I'd like a revival of 90s flight sims to give a counterbalance to the "rivet counter" mentality. At the very least, can they rerelease Jane's Longbow 2 and get it running on modern Windows so I don't have to build a 1998 throwback PC to play it?
@bigsocrates: I don't think NBCU wants to take on managing a wrestling company, if the bought WWE outright they'd be stuck with it and unlikely to find somebody to offload it to. By licensing, they have an out in 5 years if things turn really sour.
@selbie: Black Powder Red Earth later got rebooted into a more contemporary story about PMCs operating in the Middle East. They've put out a few graphic novel volumes and have a tactics game in early access on Steam.
I'd like for Ghost Recon to got back to its roots as a squad-based shooter about small unit, direct action raids. Though Wildlands had the setup to be an open-world counter-insurgency game, it obviously had zero ambitions to be anything more than a slightly tactical bent on the Ubisoft open world formula. As for what it means to be a Ghost, well...... here's the thing:
The Ghosts are basically "just" Delta Force. Same missions set (direct action, advance force operations, special reconnaissance, etc.), though minus the original counter terrorism remit that Delta was started for. But yeah, they could be better characterized. Military games as a whole do a poor job of this, largely because you spend little time with your fellow soldiers outside of a combat context. There should be more "downtime" doing non-combat military tasks, like planning or training, or just hanging out between missions on a Forward Operating Base. I found the diagloue for your squads to be pretty over the top, trying way,way too hard to seem "gritty." SOF operators have hobbies too, y'all.
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