Why aren't their any FPS's in the industrial period?

[UNHchabo]

The Battlegrounds ( http://www.bgmod.com/ ) is a Half-Life 2 multiplayer mod that features combat from the American Revolution (The War for Independence, for you sticklers of proper history terminology).

It features long reload times, inaccurate weapons, and it's crazy fun.

The biggest reason it's fun: when a guy is charging you with his bayonet from 20 feet away, and you miss, you have to make a choice-- do you have enough time to reload while walking backwards, or do you engage him in a bayonet duel?

 

[JochemDude]

You know what would be a great setting? Bosnia, what do you guys think?

 

[DustyDrB]

Because Reloading: Longer, Harder, More Annoying Than Ever makes for a shitty game title.

Really, that'd be 60% of the gameplay right there. Reloading. No possible way to get around it believably.

So either you're bored to death from watching a scripted event for 30 seconds after about 5 second intervals of aiming, or you play a LOATHESOME mini-game each and every time.

Lose-lose.

Why would it have to be realistic? Wouldn't it be worth it to take creative liberties in order to experience a different setting?

That would defeat the purpose of making it a period game though if your good old circle strafing tactics work there like in any other FPS that takes place after the invention of the SMG.

Err. I thought the point of a different setting would be to experience a different kind of conflict, different politics, and different tactics suited to the time, place and strategies enemies used then.

Then again, TF2 and Metroid Prime 3 are the only FPS games I've played in the last two generations. So I'm probably a poor judge of things. It just seems like there's very much an "in the box" mentality represented in this thread.

 

[Halceon]

I feel like this topic has been done before. The reason nobody has made any FPSs in that era is that there is exactly 0 variety in the weapons, not to mention that they would be incredibly inaccurate and take forever to reload. The maps would mostly be the same, as they would usually be varieties on "open field #3".

In short, any shooter made in that era would be boring and repetitive, and not very fun. Good story concept does not equal good game concept.

Yes, and that is why there are no shooters or shooter-like games from eras before WW2. [/sarcasm]

 

[clanknfrends]

this would definitely be a hit or miss deal. i think the main problem would be overcoming the market. otherwise, this could go places

 

[Raven_Operative]

Darkest of Days.

AND, you get an assault rifle!!!

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

Err. I thought the point of a different setting would be to experience a different kind of conflict, different politics, and different tactics suited to the time, place and strategies enemies used then.

Then again, TF2 and Metroid Prime 3 are the only FPS games I've played in the last two generations. So I'm probably a poor judge of things. It just seems like there's very much an "in the box" mentality represented in this thread.

Well you might have to pardon me there. Quite a few people on the Total War forums have been complaining that the Creative Assembly should've thrown historic accuracy to the wind in favour of more varied units between factions in Shogun 2. Which seems absolutely silly when the whole point of the game ~is~ historic strategy and combat.

And I kind of feel the same way about that as well here. If you want a game about the charge of the light brigade (to name but one thing), it would be tinkering with the mood and atmosphere of the game if you also change the weapons. Granted, you might have a fun "what if" or alternate history type of game if you have the American Civil War with SMGs, but it wouldn't be a historic game, if you follow my drift. There's plenty of other genres more suitable for historic combat than an FPS if you want to cover the American Civil War or the Gurkha war or whatever in a video game that is historically accurate.

I've got no problem with alternate reality games, mind you, but yeah, shouldn't market it as a historic game then.

 

[Deadman Walkin]

How about Battlegrounds 2? Sort of America vs. British and is a HL2 mod. It is fun because the guns are so terrible, so terrible that some servers do line battles where everyone lines up and fires. It is fun though, I still enjoy it now and then.