In fact, it wasnt the most deadly war many of Great Britain's pre WW1 citizens had known in their lifetime. (The Taiping Rebellion had double the death tolls of WW1)
Another little thing....soldiers were fed well and never spent more than a couple days in the trenches at a time. Morale was actually no worse than in other conflicts.
Which leads me to----Im a bit confused by the taboo nature of WW1. It was sinister and heinous, but that is the nature of war. Ive been unable to find any characteristic that makes it less suitable for a video game, then say, Vietnam. The Vietnam war is far more controversial, and was especially brutal.
In fact, the worst part of WW1....the thing that makes it stand out to me.....was its peace process.
The way the Treaty of Versailles was negotiated and written, all but assured WW2. It was the inability of men like Woodrow Wilson and France's Georges Clemenceau, to put peace above war spoils and vengeful punishment, that directly led to the rise of fascism in Europe. Its very interesting.
But how many of the death tolls in the Taiping rebellion were Chinese? Not to say they don't matter but the view at the time would've been much different if there were millions of white Europeans getting killed. In WW1 the British used a recruiting tactic called pals battalions. They would recruit entire communities of young men (fraternities, football clubs, etc.) and send them to fight together on the front. When one of these units died that was it for the young men of that community.
It took several months after trench warfare began before the leadership realized that men needed to be taken off the front occasionally so they wouldn't lose their minds. There were battles where one side or the other might drop literally millions of artillery shells in a matter of hours. When the sound of shells wasn't deafening soldiers could hear their comrades in no-man's-land crying in agony as they died and no one could save them.
The battle of Passchendaele in particular is a battle that really stuck in the British conscious. Due to weather conditions in Flanders there are plenty of stories of soldiers drowning in mud and then other soldiers being pulled in trying to rescue them.
Yes there are other horrible conflicts like Vietnam but the number of losses for America during that entire conflict is what one side would lose in WW1 in a day.
As for peace, it was mostly the French that argued that Germany should pay for the entire war. There were plenty of people even at the time who saw what could happen because of the treaty as it was passed but they couldn't be stopped. Woodrow Wilson had a plan but the European powers didn't want to give up their colonial holdings.
All that being said, I'm excited to see how the game will turn out.
Man, with the way every GOTY thread got hijacked by Witcher 3 talk, I assumed it'd be the community favorite. Glad to see the RIGHT game got the top spot. And Mario Maker is right about where it should be for sane people.
Well looking at the points vs. the amount of votes that game was on fewer peoples' lists but occupying a higher position than MGSV generally. People who like the Witcher 3 REALLY LIKE the Witcher 3 (myself included). It feels like the game has turned into a posterchild for hype aversion.
The price is reasonable considering that this is one of the first times we're getting the game at the same time as Japan. It has an insane amount of content for what it is.
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