https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-this-scene-represent-what-wwii-was-like.5836/this thread is dumb
not that the call of duty scene isn't a bad setpiece from a game perspective, although i'm surprised others are surprised that games do this, especially when people immediately bring up Uncharted like in all threads when that series is another example of the same thing
"it's hollywoodized"
"it's Michael Bay"
"so many explosions it's a joke"
"my grandpa was always doing QTEs"
"i remember reading about this crash in my history textbooks"
but all kinds of crazy shit happened during world war ii, literally unbelievable stuff, the video games have always been beyond tame in the depiction of events, even d-day in the new game and the advance in technology still doesn't have the actual thousands upon thousands of soldiers nor the real distance required to cross alive, BF1's attempt to "simulate the realism of the war" by having you die over and over was mocked because there aren't ever any actual consequences to you in a video game, maybe if you got one life and if you died had to buy loot boxes until you got another life
and half the thread is talking about the comparative "realism" of Modern Warfare or earlier Call of Duty's, what in the fuck lol those weren't anymore absurd just had lesser technology and scale, MW was literally when the series disregarded any sense of "realism" for the spectacle with a plot that completely refuses any attempt to make sense or portray a realistic scenario to self-seriously chase the most ludicrous of modern war films and images...and i don't even know what world the people talking about MW2 being the last time the series wasn't absurd fantasy are living in
maybe i'm reading a tone into the posts that isn't actually there, but this was war with the most dangerous capabilities all sides could muster, it's not implausible that an insane train derailment happened and ripped through a bunch of buildings and killed people...this happened and happens during non-wars too...it could have happened to a single squad and been the least noteworthy thing of a day that saw three cities bombed to embers and the Soviets lose a whole army to incompetence...there's not, for the record, any history of a train derailment happening on the game's given date let alone in the location of France which should be the bigger strike than attempts to create a dramatic spectacle of a situation in a series where the fans expect it
still though...what do they think a war that leveled two continents and killed 50 million some people in just six years would have looked like exactly other than generally hell on earth?
What was terrifying for me was that while watching my friend play war on the beach assault map, it occurred to me that it probably was that easy to just pick off people walking through the water. My friend was just standing in the bunker sniping, just one person after another in a line. It was kinda awful.
ya fucking think?