u/PlanetaryIceTea

Platform(s): Xbox 360, could have also been released on PS3 and/or PC.

Genre: Single Player top-down Action Adventure Game, although some cinematics/QTEs moved into a more traditional 3rd person perspectives

Estimated year of release: No later than 2011 in North America. Sadly cannot be more specific than that. Probably rated T for Teen by the ESRB?

Graphics/art style: The game had a resemblance to the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, I don't know if it was actually of this IP but my own searching has come up with no results. You played as a pirate who was on this ship, possibly in a cavern of some sort with lava flows but that may just be a specific level. You're in this realistic looking ship with outfits to fit the part, the lighting was darker and more moody. The UI was scattered a bit but stuff like health was shown in the bottom left of the screen.

Notable characters: I cannot recall more than vague details, I think the enemies may have been demonic or skeletons in some way and the player was human.

Notable gameplay mechanics: You would face off on the plank with opponents and used QTE's(?) to fight them. I also remember ground falling below you and using potions to heal, I think.

Other details: I am terribly sorry if the details are fuzzy or if they are not perfectly aligned but still close to what you may have found or remembered. This is a game I saw my late cousin, then 16, play at his house once in 2011 as a six year old. It's been bouncing around in my head for years and attempts to find them on my own have all failed. If anyone has even the slightest idea of what this may be, please let me know. I would deeply appreciate it!

Bokoen1 is a Gaming Youtuber and Twitch streamer based in Denmark who mainly plays Paradox Interactive (PDX) grand strategy titles such as Hearts of Iron 4, Victoria 3, and Europa Universalis 5 with friends. Bokoen1 was recently (not sure when, couldn't find an archive of his VODs) playing HOI4 on Twitch and went on a tirade about "Glassing Russia" during the game, continuing despite other people in the call trying to pull him back as he continues to double down. A link to the clip can be found here and I will transcribe what is said in it below:

(For audience reference, "glassing" is in reference to turning sand into glass from nuclear blasts, usually used in reference to the act of systematically nuking the land of an entire country.)

^(Bokoen: "You [another player] should have glassed Russia, that's one thing that I am a staunch supporter of at this point. If anything, after- after World War 2- after World War 2 the Allies should have just glassed Russia, that's just my opinion on it. You- they were pussies for not just wanting to glass them. That's what it was.")

^(Guy 1: "I don't know about that, that would have killed a lot of innocent-")

^(Guy 2: "You see Bo- Bo wait, Bo wait-")

^(Bokoen: "Instead of dropping the second bomb, instead of dropping the second bomb on Japan, they should have just dropped it on Moscow.")

^(Guy 2: "Bo is fucking uh, Holden Bloodfeast, he's Holden Bloodfeast.")

^(Bokoen: "No they should've- they should've just gotten rid of them, literally just get rid of Russia.")

^(Guy 2: "Respectable bipartisan.")

^(Bokoen: "I'm being deadass, they should've just glassed them before they had their own nukes.")

^(Guy 1: "That's weird.")

^(Guy 3: "I don't think John-")

^(Bokoen: "Don't care. Don't care. With hindsight, with the benefit of hindsight, and how ret@#ded the Russian is for not like, doing anything against their fucking dictator and authoritarian regimes they should have glassed them, they should have just glassed the whole fucking thing.")

Bokoen, following his ban, posted the following longer comment on his Reddit account in replies to posts on his subreddit following the ban:

^("The ban makes a lot more sense after I actually understand what glassing means now and rewatch the clip. For that I apoligize, as I've also typed in other comments.)

^(I'd still argue a permanent ban/ 6 months is a little on the harsher side when you look at the past verdicts of Twitch bans and the fact I've had 0 issues on Twitch for +9 years.)

^(As in regards to what the others do it will be up to them. I assume Golden will be the main person worrying as he actually needs the income and depends on it. Swimmy doesn't stream as much and isn't dependant on the income as much as Golden is. A solution would either be they mute me or stream on other platforms.)

^(I will continue streams on Kick in the short term and potentially move to YouTube if I'm not unbanned. Even though I know what Kick is, it is just the easier platform to setup on short term.)

^(Also for anyone saying I'm gonna become a right wing grifter or a nazi, fuck you. You're clearly not an actual viewer and listen to what I actually say if that's what you believe.)

^(I'll take the downdoots to go, but I want this comment to be here so people can read it.")

Followed by:

^("I'll say what I typed in my Discord when some guy asked me this and I was then explained afterwards.)

^(I thought what I was saying was like attacking the USSR using shock and awe with the nuclear bombs the US had at the time. One on Moscow to topple the government the rest on the frontline to gain the army advantage. Then using conventional bombing like they did to Germany and Japan. In the context of Operation Unthinkable.)

^(I was then told my Discord members that glassing means wiping out an entire population. This is not even what I tried to argue in this clip. Obviously that doesn't make the clip not TOS, but I'd like people to stop saying "Bo wants to genocide the Russian population". That is not something I want. I apologize for what I said and have so in other posts as well. It wont change that I still argue that the ban length is too harsh.")

Notably, this both isn't what glassing actually means, and what he advocated for in the clip is nuclear strikes on Russian (then Soviet) forces in occupied Germany and Austria immediately following the defeat of the Axis Powers, along with the Soviet capital of Moscow. If that is any better is up to the eye of the beholder.

Bokoen has also stated on his subreddit that he is eligible to appeal the ban in six months, and plans to move streaming to either Youtube or Kick in the meantime.