Favorite game play time period

The Shadowman · #1 02-05-2005, 09:10 AM

Out of all the video games that are based in the past which time peroid would you want to play a game in. (I know this is a insane topic)

smerles · #2 02-05-2005, 09:18 AM

500 years B.C. and 500 to 1500 A.C. (=Mediaeval / Middle Ages)

Why are you asking? Designing a game?

Esus · #3 02-05-2005, 09:48 AM

Depends entirely on the type of game, but the Victorian Era and the Industrial Revolution time.

Godlesswanderer · #4 02-05-2005, 10:06 AM

I would say... erm... caveman times. But not the conventional caveman times. The fake one, with dinosaurs

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sligster · #5 02-05-2005, 01:35 PM

I really don't care, but there should be a future option.

Esus · #6 02-05-2005, 01:54 PM

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Out of all the video games that are based in the past

'past' being the keyword there, sligster

Al the Glukkon · #7 02-05-2005, 06:33 PM

The future, so 1800s to 1900s since it's the closest.

Leto · #8 02-05-2005, 08:19 PM

Future, alternate present. HELL! The place, ya'know?

sligster · #9 02-05-2005, 10:26 PM

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'past' being the keyword there, sligster

lol, I really should read the post and not just the poll, eh?

Facsimile · #10 02-06-2005, 12:59 AM

I don't care as long as the game is good.

***Alcar*** · #11 02-06-2005, 01:21 AM

Any game set in any time period has the potential to be good in my books, just as long as the plot is superb. Though the past and future are rather interesting. I've seen most of the present

Alcar...

Rich · #12 02-06-2005, 02:28 AM

I don't care as long as it's good. It depends on the type of game too.
Platforming cave men = yes
Platforming Greeks = no

smerles · #13 02-06-2005, 03:52 AM

If alternative "scenarios" are allowed my favourite time / environment is steampunk, like the RPG Arcanum. Or Oddworld, imho.

Rich · #14 02-06-2005, 11:26 AM

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like the RPG Arcanum

If we speak of the same thing, kudos to you, Arcanum is an awesome game.

The Shadowman · #15 02-07-2005, 11:34 AM

Well That would make 2 actually for the Renissance selection then instead one which is what the pole says. Keep giving votes....please.

Alpha · #16 02-07-2005, 11:39 AM

medievil for me the old time battles with sword's and arrow's one of the many excellent quality's FABLE had ahhhhh...

The Shadowman · #17 02-08-2005, 12:02 PM

I would agree with you good sir knight, the only thing is the line between renissance and the Middle Ages becomes fuzzy. Because there are cannons in the Middle Ages, yes they are basic cannons that shot a harpoon like arrow from a cannon muzzle but still cannons. Also there where guns in the very late Middle Ages (late 1300s) but you don't hear much about the fuse-to-gunpowder gun because it wasn't very accurate or effective and not to mention hard to supply the gunpowder for at that time but it was used by those who did not have training becasue it was so simple. So the Renissance and Middle Ages come together in that sense it just that the tech of the late Middle Ages actually began to become more prefurred over the crossbow and long sword. I grouped the whole time from the Rennisance to the Neopolinaic war period of the early 1800s together on the poll. If I you thought you where voting for something you wern't on the poll or have changed your mind please thell me...us

smerles · #18 02-08-2005, 12:17 PM

The most historians / books say that the middle ages begin around 400/500 A.C. with the destruction of the eastern gothic empire through the Huns in 375 and the fall of the western roman empire in 476 and end around 1500 A.C. with the discovery of america in 1492 and the reformation of the christian church in 1517.

military inventions usually aren't used to mark time periods in history because the military is changing all the time...

The Shadowman · #19 02-08-2005, 12:25 PM

Yeah thats just it, its insane...okay its not that mind boggling. The Renissance (meaning the "Age of Enlightment") is part of the Medieval period. The whole Medieval period is roughly 1000 years starting in about 500 AD to 1500 AD. Yet the Renissance is quite different from the Middle Ages here I will show you if anyone is confused
The Medieval Period consists of the following eras:
Dark Ages 500 AD to 950 AD
Middle Ages 950 AD to 1350 AD
Renissance 1351 AD to 1500 AD (majority of sea faring battles

Now after 1500 AD it is then in a new age know as The Industrial Age or the Age of sails (due to the use of trading commonly and sea being the place of war) and that is where all of the other eras come in like the 50 year imperial age at the beginning of the Industrial age which is with the conquesadors and a time of wearing armor and carring guns

Alpha · #20 02-08-2005, 12:34 PM

I like the dark age's ahhhh chaos good for game's what was ff9 set in though middle age's dark age's?

Languor · #21 02-08-2005, 12:35 PM

Doesn't really matter much to me... as long as the game is interesting and fun it's irrelevant.

The Shadowman · #22 02-08-2005, 12:41 PM

Well the Dark Ages are a eventful place that really is quite different again from the Middle Age part (whoever decided to group the dark age the middle ages and the renissance must have been a un-historical type of person) The Dark Ages is where you see the Celtic Druids (Druids are the nature worshipping natives who built stonehenge) attacking the destroyed roman empire that fell apart and you see Beowulf and many many alterative religions and ocult magic. But as for FF9 that would likely be a Dark Age style to it

Odd Trusting · #23 02-11-2005, 08:13 AM

Well I would go for the Renissance. That whole sea faring battle thing...its great

Statikk HDM · #24 02-14-2005, 07:12 AM

I second the steampunk and give a nod to a hard science take on the near future(say, 70 years from now.)