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General discussionWhat time, place, or setting do you feel is under-used in video games?(51 posts)(51 posts)
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Posted November 26, 2019
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LootHunter: And? Assassin's Creed: Origins set in Egypt and has a story based on Egyptian history, heck even a special game mode that tells you about Egypt. Are you saying that only Egyptians are enjoy playing Assassin's Creed: Origins?
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BreOl72: That's a great example. Why don't you add some more examples?
Examples of what? Games set in one region and played by people from another? Practically every game.
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Posted November 26, 2019
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LootHunter: Examples of what?
Games that are set in an Africa/India/Latin America country, and that are played from a native's perspective, and that educate their players of the history and culrure of the game's background.

Btw: the Discovery Tour mode in AC: Origins is not part of the normal game, it's just a bonus that every player has the freedom to use - or not.
Posted November 26, 2019
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LootHunter: Examples of what?
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BreOl72: Games that are set in an Africa/India/Latin America country, and that are played from a native's perspective, and that educate their players of the history and culrure of the game's background.
If I had more examples, I wouldn't complain that there are no games based in African setting, earlier.
Posted November 26, 2019
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falloutttt: Yeah, no, I played all those. There's also Scarface game with music from the movie and everything. :)

But I was talking about sand-boxy-type and/or turn-based gangster games. Similar to the Empire of Sin that you mentioned. And yes its going to be a great game, but we all know Paradox. No need to say more here, Paradox is Paradox.

There's also Gangland. It's not a bad game at all. It is or was available on GOG at some point. There's other couple similar games, but that's it! :/
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kai2: Scarface is a GREAT game. Yes, played that many times. ;)

Had hoped Omerta was good, but have heard otherwise.
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sergeant_citrus: Agree that bronze age / age of antiquity is really underused. I loved Tyranny's setting, we could use more like that.

I also think that the age of colonization could be used more. Deadfire had that kind of setting, but people were upset that it wasn't more standard fantasy. Risen 2 (and I guess 3?) also had a sort of "piratical" setting that I rather liked, if only because it was different.

I think the fur trade thing you mentioned would be pretty neat, too.
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kai2: You might check out Greedfall. Very much a fanatsy treatise on colonization. In fact that's what got me looking at the 17th and 18th centuries again in games and media.
Omerta is no fun. Gets boring pretty fast. :/
Posted November 26, 2019
I think all settings get used reasonably frequently (with some more than others obviously) but that the use of the setting depends on the genre or the size of the publisher or developer.

Once you get into small independent developers the settings of their games vary much more widely than the larger publishers. Likewise schools or the renaissance or a popular setting for dating sims, not so much for shooters.
Posted November 27, 2019
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firstpastthepost: Likewise schools or the renaissance or a popular setting for dating sims, not so much for shooters.
There was a shooter in school setting a while back but it was taken down from Steam due to online outrage. :P
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