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Thank you! One of the main reasons I make these videos is that there are very few places that examine the historical elements in history games. It is also fun to research all this stuff.

Thank you!. It has been a while since I last played Plague Tale but I think the clothes are a bit more accurate than the armour, I'll have to go through the whole thing again to be sure. And I might do a video dedicated to the actual historical objects that appear in the games. Unfortunately, I currently have no time to make videos but I will get back to it eventually.

No, Romans did not consider all foreigners as barbarians or rather they tended to be more flexible than the Greeks. The term for the Romans was connected more to the relation of the foreigners to them and wasn't necessarily based on their idea of being superior to everyone else (which was how Greeks used it). Eg they would consider Persians and Carthaginians barbarians. But that was because they posed an existential threat to Rome, otherwise, they were fully aware of how old and sophisticated both these cultures were. On the other hand, a Roman would not consider a Romanised gaul as a barbarian. They were still foreigners but the fact that they kept Roman customs and law put them outside that category

@@LidaLiberopoulou Had to ask because everyone and their mothers always mention that Romans are bad at say diplomacy because they talked down at everyone else because their ambassadors knew they could get away with it.... or so I'm told

Well the Roman Empire didn't last 500 years (or over 1900 if you throw in the Republic and Eastern Roman empire) by being snooty assholes to everyone they met. They could be crass and very brutal especially if you crossed them. But they were the first empire to offer citizenship to allies and the people they conquered making them stakeholders to their empire at least to some level.

@@LidaLiberopoulou I mean it's better than what the Greeks had in mind about citizenship where they thought men were so unequal that so few would earn it and at others some Romans thought it would delude the concept of citizenship because people get to own public property. Rome and the Greek States were similar, but they went about those traits for different reasons.

spoiler warning(if there are still people who haven't played new vegas :) )never really bought in to the ideea that House "predicted" with "maths" that the bombs will drop. And conviniently had rockets ready to shoot down the nukes in the new vegas area. So him knowing makes sense. Also form the conversation i had with him, he had no interest in saving anyone except himself. I think(and Todd kind of confirmed) there are many of things left unclear intentionally in the show, as are tons of things in the games.

Hmm... even if that is the case it would probably form a thin shell that would have already crumbled and collapsed in places after the flesh inside it would have decomposed. Cant see how this would have turned the entire human form into solid stone/baked sand. In any case as i mention in the video it is just a minor point. The Fallout franchise in general is not the most realistic when it comes to physics and chemistry. But it still looks a bit silly.

⁠@@LidaLiberopouloureact to some videos about the legion in fallout from the channel’s called theneocypher and yaboiii and some of those videos will explain how the legion beats the ncr when they aren’t as advanced as them 👌

I don't specialise in military history and I'm a bit wary about making react videos. But I might give it a go or at least check out these channels and their videos on the subject.

@@LidaLiberopoulou React to the Neo cypher and yaboiii about ceaser’s legion they help explain some of the things that you might have missed or not known about or something like that 👌 And yes I prefer legion over ncr and those two examples most in not all of the very good reasons why I like them minus the imperialism of all but the military and i especially dislike/hate the slavery thing but that’s just me on that

Yeah, to be honest, I avoid going into the historical accuracy of the dialogue of APT and history games in general because there are very few games out there that even try to make the interactions between characters even remotely historically accurate (e.g. would a petty nobility character ever address and upper clergy or royal family member in the way we see in games, wouldn't you expect them to mention god and divine Providence more often?) The only game i have played so far that takes historically accurate dialogue a bit more seriously is Pentiment but even that can't go full 16th century for obvious reasons.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was really fun to make! FNV videos are my favourite to reserch and edit.

Thanks! It is great fun in places and I definitely recommend it for fans of AC. But when it comes to the VR elements and especially historical immersion it has a lot of problems. The way it is designed would work ok for a flat-screen game but it mostly doesn't for VR. If you are on a budget there are better VR games you can play.

I have no problem with fantasy elements in games. The problem is when they associate these fantasy elements with actual historical objects. The antikythira mechanism is a actual historical object with very specific history and function. And this is even more annoying when it comes from a game series that claims to be heavily based on history and even has aspirations of becoming history education material. They could have just invented a object and used it as MacGuffin for their story without loading all this nonsense on a existing and well known historical object

​@LidaLiberopoulou That's your opinion. Do you get pissy like this with movies as well ?

If the movie claims to be heavily based in actual history, yes.

@@LidaLiberopoulou I see. Then I won't say anything else. Just know that that kind of attitude will make people ticked off on the internet. But that's one way to get engagement.

​@@greatmacaron5779you're talking as if there's an attitude that doesn't tick off people on the internet. you can literally say you like pizza and the internet is like "so you hate spaghetti?"

I got a little info message from the game with a video showing how it's done while swimming towards the ships in Delos. By the way, it also worked on the towers in the Munichia section and probably could work elsewhere. The tomahawk kill and the pushing of the guy in the water were experiments

@@LidaLiberopoulougo watch the Neo cypher and/or yaboiii on Caesar’s legion and some comparisons with other faction’s of fallout new Vegas to see why I like the legion more than most other factions except the minute men of fallout 4 or the khans in the lore of the fallout series but if I had to pick one thing I don’t like the most if I was in the legion was the imperialism I’m more of a in the leftist side in terms of political and/or economic stuff but only slightly personally speaking but still and look at the old worlds blues mod for hoi4 on legion tactics to learn more about how they fight 👌❓🥱

Yeah, it is a great book. But to be honest, although microhistory is really good for making history more approachable it does have some problems as a method. By the way, all the books in Josh Sawyer's reading list for Pentiment are great. Read The Faithful Executioner too. I should make a short video about its relation to the game at some point

Yeah I am planning to read everything, currently almost halfway 3/6. We do not have a Polish edition of The Executioner, but thanks God we have Kindle :) It will take me some more time though as English is not my moher tongue.@@LidaLiberopoulou have you already read Durer's Journeys? I think it will be the most problematic for me to get.

Unfortunately no, this is the one I don't have. It is only available on hardcover and in English for 50 $ on Amazon. There is no digital edition for it as far as I can tell. It was published as part of an exhibition of Dürer's work that was running from November 2021 to February 2022 in the National Gallery in London. So if you definitely want to get it it will cost you a bit. Probably the second best thing you can do is get the free catalogue supplement for the exhibition that is available on the National Gallery's website. It has a few interesting articles in it. here is the link www.nationalgallery.org.uk/media/odeoogvm/durer-supplement_final.pdf

@@LidaLiberopouloumany thanks. Will try to get it through ebay or elsewhere as my sister lives in the UK. Many thanks for the catalogue, it is more descriptive than I would think.

Thank you! It was really fun to make. Your blog post about "Narration, Music and Song" gave me the impression that sung narration will be the main way of conveying the story to the player. It is good to know that this is something that will occur only in specific parts of the game. As for the player choices within an established story, I'm curious to see exactly how you have handled the balance between the original material and the adaptations that are necessary to facilitate player freedom. As I mentioned in the video I find interesting the idea of these established stories having completely different outcomes. Again thanks for informing me about your game and the announcement trailer, I hope you will have more to show about it soon!

Thank you!

It seems there’s a very thin line between mysticism and heresy. Certainly, mystics often used very strong even erotic language in expressing their love for Christ. Examples include St Gertrude who had a vision of reclining near Christ and listening to the beating of His heart. St Teresa of Avila whose ecstasy was recorded as an angel pierced her soul and filled her with sweetness. This also has Biblical basis as seen in the Song of Songs recording a Bride and Groom loving each other physically. Mystics though don’t get good reputations from more inquisitorial minds as their language is very imprecise and even if their intentions may not be considered heretical, their language and expression could risk it in the minds of the inquisitors hence many were banned.

Thank you for watching! I will be making another video on Assassins Creed: Odyssey soon. It will probably be about the ruins and smaller historical sites around the game but im not sure yet.

Thank you for the question. This whole channel is partially a way for me to examine and discuss the various methods used in video games and interactive experiences to "reconstruct" the past in virtual worlds. In fact, I'm working on my own VR archaeological reconstruction project :) I have even posted my first dev log video about it on the channel. And I'm always interested in how the people who play these games see them. Is the historical accuracy something that is appreciated or is it something that can hinder the experience? Do people notice when something is historically off and does it bother them? There are a ton of questions like these I aim to explore. So I always appreciate any questions people have because I have them too. And I believe that reconstructing the past in virtual worlds will become a big thing in the near future so it would be good for people to start having these discussions now. So if you have any more questions about the historical aspects of Plague Tale or other games please ask them and I will try to answer them.

@@LidaLiberopoulou Well, when it comes to VR worlds, historical accuracy and how it affects the experience, I think two aspects of story telling are important: Verisimilitude and the Suspension Of Disbelief. The fictional world has to setup and then follow a set of rules which the human mind can accept as its "reality", becoming believable, and thus accepting its fantastical aspects. In that fictional context it does not matter if something is accurate in regards to history or not, as long it is believable. A good example is Star Trek's Holodeck: Because it is setup as a computer program, the viewer can accept if the depicted world has inaccuracies, because it is connected to the environment not being real (btw: Trek's Holodeck is the first Generative AI shown on TV like we know today, creating worlds, characters and stories as response to a user formulating a prompt). So if your VR world for example is not 100% realistic due to being a work-in-progress, you could create a Holodeck door which leads into it. And when it has empty/"low resolution" spaces because Data is missing, you can insert replacement objects related to the VR world being a program within a Holographic environment (for example a wireframe object). If a question pops up, I post it! :)

@@LidaLiberopoulou ... the plague for example was a good way to close off areas in a level in the APT game, so the player had a reason for an area not being explorable, because it was under quarantine. So you could also setup the VR world at a moment in time which allows an explanation for missing areas or a low amount of active NPCs (as "Innocence" did in its town chapters, the plague gave a reason for the empty spaces without people/only a few soldier NPCs).

Thank you!I hope i got all the details related to Caesar but every time i play this game i discover new things so i wouldn't be surprised if there is more in there.

Thank you! I plan to do more videos like this on other historical characters in video games. I might even do one on Mr House and Howard Hughes , the Three Families and the Mafia and other references from the golden age of Las Vegas. But that is for much later, for now I'm taking a short brake from FNV (at least for long form videos)

I haven't read it but I know more or less its approach. I'm also not a big fan of the "Julius Caesar was a tyrant" narrative.

You're welcome :) I love Classical history and I was really intrigued by the idea of a Fallout Faction based on the Roman Empire. I was pleasantly surprised while going through the game when I realised that the design of the Legion and Caesar was not some superficial "one look in Wikipedia" thing but a well-researched and thought-out concept.

Maybe the LATE republic with the impotent senate, corruption abound, and bribery the norm.

Thank you! I aboslutly love this game and I plan to make many more videos about it. There is so much stuff in Pentiment to unpack and discuss!!

Great video, thanks so much for the content and greetings from Poland.😊

@@trenth_pl Thank you! Depending on how things go with my other projects I might make 1-2 more short Pentiment videos pretty soon

@@LidaLiberopoulou I just can't wait :)

Thank you! I don't know if the channel will ever become popular. History games are a pretty niche subject. But I do love making these videos so you will see a lot more of them.

Thank you! The project still needs a lot of work to get to its next phase since it will require an almost complete overhaul of what you have seen in the video. In any case, I will try to have a new dev log on it at some point when I have enough interesting material for it.

Thank you! As I mentioned in the video when I first tested the game the length of the dialogue was a very clear problem and i had to cut parts of it and reduce the time the lines stayed on scene. And it is possible that i might have overcorrected a bit. There are some other ways of dealing with this like adding a "Next" button to progress the conversation but that comes with its own problems. For now, i just have the option for people to go through the dialogue again after it ends. that is not the best solution either but I think I will find how to deal with this eventually.

Thank you! I plan to make a few more short videos about it and maybe even a second Pentiment easter eggs video. We'll see how it goes.