Do you want to see a return to World War 2?
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dangerbyrnes
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i want a pirate fps
swords, muskets, blunderbusses, pistols, cannons, (obviously a few liberties need to be taken to make guns fun) pilot-able pirate ships. drivable horse carriages w/ cannons on back, deadly on map hazards like Krakens, tribesmen, British navy ships, whirlpools. giant island battlefields with traps, and treasure stores that need to be controlled.
domination game types, capture gold stores. the team with the most gold at the end wins.
different forces to play as. honorable pirates, British navy forces, evil pirates, east India trading company bounty hunters, Davy Jones baddies. each force has their own special type of weapons.
different classes, like scouts, riflemen, swordsmen, heavy weapons, medics.
destructible port towns and pirate ships.
basically battlefield pirates. i would buy it day 1.
swords, muskets, blunderbusses, pistols, cannons, (obviously a few liberties need to be taken to make guns fun) pilot-able pirate ships. drivable horse carriages w/ cannons on back, deadly on map hazards like Krakens, tribesmen, British navy ships, whirlpools. giant island battlefields with traps, and treasure stores that need to be controlled.
domination game types, capture gold stores. the team with the most gold at the end wins.
different forces to play as. honorable pirates, British navy forces, evil pirates, east India trading company bounty hunters, Davy Jones baddies. each force has their own special type of weapons.
different classes, like scouts, riflemen, swordsmen, heavy weapons, medics.
destructible port towns and pirate ships.
basically battlefield pirates. i would buy it day 1.
NullPointer
Member
Brothers in Arms done right + Frostbite 2? Yeah, I'd bite.
Wouldn't want the same COD mold we've gotten used to up to this point though. Innovate or let it die.
I think a lot of the reason modern shooters are popular is that modern gun porn is just better. A World War II shooter made nowadays should make sure that the weapons feel and sound very lethal.
Wouldn't want the same COD mold we've gotten used to up to this point though. Innovate or let it die.
I think a lot of the reason modern shooters are popular is that modern gun porn is just better. A World War II shooter made nowadays should make sure that the weapons feel and sound very lethal.
Houston3000
Member
I'd like something different than "modern" shooters or these so-called "near future" shooters but I don't know if I want to return full-fledge to WW2 again. I'd like more imaginative universes... go back to the revolutionary war era but go crazy with it - give it a twist, make it fantastical, fake, no one's clamoring for a historically accurate sim.
I also think there's still a lot of room for future warfare to, future warfare that doesn't equal out to brown, dark, dingy, and post-apocalyptic (Gears of War / Killzone) and doesn't revolve around mechs. Give me some cool laser guns in a high-tech digital era, a human civil war set in the year 3000 or something. Not enough of those types of FPS games imo.
I also think there's still a lot of room for future warfare to, future warfare that doesn't equal out to brown, dark, dingy, and post-apocalyptic (Gears of War / Killzone) and doesn't revolve around mechs. Give me some cool laser guns in a high-tech digital era, a human civil war set in the year 3000 or something. Not enough of those types of FPS games imo.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
I'd like to see a game based on War and Peace and the Napoleonic Wars instead. Somehow have your opponent be called "Great" for leading to mass human suffering with no real goal in sight. Win a war by retreating. It will blow minds. Gunplay would be decent enough, some interesting scenarios and setpieces available already. Would probably be nice as a mostly adventure game with some FPS though modern publishers would want that switched.
KnightAttack
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Xav said:World War II? Modern Setting? Future?
Just do them all.
That just made me cry a little inside. Future Perfect was such a great shooter.
But really, if you didn't go and play The Saboteur, Pandemic's last game, go and do yourself a favor and play it everybody. It was a really overlooked gem. WWII setting mixed with Assassin's Creed. It'll cost you no more than $20, and is totally worth it.
Conciliator
Banned
How bout we just take a break from military shooters for a while? Go back and revisit in a decade or something. Nobody will even notice they're gone!
SneakyStephan
Banned
Never tired of wwII shooters to begin with (probably because so many of them were incredible -bf1942 , rtcw, moh:AA).
The guns in wwII shooters usually actually have recoil, they are not bullet hoses, and they sound and look really cool.
Same goes for planes and tanks from ww2, none of that auto lock on crap, but leading shells and bombs = fun!
Anyhow, red orchestra 2 is coming up soon, so if the netcode doesn't suck I'm set for my ww2 fix.
The guns in wwII shooters usually actually have recoil, they are not bullet hoses, and they sound and look really cool.
Same goes for planes and tanks from ww2, none of that auto lock on crap, but leading shells and bombs = fun!
Anyhow, red orchestra 2 is coming up soon, so if the netcode doesn't suck I'm set for my ww2 fix.
IsntChrisL
Member
I liked the WWII time period, but the gameplay really wore thin on me. For me, if you're going to make a shooter with less-than-awesome weapons, presentation is everything. And too many games have screwed that up.
I absolutely want a new video game set during World War II.
I'd rather have a character based drama not focused on combat.
But if it is a Shooter based in combat, I would like it to be methodical, meditative, socially important, and large scale.
thin red line constructed in a game would be great, or atleast the grassy hill could be a great set.
No more dark and brown hues. I want to crawl through flowing fields, and I want to not shoot a bullet until I have to. I want to be scared of alerting the enemy. I want realism and respect of setting, not bro shooter kill nazis lol.
but yes, i would love for video games to explore World War II in their fiction more, including in combat oriented shooters.
I'd rather have a character based drama not focused on combat.
But if it is a Shooter based in combat, I would like it to be methodical, meditative, socially important, and large scale.
thin red line constructed in a game would be great, or atleast the grassy hill could be a great set.
No more dark and brown hues. I want to crawl through flowing fields, and I want to not shoot a bullet until I have to. I want to be scared of alerting the enemy. I want realism and respect of setting, not bro shooter kill nazis lol.
but yes, i would love for video games to explore World War II in their fiction more, including in combat oriented shooters.
I find myself thinking about this very topic from time to time, usually while playing a modern/near future FPS and comparing it to World at War.
These days, especially when looking at CoDs, its as simple as aim and shoot, or often, spray and pray. World at War was the first FPS I dedicated a lot of time to since Halo 2 (and even that I didn't spend much time with), and there, so much of it was played with the semi-automatic rifles (at least, my friends and I challenged ourselves to stick to the rifles instead of using the automatics, most of the time). As a result, the game felt much more deliberate and far less chaotic and random. Of course, I'm still talking about Call of Duty at the end of the day and not some niche, ultra realistic PC FPS, but the point still stands.
I wouldn't mind seeing a single game (or possibly series) return to WWII, but nothing more than that. And again, I'm really only thinking about MP, and the effects those older weapons have on the rhythm and flow of battle. I do have to agree that I think WWI would be really cool.
Obviously Time Splitters is the correct answer here though.
These days, especially when looking at CoDs, its as simple as aim and shoot, or often, spray and pray. World at War was the first FPS I dedicated a lot of time to since Halo 2 (and even that I didn't spend much time with), and there, so much of it was played with the semi-automatic rifles (at least, my friends and I challenged ourselves to stick to the rifles instead of using the automatics, most of the time). As a result, the game felt much more deliberate and far less chaotic and random. Of course, I'm still talking about Call of Duty at the end of the day and not some niche, ultra realistic PC FPS, but the point still stands.
I wouldn't mind seeing a single game (or possibly series) return to WWII, but nothing more than that. And again, I'm really only thinking about MP, and the effects those older weapons have on the rhythm and flow of battle. I do have to agree that I think WWI would be really cool.
Obviously Time Splitters is the correct answer here though.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Axis campaing or bust.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
If taken back to WWII, make it different
I know it's taboo to be the "enemy", I mean you as a Nazi killing Allied soldiers = Blasphemy!
I wouldn't mind an alternate twist
Like lets say if Nazi's had won WWII, then go with the resistance/rebel/revolution method (almost like Homefront, but the Dominant party has been in power for 50+ years)
I wouldn't mind a zany version of WWII, (looks like THQ is getting that covered with the new Brother in Arms in the way of Inglorious Bastards)
I know it's taboo to be the "enemy", I mean you as a Nazi killing Allied soldiers = Blasphemy!
I wouldn't mind an alternate twist
Like lets say if Nazi's had won WWII, then go with the resistance/rebel/revolution method (almost like Homefront, but the Dominant party has been in power for 50+ years)
I wouldn't mind a zany version of WWII, (looks like THQ is getting that covered with the new Brother in Arms in the way of Inglorious Bastards)
Buddha Beam
Banned
Has anybody made a "Welcome back, Mr. Hitler!" joke yet? If not, can I be the first one?
Screw WWII. (Although I wouldn't be upset to see some Weird War 2 action)
Let's get some other wars in there. WWI, Russian Civil War, American Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, Mexican Revolution, War of 1812. (I really want to play as a Canadian in an FPS damn it, is there even a single WWII game where I can outside of multiplayer?)
Let's get some other wars in there. WWI, Russian Civil War, American Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, Mexican Revolution, War of 1812. (I really want to play as a Canadian in an FPS damn it, is there even a single WWII game where I can outside of multiplayer?)
I still want a game set in the Korean War. It would contain a lot of the qualities the OP is looking for but it would be treading new ground, unlike another WWII game. It has a good mix of arms and technology from WWII, plus new things like jet fighters that dogfight with guns, and American tanks that don't suck.
I would like to play a fps game set in WW2 set from the point of view of a regular joe, a survivor. You would spend the entire game escaping from firefights, crumbling cities, etc. The game would be more about being social, using your head than grabbing a gun and mowing down hundreds of nazis like you're a trained soldier. At best you would take part in sabotage missions organized by resistance members, or etc.
jim-jam bongs
Member
One thing which WW2 games do better than modern games is create a sense of desperation and danger. Playing games in recent conflicts I feel like an indestructible combination of Rambo, James Bond and superman massacring a bunch of dudes from the 3rd world who have AKs and no body armour with the best weapons humanity has ever created. Seems a bit one-sided.
Separates the wheat from the chaff quick smart, let me tell you.
onken said:
Separates the wheat from the chaff quick smart, let me tell you.
Angry Fork
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I'd love one that heavily featured airplanes and dogfights and stuff above Europe and all that with modern visuals. I don't want the infantry trenches shit anymore though, that's done. Even the high level visuals we have now can't make that entertaining for me anymore.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Red Orchestra is preordered like a boss. I love my M1 Garand and still use it in BC2.
Like it's been said above, the first level of Bad Company 2 had me wanting a WWII game again, but Battlefield 1943 convinced me even more of that. Imagine a full game with maps from all fronts of the war, a single player campaign that can take you across all sorts of battles including infantry, tanks, aircraft, recon, etc. that gives you a great variety, and of course, the destruction from FB2 that could obliterate the jungle, bunkers, cities, airfields, etc.
I just want to see the return of ship battles in the BF series. It's been the thing I miss most from BF1942 and could you even imagine the awesomeness of naval battles on FB2 and even the destruction you could cause from shelling the beach in your destroyer? I CAN DREAM...
They have the technology now to make a true sequel to BF1942 that could blow people away and show us that WWII doesn't have to be stale still if there's enough innovation and awesomeness going on.
I just want to see the return of ship battles in the BF series. It's been the thing I miss most from BF1942 and could you even imagine the awesomeness of naval battles on FB2 and even the destruction you could cause from shelling the beach in your destroyer? I CAN DREAM...
They have the technology now to make a true sequel to BF1942 that could blow people away and show us that WWII doesn't have to be stale still if there's enough innovation and awesomeness going on.
TacticalFox88
Banned
I'd cum sooo hard for that game.demolitio said:
Land, Air, AND sea? Fuck yeah. A blazing angels/COD/Battlefied mix? OMFG!
Napalm_Frank
Member
JWong said:
Fixed
Joseph Merrick
Member
check out the necrovision games. ww1 had a lot more going for it than you think. vampires! demons! mech scorpions!BigNastyCurve said:
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Drink lots of alcohol; die of malaria.JWong said:
http://www.heroesandgenerals.com/community/game/game-overviewdemolitio said:
it's not vapourware!
yet.