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One of the campaigns in Battlefield V is about a german tank crew during the last weeks of the second world war ( called: The last Tiger) Could you do a video concerning this campaign?
Let's cross fingers that whoever (Indie or Major) actually pulls this off actually does it in a suitable manner and with a better historical understanding than some other WW2 games. That actually might be a reason why haven't seen it, yet: It's probably hard to write too.
I'm okay with having a German Campaign- so long as it it's the Werchment and not the SS. The Werchment were pretty tame compared to the SS, and while they're still Nazis they're no where near as bad as the SS. Plus I'm willing to bet a large portion of the Werchment was made up of Conscripts who didn't align themselves with the Nazis, while the majority of the SS were volunteers and people who were fucked up enough to be assigned to it. Plus a lot of Werchmment generals plotted against Hitler, the most famous of which being Erwin Rommel.
GetDaKill Oh, because Stalin was such a nice human being, right? The Russians and other former Soviets tend to forget what the deal was in their countries around WW1 and WW2. In other words: Fuck off.
Cross of Iron managed to be one of the all-time great WWII movies, and it's focused entirely on a German unit. I see no reason why other mediums have to limit themselves artistically when it comes to things like this. It's not impossible to tell a realistic story without upsetting people.
It'd be really funny if you do the whole mission without them telling you, then when you complete it the field commander says "Thank you Corporal Hitler" and the camera finally pans to your character.
Tsar hoho I am currently making a german(It's actually about a Croatian infantry regiment,but they were fighting under the Wehrmacht) campaign spanning from the operation Barbarossa to the german surrender in Stalingrad.I will also make it so that on the beginning and the end of each mission will be a small part of the story related with the map.I already published the first mission as a little preview
Doesn't explain why there was no German campaign in Battlefield 1 though. As it is a game set in WW1, I See no reason why the Germans were clearly presented as evil there too.
Dreidecker Its just that overall Germany is seen negativ if it has to do anything with history of overall or the world wars. But i dont understand it either
Rattler1 You mean plain laziness because otherwise they would have had to study a huge pile of German and european history in order to get things right?
Vern Etzel BF1 fell into the same trappings of other big name properties presenting WWI stories: "the Germans are the bad guys and are evil". The whole war was more complicated than they presented it and they did a piss poor way of showing the motivations for either side outside of some cartoony, fan fiction you'd expect from Hollywood.
BF1 didn't include campaigns for the germans, french or russians. Not to mention the latter two were not even available for multiplayer without waiting for the LC and paying extra.
nope, not solved at all. there are _two_ legal issues due to german law: protection of the constitution and protection of the youth. the 'art-option' would only solve some constitutional issues, but the youth protection still would demand regulated advertisement and distribution. since publishers and developers don't want to deal with such regulations, they would still pretty much do, what they do right now.
woodruff42 fairly sure companies could if they wanted to but don't want to be seen as trying to get nazi symbols into a game which could be seen as actively endorsing nazis by some
But video games are made by Satan and someone has to think of the CHIILDREEEN! I guess you could just go the sneakier route that Sniper Elite games do in Germany. Apparently they don't have swastikas and the like. In SE3 for example, they had just had palm tree icons if I'm not completely mistaken. So make a war game where palm tree guys fight against...uh..muscle guys? Give allies a muscular hand icon. Then just make everything else historically accurate.
I have never played a WW2 game that comes close to conveying the reality of WW2. The reason is because game designers tend to draw on common perceptions of WW2 rather than the truth about WW2 to create their games. Because if a game lines up with the public's perception of WW2, it will sell.
Robert Lamperski I don't really play such shooters, that's all. Of course CoD2 is not perfect, doesn't accurately portray the war. Yet, I think it does, at times, convey the feeling of it well enough. The again, I haven't played it in years.
I would love to see a good (for example) WW2 shooter including a lot of smaller or less popular countries involved. For example Finland, Italy, Brazil, Australia, Romania, Norway and list goes on and on... This could be a great opportunity for everyone to learn about each country involment in WW2. USA vs Germany is prertty much seen already.
Doomi Esa Italy is popular, they regularly make it in rankings like WatchMojo and all the other folks (not my area, I only know them) do. Sometimes they even get several spots on the same list. For example Top Ten Anime Betrayals of All Time.
oooo, romania, we ll get guns that shoot litlles and mustARD, and grenedes made of sausages, but we ll get a midern tank, tr85, cuz balance, keep it wg way
We live in a world were microsoft is removing the SS badge from Camaro's in forza because people don't understand it means supersport and not schutzstaffel (the badge isnt even close to looking like the ss runes but i digress). We will never get a compelling story for ww2 in almost any game. If such a game were to exist, probably one of the most interesting aspects would be if there was a mission where you played as a frenchman conscripted into they occupying german army. This would explore the feelings and emotions that are rarely covered, but such detailed stories are difficult to do correctly.
@@blood.gaming2524 but are you saying the entirety of the wehrmacht, from division to division,regiment to regiment, and so on and so forth committed war crimes. even all are willing?(except the officers). Just a question.
@@blood.gaming2524 USA About the nukes in japan? Japan with China? UK Hypocrisy trying to Defeat The Nazi Germany Because They will Make EXACLTY The same thing that They did it With the natives in ever land than they invaded? USSR killing Poland persons and Saying that slaughter They Maked was necessary and Was Maked by the Wehrmatch, French Shooting UK soldiers Because Tradition? oh I forgotten war crimes exists only Who loses
I doubt any axis sides have been well represented in shooter games. In real time/grand strategy yes, but not in shooters as those games often make everyone seem more human and you can't make anything naughty like that seem human! In strategy its "ok" I guess because there its almost like looking at hundreds of disposable infantry men and tanks clash and nobody ever seems like a winner. But that last bit is just me projecting. Whenever I see my troops mowed down in games like company of heroes, I feel real damn bad and even if I win, I feel pretty bad about it.
I'd propose a simple solution: have a german campaign as DLC i mean they'd already have to make all the assets (weapons, character models, vehicles) because of the multiplayer anyways, but if it's DLC it could be not available in germany if they want, and you dont have to include it in the advertising but just like everyone else is saying it'd have to be very well done, too easy to screw up
In all HOI games Germany has always been the most fun campaign. You know, because you are the initiator and waiting around for Germany to attack you is not as fun.
Even then though, that was somewhat limited. The majority of my games, I spent '36 to mid '39 racing to build my industrial base and focusing my research on industry. Usually, by 1943, I had a greater industrial capacity than the US and USSR combined. But the game always played out, more or less, the same. Poland, Denmark, Netherlands, Yugoslavia in 1939. Belgium, France, Britain, Greece in 1940. USSR '41-'42. Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Spain '42-'43. Africa, M.E. and India '44. US and S.A. '45. Then I would declare war on every remaining nation and steamrole them all.
@@thelvadam2884 Hearts of Iron, specifically Hearts of Iron 4 is the single best grand strategy video game in the world. It manages to include everything other games war games misses (attrition, supply, industry, ideology, political power, doctrine, division design, war support, just to list a few.), and still makes everything fun for you.
Jeff Kardos Jr. There's a good chance around 1945 certain SS divisions were taking in female soldiers I know the volksturm had a decent amount of women serving.
I think there should be German campaigns in games like this, but the trick is to not glorify the Nazi cause and be historically accurate at the same time. It's not impossible at all, but it just has to be done sensibly, without fascist glorification or unrealistic Antifa propaganda.
I've always thought that a german campaign could start following a soldier in the wehrmacht invading poland then france and then being transported to russia during barbarossa and encircled in stalingrad. The whole campaign seeing war crimes being done by the SS, but saying that what could he do? He was just a soldier. Then the campaign ends with him being marched off into siberia.
mike C Yeah that would be genuinely good for a campaign. Or maybe you play as a soldier during the invasion of france. Any campaign that is well documented and can be presented accurately could be good.
Dude if you want it to be realistic, you have to glorify the nazis because they were... well glorifying themselves pretty much. Also people would love that flavour i think... and well yeah... the implications go on ;)
mike C that would be good. Especially if at the beginning, your character starts with a prideful, somewhat nationalistic(but not extremist) attitude. But the more he witnesses, the more faith he loses in his government and leadership to the point of disgust, fear, and loathing. So much potential for character development
So there won't be a German single player campaign, but there will be black female German soldiers. I believe the major developers should get their priorities straight.
It's interesting to note that games that are actually categorized as Wargames (as opposed to FPS) - I'm talking Close Combat, War in the East, the Operational Art of War, Hearts of Iron, Panzer General and the like - playing as Germany is not only just possible but also by far the most popular choice. The guys at Paradox (makers of HOI among others) did a survey and found that 40% picked Germany as favorite country to play. That's huge number considering that you can play as any nation in that game - from Brazil to Finland to Poland to Canada - not just the majors (UK, USA, Japan, Italy, USSR, China, France).
@@Luey_Luey It's about the challenge Gamers want to sigma grind on the hardest difficulty possible, and what better way to do that then to play as a big country that was going to lose anyway. Besides playing pacifist Hitler is as funny as it sounds also consider it's not at all Gamers or games fault that Hitler and the nazis are so popular if it weren't for the bloody history channel milking that era in the early 2000s Hitler would be as relevant as Mussolini.
AlexB Prime scorpion Yeah, I am one of those whose country got terribly destroyed by them but I still want their country to have fps I think it would be interesting as they fought many more battles than the US.
well firstly the quote is wrong it's "history is written by the victors" but more importantly theres tons of platforms which have represented the German and Japanese sides for WWI and WWII, namely All Quiiet On the Western Front from 1930 which imo is one of the greatest war films ever made
As much as I agree with you, I love the part in CoD WAW in which you're in Berlin, and the commisar began saying over the loudspeaker, "Citizens of Berlin! A ring of steel surrounds your rotten city! We will crush all those who dare resist the will of the Red Army! Abandon your posts. . . Abandon your homes. . . Abandon all hope!"
No, the Russian SFSR was one of the 14 soviet socialist republics present within the USSR, which were all ruled by the Central Committee. The USSR started with a collection of socialist countries who seceded from the empire, until they decided to form a union to become stronger. In the USSR, each republic had its own culture, flag and its own government, like any proper republic. The USSR was basically structured similarly to the EU, if the EU were to be a single country. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union
yes, it would be thrilling to see your labour workforce slowly dwindle and die of starvation and disease as a result of allied terrorbombing. Perhaps if the workers produce more ammuntion or rubber or uniforms you could upgrade air defence for supply routes/railways
We are the baddies campaign i don't expect germany wins campaigns to ever be a thing but atleast have germans believe in something not like todays rare German campaigns first chance to switch sides done
If COD makes a WW2 game from the German side, I am certain that sales with go through the roof. I don't think they understand how many people yearn for a German campaign! Maybe even more than oppose it. People that are neutral certainly would buy in; the German army was very badass (politics aside, cmon!)
The german army was understaffed, underequipped and unmotivated for most of the war after 42. This guy actually points out many of the shortcomings of the german army and the luftwaffe. Their uniforms were nice and there were probably a lot of nice people and great minds in there, but they were fighting for an insanely wrong cause and most people will not resonate with that.
The plans for the war against France and Poland were already prepared by the Wehrmacht high command when Hitler took office. He simply preponed the date from 1945 to 1939 because he was in a hurry for several reasons. However if someone else had been in charge it wouldn't have turned into a world war. So you are right, I guess.
Sorry, that is not correct. Germany was fighting for its own suvival. Churchill was talking already in 1936 that germany must be destroyed, no matter what political system is there. It was all about economy and the regional conflict with poland served england the reason to declare war and make a world war of this regional conflict.
Ah! No german campaign! Ah! Starts hearts of iron 3 Conquer: Austria, Chechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Republican/Nationalist Spain, Portugal, Jugoslavia, Greece, England, Soviet Union, United States #Feelsgoodman
I think it's sad few WWII games have a German campaign. Sure, you can be afraid to promoteNazi ideology, but you are missing out on a chance to put the German point of view across. Not all German soldiers were monsters, in fact; most of them weren't. My (Dutch) family had German soldiers living with them during the war, and they were kind of embarrassed to inconvenience my grandparents. Onde day, towards the end of the war, my grandmother came into the kitchen, and found this German, perhaps 45, lived through 2 wars, crying because he would be sent to the front and he feared he would never see his children again. That's a hell of a background for a character if you ask me.
If they want to create a German based campaign for ww2 to avoid contraversey just have the main character as a wermacht soldier who questiins the ideals of the nazis and only fights for the protection of his homeland.
Edward Hahm and doesnt betray the germans, he fullfill his duty to the Nation till the end. Even better, he fakes to betray them and them when he is in the allied army he mows down his entire group of “new friends” while they sleep and trust him just before getting killed too. Imagine the epicity and the plot twist level of a thing like that.
Or just a German soldier who kills hundreds of allies and can't be killed....OOOHH right they did it with the allied site....ah forgot about that....def not fair bro....not fair
I wholeheartedly agree. The struggles and hardships endured by the Wehrmacht's men go grossly unnoticed, unappreciated, and very disrespected. They were volunteers and conscripts, just like the Americans or British. They came from a variety of backgrounds and beliefs (spoiler alert: not every German rifleman was a dedicated Nazi, just like every Russian wasn't a dedicated communist, or American being a dedicated Democrat). They fought for what they thought was right and just, for they were told that Germany had been betrayed, and that Hitler's expansionism would undo the damage done. And, in essence, they WERE betrayed. The Allies used Wilson's 14 Points as a persuasion tool, but ended up with something very harsh. Perhaps someone could build off of that? Because I have NEVER seen a game based on the Early war period (France, Poland, the Low Countries, etc). Only until the Americans get involved that 80% of WW2 games have their setting in.
Rabh They invaded Poland, they invaded Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Amsterdam, Denmark, Norway... All offensive wars. They weren't honorable people protecting their country, they were murdering their neighbors and taking their stuff. Was every soldier a bad person? Probably not, but they weren't honorable.
The point was that not every German is/was a Nazi. Organizations like the SS and Gestapo, I understand where you're coming from. But the general Army was different: Not every grenadier, tank driver, and artilleryman was a fanatic NatSoc who worshiped Hitler. A good portion of their ranks were conscripts. And a couple thousand still served Hitler as they did the Weimar Republic. They were lied to. They were betrayed. They were humiliated. You didn't have to be a Nazi to share in that anger I mean, how would you like to be forced into the army, dragged to some foreign land, and lose limbs, friends, and family because your Commander-in-chief f*cked up? But I get where you all are coming from, because it's hard not to look at things from our standpoint and knowledge.
General Biv People fought against the Nazis from within the system and within the state. Some died for it. Those were the honorable people. Not every soldier was evil, but they weren't honorable or good.
And in the end, the real heroes in the Wehrmacht were the defectors. Who, by the way, were treated horribly not only by the Nazis (of course) but also by postwar Germany.
Ngl playing as any axis country would be fun a soldier of Japan would be an amazing story seeing as how many considered it a honourable thing to charge the enemy head on while knowing full well your gonna die. Playing a German in ww2 would be really fun as there are many stories and diaries to copy a story from and tell their story. As well as the Italians when they invaded Yugoslavia with their allies and Africa. Point is major or indie game devs could pull this off but people outside of the gaming community would give them backlash for just telling history whether it's the axis or allies
Nice video, and some people sad to see no German games play as nazi , you know why ? Remember in Call of Duty game when Shepherd says : history written by Victors
Ok my sons and I had this same conversation.There are probably 2 ways of doing this and not majorly pissing people off.The first would be the reluctant soldier narrative.Not hard to do because it's pretty common,at their height only 12% of Germany were party members and about 30% of the country were supporters. Make these facts obvious and that many soldiers were just protecting their family from retribution,they were well aware of what would happen if they didn't serve loyally and well.Plus they were fed a steady diet of propaganda about how bad prison camps were in allied nations.And when your point of comparison is Nazi run prison camps...well you'd be scared too.Plus note how massively unfair the treaty of Versailles was,because it was.This would paint a more complete picture of the average German soldier,who were patriots not Nazis.Of course if you want a more fanatical soldier you could go route 2,risky but could be more rewarding.Just go the Spec Ops the Line route,a descent into realization.It'd be way harder to do but ,wow,if you did it right.Oh I'm ethnicaly Jewish btw,we're atheists but that wouldn't have mattered back then.
Stephen Cody There's a lot of room for human exploration in a German soldier's narrative, which I would find fascinating. The problem is how palatable it would be for the general public, or at least those who supposedly represent the public.
Another interesting way to spin the "reluctant soldier narrative" would be to have the campaign be from the perspective of someone of Austrian, Alsatian, or even Czech background who was forced into the military, has no sense of patriotism in the sense of "Defending the Fatherland," and is simply trying to survive the war at this point. If you really wanted to heighten the stakes, you could have the soldier's officers frequently telling the player how badly they'll be treated if captured for the whole campaign. At the very end, you could undermine all the propaganda by having him captured at the end of the campaign and treated comparatively well (obviously this last part would only work on certain fronts).
My personal recommendation (all of the recommendations here solid too) is to have someone who is into the heroism of it, but steadily becomes disillusioned as the war drags on. A story of naivete.
Seriously you estimate only 30% Germans supported the cause? What about Autumn 1940 - after a brilliant campaign in France, and in Poland before that? After laying their hands on all the assets of the conquered lands, getting free/cheap labour?
I'm just using available data.A lot of Germans were pissed about Versailles,and rightly so,but they had no love for Nazis.Most generals wanted revenge and approved of remilitarization,but weren't Fascist at heart.Plus popular opinion always favors a winner,and they were certainly doing that at first.The problem with saying how much support the Nazis had is support was mandatory and brutally enforced.We've got a "democracy" and the current leader's got a 30% approval at best,you really think an autocrat needs more?
I remember when first COD was coming out I heard there will be campaign for all 3 sides. so I was cool soviets germans and Americans thats gonna be cool. Later I learned they meant brits yanks and ruskies. If it was ok to include ruskies why not germans. they were equally bad only difference is ruskies won the war.
Hey MHV i just moved into Vienna from Spain, and went to see the flaktowers this afternoon! They look much more impressive face to face... You ever doing a fan meetup? We might all show up in ww1 austro-hungarian uniforms and parade around the streets.
Not just germany, there is literally no campaign story mode in any ww2 game I know of where you can play as a soldier from any of the axis powers. It's always allies allies allies fucking allies, I really hope there are story modes where we can see perspectives from not just allied soldiers but axis soldiers as well.
Red Orchestra 2 had a single player "campaign" where you play as a soldier of the Wehrmacht. They really handle the axis very tasteful in RO2. It's worth checking out, and it's active enough that there are a fair number of full servers still up.
I remember my very first shooter: ironfront liberation 1944 it has a german and a russian campaign and i really loved that game even though the controlls were hard af for a "first time" gamer but it was just great because it was the first time I saw games getting close to actually depicting that weird soldiers humor and also not having that stereotypical story starting with D-Day and following the americans
The answer is much simpler than that. The modern audience expects homour in their games and it would break immersion for there to be a funny German in game
A line from Call of Duty: Hier ein Geschenk von der Deutschen Armee Here a gift from the German Army while throwing a handgrenade, classic German humour.
Strategy games don't seem to have a problem with it, and I think it has a lot to do with how the scale of the player's perspective relates to the player's experience. In a strategy game, you are the commander, and this means you have more control over your tactics and your situation; gameplay takes the form of ambushes, planning defenses, counter attacks, you might have logistics to manage, and objectives to capture and hold not just in a narrative context, but in a way that is represented through game mechanics. Strategy games can focus their narratives on more specific german victories like the Battle of Arnhem because the gameplay mechanics lend themselves well to mission variety and a more tangible sense that the player is accomplishing something. In most shooters, you are a member of a squad, your experience is limited because you follow wherever the squad (and the narrative) is going; in most shooters, your primary gameplay mechanic is combat, your secondary gameplay mechanic is pressing an interaction button. The variety that a shooter presents often comes from its environments (as well as movie references); and the sense of accomplishment often comes in the form of "big picture" things, like the Battle of Berlin, the Liberation of France, or the defeat of the Afrika Korps. A German campaign wouldn't be able to provide the same feeling of momentum and victory that an allied campaign can, even if you were to focus on German victories, because any ending you give the campaign would still be undermined by the unspoken "and then we lost"
0:30 strictly speaking there was one in battlefield 1942 (the very first game in the series). You just played through the multiplayer map on the german side and then got some text story that explained why you were there and what happened.
why don't we see more Axis Campaigns in FPS games? #1 the script for that would be hard to write and not come off as either a Neo-Nazi/Nazi sympathizer or pretentious. particularly if your story takes place on the eastern front (the Werchment took part in war crimes with the same coldness as the SS). #2 the game would get a lot of bad press (though Modern Warfare 2 was somehow able to make this work with the whole shooting up an airport). an interesting outline of a story. you play as Jean Delannoy. the story starts in 1940 Jean has been called up as a reservist of the French Army, he takes part in fighting during the French Campaign only to be forced to surrender when his position is over run. as a POW Jean is offered to join the LVF (a French anti-communist volunteer force set up by the Wehrmacht). he is trained in the use of German weapons and tactics before being sent to the Eastern Front where he takes part in the middle-late stages of Operation Typhoon. after the failure to take Moscow the LVF is sent to Belarus for anti-partisan duty. during the endless patrols and skirmishes with the partisans in the back country of Belarus Jean is confronted with the brutality of the German occupation of the country (the player character should either be forced to take part in or forced to watch the mass execution of civilians as reprisals against the partisans). the story then shifts to the Ukraine where the LVF was again tasked with hunting down partisans. in September 1944 the LVF is transferred to the SS and becomes the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division "Charlemagne". Jean then takes part in the defense of western Poland (early 1945). the story then jumps to the Oder Front March/April 1945 where SS Charlemagne attempts to hold a section of the river against Soviet crossings. the final chapter of the campaign takes place in Berlin as SS Charlemagne is folded into SS Nordland. the game ends with a small break out from the doomed city of Berlin.
Stop lying about history? Oh boy, no people will not, just ask the Russians to tell the truth about the Rape of Eastern Europe, or the Turkish about the invasion of Cyprus and their ethnic cleansing, or the Chinese about…anything post 1948 People have narratives they must spin, or things that must be forgotten, if the average person knew what Turkey did for example, they’d demand the complete destruction of Turkey
I think it's quite ridiculous that the germans get cut out of the limelight. While the Reich definitely was not the good guy by any means in the second world war, there were still singular heroes and in the second half, once Germany came on the backfoot, some of these men just started fighting for their fatherland and less so the regime that controlled it. The Last Tiger war story in BFV showed that it's perfectly possible to take a small segment from the late war and portray a german tank commander without glorifying him as anything more than just being a human towards his crew. I understand that companies don't want to sell Germany as the underdog, considering they were the agressor, but considering the way they fought tooth and nail until the end I believe they deserve some recognition. Hell, I'd love to see a german perspective against the Soviet warmachine. Considering the russians are probably the second most favourite "bad guy" faction in games, it could even work out in not offending any of the social justice crowds. In the end, all sides had heroes. The constant dehumanizing of some German heroes that fought for nothing but god and country genuinely saddens me. Some of them, maybe even most of them were monsters. But that doesn't take away from the fact that by 44, 45 they were fighting by the skin of their teeth, to protect their homes and families.
The controversy could come across as a good selling point for the game, I'm sure millions would be Interested in a WW2 game from a German perspective. Could be a story about a young Wehrmacht recruit who has much admiration and confidence in the Reich at first but then after witnessing/partaking in war crimes for the first time and as the war draws to a close he begins to question who he is fighting for (do you as a player go along with it or try to find a way out) Would make for a decent telltale inspired game.
MrPh30 but the reason for them not existing is because most of the game developers (large ones at least) are American and the winter war had nothing to do with MURICA and all world war 2 games need MURICA SAVING THE MOTHERFUCKIN DAY
think about jewelry, cars, hand bags, etc. believe me, games are actually a pretty "minor" form of entertainment / fashion choice. Not to mention that in some regards it is almost rocket science, see John Carmack. guy should get a nobel prize: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
That's a good point, but they're pretty much the only non essential thing I spend money on. And thanks for the heads up on John Carmack, I'll check him out now!
@@MaverickCulp what does it have to do with the topic of the video & why does that make you sad? I mean, don't we play games for fun & entertainment? Wdym non essential?
@@caesar7786 I genuinely do not remember making this comment, but I was financially in a very bad place four years ago. I’m doing A LOT better, and actually enjoy my life now.
You would have to put in moments of humanity, German soldier playing with a kitten, telling a new guy how to deal with trauma, but then you are humanizing "Nazis," and that's against the narrative.
The trick is to have your average German soldier doing it No worse than your average British Not the pure evil national socialist party Just a average soldier
Honestly I would love to play a German camping and to be able to play as German soldier even my country and grandads fought against Germany in WWI and WWII I have great respect for thier military and they had defenitly the best weapons and uniforms
Day of Infamy is a good, realistic, ground war (16vs16) multiplayer game with german voicelines, scenes and equipment but no campaign unfortunately. Still makes you think about history though so thats why i post
It’s really interesting now as the only actual one I could think of is ‘The Last Tiger’ from Battlefield V And that turned out to be one of my favorite war stories in general.
well...I got tired of ww2 shooters having only Americans,British and Russians......I really wish for a Greek,Polish,Yugoslavian,Italian or indeed German campaign in a game franchise
Another interesting scenario would be an alternate history where Operation Unthinkable took place. The story could take place through the eyes of a disenfranchised German who is once again being forced to march back through land he just retreated from.
Interestingly, strategy games don't seem so hampered. Even going back to the early 2000s, Sudden Strike, Hearts of Iron and my personal favourite Blitzkrieg had German/Axis campaigns. It strikes me as odd, as you'd think the strategic layer would be more problematic, rather than less. (i.e there is more of the "we're they invaders not the liberators" , more of the industrial and political side of things, rather than just the "boots on the ground" story) But, strategy games have for the longest time been more about the kind of depth and good old fashioned nerdy interest in things like logistics and organisation than simply big explosions. They're the thinking mans games, rather than the michael bay movies of interactive entertainment. I make strategy game mods myself :) it's one reason I take such an interest in your channel as I try and incorporate as much realistic elements as possible (especially TO&Es and logistical elements, often sorely lacking)
I always wanted a story based AAA game playing the German side in ww2 or even ww1 I'll never buy any such game as long as they keep using the lame cliches in them MUH allies kill ebil germanz
See what I mean? Why can't you see the war from both sides? To play as the Japanese and Germans would be nice. As a Japanese person I want to learn more about the Imperial times. When I was in Japan, it was easy to see they didn't want to spend a lot of time on it in the history books, calling it a " defensive war "
Yup. Most will try to avoid talking about it all together. Some of the more nationalist people say that the oil embargo was a US threat to the country. Japan was just as bad, if not worse than the Nazis when you consider Nanking, POW treatment, and Unit 731. But they tend to focus on the suffering, like the A bomb. This type of talk comes from the older generation. It's a huge difference with young people. I like having the chance to see both the American and Japanese perspective.
I unfortunately only know things from the allies, and a bit about the Wehrmacht, because I met a Leutnant from this time a few years ago. The best games I know about ww2 are Red Orchestra/Rising Storm (and the good old Day of Defeat: Source), I really enjoy those games, perhaps you know them. If not you should give them a try :D (btw sorry if my english is not that good, I'm from germany)
What I would really love to see is a shooter from the German perspective with a similar take to Generation War. That miniseries did a phenomenal job of showing the nuance of the Wehrmacht, that there were innocents, monsters, and men much more gray than that, the third being the majority, all serving side by side, and it also captured the incredible up and down Germany experienced, from complete domination to the most total defeat ever known to man
Well, at least Sudden's Strike, Company of Heroes and Men of War does have a singleplayer/campaign for the Axis, even some of the mods were created from the game community itself to made.
See, you people dehumanized the Soviets. Deep down inside your core, you are used to calling ordinary Russians Sub human. You did not feel guilty killing them by the hundreds. Cause you still instill your racial Superiority over people who once lived in the Soviet Union. Try promote a game about German shoot US and British servicemen, I dare you. I dare you make a game about shooting my Granddad you fucking coward.
Once again, Germany making Europe a bit more unpleasant. I've heard that WW2 may have been unpleasant back then, but causing me to have censored video games goes one goosestep too far...
Red Orchestra 2 Heros of Stalingrad had a german campaign. The Censoring of video games has been far harsher than movies, one of the reasons is because its an interactive medium you are not just witnessing it you are taking part. Historical accuracy also plays a huge role, and obviously also how you display the crimes. The Cencorship has become less over time. I personaly think this video somewhat inaccurate, even if we dont call Rech Orchestra a Tripple A Title it was a big title for sure.
A Indian company can do it as nazi Germany isn't consider that bad here if a big studio happens to be in India and people are terrified why it's called swastika whereas it's Hakencruz which doesn't mean swastika, therefore a world War game from Indian perspective can have a German campaign without any problem.
It annoys me that the WW2 perspective is always taken from the American PoV as if WW2 started in 1943 when the U.S (or the allies but the U.S forgets this) invaded Morroco. Completely sidelining the other nations allies and axis alike.
They should make you be a Wehrmacht soldier in campaign and make the story about the main character not liking the Nazis and finding out concentration camps and at the end of the game should be The Last Battle in Castle Itter where the german solders and us army fought side by side to beat off the Waffen SS
Imagine they made one, from the invasion of Poland, Norway campaign, invasion of France and low countries, The afrika korps, invasion of Yugoslavia, Operation barborossa, Defending D-day, etc.. to the final Battle of Berlin. Could been quite epic
Anyone who wants to play a very historically accurate WW2 first person shooter should definitely look into Forgotten Hope 2. Technically it's a modification for the old Battlefield 2 however it may as well be standalone because EVERYTHING has been changed/updated/tweaked and it is still being developed. You can play as Germany, and there's even a good single player too. You can play as USA, Britain, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Finland, Russia, and Germany. They have North Africa, Western Front, and Eastern Front maps. All maps are based off of real battles, you won't find weapons there which weren't actually there in reality. For example you won't find the STG-44 in a map from 1941. The developers spend months researching the actual battlefields when making a new map. Omaha Beach for example is an absolute spitting image of the real Omaha Beach landings. My favorite map is Seelow Heights, and you can match pictures of the original Battle for Seelow Heighs with the game map. It's truly awesome and beats Call of Duty ten times over. I'm not even sure the total number of vehicles, weapons, and maps but it is A LOT. I pretty much only play single player so I can play whatever map I'd like, but for multiplayer there is always a server which reaches 80+ players daily during peak times. There's also another FH2 community called CMP who released a whole new Pacific Front mappack & Japanese faction which you can play as well as many new Axis & Allied vehicles/weapons.
I haven't seen any German campaigns in a FPS, but I've played at least one in a RTS (Real Time Strategy) game. There's a German campaign in Empire Earth I where you play as Germany in WW1 in four missions and WW2 in three missions. The WW1 section covers a part of the Eastern Front, the Battle of Jutland, the Battle of Verdun and the final German offensive at the end of the war. The WW2 section covers the invasions of Poland, Franch, the low countries, Denmark and Norway, then the Battle of the Atlantic and then a fictional successful Operation Sealion.
Germans should grow some balls and get rid of these ridiculous censorship laws. I'd love a german campaign treated the same way it is in some many WW2 strategy games - no fuss, simply a side to the war.
I hated how the campaign in bf1 was like "behind every gun is a person" execpt if you were on the side of the Germans. They made the Germans, Austria-Hungarians, and Ottomans out to be mindless drones to be slaughtered.
Its a shame, There are very interesting moral implications of being able to play as a German, A lot of general troops were not Nazi's, but simply Germans doing there bit. It would be nice for the distinction to be made somewhere.
...If we are talking '39-'41? Most(say about 87%) of the frontline were real for the cause types eager to spill the blood of europe and beyond. ...If we are talking '43-'44? High Command was starting to realize just how much they'd fucked up. Whilst the frontline on the western front still had the spirit of '39-'41, though they were waking up to the conclusions that the generals were making. ...If we are talking '45? Well, now that at this point that they were fielding kids and old men along with reluctant conscripts most of the "soldiers" during the final months and days of the war did not want to fight for the glory of germany but for their continued survival as they thought due to propaganda. Only the most fanatical types still thought like they had always thought since '39.
People supported Hitler because he turned the country around in a few short years, and he had massive support, even, as many know, in his native Austria. He turned out many perverse people, and restored a level of morality, dignity and confidence in the people that can be lost to the vanquished in war. Germany went from an absolute basket case to economic powerhouse and exemplar in such a short time that he was Time's Man of the Year in 1938. He locked up communists (98% of whom were Jewish), removing them from education, from the media and banking, and in response a world-wide boycott of German goods by world Jewry began in 1933. But despite that pressure Germany still managed astounding progress in the pre war years. Reading the actual day to day history of the time, particularly during the 1930s is an eye opener, in fact it is shocking because what you will read there contradicts entirely the narrative given predominantly in our schools and media. Of course Germans, and I think a few other nationalities, too, in Europe are prohibited from viewing such archives that the rest of the world are free, for the time being, to inspect.
Would be awesome to see 3 different perspectives of 3 different German soldiers. One following a Wehrmacht soldiers perspective of the Invasion of USSR with his story starting with the blitzkrieg across the Russian countryside and then ultimately finishing with him being killed in Stalingrad. One following a tank crew in the Afrika Korps in North Africa (very few ww2 games portray the North African campaign) showing the crews battle across the deserts in Africa fighting against Montgomery and ultimately finishing in El Alamein and being captured or killed by Allied forces. The last perspective I would choose would be a Waffen SS soldier during the dying days of the war in Berlin trying to defend the city against the impending brutal Russian assault. It would be awesome to see the developers really showcase how the soldiers felt as they witnessed their chain of command collapse and knew they would more than likely be killed by the revenge filled Red Army who witnessed the Germans rape and pillage their way across their country. A true sense of desperation and despair must have set in as the city was encircled, bombarded to almost rubble and the Soviet soldiers tortured and killed any German soldiers they could find. This story would ultimately end in the SS soldier being brutally killed in hand to hand combat by rage filled Russian soldiers who put a high prize on killing SS soldiers. Combine these scenarios with a killer soundtracks, gritty characters, and no WW2 cliches and it would be one of the most memorable WW2 campaigns for a lot of customers. The German perspective of WW2 is criminally underused and underrated. The American side of things is too played out and oversaturated.
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As somebody who works in games, I can say another reason why you don't get to play as the Nazis and it is the same reason you don't play as the bad guys in games. You want the player to root for his character and his side. Nobody really wants to make a game where you root for the Nazis. Also if you did make a game about being in the Wehrmacht, you'd have to sanitise is and end up supporting a version of the clean Wehrmacht. Let alone the fact that lionizing Nazis is distasteful considering the amount of jerking off that seems to surround Nazis stuff on YT nobody wants their game in that space.
As somebody who works in games, I can say another reason why you don't get to play as the Communists and it is the same reason you don't play as the bad guys in games. You want the player to root for his character and his side. Nobody really wants to make a game where you root for the Communists. Oh wait... Call of Duty: World at War already did that...
Yes, very clever, however, if you are unable to see the difference between the evils of communism and those of Nazism then you are just being obtuse. Secondly, I think you mean Soviet who where, at the time of WW2, not quite the monster they eventually became.
LtKharn Soviets killed the same percentage of German Prisoners as German killed Soviet prisoners. Soviets Slaughtered 40000 Polish prisoners for literally no reason (well documented). UDSSR Started multiple wars and annexed at least 3 countries shortly before the war with Germany and probably planned to invade Germany in the near future(disputed). Regardless where you look, you can hardly find any good guys in ww2
It's not just German campaigns. It's no axis campaigns, and not even Finnish campaigns, even tho we only allied with Germany, since it was our only option.
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Are you german
One of the campaigns in Battlefield V is about a german tank crew during the last weeks of the second world war ( called: The last Tiger)
Could you do a video concerning this campaign?
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The tiger tank story from battlefield 6
Let's cross fingers that whoever (Indie or Major) actually pulls this off actually does it in a suitable manner and with a better historical understanding than some other WW2 games. That actually might be a reason why haven't seen it, yet: It's probably hard to write too.
I'm okay with having a German Campaign- so long as it it's the Werchment and not the SS. The Werchment were pretty tame compared to the SS, and while they're still Nazis they're no where near as bad as the SS. Plus I'm willing to bet a large portion of the Werchment was made up of Conscripts who didn't align themselves with the Nazis, while the majority of the SS were volunteers and people who were fucked up enough to be assigned to it. Plus a lot of Werchmment generals plotted against Hitler, the most famous of which being Erwin Rommel.
Well...we did get to play as the Red Army during the "Rape of Berlin" in call of duty.
tyranid13 yawn.... talk about the millions of murdered ussr civilians and instead be thankful they didnt erase the german people from existance...
GetDaKill Oh, because Stalin was such a nice human being, right? The Russians and other former Soviets tend to forget what the deal was in their countries around WW1 and WW2. In other words: Fuck off.
Cross of Iron managed to be one of the all-time great WWII movies, and it's focused entirely on a German unit. I see no reason why other mediums have to limit themselves artistically when it comes to things like this. It's not impossible to tell a realistic story without upsetting people.
Dice really missed the "play as Hitler" chance in Battlefield 1
Mattias Petrmichl PIN THIS MAN he got a hell of an idea
no he didn't ww2 BBC is fake news xD
I would like a campaign of a German soldier on the French Front and in the end, is revealed that that men was Hitler
brilliant
It'd be really funny if you do the whole mission without them telling you, then when you complete it the field commander says "Thank you Corporal Hitler" and the camera finally pans to your character.
Funny enough the German campaigns in games like Company of Heroes and Men of War usually end up being my favourite part of those games.
Tsar hoho For me, the best campaign of coh was the british one in first game. I really loved the battles in Caen.
I love Callais Pocket mission from coh:tov
Tsar hoho yea like hearts of iron 4 is fun as hell as nazi germany. Like who doesn't want to play as a communist weabo hitler?
Tsar hoho
I am currently making a german(It's actually about a Croatian infantry regiment,but they were fighting under the Wehrmacht) campaign spanning from the operation Barbarossa to the german surrender in Stalingrad.I will also make it so that on the beginning and the end of each mission will be a small part of the story related with the map.I already published the first mission as a little preview
Oik Mijn Loly Nazi Germany in the D-day scenario is fun as hell. I never managed to win it, but I live it
Doesn't explain why there was no German campaign in Battlefield 1 though. As it is a game set in WW1, I See no reason why the Germans were clearly presented as evil there too.
The sad part is that the real ass holes of WWI were the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Germany just started to invade neutrals countries just because.
Dreidecker it was probably just a Reflex from the writers and Publishers. "That Guy is germa-" "he is the Bad Guy"
Dreidecker Its just that overall Germany is seen negativ if it has to do anything with history of overall or the world wars. But i dont understand it either
Rattler1 You mean plain laziness because otherwise they would have had to study a huge pile of German and european history in order to get things right?
Dreidecker Its just that many people dont know it better they are like"germany in a world war game must be bad/the enemy"
How about the German side of WW1?
ReconPro there's a game called verdun where you can play as the central powers, but its a multiplayer game only.
Battlefield WW1 doesn't count?
Vern Etzel well battlefield 1 is not representative of a realistic ww1 experience, verdun is the more historically accurate game.
Vern Etzel BF1 fell into the same trappings of other big name properties presenting WWI stories: "the Germans are the bad guys and are evil".
The whole war was more complicated than they presented it and they did a piss poor way of showing the motivations for either side outside of some cartoony, fan fiction you'd expect from Hollywood.
BF1 didn't include campaigns for the germans, french or russians. Not to mention the latter two were not even available for multiplayer without waiting for the LC and paying extra.
Make Germany classify video games as an art form.
Problem = solved
nope, not solved at all. there are _two_ legal issues due to german law: protection of the constitution and protection of the youth. the 'art-option' would only solve some constitutional issues, but the youth protection still would demand regulated advertisement and distribution. since publishers and developers don't want to deal with such regulations, they would still pretty much do, what they do right now.
woodruff42 fairly sure companies could if they wanted to but don't want to be seen as trying to get nazi symbols into a game which could be seen as actively endorsing nazis by some
But video games are made by Satan and someone has to think of the CHIILDREEEN!
I guess you could just go the sneakier route that Sniper Elite games do in Germany. Apparently they don't have swastikas and the like. In SE3 for example, they had just had palm tree icons if I'm not completely mistaken. So make a war game where palm tree guys fight against...uh..muscle guys? Give allies a muscular hand icon. Then just make everything else historically accurate.
ProjectiluvOP I can see why palm trees as the Afrika Corps had that as their identification symbol on vehicles
montanus777 Make every game involing nazis rated 18+ = problem solved again.
I like your sources. Not many people use that.
Agreed. He and Cynical Historian are the historical youtubers that give sources so far in my experience
Rama Narendra Lol, did u actually read it XD
Sources: My Brains
Yeah, read books if you want to learn something about things and analyze this knowledge.
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I have never played a WW2 game that comes close to conveying the reality of WW2. The reason is because game designers tend to draw on common perceptions of WW2 rather than the truth about WW2 to create their games. Because if a game lines up with the public's perception of WW2, it will sell.
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Call of duty 2 is the closest I have for you.
Klobi for President oh boi, if cod2 is the closest, you have missed some games
Robert Lamperski
I don't really play such shooters, that's all.
Of course CoD2 is not perfect, doesn't accurately portray the war. Yet, I think it does, at times, convey the feeling of it well enough.
The again, I haven't played it in years.
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I would love to see a good (for example) WW2 shooter including a lot of smaller or less popular countries involved. For example Finland, Italy, Brazil, Australia, Romania, Norway and list goes on and on... This could be a great opportunity for everyone to learn about each country involment in WW2. USA vs Germany is prertty much seen already.
Doomi Esa
Italy is popular, they regularly make it in rankings like WatchMojo and all the other folks (not my area, I only know them) do. Sometimes they even get several spots on the same list.
For example Top Ten Anime Betrayals of All Time.
oooo, romania, we ll get guns that shoot litlles and mustARD, and grenedes made of sausages, but we ll get a midern tank, tr85, cuz balance, keep it wg way
Seeing a small campaign or extra mission about the greeks fighting germany would be neat
Doomi Esa That's not really what shooter fans care about.
Doomi Esa Brazil??? Be Careful. Retards may come out the woodwork and say *"but the majority who fought in the war was muh white people!"*
We live in a world were microsoft is removing the SS badge from Camaro's in forza because people don't understand it means supersport and not schutzstaffel (the badge isnt even close to looking like the ss runes but i digress). We will never get a compelling story for ww2 in almost any game.
If such a game were to exist, probably one of the most interesting aspects would be if there was a mission where you played as a frenchman conscripted into they occupying german army. This would explore the feelings and emotions that are rarely covered, but such detailed stories are difficult to do correctly.
NO!
ALL BAD!
NO ONE WAS FORCED
NO ONE WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS
NO ONE QUESTIONED THEIR ALLEGIANCE
ALL BAAAAAAAAD.
@@laughingoctopus8556 The Wehrmacht committed war crimes too
@@blood.gaming2524 but are you saying the entirety of the wehrmacht, from division to division,regiment to regiment, and so on and so forth committed war crimes. even all are willing?(except the officers). Just a question.
@@blood.gaming2524 USA About the nukes in japan? Japan with China? UK Hypocrisy trying to Defeat The Nazi Germany Because They will Make EXACLTY The same thing that They did it With the natives in ever land than they invaded? USSR killing Poland persons and Saying that slaughter They Maked was necessary and Was Maked by the Wehrmatch, French Shooting UK soldiers Because Tradition? oh I forgotten war crimes exists only Who loses
There's enough WW2 games, there needs to be a newer game based on the Korean war and the Vietnam war.
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth” A.H.
Is there a shooter from the Japanese or Italian point of view
in WW2, in Single Player, I don't think so. Multiplayer there are more, of course Red Orchestra 1 and 2. (I think in 1 you had Italian tanks)
Theres a pretty good game created by Vietnameses about the first Vietnam War. Check it out - the name is - 7554
GreenAsari *First Indochina War
I doubt any axis sides have been well represented in shooter games. In real time/grand strategy yes, but not in shooters as those games often make everyone seem more human and you can't make anything naughty like that seem human! In strategy its "ok" I guess because there its almost like looking at hundreds of disposable infantry men and tanks clash and nobody ever seems like a winner.
But that last bit is just me projecting. Whenever I see my troops mowed down in games like company of heroes, I feel real damn bad and even if I win, I feel pretty bad about it.
GreenAsari where can i buy that game?
I'd propose a simple solution: have a german campaign as DLC
i mean they'd already have to make all the assets (weapons, character models, vehicles) because of the multiplayer anyways, but if it's DLC it could be not available in germany if they want, and you dont have to include it in the advertising
but just like everyone else is saying it'd have to be very well done, too easy to screw up
In all HOI games Germany has always been the most fun campaign. You know, because you are the initiator and waiting around for Germany to attack you is not as fun.
Bookmeister
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Thel 'Vadam hearts of iron
Even then though, that was somewhat limited. The majority of my games, I spent '36 to mid '39 racing to build my industrial base and focusing my research on industry. Usually, by 1943, I had a greater industrial capacity than the US and USSR combined. But the game always played out, more or less, the same. Poland, Denmark, Netherlands, Yugoslavia in 1939. Belgium, France, Britain, Greece in 1940. USSR '41-'42. Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Spain '42-'43. Africa, M.E. and India '44. US and S.A. '45. Then I would declare war on every remaining nation and steamrole them all.
@@thelvadam2884 Hearts of Iron, specifically Hearts of Iron 4 is the single best grand strategy video game in the world. It manages to include everything other games war games misses (attrition, supply, industry, ideology, political power, doctrine, division design, war support, just to list a few.), and still makes everything fun for you.
Ah yes I really do enjoy playing Germany 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Black female SS-soldier.
ivan55599 how progressive.
female? no no no, how about we make them asexual demigender that sexually identifies as a medium tank, that would be better ay
ivan55599 That's something I don't care to see at all.
The SS was multiracial. As far as females being part of it, I don't know.
Jeff Kardos Jr. There's a good chance around 1945 certain SS divisions were taking in female soldiers I know the volksturm had a decent amount of women serving.
I think there should be German campaigns in games like this, but the trick is to not glorify the Nazi cause and be historically accurate at the same time. It's not impossible at all, but it just has to be done sensibly, without fascist glorification or unrealistic Antifa propaganda.
I've always thought that a german campaign could start following a soldier in the wehrmacht invading poland then france and then being transported to russia during barbarossa and encircled in stalingrad. The whole campaign seeing war crimes being done by the SS, but saying that what could he do? He was just a soldier. Then the campaign ends with him being marched off into siberia.
mike C Yeah that would be genuinely good for a campaign. Or maybe you play as a soldier during the invasion of france. Any campaign that is well documented and can be presented accurately could be good.
Dude if you want it to be realistic, you have to glorify the nazis because they were... well glorifying themselves pretty much. Also people would love that flavour i think... and well yeah... the implications go on ;)
mike C that would be good. Especially if at the beginning, your character starts with a prideful, somewhat nationalistic(but not extremist) attitude. But the more he witnesses, the more faith he loses in his government and leadership to the point of disgust, fear, and loathing. So much potential for character development
you're playing as a soldier, not a civilian watching the soldiers. The troops knew about how shit war was, the civilian nazi's...not soo much.
So there won't be a German single player campaign, but there will be black female German soldiers. I believe the major developers should get their priorities straight.
Twentenaer you mean they have them gay now.
Yeah, those kookie game developers... trying to make.. games.
Would be OK to play as a gay Nazi.
@@victoria-renevazquez3652 dont try to defend it, because what your saying is ridiculous
It's interesting to note that games that are actually categorized as Wargames (as opposed to FPS) - I'm talking Close Combat, War in the East, the Operational Art of War, Hearts of Iron, Panzer General and the like - playing as Germany is not only just possible but also by far the most popular choice. The guys at Paradox (makers of HOI among others) did a survey and found that 40% picked Germany as favorite country to play. That's huge number considering that you can play as any nation in that game - from Brazil to Finland to Poland to Canada - not just the majors (UK, USA, Japan, Italy, USSR, China, France).
video gamers are racist nazis :3
Luepola
What????? How? Just because they choose to be one country?
@@professionalmemeenthusiast2117 best tanks only in 1 v 1, which they never would be in.
@@Luey_Luey It's about the challenge Gamers want to sigma grind on the hardest difficulty possible, and what better way to do that then to play as a big country that was going to lose anyway. Besides playing pacifist Hitler is as funny as it sounds also consider it's not at all Gamers or games fault that Hitler and the nazis are so popular if it weren't for the bloody history channel milking that era in the early 2000s Hitler would be as relevant as Mussolini.
@@Eyesonscreenstudio germany had acually a big chance to win if no blunders were made
The victor writes the history, that is why.
Lucius Avenus shut the fuck up
AlexB Prime scorpion Yeah, I am one of those whose country got terribly destroyed by them but I still want their country to have fps I think it would be interesting as they fought many more battles than the US.
well firstly the quote is wrong it's "history is written by the victors" but more importantly theres tons of platforms which have represented the German and Japanese sides for WWI and WWII, namely All Quiiet On the Western Front from 1930 which imo is one of the greatest war films ever made
Bomber Harris was a good man, and should do it again.
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If you are 100% OK with a Russian campaign but not a German campaign your logic is broken
Trueee! I’d much like to see a German campaign in Russia.
As much as I agree with you, I love the part in CoD WAW in which you're in Berlin, and the commisar began saying over the loudspeaker, "Citizens of Berlin! A ring of steel surrounds your rotten city! We will crush all those who dare resist the will of the Red Army! Abandon your posts. . . Abandon your homes. . . Abandon all hope!"
Russia stopped exiting in 1917. What you are referring to is the USSR, calling it Russia would be like calling America Idaho.
Flawless Binary not really because the core of USSR was Russia
No, the Russian SFSR was one of the 14 soviet socialist republics present within the USSR, which were all ruled by the Central Committee. The USSR started with a collection of socialist countries who seceded from the empire, until they decided to form a union to become stronger. In the USSR, each republic had its own culture, flag and its own government, like any proper republic. The USSR was basically structured similarly to the EU, if the EU were to be a single country.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union
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How about a game about managing a german contentration camp?
franz mauer u could also make a game about atomic bombing civilians, my democracy and peace loving yank ass would love it.
There is a game that allows you to do that; KZ Manager
franz mauer such a mod exists for Prison Architect
yes, it would be thrilling to see your labour workforce slowly dwindle and die of starvation and disease as a result of allied terrorbombing. Perhaps if the workers produce more ammuntion or rubber or uniforms you could upgrade air defence for supply routes/railways
No. A death camp!!!
Battlefield 5 just announced "The Last Tiger" war story will be about a Tiger tank crew.
We are the baddies campaign i don't expect germany wins campaigns to ever be a thing but atleast have germans believe in something not like todays rare German campaigns first chance to switch sides done
Too bad it’s a battlefield campaign
Battlefield campaigns are ass
@@looinrims it was pretty good, actually
@@caesar7786 no it wasn’t, it was dumb
@@looinrims explain
red orchestra?
They removed it too.
Vincent Valore did tripwire remove the german campaign of red orchestra 2?
Cyka Blyat no made it a separate download from the multiplayer client.
maybe some people dont like Ro2's realism, and want to play arcadey cod shit
Thats Racist.
I hope you get the chance to play the “Last Tiger” mission line in BFV. I’d love to know what you think of that whole story and it’s accuracy.
its ok i guess
No Nazi symbols. The hybrid plus icon is kinda lame.
If COD makes a WW2 game from the German side, I am certain that sales with go through the roof. I don't think they understand how many people yearn for a German campaign! Maybe even more than oppose it. People that are neutral certainly would buy in; the German army was very badass (politics aside, cmon!)
Press X to hang the Polish partisans' families.
The german army was understaffed, underequipped and unmotivated for most of the war after 42. This guy actually points out many of the shortcomings of the german army and the luftwaffe. Their uniforms were nice and there were probably a lot of nice people and great minds in there, but they were fighting for an insanely wrong cause and most people will not resonate with that.
The plans for the war against France and Poland were already prepared by the Wehrmacht high command when Hitler took office. He simply preponed the date from 1945 to 1939 because he was in a hurry for several reasons.
However if someone else had been in charge it wouldn't have turned into a world war. So you are right, I guess.
partisans are nothing else than terrorists and deserve to hang.
Sorry, that is not correct. Germany was fighting for its own suvival. Churchill was talking already in 1936 that germany must be destroyed, no matter what political system is there.
It was all about economy and the regional conflict with poland served england the reason to declare war and make a world war of this regional conflict.
Ah! No german campaign! Ah!
Starts hearts of iron 3
Conquer: Austria, Chechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Republican/Nationalist Spain, Portugal, Jugoslavia, Greece, England, Soviet Union, United States
#Feelsgoodman
*No german campaign in a FPS*
I know that feel :)
Germans are the best!
Triple A games, the ones that actually get advertised.
Exactly. Germans INVADING the other countries.
I think it's sad few WWII games have a German campaign. Sure, you can be afraid to promoteNazi ideology, but you are missing out on a chance to put the German point of view across. Not all German soldiers were monsters, in fact; most of them weren't. My (Dutch) family had German soldiers living with them during the war, and they were kind of embarrassed to inconvenience my grandparents. Onde day, towards the end of the war, my grandmother came into the kitchen, and found this German, perhaps 45, lived through 2 wars, crying because he would be sent to the front and he feared he would never see his children again. That's a hell of a background for a character if you ask me.
Sorry for teh typos, drunk and emotional after a hard day...
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Fr it’s crazy how in many games german is nazis only and those who never wanted this war just get left out
If they want to create a German based campaign for ww2 to avoid contraversey just have the main character as a wermacht soldier who questiins the ideals of the nazis and only fights for the protection of his homeland.
Fought for Germany by invading Belgium and bombing Rotterdam after they surrendered?
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Edward Hahm and doesnt betray the germans, he fullfill his duty to the Nation till the end. Even better, he fakes to betray them and them when he is in the allied army he mows down his entire group of “new friends” while they sleep and trust him just before getting killed too. Imagine the epicity and the plot twist level of a thing like that.
Or just a German soldier who kills hundreds of allies and can't be killed....OOOHH right they did it with the allied site....ah forgot about that....def not fair bro....not fair
@@spkennedy951 That was the only way to defeat France.
I wholeheartedly agree. The struggles and hardships endured by the Wehrmacht's men go grossly unnoticed, unappreciated, and very disrespected.
They were volunteers and conscripts, just like the Americans or British. They came from a variety of backgrounds and beliefs (spoiler alert: not every German rifleman was a dedicated Nazi, just like every Russian wasn't a dedicated communist, or American being a dedicated Democrat). They fought for what they thought was right and just, for they were told that Germany had been betrayed, and that Hitler's expansionism would undo the damage done. And, in essence, they WERE betrayed. The Allies used Wilson's 14 Points as a persuasion tool, but ended up with something very harsh. Perhaps someone could build off of that? Because I have NEVER seen a game based on the Early war period (France, Poland, the Low Countries, etc). Only until the Americans get involved that 80% of WW2 games have their setting in.
Just doing their duty, protecting Germany by premptively declaring a defensive war of aggression?
Rabh They invaded Poland, they invaded Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Amsterdam, Denmark, Norway... All offensive wars. They weren't honorable people protecting their country, they were murdering their neighbors and taking their stuff.
Was every soldier a bad person? Probably not, but they weren't honorable.
The point was that not every German is/was a Nazi.
Organizations like the SS and Gestapo, I understand where you're coming from.
But the general Army was different: Not every grenadier, tank driver, and artilleryman was a fanatic NatSoc who worshiped Hitler. A good portion of their ranks were conscripts. And a couple thousand still served Hitler as they did the Weimar Republic.
They were lied to. They were betrayed. They were humiliated. You didn't have to be a Nazi to share in that anger
I mean, how would you like to be forced into the army, dragged to some foreign land, and lose limbs, friends, and family because your Commander-in-chief f*cked up?
But I get where you all are coming from, because it's hard not to look at things from our standpoint and knowledge.
General Biv People fought against the Nazis from within the system and within the state. Some died for it. Those were the honorable people. Not every soldier was evil, but they weren't honorable or good.
And in the end, the real heroes in the Wehrmacht were the defectors.
Who, by the way, were treated horribly not only by the Nazis (of course) but also by postwar Germany.
Ngl playing as any axis country would be fun a soldier of Japan would be an amazing story seeing as how many considered it a honourable thing to charge the enemy head on while knowing full well your gonna die. Playing a German in ww2 would be really fun as there are many stories and diaries to copy a story from and tell their story. As well as the Italians when they invaded Yugoslavia with their allies and Africa. Point is major or indie game devs could pull this off but people outside of the gaming community would give them backlash for just telling history whether it's the axis or allies
Living in Austria is great. We get the uncensored German version.
Nice video, and some people sad to see no German games play as nazi , you know why ?
Remember in Call of Duty game when Shepherd says : history written by Victors
Franco Prussian FPS
Spend 20 minutes reloading your gun!
Sir Mount You dont even know in which year was fought, ignorant.
Mods on half-life engine ware made. None succeeded, flint lock guns are just booring.
Ok my sons and I had this same conversation.There are probably 2 ways of doing this and not majorly pissing people off.The first would be the reluctant soldier narrative.Not hard to do because it's pretty common,at their height only 12% of Germany were party members and about 30% of the country were supporters. Make these facts obvious and that many soldiers were just protecting their family from retribution,they were well aware of what would happen if they didn't serve loyally and well.Plus they were fed a steady diet of propaganda about how bad prison camps were in allied nations.And when your point of comparison is Nazi run prison camps...well you'd be scared too.Plus note how massively unfair the treaty of Versailles was,because it was.This would paint a more complete picture of the average German soldier,who were patriots not Nazis.Of course if you want a more fanatical soldier you could go route 2,risky but could be more rewarding.Just go the Spec Ops the Line route,a descent into realization.It'd be way harder to do but ,wow,if you did it right.Oh I'm ethnicaly Jewish btw,we're atheists but that wouldn't have mattered back then.
Stephen Cody There's a lot of room for human exploration in a German soldier's narrative, which I would find fascinating. The problem is how palatable it would be for the general public, or at least those who supposedly represent the public.
Another interesting way to spin the "reluctant soldier narrative" would be to have the campaign be from the perspective of someone of Austrian, Alsatian, or even Czech background who was forced into the military, has no sense of patriotism in the sense of "Defending the Fatherland," and is simply trying to survive the war at this point. If you really wanted to heighten the stakes, you could have the soldier's officers frequently telling the player how badly they'll be treated if captured for the whole campaign. At the very end, you could undermine all the propaganda by having him captured at the end of the campaign and treated comparatively well (obviously this last part would only work on certain fronts).
My personal recommendation (all of the recommendations here solid too) is to have someone who is into the heroism of it, but steadily becomes disillusioned as the war drags on. A story of naivete.
Seriously you estimate only 30% Germans supported the cause? What about Autumn 1940 - after a brilliant campaign in France, and in Poland before that? After laying their hands on all the assets of the conquered lands, getting free/cheap labour?
I'm just using available data.A lot of Germans were pissed about Versailles,and rightly so,but they had no love for Nazis.Most generals wanted revenge and approved of remilitarization,but weren't Fascist at heart.Plus popular opinion always favors a winner,and they were certainly doing that at first.The problem with saying how much support the Nazis had is support was mandatory and brutally enforced.We've got a "democracy" and the current leader's got a 30% approval at best,you really think an autocrat needs more?
I remember when first COD was coming out I heard there will be campaign for all 3 sides. so I was cool soviets germans and Americans thats gonna be cool. Later I learned they meant brits yanks and ruskies. If it was ok to include ruskies why not germans. they were equally bad only difference is ruskies won the war.
Hey MHV i just moved into Vienna from Spain, and went to see the flaktowers this afternoon! They look much more impressive face to face...
You ever doing a fan meetup? We might all show up in ww1 austro-hungarian uniforms and parade around the streets.
Not just germany, there is literally no campaign story mode in any ww2 game I know of where you can play as a soldier from any of the axis powers. It's always allies allies allies fucking allies, I really hope there are story modes where we can see perspectives from not just allied soldiers but axis soldiers as well.
Bf5
Red Orchestra 2 had a single player "campaign" where you play as a soldier of the Wehrmacht. They really handle the axis very tasteful in RO2. It's worth checking out, and it's active enough that there are a fair number of full servers still up.
I remember my very first shooter: ironfront liberation 1944 it has a german and a russian campaign and i really loved that game even though the controlls were hard af for a "first time" gamer but it was just great because it was the first time I saw games getting close to actually depicting that weird soldiers humor and also not having that stereotypical story starting with D-Day and following the americans
So basically it comes down to Germany being an authoritarian police state
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
A racist authoritarian police state to boot
Cod Waw is regarded as one of the best ww2 games and it glorifies the soviets like there's no tommorow
@@kaloyandraganov9462 I don't think killing pows before going to the metro glorifies the soviets
The answer is much simpler than that. The modern audience expects homour in their games and it would break immersion for there to be a funny German in game
Yep, German humour....no laughing matter.
But we named Our biggest Tank maus and Our smallest "Tank" Goliath.
A line from Call of Duty:
Hier ein Geschenk von der Deutschen Armee
Here a gift from the German Army while throwing a handgrenade, classic German humour.
Except Company of Heroes. Germans are funny as hell in game
As a soldier I guess I just miss what is supposed to be humorous about a war, or fighting a battle, where you are scared most of the time.
Strategy games don't seem to have a problem with it, and I think it has a lot to do with how the scale of the player's perspective relates to the player's experience.
In a strategy game, you are the commander, and this means you have more control over your tactics and your situation; gameplay takes the form of ambushes, planning defenses, counter attacks, you might have logistics to manage, and objectives to capture and hold not just in a narrative context, but in a way that is represented through game mechanics. Strategy games can focus their narratives on more specific german victories like the Battle of Arnhem because the gameplay mechanics lend themselves well to mission variety and a more tangible sense that the player is accomplishing something.
In most shooters, you are a member of a squad, your experience is limited because you follow wherever the squad (and the narrative) is going; in most shooters, your primary gameplay mechanic is combat, your secondary gameplay mechanic is pressing an interaction button. The variety that a shooter presents often comes from its environments (as well as movie references); and the sense of accomplishment often comes in the form of "big picture" things, like the Battle of Berlin, the Liberation of France, or the defeat of the Afrika Korps. A German campaign wouldn't be able to provide the same feeling of momentum and victory that an allied campaign can, even if you were to focus on German victories, because any ending you give the campaign would still be undermined by the unspoken "and then we lost"
0:30 strictly speaking there was one in battlefield 1942 (the very first game in the series). You just played through the multiplayer map on the german side and then got some text story that explained why you were there and what happened.
why don't we see more Axis Campaigns in FPS games?
#1 the script for that would be hard to write and not come off as either a Neo-Nazi/Nazi sympathizer or pretentious. particularly if your story takes place on the eastern front (the Werchment took part in war crimes with the same coldness as the SS).
#2 the game would get a lot of bad press (though Modern Warfare 2 was somehow able to make this work with the whole shooting up an airport).
an interesting outline of a story.
you play as Jean Delannoy. the story starts in 1940 Jean has been called up as a reservist of the French Army, he takes part in fighting during the French Campaign only to be forced to surrender when his position is over run.
as a POW Jean is offered to join the LVF (a French anti-communist volunteer force set up by the Wehrmacht). he is trained in the use of German weapons and tactics before being sent to the Eastern Front where he takes part in the middle-late stages of Operation Typhoon. after the failure to take Moscow the LVF is sent to Belarus for anti-partisan duty. during the endless patrols and skirmishes with the partisans in the back country of Belarus Jean is confronted with the brutality of the German occupation of the country (the player character should either be forced to take part in or forced to watch the mass execution of civilians as reprisals against the partisans). the story then shifts to the Ukraine where the LVF was again tasked with hunting down partisans.
in September 1944 the LVF is transferred to the SS and becomes the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division "Charlemagne". Jean then takes part in the defense of western Poland (early 1945). the story then jumps to the Oder Front March/April 1945 where SS Charlemagne attempts to hold a section of the river against Soviet crossings.
the final chapter of the campaign takes place in Berlin as SS Charlemagne is folded into SS Nordland. the game ends with a small break out from the doomed city of Berlin.
i like this
Well if they were to do this the message should be "Behind every iron sight is a human"
There should be a game named "heinrich severloh the hero of omaha beach" ;)
Could we just stop with the lies about ww2?
Stop lying about history?
Oh boy, no people will not, just ask the Russians to tell the truth about the Rape of Eastern Europe, or the Turkish about the invasion of Cyprus and their ethnic cleansing, or the Chinese about…anything post 1948
People have narratives they must spin, or things that must be forgotten, if the average person knew what Turkey did for example, they’d demand the complete destruction of Turkey
Oy vey
I think it's quite ridiculous that the germans get cut out of the limelight. While the Reich definitely was not the good guy by any means in the second world war, there were still singular heroes and in the second half, once Germany came on the backfoot, some of these men just started fighting for their fatherland and less so the regime that controlled it. The Last Tiger war story in BFV showed that it's perfectly possible to take a small segment from the late war and portray a german tank commander without glorifying him as anything more than just being a human towards his crew.
I understand that companies don't want to sell Germany as the underdog, considering they were the agressor, but considering the way they fought tooth and nail until the end I believe they deserve some recognition. Hell, I'd love to see a german perspective against the Soviet warmachine. Considering the russians are probably the second most favourite "bad guy" faction in games, it could even work out in not offending any of the social justice crowds.
In the end, all sides had heroes. The constant dehumanizing of some German heroes that fought for nothing but god and country genuinely saddens me. Some of them, maybe even most of them were monsters. But that doesn't take away from the fact that by 44, 45 they were fighting by the skin of their teeth, to protect their homes and families.
The controversy could come across as a good selling point for the game, I'm sure millions would be Interested in a WW2 game from a German perspective. Could be a story about a young Wehrmacht recruit who has much admiration and confidence in the Reich at first but then after witnessing/partaking in war crimes for the first time and as the war draws to a close he begins to question who he is fighting for (do you as a player go along with it or try to find a way out) Would make for a decent telltale inspired game.
Yeah, that could work well. There are some movies that worked that way, like the 1992 German made movie "Stalingrad".
Not seen any campaigns for the Poles or Finns either and they should be getting that .
MrPh30 I would play a winter war game
MrPh30 but the reason for them not existing is because most of the game developers (large ones at least) are American and the winter war had nothing to do with MURICA and all world war 2 games need MURICA SAVING THE MOTHERFUCKIN DAY
MrPh30 cod 3 had a polish campaign
There are plenty Indie Games from the View of Polish Partisans.
Like Uprising '44, the silent shadows
Are just shitty.
As much a love video games, it makes me sick to think how much time and money I've invested in them.
think about jewelry, cars, hand bags, etc. believe me, games are actually a pretty "minor" form of entertainment / fashion choice. Not to mention that in some regards it is almost rocket science, see John Carmack. guy should get a nobel prize: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
That's a good point, but they're pretty much the only non essential thing I spend money on. And thanks for the heads up on John Carmack, I'll check him out now!
@@MaverickCulp what does it have to do with the topic of the video & why does that make you sad? I mean, don't we play games for fun & entertainment? Wdym non essential?
@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized wdym by minor form of entertainment? Don't we play games for fun & entertainment purposes?
@@caesar7786 I genuinely do not remember making this comment, but I was financially in a very bad place four years ago. I’m doing A LOT better, and actually enjoy my life now.
You would have to put in moments of humanity, German soldier playing with a kitten, telling a new guy how to deal with trauma, but then you are humanizing "Nazis," and that's against the narrative.
The trick is to have your average German soldier doing it
No worse than your average British
Not the pure evil national socialist party
Just a average soldier
@@cuphead8159 but many COD Kiddies can't see the Difference between them.
Honestly I would love to play a German camping and to be able to play as German soldier even my country and grandads fought against Germany in WWI and WWII I have great respect for thier military and they had defenitly the best weapons and uniforms
Because history is written by the Victor
The answer is Battlefield 1942.
FPS? Check.
Axis campaign? Check.
Day of Infamy is a good, realistic, ground war (16vs16) multiplayer game with german voicelines, scenes and equipment but no campaign unfortunately. Still makes you think about history though so thats why i post
MHV, The Great War, and Kommisar Binkov should make a video game
the Puppet Invasion led by Indy and visualized by me :D
Now that's a good idea.
It’s really interesting now as the only actual one I could think of is ‘The Last Tiger’ from Battlefield V
And that turned out to be one of my favorite war stories in general.
well...I got tired of ww2 shooters having only Americans,British and Russians......I really wish for a Greek,Polish,Yugoslavian,Italian or indeed German campaign in a game franchise
Another interesting scenario would be an alternate history where Operation Unthinkable took place. The story could take place through the eyes of a disenfranchised German who is once again being forced to march back through land he just retreated from.
I would play the hell out of that. Game starts with you as a conscript in '43 or '44, ends in '46 or '47 with Moscow being nuked.
'Brothers in Arms' and 'Red Orchestra' both have german single-player campaigns.
Interestingly, strategy games don't seem so hampered. Even going back to the early 2000s, Sudden Strike, Hearts of Iron and my personal favourite Blitzkrieg had German/Axis campaigns. It strikes me as odd, as you'd think the strategic layer would be more problematic, rather than less. (i.e there is more of the "we're they invaders not the liberators" , more of the industrial and political side of things, rather than just the "boots on the ground" story)
But, strategy games have for the longest time been more about the kind of depth and good old fashioned nerdy interest in things like logistics and organisation than simply big explosions. They're the thinking mans games, rather than the michael bay movies of interactive entertainment. I make strategy game mods myself :) it's one reason I take such an interest in your channel as I try and incorporate as much realistic elements as possible (especially TO&Es and logistical elements, often sorely lacking)
There is actully a german campain in battlefield V. Its called the last tiger. Forgive me if its after an update or something cause im a new player.
See pinned comment
I always wanted a story based AAA game playing the German side in ww2 or even ww1
I'll never buy any such game as long as they keep using the lame cliches in them
MUH allies kill ebil germanz
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@@athafaiq1520 higher budget games like cod bf r6 gta and many others
@@athafaiq1520 yh sure thing homes
What about Red orchestra 2?
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You're advertising a completely unrelated game to someone who has played RO2. Don't think that's going to work.
It is my personal classic! Also an inspiration behind Panzer Hearts.
See what I mean? Why can't you see the war from both sides? To play as the Japanese and Germans would be nice. As a Japanese person I want to learn more about the Imperial times. When I was in Japan, it was easy to see they didn't want to spend a lot of time on it in the history books, calling it a " defensive war "
History is Fashion Defensive war? Huh?
And people say germany doesn't like to talk about the second world war... defensive war my ass:D
In my opinion it could be funny to defend iwo jima or the bunkers in france 1944
Yup. Most will try to avoid talking about it all together. Some of the more nationalist people say that the oil embargo was a US threat to the country. Japan was just as bad, if not worse than the Nazis when you consider Nanking, POW treatment, and Unit 731. But they tend to focus on the suffering, like the A bomb. This type of talk comes from the older generation. It's a huge difference with young people. I like having the chance to see both the American and Japanese perspective.
I unfortunately only know things from the allies, and a bit about the Wehrmacht, because I met a Leutnant from this time a few years ago. The best games I know about ww2 are Red Orchestra/Rising Storm (and the good old Day of Defeat: Source), I really enjoy those games, perhaps you know them. If not you should give them a try :D (btw sorry if my english is not that good, I'm from germany)
Its been 3 years Im still waiting for one.
What I would really love to see is a shooter from the German perspective with a similar take to Generation War. That miniseries did a phenomenal job of showing the nuance of the Wehrmacht, that there were innocents, monsters, and men much more gray than that, the third being the majority, all serving side by side, and it also captured the incredible up and down Germany experienced, from complete domination to the most total defeat ever known to man
Already see those mission objectives: "Burn the Ukrainian villages 0/3", "Secure Lebensraum 0/1", "Press E to Anschluss"
Objective Failed: Secure Lebensraum
New Objective: Retreat and defend from any Soviet counterattacks
“The Last Tiger”
Because they lost
And history is written by the victors
taha hormozan But Victor does not know how to code.
But all of Mongolian history was written by the losers...
Not much. I was told that history is told by liars
Well, at least Sudden's Strike, Company of Heroes and Men of War does have a singleplayer/campaign for the Axis, even some of the mods were created from the game community itself to made.
Look at battlefield fives the last tiger easily the best war story and it has a great story this is the first step in German single player campaign’s
the video was done before BF5 and I talk about the "Last Tiger" Cringe here: th-cam.com/video/Wq0CCQi2Wnc/w-d-xo.html
They had No Russian in MW2... they can have at least a level, even just on the eastern front. People are more used to shooting Soviets.
See, you people dehumanized the Soviets. Deep down inside your core, you are used to calling ordinary Russians Sub human. You did not feel guilty killing them by the hundreds. Cause you still instill your racial Superiority over people who once lived in the Soviet Union.
Try promote a game about German shoot US and British servicemen, I dare you. I dare you make a game about shooting my Granddad you fucking coward.
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Once again, Germany making Europe a bit more unpleasant. I've heard that WW2 may have been unpleasant back then, but causing me to have censored video games goes one goosestep too far...
Red Orchestra 2 Heros of Stalingrad had a german campaign.
The Censoring of video games has been far harsher than movies, one of the reasons is because its an interactive medium you are not just witnessing it you are taking part. Historical accuracy also plays a huge role, and obviously also how you display the crimes. The Cencorship has become less over time. I personaly think this video somewhat inaccurate, even if we dont call Rech Orchestra a Tripple A Title it was a big title for sure.
A Indian company can do it as nazi Germany isn't consider that bad here if a big studio happens to be in India and people are terrified why it's called swastika whereas it's Hakencruz which doesn't mean swastika, therefore a world War game from Indian perspective can have a German campaign without any problem.
It annoys me that the WW2 perspective is always taken from the American PoV as if WW2 started in 1943 when the U.S (or the allies but the U.S forgets this) invaded Morroco. Completely sidelining the other nations allies and axis alike.
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Well yeh 1941 techincally but the western theatre only really began in 1943.
Why no greek campain?
possibly because most of the fighting during and after the occupation was between Greek factions, which would bring up decisive questions
Germany: Coming down hard on video games but giving 1/8 of its votes to the AfD.
Only 1/8th of Germans are based, the other 7/8ths generally run the country.
michaelemouse1 The AfD is a good party.
Afd is an average Conservative party, nothing to do with nazism
You should tell them some time. It's certainly news to the party leadership like Gauleiter... Gauland and Höcke.
The nazis were very concerned with the impressionability and vulnerability of young children.
They should make you be a Wehrmacht soldier in campaign and make the story about the main character not liking the Nazis and finding out concentration camps and at the end of the game should be The Last Battle in Castle Itter where the german solders and us army fought side by side to beat off the Waffen SS
Imagine they made one, from the invasion of Poland, Norway campaign, invasion of France and low countries, The afrika korps, invasion of Yugoslavia, Operation barborossa, Defending D-day, etc.. to the final Battle of Berlin. Could been quite epic
Allies perspective so boring. Just takes me to unbalance view about the tragedy
Bf1942. Play as axis or allies.
+Zack Luquette Not a narrative campaign
That's true...
If there can be movies from German pov about ww2, why not games?? But anyhow meh this isn't really that important and fps sucks anyway, hail Paradox.
most of those movies were made by germany
hail endless $20 DLC that you are going to buy for the 2 features you actually want.*
FTFY.
Because in a game you a directly involved in the action.
Anyone who wants to play a very historically accurate WW2 first person shooter should definitely look into Forgotten Hope 2. Technically it's a modification for the old Battlefield 2 however it may as well be standalone because EVERYTHING has been changed/updated/tweaked and it is still being developed. You can play as Germany, and there's even a good single player too. You can play as USA, Britain, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Finland, Russia, and Germany. They have North Africa, Western Front, and Eastern Front maps. All maps are based off of real battles, you won't find weapons there which weren't actually there in reality. For example you won't find the STG-44 in a map from 1941. The developers spend months researching the actual battlefields when making a new map. Omaha Beach for example is an absolute spitting image of the real Omaha Beach landings. My favorite map is Seelow Heights, and you can match pictures of the original Battle for Seelow Heighs with the game map. It's truly awesome and beats Call of Duty ten times over. I'm not even sure the total number of vehicles, weapons, and maps but it is A LOT. I pretty much only play single player so I can play whatever map I'd like, but for multiplayer there is always a server which reaches 80+ players daily during peak times. There's also another FH2 community called CMP who released a whole new Pacific Front mappack & Japanese faction which you can play as well as many new Axis & Allied vehicles/weapons.
I haven't seen any German campaigns in a FPS, but I've played at least one in a RTS (Real Time Strategy) game. There's a German campaign in Empire Earth I where you play as Germany in WW1 in four missions and WW2 in three missions. The WW1 section covers a part of the Eastern Front, the Battle of Jutland, the Battle of Verdun and the final German offensive at the end of the war. The WW2 section covers the invasions of Poland, Franch, the low countries, Denmark and Norway, then the Battle of the Atlantic and then a fictional successful Operation Sealion.
Germans should grow some balls and get rid of these ridiculous censorship laws. I'd love a german campaign treated the same way it is in some many WW2 strategy games - no fuss, simply a side to the war.
This comment section gives some pretty good reasons for our laws on that matter.
Nah, you're just a fragile weakling
What kind of retort is that supposed to be?
One worthy of your shitty argument.
and WW1
I hated how the campaign in bf1 was like "behind every gun is a person" execpt if you were on the side of the Germans. They made the Germans, Austria-Hungarians, and Ottomans out to be mindless drones to be slaughtered.
+no subscribe Bf1's campaign was a complete hot mess anyway. If anything, the lines between black and white were a lot more blurred then.
Its a shame, There are very interesting moral implications of being able to play as a German, A lot of general troops were not Nazi's, but simply Germans doing there bit. It would be nice for the distinction to be made somewhere.
No there isn't really, you either go along with it or you don't. What you are promoting in the clean Wehrmarcht myth.
LtKharn its not a myth (it cannot be one), widen your view, please.
Bollocks am I. There were obviously Nazi's but the idea that EVERYONE was a Nazi is rubbish and is not supported by evidence.
...If we are talking '39-'41? Most(say about 87%) of the frontline were real for the cause types eager to spill the blood of europe and beyond.
...If we are talking '43-'44? High Command was starting to realize just how much they'd fucked up. Whilst the frontline on the western front still had the spirit of '39-'41, though they were waking up to the conclusions that the generals were making.
...If we are talking '45? Well, now that at this point that they were fielding kids and old men along with reluctant conscripts most of the "soldiers" during the final months and days of the war did not want to fight for the glory of germany but for their continued survival as they thought due to propaganda. Only the most fanatical types still thought like they had always thought since '39.
People supported Hitler because he turned the country around in a few short years, and he had massive support, even, as many know, in his native Austria. He turned out many perverse people, and restored a level of morality, dignity and confidence in the people that can be lost to the vanquished in war. Germany went from an absolute basket case to economic powerhouse and exemplar in such a short time that he was Time's Man of the Year in 1938. He locked up communists (98% of whom were Jewish), removing them from education, from the media and banking, and in response a world-wide boycott of German goods by world Jewry began in 1933. But despite that pressure Germany still managed astounding progress in the pre war years.
Reading the actual day to day history of the time, particularly during the 1930s is an eye opener, in fact it is shocking because what you will read there contradicts entirely the narrative given predominantly in our schools and media.
Of course Germans, and I think a few other nationalities, too, in Europe are prohibited from viewing such archives that the rest of the world are free, for the time being, to inspect.
Would be so awesome if they made one. I'm sick and tired of storming the beaches on D-day in every game.
Would be awesome to see 3 different perspectives of 3 different German soldiers. One following a Wehrmacht soldiers perspective of the Invasion of USSR with his story starting with the blitzkrieg across the Russian countryside and then ultimately finishing with him being killed in Stalingrad.
One following a tank crew in the Afrika Korps in North Africa (very few ww2 games portray the North African campaign) showing the crews battle across the deserts in Africa fighting against Montgomery and ultimately finishing in El Alamein and being captured or killed by Allied forces.
The last perspective I would choose would be a Waffen SS soldier during the dying days of the war in Berlin trying to defend the city against the impending brutal Russian assault. It would be awesome to see the developers really showcase how the soldiers felt as they witnessed their chain of command collapse and knew they would more than likely be killed by the revenge filled Red Army who witnessed the Germans rape and pillage their way across their country. A true sense of desperation and despair must have set in as the city was encircled, bombarded to almost rubble and the Soviet soldiers tortured and killed any German soldiers they could find. This story would ultimately end in the SS soldier being brutally killed in hand to hand combat by rage filled Russian soldiers who put a high prize on killing SS soldiers.
Combine these scenarios with a killer soundtracks, gritty characters, and no WW2 cliches and it would be one of the most memorable WW2 campaigns for a lot of customers. The German perspective of WW2 is criminally underused and underrated. The American side of things is too played out and oversaturated.
Because people were lied to about ww2
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Bunny we want to destroy nazi legacy through censorship and removal of freedom of speech and expression. The nazis totally wouldn't do that
As somebody who works in games, I can say another reason why you don't get to play as the Nazis and it is the same reason you don't play as the bad guys in games. You want the player to root for his character and his side. Nobody really wants to make a game where you root for the Nazis.
Also if you did make a game about being in the Wehrmacht, you'd have to sanitise is and end up supporting a version of the clean Wehrmacht. Let alone the fact that lionizing Nazis is distasteful considering the amount of jerking off that seems to surround Nazis stuff on YT nobody wants their game in that space.
As somebody who works in games, I can say another reason why you don't get to play as the Communists and it is the same reason you don't play as the bad guys in games. You want the player to root for his character and his side. Nobody really wants to make a game where you root for the Communists. Oh wait... Call of Duty: World at War already did that...
Yes, very clever, however, if you are unable to see the difference between the evils of communism and those of Nazism then you are just being obtuse.
Secondly, I think you mean Soviet who where, at the time of WW2, not quite the monster they eventually became.
LtKharn Soviets killed the same percentage of German Prisoners as German killed Soviet prisoners. Soviets Slaughtered 40000 Polish prisoners for literally no reason (well documented). UDSSR Started multiple wars and annexed at least 3 countries shortly before the war with Germany and probably planned to invade Germany in the near future(disputed). Regardless where you look, you can hardly find any good guys in ww2
*Sigh* Yours is probably one of the best comments here, but it's buried in "The Nazis weren't that bad"
Cracky But they weren't.
Now we have Battlefield V with the Last Tiger mission, and flying as a Luftwaffe pilot. I thought it was brilliant.
It's not just German campaigns. It's no axis campaigns, and not even Finnish campaigns, even tho we only allied with Germany, since it was our only option.
I prefer strategy games over shooters. give me HoI4 any day.