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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nadaka" data-source="post: 5448583" data-attributes="member: 14651">War. War never changes.One thing I don't see here is probably the horrific thing that someone has a reasonable chance of experiencing.Serial killers? Cannibal cults? Man eating lions? One in a million.In any given town, maybe 1 or two detectives have ever even come close to seeing something like that after the fact, much less have been there for the event.War.Thousands fight in war every day at this very moment. Hundreds of thousands stormed the beaches of Normandy. Millions died in Stalingrad. Every town probably has dozens or more current or former soldiers who have fought in wars from WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.War is horrific, not just because of the threat of death and dismemberment. Not just because of the sights and sounds. But because you as a soldier have to actively participate in all of that. A game of storming the beaches at Normandy might require the player to show up with 7 or more premade characters. If I was running that game, I would let them settle into the character on the ride over, then kill them all as the door on the DUCK opened up and machine gun fire ripped them all apart. Next characters get mutilated by mortar fire. Next characters might make it to cover, only to fight against panic to keep it together long enough to fight to survive. etc.</blockquote>