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Old 05-29-2004, 01:10 PM   #1 (permalink)
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A different war sim...

The Ultimate War Sim

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Well, below is my open letter to the Real Time Strategy gaming cartel. I want a War Simulation. A real one. I don't want little cartoon tanks jostling around in a video sandbox chewing down each other's health meters while a preteen opponent insults my sexuality using every key on his keyboard except the ones with letters. I want an RTS game that will give me a stress headache after an hour and an ulcer after a week. I want to identify experienced players on the street by their Thousand-Yard Stares.

I want a War Sim...

1. ...where I spend two hours pushing across a map to destroy a "nuclear missile silo," only to find out after the fact that it was just a missile-themed orphanage.

I want little celebrities to show up on the scene and do interviews over video of charred teddy bears, decrying my unilateral attack. I want congressional hearings demanding answers to these atrocities.

2. On the very next level I want to lose half of my units because another "orphanage" turned out to be a NOD ambush site. I want another round of hearings asking why I didn't level that orphanage as soon as I saw it, including tearful testimony from a slain soldier's daughter who is now, ironically, an orphan.


3. Every War Sim has a "Fog of War" that obscures the map in darkness until units scout the landscape. Well, I want a hazy, brown "Fog of Bullshit" layer below that. I want it to make a village of farmers look like a secret armed militia, I want it to show me a massive enemy fortress where there is actually an Aspirin factory. I want to never know for sure which it was, even after the game is over.

4. I want those awesome rooted monsters from Starcraft that wait until the enemy gets close and then launch tentacles up their asses. Just think of how demoralizing that would have to be.

But I want to lose points off my Public Support meter every time one of those monsters accidentally impales a schoolgirl in a horrific bloody mess that will shock all but the Japanese.

5. I want that "Public Support" meter to rise and fall according to Troops Lost, Length of Conflict, Innocents Killed and Whether or Not There is Anything Else On TV That Week. I want to lose 200 Public Support points because, in a war where 8,000 units have been lost, one of my Mutalisks happened to be caught on video accidentally eating one clergyman. Then, later, my destruction of an entire enemy city goes unnoticed because the Nude Zero-Gravity Futureball championship went into overtime.

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Old 05-29-2004, 07:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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You know...that would make Starcraft a little more interesting :P
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Old 05-29-2004, 07:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
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That's kinda funny and kinda sad at the same time.

I like it! Heh.
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Old 05-30-2004, 05:16 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I'll go to hell, because I liked it/thought it was sad.
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Old 05-30-2004, 09:15 AM   #5 (permalink)
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same here....
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Old 05-30-2004, 04:06 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I'm evil. I think that would make a great game.
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Old 05-31-2004, 08:53 AM   #7 (permalink)
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i'll buy it!
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Old 05-31-2004, 09:21 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I like the 'fog of bullshit' idea, and it would be cool for bomber crews to crack under the pressure and take out friendly units.
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Old 05-31-2004, 02:04 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Here's the original, in its entirety; it's got pictures (oooooh!) and is quite a bit longer than this:

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/wargames.html
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