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Munkeh111 on 08 April 2010
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Mummelmann said:
Munkeh111 said:
Mummelmann said:
After the massive letdown that was MW 2 and the atrocious WaW in the series, I find myself not caring any more. CoD is one of those series that explode on the scene and get drawn out into oblivion and ruined.
There are other wars and certainly other factions, to make games off of, portraying the world as if the US and UK are the only countries in history with a standing army is getting extremely old to me.

What wars would you suggest that they look at from the last 70 years (before that and you have rubbish guns, so the game is not fun)?

The US and UK have been very important in the last century, I don't see what other factions to play as beyond Russia. Maybe the Koreans or South Vietnamese?

There are plenty of conflicts, the main problem is political and sociological implications of depicting them or indeed simply switching sides or altering outcomes in a purely fictional fashion.

The world has a very black and white view of things and this forces developers to follow the same recipes. If I were to give one idea it'd have to be playing as partisans/saboteurs or some form of behind the lines elite troop that weren't either from the UK or US in WWII. The largest battles were mostly on the Eastern front where neither the UK nor the US were involved much at all and there was a collective Europe fighting however they could to stem the red tide of fascism. How about a purely fictional game where Hitler actually succeeded and one fights on a fascist ruled European continent against a seated, established nazi regime in total control (think the Combine in HL series)?

There are other ways of doing things, but like they say; where there's a will there's a way. There is no will, it appears, as long as money rolls in, developers like these have no reason to challenge themselves creativity wise at all. Which is why the CoD series is growing stale imo.

One thing is for sure; if I see one more game that starts with either going ashore or dropping above Normandy, I'll go nuts.

Playing behind enemy lines is not really CoD for me, CoD is about the major conflicts, but the rumours of Black Ops are more to do with behind enemy lines etc...

I am not sure about alternate reality, but with that idea, it is more of a single man's struggle, where as CoD is more of an army's struggle, with some more subtle stuff, like the SAS stuff in MW 1, thrown in there