Why does fantasy underutilize this era? It's got kino of the highest potential, and a scale that'd be possible to portray properly.

It's the most videogamish in terms of potential gameplay elements with progression from neolithic societies into Ancient era ones with aqueducts etc being a good basis.

It also isn't well documented which makes more mystical elements to draw from rather than 14th century bohemian autists shit flinging about a games historical accuracy.

>>715421035 (OP)
It amazes me how ancient people can build something like that.

>>715421189
>he thinks humans built stonehenge

>>715421189
Nuraghes in Sardinia, theres evidence that used some technology that wasn't present again in making them until castles of the medieval era.

Those are firmly bronze age but they're sick

>>715421189
It's just stacking rocks with some rudimentary mortar. Ten men could do this in a year, without significant modern tools.

>>715421295

>>715421035 (OP)
>Why does fantasy underutilize this era?
Because fantasy got firmly shoved into the middle ages. If dev want to shake things up they can always easily add different fantasy races or biomes or whatever without any fundamental changes. If they feel particularly fancy, they can go back to Greek mythology or precolonial Mesoamerica.
When people think about ancient times, they think caves/mudhuts/small vilages, and that lends itself to survival crafting games more than anything. And vidya cavemen in particular are more likely to deal with strange alien tech and dinosaurs than magic or dragons.
>It also isn't well documented
That just means there's less stuff you can rip off.

>>715421035 (OP)
>>715421486
no actual proof of those looking like that though

>>715421035 (OP)
Because it's so far back you might as well just make a fantasy game.

>>715422252
>Because fantasy got firmly shoved into the middle ages.
People say this and it's a commonly accepted opinion, but you can probably on one hand how many games actually take place in MEDIEVAL period with all the norms that entails. Simply having castles, knights and peasants doesn't make the setting "medieval fantasy", but most of the writers are Americans so we're fucked.

>>715421035 (OP)
i've never played it but doesnt age of empires 1 cover this timeframe? i hear it's not that good though (except in vietnam)

>>715421035 (OP)
all of the worldbuilding i do is always bronze age stuff. idk why but it just fascinates me way more than medieval shit. maybe im just burned out on that sort of lotr/d&d kind of fantasy setting but i have zero interest in it now

>>715423138
Well, it's fantasy, so you don't have to explain shit. You can put blacks or lesbians in it, doesn't matter as long as there's dragons, elves and no guns. Japanese writers care even less, slapping together a bunch of periods together plus adding some modern magitech appliances.

>>715421298
Sure.
>>715421295
True for plenty of giga structures.

Does King of Dragon Pass work or is it the wrong era?

>>715421189
What part of that do you find too complex for people to build?

Drova is kinda like that

>>715422772
>no actual proof of those looking like that though
Archaeologists found bronze castings of representations of the buildings buried in the grounds they're located on.

>>715421298
>Ten men could do this in a year
They started Guedelon in 1997

>>715427509
>representations of the buildings
according to who?

>>715428143
The archaeologists. Who found them buried at their archeaoligical site and dated them back to the timeframe they were constructed in when the empire was active.

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>>715428246
>empire
ya blew it

>>715428364
I'm typing on mobile with next to no battery trying to find the images
Meant to type civilization and not empire.

>>715428406
There were also stone models and not just bronze