[Petrarch of the VBB]

Apparently the Falklands mod for OpFlashpoint is nearing completion, and there are a few Napoleonic, US Civil War and such mods in progress as well.

[Flipside]

What made me laugh was everyone going on about Carmageddon 2 being too violent, and yet, I'm playing NFSU2 at the moment, and if I were to believe this far less violent game, crashing into a right-angled wall at 145 miles an hour won't even scratch my paintwork....

Yes, and Carmageddon 2000 sucked. I think they should try again.

[Ford Prefect]

18th century warfare? Am I the only one who thinks that game would be so boring that gamers would shoot themselves?

*BOOM*
*Cock to mid-position*
*Clear flash pan*
*Insert ball and powder and ram it home*
*Pour more powder into pan*
*Cock all the way back*
*BOOM*

DAMNIT! I MISSED AGAIN!

[Clave]

Yes, if you are going for 'ultra-authentic' but it's game, so certain compromises would be made.

*stabs Ford with a Napoleonic bayonet*

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Nuke
i want a realistic nam era flight sim damn it. i want both choppers and planes too.

LOCK ON: Modern Air Combat, and it's expansion, Flaming Cliffs. The expansion is rumored to be adding a helicopter

[Knight Templar]

d0000000000000000d! Spanish Civil War shooter...  Hemmingway style.

[Ford Prefect]

Hemingway style:

"I have finally beaten the game," said the young noob.
"Perhaps, but on what level?" asked the experienced player.
"It was on easy, but I will try it on harder levels."
"That is good."
The noob thought that the older player did not respect him for his accomplishment and he was bothered by this but he did not say anything for he believed that the older player would laugh at him.
"Yes. I will try it on hard," he said.
"Indeed. That is good."
"I think that I will feel better after this is done."
"Maybe, and maybe not. I am going home to bed."
The young noob thought about this more and the game seemed small in his head and he wondered why this was so but he could not think of anything except that it was nothing.

[Ford Prefect]

I should have known better.

*chirp, chirp, chirp*

[Taristin]

Yes, yes. That's Hemmingway's style exactly.

But I'm the killer of threads, not you.

[Carl]

i want a 17th century first person shooter. your weapons would be flint lock pistols and bayonettes. it would go something like this:

You see a bad guy
You shoot him
He shoots you
You are both knocked to 70% health
You both spend 10 minutes reloading your guns
You shoot each other again
ect.

It would take hours to finish one room.

[Taristin]

Damnit carl! Stop posting before me after me!

[Ford Prefect]

Well, Raa, it looks like I've just refined a new technique for killing threads: literary humor. Feel free to add it to your repertoire.

Carl: If you made it 17th century we're probably talking wheel lock firearms, which would be even more of a pain in the ass. (Way to steal my joke, by the way. )

[InfernoGod]

A WWI shooter would be boring and uninteresting, in my opinion. Why? Because most of WWI was trench warfare.

[Clave]

Snipers, tanks, night attacks, machine guns nests, artillery, mass charges, grenades, mortars - I'm sure something could be made of it..

[Ford Prefect]

But, as InfernoGod said, very little of that happened. It was mostly sitting around in filthy trenches, catching the flu, with shells flying over your head and the occasional cloud of mustard gas. Then, on the rare occasion that you left the trenches to cross "no man's land", it was just a big slaughter. It's very poor material for a combat game.