Would you play an FPS/RTS/RPG if...

[Karelwolfpup]

Just watched the Ginx TV MoH:Warfighter preview, I saw the "Tier 1" nations being mentioned and I wondered to myself if that might be a new direction for game developers to go?
I'm not sure how anyone else feels, but I'd like to see some FPS games that involve a protagonist that isn't British or American. I've been playing as the American "uber soldier" since Medal of Honor and Wolfenstein, and tbh, I'm rather tired of the idea, much fun as it has been over the years.

I wouldn't mind if more "mainstream" games in the future involved protagonists and campaigns from more diverse nations. We've certainly had some interesting title that have done so, such as Farcry 2 and, to a lesser extent, the Rainbow series with multinational teams. As well as Call of Duty's occassional forays into Soviet, Canadian, Polish and Maquis centred campaigns.
The idea of playing as a German KSK, or Polish GROM team sounds appealing. Hell, I'd play as a North Korean commando or even a Waffen SS soldier if the story and action were well thought out.

So what do you folks think? Are there any ideas that you guys would like to see come to life?

 

[TehCookie]

I always thought you were a floating camera in those games, you mean you actually play a character?

It's not an original idea but I'd like more fantastical fantasy games, not settings based off of real life, Tolkien fantasy, or brown apocalypse. While I'd like it to try to be more original I'd settle for less popular settings like steampunk or something or an apocalypse where plants and stuff are coming back so it's green but still 90% of people are gone or something.

 

[Karelwolfpup]

I vaguely remember AngryJoe reviewing a steampunk alt history American Civil war game, name escapes me at the moment though :/

 

[Karelwolfpup]

suppose you could go to the Finno-Soviet war, Stalin got his arse handed to him for quite a while. Even if the Finns did lose.

 

[ReadyAmyFire]

I've always thought about a German campaign during the first world war or closing stages of the second. IL2:46 had a full Luftwaffe campaign with a great atmosphere to it, since you knew things were just going get harder and harder and you were going to lose, and that was from a flight sim, with all the dialogue in text.

I've spent a lot of time specifically thinking about a first world war RPG after reading Birdsong.

 

[Nerexor]

Concept: You are an android who has gained sentience. Under current law any sentient android must be destroyed. Rise up against your oppressive human masters!

It would be interesting to play from that point of view, and of course it would allow all kinds of cool weapons (or at least justify being able to carry 15 guns and all their ammo).

 

[Hero in a half shell]

suppose you could go to the Finno-Soviet war, Stalin got his arse handed to him for quite a while. Even if the Finns did lose.

The Finns didn't lose, they fought the Soviets into a peace treaty, and when Hitler saw how much Soviet ass they kicked he decided that Russias military must have been totally useless, which is why he then turned and tried to invade them, which sealed his own fate... so I suppose technically the Finns won World War 2. Well who'da thought it?

EDIT: I suppose I should actually address the main point of the thread.

I don't really care about FPS main characters, as you never see your own, and I'd care even less about RTS characters. But I would always choose a white dude in any RPG I've played, when given the character selection screen, as that just helps with immersion. I suppose it would be nice to have a bit more variety in Player character races, but I'm honestly not that bothered about it. Then again I am a white male.

 

[Nouw]

Well Relic's producing Company of Heroes 2 which puts you in charge of the Soviets during WW2. A nice change from playing as the other Allied nations over and over again in the previous CoHs. Now if only they did it in Dawn of War...

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

Well Relic's producing Company of Heroes 2 which puts you in charge of the Soviets during WW2. A nice change from playing as the other Allied nations over and over again in the previous CoHs. Now if only they did it in Dawn of War...

...you mean let you play as Valhallans?

OT: I distinctly remember being able to play as the Germans in CoH and in IL-2 and the Japanese in IL-2...I think.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Just about every game that isn't a modern day militaristic shooter you don't play a Brit or American.

 

[somonels]

No! There is only one true FPS character, William B.J. Blazkowicz.

 

[Nouw]

Well Relic's producing Company of Heroes 2 which puts you in charge of the Soviets during WW2. A nice change from playing as the other Allied nations over and over again in the previous CoHs. Now if only they did it in Dawn of War...

...you mean let you play as Valhallans?

Not being a student of WW2 History, I have no idea. And yes, I did believe you got to play as the Germans however the story wasn't from their perspective. They were just another faction to play.

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

Well Relic's producing Company of Heroes 2 which puts you in charge of the Soviets during WW2. A nice change from playing as the other Allied nations over and over again in the previous CoHs. Now if only they did it in Dawn of War...

...you mean let you play as Valhallans?

Not being a student of WW2 History, I have no idea. And yes, I did believe you got to play as the Germans however the story wasn't from their perspective. They were just another faction to play.

What? Now I'm even more confused... Valhallans in Dawn of War... 40K IG themed as Russian WWII troops.

 

[Dirzzit]

I'd love to play a russian centered ww2 game. Like half way through after getting slaughtered winter arrives, then things change >

 

[Nouw]

Well Relic's producing Company of Heroes 2 which puts you in charge of the Soviets during WW2. A nice change from playing as the other Allied nations over and over again in the previous CoHs. Now if only they did it in Dawn of War...

...you mean let you play as Valhallans?

Not being a student of WW2 History, I have no idea. And yes, I did believe you got to play as the Germans however the story wasn't from their perspective. They were just another faction to play.

What? Now I'm even more confused... Valhallans in Dawn of War... 40K IG themed as Russian WWII troops.

Oh right, you were referring to Winter Assault xD! My bad, I thought you were talking about WW2.

 

[Mikeyfell]

There are about four hundred trillion nine hundred seventy six billion eight million three hundred twenty six thousand three hundred twelve different things that you can base an FPS around. So why the FUCK do they all have to be about some CUNTFUCKERING army somewhere?

Why doesn't somebody make an FPS about a misogynist prick who shoots at aliens? Why hasn't anyone done that yet?

But I don't give a flying fuck what flag they fly, it they're dressed like an army man or shooting at army men I am unable to care.

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

Oh right, you were referring to Winter Assault xD! My bad, I thought you were talking about WW2.

Ok, now we've cleared that up, but what is it that they are doing in CoH2 that you wish they'd do in DoW that relates to playing as other allied natiomns? That's why I thought you maybe meant play as Vallhallans as they are an army you didn't get to play as (at least visually, technically they're the same as guard) and are Russian themed.

 

[Karelwolfpup]

Why doesn't somebody make an FPS about a misogynist prick who shoots at aliens? Why hasn't anyone done that yet?

You mean Duke Nukem?

 

[Nouw]

Oh right, you were referring to Winter Assault xD! My bad, I thought you were talking about WW2.

Ok, now we've cleared that up, but what is it that they are doing in CoH2 that you wish they'd do in DoW that relates to playing as other allied natiomns? That's why I thought you maybe meant play as Vallhallans as they are an army you didn't get to play as (at least visually, technically they're the same as guard) and are Russian themed.

Yeah I just meant playing as the other factions of the Imperium of Man. Whether they follow the Russian theme I don't really mind as long as we get a break from Space Marines. Vallhallans or Steel Legion, I don't mind.