How comes there's barely any games set during the baroque/renaissance period?
https://youtu.be/jaHcPzwdyVg?si=-to6ZnomWM74bd7_
Its like games just jump from medieval ages straight to victorian era and pretend the 1500s-1700s didn't exist.
>>714758476 (OP)Incredibly high level of art skill is required since high art is fucking everywhere every little doiley and spoon is an ornate piece of work, just one room of some random mansion would require DaVinci level 3d art skill
>>714758476 (OP)Renaissance was boring outside of Italy and baroque shit is still all over victorian era so might as well add some technology to it and make it victorian
I have AI slop fatigue. Wish I couldn't already see it from the catalog thumbnails.
>>714759048Still a big difference though because victorian era doesnt have the big powdered wigs, chalk white makeup on nobles, and just all around extravagant aesthetic of the era. Not to mention that Victorian era feels so associated with grimdark industrialization while the early modern era had high class society, good music and art.
>>714758476 (OP)World of Warcraft has that setting, most Japanese high fantasy settings are more baroque than medieval
I suspect one major contributing reason the early modern period gets little representation in video games because it occupies the transition from edged and bladed weaponry to firearms, but with the latter still remaining fairly undeveloped and less engaging compared to modern weaponry. Reloading and preparing a matchlock firearm for a whole minute wouldn't be fun for most people. So you'd have more than double the work by having to not just implement both melee and gunpowder weapons but also have them synergize well while keeping it fun. Not impossible, but definitely requires more thought and effort put into it.
>>714760728Just implement them like a one-of special attack
>>714760728It's a shame because I really love the aesthetics of the era. Everything is popping with color, even in the chaos of the battlefield.
>>714758476 (OP)It's funny because many staples of "medieval" aesthetics are already taken from the modern era, also with religion wars (Prots vs Caths), new world exploration and the boom in mercenary companies and/or small kingdoms consatntly bickering between each other it feels like stuff basically writes itself
A super underrated period/part of history within the time span you mention is Colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire
In 1521-1600, even to 1700 in some cases, you essentially still had Aztec nobles and soldiers, some towns and cities etc existing in a mostly prehispanic fashion with a lot of traditional clothing and architecture with only partial or gradual adoption of Spanish traits, some Maya kingdoms and other bits still unconquered, joint Spanish-Mesoamerican expeditions up into the US and down into South America, with some Aztec, Tlaxcalteca etc soldiers even participating in campaigns in the Philippines, in some cases you had Aztec nobles, Conquistadors, Pirates, Knights, Samurai, Native Americans, Inca lords, Filipino people etc all fighting or interacting with each other, etc
I'll do a short dump of pics
>>714764368The text in this pic and the last one should be self explanatory: They show how both Mesoamerican and Spanish forces were using a mix of their respective equipment's and types of armor
>>714764485>>714764368A Filipino box, made in a specific German style common at the time, bearing a plaque of the Aztec creation myth (and with fairly accurate Aztec clothing and even glyphic iconography for the rock/stone the cactus is on: This clearly was made alongside Mesoamerican artists, or based off of actual codices as a reference)
>>714764607>>714764485>>714764368Casa de la Cacica, a Mixtec noble compound/palace from the early colonial period, in a almost entirely Prehispanic style, aside from the arched doorway, window, and a few other features
>>714763701It is. It's an obvious contender for something genuinely new and refreshing but nobody wants to take the plunge. Much easier to just go with yet another medieval-inspired hack-and-slash or 20th/21st century FPS as they're tried and tested formulas.
pike and shot isnt fun outside strategy games
same reason theres no games during the 18th century
>>714766208Doesnt have to be pike and shot. In the OP, Granado Espada was about families of pioneers and conquistadors adventuring to the new world while being entangled by political intrigue of europe. It doesnt have to be line battles. You could play as maybe a french musketeer, a spanish or portuguese adventurer, a british privateer, a german landsknecht, etc. also lots and lots of beautiful women in frilly dresses and chalk white makeup and godtier music.
Nobody wants to play on the side of evil. Same reason no games let you play as the germans in ww2.
>>714766861I think that's also one of the reasons. You will be mostly be playing as nobility as only gentlemen and noblewomen could travel around freely or in the case of the age of exploration/sail, white people conquering people of color.
