Dear Video Game Makers...
by Crom
People. I'm begging you. Stop making games about World War 2. Enough of them have been made, and nobody has any kind of misconception anymore about how fucked up storming Normandy was. It was awful, it was something that none of us will or can relate to. Watching your friends face explode isn't my Friday night plan. Make up a new war, or do something zany, pop a vietnam vet into Thermopylae with tons of ammo and rockets. Do something, that while not expanding or improving the realm of FPS in any way, at least lends a cool spin to the story line.
Nobody wants to play Private Fuckface from Kentucky, who parachutes into Marseilles or eats dirt is Bastogne while shit is exploding around him, and more to the point, I imagine there's a long line of surviving veterans who probably view this shit as marginalizing the struggle they endured, even though it's always presented as a tribute to them. You jog across a field, shoot 12 germans and blow up an ammo dump whilst slurping back a big gulp; doesn't really paint the picture of the fucking epic struggle not getting shot was in those times.
Stop making games about WWII, I have spoken.