Topic: Battlefield Heroes trailer

[idolminds]

Youtube

Me wanty to play.

[PyroMenace]

Not bad, but Digital Illusions with EA backing them is notorious for releasing pre-pre-pre-beta material, and since its going to be free, I'm not going to touch the game until a year after its release. By then the actual game will be in a playable state.

[beo]

there's something quite tasteless about trivialising ww2 like this, but still it does look like a lot of fun. the ongoing territory thing is a nice addition.

[scottws]

Haha you can ride on the wings of an airplane.

[idolminds]

there's something quite tasteless about trivialising ww2 like this

Someone on another forum said (roughtly) the same thing and got an interesting response:

They are. The point is about how you take something as tragic as D-day and you build a game where you play as a perfect untouchable hero right out of a glorified war movie or game. It just makes it blatantly obvious. It shows that Call of Duty, Company of Heroes, Medal of Honour and the like all do the same. They build unrealistic glorifications of a war that killed thousands upon thousands of people. The difference being that those games don't really acknowledge it.

Not that any of this is a bad thing, mind you. The world could use a few less sacred cows.
Maybe people will notice that they've let this one erode for years and finally let it die in peace.

[beo]

yeah, i don't know. i see the point they made there, it's just the other ww2 shooters at least don't make light of the situation - they're generally a bit gritty and at times unpleasant. sure they glorify things and are good entertainment, which itself could be considered wrong, but this is a bit more than that. the only poorly chosen metaphor that springs to mind is it being akin to dressing a corpse up in a clown suit.

regardless, i'm not offended and i'll play the game - more just surprised. i think it was hammered home with the typical war movie / game intro in that video that then cuts to the "oh look, it's just a bit of a laugh really" thing. just shows the stark contrast and i don't know, it just doesn't sit quite right somehow. in my mind it's definitely tasteless - can't say that it actually bothers me though.

meh, it looks fun.

[Pugnate]

I guess it happened long enough in the past for it to be less of a problem. I was thinking they couldn't do something like this on 9/11, but then that was a tragedy killing innocents, while WW2 was an actual war.

[Ghandi]

They are. The point is about how you take something as tragic as D-day and you build a game where you play as a perfect untouchable hero right out of a glorified war movie or game. It just makes it blatantly obvious. It shows that Call of Duty, Company of Heroes, Medal of Honour and the like all do the same. They build unrealistic glorifications of a war that killed thousands upon thousands of people. The difference being that those games don't really acknowledge it.

Not that any of this is a bad thing, mind you. The world could use a few less sacred cows.
Maybe people will notice that they've let this one erode for years and finally let it die in peace.

And these games are different from the rest of the entertainment industry how? Movies do the same thing. There's a reason that they don't focus on the gritty reality - it's not entertaining. That doesn't mean that we don't realize what the truth is. It's not like we are honoring the dead soldiers by playing these games - that happens at a different time and place.

And Pug, what exactly would a 9 /11 game entail? Ram the plane into the building / run out of the burning building? Bad comparison.

[Pugnate]

Yea sorry. I was trying to come up with a recent conflict, but that was more like the first phase of a conflict. Bad example.

[Xessive]

Yea sorry. I was trying to come up with a recent conflict, but that was more like the first phase of a conflict. Bad example.

Well, they still made a movie about it.

I think a lot of this stuff is just exploring the imagination. The writers create their stories based on the settings, whether it's WW2, Vietnam, or the Middle-East, so I don't see anything inherently wrong with that.

[Antares]

Well, they still made a movie about it.

I think a lot of this stuff is just exploring the imagination. The writers create their stories based on the settings, whether it's WW2, Vietnam, or the Middle-East, so I don't see anything inherently wrong with that.

Me either, if anything I saw the beginning of the trailer to be a sendup of all the other WW2 games out there, not a trivialization of the war itself.  Either way it looks fun to me.  Though, I wonder exactly how a project like this is planning to turn a profiit...

[Xessive]

Me either, if anything I saw the beginning of the trailer to be a sendup of all the other WW2 games out there, not a trivialization of the war itself.  Either way it looks fun to me.  Though, I wonder exactly how a project like this is planning to turn a profiit...

From what I gather it seems like it will be like all those free Asian MMORPG's (i.e. Fiesta, Tales of Pirates, etc.). Downloading and playing them is completely free, but if you want to modify the appearance of your character beyond the basic options you have to buy the cosmetic enhancements. Apparently in Korea this is HUGE and people buy these visual add-ons like hot cakes!