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I look forward to the Gallipoli expansion.
I guess I can respect it, but I really think it's an overreaction. Not because "lol it's a game" but because we have dozens of other games featuring more recent wars where just as many atrocities occurred, yet I've never heard anyone say boo about it. WWI is where we're going to draw the line? The one that happened nearly 100 years ago is the one we're going to complain about being "exploitative" and "in poor taste", not the one's featuring conflicts from the last 30 years?If you're serious, I completely respect this point of view. Not sure it makes sense to soap box on THIS game, and this game right NOW, but yeah, your post is understandable.
Honestly, tweet to the devs, voice your opinion and maybe you'll change some minds.
Not to be a negative Nancy, but gaming side GAF will get you nothing but "lol, it's a game! Lol buying ultimate hardcore edition"
In the meantime, don't let this kill you.
You remember the southpark episode when stan's uncle (jimbo) dresses up as a klan member and uses reverse psychology to get them to vote to changing the town flag? Its probably how they also convinced them to put a black guy on the cover.I wonder if it was hard to convince EA to allow them to do WWI.
Trailer already has more likes than the COD one.
Picking up on that line of thought: Most focus groups will probably tell any publisher that WWI is not worth their time as the main target groups of FPS: gamers in the US, do not have any real connection to WWI and would therefore not be really interested in it. Also the difficulty of presenting a US-only centric narrative when the Americans were only actually involved in actual combat for slightly more than a year and were more like reinforcements for the French and to a lesser degree British forces making up the bulk of the Allied forces on the western front."Hmmm...I don't know, DICE. Is WWI really aprofitable settingappropriate topic for a video game?"
The way the two wars were fought.
Trench warfare is the single most brutal, disturbing, horrifying form of warfare ever created. And it was fought over nothing. No grand effort to drive back the fascists, no stalwart defense of the motherland, no liberating labor camps or cities from the yolk of oppression.
Just the worlds bloodiest family squabble over nothing. Quite literally nothing.
I'm not surprised, you know. How exciting would another futuristic FPS have been? It's kind of played out by now. In my opinion they did right by turning the genre on its head by returning to their roots. I'm sure there's plenty of CoD, MoH and BF fans like me waiting on the side for the return of WW era FPS. I think this could play out very well for them, even considering the MW remake
That trailer was great.This might sound silly but i feel...almost insulted for the style of trailer to depict something like ww1. One of the most gruelling industrial slaughterhouse of the 20th century put to dubstep and bombastic teenage violence visuals. Way to be off tone
.Oh shit, I just woke up, alright
Dude. Some people are just so dead inside that nothing makes them happy.
This might sound silly but i feel...almost insulted for the style of trailer to depict something like ww1. One of the most gruelling industrial slaughterhouse of the 20th century put to dubstep and bombastic teenage violence visuals. Way to be off tone
The fact the game will have zero auto aim or lock on is wonderful. Not sure how trench warfare will translate tactically, but biplane air combat looks fantastic! If somehow they can inspire heroism, sacrifice, and selflessness in a game about WWI and celebrate the small victories in a war that lost so much on all sides, I'm in. If they cater to the me-first generation and make it about individual glory, I am skeptical.
This might sound silly but i feel...almost insulted for the style of trailer to depict something like ww1. One of the most gruelling industrial slaughterhouse of the 20th century put to dubstep and bombastic teenage violence visuals. Way to be off tone
I guess I can respect it, but I really think it's an overreaction. Not because "lol it's a game" but because we have dozens of other games featuring more recent wars where just as many atrocities occurred, yet I've never heard anyone say boo about it. WWI is where we're going to draw the line? The one that happened nearly 100 years ago is the one we're going to complain about being "exploitative" and "in poor taste", not the one's featuring conflicts from the last 30 years?
The fact the game will have zero auto aim or lock on is wonderful. Not sure how trench warfare will translate tactically, but biplane air combat looks fantastic! If somehow they can inspire heroism, sacrifice, and selflessness in a game about WWI and celebrate the small victories in a war that lost so much on all sides, I'm in. If they cater to the me-first generation and make it about individual glory, I am skeptical.
Trailer already has more likes than the COD one.
This might sound silly but i feel...almost insulted for the style of trailer to depict something like ww1. One of the most gruelling industrial slaughterhouse of the 20th century put to dubstep and bombastic teenage violence visuals. Way to be off tone
Oh, I just reread your post and I did kind of just reiterate your point. Oops!Right, and I (and one other at least) addressed exactly that. Why this game why now. If this is how you feel about the subject matter, follow Anita Saekesian's lead and spotlight the industry as a whole.
JackFrags YouTube video mentions it.Where was this confirmed or talked about?
Right, and I (and one other at least) addressed exactly that. Why this game why now. If this is how you feel about the subject matter, follow Anita Saekesian's lead and spotlight the industry as a whole.
JackFrags YouTube video mentions it.
How about Indians?
JackFrags YouTube video mentions it.
Not crazy, but I understand your skepticism. Just going by what JackFrags said.You're crazy if you think there will be no aim assist, especially on consoles
What? Says who?So, uhh, it's gonna be a bit more difficult to strap some dynamite sticks to the horses and ride them into battle now...
Poor little horsey.
I don't want to make it a competition but if anyone is going to whine about under-representation it better be about the 2 million adult and child participants from India and not just whatever is en vogue in the United States.It's true you never see Indian people in games, yet all I hear is about black character under-representation. If you want an injustice it's these other minority groups being almost totally non-existent in games.
You remember the southpark episode when stan's uncle (jimbo) dresses up as a klan member and uses reverse psychology to get them to vote to changing the town flag? Its probably how they also convinced them to put a black guy on the cover.
I cant find the clip on youtube and now its bothering me.
pretty weird that zeppelin is flying around blasting seven nation army
Cuz, man, that's a living, breathing animal, you monster.What? Says who?
Oh snap!Last edited by SirNinja; Today at 02:05 AM. Reason: Also, I'm not real sure someone who replaced the "e"s in his name with 3s has any right to make that claim
This turns my stomach. Just flat out the most offensive game I've ever seen.
I can name family members that died in this conflict, wept at the pictures and accounts of the dead and maimed that experienced this hell, was taught all the horrors of it from primary school, through my whole life, it's only ever been a symbol of the folly of war, the worst, most black and shameful era of British and European history. I've been to the actual battlefields and mass graves across Europe, held the minutes silence without fail every rememberence day my entire life, for as long as I could understand the meaning of it.
There was no glory in this war. No thrilling action or daring do, no heroes and villains, this was mass murder, a scar on the history of our species, and every single person involved in it was a victim.
This trailer, the entire concept of this game, makes me feel physically sick, and just so fucking angry.
How fucking dare anyone make a game like this about the First World War.
I don't know what's worse, the sick fucking emotionless, greedy cunts that would seriously exploit this horror of an industrialised massacre, or the ignorant, soulless bastards that will give them money and enjoy it.
Anyone involved in this, or seriously think of buying this, should be ashamed of themselves.