There was Jutland, though I don't think that would make much of a game on its own.
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There was Jutland, though I don't think that would make much of a game on its own.
Gilder
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We tend to overhype the victories in World War Two. It's always the Great Victory, against the Great Evil. Noble, heroic Americans killing the Nazi scourage.
It's Romantacism for the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. And it sells well.
It's Romantacism for the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. And it sells well.
True. For every WWII pilot played in a flight sim, there's a crew chief, a couple mechanics, a guy preparing mess, someone typing up the commander's orders and telegraphing them back to the U.S., &c.
Cleo
There could be a Christmas 1914 football game.
Slaughter
Paladin
I agree. World War I was much more traumatic than World War II. There was no clear defined evil, for example. But the moral ambiguity would just make it better, in my opinion.
I am not one for sports games, but that I might play . . .
Loppan Torkel
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DICE released Codename Eagle, which takes place in ww1, prior to the Battlefield series. In my opinion a ww1 game would probably be better paced than many modern shooters. It would be like Battlefield 1942, but with bayonets being relatively powerful, zeppelins would act as bombers, dogfighting would be even more fun, classes like engineers could have a more strategic role and tanks would be deathtraps without infantrysupport.
Gilder
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I wouldn't make it was first person shooter per se, maybe something like Eternal Darkness.
Shekwan
Kim Chi Quaffing Celt
I'd say the main reason it hasn't been made is because the American involvment wasn't heroic enough.
Every mainstream shooting game now has American's versus Nazis, Russians Communists/Russian Fascists, Asian Communists, or Arabs. There was no ideological battle in the First World War, so no way to make it look heroic.
Also there weren't many automatic weapons then. Automatic weapons are fun. Same reason there's not much western shooters.
Every mainstream shooting game now has American's versus Nazis, Russians Communists/Russian Fascists, Asian Communists, or Arabs. There was no ideological battle in the First World War, so no way to make it look heroic.
Also there weren't many automatic weapons then. Automatic weapons are fun. Same reason there's not much western shooters.
philippe
FYI, I chase trains.
what about an text based RPG?
Private John Harker has contracted Tuberculosis!
you cough up blood.
Lose -9 hitpoints!
gas attack!
/equip gas mask
gas mask not found, would you like to improvise?
y/n
y
too late!
you are slowly choking, and making spastic movements.
you lose 73 hitpoints!
you died!
Congratulations, you are mentioned in "dulce et decorum est!"
Private John Harker has contracted Tuberculosis!
you cough up blood.
Lose -9 hitpoints!
gas attack!
/equip gas mask
gas mask not found, would you like to improvise?
y/n
y
too late!
you are slowly choking, and making spastic movements.
you lose 73 hitpoints!
you died!
Congratulations, you are mentioned in "dulce et decorum est!"
philippe
FYI, I chase trains.
Ha! Nice.
lutzj
The Last Thing You See
No submachine guns = confused and dissapointed players. For instance, the Thomson gets way too much use in WWII games.
lutzj
The Last Thing You See
EDIT: dupe post.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
I think a WWI game - of any type, not just shooter - as opposed to WWII, would be nice for a change. It wasn't all trench warfare, anyhow.
Oerdin
Deity
It would be pretty short when you go over the top with your bolt action rifle and baynet and your entire company gets machinegunned down.
Oerdin
Deity
Back in the day I used to play a game called Red Baron which was a WW1 air combat game. It was kind of fun. I'd play two player with me flying and my friend in the machine gun turret and the bastard kept shooting the tail off of our own airplane!
