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Off-Topic / Re: The Book Club - 2017
« on: 27-02-2017, 22:02:52 »
I'm reading Comment on écrit l'histoire by Paul Veyne. It is about what is history and how historian make it.
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Sorry, how the hell is he then wearing a german uniform (on more than one occasion) and is decorated with the highest military award in the entire German Empire? Also flies a german fighter.
Looks like utter shite. Saves german pilot (note the Pour le Merite), falls in love with him, proceeds to kill countless of "bad germans". Fuck yeah Hollywood. What is this.Steve Trevor is an american not a german and they are not the big bad, they are probably under the influence of Ares.
I want to type out long explanatory replies and argue why most of the opinions I see here are shallow and not thought through. But I guess at this point it's easier to just rolly eyes as it has more-or-less the same effect
Does everyone with a nostalgia boner for BF1942 remember the Japanese getting the 'Type 4' (type 5) rifle?... you know, the one where only 250 were ever made, and never actually saw action, and were designed in 1944, yet they were carried on Wake Island in game?
I wonder if those guys complain about Battlefield 1's accuracy
Add me on Steam and we can play togetherYeah I will do that when I will reinstall verdun
No, and I'm not blaming (pop) culture for deforming historical views. But it is very much a factor in how views are made, and like I said, sometimes even without the person acknowledging it.
I agree that sparking interest is a great thing: it's just a bit sad that people often don't go any further than this "popular" form of history, and take it for real. And then the real historians have to defend their educated views
About your argument: I see what you mean, but as a history teacher I have to correct views of kids very often. They take those views from watching a movie or Youtube, and although you are right about people looking for history in a movie being naive and wrong, most people are not actively looking for history there, but they are being fed "history" passively while watching something like SPR. Fortunately, kids are flexible and can bend their views quite easily after some explanation/education/research. Adults however are much more stubborn, they will not even admit they they start to believe something is historical just because they saw it in a historical drama, but that happens very often.
^This. I had no real interest in WW2 until I started playing Forgotten Hope, hearing the devs claim that it was 'historically accurate' and then doing my own research to verify it.
I'm doing this even now with 'Battlefield 1.' I've never had much of an interest in WW1, but this announcement has sparked it a little more. I've even subscribed to 'The Great War' channel and I'm slowly catching up on all the weeks I've missed since it started
lets see..black guy with cape holding german pistol...it seems this gonna be soooo realistic..
i would play verdun instead of this
Ah, a new Battlefield game. You can tell it's just around the corner from the unmistakable pessimism concentrated in the off topic section.
I really hope nobody actually expected some kind of 'realistic' or 'historically accurate' WW1 game out of EA.Still, it's at least an original idea and not directly copying the competitors.
This is what I'm excited for. It takes some balls to jump to WW1 and challenge yourself to make a AAA game title out of it. All I can hope is that they stick to the core of what made battlefield fun and let you and your friends get in big ass machines and blow shit up.
If I can pilot a bomber or a Zeppelin with a full crew of people. Or slug a tank across some trenches while a bunch of other people man all the gun ports. Or hell even jump in a battleship and have all my squad mates man a set of guns. I'm sold.
The only thing I would question is the infantry gameplay. The bread and butter of battlefield games is good gun play with auto or semi auto weapons. From what I hear tho they might just keep bolt action weapons to the scout class and use machine guns, and stretch for prototype SMGs to fill out the other classes.
I'm interested to see some gameplay