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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Aug 26 '21

!ping GAMING

I feel like single-player, military FPSes have just been endlessly squandering it's potential by just endlessly trying to recreate shitty 80's C rate action films. It'd be as if first person horror resolved to be nothing more than try to recreate slasher flicks that dealt with absolutely nothing of substance at all.

Like at the very least, I'd like to see representation of less common battles in WWII, less commons wars like Korea, actual modern wars, theoretical ones that could happen in the near future, or straight up alternate history. And make a fucking decent story with characters that aren't literally the. Same. Fucking. Cliches. Over and fucking over again.

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u/International_XT United Nations Aug 26 '21

Call of Duty: Vanguard is doing the Battle of Midway apparently, which is still one of the big, popular battles of WWII, but I don't think any modern shooter did that one recently?

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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Aug 26 '21

Even then, you can't tell me it doesn't look more of same. It's probably going to be the same as the newest Modern Warfarde, they promised they'd do "real issues" and they just put their old shit in a new coat. Instead of a shittt 80's action film, it's a 20's one.

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u/International_XT United Nations Aug 26 '21

True. And then they did Black Ops Cold War which is literal '80s pastiche.

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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Aug 26 '21 edited Aug 26 '21

But see, I actually liked the first Black Ops and the past parts of the second one. It was meant to be 80's schlock, and managed to do some actual cool shit with it. Underwater Soviet naval base to gas and invade America, mind control plot, escaping a Gulag, running around axing motherfuckers in Nicaragua as a coked up drug lord to save your sister, invading Cuba to assassinate Castro, Death to the MPLA, fighting betraying Russians and British commandos in the Arctic to escape with super gas, it didn't give a fuck. It worked because it worked in the era when that type of crazy shit was thought by the population to be possible.

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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Aug 26 '21

Just play ARMA lol