Gaming and History
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Gaming and History
For anyone who is interested, I had an article at Finalbossfight.co.uk last sunday on the Dante's inferno LP and my take on gaming and history.
EDIT: Not .com. .co.uk. Britain likes having its own special internet.
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EDIT: Not .com. .co.uk. Britain likes having its own special internet.
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I read that. History in gaming is always a mixed bag. More often than not It seems to be either "No they got it totally wrong" or "This is so boring it's like being at school".
Oh by the way which version of Dante's Inferno would you recommend? I've got Henry Cary's translation but it seems to be a bit difficult to understand at times.
Oh by the way which version of Dante's Inferno would you recommend? I've got Henry Cary's translation but it seems to be a bit difficult to understand at times.
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Very nice. When can we expect your chart topping album of TV shows sung in Latin?
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Pies lesu Domine
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You missed a bit
mehall wrote:Pies lesu Domine
Dona eis Requiem. DONK.
Pies lesu Domine DONK.
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Pies lesu Domine DONK.
Dona eis Requiem. DONK.
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For those having trouble finding the article, it's available here.
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This is part of the reason I'm kinda dreading what I've seen from Assassin's Creed 3. I mean, Ubisoft has been doing better job that the Dante's folks, but still...
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plummeting_sloth wrote:This is part of the reason I'm kinda dreading what I've seen from Assassin's Creed 3. I mean, Ubisoft has been doing better job that the Dante's folks, but still...
Yes I'm sure the ancient artifacts that transcend space and time and allow communication with the future are completely historically accurate...
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I just don't it to turn out like a Shanghai Noon/Knights movie where every bloody person you meet is "And now you know the rest of the story" or "And that little boy grew up to be...". At least the people from the earlier games were relatively unknown to a wider audience (for the most part) and learning about stuff seems educational. In a much more modern, better studied area, I think it might feel like crown-pleasing shoehorns.
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Geoff_B wrote:plummeting_sloth wrote:This is part of the reason I'm kinda dreading what I've seen from Assassin's Creed 3. I mean, Ubisoft has been doing better job that the Dante's folks, but still...
Yes I'm sure the ancient artifacts that transcend space and time and allow communication with the future are completely historically accurate...
Hey those artefacts are 100% historically accu... what? Oh I have just been told I can't talk about... Okay I'll shut up.
Thanks a lot to Brad for writing not only the amazing article, but also this post about it, which I totally meant to write and was going to get around to, honest.
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Oh God... another Templar poster. Like moths to a flame with this site, I swear...
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I just want to note that I didn't learn a damn thing from playing Assassin's Creed 1, 2, or BroHood. Granted, I didn't delve, but still.
Edit: Wait, I need to scale that back a bit, but only a little. I about learn about the Borgias, which I didn't learn will real until much later. That shouldn't really count, though.
Edit: Wait, I need to scale that back a bit, but only a little. I about learn about the Borgias, which I didn't learn will real until much later. That shouldn't really count, though.
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A game where you can wrack up a personal genocidal bodycount and kill scores from a far with advanced (in some cases alien) technology made the Borgias seem tame. Was waiting for the "Hot Coffee" of Assassins Creed 2... The feast of Chestnuts.
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The only thing i learned from assassins creed was that apparantely people during the crusades were water soluble. That and apparantely the Italians would play games of CTF that involved leaping from tall buildings and shattering your legs.
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Well... that all appears to check out upon a cursory check of Wikipedia, so I'm good with it.
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