Why are there so few games set in the first half of the 20th century? (war games don't count) Recommend some. Also...

why are there so few games set in the first half of the 20th century? (war games don't count) Recommend some. Also, what settings are underutilized in vidya in your opinion?

Cuphead!!!!!

Nintendo. Creatively Bankrupt™, Yet always sugarcoating it. By god, would a UB Iwerkz Mario themed game look amazing.

War games, as in WW1 or WW2 games don't count or war games as in /gsg/? Both? But I guess Gunslinger, Crimson Skies, Impossible Creatures, Paraworld, Mafia, Gangsters, Pizza Tycoon and Imperialism to start you off.

High medieval renaissance thru reformation and pike and shot proper.

Mostly I guess the same reason a much fewer number of books or even films are written in this type of era; people are so disconnected with it yet it is still not far away enough to take drastic liberty with it. It's very hard to write a game from that period and you don't have much freedom to do what you like and add elements into it. However I am only talking about games that actually try to be realistic like LA Noire and take themselves quite seriously. There are actually a shit ton of games out based in that period, I am playing Bioshock again recently for one quick example. Games just have to go a bit off the rails if they wanna do it and not be hampered down by so much history weight.

that would be fun! hell that would be perfect for the wario and waluigi games some anons like to daydream about. however japanese old timey is a bit different than american old timey. that could probably still be pretty sweet.

isnt bioshock set in that era? feels like it could be, but my memory isnt too sharp.

Bioshock is in the 60s.

Because most game developers are absolute mongoloids. Only game I'm looking forward to this year is Kingdom Come Deliverance.

but is rapture 60s themed? i ask because the game only starts after raptures downfall, so its been around a while before the player ever gets to it

Any historical Asian civilization, that's not China or Japan, is almost never even mentioned outside of strategy games. It's a shame too, there's a lot of interesting material there.

This too. They always make some mishmash of the early, high, and late middle ages, and sometimes even the renaissance. Those periods were all radically different from one another.

Meiji era (also excluding war and grand strategy). Only things I can think of are the first and fourth Way of the Samurai games.

Raidou Kuzunoha and its sequel are great. They're set in interwar Tokyo and super nifty.