World War 2, Why Do We All Love It?
I was wondering something... why are we all so fascinated with World War II? I mean, just look at how many games there are based on World War II.
We see other games, based on more modern conflicts, or conflicts set in the future, or in a fantasy setting, but its never quite the same. For some reason, WWII seems to have a very grand, epic, almost noble quality to it.
Why?
We see other games, based on more modern conflicts, or conflicts set in the future, or in a fantasy setting, but its never quite the same. For some reason, WWII seems to have a very grand, epic, almost noble quality to it.
Why?
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plus it was one of the few wars that had shaken the entire planet.
It's the last war where we are pretty damn sure it's between good and evil, without any doubts... political, conspiracy, domino effect, oil, economy,... etc
It was big, it was destructive, impressive, the whole Nazi evil bastard thing. It took place on many fronts, all over the world, from Europe, to Africa, to the Pacific islands.
It just had everything.
And infantry was used a hell of a lot more in more important places where we'd just send a cruise missile now days.
Because it was!
Also it should be noted that the nazi's bullied their way into getting elected and it wasn't all the german people's fault, they we're held hostage by the party as well.
Keep in mind the soviets had their dirty secrets too and were the first (IIRC) to have the gulags and kill their own soliders\population in the purgings.
I mean hey, even the US jumped on the bandwagon and (horribly) wiped two cities off the face of the planet and we should be heros for this? I don't see how that can be considered "good" even weighed against all the other worse stuff that was going on. But i guess its all justified when it saved potentionally many american lives right? Thanks Trumann! American lives are worth more than Japanese lives anyways... </sarcasm>. Even the japanese in china killed lots of people as well, in one instance making bridges out of the dead bodies.
I find it ironic that people say "classic battle between good and evil". Well i really don't believe in "good and evil" but more in the duality of human nature to do bad things and good things, we're all animals underneath anyways given the right circumstances.
We're very, <b>very, <u>very</u></b> random.
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Not that random. After all, we had <i>two</i> world wars in the same half-century, both of which Germany started. That's pretty consistent if you ask me.
Didn't the Emperor of Japan make a statement along the lines that Japan wouldn't surrender until every Japanese person was dead?
If thats true, then you can look at it two ways: More lives were saved, or, the United States looked at that statement and said, "Okay, we can do that."
Now if you look at those wars prior to the world wars, those are actually a lot, just on a smaller scale.
They were drifting around their lives 'randomly' but yet they're drawn to one thing : war. Why? Because people force them to.
When people split away because of conflicts of interest (as in situation stated earlier) they again begin to drift off in a new direction trying to find a new way of life for themselves, but yet it comes down to one final conclusion : conflict and then it eventually escalates to.
The whole cycle just kept repeating itself. They keep breaking off, drifting around and then the conflict starts yet again.
Not the same as these days though, cause we actually have a law enforcement system that works, unlike those old days. Nowadays it just boils down to something like bar fights.
It's just one of those things that I can't even understand properly.
If I had another reason about why WWII is so popular, it's probably because it was the most grandiose war humanity has had.
That movie actualy had <i>alot</i> to do with the modern popularization of World War 2 and games based on it.
I think WW2 was much more air-sea-land as well, I realise WW1 had all these elements, but everything was just a much grander scale.
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The world must be a lovely place when you can make yourself believe it's that simple.
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To be fair, the two wars were rather interconnected. The second one was so directly connected to the first that the time inbetween was more like a twenty-one year ceasefire than actual peace. Considering the way the first war ended, the second one was inevitable.
They consist of sniping with old-style limited ammo rifles.
Negative, the Emperor of Japan never said such things. It's the Japanese generals.
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Not that random. After all, we had <i>two</i> world wars in the same half-century, both of which Germany started. That's pretty consistent if you ask me. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Serbian nationalists started World War I, and Germany got blamed for it. Germany is, of course, responsible for starting WWII, even though the Treaty of Versailles set it up for them.
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Not that random. After all, we had <i>two</i> world wars in the same half-century, both of which Germany started. That's pretty consistent if you ask me. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Serbian nationalists started World War I, and Germany got blamed for it. Germany is, of course, responsible for starting WWII, even though the Treaty of Versailles set it up for them. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The Black Hand wasn't it?
Then again, the games are usually far closer to the truth than the gamers. It's typically the players that make the logical misleap of "german = nazi."
also to the german = nazi case, Hitler never visited certain parts of germany because he knew they didnt support him
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Not that random. After all, we had <i>two</i> world wars in the same half-century, both of which Germany started. That's pretty consistent if you ask me. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'd argue that the league of nations "started" world war 2 in a sense, anyway,
It was a good vs evil war, nowadays its evil vs eviler