Just watched the gameplay video for Ass Creed Odyssey from E3. EXCITE although I did not see livestock except horses?
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How am I, a professional critic of livestock in video games, supposed to function when studios do not highlight the livestock in their E3 videos
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Seeing as Odyssey is set in Greece in the late 5th C BCE I will be looking for sheep, goats, and cattle, with an emphasis on the former 2.
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Ubisoft did some nice hair sheep for Origins but IIRC Greeks were using wool which means wool sheep. I look forward to your renderings of fleeces on living sheep, Ubisoft. *meaningful look*
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Also I did not see chariots in that battle scene but then someone who does military shit will have to comment on whether they'd have been fighting from chariots or just using them to get somewhere, then jumping down to fight.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
I believe by that point they no longer used chariots frequently in combat. But it’s been some time since I studied ancient Grecian combat and military
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Things I know: oxen were still the agricultural beast of burden. And plows were still pretty much an ard, maybe with some cool accessories.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
I suspect they did a good job on details so I bet we’ll see oxen.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Yeah but they put the wrong subspecies of cattle in Origins. *pendants pedantically*
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ah well then maybe not haha. I guess they didn't do that intense of research on the livestock.
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