CoD Vietnam?

Hey all,

I was just thinking about this today at work... do you think the CoD series will ever venture in the Vietnam War?

Hey all,

I was just thinking about this today at work... do you think the CoD series will ever venture in the Vietnam War?

Zandroz

Hey all,

I was just thinking about this today at work... do you think the CoD series will ever venture in the Vietnam War?

No

Don't expect them to make a game over a war that the American military lost and so many are still scarred from it today..

No

Don't expect them to make a game over a war that the American military lost and so many are still scarred from it today..

I think it'd be really cool. There are already games that take place during that time, aren't there? I don't see why the CoD series can't go there. And I don't see what losing has to do with it all. My grandad says the Americans didn't 'lose' in the war, they were forced to retreat. But he was in living in Saigon at the time so I don't know, he probably doesn't know much about what went on in America.

wait whats cod5 about i see videos of like enemies wearing tree branches. is that vietnam?LittleToejam

wait whats cod5 about i see videos of like enemies wearing tree branches. is that vietnam?LittleToejam

[QUOTE="LittleToejam"]wait whats cod5 about i see videos of like enemies wearing tree branches. is that vietnam?lahdeedah

Edit your post like I have, we don't need racism here

[QUOTE="lahdeedah"][QUOTE="LittleToejam"]wait whats cod5 about i see videos of like enemies wearing tree branches. is that vietnam?Jaysonguy

Edit your post like I have, we don't need racism here

I'd rather have a call of duty game with futuristic weapons or WW1.Pittfan666

We already had Conflict: Vietnam and that wasn't that great of a game.

COD should stay away. They should predict the future and start the second cold war with Russia & China. Now that would be awesome.

Fighting Russia & China on a global scale until someone blows up the world.

From 2003-2005 there were several Vietnam games released with developers thinking that America was ready for Vietnam games, but most of them sold poorly and the developers thus decided not to release any more Nam games. So in my view, no.fat_otter

I think the bigger issue with those games were that they just weren't all that great.. n I don't think they were even released on consoles, were they? It's hard to sell big on PC.

too much controversey over it when it was happening, and still is. It would be kind of rude to the guys that fought in it Vashn

are you serious? there have been many vietnam games in the past. . . and how exactly is it rude to the guys that fought in vietnam.

[QUOTE="Vashn"]too much controversey over it when it was happening, and still is. It would be kind of rude to the guys that fought in it adders99

are you serious? there have been many vietnam games in the past. . . and how exactly is it rude to the guys that fought in vietnam.

too much controversey over it when it was happening, and still is. It would be kind of rude to the guys that fought in it Vashn

are you serious? there have been many vietnam games in the past. . . and how exactly is it rude to the guys that fought in vietnam.

From 2003-2005 there were several Vietnam games released with developers thinking that America was ready for Vietnam games, but most of them sold poorly and the developers thus decided not to release any more Nam games. So in my view, no.fat_otter

I agree with this statement. Although I have to say Battlefield Vietnam was an awesome game.

While I do agree with your statement. I think the COD franchise would sell ok if it did a Vietnam game. Especially with the momentum it's picked up since Call of Duty 4. I've been a COD gamer since the original, and the franchise has never been this big. With a GOTY title like COD 4, and now with COD: WaW doing well, COD could definitely venture into Vietnam and remain popular.

The COD game mechanics (especially since COD 4) are much better than any Vietnam game done to date. Graphically, Vietnam has a lot of cool areas to work with. Personally, I'd LOVE to see COD go Vietnam.

That, or like I said before, a not too distant future. Like 20-30 years in the future. Today's weapons with a bit of a future feel. I don't want plasma rifles and crap like that. COD 4 gameplay, GRAW weapons.

Developers have the technology to create a realistic jungle, so I don't see any reason not to make a Vietnam shooter.

too much controversey over it when it was happening, and still is. It would be kind of rude to the guys that fought in it

Vashn

As others have noted, other games have been made about other conflicts/wars that have living veterans. They made Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, and no one was upset about it. Videogames have never shyed away from controversy anyway. I don't think there would be much of a problem, if a Vietnam shooter just portrayed engagements between professional soldiers. That is, don't have little girls covered in napalm and stuff like that. We have World War II games without long cutscenes/sequences in concentration camps. Most historical shooters just stick to the combat.

[QUOTE="wwervin"][QUOTE="adders99"]

are you serious? there have been many vietnam games in the past. . . and how exactly is it rude to the guys that fought in vietnam.

xmen1414

im pretty sure all the vets from vietnam want to be remembered to... i dont expect going out and fighting a war was on thier "to do list".

Well, speaking AS a vet (Afghanistan), I'd have to say winning or losing doesn't really matter as far as a video game.

 Seriously, we don't do this job for the thanks (or lack thereof), and even then, if you're looking to be remembered by a game you're doing it wrong. I personally had no problems with accurate and inaccurate portrayals of the military in COD4- it's just a fun game, take it at that.

 I think the issue is that the previous Vietnam games out there were just mediocre at best for other reasons. Now as technology has caught up and CoD is starting to get a little stale with WWII (IMO), I think a Vietnam game could be cool. Use some of the Tech that Far Cry and Crysis pioneered to make the dense jungle environments and it could be fun, at least from the special forces side. Lots of sneaking and stuff.

 BUT gamers want variety, and there simply weren't the large-scale tank and vehicle battles and such that have become the hallmark of games these days. The developer would probably have to rely on smaller engagements, and unless the story and gameplay can hold up the lack of variety, it may not work.

 I wouldn't mind seeing a Korean war game. Move on from WWII and open up some new battlefields of Korea- could be cool, especially with modern envronmental effects.

oh yeah i saw the movie Windtalkers and it looks like u do a reanactment in the game. do you get to run up the trenches with machine guns?LittleToejam

 Call Of Duty: World At War is a total rip off of two movies.

'WindTalkers' (The American invasion of Japan) and 'Enemy At The Gates' (The Russian invasion of Germany)

Pretty much the entire American part of WAW is stolen directly from WindTalkers, right down to the mountain that you can see in the distance with the giant artillery cannon sticking out of it.

As for Enemy At The Gates, WAW steals an entire scene. Exactly as it happens, in the very beginning of the Russian campaign. The only thing they changed is that he doesn't shoot the General right there and then.

As for the topic, no there will never be a good game based on the Vietnam war. Mainly because it was guerilla warfare, there were no major offenses other than the ones that the Americans lost and I dont see an American company telling those stories. Also you may sit there and think that the traps used in the Vietnam war were 'cool' or whatever the hell you said, but that was the most terrifying part of the war. The Allied soldiers couldn't even take a step without having to prey it wouldn't be their last.

[QUOTE="xmen1414"][QUOTE="wwervin"] If that's rude, what about the countless WWII vets? Shouldn't pretty much ever call of duty game besides 4 be rude to them? His post makes no sense.

adders99

im pretty sure all the vets from vietnam want to be remembered to... i dont expect going out and fighting a war was on thier "to do list".

Hey all,

I was just thinking about this today at work... do you think the CoD series will ever venture in the Vietnam War?

[QUOTE="Zandroz"]

Hey all,

I was just thinking about this today at work... do you think the CoD series will ever venture in the Vietnam War?

SSBFan12

from what i have heard read watched and talked about the US were winning but changed what classified as a win from k/d ratio to something else the were winning at a 10/1 k/d ratio

veterans said they wanted to win but no one let them

i would have to say it wouldn't be boring you could have lots of combat like hamburger hill or bombing the ho chi min trail

yes there are games and new games coming out like shell-shock 2 blood trails but none could do it like call of duty could both trey-arch and infinity ward do great jobs but infinity ward doesn't stick to history and goes off to do historic fiction and that's not really call of duty series

it would be like no other Vietnam game out

my friend is Vietnamese (becoming a citizen soon) and we get along great so i don't think there would be any real tension

unrelated note: does anybody know when the cod waw map pack is gonna come out?

[QUOTE="adders99"]

[QUOTE="Vashn"]too much controversey over it when it was happening, and still is. It would be kind of rude to the guys that fought in it wwervin

are you serious? there have been many vietnam games in the past. . . and how exactly is it rude to the guys that fought in vietnam.