Current Events > So when will gamedevs finally learn there's other wars out there that isn't WW2?

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How many stupid same renditions of WW2 do we need from the CoD/Battlefield franchises? Seriously.

It's like the devs ran out of ideas, yet there's a million out there staring back at 'em. CoD could have tried WW1. Or how about the Korean War? The Afghan-Soviet conflict? The Sino-Japanese war? The Boxer Rebellion? The Russian Revolution? The Irish War? The Mexican Revolution? The Spanish Civil War? The Japanese conquest of Asia?

NOPE. Instead they say, "LET'S GO BACK TO WW2 KILLING DEM NAZIS SHALL WE". As if there arent already 1 gazillion other WW2 video games in the market already, here's another one for you!!

ikr battlefield 1 was awesome

Or they could just make up a war
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Probably because it's far easier to cast the Nazis as the bad guys, since everyone intelligent agrees that they're scum.

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It's really the only "modern" war that really has that epic video game feel

korean war
ww1
vietnam
middle east
ww3

Why is there no Great Northern War CoD?

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CoD has done every modern war

They need to go back to the Napoleonic Wars or Ancient Greece or something

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Damn_Underscore posted...

CoD has done every modern war

They need to go back to the Napoleonic Wars or Ancient Greece or something

If they could do really detailed melee combat well, I would play it.

DeadBankerDream posted...

Why is there no Great Northern War CoD?

With a full Sabaton soundtrack.

Make this happen, someone.
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a vietnam game where you play as guerilla soldiers fighting off americans would be awesome

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ModLogic posted...

a vietnam game where you play as guerilla soldiers fighting off americans would be awesome

There was something like this I think. Like 15 years ago

I remember sometime in the mid 2000s I was watching an episode of XPlay. They did a review of a Vietnam game that had 2 campaigns. One for an American, and 1 for a Vietcong. I have always wondered why they can't do that for ww2 as well. Let us play as Japanese, German and Italian soldiers. It would be interesting

Yeah there was a time when Western game companies made nothing but fucking WW2 FPS and you casuals ate that shit up.

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They tried fictional futuristic wars and people bitched. Granted they did the same thing three fucking games in a row so that's their own fault.

Should have more of a rotation with modern, historic, future.

Pre-WW2 stuff might be nice but at the same time even Battlefield 1 felt like WW2 reskinned

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Or they could just make up a war

Literally what I came in here to post.

Beyond that, you don't even have to set it on Earth!

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I want them to do Americas war for independence

DarthAragorn posted...

Pre-WW2 stuff might be nice but at the same time even Battlefield 1 felt like WW2 reskinned

I know it was was too much for me to expect something like Red Orchestra where 90% of players have a bolt-action rifle, but dammit, it was still disappointing that they found excuses to give everyone automatic or semiautomatic weapons. It just didn't feel authentic.
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Can't beat that M1 Garand ping noise.

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AAA game devs aren't going to make a game where China is the enemy or ends up getting their asses kicked, so a lot of those are out. That's besides the majority of audiences not even knowing what those wars are.

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Maybe they just like killing Nazis. I mean really, who doesn't?

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Battlefield Vietnam had a bunch of great ideas that I'm disappointed that they weren't re-explored for later games.

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What we need is a civil war and/or western frontier themed call of duty.

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There's an episode of x-play dedicated to the ridiculous oversaturation of ww2 shooters in the market. That episode is from 2004.

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Guide posted...

There's an episode of x-play dedicated to the ridiculous oversaturation of ww2 shooters in the market. That episode is from 2004.

I remember that. Back then they were cranking out 5-10 new WWII games a year, I swear.

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I had a CoD rip off game that was about the American civil war. It wasnt amazing but for 20 bucks it was enjoyable. They made the reload speeds take a long time to reflect how it really was. So i ended up killing a lot of people with the saber(union side) or the bowie knife (confederate side)

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Zikten posted...

It's really the only "modern" war that really has that epic video game feel

Pretty much this. Plus, you can go through so many different areas with WW2-- from desert in North Africa to frigid Russia to tropical islands in the Pacific.

Battlefield 1942 was so much fun back in the day.

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Dumb topic

Like 3 of the 10+ Battlefield games are WW2
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Powdered_Toast posted...

AAA game devs aren't going to make a game where China is the enemy or ends up getting their asses kicked, so a lot of those are out. That's besides the majority of audiences not even knowing what those wars are.

Battlefield 4

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Damn_Underscore posted...

CoD has done every modern war

They need to go back to the Napoleonic Wars or Ancient Greece or something

no they haven't. They havent done WW1 up till now

g980 posted...

Dumb topic

Like 3 of the 10+ Battlefield games are WW2

remember a time when each game sequel tries to be different in setting and originality?

FL81 posted...

Battlefield Vietnam had a bunch of great ideas that I'm disappointed that they weren't re-explored for later games.

probably too much jungles and trees lol

Most game devs like WW2 due to the varied environment. Nevermind the fact that we've been killing Nazis since the dawn of time

Let's get a Napoleonic Wars game.

Zikten posted...

There was something like this I think. Like 15 years ago

I remember sometime in the mid 2000s I was watching an episode of XPlay. They did a review of a Vietnam game that had 2 campaigns. One for an American, and 1 for a Vietcong. I have always wondered why they can't do that for ww2 as well. Let us play as Japanese, German and Italian soldiers. It would be interesting

Because most players won't be able to relate. Imagine as an American you see yourself playing as the Nazis and mowing down your fellow Americans

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I know it was was too much for me to expect something like Red Orchestra where 90% of players have a bolt-action rifle, but dammit, it was still disappointing that they found excuses to give everyone automatic or semiautomatic weapons. It just didn't feel authentic.

In WW1, only the Germans had access to the first ever portable submachine gun, the MP-18. But yet in Battlefield 1, we see literally everyone carrying the MP-18 lmao

Damn_Underscore posted...

CoD has done every modern war

They need to go back to the Napoleonic Wars or Ancient Greece or something

Problem is the gun technology fades away by that time. You wanna play a game where you spend 10 minutes reloading a rifle that will only fire one bullet later?

Mackorov posted...

Because most players won't be able to relate. Imagine as an American you see yourself playing as the Nazis and mowing down your fellow Americans

Civil war gsme had you play both union and confederates. Just make the battles historically accurate and its not so bad. Nazis might be pushing things though.

Or if they wanna add fiction have you play as a Nazi thats just a "patriot" but slowly over his campaign he starts realizing how fucked up the Nazis are but dies before he can attempt any meaningful change.

Mackorov posted...

Problem is the gun technology fades away by that time. You wanna play a game where you spend 10 minutes reloading a rifle that will only fire one bullet later?

As mentioned civil war game. Im sure they sped up the reload times of the guns but it was slooow.

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This isnt the 2000's anymore.

I for one welcome more WW2 shooters, like the most common setting is modern/near future in these shooters.

We also literally got the Cold War in the last COD.

Im good with another WW2 game, WW2 games are probably amongst my top five COD games of all time.

My fave CODS:

• World at War
• Cod:WW2
• Black Ops 2
• Advanced Warfare
• Modern Warfare 3

Its just a really a shame most of these are dead and dont have crossplay.

I would kill for if Activision made a "Master Chief Collection" style game for all of the PS3 to modern era games. If Activision is too greedy then they could stop at the point where they enacted cross-play for every games.

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Verdun and Tannenberg exist.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Let's get a Napoleonic Wars game.

Mount and Blade Warband

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SiO4 posted...

Verdun

You're gonna make me bring up that Christopher Lee metal album again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY

Questionmarktarius posted...

You're gonna make me bring up that Christopher Lee metal album again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY

No, I'd rather not...just the game.
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SiO4 posted...

No, I'd rather not...just the game.

Christopher Lee had two Charlemagne albums somehow, and they're both awesome.

garan posted...

Plus, you can go through so many different areas with WW2-- from desert in North Africa to frigid Russia to tropical islands in the Pacific.

They could just as easily do that if they chose to set it in World War I, too. Mountain warfare in the Italian alps; riverine and amphibious operations in Mesopotamia; jungle warfare in West Africa; guerrilla warfare in the East African bush or the mountains of southern Serbia; desert campaign in the Sinai; the forest and steppes of the Eastern Front...

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WW1 CoD, like Battlefield, would just be a barely reskinned WW2 CoD, why bother

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Killing nazis never gets old, sorry

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Let's have Call of Duty: War between the East and West Coast.
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CADE FOSTER posted...

I want them to do Americas war for independence

Alright so shoot once and take a full minute to reload? Lmao.

DarthAragorn posted...

WW1 CoD, like Battlefield, would just be a barely reskinned WW2 CoD, why bother

WW1 has trench warfare, more melee combat and one very important thing, gas warfare. Something that WW2 doesn't have (yes, there is no such thing as gas warfare in WW2. Dont believe that historical inaccurate BS). There was also giant machineries actually used in the war, such as the Livens Flame Projector in Somme and zepellins.

It's sad people conflat WW2 and WW1 together and game devs have to bring in their own ridiculous BS into WW2 that is literally non-existent (see gas mask for example).

A WW1 game could excel very well in uniqueness if we stuck to historical accuracy. Almost everyone only gets a bolt action rifle and have to simulate actual trench warfare like running back and forth across enemy lines within time limits with artillery exploding all around you and thousands of soldiers fighting all at once. The WW1 Battlefield did is such a huge disservice to how the actual war was like. They just turned it into an arcade like another typical battlefield game

Questionmarktarius posted...

Christopher Lee had two Charlemagne albums somehow, and they're both awesome.

Awesome is a synonym of Christopher Lee.


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