Comment on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog

• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks! But haha, that’s it? That’s the main critique?

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  • DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, I’m being snarky. It’s a comparison of a couple of games (like Settlers and Banished) to what’s actually known about life in mediaeval times. Notable differences are that in reality people didn’t have much to eat, also due to tithes by the church, whereas in games your entire goal is achieving huge (food) surpluses.

    Also, in games you often build a town center and then start building further buildings quite organically, whereas in actuality towns were planned based on the surroundings.

    The article is actually pretty interesting, not at all ‘stop having fun’ as another commenter’s meme here is saying. Though it doesn’t discuss Manor Lords.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are europen towns that are young enough to have been planned?

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    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nou, bedankt!

      ‘stop having fun’ as another commenter’s meme here is saying.

      Haha, a bit of truth balanced by a bit of cynicism, one supposes..? XD

      Shit, I need to get off my arse…
      https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels?tag=dutch

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