Other wars in games

[portuga-man]

Anyone else ever heard or read about the Finnish Winter War?

Finnish underdogs beating the crap out of almighty russia?

Count me in!

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

I'd honestly prefer if we weren't automatically looking at wars for inspiration for our next first person shooter. How about something a bit more interesting that doesn't involve aliens, historical wars, gangsters or soldiers?

Someone was recently complaining on here about the amount of shooters available on Xbox. I'd tend to agree with him if the primary source material is gonna be dull-ass military shooters doing the same thing over and over ad nauseum.

How about a first person shooter revolving around the mythologies of different cultures? Roman, Norse and Greek mythologies could clash against each other in fantastic settings such as Hades, Nasgard, using weapons such as Thor's Hammer, the head of a medusa, the sword of achilles... There is so much more source material that can be used than boring old wars.

 

[Jumplion]

I'd honestly prefer if we weren't automatically looking at wars for inspiration for our next first person shooter. How about something a bit more interesting that doesn't involve aliens, historical wars, gangsters or soldiers?

Someone was recently complaining on here about the amount of shooters available on Xbox. I'd tend to agree with him if the primary source material is gonna be dull-ass military shooters doing the same thing over and over ad nauseum.

How about a first person shooter revolving around the mythologies of different cultures? Roman, Norse and Greek mythologies could clash against each other in fantastic settings such as Hades, Nasgard, using weapons such as Thor's Hammer, the head of a medusa, the sword of achilles... There is so much more source material that can be used than boring old wars.

It's not limited to FPSs, read the comments before you go around assuming stuff.

I'm just suggesting that, since developers have completely raped the WWII war and futuristic warfare, i'm just wondering what other wars developers could use until they completly rape that war clean.

I personaly don't think an FPS in mythology would work, but other generes could work with mythology.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

It's not limited to FPSs, read the comments before you go around assuming stuff.

I'm just suggesting that, since developers have completely raped the WWII war and futuristic warfare, i'm just wondering what other wars developers could use until they completly rape that war clean.

I personaly don't think an FPS in mythology would work, but other generes could work with mythology.

Fair enough, I'm just sick and tired of the amount of games that are still using war as the tired excuse for a videogame imo. I don't mind that games can be set in fictional wars, but games that have been based upon past events are starting to bore me. I prefer a little originality and imagination in my gaming, not realism.

...this isn't really helping discuss the topic though so I think I'm gonna go somewhere else

 

[Kogarian]

I'd honestly prefer if we weren't automatically looking at wars for inspiration for our next first person shooter. How about something a bit more interesting that doesn't involve aliens, historical wars, gangsters or soldiers?

Someone was recently complaining on here about the amount of shooters available on Xbox. I'd tend to agree with him if the primary source material is gonna be dull-ass military shooters doing the same thing over and over ad nauseum.

How about a first person shooter revolving around the mythologies of different cultures? Roman, Norse and Greek mythologies could clash against each other in fantastic settings such as Hades, Nasgard, using weapons such as Thor's Hammer, the head of a medusa, the sword of achilles... There is so much more source material that can be used than boring old wars.

It's not limited to FPSs, read the comments before you go around assuming stuff.

I'm just suggesting that, since developers have completely raped the WWII war and futuristic warfare, i'm just wondering what other wars developers could use until they completly rape that war clean.

I personaly don't think an FPS in mythology would work, but other generes could work with mythology.

Couldn't Shadowrun be considered a FPS in mythology, in a way?

But I have heard people discussing how games should start to be based more on ancient battlefields. Wouldn't it be awesome to slam your tireme into a Carthaginian vessel and have your Roman comrades charge the ship with you? How about following under Alexander's rule and fighting light Persian infantry as you move deeper into Asia? Or what about being Arab horsemen invading upper India, or horsemen following under Ghenghis Khann's rule and slaughter peasants and riding circles around your enemies' man-at-arms while you fill them up with arrows?

Or what about really, really ancient warfare? Having many different types of Homo tribes battling over resources using clubs, spears, javelins, etc? Survivor takes all (including the planet and the moon).

 

[Sib]

How about, you play as different sides in the Balkans? Fight Russians, Serbs, etc, etc.

The Charge of the Light Brigade the game? I can see it now.

Level 6 "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward!"

levels 1 - 5 must have been pretty short...since isnt that the first or second line of the poem?

also it would suck pretty badly considering its you and your AI team on horseback, against a lovely big line of machine guns + cannons. I can see that being controller shatteringly fun.

 

[Tread184]

Some of you guys suggested the 6 day war, well that game would probably suck...
BUT how about a game based on the the Yom Kippur War, it would be more fun and challenging on either side, Syrians/Egyptians/USSR or Israel/NATO.

 

[Meshakhad_v1legacy]

Yom Kippur War would also be good, but if we just have an Israeli campaign, a Six Day War game would be very good.

Maybe Yom Kippur could be the sequel?