Pararaptor said:
Nintendolover222 said:
I don't know, have there been any first person shooters in Australia? Seriously, all the games I've ever played have been in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Actually, why isn't there a game where you play as a member of the SASR?
Because everything military & Australian is shit.
Sorry, but I'm gonna have to call bullshit on that one. Our soldiers are amongst the best in the world.
Especially the SASR, who are often considered to be
the best special forces operatives in the entire world (and not just by us either).
Not to mention our colourful military history, and the fact that our country as a setting is unlike any other on Earth. We have a unique culture, unique landscape, unique flora and fauna... plenty of stuff that'd be perfect for a game.
Imagine... the main character could fight snakes, spiders (both the venomous
and bird-eating varieties), kangaroos, koalas, crocodiles, killer lizards, blue ringers, lethal (and virtually-invisible) jellyfish the size of your thumb, great whites, bull sharks, platypus, dingos, and a myriad of other animals that eat hope and shit death.
In other words, a
sim.
ilikepie59 said:
I dunno, our SASR is pretty epic (it's a real shame "kickass" and especially "badass" don't work too well in an Aussie accent)
OT: I wince at Australian accents in anything that is originally not Australian. Even if they're originally Aussie, it sounds fake next to all the Americans. It took me so long to get used to Miranda in Mass Effect 2.
It was really obvious in Farscape too, especially when characters like Gianna (or whatever her name was) would keep switching between Aussie and American.
I watched Mad Max the other day, and
all the characters (other than Max's wife) seemed to have a hybrid accent. It really pissed me off.
ilikepie59 said:
Also, it bugs me when other countries think 90% of us speak with Irwin-esque accents, even though it's almost the opposite, i.e. about 10% do. (And don't get me started on the "riding kangaroos to school" joke)
I've never even said g'day without it being a joke.
Yeah I know. Sometimes I use phrases like "dinkum" just to be annoying, but I've never known anybody who actually speaks like that.
Anoctris said:
Are you fucking kidding me?
There's a reason it's called the ANZAC 'Legend'. Our fighting spirit, skills and our achievements ARE... FUCKING... LEGENDARY... mate.
<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kapyong>Kapyong
<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tan>Long Tan
<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somme_Offensive>Pozieres and Mouquet Farm
<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Coral-Balmoral>Coral-Balmoral
Hazebrouck
Hell, we even helped conceive the modern <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank>'Tank'.
And considering most of the current equipment we use are 2nd rate compared to our big buddy America, the 3 services do a pretty damn good job.
Agreed.
I visited <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villers-Bretonneux>Villers-Bretonneux five years ago, during an ANZAC music tour with my school. Read that, and tell me that we didn't make an impression.