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I really really wish, there was a VR game/app where I can transport myself to different places/times in the past and just walk around to get the texture and fee

I really really wish, there was a VR game/app where I can transport myself to different places/times in the past and just walk around to get the texture and feel for what it felt like living in that time. Walking around a Roman town, hearing what people talked like, what they wore, what technology was around, what did they do most of the day. Someone please make it real.

satvikpendem 4mo ago
For ancient Rome there is The Forgotten City.
devnulll 4mo ago
The Assassin’s Creed Odyssey game, set in classical Greece, has a feature like this. It works really well as a teaching tool, and the immersion is excellent. Even today, the overall quality of the graphics and the game still holds up. The “education mode” is officially called Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece. It removes all combat, enemies, and time pressure from the game and turns it into a large, interactive, open-air virtual museum. https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery-tour https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery... My kids have actually used this (without any prompting from me) in middle school history classes. There’s also a Story Mode, which lets players build their own narratives and share them. It can be quite a lot of fun. https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/story-creator-mode/en-us https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/story-creator-mode/en-us
- soperj 4mo ago
  I wish there was a "camping mode" for Breath of the Wild. Would be fun just to fish and hunt and camp.
- satvikpendem 4mo ago
  There are discovery tours for the other modern AC games too included if you own the base game.
- bwv848 4mo ago
  I don’t understand why folks mention AC games first when this kind of thing is brought up, KCD is not perfect but much better for historical accuracy.
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  - thunderfork 4mo ago
    To be clear, they're taking about an "edutainment mode" feature, and not the standard game with its narrative about templar-aliens.
michaelbuckbee 4mo ago
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is kind of like that for the architecture and period it covers. There's an interesting small YT channel that did a series on ACB + History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hebq-fObdhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hebq-fObdhY
evantahler 4mo ago
Check out the city builder Nova Roma - it’s got these apartments! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2426530/Nova_Roma/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2426530/Nova_Roma/
- nottorp 4mo ago
  Hm is that any good if i'm an old Caesar/Pharaoh player?
wonkyfruit 4mo ago
It's coming. I actually imagine it will seem trivial in a few years. "Better Than Life" from Red Dwarf is the next tier of computer games I guess. They wrote that episode back in the late 80s or early 90s and here we are with Google Genie 3 and the models that will supersede it.

satvikpendem 4mo ago

For ancient Rome there is The Forgotten City.

devnulll 4mo ago

The Assassin’s Creed Odyssey game, set in classical Greece, has a feature like this. It works really well as a teaching tool, and the immersion is excellent. Even today, the overall quality of the graphics and the game still holds up. The “education mode” is officially called Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece. It removes all combat, enemies, and time pressure from the game and turns it into a large, interactive, open-air virtual museum. https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery-tour https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery... My kids have actually used this (without any prompting from me) in middle school history classes. There’s also a Story Mode, which lets players build their own narratives and share them. It can be quite a lot of fun. https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/story-creator-mode/en-us https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/story-creator-mode/en-us

soperj 4mo ago
I wish there was a "camping mode" for Breath of the Wild. Would be fun just to fish and hunt and camp.
satvikpendem 4mo ago
There are discovery tours for the other modern AC games too included if you own the base game.
bwv848 4mo ago
I don’t understand why folks mention AC games first when this kind of thing is brought up, KCD is not perfect but much better for historical accuracy.
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- thunderfork 4mo ago
  To be clear, they're taking about an "edutainment mode" feature, and not the standard game with its narrative about templar-aliens.

michaelbuckbee 4mo ago

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is kind of like that for the architecture and period it covers. There's an interesting small YT channel that did a series on ACB + History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hebq-fObdhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hebq-fObdhY

evantahler 4mo ago

Check out the city builder Nova Roma - it’s got these apartments! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2426530/Nova_Roma/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2426530/Nova_Roma/

nottorp 4mo ago
Hm is that any good if i'm an old Caesar/Pharaoh player?

wonkyfruit 4mo ago

It's coming. I actually imagine it will seem trivial in a few years. "Better Than Life" from Red Dwarf is the next tier of computer games I guess. They wrote that episode back in the late 80s or early 90s and here we are with Google Genie 3 and the models that will supersede it.