Did video games get you into history Anon? What was it? Rome

>>2641603
Empire Total war always like the enlightenment era.

>>2641603
Rome Total War and Age of Empires 2 and 3 initially.

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>>2641603

this got me into WW2

Definitely strategy games like Company of Heroes and the Total War franchise.

>>2641603
Empire Earth 1 is my favourite historical game and got me excited about history as a kid, but it's too bad that the campaigns literally are about alternative history, such as Operation Sea Lion.
Rome: Total War 1 also was impactful. I don't think it was the sole reason making me a Romaboo, but it definitely did its part. Never played Rome 2.

Through games, I learned the most while playing Europa Universalis 4 and looking stuff up incentivized by it, though. It's one of the few games I've bought (instead of pirated) in the recent years. I still feel bad not even having touched Victoria II, despite owning it, though.

>>2641603
I've always liked history but in all honesty playing Dynasty Warriors 4 for the first time and seeing the in-game encyclopedia going over every officer/character, the timeline and summary and stuff like that got me looking into the real figures and history more which then got me more seriously into history.

Not really. History got me into video games. My granny got me into history

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Mount & Blade: Napoleonic Wars

>>2641603
it's definitely been a part of it without outright causing it. Usual suspects: civ initially, total war, paradox.

There isn't any game that made me interested in history, I had an interest in history prior to games

>>2641651
This and the G.I. Joe

>>2642052
This

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>>2641603

No, my dad did.

>tfw lived out in the middle of nowhere during elementary school
>tfw muh father would spend the entire half hour drive to town telling me about the Punic Wars, the British Empire, and how krauts can never be trusted

I miss it so much ;__;

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>>2641603
Only one answer

As I kid, I was always into pirates, until I got Medival: Total War, which spawned my interest for middle ages, then I went full Boshin-Weaboo thanks to Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai and now I'm stuck with 14-45.

>>2642205
F

>>2641731
Me too, mine was a professor emeritus of classics.

>>2642205
:/

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>>2642224
forever this

>>2642205
Similar to this but it was framed around family stories starting with the second and third partitions of Poland.

>>2641603
Rome Total War. I was convinced that if I grouped all my troops together and attacked at the center of the enemy line, I would win.

I got Cannae'd every time.

>>2641603

I was always war like, when I was a child I took a snooker cue and hammered nails through the handle of it, it seemed to be in my nature to fight.

One of my parents also gave me graphical books of the sea battles of WWII when I was a kid, so I liked to know of history from a young age. I grew up with a library of encyclopedias which I also read a bit, learning about many different places, when I got my first computer in the 00s, the first thing I did was buy an Encarta Encyclopedia, and I read the whole thing. Also around this time I started to make websites, I would choose historical topics to use as content. I created a website about the history of grass, and how it was cultivated et cetera

I was always into history but the video game I'm playing influences my book purchases.

>>2641603

Reading encyclopaedias as a child is what got me into history. I didn't even own a computer until my late twenties.

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Cossacks 2: Napoleonic Wars

>tfw playing Great Britian on skirmish mode while watching Sharpe on the telly

Good times

>>2641603
Crusader Kings 1, I never got used to 2

I got into history way before I got into strategy games.

>Our history teachers in primary school were the ones that gaves us a lot of information (even for our age).
>We even studied Ancient Greece for a while.
>Then high school came along, and we studied a ton of English-Related History (including deus vult) and more specific topics of world history (e.g. Germany 1919-1945) later on.
>But most of the class didn't give a damn about history.
>I basically got private History Lessons in High School.

>>2642500
Good times
They had it coming

>>2642224
So happy I played this when I was younger. Campaign was so great even if I was ass at it.

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Horrible History books combined with a free local library and museum.

But mainly Horrible History books.

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Caesar III

>>2642779
My nigga. It's a great, infuriating at times game. Those historical entries got me hooked on romans.

>>2642775
this

>>2641603
I always read books about roman culture with pretty illustrations when i was little, but rome 1 total war cemented by romabooism and love of history.

>>2641603
Somewhat
Call of Duty --> YouTube --> gaming subreddits --> political subreddits --> /pol/ --> here

Stainless steel made me

>>2641768
Looks like the habsburgs had a cat too

I've been into history longer than I can remember, but Eugen has really rekindled my interest in WW2 with Steel Division. Mod tools are out and I'm going to start cooking up some minor axis tomorrow.

I hate history, It's glorified STEMspergery.

>>2643062
& humanities was a mistake

>>2643249
t. STEMsperg

>>2642526
Oh yeah I remember id just spam cavalry and literally just charge them into the front of a phalanx, I had no idea what I was doing but god dammit I loved it

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>>2641603
Rome total war for Rome specifically, pic related for everything else.

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>>2641603
Civ V and Attila

>>2641603
Im sure it played a big role. My earliest memory of the two merging was reading the tidbits in Age of Empires 2 manual, and the in-game "library".

Braid. Taught me that the developmemt of the nuclear weapons was a pretty cool story bro. Got me reading history in no time.

Also Deus Ex, for some reason

>>2641603
Rome Total War and Kessen/Dynasty Warriors

I got into history because I am a racist. History got me into grand strategy games such as eu3, ck2, hoi3.

>>2642526
loved playing as carthage and spamming war elephants and just charging them at lines

It was a combination of both video games and politics. I've always loved grand strategy and the best way to understand politics is to look into the people and political entities of the past.

>>2641603
It was Rome: Total War for me

>>2641603
Medal of Honor games introduce me to WWll, I was pretty young when those first games came out. Later on Rome Total War got me into Ancient history

>>2641651
Same.

Great game.

No. Books got me into history.

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>>2641603
Civilization 2.

Assassin's Creed
(please do not bully)

no, history got me into videogames

>the battles you read about can be reenacted

one of the first ones was sid meiers gettysburg
played that game to death, oddly i liked the south better because it was more challanging

>>2641603
I'm trying to play EU4 and it's ok but some of the mechanics are really fucking gamey. Like holy shit Julius Caesar didn't wait 50 years to conquer Anatolia because he still had aggressive expansion from conquering Gaul, he just fucking did it. Also, the paradox fanbase is one the shittiest, most autistic fanbases I've ever seen.

>>2645169
Well yes games need gamey mechanics, you can mod them out if you don't like them.

>>2645176
But it's so inconsistent. On the one hand the mechanics are gamey because it's a game, but on the other hand there's a bunch of stupid shit like 'lucky nations' because paradox seems to have an autistic obsession with making the games play out exactly as real history did and not alternate history, ya know the whole fucking point of the game

>>2642205
stop it boner

>>2642530
Whoah a rare chance to gain insight about grass presented itself. Can you tell something interesting about grass?

>>2642205
This. My dad used to tell me about the Vietnam War and Cold War shit while driving around, used to fascinate me as a kid. I hope dads still talk to their kids like that...

>>2645169
Aggressive expansion is pretty realistic in EU4. Caesar could move straight on to Britain because anyone close enough to care was too weak after his campaign in Gaul to actually band together into a meaningful anti-Roman coalition, but that did happen during the Gaul campaign. You can work around it (in a sort of.gamey way) in EU4 once your economy and manpower can handle ALLE KRIEG by declaring war on the first country to enter a coalition against you as soon as they do so, every time and always. You'll always be at war with at least one nation. Don't stop until everyone but you is utterly incapable of waging war. It's easy-ish at the start, incredibly difficult in the middle, and a seal clubbing by the end. Did this as a resurrected Byzantium (already controlled the eastern med and had a foothold in italy) reclaiming Roman Europe. I conquered France, Britain, South Germany, and the other half of Italy and tore apart the HRE over the course of a century of continuous warfare. Tons of fun.

>>2643279
Good times of sole horsearcherspam in MII and expect to annihilate everything. I just shot until I was out of Ammo and would withdraw from the battle just to reattack in a new one. Anything that routed from the enemy would be run down. Awesome times

>>2642620
You should try to get into it. It's a very good game.

>>2645182
You can just remove most of those features in the options.

>>2641603
Unfortunately...Assassins Creed

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>>2641603
this
never got past the first level tho

llliquorrr

>>2645697
treed

>>2641603
Empire Total War definitly got me interested in the 1700s, Shogun into some periods of Japanese History and CK2 and Medieval 2 Total War got me in the Medieval Times.

>>2645182
you might want to try victoria 2, it's got less autistic shit like bird mana in it but the only man who truly understands the economy system is too busy eating glue to explain it

>>2642966
You have to go back

>>2645169
terrible example, you can max your AE on the west while the east doesnt give a fuck about your conquests there, so you can turn that way now

you are probably a retard blobbing into the hre

>>2642966
Lovely bait, friend.

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For me it was the Imperium saga.
These were developed by a romanian studio but somehow managed to be very popular in Spain, they are great.

>>2645700
talex

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Civilization 3

I loved that Pacific War scenario to death

>>2641603
yup age of empires 2 and caesar 3 when I was 5-6 years old

Medieval Total war and Age of Empires started it then I played ever Total War after loved them all. Sept Barbarian Total war game was bullshit.

>>2641603
autists itt

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>>2641603
This game made me more interested in WWII

>>2642775
I used to love those but unfortunately most of them don't tell you an awful lot. Their WW2 book was particularly bad.

>>2642224
PROSTAGMA

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>>2645725
this and Patrician III were great

>>2645239
You know that smell of fresh cut grass? Thats actually a chemical released when grass is in pain. Suck it

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https://youtu.be/2ZH91l_o_Pk?t=488

Yep the original medieval total war. It taught me the very basics like the major nations of Europe the invention of fire arms and the mongols being cheating little shits. I got hooked and got Shogun and EU2 from there it was disaster with constant documentaries and books that goes on to this day.

The first Call of Duty, AoE2 and 24/7 Hitler era History Channel

I remember when I was in jr.high me and my friends would play rome total war then write rome inspired stories during english class in school

Shit was so cash

>>2641603
Europa Universalis IV

>>2646016
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>>2642779
I remember wasting all my resources building layers upon layers of aesthetical walls then restarting the game because I was never getting invaded. Good times

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>>2641731
>>2642052
>>2645132
Same, but it was a series of illustrative books I got from the library when I was a kindergartner that sparked my interest in history.
>tfw you will never play Rome Total War for the first time again

>>2646016
> VULOME

>>2642224
I'm actually playing it again right now.

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>>2645939
I can still hear their screams.

>>2641651

First one was amazing, never played a game like that, second was okay, third was horrible.

>>2642775

I liked history beforehand, but when I was ten I got a box full of these at an auction, they certainly expanded my understanding, and boy did I love them

>>2642989

bully

>>2645725
>romanian studio
Bulgarian, m8

>>2641603
Age of empires got me interested in history in second grade

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>>2642205
>>2642500
>>2645245
My dad and his brother used to regale with me tales of Irish history on their laps over pints in the thatch-roofed local pub. Those were simpler times.

>having parents who raised you well

>not being an emotional and financial wreck from a childhood filled with abuse, never being able to look back fondly upon anything and never being able to feel happy or satisfied.

it kinda started with a documentary about the battle of stamford bridge but eu4 and ck2 sealed the deal

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My love of history started when I found my brother's Axis and Allies board game when I was 11. At first I was excited just to play with all the cool pieces inside the box, but I also opened up the rule book for the game and it included a ton of information about WW2 and for some reason it just fascinated me.

From that point I pretty much devoured any book on WW2 I could find in my school's library and it was all downhill from there. Just took my content certification exam and got a 198 out of 200 and I start student teaching in the fall.

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All those experiences are pretty generic. I got into the History of the Crimean Khanate and the Zaporozhian Cossacks because of Mount&Blade:With Fire and Sword. The Single Player Campaign is based on a novel that includes personalities who really existed, like Janusz Radziwiłł, Khan İslâm III Giray and Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

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historical games should be outlawed since it leads to nationalism and fascism

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>>2652532
>knowing about history leads to nationalism and fascism

really made me think

>>2651441
I know this feel, anon.

I didn't ask to be born

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>>2652532
>tfw history games made me a mongolian empire revivalist and tengrist


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCqUROWEKU

>>2652622
>How history portrayed in video games = History
really made me think

[spoiler] Fate/Stay Night [/spoiler]

Runescape

>>2646141
Good, those fuckers deserve it

>>2649615
shieeeeet
well, they are both turkish-gypsy rapebabies so it does not matter

>>2646204
fucking loved this shit.

>>2641603
Call of Duty. The first one. I was eleven or twelve when my dad bought the first one and United Offensive. That got me into modern history. Rome Total War was also very influential. I didn't care much about history before those two games. The only thing I knew about World War 2 before COD was that Pearl Harbor was involved. After those two games, I got shit tons of history games. Right now I'm returning to Europa Barbarorum and playing some Age of Mythology on the side (mythology isn't history but I love it nearly as much)

>>2641686
Company of Heroes taught me much about the Normandy campaign when I was first playing it. I must have been 13 when it came out.

>>2642224
Best god damn birthday present I ever gotten. Mythology is criminally underused as a setting in video games. Shame that the recent expansion was trash.

>>2641633
this

>>2646016
EU EI AIR!

>>2646016
>SHKOPOS

>>2641603
Civilization 1