why are there no WW1 games?

[suhlEap]

i forgot to mention 2 games about ww1 that are being made

Verdun Online(pc): http://www.verdun-online.com/

To End All Wars (xbox360, ps3):

ps3: http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/4-/3508649/To-End-All-Wars/Product.html

Xbox 360: http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/3508647/To-End-All-Wars/Product.html

well that's very interesting, i have been wondering for a while when this would happen. i just think it's an unused concept in gaming, and maybe it's about time. as the post above says, it wasn't all just in trenches. why shouldn't we see WW1 in games?

 

[Mega Moose]

I've often thought of a Battlefield-esque FPS, with many participants, making huge trench raids.
This is however, a day dream.
Of course a campaign wouldn't be all the fun.
"Mash X to play Harmonica"
"Tap A to tell your buddy about your best girl back home"
"Press Y to write sad letter home that will later be used in a documentary"
"Tap B to take the easy way out"

The list goes on and on.
Of course, an RTS would be interesting, though most maps would be the same rough idea.

 

[Bamboochakill]

i don't know, never tried moh

 

[Bamboochakill]

I gonna wait for verdun online to open, and gonna wish me a ps3 to x-mas and buy to end all wars when it is released

 

[Bamboochakill]

cuz most peoples think ww1 would suck as an game when we only have bolt-action rifles, bad quality tanks. bad planes and old machine-guns and as they all think, they sit in trenches for months waiting for a attack.

 

[Bamboochakill]

BUT ONLY THINK!

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

This may come off as racist or offensive to some of you but if you attempt to ignore it then you are the reason. AMERICA WAS NOT IN WWI!
I am canadian, and every remembrance day we remember the one who died in world war 1 and world war 2, meanwhile american will only remember the ones in world war 2. WW2 from the american stand point was scene as a heroic battle, thats why there are a lot of WW2 games and not world war 1. Eternal darkness had a world war 1 chapter in it but Eternal darkness was canadian developed. to those who said trench warfare wouldn't be interesting it is compete bull shit. Imagine fighting the from your trench and the our NPC sergeant gives a whistle and you must run over the top to the other side, hiding in craters and behind rubble from your enemies gun fire and every chance you get you attempt to take out the enemy gunners, I would say it would be as good if not the better then a D-Day scenario. Also there was not just trench warfare. There was the russian campaigns. Let us face it the american are the mainstream of the entertainment industry and what they want is what they get. This is why there will not be a world war 1 game or a vietnam game because those are scene by americans as "bad wars" but the truth is no war is a good war. ( also I think the online for this would be amazing)

listen, asshole, the US was in WWI, we didnt want to be but you little pussies couldnt defeat germany by yourselves and we had to do it for you, and did it again in WWII, so dont make uninformed claims about this, just because the US isnt very popular now doesnt mean you can go around smearing its reputation and claiming it wasnt in conflicts that AMERICANS DIED IN BY THE THOUSANDS. What would you know about fighting? Canada barely has a military and the US could steamroll you and you know it. The US remembers both, its called Veterans day. WWII was more recent, and Vietnam is even more, WWII was the last war that the US won a clean, decisive victiory, im not shaming the troops who fought, im just saying that the politicians wouldnt let the military guys win.

The Americans didn't win WW II the Russians did.

 

[suhlEap]

This may come off as racist or offensive to some of you but if you attempt to ignore it then you are the reason. AMERICA WAS NOT IN WWI!
I am canadian, and every remembrance day we remember the one who died in world war 1 and world war 2, meanwhile american will only remember the ones in world war 2. WW2 from the american stand point was scene as a heroic battle, thats why there are a lot of WW2 games and not world war 1. Eternal darkness had a world war 1 chapter in it but Eternal darkness was canadian developed. to those who said trench warfare wouldn't be interesting it is compete bull shit. Imagine fighting the from your trench and the our NPC sergeant gives a whistle and you must run over the top to the other side, hiding in craters and behind rubble from your enemies gun fire and every chance you get you attempt to take out the enemy gunners, I would say it would be as good if not the better then a D-Day scenario. Also there was not just trench warfare. There was the russian campaigns. Let us face it the american are the mainstream of the entertainment industry and what they want is what they get. This is why there will not be a world war 1 game or a vietnam game because those are scene by americans as "bad wars" but the truth is no war is a good war. ( also I think the online for this would be amazing)

listen, asshole, the US was in WWI, we didnt want to be but you little pussies couldnt defeat germany by yourselves and we had to do it for you, and did it again in WWII, so dont make uninformed claims about this, just because the US isnt very popular now doesnt mean you can go around smearing its reputation and claiming it wasnt in conflicts that AMERICANS DIED IN BY THE THOUSANDS. What would you know about fighting? Canada barely has a military and the US could steamroll you and you know it. The US remembers both, its called Veterans day. WWII was more recent, and Vietnam is even more, WWII was the last war that the US won a clean, decisive victiory, im not shaming the troops who fought, im just saying that the politicians wouldnt let the military guys win.

The Americans didn't win WW II the Russians did.

yeah too true. you are right of course. it can't be denied that the americans helped. but they weren't there for the whole war, and merely served to help win the war that was already on the way to being won by the allies. the nazis themselves helped in some way, by spreading themselves too thin. but anyone that thinks the americans came and won it are just wrong and inaccurate.

 

[I_LIKE_CAKE]

Does standing in stinking freezing mud waiting for the order to suicide run across hell sound like fun to you?

 

[I_LIKE_CAKE]

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The Americans didn't win WW II the Russians did.

yeah too true. you are right of course. it can't be denied that the americans helped. but they weren't there for the whole war, and merely served to help win the war that was already on the way to being won by the allies. the nazis themselves helped in some way, by spreading themselves too thin. but anyone that thinks the americans came and won it are just wrong and inaccurate.

You will have to forgive the American public school system. History was taught thus:
one year covering the beginning of recorded history up to 1776, then several years of 1776-present day, and why America rules. Thank god for AP classes, I missed most of that bullshit.

 

[suhlEap]

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The Americans didn't win WW II the Russians did.

yeah too true. you are right of course. it can't be denied that the americans helped. but they weren't there for the whole war, and merely served to help win the war that was already on the way to being won by the allies. the nazis themselves helped in some way, by spreading themselves too thin. but anyone that thinks the americans came and won it are just wrong and inaccurate.

You will have to forgive the American public school system. History was taught thus:
one year covering the beginning of recorded history up to 1776, then several years of 1776-present day, and why America rules. Thank god for AP classes, I missed most of that bullshit.

well of course we can forgive you. i know it's not your fault you feel this way. just the way your country seems to enforce patriotism. we british have a more passive love for our great nation

 

[Bamboochakill]

and we norwegian fighted to our death to save norway

 

[Bamboochakill]

if this forum is about ww1 games, why does everyone talk about ww2 and things that don't have a f***** thing on this site?

 

[suhlEap]

if this forum is about ww1 games, why does everyone talk about ww2 and things that don't have a f***** thing on this site?

this is true, back to the topic at hand. i'm looking forward to these new games coming out, just for a bit of change. the bolt action rifles and such aren't a bad thing in my opinion. i mean yeah they're not great, but with the enemy using the same weapons it'll make things interesting.

 

[Cartman2nd]

It'd make for a great sort of interactive movie where you walk through trenches interactivally to see the horrors like diseases and mustard gas killing people in horrific ways. It wouldn't be entertaining but more of a shocking game like A Clockwork Orange was for movies. Or of course the cab drive in CoD4.

 

[Snuggle]

I actually think the upcoming Darkest of Days has a WW1 level.

 

[yum yum]

noskirmishes, no river crossings, no cool stuff at all, just a bunch of poor sick infected bastards ying horribly from shrapnel and poison gas. man an fps ould be awesome.

 

[wewontdie11]

Trench warfare wouldn't be the most fun thing in a game.

Yea getting trench foot and dysentery before running into a hail of machine gun fire and being ripped to shreds isn't something I'd pay to do on my 360.