TOG - The Older Gamers

Reoh · 14th August 2009, 05:59 PM

No seriously, its not just flogging a dead horse. Check this Kotaku article out!

Redgum · 14th August 2009, 06:10 PM

Its the last war that there was a clear and emphatic victory to the US/UN. Of course they will celebrate it.

IM keen to have a look at MASH though. Hang out in the Swamp , drinking with BJ and Frank and crack onto Hotlips!! sounds like a hoot!!

Reoh · 14th August 2009, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Redgum

Its the last war that there was a clear and emphatic victory to the US/UN. Of course they will celebrate it.

IM keen to have a look at MASH though. Hang out in the Swamp , drinking with BJ and Frank and crack onto Hotlips!! sounds like a hoot!!

Well if you wanted to be Klinger, there's a Section 8 game coming up too.

You're right in what you said though, but even still there's such an overwhelming majority of those games; as a mature gamer I would like to explore those others and learn more about them.

Ryo · 15th August 2009, 01:08 AM

Tbh, it takes a fair bit of effort for me to get into *any* of the games modeled after a real life war or military. There are some I've had success with, but after serving as a combat infantryman in the US Army during Desert Storm (1st Cav) I often get a case of the mehs at the "realism" schtick the FPS genre tangented to in the post QW/Q3A/UT days.

A lot of my friends feel the same way and so turned to MMOs more after those earlier days of the genre.

Give me FPS games that feel more like sports and less like "reenactments" any day.

Which is why its easy for me to dig games like Section 8, personally. I'm never distracted by putting minutae under the microscope, etc. And my mind doesn't wander to my friends still in the service and going through the stuff in a serious way.

Just my ramblings....

And I am going to buy Wolfenstein btw, but thats always been as much mutants as it is anything else

Reoh · 15th August 2009, 01:16 AM

Team Fortress 2 =D

That always feels sporty, lol

But I see your point, particularly with recent conflicts, there's a lot of excess baggage that can accompany the game.

Attee · 20th August 2009, 07:10 PM

There needs to be more WW1 games. Most of the current WW1 games only focus on aerial combat.

Reoh · 21st August 2009, 04:28 AM

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There needs to be more WW1 games. Most of the current WW1 games only focus on aerial combat.

OK, but when you see a tank on the battlefield... look surprised!

Ulric · 21st August 2009, 10:27 PM

WWI... If it was on the ground, then can you imagine the game...

Time to assault... charge the machine guns and artillary... run die, respawn, run die respawn, respawn, run die....

Time to defend.... Machine gun lots of people, with a rifle shoot, duck, reload, shoot.....

If it was true to form, trench warfare would not be all that interesting to play.

I would like to see some other great conflicts come to a game. The Boer War, now that would give opportunity for open game play and good strategies.

Falklands War, this could be a very interesting game.

Ned · 21st August 2009, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Attee

There needs to be more WW1 games. Most of the current WW1 games only focus on aerial combat.

The best WW1 gaming I've had was with the Battlefield 1942 mod Battlefield 1918.

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The total conversion modification Battlefield 1918 (or BF1918 for short) takes Battlefield 1942 into a whole new scenario, the first world war. Next to historically correct equipments and vehicles, we recreated the atmosphere of these WW1 battlefields as close as we can, keeping in mind the game we are working with. To achieve this, we have drastically changed the gameplay from the original game like so that you must now rely on teamwork, artillery, trenches and slow vehicles.