[HN Gopher] Experiencing History in Assassin's Creed
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Experiencing History in Assassin's Creed
Author : drdee
Score : 41 points
Date : 2021-11-10 03:00 UTC (1 days ago)
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| ordiel wrote:
| TL;DR
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| Assassin's Creed games were good and historically accurate untill
| they got the original creators out (and Desmond dies) From there
| onwards is pure shit intended to sell games to button-smasher
| type of players....
| speps wrote:
| Very good series there on History Respawned channel:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C9h3p5Efa4&list=PL6MyHOj463...
| lapetitejort wrote:
| Discovery Mode would be one of the killer apps of cloud gaming.
| Give a license to schools to allow students to stream any of the
| games on their cheap laptops. Yes, schools would still have to
| surmount the network load, or students couldn't stream from home,
| etc etc. Just imagine you're walking through a semi-historical
| 2020's America with anachronistic good internet.
| cblconfederate wrote:
| Discovery mode should have multiplayer with in-world chat, a
| roleplaying environment. In fact i wonder why they did not
| release it as such.
| jonny_eh wrote:
| You're wondering why they didn't put hundreds of hours of
| engineering work into a mode that makes them no money?
|
| I'm personally grateful they made this mode at all.
| lapetitejort wrote:
| I could see modern historical reenactments (such as Civil War
| battles) moving online, with younger, more MMO-steeped
| players willing to roleplay as Private #12 who dies during
| the initial volley.
| hhh wrote:
| ARMA thrives in this area, and a recent expansion to ARMA
| 3: S.O.G. Prairie Fire is a great entry point for those who
| don't play milsim games typically. There's a beautifully
| crafted campaign that is designed as coop first, and was
| made with input from former US Special Forces MACV-SOG
| members.
|
| Outside of this example, the community has scenarios like
| Antistasi, which is a dynamic gamemode that consists of two
| factions fighting to control a region, and your third
| insurgent force taking over. No scripted events, just AI
| making tactical decisions in response to your actions. The
| most predictable things are QRFs and increasing attacks on
| your positions as your war levels increase.
|
| I have never had a session of Antistasi turn out similarly,
| other than people attaching to the roles they love
| (pilot,engineer,medic,etc.) Mods increase this to a next-
| level experience with TFAR for radio simulation, ACE for
| improved ballistics and medical systems, etc. There is a
| LOT to find, from WW2 to present day.
|
| There are other more roleplay style servers, and I had a
| blast creating execution videos of in-game politicians and
| carbombing city squares on a roleplay server in 2014 or so
| as the Islamic State.
|
| Great fun, great skills you can learn here (I learned a LOT
| about logistics and communications from ARMA, Foxhole, and
| Squad.) Game actually runs decently now too.
| watwut wrote:
| I would prefer the schools to teach kids difference between
| fiction and reality. And to teach them to be careful about
| taking fiction as source of historical reality.
| cblconfederate wrote:
| A lot of the history they are being taught is in any case
| fiction.
| goomyman wrote:
| Critical race theory in a nutshell.
| watwut wrote:
| You don't even know what it is.
| jonny_eh wrote:
| > taking fiction as source of historical reality
|
| As opposed to all those reliable primary sources our concept
| of history is based on?
| Angostura wrote:
| There are many good historical prmarty sources - yes.
| mhh__ wrote:
| They won't care about anything you say if you don't grab
| their attention first.
|
| Ancient Greece in a little cartoon in a history textbook is
| boring, running around ancient Greece being spoonfed a little
| classics is fun and visually appealing.
| watwut wrote:
| Ancient Greece history is boring, because it is so absurdly
| superficial and unreal. And pointless. Most of what people
| imagine as ancient history is closer to myth making then
| history anyway.
|
| And creating in them completely wrong idea about how it
| functioned may he fun, but I would preferred to skip whole
| topic if you have to do that. Boring but at least sorta
| true is better then cool but mostly elaborate diorama.
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