Idea for an actually original WWII game.

[chstens]

How to make an original WW2 game? Fiction, my friends, fiction. Fiction that is not given away at the back of the box, you play as a russian soldier and you're about to invade Berlin, everything goes fine, until the last couple of levels where everything goes BATSHIT INSANE! The Reichstag turns into a giant walking doomsday machine, the Nazis unveil research and technology so evil that it makes the very foundations of the Earth shake.

In the end, you and your comrades are forced to escape, your company have been scattered and it's you and a few squadmates on your own against hordes of Wermacht soldiers backed up by evil beings and technology. How does it end? You make your way to a bunker deep underground when you hear that the Americans plan to nuke Berlin, but as soon as the bombers approach, the Nazis nuke the entire world, with the exception of central Europe, FROM SPACE!!!

 

[Red Albatross]

Want to see some real controversy? Well, here in the U.S. anyway...make a Civil War game.

I'd play it.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

i would probably like the idea of playing as a Nazi for Medal of Honor: Axis Powers

 

[Cpu46]

Harry Turtledoves "Darkness" series would make a good game. The series is WWII in a fantasy setting. Bombers and fighters are dragons, tanks are large rhino beasts, artillery is magical strikes called in by mages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkness_Series

 

[killaconcarnage]

my idea you play as a guy in a battle suit and he has lazes and rockets and a jet pack and he kill Nazis well its original

 

[luke10123]

yeah just because the player is an axis character doesn't mean they have to win the war - it could be more of a survival thing

 

[TheDoctor455]

Yes, many people have posted this idea, and most have agreed with it.

If I feel like it, I just play Company Of Heroes.

I think it's because most WW2 FPS' are either made by or at least marketed to Americans, and while I hate to generalise and Americans I know are mostly lovely people, empathy is one thing the American psyche is short on, so it's usually a bad marketing idea to have the protagonists be anything other than Americans or sometimes English.

I'm American (technically) and... well this is hardly a universal truth... however I have noticed one thing... most of the people without any kind of empathy tend to be on the right-wing... gee, I wonder why...

 

[kilibot57]

I'd like an fps ww2 game, but here's the twist

It opens with you on a farm in france, and you are seventeen or so. Your father is hiding jews and several germans come to the house to search. they find the jews, and you and your father kill the germans, your father being shot and killed. Since he was the last in your family, you join the army to avoid being killed by suspicious germans wondering where their friends went. thus begins a war story where it follows you through any huge battle in WW2, and focuses on that battle alone, like an entire 6-8 hour normandy game, through several areas and smaller assignments during that battle. At the end of the game, there would be a huge set-piece with all these germans storming a house you're in. You run outside, your squad gone, and try to defend the house. You eventually are shot and wounded, and as you lie on the ground, the screen slowly fading to white, you see american troops ambush the germans, and one that was about to shoot you again is killed before your eyes as you see a platoon of soldiers approaching the house. The screen becomes completely white, and then the credits roll.

idk, that's my perfect WWII game

 

[MR T3D]

I have a even more original idea for a WWII game. You play a Swiss businessman. who uses shrewd business dealings to make a profit off the war. The game consists of your secret dealing to keep both sides at war to fill your pocket, until you get found out and attacked by germans making you have to go on the lam. You slowly work as a illegal dealer stealing goods out of Germany for the allies and encouraging criminal activity from the citizens. You never really play as the smuggler in these games.

YES!

 

[SturmDolch]

I had my idea for Nazi Dragons [http://seventhcirclegaming.com/2009/12/16/game-idea-1-nazi-dragon-blitzkrieg/] that I would love to see.

Spoiler: Come on...

 

[Connosaurus Rex]

Massive sized game where you have hundreds or thousands of players and have a command structure online. So basically MAG transported back in time. Actually a WWI massive FPS trench warfare game that would be fun.

 

[ToastyTheCommie]

Want to see some real controversy? Well, here in the U.S. anyway...make a Civil War game.

I'd play it.

I believe Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood touched on that.

 

[dubious_wolf]

Wouldn't work, here's why, For the same reason that you never kill humans in the Halo 2 campaign (unless you count shooting your own marines) Game Developers don't usually don't kill "good" humans. WWII was a real event and thus it would be taboo to have a game based around killing the stalwart heroes of the time. While most people are tired of having the same old WWII game endlessly churned out, I am not sure if the general public (at least in America) is ready to accept depictions of real life events from the Nazi Germany/Japanese/Italian point of view.
Although you do gun down Russian civilians in MW2 those events aren't real and so are less shocking, it's easy to rationalize away. "It's just 1's and 0's," comes the response from many when their parents walk into the room to scenes of mass murder. But, WWII from Nazi POV would be unsettling at the least especially if they depicted brutality towards Jews. BECAUSE THAT SHIT REALLY HAPPENED! despite what some in the Catholic church claim.
Just because our generation didn't grow up on Grandpa's lap with stories about he had to endure the stress of global war and the threat of a true and evil super dictator, and how Grandma had to work the factories so that her future husband could stick it to the Nazi's with super weapons mass destruction while she baked him apple pies, doesn't mean we can forget about it and move on.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Want to see some real controversy? Well, here in the U.S. anyway...make a Civil War game.

I'd play it.

You don't want that.

You really don't want that.

Don't make me link you the game you're talking about!

It's too horrible!

 

[JWW]

I'm not into making video games out of movies, but Inglorious Bastards could have potential to be made into a really great game.

 

[maninahat]

Or Irish. The saboteur did quite well.

I hope you're being sarcastic, I'm Irish, and that was the worst depiction of an Irishman I've ever seen.

Maybe YOU are the worst depiction of an Irishman the Saboteur has ever seen!?

Yeah, that joke sucked.

That was a joke? It was closer to surrealism.

Don't say that word!



Ever since my crazy goth ex always called herself surrealistic I've hated that word

In Soviet Russia, trope mock you!

 

[maninahat]

I'm not into making video games out of movies, but Inglorious Bastards could have potential to be made into a really great game.

Are you kidding? there were practically no action scenes to speak of. Assuming we just have to imagine all the action the Basterds were doing off-screen, we might as well not bother. Perhaps it is this same reason why the Reservoir Dogs game sucked; not enough action scenes to hang onto.

 

[maninahat]

How about something in lieu of The Third Man? A game about the underground black marketers, who have no interest in the war itself. There is a whole range of movies to take inspiration from (Casablanca etc.). Worked for Grim Fandango.

 

[Treblaine]

Well The Saboteur tried a different approach to WWII... shame they didn't make the game very good while they were at it.

Lets face if guys, WWII shooters don't sell well because we care all that much about that conflict but just because we want a good action game and WWII is a really good framing device for that, but really all the obvious narratives have been done and we're now at the bottom of the barrel.

Developers should focus on and we as gamers should keep our eyes out for games that are GOOD before we start worrying about the era they are set.

We still haven't done any speculative fiction yet, like "what if the Nazis had nukes" or "What if Japan invaded the USA" or other crap like that and I suspect we will never see a serious shift that way.

WWII will remain a rich source of inspiration for many developers but I think the way forward is escaping any ideas of "Reality" as it seems to me like an exercise in futility. Just consider Team Fortress 2 (oh boy I love bringing this example out) which dispenses with "gritty realism" to make a fun and quite comical game. How about a Warhammer 40k shooter, that I believe they are working on, or another game that matches how what we expect from a game (regenerating or very-high health, loads of weapons, jump twice your own height) doesn't match with any ideas of realism.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Why can't we play a WWII game where we play as Nazi dinosaurs or something?

That would be a good game in my book.

Edit: 500th post!!