Are there any history games you like?
In the absence of a time machine this is the best thing we have.
Post the /his/ approved vidya.
>>842274
Age of Empires 2 (and more recently the HD version)
>Assacuck Creed
>/his/ approved
Only the maps/locations. With the characters and the story all accuracy goes out the window.
>>842274
I enjoy CK2 and Vicky 2 greatly desu.
>>842342
AC2 is pretty historically accurate.
>>842366
0/10 m8
>>842350
second this
vicky 2 is the shit
>>842379
If you ignore the 50% of the population are assassins and the other 50% are templars subplot, but yeah, it's pretty realistic.
And secret societies do exist.
>>842432
Yeah and if you ignore that entire architecture and costumes are off by like 200 years and several characters are portrayed as young men when the should've been grandpas.
Assassin's Creed in general is pretty bad for the historical characters and story, but excellent for the historical settings. If you want to walk around Revolutionary Paris or Renaissance Rome, AC is amazing.
>>842445
Examples of any of that?
>>842452
On my phone, look it up yourself if you wish.
>>842274
>>842448
I loved the portrayal of colonial America in AC3. Yes, the game as a whole was shit, but the locations were superb.
Contrast this to Black Flag which is a much better game but crammed with inaccuracies and anachronisms.
EU4 is pretty good.
>>842342
The musics pretty good as well, at least in AC2,
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9geXVAOFDg
>>842458
Except I've never heard anyone else say that so it's bullshit.
I never noticed anything wrong with architecture and certainly nobody being portrayed as younger than they were, in fact I remember Lafayette looking middle aged in AC3, when he was actually 19 years old.
>>842469
Jesus nigger just google it.
>>842462
AC3 was probably accurate, but can't say colonial Boston and New York offer a whole lot in terms of interesting architecture or sightseeing. The Frontier was nice though.
>>842445
>that entire architecture and costumes are off by like 200 years
not true btw
>>842469
Only thing I can think of is that in Brotherhood they made a conscious decision to make a Baroque Rome as otherwise it would look too similar to the cities from AC2.
>>842471
Yeah there's nothing. Only "handguns are too accurate" or "Templars aren't real" type shit.
So stop making claims when you can't even think of a single example.
I stopped playing midway through Revelations.
I heard I didn't miss that much though, because every game kept getting worse.
>>842473
IDK I actually love small ball colonial houses rather than bombastic cathedrals and palaces, but that's just me..
>>842479
They did? Possible, the thing is the famous Rome was mostly built during the 16th and 17th century but the game takes place in 1500.
>>842481
You heard wrong. This literally only applies to AC3.
>>842481
AC4 > everything else.
>>842462
Luckily I didn't know enough about the pirate republic to notice.
>>842479
I never noticed that...
>>842486
>>842497
Rome in 1503 should look similar in architectural style to the city of Florence featured in "Assassin's Creed 2." But the art director for "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" decided to give Rome the Baroque architectural style of the late 16th century, so that gamers would have a new-looking virtual playground that is also more recognizable to modern eyes.
>http://www.livescience.com/8945-renaissance-scholar-helps-build-virtual-rome.html
It was still a pretty good model just from a different era
>tfw the new AC game set in Egypt will have a black pharaoh
>>842496
Even the geography is horseshit, most of the Caribbean is pretty flat but in the game literally every island has monumental cliffs and mountains.
AC2 is architecturally inaccurate, the Colosseum is not elliptical.
>The famous Roman Colosseum still looms above virtual Rome, but its in-game shape is circular rather than elliptical. That's because the challenge of making different shadows for all sides of the building would have driven game designers nuts, Simonetta said.
>"It's fine that you have a Colosseum that's not elliptical, because it looks like the Colosseum," Simonetta told LiveScience. "The fact that you can go inside these buildings [in the game] is incredible."
>>842274
>Post the /his/ approved vidya.
FUCK OFF TO >>>/vg/gsg AND FUCKING STAY THERE
>>842459
mah nigga
I never understood what the SPQR shit means, it's literally inscribed on every building in AC II, but it was never explained?
>>842565
It's like an Easter egg, Special Quality Projects, it's a division of Ubisoft.
>>842501
Maybe it's based back when Egypt had a black dynasty? I'm pretty sure they had one for a relatively short period of time.
>>842565
Senatus Populusque Romanorum - "For the Senate and the People of Rome"
It was the motto of the Roman legions.
>>842565
>comes to a history board
>doesn't know what SPQR is
THat's like going to /pol/ and not knowing what "conservative" means
>>842669
But /pol/ don't know what conservative means.
>>842565
>I never understood what the SPQR shit means, it's literally inscribed on every building in AC II, but it was never explained?
>>842632
But the game is set in 1500 or something, Rome was dead as fuck by that time.
CK2 w/mods to make it more historically accurate.
>>842669
I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make here.
>>842727
To this day there are still public buildings in Rome marked with SPQR.
Rome never "died", it's the eternal city. it was a long, gradual transition away from the Roman system of antiquity, and elements of it still exist in the city itself.
>>842448
Holy fuck, that's how video games look nowadays? It's almost like reality!
AC 1 > AC 2 > black flag > AC 3 > brotherhood > the rest
![aoe0046[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/QaE6yCI.png "aoe0046[1].png")
>>Not posting the original game
Atilla Total War with mods to make it fun and accurate
>>842742
Yeah, but the mechanics are kind of stupid, and makes it feel like the medieval era invented internet or some other form of high speed communication. Still. It's pretty good.
>>842565
SPQR
ROMA INVICTA!
>>843102
My nigga
Anyone else super hyped for Kingdom Come? It convinced me to get a PS4. The SJW-confrontation alone makes me want to support the developer by buying a copy.
enough depth to be interesting, not too much so as to be less enjoyable/escapist and cause my ocd to start working against me.
obviously i pick underpowered clans [spoiler]and/or change leaders[/spoilers] to make it worth the time and more fun.
>>842274
Assassin's Creed is fine though goes to shit after Revelations with the exception of Black Flag. It's version of history is a joke though.
I also like the Warriors games with Samurai Warriors being overall better than Dynasty Warriors IMO even if it takes much, much bigger liberties with the story/history. The gameplay changes in every Samurai game seem more significant while not deviating completely from the tried and true system and the changes (i.e. skills, Hyper Attacks, etc.) always seem to work compared to the ones in DW. Plus Munenori Yagyu in SW4 is fun as hell to use.
>>843157
>that conversation
I kek'd
Is it your OC?
>>843552
Nah someone else did it
>>842481
AC4 is great fun.
Unity is very love or hate. They patched out most of the big issues but I don't think the base gameplay is too fun. Paris itself is amazing though.
Rogue is fantastic, it's basically AC4 in AC3's setting. Story is utter shit though.
Syndicate is alright. It's fun enough but the setting's kind of blah (and there's a glut of Victorian shit right now) and the climbing is basically pointless. London's not as good compared to Paris. Evie's kind of a Mary Sue but Jacob's fun.
Next game is rumored to be set in Ancient Egypt which I'm not too excited for to be honest although part of the rumor states it may be a trilogy of Mediterranean games to get Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece in there as well which would be better.
>>842274
Europa Universalis is pretty good, it even has snippets of history incorporated in it .
Fucking Mount and Blade
>>843702
>and there's a glut of Victorian shit right now
What Victorian shit is there besides Victoria 2?
And no, 100% fictional steampunk faggotry like Dishonored doesn't count.
Assassin's Creed stopped being good when they ditched the present-day story.
The game just lost its mystery and it's not the same. Everything I do in the Animus feels pointless now. And the big templars vs assassins showdown in the present never happened, so that's shit too...
I liked Crusader Kings 2 a lot but the themes have forced primo succession and I can't have tidy little internal borders
on top of that council mechanics turned out highly disappointing for Byzantium as well; martial never tries to pull off a coup like I'd hoped. I'm outright baffled "overthrow ruler" forces a noble republic looking thing instead of dressing up a new guy in the purple.
I can't even stylize myself Padishah Emperor since the closest title of Padishah is restricted to Turkish culture, who have forced ugly-as-shit holding graphics
Paradox Interactive makes me want to pick up coding and modding just to satisfy my cravings and I hate them for it.
>>844209
Marshal*
fuck I don't even remember the greek flavor title
AC stopped being good after AC1. Instead of refining the base gameplay - assassinations - they focused on adding random objectives to the game to waste time. Collect even more shit, finish even more pointless sidequests, gadgets, minigames etc.
Imagine Assassin's Creed as it it should be. The game is just assassinations, Hitman style, except in open world. The target has a daily schedule, you need to stalk them out, or get into elsewhere etc. Also in combat you die easily, adding the sense of danger to your every move.
Don't get me wrong, the AC2 style gameplay is fu, but it's stupid fun, you hold the right trigger and watch parkout happen, you press one or two buttons and watch a kill animation happen. Obviously this shit was not gonna last long and after much milking AC4 had to become a pretty different game. And in the newest installements they added some of the complexity back. Mainly to combat. Typical video game-y take'n'give. First you make something retarded and when people have enough of it, you make it slightly less retarded and act like it's a revolution.
But whatevs, I'm rambling by this point. In short fuck you all cúcks for having no standards and wanting braindead fun where a chance for something better existed.
UnReal World is a fun Northern iron age simulator. Even though it's not strictly historical, it's close enough for me and it doesn't really even have any competition setting-wise.
>>844225
but senpai, AC1 was fucking awful
too repetitive
and that time period and the locations where the game takes place made me sick, everything looked so dirty and dark and just thinking of that game makes me nauseous, or that's just my impression of the game, but i played it a long time ago
AC2 was amazing, better gameplay, bright, great atmosphere - doesn't take itself too seriously, charismatic main character, great locations
i agree about the parkour aspect of the game, but it was like that from the start, they ditched the complexity of it that prince of persia had
>>844245
I have also dabbled in DOS.
Ever Red Baron?
>>844256
AC1 had its many flaws, but the potential was there.
![ss_darketshour.1024x768.002[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8a20SCu.jpg "ss_darketshour.1024x768.002[2].jpg")
>>842274
I hope you're joking. Assassin's Creed is not only completely historically inaccurate - not just in terms of plot, but also when it comes to costumes, weaponry, armour, etc. - but also gameplay wise utter mediocrity at its very best.
>>842469
Are you out of your mind?
I've only played Assassin's Creed 1 and 2 and they were filled with historical inaccuracies.
>>844282
>DH
YES
E
S
>>844285
>but also when it comes to costumes, weaponry, armour
This I don't agree with.
This is an extremely thinly veiled assassins creed thread and I don't appreciate it at all. I love vidya as much as the next guy but if you want to learn about it, go fucking read or watch a YouTube series of you're too much of a sperg
That being said, most grand strategy games do a good job of at least hooking you into cultures you may not have thought to look into.
>>844294
What is there to "not agree with"?
Does this look like historical field armour to you?
Goddamn, I really hope vicky 3 will be good, it could potentially blow all the games here out of the water
>>844304
Depends on the time period.
>>844331
At no time period in history armour like that was used. The helmet vaguely resembles a late medieval Stechhelm for jousting tournaments, but otherwise it looks entirely fictional. And the axe is fictional too. You might find something that looks vaguely alike, but with an axe-head barely half the size and a way longer shaft. And it's not like I was completely opposed to fictional designs, but they should at least look a tiny bit practical. This armour is not.
>>844318
>tank mana, factory mana, and diplomatic (go to war) mana
>each (big) country has their own perks tree
>techs are a single tree that fills itself out
>pop removed, too complicated
>no less than 32 dlc
>>844379
Please stop
>>844379
>add mana
>remove pop
So it's basically gonna be EU5?
Jesus christ paradox, will you ever stop getting worse?
Total War
>>842466
Yes, that 21st century music sounds nice.
Actual music from that period would've sounded more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo5fqwPQDwk
>>844516
>Yes, that 21st century music sounds nice.
Of course it does, it's fucking Jesper Kyd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_5X3Yf7Ems
>>844516
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo5fqwPQDwk
For comparison, modern venetian music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btBdM1WNmOs
>>842274
The only good Assassin's Creed is the first one.
>>844586
the 2nd one, bruh
>>844586
The first one was more accurate-ish.
And then the second one happened and it was into...fantasy armour bullshit.
I find modded total war the best /his/ experience
>>844648
What mod is that?
>>844674
De bello mundi.
I think the links that work are here
http://www.moddb.com/mods/de-bello-mundi
Here is a pic of my world
>>844674
Looks like Europa Barbarorum II for Medieval II Total War.
>>844700
Looks pretty good. Thanks, lad.
>>844648
De Bello Mundi is barebones trash.
Even unfinished Europa Barbarorum II is better.
>>844740
dat history though
>that one annoying kid who always brings up things no one cares about like "DID YOU KNOW GYPSY IS AN INCORRECT TERM, THEY CALLED THEM LIKE IT BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FROM EGYPT"
>the other kid who thinks Ezio was real and Leonardo was actually friends with him
>people start saying "assassino"
>that one schizophrenic who thinks Assassin's Creed is actually a coverup
This game did a disservice to history, especially with its two liners in its in-game wiki. But hey, at least it was a fun game.
>>844849
>two liners in its in-game wiki
Elaborate, haven't played in a while.
>>842803
Well at least that's how Assassin's Creed Unity looks.
>>844858
It's a sort of a in game wiki which you can access and collect info as you play, part of it is fictional, part of it is historical, all of it are short paragraphs written in the tone of that smug English cunt who hangs around Desmond.
>>842803
A still image of the game looks great, but playing it is another story.
>>843847
Even if it's fictional it's still Victorian. Almost all Steampunk is in a Victorian style.
>>844888
It looks even better playing it provided you have a decent PC.
>>842350
>tfw linux is stuck with eu4 and ck2 instead of vicky2
Age of Empires
Rome: Total War
Battlefield 1942 (especially the Forgotten Hope mod)
Men of War
Sudden Strike
>>842727
Anon, are you retarded?
why is 90% of "historically accurate" vidya strategyshit?
Best AC maps:
1. Unity (Paris)
2. Brotherhood (Rome)
3. AC2 (Florence, Venice, Forli, San Gimignano)
4. Black Flag (Caribbean, Havanna, Kingston, Nassau)
5. Rogue (Atlantic Canada)
6. Syndicate (London)
7. Revelations (Constantinople)
8. Liberation (New Orleans and Bayou)
9. AC1 (Damascus, Acre, Jerusalem)
10. AC3 (Boston, New York, Frontier)
>>845096
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOgvbS4GkF0
>>845105
>compares a dialogue scene during the tutorial in Black Flag with a QTE cutscene in Uncharted
>probably also finds actual gameplay like ship boarding in Black Flag boring compared to that awesome QTE cutscene
Seems like you two faggots should stick to watching movies instead of playing games.
>>843552
absolute madman
>>842350
>Vicky 2 with the new world order mod
This pleases my autism
>>842432
>Being aware of a secret societies existence
>"Secret"
>>844586
1000x this
>>844988
what do you want, a fighting game with historical figures?
>>845582
yeah
EU4 is the game of the gods
>>842459
best total war.
>>842590
How would they even fit the fucking crusaders and assassins story then?
>>846623
>south korean siberia
>south korean japan
>estonian empire
yep im out
New to grand strategy games. Is Europa Universalis 4 a good start?
>>846649
Yeah, its what got me into paradox games. Its probably one of their easiest games to learn. After you get a hang of it check out Victoria 2.
>>846649
yes.
crusader kings 2 is a good start too if you enjoy medieval/dynasties.
eu3 used to be the recommended start and is is considered better because of the slight casualization of eu4. eu3 is still a pretty casual game though so it doesn't matter. it's like civ4 vs civ5.
>>842274
GET YOUR KEK BULLSHIT GAME OUT OF HERE
>>846693
[/his/spoiler]pirating[//his/spoiler]
nah but really the amount of dlc is ridiculous and no one should encourage it in any capacity
>>844871
For all the shit I can give ACU the game itself looks amazing.
>>845582
Pic related: it's Andrew Jackson
Shame that Sen completely killed Samurai Shodown and we're never getting a new Last Blade. Last Blade 2 is coming out some time this year on PSN though.
>>842502
the shameful effects of white colonization and imperialism, even the majestic landscapes of POC were irreparably damaged
>>842742
>he did name localization
Fucking idiot.
>>843702
>Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome
>templars and Assassins
Shit like this and the whining for Feudal Japan/China I never understood. You want your games to draw influence from Biblical imagery and a heavy western civilization but then tear it into shit that's missing one or both of those elements?
>>842502
It's also tiny. Of all the shite in it, i think map inaccuracies are an acceptable deviation. Especially the "Hudson Valley" in Rogue.
>>846633
>Crusaders
Templars in the AC universe are separate from that.
And the story will probably be the evil whites repressing the glorious blacks in Egypt.
>>845587
Sauce
>>847027
>Biblical Imagery
>Precursor Civilization.
Mkay.
>>844346
frogmouth helmets were also used in battle you mong.
But yeah that armour's fantasy shit
>>843212
It's gonna look marginally worse on PS4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVHJM8crX4
>>842464
this guy knows what's up
I like Kantai Collection.
>>847670
me too
>>844592
No, "bruh"
Main character Ezio is obnoxious faggot.
Takes a game series that was supposed to be about investigating your target and setting up your own unique kill into a generic action adventure game with missions that always play out the same. controls are so simple ive literally watched by kindergarden cousin play through it. Hold down run bottom tap kill button occasionally, enemy AI is retarded
Its just a tine wasting game on par with Angry Birds. No risk no reward no fun unless youre a self inserting teen that wants to feel like a hardass for no effort
>>847688
Any more of these with the Iowa
>>847722
The point is running around historical maps.
Also they made a turn with Unity which is a lot more in the spirit of AC1 in a lot of ways (assassinations require preparation, investigation, stealth, generally being smart about it). Which ironically is one of the things everybody hated about it.
>>847739
No it's just a butchered game
>>847670
the concept behind itself is neat, but i was dissapointed when i found that it was just shitty p2w browsergame, at least the porn is nice
>>847750
How so? The only criticisms I ever hear about Unity are basically:
- it's too hard
- it was glitchy before it got patched
- it's set in France
>>844331
He looks like a fucking Space Marine.
>>847751
>shitty p2w
You are misinformed. I've never heard anyone who actually play the game describes it as p2w. Hell, it is because it is a f2p that's not p2w what makes it popular in the first place. I won't argue if you call the gameplay shitty but to say it's just a shitty p2w game is just wrong.
>>842274
I loved Asassins Creed 1 setting and story.
>>847722
>Main character Ezio is obnoxious faggot.
Patently false. I agree about the gameplay, and the rest ruin the spirit, but they tend to be better.
Rogue > BF > 2 > Brotherhood > 1 > Revelaitons > the handheld games > 3
Haven't played Unity or Syndicate, but i know they'll at least be above 3.
>>847769
Sorry was bad
Game play dull
>>847941
*story
VERDUN
E
R
D
U
N
>>847303
>Adam and Eve
>Apple
>Jesus
>not biblical
Gonna sound a little controversial for bringing up a fps but Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm simply because of how well it grasps the horrifying aspects of WWII but still somewhat fun
The overall atmosphere in Assassin's Creed 1 made me feel sick.
>>842803
>30 frames per second
>on a $2000 rig
wew lad
>>848279
AC1 has much harder combat which means you need to use stealth (although it still forces you into combat a few times which is pretty shitty). Also assassinations require you to gather information and shit first.
In AC2 and all subsequent games until Unity you can just wing it, forget about stealth, attack a fortress head on and fight your way through dozens of guards. AC2 is still a much better game than AC1 in other ways, and some of the stealth in AC1 was just annoying, like how whenever there's any guards nearby you have to slow your horse down to a snail's pace. But for the stealth and assassination aspect Unity went back to a more AC1 type philosophy.
>>848395
I get 30 FPS on high for that game (already looks almost that good) on my 900 moneys laptop.
>>847027
The rumor goes that it's going to be a soft reboot of the series. If it was up to me, the modern day plot would be done away with as would any Assassins vs. Templars stuff; if you want to do secret societies vs. secret societies, give them different names depending on the era.
PTSD Simulator 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
>>848283
what do you mean?
>>848396
>assassinations require you to gather information
And all of it was useless if I remember correctly.
>>847311
>frogmouth helmets were also used in battle you mong.
There were helmets resembling this sort of helmet used on historical battlefields - for example great helmet variants existed in the 13th century. These were however worn with a smaller skull-cap underneath and were usually dropped after the initial charge for better visibility. Bascinets with frog-mouth visors existed as well in the late 14th and early 15th century. However, this helmet is nothing of that sort. It's a helmet closely resembling a late 15th century Stechhelm and these were most certainly not worn in battle.
Is there a concentration camp tycoon or survival sim?
>>849398
Tropico 4.
>>842274
>Play AC
>Can't walk around town admiring the architecture because I keep getting attacked by asshole guards.
>>849503
>play video game
>Can't walk around town admiring the architecture because it's a video game
>>849503
>Play AC
>Can't swim
>Uninstall.exe
>>849521
Tat's my main problem with video games. They expect you to conform to some stupid childish pew pew game instead of just letting you visit the time periods.
>>849398
Prison Architect with mods.
>>849578
>expect a video
>it's some trashy faggot music
Dissappointed
>>849613
maybe lower your expectations
caesar III
>>844291
The doctor in AC 1 said that the information that we read from history books is wrong. The only true history is the one you see in the animus.
>>850228
The animus, more like the anus. AC is literally WE WUZ KANGS: the game.
War Thunder, but only if you actually dig deep to learn about stuff, if you just want to base bomb in AB whilst ranting about "it wasn't called flying fortress for nothing" you might as well just stamp 9gag on your forehead and fuck off
>>848911
Not really. The info built up the correct way of doing things. You could do it by luck, or by bumbling in and killing everyone with counter, but if you follwed all the intel, you'd have the cleanest in and out.
What does /his/ think of For Honor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayHIEYv6Fz0
>>851940
But the game itself was way too monotonous.
AC2 was way more lively and the main character was a regular, charismatic dude, instead of some stupid, sand nigger edgelord who never speaks.
>>844256
>everything looked so dirty and dark
Well yeah. That's the Crusades-era Holy Land. Or the Holy Land of any era for that matter.
>>853687
>sand nigger
Opinion disregarded.
For those who are also into /vr/, there are some pretty good historical games for DOS and such. Some of my personal favorites are Silent Service (sub sim that allows you to reenact historical battles and go on patrols), Sword of the Samurai (role-playing/action sengoku game) and Hidden Agenda (central american president simulator).
>>850703
>War Thunder,
>>843093
While I love the original for its retro aspect, you cant deny the 2nd was infinitely better in terms of unit organisation, balancing and just combat.
>>843797
this with the AD 1257 mod, most historically accurate game i've ever played
>>855544
i really like war thunder i just wish they would fix the fucking BRs
>>842448
Older AC games just condensed all the popular landmarks into small areas than they were in real life.
With improved technology, I presume syndicate is more on accurate scale to 1860s london
>>842501
I want it to be set around the period of Akhunaton
>>855724
That would probably make the most sense. They could have Akhunaten be on the Templar side with his push for monotheism, where the Assassins push for the old pantheon. Or vice versa, with the priests being the Templar side, and Aten followers being the Assassins.
>>847281
those character models are from Civ 5
the image was probably thrown together in blender and edited in PS, since I don't think they ever make those poses in game.
I don't play many videogames since Half-Life 2 EP. 2 Came out, but i really liked AoE games back in the day, also, the strategy games you've been posting look cool. Can you only play in Europe? Or is there any of those where you can play with American cultures too, and Asians and Africans? Also, can any of those games run o a shitty laptop?
>>856857
No.
>>856857
How shitty is the laptop we're talking? You should be able to check on canyourunit.com or whatever it is.
Go dig up /gsg/ on /vg/ since they deal with this stuff regularly.
EU4, Vicky 2, and HoE3 all have fully-developed nations outside of Europe.
>>856884
I see EU:Rome recommend back at /gsg/, but is it any good? It only describes it as "unique" but I wonder if it is comparable to Rome Total War.
>>856890
/gsg/ is at the point where they're so bored of the games but have nothing else comparable to play that "unique" is a godsend. That's my pinch of salt since I haven't played it myself.
>>856884
This shitty. Really shitty, i mean i can run some good games up to like games of 2010 or so, but idk.
Victoria II looks really cool. Is it hard to play? I mean like hard for someone used to games like Age of Empires (Since these strategy games look more complex).
>>856980
you should be okay. I was expecting something like pic related.
The main difficulty with these games is just figuring out how the interface works, and what all the buttons do. A few hours and you'll know how to play the games, and a few dozen more will have you figuring out what works and what doesn't, plus what to min/max for fun gimmicks.
If you've played any Civilization it would help more than AoE, since AoE doesn't have you fighting against algorithms that simulate a population's growth mechanics, happiness, etc., just to determine the speed you can train units at.
>>855648
Which also works in universe as the AC 1 Animus tech is older and more primitive than the Syndicate Animus tech.
>>857002
Thanks, man! Yes, i have played Civ, but long time ago i played Civilization 3 back in the day, and i've heard great things about Civ4 and 5 but i've never tried those, maybe i'll get them too (i hope they're not expensive). Then i'm gonna get Victoria II, just watched a video and looks really cool! Is it on Steam? Thanks again, and for the previous image too
I play the Assassin's Creed games for the story.
>>842464
loooooooooooooooooool eu4 is the worst paradox game ever made u fucking pleb
we officially /gsg/ now
Things that are not Asscreed, TW and Paradox:
Naval Action, a tall ship simulator focused on blowing the fuck out of other players
Gladiator Begins for the PSP, a fighting game with lots of historical (and not so historical) weapons and armor and a really unique combat system. I'll just say it's totally possible to knock the enemy's helmet off and then pick it up and smash his brains out.
Age of Pirates games
If your computer can't handle Naval Action, try this janky Eastern European made pirate sim. It's basically Sid Meier's Pirates with a nice simulation of the ocean and ships and whatnot. You can't get really autistic with sailsetting but it's pretty good otherwise. Some forum has made historical accuracy mods for both that add ships and stuff, but watch out for the one for the second game unless you want to hear the WE SHALL BEAT TO QUARTEEERS sound clip from Master and Commander every time you do a common action.
Titan Quest isn't particularly historical, but it's a Diablo clone with a Bronze Age Greek aesthetic. Go stab satyrs with your spear for mad loot.
The Mafia games are nice story driven games that I hesitate to call sandboxes, and are fairly accurate in presenting a general 40's American not-New York.
Silent Hunter III is good for getting your Das Boot on.
>>857887
Bored and own an Android device?
Here's some stuff I've clawed out of the awful Play Store and its terrible browsing system.
Legion Gold is a port of a strategy game from 2000 that plays something like a mix of Total War and Civilization. It's a product of that fun time when spritework was on the way out but lots of units meant models weren't viable, so it's got nice animations for your swarm of little legionaires.
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt is similar to Age of Pirates. Get your ship and trade, plunder, or salvage stuff from wrecks. On the plus side, there's nothing like it on Android, and there's a good bit of variation with ships; i.e. a sloop isn't just one model, there're larger and smaller variants with more and less guns, which is a nice detail considering how much of an artisan craft shipbuilding was. On the downside, pirate ships self destruct when you go up against them so you can't capture their ships (but you can with any other!), and you'll likely need multiple ships but Jesus Christ the AI for your allied ships is just awful. I mean really terrible.
Still, it updates frequently, is free and has like a buck fifty IAP to remove the ad that occasionally pops up between menus.
Windward is Diablo with ships. Not historical by any means, but hey. Diablo with tall ships.
Atlantic/Pacific Fleet are WWII turn based naval battle simulators. The interface is a bit obtuse but it's very in depth.
Crash Dive is the best submarine game I've seen, it's very in depth and has you figuring out firing solutions and sweating bullets from depth charges, all good stuff.
The European War games are decent strategy games. I enjoyed the Napoleon one, but be aware they're definitely not made by native English speakers and is a bit off in weird ways besides.
>>856733
I don't think there could be such thing as templars in AC egypt since the templars were based on the knight's templars who formed much later in time.
Also the assassin's would have be something else since the original assassins were drugged jihadis from syria
>>858853
Nah.
AC mythos has these "Biblical" artifacts that are relics from the civilization before humanity. Apple of Eden, etc.
So, if they want to pull enough out of their ass, Templars and Assassins could have been secret societies from pre-humanity. They can also do this at any time too, since some proto-Templar org founded the Templars and have secretly been controlling them, etc. etc.
It's not like anyone making the games cares any more.
I only play AC1 way back when it was released, which new one should I play ? There are too fucking many of them I have no idea which ones are good
>>860270
2 and brotherhood
>>857887
>Mafia
Shit, how could I forget that? The first Mafia is probably the best game ever made about the prohibition era. It's set in a fictional city, but it very well captures the historical realities of that era.
>>860270
Black Flag has the best gameplay since it's basically a sandbox with a lot of shit to do. Bonus if you like Caribbean pirates and lots of pretty locations (this is a given with the AC series).
AC is some of the worst leftard distortions of history I've ever seen. In Syndicate, they literally have Karl Marx saying he doesn't believe in violent opposition and that socialism can only be achieved through peaceful democratic measures. This isn't even ignorance, this is blatantly lying.
>>858853
>since the templars were based on the knight's templars who formed much later in time.
Not in Ass Creed. Read some of the lore in games and extra stuff. They say the fight has been going on forever.
>>860321
>and that socialism can only be achieved trough
he said "should de achieved" you strawman
>>860808
Pretty much the same thing in the context. Real life Marx was raving about a violent takeover and revolutionary terror.
>>860814
Agreed. Marx and his works are blatantly violent and its impossible to read his works and think otherwise
>>857926
Why does color make those guys seem more human than when you see people like them in black and white?
>>857926
>>861012
>>845105
is this a black guy talking? is that how american black people sounds when arent talking as niggers?
>>861066
>is this a black guy talking
yes, but he's doing a voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gz8d4Kay84
Like this, but pushed further into the 'silly' territory.
>>842324
>tfw impress friend by mentioning names of tribes from Genghis Khan
>tfw I still remember them from 8+ years ago
>>860270
Assassin's Creed II is an absolute masterpiece.
After that you could try Brotherhood and Revelations, but I'd stop after that.
>>843702
>Next game is rumored to be set in Ancient Egypt
WE
>>862092
>Main character is black
WUZ
>>862096
>Black pharaohs everywhere
KANGZ
>Far Cry Primal
>The proto-indo-european language that they would have spoke back then was too much like a modern language so they made it more "cave man-y"
Now instead of a highly complicated language like they spoke in real life they all go "ME FIRE GOOD MAKE FIRE"
>>842274
This is bar none the single greatest history game of all time.
>>855648
It's not, quite the opposite. Historical cities have grown faster through the AC story timeline than the maps in their games, Syndicate's London is probably the most compressed compared to the real city, and the map only covers a tiny part of it (it doesn't even include the Tower of London for example, and to the West it stops right after Buckingham Palace).
Of course London is a recently built sprawling city with a rather low density in interesting landmarks. Unity's Paris was a lot better, the central part is almost to scale.
>>862031
>but I'd stop after that
Why is it always people who actually did stop after that and thus have no idea what they're talking about who say this?
>>862364
>dreadlocked niggers in mesolithic Europe
Dropped
>>844889
It's not Victorian in anything but visual style, Dishonored in set in a 100% fictional world.
>>842794
That was Mussolini's doing though
>>862568
because revelations and assassin's creed III were utter shit and the games that followed are shit too
>>862601
Black Flag is the best AC game by a nautical mile.
>>862605
>Desmond is dead
>no present day storyline
>best
lol
>>862605
This.
>>862608
Those are both good things, everyone hated the present day storyline and wished they could skip those parts of the game.
>>862614
I literally only played the games because of the modern day story. I was hoping for some big ass standoff between assassins and templars but I never got that.
There isn't a sense of mystery anymore, and everything feels pointless. The games are basically Ubisoft approved fanfiction now.
>>862608
>>Desmond is dead
>>no present day storyline
that's why it was better. the present day storyline was awful.
>>862623
99% of people love AC because of the historical roleplaying and not because of some cuckold bartender character exposing a conspiracy, that part just sucked dick.
Even the general background seems pretty shitty with le ancient secret societies being hamfisted everywhere, it would be way better to be able to enjoy the games free of that baggage.
>>862364
>implying they would have spoken a proto-IE language at all.
That game is so ridiculously inaccurate, it's hardly the worst aspect.
>>862601
Black Flag was the best game in the series up until that point, Rogue is just as good, and Unity possibly even better.
Maybe stop critiquing games you never played.
>>862364
>Far Cry Primal
This game was a flop, wasn't it?
>>862598
Victorian IS a style.
>>862623
>literally only played a game about history because of the shitty modern plotline made up to justify the games' existence
What are you even doing on /his/
>>862664
It's a historical period.
>>862673
>1. Of or displaying the (supposed) standards or ideals of morality of that period.
>2. Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period.
>3. Based on the culture of that period.
>4. In relative poverty
Anyway it's boring and overplayed as fuck, I must have seen hundreds of movies, TV shows, etc set in that period by now.
>>862562
Since this is a /his/ board and I happen to have the maps on hand, I'll just post for comparison.
This is Paris in AC Unity.
>>862689
And this is real life Paris at the same time.
