Something original for WWII games please.
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I would.InFeSt121 said:
7th of August: Hearts of Iron 3.
And there are so many amazing WW2 titles that don't focus on first person action. I don't suppose anyone has played the Panzer General series? Some lovely turn based strategy there.
Conquest of the Aegean? Grand strategy at its finest!
If you want something other than the completely ridiculous movie experience that Call of Duty offers you, there's always the older Hidden & Dangerous 2. Or Red Orchestra.. see if you can survive for more than 5 minutes.
That sounds extremely appealing. A game that indepth with its damage system would be pretty innovative, and as long as gameplay and graphics were at least up to code, then you're looking at a solid game, right there. The loss of that annoying instant recovery thing would work wonders for me, since it would mean whatever health is lost can only be regained over long periods of time, or at specific points, like at medic camps, or if the character is given a respite from the war, pulled back to a defense position, although they would keep the disadvantages that they had earned from the previous engagements, like the loss of an ear/leg is permanent, as are the corresponding effects, but your overall stamina can be at least partially recovered.Casbahthegrey said:
that would be pretty fun for a game... but you know that no game company would let you play as a german soldier unless he like... betrayed germany within the first 20 mins... lolCpt_Oblivious said:
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A World War II game that acknowledges that anyone other than Americans fought and died.
Ever hear of Kakoda, Gallipoli or perhaps Tobruk?
Ever hear of Kakoda, Gallipoli or perhaps Tobruk?
Yeah. WW2 games really need something to become worthwhile again, there have been so many of them in the past few years.
One from the viewpoint of a Nazi soldier would be pretty cool. Show that they were humans too, most just doing their job by defending their country.
One from the viewpoint of a Nazi soldier would be pretty cool. Show that they were humans too, most just doing their job by defending their country.
Be careful what you wish for, you may end up with Velvet Assassin which I get the impression was not well received.
The thing is those battles you mentioned are all either doomed for the allies failure or are from the perspective of the Nazi side. I'm not saying there will never be a WWII game told from the German perspective, it's just if there is it will either be insultingly sanitised as if it was shown then no one would want to play it. I mean when I play a computer game I want some motivation for my goals. Pleasing the whim of "Zee Furher" is not my idea of good motivation, it only worked for Germans because of:
(a) Peer pressure and patriotims = obviously irrelevant to modern non-germans
(b) Propaganda that the war was necessary, living space, blah blah blah = well it's now obvious that was all bullshit
(c) the cover-up of most of the war crimes, it was easy to ignore them = well now we DO know, who would want to be part of that?
Also, you know that side is ultimately going to lose. But they had the best weapons of the war, though you can just nick em of the dead bodies, I always do in the likes of COD2.
One idea would be the same old battles but open world "sandbox" games like partisans disrupting German supply lines on the Eastern front. And completing other missions like smuggling discarded rockets to the allies from their V2 programme, something that actually happened for Polish resistance.
One idea I had was "what if" scenarios like what if The Battle of Britain had been lost and the Nazis attempted to invade the UK? What if the Japanese had won at the battle of midway, would there be Japanese invasions of the West Coast of the USA. I'd like this if only to emphasise the importance that certain battles are won, that the sacrifice was worth it as defeat would have been so catastrophic.
The thing is those battles you mentioned are all either doomed for the allies failure or are from the perspective of the Nazi side. I'm not saying there will never be a WWII game told from the German perspective, it's just if there is it will either be insultingly sanitised as if it was shown then no one would want to play it. I mean when I play a computer game I want some motivation for my goals. Pleasing the whim of "Zee Furher" is not my idea of good motivation, it only worked for Germans because of:
(a) Peer pressure and patriotims = obviously irrelevant to modern non-germans
(b) Propaganda that the war was necessary, living space, blah blah blah = well it's now obvious that was all bullshit
(c) the cover-up of most of the war crimes, it was easy to ignore them = well now we DO know, who would want to be part of that?
Also, you know that side is ultimately going to lose. But they had the best weapons of the war, though you can just nick em of the dead bodies, I always do in the likes of COD2.
One idea would be the same old battles but open world "sandbox" games like partisans disrupting German supply lines on the Eastern front. And completing other missions like smuggling discarded rockets to the allies from their V2 programme, something that actually happened for Polish resistance.
One idea I had was "what if" scenarios like what if The Battle of Britain had been lost and the Nazis attempted to invade the UK? What if the Japanese had won at the battle of midway, would there be Japanese invasions of the West Coast of the USA. I'd like this if only to emphasise the importance that certain battles are won, that the sacrifice was worth it as defeat would have been so catastrophic.