Poll: So I had this idea...

[hittite]

So in the time I've been here, I've heard a few people comment on the lack of a game set during World War 1. The obvious answer to this is that a game in which you crouch in a muddy trench taking pot shots at some guys 100 yards away in another trench before charging straight into the teeth of a machine gun emplacement and dying is not a very fun game. I think I may have found a way around this: Madden.

Yes, the same poster child for unoriginal gameplay and EA price gouging. Imagine this. You play as a young officer on the Allied side (just to shake things up, let's make him British). Between advances, you manage your troops the best you can with limited supplies and dwindling reinforcements. When it's announced that another charge is going to happen, you decide what sort of tactics (read plays) you're going to use and where to send each squad. Once the charge starts, you can control the officer directly, have him give orders to his squad, or jump to one of the sergeants and do the same with them.

So it's part shooter, part RTS, and uses controls like Madden.

My problem is that I'm too close to this, so I have no idea if anyone else would find it fun.

 

[Cherry Cola]

People are going to hand you your ass for implying that WW1 games can only be about trench-warfare.

I think the idea sounds... dumb. Trench warfare can't be made fun unless it's made to be incredibly silly and not at all historically accurate (like having a Black Adder game where all you do is press a button marked "play". If you succeed, you get to watch a Black Adder episode! HURRAY!)

 

[Pimppeter2]

That actaully sounds like a lot of fun. I would totally play that.

 

[Cabisco]

People are going to hand you your ass for implying that WW1 games can only be about trench-warfare.

I think the idea sounds... dumb. Trench warfare can't be made fun unless it's made to be incredibly silly and not at all historically accurate (like having a Black Adder game where all you do is press a button marked "play". If you succeed, you get to watch a Black Adder episode! HURRAY!)

YES YES A million times over.

hittite you should hire this man to come up with your story. Hubilub you should proceed to watch all the blackadder episodes to make sure you get it right!

Well you can certainly put me down as a fan, especially if i can have an unlockable General Melchett uniform.

 

[commasplice]

I'm imagining it as some kind of warped TBS. Personally, I'd like it if, instead of controlling any one character in real-time, you pick where you want your units to go and how you want them to behave once they get there (stay here and throw suppressing fire that direction, bum rush the beach and get to cover over there), but once you hit the "Go" button, all you can do is watch the whole thing play out until the next turn. Both sides would choose their plays simultaneously, so you'd have to kind of predict what the other guy might be doing with his units, like with FOOBAU.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

I totally up for that you got that very detailed. Now make a giant design document out of it and try and get it published somehow. You may actually get me to play an RTS for once.

 

[Hutchy_Bear]

All I would do is walk very slowly towards the enemy 16 times in a row. They will never suspect it ...

 

[Wolfram23]

He should be a Canadian officer otherwise all your men will die

As a Canadian officer you'll have access to creeping barrage and zig zag patterns.

Otherwise it's just CHAAAAAAA-ahh! *dead*

Also I read a really good book about these 2 natives who joined the Canadian army as snipers. It's pretty damn cool. And while the biggest battles/murder fests were in the trench warfare, that wasn't the only fighting done.

 

[commasplice]

Snip.

Your sniper comment reminded me of someone.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I would definitely play that game. It could be really good.

 

[Fayathon]

I'd love to see how it would turn out, sounds interesting to me.

 

[Jamash]

That sounds like a brilliant game... in fact it is a brilliant game, it's called Toy Soldiers, and it was released on the X-Box Live Arcade last week.

You should play it, it's a brilliant game and will be right up your street.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

http://armorgames.com/play/2267/warfare-1917

Kind of like this, basically? More complexity, maybe a nice story? Because that would rock.

 

[SMILEYkyle21]

thats actually a good idea, if you worked out some of the finer details such as what each 'play' would actually involve. i think there's an idea for a unique war game which we never seem to get

 

[quack35]

That sounds awful.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

It sounds okay, I probably wouldn't get it.

 

[sms_117b]

I might play that, but I've a deep routed thing against guns in RTS, it just doesn't seem right.

Interesting concept, the least I'd do if a game came out like this is try the demo and make my mind up from there.

 

[azncutthroat]

So in the time I've been here, I've heard a few people comment on the lack of a game set during World War 1. The obvious answer to this is that a game in which you crouch in a muddy trench taking pot shots at some guys 100 yards away in another trench before charging straight into the teeth of a machine gun emplacement and dying is not a very fun game. I think I may have found a way around this: Madden.

Yes, the same poster child for unoriginal gameplay and EA price gouging. Imagine this. You play as a young officer on the Allied side (just to shake things up, let's make him British). Between advances, you manage your troops the best you can with limited supplies and dwindling reinforcements. When it's announced that another charge is going to happen, you decide what sort of tactics (read plays) you're going to use and where to send each squad. Once the charge starts, you can control the officer directly, have him give orders to his squad, or jump to one of the sergeants and do the same with them.

So it's part shooter, part RTS, and uses controls like Madden.

My problem is that I'm too close to this, so I have no idea if anyone else would find it fun.

You mean something like the Brother's in Arm's squad gameplay?