Misinterpreted the phrasing my bad, sorry.NoeL said:Yes I know. When I said "Other than that..." I was saying "Other than Africa..." And Mesopotamia isn't just Iraq, it's a whole region in the Middle East.
Misinterpreted the phrasing my bad, sorry.NoeL said:Yes I know. When I said "Other than that..." I was saying "Other than Africa..." And Mesopotamia isn't just Iraq, it's a whole region in the Middle East.
That's not quite true. Romans had sexual taboos just as strong as ours, but they had completely different taboos. For instance, oral sex was considered filthy, but anal penetration was considered perfectly fine. That's as long as you're the top, of course. Murals of sex acts were common in public places, prostitution was a state-regulated industry under Augustus, and public baths were basically hotbeds of indecency.Deshara said:The Romans were actually pretty prudish. The whole "orgies and horse fucking" stuff was made up by christian romans to slander the non-christian romans. They just weren't prudish in the same way we are..Ftaghn To You Too said:That should mean we're all over pre-Roman times, since almost exactly nothing was different in the areas you say. Well, not shyness to sex, since that only started somewhere around the late medieval period to renaissance.Deshara said:As a general reply to a lot of people asking why pre-Roman europe or, really, pre-roman anything isn't really depicted is because, according to our culture, it didn't exist. Of sure, it happened, it'll admit grudgingly, but those weren't really human beings, because real human beings are shy about sex, force eachother into labor for our own benefit and work ourselves to death to sustain a hierarchical society
Yeah, that guy took a level in badass like everyday that he lived. He would make a fascinating protagonist. I might add that we haven't really explored the Huns well - especially given the richness of their empire.Sleekit said:Shaka Zulu would be a great historical protagonist for a game.Johnny Novgorod said:We don't see much of Africa prior to the 20th/21th century do we? Excluding the ocassional pyramid tour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka
Yeah that sounds like it would have been pretty cool. I have day-dreamed about games like that before.Pessimismus said:I would personally love to see some games in the first World War. I know it wasn't the most dynamic front around, but it's still a period I am very interested in. I also think it might very well allow for a more mature story considering how brutal conditions were.
Beyond that, part of me is still rather sad that this one game called 'B.C.' got cancelled forever ago. Dinosaurs and cavemen living together might not exactly be authentic, but the concept of keeping your tribe alive by hunting and gathering with a dynamic ecosystem sounded really cool. But that might be a tad off-topic. Regardless, a game set in some tribal era might be fun to explore.
Vampire: Masquerade?Shoggoth2588 said:I can't tell you how much I would give to see an RPG (be it J, Western or, Bioware) that takes place in the present day AND is a Fantasy RPG with multiple playable races. That's...a lot more specific than what the OP is asking about...but there are no RPGs like that! Why can't there be more modern day RPGs?! J or otherwise!?
This may have been said already, but that's actually something that America also suffered in the Civil War, where entire towns had generations of men wiped out as regiments were decimated. The end result being that afterwords, America made sure to mix recruits up, often spreading them between regiments and sending them to different theaters.Sleekit said:i think when it comes to WW1 you'd have to be very careful not to glorify the war...WW1 still looms large in the cultural landscape of some countries and still stings...in the UK mostly because of horror of the "pals battalions" where entire social groups of men enlisted, fought and died together thus rendering individual communities with entire generations lost "all at once"...a lot of people in places like the UK don't move around much geographically and personally i walk past a village war memorial every day with 8 members of my own family on it...and those memorials are everywhere...even in the smallest hamlet...RicoADF said:World War 1 "The Great War", there's only 1 game I can think of that does this time period called "The Great War", a turned based strategy game, lots of fun but we seriously need more games set in this time especially considering how much it's effects are still being felt today.
WW1 is held up as the archetype of "the horrors of war" even now...after we've dropped nukes on people...
people would be extreamly sensitive to any "glorification" of it...
or to put it another way WW1 is the reason to a great many people this isn't just a picture of a field of flowers...
i like the Madmans idea for a horror game tho
Wouldn't that just be Red Dead Redemption again, but with less trees?TheRiddler said:And for the latter, the Mexican American War could combine exploration and combat with life on the desert frontier.
There was a sort of similar game to what you had in mind in development not too long ago(not a survival horror game, but it deals with that sort of side of events).Evil Smurf said:I want a WW2 survival horror game, set in Nazi Germany, where you play as a Jew, hiding away, trying to find a place to live. Maybe you hop the border to Switzerland, maybe you die.
I can dream at leastAkichi Daikashima said:There was a sort of similar game to what you had in mind in development not too long ago(not a survival horror game, but it deals with that sort of side of events).Evil Smurf said:I want a WW2 survival horror game, set in Nazi Germany, where you play as a Jew, hiding away, trying to find a place to live. Maybe you hop the border to Switzerland, maybe you die.
It's called Imagination Is the Only Escape.
Sadly, it was cancelled because of the "dark imagery and subject matter".
Because apparently that's a valid reason.
GG Nintendo of America.