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>the trend has been towards more specific and authentic civs
We still have stuff like the Thirisadai incident, which shows that the devs' levels of research on historical matters is limited to browsing Wikipedia and thinking of ways to implement entire conflicts and massacres without offending anyone
But this reinforces my point: the historical aspect is merely a dressing for the game, and the other anon saying
>heavily overhyped and fantastical period which was only chosen because it's popular and well know. It's choosing pop culture over historical reality.
just made me smile
I think that EUIV/V, as well as other recent games that seem to dedicate a great deal of ad time to fellating themselves over "portraying things the way they REALLY were", have kinda spoiled the average netizen, who genuinely expects muh accuracy and muh realism whenever anything that even resembles real life is involved.
To me AoE2 is amazing specifically because it's a heavily abstract mishmash of "historical fantasy", and I wouldn't have expected anything less than picking one of the most flanderised and idolised historical periods for a DLC (3 kingdoms)