Konami drops support for "6 Days at Fallujah"

[FunkMonk]

Alci and Siegy should develop the game.

[vinraith]

It's not the worst idea ever.  World War II has been done to death, and Vietnam already has a game which defined it perfectly.

What's that? 

I'd like to know that too.

[DisturbedPervert]

It's a shitty genre.

Other than that, don't see the problem.

I think the genre they were selling this game as, a serious, realistic, tactical shooter, is quite good, and one about Iraq would be interesting.  But that's not remotely close to what they actually made.  Like one poster in the linked article said, "they were marketing 'Roots' but making 'Shaft.'"

[Jacob]

It's not the worst idea ever.  World War II has been done to death, and Vietnam already has a game which defined it perfectly.

What's that? 

I'd like to know that too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_(video_game)

[Jacob]

What a fucking travesty that someone thought that was a good idea to begin with.

I dunno, I'm with the article that was quoted.  A game trying to produce the authentic experience would be quite fascinating.  But an arcadish game would be an abomination.

It's not a topic video games can cover adequately in terms of "authentic experience" at this point in time.

[Neil]

It's not the worst idea ever.  World War II has been done to death, and Vietnam already has a game which defined it perfectly.

What's that? 

Battlefield Vietnam.  I had a lot of fun with that, back in the day.

[Neil]

What a fucking travesty that someone thought that was a good idea to begin with.

I dunno, I'm with the article that was quoted.  A game trying to produce the authentic experience would be quite fascinating.  But an arcadish game would be an abomination.

It's not a topic video games can cover adequately in terms of "authentic experience" at this point in time.

It's not impossible.  It just wouldn't be very fun, and there'd be no money in it.  Cover mechanics are getting better all the time, but weapons fire isn't really that dangerous, and so there really isn't much incentive to use it.

Rushing a dug-in enemy in an attempt to no-scope and then corpse-hump them would be rewarded with death.  The Halo crowd wouldn't appreciate that.

[DisturbedPervert]

It's possible, it'd just have to be PC only.  Maybe a small studio pull it off.

[saskganesh]

with apologies to Johnny Rotten: "I know what I want, but I don't know how to get it."

isometric views. hexes. and autopause/turn ends.

[Octavian]

It's not the worst idea ever.  World War II has been done to death, and Vietnam already has a game which defined it perfectly.

What's that? 

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/seal-team

[HisMajestyBOB]

For some reason I thought this was a strategy game and was bitterly disappointed. Then I saw it was a shooter, and now I don't care.

[Jacob]

It's not impossible.  It just wouldn't be very fun, and there'd be no money in it./quote]

Well, those are the metrics I use to judge whether it's possible to make game.  If it's not going to be not fun and not profitable, the game pretty much can't be made adequately.