrorist stereotype I can still see, but not specifically 'ISIS'.

Yeah closest you'll probably see is the GLA from Generals and even that was pushing it when it was released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAVjsRmGDlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMUVKLgf0qw

 

[Ludger Kresnik]

I think it's a little early. The daesh are pretty unpredictable and we still don't yet know how far their reach is so it's an incredibly dangerous proposition for developers to do something like that.

Yep, way too early.

 

[silvermember]

That's called "giving in to the terrorists". I say mock them in as many entertainment media forms as possible, ala Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

It is easy to say that online. Here is an idea post your address and go make an isis game.

Developer don't have the benefit of hiding behind a a screen name of scoobidoo and a picture of Jon Stewart to make comments. It is easy to say don't give in you are not at risk.

 

[Kinyou]

Always leaves a bit of a bad taste to me when they involve a real life enemy, especially when the conflict is still on going.

 

[Savitar]

Doubt it will happen as it would be you know, controversial and the developer would have to deal with news and politicans saying how people are training as terrorist on game consoles to kill MURICA people or soldiers.

Plus they'd probably be afraid of being a target should they piss off one of these nutty terrorist groups.

 

[Red Blaster]

hopefully none, the neocon tone that permeated some games in the early-mid 2000s was embarrassing in retrospect

plus you need symmetrical forces due to multiplayer, hence why china and russia are the go tos

 

[TacticalHotdog]

Medal of Honor had to patch it out if I remember correctly.

The problem with using real organisations like ISIS with multiplayer is that half the people playing are on that team. Who wants to be part of ISIS, even in a game?

Only in multiplayer. The single player campaign explicitly mentions the Taliban and AQ

 

[Mr E.]

Maybe Skylanders or Lego ISIS.

 

[K.Sabot]

Nobody in the industry has the balls.

Six Days in Fallujah was supposed to be the thing you're talking about for Al-Qaeda and apparently no publisher would touch that with a 10 foot pole.

 

[d9b]

Too soon.