Australia is opposed to violence, which I find surprising, given the high number of terrifying creatures that live there.
Poll: Why isn't Australia in any shooters?
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It'd be a bit tricky to work an Australian focus into a modern - presumably military - shooter plot wise, because it's neither a popular target or (comparatively speaking) a great force to be reckoned with, but here's some ideas:
("Realistic" shooter or action game):
Play as a different members of a submarine crew or other naval vassal dispatched in support of international allies in dealing with some crisis. Could give you a chance to play real world female troops, mix in a bit of modern high sea combat, maybe some ground missions... etc.
("Fantasy" shooter)
The Outback Attacks! Already home to one of the highest concentration of diverse species, a mad geneticist-gone-ecoterrorist has unleashed some manner of Forced Evolutionary Virus in different sites in the Aussie continent and now both army regulars and your average joe takes to the streets to battle this epidemic of rampaging mutants in bizzare and horrifying "Ecopolaypse".
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I'd show my support for those down under and play em!
("Realistic" shooter or action game):
Play as a different members of a submarine crew or other naval vassal dispatched in support of international allies in dealing with some crisis. Could give you a chance to play real world female troops, mix in a bit of modern high sea combat, maybe some ground missions... etc.
("Fantasy" shooter)
The Outback Attacks! Already home to one of the highest concentration of diverse species, a mad geneticist-gone-ecoterrorist has unleashed some manner of Forced Evolutionary Virus in different sites in the Aussie continent and now both army regulars and your average joe takes to the streets to battle this epidemic of rampaging mutants in bizzare and horrifying "Ecopolaypse".
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I'd show my support for those down under and play em!
Probably because the game would be banned there and the Australian gamers and equal rights activists would start a riot.
Otherwise it's probably because American developers aren't aware of any wars that America wasn't involved in so they don't know of any battles to emulate.
Otherwise it's probably because American developers aren't aware of any wars that America wasn't involved in so they don't know of any battles to emulate.
Okay, forget the CoD thing. I want to see Undead [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339840/] made into a game. I mean, everyone loves zombies these days, and this movie has a guy in a hat and a beard killing them with a home-made triple-barrel shotgun. And, at one point, a biro.
do you live in America? and Im sorry but that still makes no sense, its like assuming that america IS humanity and all the other countires are forgenersOptimusPrime33 said:
and if you an american in Australia you have an american accent, because you would be talking different to everyone else, or you would be really noticible as I dont "notice" Australian acccents while i'm in Australia
alsp even America has a different range accents, southern, new yorker, ect...some of whcih are really noticiable
so I dont understand how you can say "americans have no accents"
Nothings really happened on Australian land worthy of making a shooter out of. Maybe a historical one out of the Eureka Stockade? But even then it would only make one level of a shooter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion
Otherwise, as pointed out Australians troops we're involved in world wars 1 and 2 as well as Vietnam and Korea. We're in Iraq and Afghanistan as well, but with not many troops and most in non combat roles. All I'm saying is that besides perhaps Gallipoli, there's not many interesting battles that Australia's been in, that American wasn't. American game studious are going to make games about Americans in battles if they can.
Otherwise, as pointed out Australians troops we're involved in world wars 1 and 2 as well as Vietnam and Korea. We're in Iraq and Afghanistan as well, but with not many troops and most in non combat roles. All I'm saying is that besides perhaps Gallipoli, there's not many interesting battles that Australia's been in, that American wasn't. American game studious are going to make games about Americans in battles if they can.
With all that mineral wealth its only a matter of time,... erm actually the chinese haveNecromancer Jim said:
already done that.
On the actual question of the game, who wouldn't enjoy lassoing a joey, or a sheila !
Hmm, not if they made a game that is a combination of a shooter and the game of Risk. Then Australia would be the most important place in the world.PlasmaFrog said:
It would be workable but you'd have to go to great lengths to set the stage, the backstory and create characters that you could relate to or actually would care if they died sort of thing. Also interactive cutscenes because normal ones are bullshit. It should all be about how the creators immerse you in the game. The guy in front of you getting shredded by a machine gunner, spraying you with his blood and staring blankly back at you as his decapitated head flies through the air, wouldn't be as fantastic if you were watching it from another angle and had no control over the action. It also wouldn't work if you didn't give two shits about the guy in front of you.Don said:
Also a lack of any sort of map radar or anything on you at all times would make it more intense, especially if you never knew when they were going to jump down from those tunnels and attack. Like if, in the campaign, there were attacks set in stone but also smaller, randomly timed ones that change from each campaign. Not sure if they really did whistle but if dropping bombs did that would start you on a mad dash for cover.
There are heaps of historic and fictitious Aussie battles around that could be used, but America wants to feel like they are on top so they don't use any of these. If they did decide to make an 'Australian' shooter then it would a bunch of crocodile dundee stereotyping and the american characters would be the hardcore ones, and the Australians would be portrayed as the funny guys with the funny accents that get blowed up hahaha...
IMO Aussies are in the same boat as the Russians. We are just too damn awesome. To save themselves the embaressment, they made the Russian in Blsck Ops imaginary, and they keep Aussies out of shooters altogether.
A Russian Australian duo would fuck shit up in an FPS... just as long as they have their grog.
Anyway, how can you have aussie shooters with such strict gun laws?
Stick to serial killers in the outback like wolf creek, or jacobs creek with acid?
Stick to serial killers in the outback like wolf creek, or jacobs creek with acid?
Why should it be? Like, really, what makes Australia any more worthy than the hundreds of other countries that also don't tend to feature in shooters?
<---- Australian.
I want a Napoleonic War FPS to be quite honest.
<---- Australian.
I want a Napoleonic War FPS to be quite honest.
I can't say I've heard it explicitly, but I've definitely heard it implied.OptimusPrime33 said:
(The context is really ironic though).
I've had more than one Australian ask me if I was American.
The basis for this, when I point out I'm actually also Australian, is that my accent sounds American to them.
There's also the basic fact that you can hear American accents. (There's at least 3 variants that come to mind, though only 'southern'/'texan' is one I can give a name to.)
But, I have perhaps simply been exposed to a lot of languages and accents.
I can think of 4 or 5 'English' (as in people from various parts of England) accents, plus Scottish, Irish, and at least 2 variations on Australian accents as well. (plus the aforementioned American accents).
(Not to mention Canadians often have a distinct accent. Or two.)
And that's just for people who have English as a native language.
Indian, Dutch, German, French, Italian and scandinavian accent variants are also distinct enough for me personally to identify.
And... Asian, which I don't have enough skill to pick out distinct smaller groups with, but has enough common features to identify as something with a distinct sound.
To be honest, the fact that you have never heard anyone talk about an American accent is probably because you're used to thinking of it as the default accent.
(Whereas someone like me is more likely to view the most neutral sounding British accent as the 'default')
Remember, a statement along the lines of
"You sound (like an) American"
Is functionally identical to saying you have an American accent.
Da_Schwartz said:
FUCK YES! SOMEONE ELSE PLAYS THIS GAME!
it took me YEARS to refind that game and no one had ever heard of it..i could swear i was going crazy, that game is so fucking awesome it deserves its own arcade
BUT
OT:
well lets see...near every AAA developer/publisher in the world is either american or japanese..and the majority of the market is respectively america...
so who the hell are you going to appeal to business wise?
Honestly, as an american, i could care less if there was a single game ever made about america ever again, so please stop gettin all angsty and turning it into another "blame americans!" thing about games, hell i would love for most games to feature a wealth of different countries, but i'm stuck with what i got and i'm going to make the most of it.
They nerf video games with blood.Imagine how they'd act with the possibility of an Aussie dying.Just look at Russia and Call of Duty.It can't end well.Dylan Bonnett said:
i wouldnt want an austalian shooter. everyone would talk with that annoying fake australian accent.
i never hear an australian on a tv show or movie that sounds even remotely normal. i never hear anyone down the street talking like australians in tv shows do.
i never hear an australian on a tv show or movie that sounds even remotely normal. i never hear anyone down the street talking like australians in tv shows do.
