Bideo bames where russians (not soviets) are the good guys

[Vlajdimir Ermenović]

Crossposting from the codex. Mods and fanmade games count.

[Tweed]

None.

[gerey]

Syrian Warfare.

You play as Assad loyalists for most of the game, but you can get Russian troops in some missions (and they are pretty much the best units in the game). The Russians are portrayed in a positive light. There's also plenty of lulzy mockery of SJWs and Islamists inbetween missions via fictional journal articles and chat logs.

[Hauberk]

Do we count the Stalkers even though they are full of dill?

[wndrbr]

[Oyster Sauce]

Starfield

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Maria Tachibana from the visual novel/SRPG hybrid series, Sakura Wars. One of your core party members and potential love interests. Her parents were accused of treason and sent to the gulags and died. She fought on the side of the White Army during the revolution as a rifleman supporting a tank, but her unit was wiped out and the Whites lost and she fled to Japan and joined a superhero team of mech pilots who fight demon possessed robots. Is the oldest heroine along with Kanna. Pilots a black Koubu (magitek mecha) wielding conventional firearms (everyone else uses katanas, spears, hammers, flails, etc).

The story of the new 2020 Sakura Wars reboot anime (sequel to the 2019 reboot game) is about a new Russian loli pilot who joins the team. Sadly it has been four years and there has been no word of a second reboot game so she might not get to appear in any games.






Kasumi from Muv-Luv, the protagonist Takeru's confidante and potential love interest. She is from the last batch of genetically engineered espers/psychics/telepaths created by the Russians. The Russians had a long heritage of esper families that intermarried, slowly increasing in strength over generations, but when the alien BETA invaded they began a genetic engineering program to speed up the process and make more powerful espers more quickly. Unfortunately the BETA wipe out Eurasia and the US leases out Alaska to the surviving Russians and the esper program is abandoned, and the surviving espers are viewed as demons by most people. The hairclips are to limit her psychic powers. Co-pilots the humongous Susano-O mark IV.






Cryska and her sister Inia from Muv-Luv Total Eclipse. More Russian espers and potential love interests. They co-pilot TSFs together.






Crymaria from Valkyria Chronicles 4, a SRPG set in fantasy world war 2. Technically an antagonist to the heroes for most of the game, but VC goes out of its way to humanize the antagonists, and the point of VC4 was that soldiers on either side were hardly morally superior to each other, and generals and politicians who started for their own ends are the real bad guys. She was drafted and experimented upon by the Germanic/Soviet expy empire and turned into a Valkyria with command over frost, but doesn't want to fight but her evil scientist boss threatens to brainwash and kill her if she doesn't get results. Is playable in one level. She plays like the new grenadier class, hurling icicles which can travel in an arc over obstacles, meaning she doesn't require line of sight to attack and the only defense against her is to hide underneath something.

Sadly I can't think of any sympathetic male Russians in games. I guess there's Stukov from Starcraft but he got so little screentime.

[Vergil]

That is some of the most awful looking slop I've ever seen.

[Wretch]

I hear there’s a Russian in Starfield.

[Vergil]

I hear there’s a Russian in Starfield.

Late

Starfield

[rusty_shackleford]

Russians make very few video games worth speaking of so this won't really exist. Many of the video games attributed to Russia are from other former soviet countries in my experience.

[Norfleet]

Russia, when the game is not a Cold War Extended-themed game, tends to be presented positively in space sci-fi, such as Star Trek. In fact, I can't think of any examples of non-USSR Russia being presented negatively in space, and even the USSR is presented relatively neutral-positive in a Cold-War-Extended game like Battlezone, where they are simply one of the starting sides without any presentation of being evil, and eventually all of the humans are allied against the alien menace.

It is apparently relatively difficult to paint people otherwise integral to the history of space exploration, who have never done anything bad in space, as the bad guys.

[wndrbr]

Russia, when the game is not a Cold War Extended-themed game, tends to be presented positively in space sci-fi, such as Star Trek. In fact, I can't think of any examples of non-USSR Russia being presented negatively in space, and even the USSR is presented relatively neutral-positive

A military organization "Order of the Russian Star" captures Providence, an O'Neil Cylinder space colony equipped with a solar energy microwave transmitter, and uses the microwave transmitter to devastate San Francisco. Victor Zaitsev, a Russian Star agent, demands the American government to surrender or he will target New York City.

It is apparently relatively difficult to paint people otherwise integral to the history of space exploration, who have never done anything bad in space, as the bad guys.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13655120/

[WhiteShark]

Vanquish is indeed a good example of Russians being the good guys.

[Havitner]

It is apparently relatively difficult to paint people otherwise integral to the history of space exploration, who have never done anything bad in space, as the bad guys.

[Emphyrio]

Russia, when the game is not a Cold War Extended-themed game, tends to be presented positively in space sci-fi, such as Star Trek. In fact, I can't think of any examples of non-USSR Russia being presented negatively in space, and even the USSR is presented relatively neutral-positive

A military organization "Order of the Russian Star" captures Providence, an O'Neil Cylinder space colony equipped with a solar energy microwave transmitter, and uses the microwave transmitter to devastate San Francisco. Victor Zaitsev, a Russian Star agent, demands the American government to surrender or he will target New York City.

It is apparently relatively difficult to paint people otherwise integral to the history of space exploration, who have never done anything bad in space, as the bad guys.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13655120/

I don't understand, what you quoted just proves Norfleet's point.