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Originally Posted by enaceo
Indeed.People should stop making threads like this (which mode NYGM or GW) because in the end it is all about PERSONAL PREFERENCES.
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Which is exactly the point that many others and myself have been trying to get across in every other one of the threads that keep popping up with the "which is better NYGM or GW" topic.
This topic has been discussed to death already in numerous other threads that can be looked up.Yet it keeps popping up over and over again.
REALISM IS UP TO THE PLAYER AS TO WHAT THEY FEEL IS REALISTIC AND THEIR INTERPRETATION OF REALISM.
This is why I cant stand the terms "realistic" and "realism" being used as they are way to open to interpretation and debate.To use the term "Historically Accurate" lowers the ability to argue..as you cannot argue cold hard facts if you can backup your claims with evidence.Sure there will still be some variations of the same data that will be up to interpretation but far less than simply saying I am making it realistic and having no evedence to backup your settings.Saying I am making it realistic opens up the debate because your settings will be your interpretation of what you feel is realistic and not someone else's idea of realism.Hence the debate and arguments over the mod start.
Just to give an example of how my term would work.And I hope I make some sense with this and some can see where I am coming from in my idea.
Take the RUB mod.Beery claimed it to be for die hard realism fans.His work was his interpretation of what he thought was realistic.The mod was great for a tougher game and was to a degree more "realistic" compared to the stock game.But as was debated numerous times in threads that started about some of the settings like the deck gun and other things.Many showed historical evidence that showed his settings to be historically incorrect.Yet he chose to not use them and continued with his own interpretation.
So here is where the terms realistic and histrically accurate come in to play.RUB was a "realism" mod in a sense that it was made based on the makers interpretation of realism.It however was NOT a "historically accurate" mod as evidence that people posted proved many settings he used were not historically correct.
As someone stated right after my post about the terms..both NYGM and GW teams are going for historical accuracy with their repective mods.Which is why I said that maybe they could use the term "A historically correct mod" instead of calling it a "realism mod".This way they are not as open for debates on realism.