Historical periods in gaming
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IT IS THE 41st millennium. For more than one hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.
YET EVEN IN his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in His name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arm are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defense forces, the ever vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.
TO BE A man in such time is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace among the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
It depends on the type of game. For FPS and tactical combat games I like the 80's-90's (ie - the Jagged Alliance series) so you get all the wizz-bang modern weapons without them being covered in tacticool railz.
RTS, any time in the Cold War or the Napoleonic Wars (guess I just watch too much Sharpe
), so either the last viable chance for a real high intensity war or kicking it old school with swords, dashing and Baker Rifles!
Adventure games, well, I like those set in the Land of the Dead in the 1930s.
RTS, any time in the Cold War or the Napoleonic Wars (guess I just watch too much Sharpe
), so either the last viable chance for a real high intensity war or kicking it old school with swords, dashing and Baker Rifles!Adventure games, well, I like those set in the Land of the Dead in the 1930s.
When people say Western to me I think about the Spaghetti-Westerns (Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly etc.) and those movies are notorious for not portraying any of that.malestrithe said:
I suppose John Wayne westerns are pretty much like those short books for teenage boys though, meant to instill good moral values in the kids.
To stay on the topic: It is hard to say since I constantly switch times of interest. A long standing favourite is the 18th century in France though.