Most Ridiculous "Realistic" Plots.........

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:40 am

Agreed, Mikhail Gorbachev really tuned Russia around, it's sad to see game makes still think we live in the 50's

@ above post *cough* political *cough*, I think people hate the American mentality of "We have Nukes, that makes us the world police" not the Americans themselves


Yup! They don't hate the citizens, merely the country's mentality.
User avatar
Tikarma Vodicka-McPherson
 
Posts: 3426
Joined: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:15 am

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:36 pm

Staging a land invasion of America is stupid. Not even the Japanese considered it.
User avatar
Matt Fletcher
 
Posts: 3355
Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:48 am

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:05 pm

Staging a land invasion of America is stupid. Not even the Japanese considered it.

Invading itself is stupid.
User avatar
Dorian Cozens
 
Posts: 3398
Joined: Sat May 26, 2007 9:47 am

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:26 am

Yeah but think of it this way. The Germans made many errors in the battle, not to mention General Rommel's defeat(which was more of a surrender if anything. Out of rations isn't very fun). If North Korea executed the mission with very little flaws, and since the soldiers are scared that they'll be killed if they don't follow the orders to the letter, North Korea would win if given the manpower and economic power of China.

Remember that missiles don't win wars, people do.

The US isn't without its own allies. Plus it has the largest navy in the world, which is important considering there's an ocean separating North Korea and China from the United States.

Edit: I don't think either side would be able to gain a foothold on the other. Without nuclear weapons China is too numerous and the US fleet is too large. With nuclear weapons taken into account both sides are potentially screwed.
User avatar
Vicki Gunn
 
Posts: 3397
Joined: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:59 am

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:36 pm

Staging a land invasion of America is stupid. Not even the Japanese considered it.

It depends, if you staged aggressive repetitive bombings on one area of coast you could punch a hole in the defense (whilst obviously changing the position of your aircraft carriers of course), by the time the Americans feel it necessary to nuke the invaders they'd be at their doorstep
User avatar
CORY
 
Posts: 3335
Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:54 pm

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:35 pm

Yeah but think of it this way. The Germans made many errors in the battle, not to mention General Rommel's defeat(which was more of a surrender if anything. Out of rations isn't very fun). If North Korea executed the mission with very little flaws, and since the soldiers are scared that they'll be killed if they don't follow the orders to the letter, North Korea would win if given the manpower and economic power of China.


Rommel wasn't defeated, nor did he surrender, he was disillusioned with the Nazi ideal, got involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler, Hitler found out, knew Rommel was too popular to execute, and that many would side with him (he couldn't afford a German civil War as well as WW2) so he pomised Rommel his family wouldn't be punished if he committed suicide
User avatar
IsAiah AkA figgy
 
Posts: 3398
Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:43 am

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:01 pm

We need evil mongolians.
User avatar
x_JeNnY_x
 
Posts: 3493
Joined: Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:52 pm

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:16 am

Rommel wasn't defeated, nor did he surrender, he was disillusioned with the Nazi ideal, got involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler, Hitler found out, knew Rommel was too popular to execute, and that many would side with him (he couldn't afford a German civil War as well as WW2) so he pomised Rommel his family wouldn't be punished if he committed suicide


Yes yes, that's how he died. But there was a time when he lost a battle to General Montgomery and General Patton...because he had barely any rations.
User avatar
Ellie English
 
Posts: 3457
Joined: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:47 pm

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:53 am

Yes yes, that's how he died. But there was a time when he lost a battle to General Montgomery and General Patton...because he had barely any rations.

Tat was more because Hitler was a [censored] and decided Rommel was a good enough General to do without, not due to Rommels incompetence,

Does anyone else remember the Rommel quote "Give me Australian soldiers and German Officers, and I will give you the world", I took this to mean that the German soldiers couldn't keep up with te German army's Regime
User avatar
Brian Newman
 
Posts: 3466
Joined: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:36 pm

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:34 am

i dont think many americans would be opposed to playing a game where the US was the bad guy. look it how many movies and games their already are with the government as the center of some conspiracy. americans love beating up on our own government. personally i would love to play a game where the US went all nutsoid and started taking over the world. you could either side with them or help a resistance that is trying to get rid of its government.

my current favorite shooter is STALKER, where americans and other western countries are essentially the bad guys in the game. im assuming that cause the mercenaries are always using western weapons. doesnt phase me one bit. i even played a couple of STALKER games where i played the Soviet anthem and the music from red october and im libertarian. :laugh: the only thing that could have made it better was if i my character was running around cursing in russian and saying "die for mother russia you capitalist pig"
User avatar
Colton Idonthavealastna
 
Posts: 3337
Joined: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:13 am

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:37 pm

The Black Ops plot was god awful.... of course the evil people are the Russians again..

I liked the storyline, and it was set during the Vietnamese-Cold war times, so it makes sense that the Russians are the bad guys...
I also thought the story had a nice twist.
User avatar
Karen anwyn Green
 
Posts: 3448
Joined: Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:26 pm

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:22 pm


my current favorite shooter is STALKER, where americans and other western countries are essentially the bad guys in the game. im assuming that cause the mercenaries are always using western weapons. doesnt phase me one bit. i even played a couple of STALKER games where i played the Soviet anthem and the music from red october and im libertarian. :laugh: the only thing that could have made it better was if i my character was running around cursing in russian and saying "die for mother russia you capitalist pig"

If anyone's the bad guys its the Zone and C-Consciousness. The Mercenaries bosses are never stated, though it's clear the Americans are interested in the zone, because there's a crashed Predator drone by Yanov station. (Also, freedom uses NATO weapons) You really can't say that Americans are the "bad guys" though in STALKER. It's the Zone and the Monolith faction who are the real problems.
User avatar
Pete Schmitzer
 
Posts: 3387
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:20 am

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:07 am

Think about it this way. In Asia right now, North Korea has probably the most brutal army there. Now that China is slowly becoming an economic super power, if North Korea has China's backup, their regular soldiers could have the strength of Navy SEALS. The only reason why North Korea hasn't invaded America now is because of money.

It's not as simple as that. North Korea is vastly weaker than the U.S, and doesn't have the infrastructure to cross the pacific and directly attack the U.S. Also, any attempt to do so would result in U.S and south Korean troops crossing the 38th parallel. If North Korea were somehow able to take South Korea (they wouldn't be able to by the way. It'd be just like the Korean war, we'd beat them so far back China would help 'em out to prevent America from taking total control over Korea), then America would simply stage further attacks from Japan. So that's two countries North Korea would have to invade and take first, and in each case their fighting the Americans. Also, there is always the risk of America nuking North Korea. If it ever got bad, everyone in Pyongyang would be dead before sunrise. Assuming North Korea, despite all the odds, crossed the pacific, defeated the American navy, and made landfall, their still royally [censored]. America will have a level of air superiority that the north Koreans simply WON'T be able to beat. They'd get wiped out from the air, and land. If North Korea tried to cross the continent by land, their army will get crushed by American troops and civilians. (IN case you didn't realize, we have trained civilian militias armed with assault weapons, that don't have any government affiliation. A ready-made resistance force, sometimes consisting of U.S military Veterans. Combine that with our aggressive and sometimes armed regular citizenry.) Seriously, A land invasion of the modern U.S mainland will result in failure, especially for a country as WEAK as North Korea.


They're practically bankrupt and if they have the weapons that match the U.S, each of their soldiers would be spec ops level strength. And their spec ops...no comment.

Your overestimating them.


North Korea would completely decimate the U.S. After all, if it's 20 years in the future, they've been keeping in all that America hatred for 20 years and they finally have the chance to. So yup!

Completely unrealistic conclusion.

edit: Most productive use of accidental doublepost ever!
User avatar
danni Marchant
 
Posts: 3420
Joined: Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:32 am

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:50 am

We need giant mutated sea horse of doom !! Beware of the sea horse !!
User avatar
Kristian Perez
 
Posts: 3365
Joined: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:03 am

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:50 pm

The horrible plots of MW2 and Black Ops are really further underscored by how well-written Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was.

I first thought that Unreal Tournament 3 had a [censored] plot, but then I had a profound realization: it's a joke! It's making fun of that other Epic franchise, Gears of War, and doing it brilliantly.
User avatar
Evaa
 
Posts: 3502
Joined: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:11 am

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:28 am

i was just reading the background for the upcoming FPS Homefront. and i have to say without a doubt that it is the currently king of absurdly stupid plots outside of a james bond laser o doom satellite game. in fact i instantly thought of the bond film where the north koreans managed to get hold of a *sigh* laser o doom and were planning on invading with a fleet of hovercraft. :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

I assume you're talking about Die Another Day, only you must have been heavily sedated when you watched it since that is not even close to the plot - the laser was actually just a bunch of mirrors directing heat from the sun or something, and there was a hovercraft chase over a minefield, but I'm fairly sure the Koreans never planned to invade the US with them :huh:
User avatar
Chelsea Head
 
Posts: 3433
Joined: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:38 am

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:59 am

I first thought that Unreal Tournament 3 had a [censored] plot, but then I had a profound realization: it's a joke! It's making fun of that other Epic franchise, Gears of War, and doing it brilliantly.


The real joke here is that they delayed the game to add the single player campaign.
User avatar
Rhi Edwards
 
Posts: 3453
Joined: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:42 am

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:24 am

Seriously, A land invasion of the modern U.S mainland will result in failure, especially for a country as WEAK as North Korea.

Nobody doubts that. But since the game isn't about this, it's irrelevant anyway. ^_^
User avatar
Juan Cerda
 
Posts: 3426
Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:49 pm

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:02 pm

I would doubt that anyone could take over the entire world anymore... There are enough countries with nuclear weapons that if a country came to a point where it was near surrendering it would push that big red button.

However, to much realism doesn't make a fun game
User avatar
BlackaneseB
 
Posts: 3431
Joined: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:21 am

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:51 am

"Ghost Recon", though an older game, seems realistic to me in retrospect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Ghost_Recon_(video_game) Russian nationalists reconquer Belarus and other former Soviet territories, etc.
User avatar
Devils Cheek
 
Posts: 3561
Joined: Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:24 pm

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:50 pm

The US isn't without its own allies. Plus it has the largest navy in the world, which is important considering there's an ocean separating North Korea and China from the United States.

Edit: I don't think either side would be able to gain a foothold on the other. Without nuclear weapons China is too numerous and the US fleet is too large. With nuclear weapons taken into account both sides are potentially screwed.

Yea Nukes pretty would pretty keep everyone in check. Neither side could be pushed to far or everyone loses.
User avatar
Britney Lopez
 
Posts: 3469
Joined: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:22 pm

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:18 pm

@ Ratslayer. I don't see why your so up set about American developers making America based games, it only seems logical.


Why does every game have to have a realistic plot, it devs kept to realistic games we would be pretty damn bored.

I dont hate American based games, I hate "America good, communists evil, we kill commies" Its always the [censored] russians invading. I dont see Russia obssessing over A WAR THAT NEVER HAPPENED, America cant get the [censored] over it. ZP is pretty damn accurate in his Blops review "Its hard not to look at all these war games where Russian invaded America and not be reminded of fan fiction. America is a fat teen virgin lying on her front, on her bed stareing up at her Edward and Bella poster while crossing and uncrossing her ankles, and dreamingly writing creepy stories." America is just obsessed, and that obsession is getting annoying, especially when they are still portraying RUssia as some bad guy with ambitions to take over the world and spread "the evils of communism". The guy who wrote homefront also wrote red dawn (where suprose suprise its the communists again), they just cant let [censored] go.
And thats one of the reasons people dont like America the "world police" attitude. America sees communism then interferes, and your country is clearly still obsessed with the damn thing, movies, books, games.

Even MW2 you dragged Russia into it, then black ops you drag Russians into it. Why do you always drag Russia into something ? You could have just had terrorists in MW2 but no.
MW3 (out this year) will also involve evil russians, so will the next CoD, and the next, and so on.

When China becomes free enough for video games to be made there, the U.S will be portrayed as the bad guys since as of right now...everybody hates America(except the U.K and Israel. Canada is just using America for protection and trade between the two nations).

As far as I am aware Canada dosent hate anyone. Not canadian, but they just dont seem like an anti American country.

Yeah but think of it this way. The Germans made many errors in the battle, not to mention General Rommel's defeat(which was more of a surrender if anything. Out of rations isn't very fun). If North Korea executed the mission with very little flaws, and since the soldiers are scared that they'll be killed if they don't follow the orders to the letter, North Korea would win if given the manpower and economic power of China.

Remember that missiles don't win wars, people do.
Uh huh well lets see how men can compete with nukes, becuase nukes can kill ALOT of men.
And remember that for the U.S, for many marines and soldiers, the military is a JOB. For North Korea, it's either take the enemy city or destroy the fortification or die by execution or die by enemy fire. True, many soldiers will fight for their life but that whole "Take the fortification or be killed" mentality doesn't exist. So long as the soldiers don't desert the unit, they won't be hanged for failure.

"As for Vietnam, the NVA and the Viet Cong lost a lot more men than the US did. The decisive edge they had was morale. And the home field advantage."

And fear of what the General would do to them if they fail...But then again, they don't care. The individual doesn't matter so long as the collective wins. That's why many of these brutal militaristic countries send in suicide bombers. Heck in the Korean War, even the South Koreans planted explosive charges in the spec op teams backpacks just in case they're captured. Kill yourself and kill the enemy since you're already going to die.

A war wont happen, EVER. See people who are "world peace no nukes" arent that bright, countries dont attacke eachoeh for several reasons, they depend on eachother economically, and they dont like dying. If Korea did invade, and America felt it was going to lose they would push the big red button, suddenly Korea would stop existing, if Korea had enough nukes, then America wouldnt, countries dont fight because of mutually assured destruction, now Koreas leader may be crazy, but I doubt he is bat[censored] insane, and China will NEVER want Korea to invade, becuase their economy is tied to America's. If Korea even tried to do something harmfull to Chinas interests e.g invade America, China could stp all those resources and [censored]slap N.Korea to make it behave. China is the only freind N Korea has, a powerful friend, but China wont let them [censored] things up. Korea invading is very unrealistic. Most of the wars are fought one sided anyway, when every country has nukes you will se wars vanish unless that country has a deathwish.
User avatar
Kelvin Diaz
 
Posts: 3214
Joined: Mon May 14, 2007 5:16 pm

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:32 am

I assume you're talking about Die Another Day, only you must have been heavily sedated when you watched it since that is not even close to the plot - the laser was actually just a bunch of mirrors directing heat from the sun or something, and there was a hovercraft chase over a minefield, but I'm fairly sure the Koreans never planned to invade the US with them :huh:

If I'm not mistaken, there plan was to cross the DMZ and invade South Korea. Hovercraft could go over South Korean minefields without activating the mines.
User avatar
Britta Gronkowski
 
Posts: 3475
Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:14 pm

Post » Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:34 pm

Think about it this way. In Asia right now, North Korea has probably the most brutal army there. Now that China is slowly becoming an economic super power, if North Korea has China's backup, their regular soldiers could have the strength of Navy SEALS. The only reason why North Korea hasn't invaded America now is because of money.

They're practically bankrupt and if they have the weapons that match the U.S, each of their soldiers would be spec ops level strength. And their spec ops...no comment.

America may seem powerful, which they kind of are, but think about it like this. During the Vietnam War, the U.S lost many many MANY troops to the Vietcong forces. Why? Because they were using guerrilla tactics, hiring prosttutes to kill U.S marines when they're in villages(and since they can't fire unless attacked, well...shoot), and using foxholes to spray and pray. Not to mention Ho Chih Min(spelling?), was a very good military commander and leader. But when South Korea entered the fray,they burnt entire villages to the ground, butchered even Vietnamese children. The Vietcong were scared [censored].

Again, North Korea is pretty much bankrupt. They have just enough food to feed the troops about once a day and the high ranking officials and people associated with the nuclear bomb(scientists and engineers)about 3 times a day. But in 20 years, when China has lots of money, on par with America and they give enough of that money to North Korea to feed everybody three meals a day...

North Korea would completely decimate the U.S. After all, if it's 20 years in the future, they've been keeping in all that America hatred for 20 years and they finally have the chance to. So yup!



um......i think your falling for the north koreans propaganda about their troops. secondly, we won every single major battle in vietnam including the tet offensive where after their initial push we came back and annhiliated their armor. it was only after the bulk of the american troops left that they overpowered the south vietnamese troops. we lost around 55,000 men they lost over 2 million, not exactly close. the war was lost because of politics, not the brilliance of the viet cong.
User avatar
Tyler F
 
Posts: 3420
Joined: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:07 pm

Post » Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:01 am

Don't they unify north and south before attacking?

From what I can remember both North and South has some pretty large sized armies. Combined they might be able to do something. :shrug:
And I think they say they had quite an easy time as most American forces are in the Middle East.
User avatar
victoria johnstone
 
Posts: 3424
Joined: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:56 am

Previous

Return to Othor Games