This is CANADA...

[chefTENGU]

With the release of Red Dead Redemption, and all the excitement and so forth surrounding it, a thought struck me.

For CS, Llama, and any other esteemed Canucks around here, does it bother you that there's like, 50 bajillion games about the American wild west (from Custer's Revenge (http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/nes/naughty03.htm) all the way to Red Dead), but not one freaking game set in Canada?

And it's not like there's a dearth of material. How about a game where you play as some Vikings and whomp on Eskimos a bunch (though that would probably play a lot like Dwarf Fortress)? Or one where you play as a French fur trapper on a never ending quest for beaver pelts and native poon?

Or a historical FPS about Benedict Arnold's disastrous invasion of Montreal during the American Revolution (you start out shooting cannons right at Arnold's face and the game ends when you chase him all the way back across the Great Lakes)?

Or hell, a Red Dead type of game set on the backdrop of the Yukon gold rush instead of the dying gasps of the American frontier.

And if you guys start a development company to start making games like that, let me in on it. I need a new job badly.

[SpaceProg]

Canada's boring.

That is all.


























;)

Seriously though, a Yukon Gold Rush type game sounds interesting. I'd give it a try.

[Colonel Skills]

The reason there is no Canadian setting in the vidya is because Americans are too dumb to know where Canada actually is. They would think it's a fictional setting at worst, and at best complain about the Hudson Bay Company as only a modern retail establishment, and wonder why there is all this brand advertising in the game as it takes so much away from the experience.

[deathofcheese]

Surely Canada's starred in a not-insignificant number of games. Granted, I really can't think of any, but I'm sure they're out there.

I guess if I ever get into VG dev, I'll have to change this.

[SpaceProg]

There should be a Trailer Park Boys game.

I'll play as Bubbles since we both are nice people that like kitties.

[chefTENGU]

I just remembered that there's Timber, by Midway, but that one's just got a really vague setting.

You play as a lumberjack (sometimes competing with a buddy) as you chop down as many trees as you possibly can before time runs out, while you have to dodge bee hives thrown by bears and collect baby birds for bonus points.

[SpaceProg]

Well that's realistic. I can't count how many baby birds I've collected and bears and bees I've dodged.

... Of course, I'm not Canadian, so... maybe that's just a Canuck thing.

[Seegtease]

Well that's realistic. I can't count how many baby birds I've collected and bears and bees I've dodged.

... Of course, I'm not Canadian, so... maybe that's just a Canuck thing.

You're also not a lumberjack.

[llama_egg]

We might not get games set in Canada, but we do have some sexy-ass-developers. Bioware is within drivable distance, to think, Mass Effect 3 is being made so close to me!

[chefTENGU]

I get some hometown pride when I think of Bethesda Softworks being located where it is, so I understand.

But I still think someone needs to make a game (not about hockey) that showcases the power of the land of maple leaves.

[llama_egg]

Call of Duty 6: Beaver Strike Force!

[chefTENGU]

Why is Newfoundland so fucked up? Is it because all the undesirables were shunted into it (like with the leper colony on Molokai Island)? Or perhaps it's something in the water?

Sounds like the building blocks for a Bioshock-esque game. "Trapped with the Newfies."

[Colonel Skills]

Instead of ADAM, you're collecting bathtub screech.

[llama_egg]

They are also making offering to their gods by making out with fish.

[SpaceProg]

I've actually met a coupla Newfies before and lived to tell the tale. They seemed like alright people. Though, that WAS in public...

[chefTENGU]

They've been playing the Red Dead Redemption commercial at work again (I have no idea why), so this thread's back on my mind. Also, Target started selling this item:

http://www.target.com/Canada-Screen-Tee-Red/dp/B004CLF4BI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&searchView=grid5&keywords=043018325&fromGsearch=true&sr=1-1&qid=1294261327&rh=&searchRank=target104545&node=1038576%7C1287991011&searchSize=30&sessionID=185-9242269-4556910&searchPage=1&searchNodeID=1038576%7C1287991011&searchBinNameList=subjectbin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_ primary_color-bin%2Ctarget_com_size-bin%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin&frombrowse=0

I secretly want to foist it upon CS and Llama.

[llama_egg]

That's a really out of place shirt considering Target is a US chain.

Obviously everyone wants to be one of us. My Igloo bring all the Americans to the border, and they're like, it's better then ours, damn right it's better then yours, I could teach you but I'd have to charge.

You may also replace Igloo with healthcare.

[chefTENGU]

Arg. Don't get me started on healthcare.

If you even mention the dreaded H-word around some people, they'll immediately start raging about how you're a commie nazi and that government-run healthcare is the worst thing in the world.

[Charlie]

Grand Theft Auto: Toronto FTW

[chefTENGU]

THAT would be really interesting, especially considering how they've allowed you to swim in some of the more recent GTA titles.

Imagine being able to do water taxi missions, or if they expand the game to be more like San Andreas (so you're more or less talking about Ontario at large, as opposed to just Toronto), you could flee from the cops into some spectacular wilderness, then get chased down by the mounties and fight polar bears.

Plus, if you go with the San Andreas approach, you could have a large segment of the map be devoted to faux Quebec, and a Montreal-ish city, full of people who refuse to speak English.

Hell, it'd be like combining GTA with Red Dead (like they weren't the same game already anyway).

Shit, now I really want to play this game. Someone go poke Rockstar until it's done.

[chefTENGU]

My co-worker told me about an awesome old movie she saw over the weekend.

It was about a group of six nazis whose plane crashes in Canada. It's now them vs. 11 million Canadians. They wander around trying to seem inconspicuous, but then meet with trouble (like when one of their fellows decides he would rather bake bread with some German immigrants instead of be a nazi; he is later shot for this).

The movie culminates when the RCMP, aided by a bunch of indians (and in awesome classic racism, these indians appear in traditional dress, so it's like a bunch of Dudley Do-Rights working in conjunction with several Sitting Bull clones) round up the entire town where these nazis are hiding and ask everyone to look at their neighbor and make sure they're not actually a nazi.

This would make an awesome game, from either the Canadian perspective or from the nazis' (which I imagine would be unlockable after you beat it the "normal" way).

Also, if this sounds familiar to anyone, let me know, because this movie sounds great and I'd quite like to see it.

[SpaceProg]

You could use Google and type in some keywords. Like '"Nazis" "Canada" "Movie"' or something of that nature.

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http://www.answers.com/topic/forty-ninth-parallel

Could this be it?

[chefTENGU]

That sounds like it exactly.

Google failed me with those search terms (though I probably didn't search well enough).

[SpaceProg]

The three keywords got me as much as they did you more than likely. I added "Indians" to the mix.