[Icemage]

Originally Posted by Buddyjay

First of all you are incorrect about harware limitations. When Medal of Honor came out, there were numerous war games that had multiple characters. The producers DID choose to make it that way.

No, I really don't think so.

The original Medal of Honor was released in late 1999 for the PS1. It's relative contemporaries on consoles at the time were things like Perfect Dark. It wouldn't be for another year or two before allied artificial intelligences would make the jump onto console shooters (first one I can think of offhand were the console ports of Rainbox Six, which lost much of its brilliance in the transition).

The developers most certainly were hardware limited at the time.

Second, you are again incorrect about my "insistence" about the subject. If you re-read your first post to my topic, you asked me to 'define war games'. All I was doing was answering your question.
And who implied I wanted to "hog the glory"?

I mentioned "hogging the scene". In other words, there are glitches in the program where you get blocked out by a character. Many times, I have been in a corner, unable to move because the character won't move AND I CAN'T EITHER. I am then forced to shoot him (ally) and the level ends giving you the friendly fire statement.

You are exaggerating. If you find yourself cornered with no option but to shoot your allies in most decent FPS games, you're either playing the wrong games or doing it wrong. Probably more the latter than the former, since the only cases where I can think of where the game makes it impossible to avoid accidentall kills on friendlies are stupendously bad games like Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

I, as MANY others, prefer to fight alone in some games,for various reasons. In the world of video games, this is not an un-realistic request since there are many other games where you do fight alone and some of these are extremely un-realistic world events, so why can't you fight alone? I just prefer to in a World War event.

Are you even listening to yourself?

"I want to play in a realistic REAL historical wartime environment that involved millions of troops but I want to fight by myself."

Either you want the realism or you don't. There is a reason why all of the wartime shooters have gravitated toward team tactics/AI support, and it's because it's a more "realistic" (there's that word again) representation of the scenario.

If you want to play something where you are alone, pick up something like Quantum of Solace or another spy-based game where you can reasonably and logically expect to be a lone operative.

In Metal of Honor, it was enjoyable to be able to sneak up on the enemy, in a quiet room. There were many scenes where you had to sneak around so you weren't detected. Many of the war games today is nothing more than group attacks, all the time. I know the COD4 has the sniper level where you have to sneak around a bit, but not as much covert action like Metal of Honor. That's what I am referring too.

Is fighting alone in war un-realistic? Sure it is. But so is fighting robots, spaceships and half the other first person shooter type games.
Again, I just prefer this in a real life war event.

If you want to sneak around, go get a copy of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. It'll give you all the wartime feel and sneaking you could ever want.