View Single Post

Thread: Real world pantheons in games

  1. - Top - End - #10
    Troll in the Playground
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Location
    Protecting my Horde (yes, I mean that kind)

    Default Re: Real world pantheons in games

    Quote Originally Posted by Max_Killjoy View Post
    Second, keep in mind that almost every presentation we see of those "old religions" is grossly simplified, with the author(s) having picked through a tangle of conflicting and contradictory accounts of the origins, histories, and relationships of those deities. The "Egyptian" and "Greek" religions in particular were amalgams of regional and local beliefs that changed and changed again over the course of multiple millennia.
    On that note for Egyptians,s Assassin's Creed Origins actually has by all accounts a pretty accurate view of how Egyptians and Greeks looked at each other, and each other's beliefs roughly during 100BCE. So you want to understand from a player facing view, rather than an academics view, of a how "real" people viewed their world there are worse places to turn.
    Last edited by Beleriphon; 2018-01-08 at 03:18 PM.