Crown Wars: The Black Prince - historical fantasy turn-based tactics from Naheulbeuk devs

[mediocrepoet]

I have a feeling historian consultants mostly enjoy the paycheck, the free vacations, and ignore everything else.

Highly doubtful, nobody becomes an historian because of the money. While you have ideologues pushing agendas there, a lot of them are passionate about history and about "getting it right".

While you are correct, consider the following:

1. How much actual leverage these consultants actually have
2. What they are really hired for (it's so nobody gets offended)
3. The general landscape of media and it's relationship with "historical accuracy"
4. The inclination of the individual to be a reasonable business associate that doesn't come off as rude

So while the prestigious and morally correct thing is to fight back against the corporate powers that want to put Malians in Kingdom Cum 2: the re-Cuming, the actual reality is that angry, upstanding historians no longer accept consultation jobs in an industry as degenerate as video games, or they just do their job and give less of a fuck.

Welcome to the defeatism and its consequences.

I think it's more likely that most would be jazzed at the chance to have a part in a big project and then their reaction to possibly having no actual influence will depend on the person and their character.

Source: My ass + decades in academia.

 

[Abu Antar]

When it comes to video games, I'm sure that they only consult with them a couple of times, and that's that. At least for lower budget games. I doubt that they constantly had access to a historian, which would make more sense for something like KCD2.