Hmm yes its only been 2 more chapters and Balam is still bae no you cant change my mind

@kwendy there's a great series of articles about how video games warp history and how sid meier decided how to make it all work in Civilization here https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-1-making-civilization/

I can't believe that i'm being fond for demons

Next Chapter, The Joy of Painting

I should be studying too. lol

On the first page and the first thing I think of is...well...
Spoiler

I can definitely relate to the study high, good grades are addicting as hell

@kwendy I agree with you on those points

@conscript117 Wiki occasionally as accurate as videogames. And videogames are either fantasy, reference to historical events by names only or blatant twisting of historical facts wich is probably worse.
@panzerkampfwagyu Rather then starting point, it's exactly promotion of interest. You don't learn [history] from that, you only getting interested in it. Definitely not the same.
@Why_Not_Add_More_Gun And then peope start to actually believe in black soldiers fighting for third reich and highway of death being russian war crime. FPS games are the extreme, but I think you get the point.
@Magaso AoE is not exactly based on history, but rather on romanticized 19'th century interpretation of such. Better not think of it as historical facts and read on actual events of the times becase those are often more interesting then what is re-told for entertainment.

Age of Empires 1 and 2 taught me a lot

Wholesome

I think Video Games fulfill a niche of helping to make History and other Educational Practices more digestible to larger audiences so that through these mediums more people will become interested in them.

History for me at first was kind of lame but through games and some pretty interesting stories I was presented to often, I eventually realized History was just as interesting as fiction if not more so.

@InfiniteVerismilitude I would say it's more of a good starting point.
Sometimes when playing, you see stuff that interests you and you look it up to find interesting stuff

Europa Universalis 4 and the like can get you up to speed on geography and major historical world powers pretty well. Crusader Kings is rather less grounded though...

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@kwendy What's so bad about studying history from videogames?

*Sees Fate GO King Arthur and Leonardo Da Vinci*

Oh...

Don't let it go to your head Iruma. 😂

now only 29 chapters more until the 1st big spoiler up ahead...the 94 by ssssss hit.

@kwendy Some belic games are based on events that actually happened, not entirely but based off, that and a little of wiki can help fill the reality holes.

Couldn't Iruma heal Balam's scar with his blood?

I've only had Balam for an hour but if anything happened to him i would kill everybody in the demon realm and then myself