I always thought if you wanted to troll the shit out of the "Muh WW2 Axis Campaign" weirdos you could do a game that has you cut to a Nazi officer in his command tent, Wagner playing on a phonograph, troops who all Hitler salute you as you exit the tent and walk around, make it feel mega Wehrabooish, and then suddenly your head gets blown off and it cuts to the actual player character who's a female Soviet Sniper. The meltdown would be incredible.
Have the player play as Paulus and the only significant thing you do in the game is surrender after getting your shit kicked in at Stalingrad
Playing a tank level where your tank breaks down because it's an over engineered piece of shit made by slaves that sabotaged it in defiance
Nazi Journal day 257: freeze dried boot rotted foot tastes like snichzel if you close your eyes.
Wasn't the Soviet tank strategy accuracy through volume? I remember seeing a youtube video where some comrade said, "Hey, these tanks suck they only last a month." And the Marxist Leninist engineer said, "Yes, comrade but the life expectancy of a tank on the eastern front is two weeks."
When I saw over-engineered, I mean that the Nazi's tanks had a whole bunch of moving parts that had to be finely machined, and were all hard to replace. In addition, as their tank designs advanced, the newer tanks needed even more of those differing parts. Both of these things were a liability with how much their factories were being bombed towards the end of the war.
And yes, by contrast, when the Soviets made new tank designs, they'd have lesser amounts delicate parts, making them easier to produce.
I'm not a historion but I love to imagine that the Allies bombed a ball bearing factory in Munich and the Nazi engineers were just like, "what are you insane? We can't build a blender without ball bearings built to .001 mm tolerance."
From what i remember, the t34s after the first production run were fairly sturdy. The whole point of them was to be simple to repair and bring back into the field, and that they were easy to mass produce.
they kinda do that in BF1
you're a nazi officer and you get shot at the end
You play as Hitler and the entire game is blowing your brains out over and over again for 10 hours.
One time when my roommate was really high on mushrooms he described a game where you play as an Axis courier in WW1 and do increasingly futile, losing missions that intentionally frustrate and humiliate the player. The player's character would mumble under their breath stuff about how no one respects them and the battles are being commanded all wrong. Then at the start of the last mission the player sees their reflection in a puddle and it's Hitler.
I told him to stop taking shrooms.
And you unlock a new background, uniform and accessories every couple of kills. Sure, kill 1 and 2 are just your boring nazi outfit and underground bunker, but kill 35 you're in a Hawaiian shirt, sunglasses, mojito on the table and at the beach!
It’s an idle game, like infinite paper clip. You spend your deaths to make hitler off himself quicker and quicker
WWII game where you play as a German communist press ganged into the Dirlewanger Brigade and are sent to fight the Greek Resistance, but the whole game is you planning to escape with a bunch of guns and join them.
A Nazi COD would be cool and fresh because you would...start with slightly-different guns and...the characters would have different accents on their English lines and...uh...
Maybe they're on to something here, I think playing an entire single-player campaign zooted on methamphetamines hasn't been done before.
I also think trying to cross a huge open-world map with your limbs dying of frostbite or the Barbara Pit mission would be a novel experience.
Ah, a German POV COD would be like:
Mission one: Round up Jews and lead them to the nearest ridge
Mission two: Round up Jews and lead them to the nearest forest
Mission three: Round up Jews and lead them to the nearest forest
Misson four: Round up Soviet PoWs and lead them to the nearest forest
Mission five: Round up Jews and lead them to the nearest forest
END OF CAMPAIGN ONE
Mission one: Round up Jews and lead them to the nearest forest
Mission two: Round up Soviet PoWs and lead them to the nearest ridge
Mission three: Round up Soviet PoWs and lead them to the nearest ridge
Mission four: Round up Soviet PoWs and lead them to the nearest forest
Mission five: Round up Jews and lead them to the nearest ridge
END OF CAMPAIGN TWO
Final mission: Fight against the Red Army (10 minutes of gameplay), in the final cutscene you're hanged by the local Wehrmacht Military Police patrol for not being able to find your unit in time and for running in a "westwardly" direction. Moral of the story: you didn't really know about the Holocaust, you were just a soldier fighting for your own country!!
The credits include an inspirational Clean Wehrmacht-ish quote from Guderian and von Manstein. Dresden is mentioned quite a lot throught the game, special thanks to Erwin Rommel too.
How about a short game whose only gameplay is your character being a nazi and getting his face smashed in with the butt of a Russian's rifle over and over again. You could even get the opportunity to unlock new environments for the Russian to knock your teeth out in. Final cinematic is him taking a selfie with you and going "Say 'Dresden'!"
Hey, say what you will about Counterstrike but the Terrorists do win around half the time.
WW1/WW2 games are nostalgia porn. You get to pretend to be a fantasy version of your (great-) grandparents as they Beat The Bad Guys. But its always the same six famous battles on a loop with different interfaces and graphics. They always end the same way.
Even the old Axis&Allies boardgame lets you posit different strategies and scenarios to historical conflicts. Modern "historical" video games are just First Person Saving Private Ryan forever.
Making an accurate depiction of what the nazis did wouldn't be good enough for this jackass either. They'd call it politically correct and act like it was revision.
That said, I think a first-person simulator where you're killed by communists for being part of a fascist country would be refreshing.
yes nazi cod could be great
press F to shit your pants
dies of dysentery
