Poll: Call of Duty: Vietnam?

[zauxz]

Only if you could be Forest Gump.

New Perk?

"Box of Chocolates"- gives you a random secondary weapon every time you respawn

And infinite sprint.

 

[Irishhoodlum]

I wouldn't buy it. There are so many reasons I wouldn't want to play either side. And a Cod in the future sounds like every other of the 50 million future games. Read: SpaceMarines

Imo we don't have enough Modern Warfare (not meant to take off the title) shooters.

 

[GeoPB]

Yes yes yes. Even though the 'Nam war was terrible, playing as a Viet Ming soldier would be awwwwwwsome!

 

[lostclause]

Wasn't America the bad guys in Nam? I can probably assume that from the severe lack of information that is taught to us about it.

From the vietnamese perspective yes. For everyone else they were merely doing the fighting for the bad guys (south vietnam).

Not just the Vietnamese perspective. Probably most of the world actually.

And yet they managed to bring half the world to war with them (NATO, SEATO)

 

[lostclause]

Wasn't America the bad guys in Nam? I can probably assume that from the severe lack of information that is taught to us about it.

I never thought of it like that. I never thought that my country or the USA could be the bad guys in a war but come to think of it it was a bit like that.

Depends on who you learn from. America says that they tried to stop the spread of the corrupt communist scum, while the Communists say that they kicked those capitalist pigs' asses.

One thing you can't do is accuse North Vietnam of being corrupt. That was South Vietnam, the one America was supporting. Search up Diem.

 

[gunbladejoe]

feh. I was never really interested in war games.

 

[xChevelle24]

Seeing as how bad the mother fucking M60 was in CoD4, try applying that to an era where the primary LMG was the M60. Oh and also try doing that with TreyArch doing it.

/wrists

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Wasn't America the bad guys in Nam? I can probably assume that from the severe lack of information that is taught to us about it.

From the vietnamese perspective yes. For everyone else they were merely doing the fighting for the bad guys (south vietnam).

Not just the Vietnamese perspective. Probably most of the world actually.

And yet they managed to bring half the world to war with them (NATO, SEATO)

Well of course they would join for mutual benefit. The point still stands that innocent Vietnamese children were driven screaming from their homes with chemical burns.

 

[Jenkins]

It sure would be nice with a Call of Duty: Vietnam but why not something from WW1. Yes, I know that this debate has reach a stalemate just like the whole war but didn't the attacks gain moveabality when the americans started pooring in around 1917?

even when the americans entered the war. the lines were still stiff. when we broke through, they just hopped into new ones.

 

[Low Key]

I see a lot of misinformation about America and the Vietnam War in this thread.

 

[lostclause]

Wasn't America the bad guys in Nam? I can probably assume that from the severe lack of information that is taught to us about it.

From the vietnamese perspective yes. For everyone else they were merely doing the fighting for the bad guys (south vietnam).

Not just the Vietnamese perspective. Probably most of the world actually.

And yet they managed to bring half the world to war with them (NATO, SEATO)

Well of course they would join for mutual benefit. The point still stands that innocent Vietnamese children were driven screaming from their homes with chemical burns.

Far from it, I'm aware of what happened in Vietnam: if it's dead it's VC, indiscriminate bombing of civilians, concentration camps etc.
There was no mutual benefit in Vietnam. I'm in New Zealand and we send troops to Vietnam. The concern was if Vietnam fell all of south-east Asia would go red, then the pacific (which is us) so maybe we had some mutual benefit (and we were still reluctant) but how did say South Korea benefit? They were the biggest contributer after the US and South Vietnam. 5,000 dead, twice that injured. It didn't really benefit them at all.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

It sure would be nice with a Call of Duty: Vietnam but why not something from WW1. Yes, I know that this debate has reach a stalemate just like the whole war but didn't the attacks gain moveabality when the americans started pooring in around 1917?

More like the other way round. The germans broke though and the US arrived just in time to stop them. Most people wouldn't like WWI. Only fixed machine guns, few tanks, hardly any even semi-auto weapons. WWI would only feature in something like timesplitters.
On topic: Vietnam is not too recent. Tunnel rats just came out and it was set in vietnam. It's like saying Cod 4 couldn't be set in the present day.

Might want to check your facts about the Americans stopping the German 1918 offensive. There were some American troops in France but nowhere near as many as the British and French, however the Germans did attack to try and force a settlement before the American forces could build up but that wouldn't be until 1919 at the earliest. So if it makes you happy the Americans did win WW1, in a way

Oh and as for a WW1 CoD, it could be done as there was fighting in the Middle East, Balkans, Italy, Turkey and the Eastern Front which was a lot more mobile than the static trench warfare on the Western front. I'd quite like a WW1 era Total War.

The US lost a lot of troops in a short time stopping the 18 offensive, this was why the US returned to isolationism after the war (and a major reason they were late for WW2). I'm not saying they won WWI, that would belittle the sacrifice of britain and France. I'm just saying they took a lot of causilties in a very short time.
Hadn't though of that for a WWI cod. I like the idea of the middle east, chance for a good story. You could play as lawrence of arabia or something. Still face the very limited weapons though but it's a much better idea than say the somme.

I doubt that the weaponry will be much of an issue, I mean there is a Revolutionary War mod for HL2 that is very popular, and you use wildly inaccurate flint locks.

 

[lostclause]

It sure would be nice with a Call of Duty: Vietnam but why not something from WW1. Yes, I know that this debate has reach a stalemate just like the whole war but didn't the attacks gain moveabality when the americans started pooring in around 1917?

even when the americans entered the war. the lines were still stiff. when we broke through, they just hopped into new ones.

We? Are you German?
Anyway, wasn't there a counter attack by the allies afterwards?

 

[lostclause]

I doubt that the weaponry will be much of an issue, I mean there is a Revolutionary War mod for HL2 that is very popular, and you use wildly inaccurate flint locks.

Really? I assume you have a melee weapon too, like a bayonet?
The thing is that it would look and feel like WW2 but with worse weapons and even more static due to trench warfare. People would just go and play a WW2 game. You'd have to make it different like Faps suggested, taking it to say the ME where there was very little trench war.

 

[You_have_a_name]

yh u could have napalm for a five kill streek

 

[Lunar Shadow]

I doubt that the weaponry will be much of an issue, I mean there is a Revolutionary War mod for HL2 that is very popular, and you use wildly inaccurate flint locks.

Really? I assume you have a melee weapon too, like a bayonet?
The thing is that it would look and feel like WW2 but with worse weapons and even more static due to trench warfare. People would just go and play a WW2 game. You'd have to make it different like Faps suggested, taking it to say the ME where there was very little trench war.

Yeah, the line men have bayonets, officers have a sword and pistol, and the frontiersman/jaegars have long rifles that are fairly accurate (if you stay still and crouch) and a knife,

 

[Serious_Stalin]

I can't really see a big issue with it, I mean they made Battlefield Vietnam I guess that doesn't have a story but they've had plenty of films about Vietnam which didn't show America in the best light like Platoon and Apocalypse Now.

I'm not sure how much fun the multiplayer would be but running into ambushes all the time and seeing your friends get hit by booby traps and snipers would be great. Throw in a boat mission and its a winner!