A WW2 Battlefield Game?

[Jairo]

is this thread supposed to be satire of something

[Ad Bot]

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is this thread supposed to be satire of something

What is the big deal? I'm asking what you guys think about the next Battlefield being a World War 2 era game and I'm being attacked...

[Badger]

yes the world could use a little more 40's

[Decepticon]

men of war's a good WW2 game

sure as hell isn't anything like battlefield since it's a RTS but you can play as the main armies in WWII (there are mods that let you play as a bunch more)

maps are pretty large and there's massive amounts of destruction

[Badger]

is it me or is MOH an acquired taste

[Qwepir]

I'm not going to play a WW2 game if there isn't destruction. I'd like it to be at least a little realistic, like the Battlefield games are.

This is the next generation of video game consumers. Completely blinded by advertising campaigns, convinced that superfluous stuff like "realism", graphical fidelity, and destruction physics is the most important part of any game, and that just because a game is old that means it's no longer good.

1942 fits the description you laid out in the OP entirely except for the unnecessary graphical elitism. It has maps set in Iwo Jima, Stalingrad, Berlin, Omaha Beach, pretty much half the loving war. It has more vehicle variety than the recent games, from half-tracks and heavy tanks to battleships and level bombers. It has completely functional warships that you can actually drive and fight with while people walk around on deck, a feature that has been totally blasted from the franchise for no discernable reason. It even has mod support that allowed people to recreate the loving Landkreuzer Ratte. But no, It's "old" and therefore bad. Well you can go forget yourself with the Schwerer Gustav for all I care because you're only hurting yourself by ignoring it. In fact, it being 12 years old is probably even better for you because that means that no matter how stuffty the computer you're typing this on is, you can almost assuredly run it.

[Decepticon]

It even has mod support that allowed people to recreate the loving Landkreuzer Ratte.

HOLY stuff ARE YOU SERIOUS

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This is the next generation of video game consumers. Completely blinded by advertising campaigns, convinced that superfluous stuff like "realism", graphical fidelity, and destruction physics is the most important part of any game, and that just because a game is old that means it's no longer good.

1942 fits the description you laid out in the OP entirely except for the unnecessary graphical elitism. It has maps set in Iwo Jima, Stalingrad, Berlin, Omaha Beach, pretty much half the loving war. It has more vehicle variety than the recent games, from half-tracks and heavy tanks to battleships and level bombers. It has completely functional warships that you can actually drive and fight with while people walk around on deck, a feature that has been totally blasted from the franchise for no discernable reason. It even has mod support that allowed people to recreate the loving Landkreuzer Ratte. But no, It's "old" and therefore bad. Well you can go forget yourself with the Schwerer Gustav for all I care because you're only hurting yourself by ignoring it. In fact, it being 12 years old is probably even better for you because that means that no matter how stuffty the computer you're typing this on is, you can almost assuredly run it.

You're an idiot. I'm not talking about 12 year old games here. I've played Battlefield 1943 and I loved it. It was extremely fun to play.

I'm not sure why you're going on this huge irrelevant rant and attacking me for saying "I like destruction in my video games." If you're going to keep talking about BF1942, please go make a separate topic because that's not what this is about.

[Bisjac]

Isn't there already a ww2 bf game?

This is assuming 20 people didn't already slap you up in this topic for forgetting one of the greatest greatest shooters that ever existed.

[Jairo]

You're an idiot.

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HOLY stuff ARE YOU SERIOUS

Forgotten Hope mod, also added a bunch of other prototype weaponry and vehicles. iirc there was even a helicopter.
The Ratte was part of an entire gamemode wherein the allies were getting their stuff forgeted in by the Ratte because it's the loving Ratte. It was great.

[Qwepir]

HOLY stuff ARE YOU SERIOUS

iirc, allies have to destroy it before it wrecks two factories, this usually involves having to board it and put a demo charge on stuff on the inside. It was the stuff.

[Decepticon]

jesus christ i need to reinstall battlefield 1942. Is the gamemode still around and active?

[Qwepir]

It's a mod, and I'm not sure how active it is anymore.
Gamemode aside, the map is also full of different models of tonk and plane, so if you have a friend with the same mod you can still have a good time just trying out new equipment and murdering each other.

[Harm94]

WW2 is over done. So is all this Hollywood 21st century warfare stuff.