Is there any way to make a realistic world war one/two/three game that gives you a real sense of shell shock/PTSD feel and sense of dread and realization that war is hell? For example sudden strike 4 battle of bulge on the german campain you basically struggling to fight off the allies as you try to scrounge for supplies just to watch them literally chuck their own grenanes at the supplies as away to deny you of your advantage. As well in that one operation where after you completed on getting the convoys safely out you are immediately ordered to evacuate before the allies encircle you and you give the command to all of your men to abandon everything and you watch as the tank crew men climb out of their tanks and they run along eith other tanks and trucks not part of your command and soldiers as the enemies tries to give chase and gun you down.
How would you make a game that actually deoic the real sense of war for what it is?
It's hard to achieve that effect without disempowering the player but if you make them too weak the game isn't fun. Another approach is to make the PC a noncombatant as in this war of mine or that upcoming game about the plague.
Julian Evans
Spiders are cute
Dylan Nguyen
you can only get that feeling when it really happens to you, the kind of dread you get when you think you're actually going to die which most people never even experience, the closest thing is maybe when you're about to get into a fight or an escalating confrontation you're near, a game is never going to do that unless yous trap yourself to some kind of kill device or something
Luke Fisher
Also is sudden strike 4 a good game for playing?
Benjamin James
That's a brown recluse you dumb nigger
Brayden Martin
No it's a wolf spider and it is cute and innocent and completely harmless.
Chase Green
Remember, fear of spiders has been proven to be a feminine/soiboy trait.
it is a holdover from the hunter/gatherer days where the gatherers (read: women and weak men) were obsessed with protecting the babies from creeping things
Sebastian Bell
I'm in central Florida and I've seen a couple of these fuckers. Almost stepped on a coral snake 2 days ago, too.
this is the most half assed experiment i've ever seen and they couldn't prove a gender link between other phobias so why the fuck do you think this makes sense?
you have to use critical thinking, user or maybe just read your source next time
William Murphy
Or maybe some motherfuckers had the misfortune of watching shit like Arachnophobia as a kid. Most fears are just tied to early life experiences. I have a fear of things in the water because I almost drowned as a kid, for instance.
Isaiah James
The only game that has ever managed to give me(and many other people) any sort of trauma was Muv Luv. Yes, a porn visual novel.
The player character developers PTSD from combat against the giant alien invaders and has breakdowns at several points. Because it is such an engrossing read, you become personally involved in all of the absolutely horrible events that befall the MC.
There is a whole story segment that players call the "PTSD arc" which is when all of the bad things happen, MC's already existing trauma gets worse, he finds his purpose again and learns to deal with it.
I've seen a lot of widows lately (not in one place or at one time, just in the past years). I feel like it's really easy to get bit by one because they are dormant species who hide in dark and damp areas.
Go ahead, look down the tube of a street sign or into a hollow wooden bench. Won't be long until you're spooked.
Alexander Thompson
Fear of spiders is a trait many mammals regardless of gender exhibit to avoid dying from venoms. Women might be more responsive to them due to being the home makers and child raisers, but men still have reason to instinctually fear them.
Elijah Martinez
Removed a wooden bench that hundreds of people would traffic on. Widows.
Widows have a very dense web. It's nothing like a normal web. That's when you back away.
Angel Kelly
I’d say a mix of xcom and dark souls could get close to that feeling gameplay wise. Death needs to either be permanent, or at least hurt a lot. Maybe an xcom 1st person game? Something like you play as separate characters, who interact with the game in different ways. One character is president making decisions and orders in his comfy chair, one officer character who could die but probably won’t, and then the foot soldier who probably will die. Have them all have weak connections with each other and as you play as foot soldier, the character has to obey orders and you hate yourself for sending him to die. Could give the despair angle from all perspectives.
Caleb Morris
Brown Recluse Spiders sure are cu- oh, it bit me, oh my flesh is rotting now. Cute my ass, they're awful fucking things.
Dominic Peterson
Doesn't that shit only happen if you're allergic to their venom though?
Liam Roberts
Black Widows are actually harmless and won't even inject you with a full dose of venom if they bite you (which is rare) Spiders are scary because of how they look/move. They actually can't hurt you unless it's a fucked species like Brown Recluse. youtube.com/watch?v=XKqWnOtbSr8
Parker Phillips
fuck you soiboy
Gavin Wood
From what ive read, a fear of spiders is related to a feat of being controlled. The way a spider moves is like watching a hand crawl, and the silk it weaves might as well make you its puppet. Or perhaps I use the dream dictionary too much
Isaac Baker
Spider are cute and chill. They're tiny and just want to lay back and get some easy meals. You're the one who's spooking us by moving around dark and amp places.
Jayden Foster
Probably not because no game could generate the levels of simultaneous extreme boredom and stress of a real life war. Trench warfare or what we would consider modern warfare consists of a lot of periods of drawn out waiting or moving performing very wrote tasks interspersed with sudden bursts of extreme violence, stress, physically painful levels of noise and confusion and then more long stretches of boredom. Trenches could also have prolonged periods of boredom interspersed with prolonged periods of said extreme noise, stress, and general intense suffering as sides exchange prolonged artillery barrages. To properly simulate it wouldn't be fun at all, and you'd get tinnitus.
