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If you could play a life simulator game, which time peroid would you prefer?

Tavernking

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Ideas: Ancient greece, Rome, Medieval Europe, Eastern Europe during the mongol invasion, Viking age, Rennainace, Napoleon, WWI and the roaring twenties, etc.
 

DalekFlay

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The only reason I play the shitty Assassin's Creed games is to wander around ancient cities. I'd love for that to become a genre of its own, especially in first-person. Which would I prefer? Probably Victorian London or 1920's New York. Occupied Paris in WW2 would be interesting. For much older times, Rome at the height of the Empire period jumps out.
 

octavius

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I wonder if at one point we will have something akin to Google Maps where you can walk around in cities, even from different times?
 

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Mobster during Prohibition.
Knight during Medieval times.
Spy during the Cold War.
Oil tycoon during the industrial revolution
 

Lemming42

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Always thought it'd be cool to have a game like this where nothing happens and there's no shitty combat system or anything, but the devs just focus on making a world that truly feels "alive", maybe with interesting NPCs with stories to tell you. Euro Truck Simulator but in the Old West or some shit.

It could be a genuinely innovative and useful way of learning history, going around a faithful (or as faithful as possible) recreation of a historical area and talking to people in the world who'll tell you historically accurate information in an engaging way.

Seconding DalekFlay's suggestion, I'd love to walk around Victorian London. See all the fancy dresses and hats, then go to the poorer districts to laugh in the faces of the tuberculosis-suffering street urchins.
 

BR4ZIL

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Obviously 16-17th century europe, the time where a man could wear the most flamboyant clothing and hats possible, use a large codpiece to intimidate everyone and go to war dressed like that
Landsknechts_01.jpg
 
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Obviously 16-17th century europe, the time where a man could wear the most flamboyant clothing and hats possible, use a large codpiece to intimidate everyone and go to war dressed like that
Landsknechts_01.jpg

Beautiful picture, but you gotta figure, in reality, these were terrible times. Constant warfare over political, social and religious issues, still occasional plagues and famines, and all that fun stuff. Getting shot by a musket in those days was also a really bad way to go. Unlike modern rifles, which shoot thin and sharp projectiles at great force, muskets shot plodding thick balls of lead at a very slow speed, so instead of passing through the person's body, they would transfer all their momentum into the flesh, causing tremendous amounts of pain and suffering. From what I understand, most people died from shock.


As far as the OP, I would be down with any cool historical setting. It's sad that year after year, game companies invent or use all these mostly retarded settings (e.g. Divinity OS universe, or Pathfinder or Pillars) when they could just use really cool stuff from history. You have 200,000 years to work with, about 3,000 of those we have very detailed knowledge about, and a gazellion of cool settings within that.

Joan of Arc, Saladin, Ghenghiz Khan, Musashi, Columbus, Magellan, Charlemagne, Marius, Tamerlane, Nevsky, Ashoka, Livingstone, Darius, Attila, Louis XIVth, there is almost an infinite list of cool stuff.
 

Ovg

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1900 (or 1880s) - 1918 (or 1935)

All ideologies, a lot of stuff from colonial ventures to war I, the medical breakthroughs, the social change...

A lot of shit to do
 

dbx

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Probably some lesser known (from a westerner perspective) ancient civ.
SJWs always scream about muh colonialism and white privilege yet the best they can come up is putting kangz in ancient/medieval europe.
How about a "realistic" game (akin to Kingdom Come) set in ancient china or ancient india? Mesopotamia? The middle east before itzslam?
 

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Stone age!

Oooga boooga, bug knarr toff!
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"We must gather the clans to fight off that vicious cave bear or humanity is surely doomed"
 

Morkar Left

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Obviously 16-17th century europe, the time where a man could wear the most flamboyant clothing and hats possible, use a large codpiece to intimidate everyone and go to war dressed like that
Landsknechts_01.jpg

Beautiful picture, but you gotta figure, in reality, these were terrible times. Constant warfare over political, social and religious issues, still occasional plagues and famines, and all that fun stuff. Getting shot by a musket in those days was also a really bad way to go. Unlike modern rifles, which shoot thin and sharp projectiles at great force, muskets shot plodding thick balls of lead at a very slow speed, so instead of passing through the person's body, they would transfer all their momentum into the flesh, causing tremendous amounts of pain and suffering. From what I understand, most people died from shock.

Yeah, if you'regoing for really, really living there I would chose the 90's in Europe. Most comfort, security, privacy and freedom of speech.
 

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