COD World at War

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: Cutthroat

Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
WWI, they're still digging up dudes from that one.

WWI would be boring, most of it was a stalemate and would involve nothing more than hiding in trenches until the tank was invented.

Dont forget week long artillery barrages while you go under for tea to wait it out.

The Western Front didn't start out as trench warfare, and in 1918 the Western Front was moving. You just leave out the boring bits, like any WW2 game would. There was a lot more waiting than fighting even in WW2.

Does it even matter if the lines moved? I'm pretty sure the trench fighting was exciting, even if the map results of it looked boring.

That's only the Western Front. It was a world war. There was also the Eastern Front, Italy, the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, and even some fighting in the Pacific.

 

[minmaster]

Originally posted by: PhatoseAlpha
The American Civil war could be very interesting, if done correctly. Lots of single shot muskets, sure, but multishot weapons were available to those who could afford them - or those who could kill the guys who could afford them. Lots of interesting possibilities for stages too, as it was fought across a very broad and varied theater. Especially if your designers have some imagination - imagine, for example, being a member of a negro regiment, fighting on the front when the rest of the army begins to rout or surrender. Certainly, you can't surrender - they're gonna shoot you cause you're a negro. Trying to find a way out while the rest of the army is falling back could be quite interesting.

good luck trying to find hundreds of gamers to line up and march in columns into hundreds of muskets and canons firing at them at once. its hard to portray a full scale battles of that era when compared to the 20th century. the civil war battlefield involved masses of soldiers which will be hard to portray in online fps period (unless you use npcs/bots). i will say that the battles towards the end were more like modern warfare with trenches and less suicidal mass attacks, but most of the famous civil war battles were what i mentioned above (gettysburg, antietam, fredricksburg, etc.)

COD series should move to a war they haven't done like vietnam or korean war.

 

[BladeVenom]

D-Day involved hundreds of thousands of men, but it's still portrayed in most WW2 games. A Civil War game could be easily done, just use your imagination. You may not be able to have the large battles realistically portrayed, but before and after most large battles there was scouting, forward observers, and raids done by small groups of soldiers. There were also message carriers and guerrilla warfare going on that would be the right scale for a FPS.

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: Cutthroat

WWI would be boring, most of it was a stalemate and would involve nothing more than hiding in trenches until the tank was invented.

Dont forget week long artillery barrages while you go under for tea to wait it out.

Not to mention the military commanders that did not understand modern technology and ordered mass rushes upon machine gun nests across a field filled with infantry traps.

The possibilities are endless!

You could play as 14 year old and 15 year old boys from the Scouts playing soldier too!!

Maybe even send in horse-mounted riders, the Cavalry in for a right old knees up.

Im sure there could be much more interesting possibilities with the WWI theatre rather than our rather disrespectful mockings.

 

[Vidda]

Originally posted by: Harmattan
I didn't watch my buddies die face down in the mud in Nam so we could play yet another WWII FPS.

Points for best use of that quote ever.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: katank

Originally posted by: pontifex
I'm sure there have to be some sort of commando type raids and stuff that happened in WWI. Use that as the story or make up a story.

Sure, there was. However, infiltration assault was used mainly by the Germans during WWI. There is some inherent bias against letting you play as the Germans in games. Perhaps a WWI title that lets you play as Germans would be not too controversial though.

As for glut of WWII titles, I think it's due to the fact that it's the last big, "ideologically pure" war that the US fought. Thus, a compulsion to revisit it constantly to feel good about ourselves.

BTW, there is a FPS set in the West. It's Call of Juarez.

i know, but CoJ was pretty bad.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: minmaster

Originally posted by: PhatoseAlpha
The American Civil war could be very interesting, if done correctly. Lots of single shot muskets, sure, but multishot weapons were available to those who could afford them - or those who could kill the guys who could afford them. Lots of interesting possibilities for stages too, as it was fought across a very broad and varied theater. Especially if your designers have some imagination - imagine, for example, being a member of a negro regiment, fighting on the front when the rest of the army begins to rout or surrender. Certainly, you can't surrender - they're gonna shoot you cause you're a negro. Trying to find a way out while the rest of the army is falling back could be quite interesting.

good luck trying to find hundreds of gamers to line up and march in columns into hundreds of muskets and canons firing at them at once. its hard to portray a full scale battles of that era when compared to the 20th century. the civil war battlefield involved masses of soldiers which will be hard to portray in online fps period (unless you use npcs/bots). i will say that the battles towards the end were more like modern warfare with trenches and less suicidal mass attacks, but most of the famous civil war battles were what i mentioned above (gettysburg, antietam, fredricksburg, etc.)

COD series should move to a war they haven't done like vietnam or korean war.

hell, good luck trying to find hundreds of gamers to portray any real life battle without bunny hopping, tea bagging, etc.

 

[Dominato3r]

CoD2 big red one was an awesome game. The best story out of any COD game

 

[SniperDaws]

Originally posted by: Vidda

Originally posted by: Harmattan
I didn't watch my buddies die face down in the mud in Nam so we could play yet another WWII FPS.

Points for best use of that quote ever.

i was fuckin rolling when i read that.

 

[JF060392]

the medal of honor franchise has lasted longer than world war two

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The COD series definitely needs a new direction. What I want, is a new Delta Force game, those were fun.

 

[clipperfixer]

Originally posted by: Harmattan I didn't watch my buddies die face down in the mud in Nam so we could play yet another WWII FPS.



There was Half life mod that was single player set in Vietnam. It is kind of follows the movie Apocalypse now. I thought it was pretty good. I can't remember the name, but if you want it I have it on disk somewhere..

 

[scheibler1]

meh, this looks like call of duty 2.5 lol

Doesn't mean I won't buy it though! I have enjoyed every call of duty to date

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Originally posted by: minmaster

Originally posted by: PhatoseAlpha
The American Civil war could be very interesting, if done correctly. Lots of single shot muskets, sure, but multishot weapons were available to those who could afford them - or those who could kill the guys who could afford them. Lots of interesting possibilities for stages too, as it was fought across a very broad and varied theater. Especially if your designers have some imagination - imagine, for example, being a member of a negro regiment, fighting on the front when the rest of the army begins to rout or surrender. Certainly, you can't surrender - they're gonna shoot you cause you're a negro. Trying to find a way out while the rest of the army is falling back could be quite interesting.

good luck trying to find hundreds of gamers to line up and march in columns into hundreds of muskets and canons firing at them at once. its hard to portray a full scale battles of that era when compared to the 20th century. the civil war battlefield involved masses of soldiers which will be hard to portray in online fps period (unless you use npcs/bots). i will say that the battles towards the end were more like modern warfare with trenches and less suicidal mass attacks, but most of the famous civil war battles were what i mentioned above (gettysburg, antietam, fredricksburg, etc.)

COD series should move to a war they haven't done like vietnam or korean war.

So don't use them in online modes. Online FPSes, even 'realistically' themed ones, have about as much in common with the battles they 'portray' as a pudding does with venus. Save the historical stuff for the single player mode, and simple acknowledge the undeniable fact that multiplayer has nothing to do with history, never will, and design the modes for fun.

 

[TehMac]

Speaking of Medal of Honor, there is rumor that the MoH series will switch over to Afghanistan in 2002.

 

[Regs]

I saw some sword action and if there are swords in multiplayer...woot! The flame thrower..even better?

 

[xObliviousx]

I just praaay that TreyArch doesn't mess up like they did with COD3...COD4 was an unbelievable achievement..it'll he hard to top it but I have my fingers crossed!