User blog comment:USMC Lance/When is a BF game not going to be in modern times? (BF3 is not future even though set in 2014)/@comment-1916935-20111106013153/@comment-28584497-20111106030029

At this point, "modern" has been overused as well.

For one thing, most of the "modern" games (Six Days in Fallujah and Medal of Honor notwithstanding) aren't representations of modern combat whatsoever. What it really comes down to is execution, and a game that is executed brilliantly -- such as Red Orchestra -- overcomes the preconceptions about a supposedly oversaturated genre.

Probably the best thing people could do at this point is games for Cold War era conflicts -- Korean war, Soviet War in Afghanistan, Vietnam, the First Gulf War; or, they can go back to the future and do more games set in the 22nd century.