You barely see anything about the Chinese occupation, the fight in Africa, the French resistance, or anything dealing with the Italians. I know these games are largely a propaganda device, since it's really the last time America looked good, but you'd think someone would fund these games.
A post with a title like this that isn't bitching about a lack of campaigns from the viewpoint of the Germans??? I can't believe it
On Reddit that'd get you a bazillion upvotes and cutesy rewards
At least in Battlefield V you get the storyline of "not all nazis" tank commander
It's set after Rommel commits suicide, but other than that I can't remember much about it except for "Oh, I see where this is going" almost at the start.
Really would have been more accurate for your character to run around and say vile shit while re-enacting Come and See, but idk how that would have gotten past corporate.
That’s why I liked the super old CoD games. CoD 2 jumped around all over the place, you played as Red Army, as the Brits in North Africa. Too bad that series turned to (extremely profitable) shit
Climbing the Reichstag with the Soviet flag at the end of the first game has never been topped
Might be nostalgia, but COD 2 is my favorite of the series. Although, I haven't actually played any since MW2
COD 3 for me. Playing as the canadians and the polish definitely made it memorable to me. Its a shame that i cant get it on anything right now.
You barely see anything about the Chinese occupation or anything dealing with the Italians.
Would force them to praise communists
Sniper Elite 4 takes place in WW2 Italy. You help and are helped by "partisans" who wear the color teal.
The CPC barely did anything against the Japanese. They hid out and waited for the Nationalists to do all the dying. Then after it was over, they swooped in and grabbed the prize.
more like chiang kai shek quarantined them in landlocked, rural, mountainous and 99.99% unindustrialized shanxi. almost all their weapons were taken off supply trains to japanese forces. numerous armies defected to their cause because after the war they realized fighting to preserve natchina was an awful goal to aspire for after all that death and suffering
This is like blaming the DSA for the Marines getting the shit kicked out of them by Canada (assuming there was a civil war going on).
No shit they hid out, they were under equipped and I'm sure the nationalists wouldn't hold fire of they saw red troops down range.
But...the story is that they fought hard against the Japanese. Basically won the war. Are you saying that's not true?
There are only two WW2 video games, Saving Private Ryan and Enemy at the Gates
every WW2 game is either D-Day and then US forces in France or it's weirdly both-sidesy Battle of Stalingrad. idk not every shitpost I make is gonna land
I dunno man, I think I'd prefer to do the Normandy landing again. Real untapped potential there
A sniping game where you play as Lyudmila Pavlichenko and co would be amazing
Alternatively we could do the American invasion of Normandy. It's very fresh, never done before
Ok but fr soviet snipers please
Oh or playing as a Yugoslav partisan fighting the Germans and/or the Italians
There's a RTT game called Partisans 1941 that was on sale on steam a couple weeks ago. I'm checking it out, it's fun so far
I just want to see something about the Battle of Kursk, darn it.
Special training was provided to the Soviet infantry manning the defences to help them overcome the tank phobia that had been evident since the start of the German invasion. Soldiers were packed into trenches and tanks were driven overhead until all signs of fear were gone. This training exercise was referred to by the soldiers as "ironing". In combat, the soldiers would spring up in the midst of the attacking infantry to separate them from the spearheading armoured vehicles. The separated armoured vehicles – now vulnerable to infantry armed with anti-tank rifles, demolition charges and Molotov cocktails – could then be disabled or destroyed at point-blank range.
I mean, that's just a cool setpiece moment waiting to happen.
The older call of Duty games had a couple of good Kursk missions. The Russian side of the war was pretty well represented in the old CoD games, with a number of stand-out missions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lF2LGq61YI
Most game devs aren’t artists, they’re overworked programmers and designers that have no interest in looking at history books beyond what they were told in high school.
The ones that do don’t have the money to pull off a smash hit like what you’re asking about.
I get that, the games industry is incredibly shitty. You'd think the people who commission things would have at least tried to make a few things work at some point
Even the Soviets are basically entirely Stalingrad, Berlin and maybe Kursk. Not a lot of Romanian or Finnish Front going on. Or the really bloody battles in the Caucasus.
I don't want to play a level losing to skiing Ikea dipshits :visible-disgust: :eu-cool:
I like D Day because it reminds me of my favorite unappreciated classic Saving Private Ryan!
Apparently there were some stories of the movie being too realistic for veterans and triggering PTSD so there is a world where this is kind of justified honestly.
I enjoyed The Saboteur when it came out, you're an Irish race car driver turned French resistance member where you kill nazis and liberate Paris with gameplay similar to early assassins creed / hitman / gta combo. climbing buildings, get around on rooftops if you want or drive cars, planting bombs under guard towers/AA guns/fuel stations. you could kill nazis and disguise as them to sneak into restricted areas. Guns feel good to shoot and the brawling is pretty decent as well. Its great cause the locals don't snitch on you killing nazis. Story was more personal focused around the main character rather than the bigger war but was okay for a video game. Art style was really cool where everything starts out black / white / red like an old noir film then turns to color as you liberate the city.
The one AAA title that most recently tried to do different parts of WW2, Battlefield V, says we're unlikely to see a AAA title that's not just playing the hits of WW2.
BFV included lots of early war, before the US joined (in fact the US wasn't in the launch), and was supposed to receive post launch support in chronological order following the progress of the war.
And G*mers lost their shit over there being a woman in the launch trailer.
If Americans are making the games, the games are going to be about Americans. The French resistance were largely a bunch of uneducated hick yahoos who got a lot of innocent people killed, see the film "The Sorrow and the Pity" for what it was like.
Anything about China is a problem because the CPC likes to pretend it fought off the Japanese while in reality it hid in the hills and waited for the war to be over. Moreover most of the source material is in Chinese, so there's a barrier there. But the Battle of Shanghai took place right in front of international observers and there are English newspapers full of blow-by-blow accounts. Tons of photos taken on the spot, interviews with both sides commmanders, etc. Totally forgotten today. Imagine the Battle of Stalingrad, but in the middle of town there is an off-limits neutral zone full of curious westerners. That's what it was like.
Anything about China is a problem because the CPC likes to pretend it fought off the Japanese while in reality it hid in the hills and waited for the war to be over.
TIL that the Hundred Regiment Offensive was not a months long offensive operation involving 200,000 soldiers and resulting in as many as 40,000 Japanese and collaborator casualties. It was, in fact, a pleasant mountain camping trip.
The CCP didn't "wait for the war to be over" any more than Soviet and Yugoslavian partisans "waited for the war to be over."
The KMT fought the Japanese hard for eight years. Yay on the CPC for launching a single campaign.
In any three-sided fight, the right move is to let your two enemies fight until they exhaust themselves, and then swoop in at the last minute to grab the victory. It worked, didn't it?
The KMT fought the Japanese hard for eight years. Yay on the CPC for launching a single campaign.
My bad for assuming you understand the concept of an example.
I'm something of a student of the era, and the idea that the CPC contributed anything substantial to beating the Japanese is ludicrous. They did the smart thing and sat out the war, and beat the crap out of the KMT as soon as the Japanese were gone. How do you argue with a winning strategy?
Well of course in China the 1937-1945 war is constantly on every screen. The CPC likes to keep the memory of the war fresh, so they can always play "blame the foreigner" when things go wrong.
full movie from last year "The Eight Hundred" about the battle of Shanghai
I haven't seen it yet but the trailer made it look brutal af
