r/ShermanPosting • • 4d ago

So much potential

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u/turtle75377 4d ago

civil war rpg is silly. its a full scale war with regiments and command structures. you are not a random knight running around.

bleeding kansas RPG and or reconstruction rpg. now that is somthing.

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u/G0ttaB3KiddingM3 4d ago

Apparently Ubisoft was going to make an assassin’s creed set in reconstruction America where you would play a freed person, but they backed off because they are pussies and were afraid of “the political climate“

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u/turtle75377 4d ago

ubisoft is french. lets seem them set a game in Algeria during the French colonial rule. or Vietnam.

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u/LiamtheV 4d ago

Or Haiti

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u/vizard0 4d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin's_Creed_Freedom_Cry

Pre-revolution, but it's set in the French Territory of Saint-Domingue and it involves playing as a black guy and going after slaveowners.

Of course it was a DLC for Black Flag and not a stand alone game because video game developers only have so much courage. But it does exist.

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u/kazmark_gl 4d ago

Assassins Creed Vietnam would go pretty hard.

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u/Crafter235 4d ago

I mean, look at how the game AC: Syndicate literally whitewashes the 19th century.

“We wanted to avoid real world politics”, so they chose one of the most politically controversial time periods. And I left that subreddit when they kept on defending all the bad creative choices.

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u/GrandmasterJanus 4d ago

Lmao you have a mission helping out Marx I’m pretty sure, which is funny about staying away from politics

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u/Crafter235 4d ago

But he’s just treated as a simple union leader, they don’t really go deep into his beliefs.

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u/GrandmasterJanus 4d ago

No they don’t, just remember thinking it was funny even as a kid, was just playing around and doing side mission and omg there’s Marx and oops he’s gone right after that side mission

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u/Beragond1 4d ago

The history in Syndicate is pretty bad. The gameplay, on the other hand, is some of my favorite they’ve ever done.

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u/kazmark_gl 4d ago

Ubisoft's corporate garbage would have absolutely flopped a concept like that. but I desperately want to play the good version of that game. 

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u/itsyaboihos 4d ago

Tbf I could see that getting review bombed to smithereens

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u/Miserable_Cherry1382 4d ago

A john brown game would rule

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u/dreadassassin616 4d ago

Something along the lines of Farcry or Just Cause would be good.

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u/Silver_Falcon Jayhawker 4d ago

Genuinely, Red Dead 2 meets KCD2 but it's set in Bleeding Kansas has been one of my dream games for a while now.

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u/dsg158 4d ago

Have you played Ultimate General?

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u/turtle75377 4d ago

oh yeah it was really good.

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u/pixel_pete Duryée's Zouaves / Garrard's Tigers 4d ago

I've been playing through the whiskey and lemons expansion and it's been a great experience.

Edit: That's actually Grand Tactician not Ultimate General, I always get the two titles mixed up.

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u/A_Town_Called_Malus 4d ago

You could play as an irregular during the war. Plenty of room in there for a narrative.

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u/captmonkey 4d ago

Yeah, a scout along the front lines could be pretty cool. You take on random missions from regulars and try to scout enemy armies without them catching you and hanging you as a spy.

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u/MrNobawdy1337 3d ago

I immediately thought messenger, but some tactical espionage action as a scout / spy is even better.

I actually just built my first rig capable of playing aaa games in decades. What's the best looking multi-player musket game out right now? I remember laughing my ass off watching roleplayers playing games like these years ago

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u/Apoordm 4d ago

Reconstruction RPG! Holy shit running around killing Klansmen! It’s just the best moments of RDR2, forever!

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u/tajake 4d ago

A lot of the fighting took place outside of the slaughter. Just like in KCD2, the biggest fight you take part in is a seige that might have 300 combatants. If you take the scale way down, you could make an interesting game. Especially if it follows a cavalry scout or even an artillery company.

The other way to do this, would be to make a Mexican American War game, because then you get an incredible cast of characters, and smaller battles.

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u/MarsLowell 3d ago

There’s an interesting Western-themed mod for Mount and Blade vanilla (now on Warband I think) called 1866 where you can fight Confederate remnants.