BF2S Forums D&ST - Architecture

Except for the welfare agency. God bless them.

they don't really have anything in common except maybe both were taught at your terrible school sometime in the 70's.

forget statues, it was established a while ago that even the parthenon and most important ancient greek buildings which survive today were originally multi-coloured. just like the pagan sites of britain and gaul.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy AC (although it's rather formulaic), but I have some small beef with the franchise for having "historical tours" with altered social dynamics to make the world depicted be more appealing to a modern crowd (multigendered schools, ancient egypt: this ruffled some stickler feathers back in the day). Normally it would be a small blip like the Chernobyl documentary, but then there's this:

Assassin’s Creed has a new mission: Working in the classroom
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2018/may … -in-the-c/

‘Assassin’s Creed’ video game becomes tool to teach history
https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news … /40205725/

There's a whole bunch of articles pointing out how great the games are for teaching history in their nonviolent tours. Ubisoft very much marketed it in part as a tool for teachers, "we consulted with historians and egyptologists, etc.!"

Assassin's Creed video games are steeped in history, but how educational are they?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal … -1.4566553

I don't know if they've been making similar tweaks since, because I haven't played Odyssey or beyond, but I don't seem to remember the Egypt tour clarifying what was historical and what was creative liberty. Just as bad as some documentaries that way.

It's also troubling to me that a game named "Assassin's" anything is a classroom tool.

Whenever I see a docudrama put up something like "we consulted with the experts!" my bs radar goes off, and I'll be on the watch for all the stuff the experts probably told them that they chose to ignore. I've even seen this gripe on costume designers' youtube channels.

Anyway I think AC is a cool tool for the digital tour, just as long as people understand that some of what they're looking at is split from reality, and which things those are. Ubisoft shouldn't be playing coy with "guess what's fake!"