4298434

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 08:39 AM

yes. it would be cool to load a musket. but it probably might take awhile.

yes the civil war would make a great story.

4298595

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 10:30 AM

You're missing Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, which was released on the PSP just last month.

So that's 8. You could say 7.5 though, I guess since UO was an expansion. But still, 8 CoD games you could pay for...

4299314

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 03:49 PM

But only 4 that I would consider quality games.

4299367

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 04:20 PM

Um, pay attention in history class? The U.S. nuked Japan. It was the Japanese who surrended, therefore ending WWII (Germany fell before Japan). So yes, the Japanese actually do know how it ended.

Well, I say it's about fucking time the WWII genre ended. More then 5 million people were killed and tortured. The most powerful countries on Earth went head-to-head in the largest war of all time. And all we do about it is pretend it was a good thing all of that happened.

4299566

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 06:57 PM

Is this game about japan? Have you seen the trailers? I was just trying to make a point.

Very rarely, if ever have i heard someone say "World War 2 was a GREAT thing that happened", mainly the only thing i ever hear out of everyones mouth is that it was a terrible tragedy. And if your trying to say that in a figurative way that games make it seem that way, they don't, and the developers of those games don't say anything close to the likes of WW2 being a good thing either, why do you think it's "You" always killing the germans? And practicaly everyone knows about World War 2 and everything, or atleast the general basis of it, so it can allow gamers to jump in already knowning all the background of everything that happened so minimal story telling is needed, i guess it would be a good money raising genre to say the least.

4299594

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 07:30 PM

well i dont think many history classes go into WWII that deeply.

how did WWII end with the japanese?

4299702

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 10:53 PM

Uh? Ever heard of the Atomic bombs, "Fat-Man" and "Little-Boy"? What about two cities known as Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Two massive nuclear explosions?

Japan does the smart thing and surrender?

4299705

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 10:55 PM

oh yea that. but wasnt their some fighting afterwards?... nevermind stupid question.

4299709

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 10:59 PM

I could a see a FPS set in the medieval age using a crossbow, wouldn't work that well because I would assume you just shot in one big unit, there aren't many superpowered individuals running around medieval England.

I know in the . . 9th century, I think, the Chinese invented gunpowder and put it to use in the battlefield. They had dragon rocket launchers. No gun can top that. However, they were relatively ineffective and used mostly for psychological use, then again, so was Greek Fire, but it's still practical.

4299719

Re: WW II Gaming genre Officialy destroyed

April 10th, 2008 11:10 PM

Any American should know about the difficulty and longevity of fighting the Japanese in WWII. Maybe those abroad don't due to different schooling, but most Americans definitely know. The Pacific Theater started with the biggest US military surrender in history at the Bataan peninsula in the Phillipines.

Play the game MoH: Pacific Assault and watch the bonus disc which has interviews with American Pacific Theater vets from WWII if you want to know how severely Japan impacted the US in WWII. The battle at Tarawa alone was quite brutal. Considering how significant the Pacific Theater was, I don't feel it's been represented enough in WWII games.

Lots of people talk as if we brutally bombed Japan into oblivion, but the truth is it was very hard just to get planes in far enough to do the initial carpet boming which was not effective enough to stop the war in itself. The A bomb was always a last resort, several times the emporor was asked to surrender before that and he would not comply until we nuked em.