Why no one makes games about Latin America?

Ghost Recon Wildlands unironically does quite good to get southamericana. If well the characters are all stupid stereotypes, the ambience music, spread lore, aesthetics and geography is really on point.

Also Bad Company 2's Chile maps, specially Arica, are all peak ludo.

latest tomb raider wanted to say hi

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Mexico gets the most representation

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Not true

Mexico had tons of relevance

Didn't Ghost Recon take place in Bolivia?

Shadow of the Tomb Raider takes place in Peru

Because we would end up fighting over petty things. We are not "hermanos latinos", we hate each other and we don't go to war because we simply don't have the resources.

Which is funny because it was a game where Mayans extended their empire to all South America, BTFOing the Incas

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Did they undo making Lara a tranny looking thing in Rise?

Tranny living rent free in your mind

>we always get games set in Japan or America and Europe.
We always get games MADE in Japan or America and Europe.

Why is it suddenly the burden of certain countries to represent everybody on the fucking planet. Make your own shit.

Did they?

Irc, it was only the city of Paititi that is the descendant of the Mayans who escaped to the south during the drought.

Yes, play the game

Ok Latino bros, it's time:

>Country
>Favorite game
>Favorite system
>What're you looking forward to?
>What're you playing during the pandemic?
>Has your country created any good games?
>Waifu?

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Lmao

My city looks better than yours, Amerimutt.

youtube.com/watch?v=LoUxi2HdbYA

>>Country
Mexico
>>Favorite game
Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island
>>Favorite system
PSX
>>What're you looking forward to?
Pre-ordered VII remake
>>What're you playing during the pandemic?
Animal Crossing New Horizons and Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology
>>Has your country created any good games?
KSP
>>Waifu?
Angel

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Because most normies don't know shit about it and most publishers and developers also don't know shit about it and aren't willing to experiment trying to do something different because muh market trends.

For as much as people actually preach about appreciating other cultures and races, they don't actually give a shit and just want to insert minorities into the same games they'd keep making without fundamentally experimenting.

>Why is it suddenly the burden of certain countries to represent everybody
Why is it an issue of "representation" you giant brainlet?

Can't people just want games in other settings because it's cool and interesting? Do you also bitch when American and European studios make games set in Japan, because they are going out of their way to "represent" Japanese people? Of course not; , they are doing it because It'd make for a cool game (and because Japanese shit is something the average video game consumer is familar with)

Assuming anybody asking for X culture or theme in games is doing it out of wanting MUH REPRESENTATION is just as dumb as assuming NOT having it in games is automatically due to MUH RACISM. Plus as noted above anyways, the people actually asking for representation don't actually want to or bother making games set in other cultures: They'd just add a bunch of hispanic people to CoD/Mass Effect/whatever instead of actually making a game set in Latin America

The Maya didn't really have an "empire". During the period people most associate with them when Maya culture really exploded in complexity and size (The Classical period, 200-800AD), they were organized into a bunch of indepedent city-states and some larger dynastic kingdoms ruled by royal families who held their political power via installing rulers from their own line onto conquered cities and strategic political marriages, see pic as an example of political relationships between Classical and early Postclassical Maya cities

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Because why should they? how about stop being sub humans and learn how to develop your own games.

México is a bizarre country

Apparently Mayans and Aztecs knew each other

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Don't Just Cause and Tropico games usually take place on psuedo-cuban authoritarian states? Does that count?

I'd rather have a game in China, Africa, India or Manifest Destiny America before a game in mesoamerica.

>Country
Argieland

>Favorite game
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

>Favorite system
PC masterrace

>What're you looking forward to?
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

>What're you playing during the pandemic?
Stellaris

>Has your country created any good games?
Argentum Online best years of my life
(yes I'm old)

>Waifu?
Alexstrasza (WotLK-era)

My country produces plenty of games, such as Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars or Asylum.
We also aren't the ones complaining about this tho.

If it was up to me I would prefer to avoid getting the Resident Evil 4 treatment Spain got.

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They never wrote shit down. Shallow history.

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Also, to clarify a bit, in general Mesoamerican political systems tended to be indirect and hands off, with political power and authority held via "soft" means rather then directly governed imperial systems, Even the "Aztec Empire" was really more a trio of city-states in an alliance ruling over hundreds of others and thousands of towns as tributaries or vassal states who generally still did their own shit independently, I talk about this more here: pastebin.com/VqW97h93

So I guess you could arguably say, say, the two largest Classical Maya dyansties, the Mutal (Hairknot) dyansty centered in the city of Tikal, and the Kan (Snake) dyansty centered in the city of Calakmul, are as much empires as the "Aztec empire" is, but the difference is that the Aztec Empire controlled a much larger amount of cities/towns; and controlled nearly every city/town belonging to the same culture as the 3 ruling ones (Nahua, which is the "Aztec Culutre", though it's complicated); and also had a bit more political centralization in that it's subject towns often owed tribute/taxes whereas Maya kingdoms where just linked via dyanstyic tieswhich were a bit more fluid (Though the Aztec Empire's relationships were also quiet fluid, as you see when Conquistadors showed up).

Of course they did, there were still some Maya kingdoms, city-states, and towns around when the Aztec existed. There WAS a collapse due to the aformentioned Mutal and Kan kingdoms getting into a giant war in the 8th century AD (see pic), which combined with/caused/exacebrated by overpopulation, droughts, switching to unsuistable farming methods, etc led to a many larger cities in the Southern and Central Yucatan Peninsula collapsing, but many of these survived in the Northern parts of the Peninsula and actually grew in esteem.

For example, the League of Mayapan was the single largest prehispanic Maya political entity, and existed from 1000 to 1400AD.

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Aztecs and Mayans didn't build pyramids, it was the Atlanteans.

Aztecs discovered it, they did not build it. they built smaller imitations of it. it is far too advanced to have been built by indigenous people, it was built by the original global society Atlantis.

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You say that, but Mexico had a profound impact on my great grandfathers life. Old top loved his waltzes.

Is dis mesoAmerican user? Because you are awesome.

>pile rocks in the stablest way possible
>far too advanced

Mexico had two empires, a war with the French, a revolution, etc

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actually atlantis was just a very old city in north africa, located at what we now call the richat structure. any pre-history global civilizations would be before them.

listen I love my some crazy early human theories but the sunken cities don't have pyramids

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By the time the Spanish showed up the Latepostclassic, Northern area had declined somewhat from the early postclassic, but there were still a variety of city-states and kingdoms there and in the Western parts of the Peninsula; and some of the Southern and Central parts politically centralized again to an extent and had cities too, and there were never not thousands of medium sized towns and smaller villages all over since like 500BC or so.

Also, obligatory mention that there's a hell of a lot of other Mesoamerican civilizations beyond the Aztec and Maya (the image in shows stuff from the Teuchitlan, Teotihuacan, Classical Veracruz, Zapotec, etc for instance too) and that the images i've posted in and aren't close to comprehensive and only show the most notable Maya sites. For reference, per some recent research, the Classical Maya alone had perhaps 15 million + people.

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>Why is it an issue of "representation" you giant brainlet...Can't people just want games in other settings because it's cool and interesting?

>Well, pre-colonial times they'd have to include child sacrifices.

No they wouldn't. Not every game set in Medieval Europe includes massacring heathens and burning people at stakes, there's no reason they HAVE to include the most brutal elements of the culture in question if it wouldn't fit the tone of the game.

Also Iron/Bronze age Europe/the Near East had sacrifices too and you don't see those in the few games set in Mesopotamia, Pre-Greek europe, etc.

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Yes

I mean I'd love all of those too (other then Manifest destiny); but what makes those better for you??

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The Maya had the number zero:

The Maya were 1 of only 2 cultures in the world, and the only culture in the whole of the American continent, to create the number zero

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>but what makes those better for you??
China and India at least are just as unexplored as mesoamerica. They had much larger cities and both countries have massive mythos. Chinese and India history is very dense too, both have been around forever. Mesoamerica was very isolated to itself prior to European contact while china and india had relations with nearly every other group of people. I also really like chinese and Indian architecture, especially for their temples.

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I feel like china probably has a lot of their archaeological information kept to themselves

I think that Mexico is the only interesting Latino country and most beautiful one

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That whole country is wasted potential. They need to get their shit together and oust the murderous corrupt trash.

sasd

more ancient world knowledge pls

>Mexico has taken a “business as usual” attitude. People still crowd street markets picking through piles of fruit and vegetables. Cars and trucks continue to fill the streets and commuters throng subway trains.
>President López Obrador have said a shutdown of the country would disproportionately hurt poor people and also be a psychological weight on all Mexicans. They say there is no reason to impose major restrictions before health officials deem them necessary.

Why are Mexicans like this?

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reminder

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You know you keep posting this, someone is going to push some anime-style Huemac VN game or something, right? We have animu games about literal personifications of aircraft carriers and other navel vessels as anime girls with attack armor bolted on, so Huemac and the quest for the phattest ass boning a couple of genderbent gods is not beyond the pale.

TES VI lore is shaping up quite nicely

>Country
Mexico
>Favorite game
Super Mario 64
>Favorite system
PS2, Wii/GC
>What're you looking forward to?
uuuuuuuuuuuhhh
>What're you playing during the pandemic?
Animal Crossing (GC)
>Has your country created any good games?
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh
>Waifu?
Akiyama Mio

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Basado

Never heard of those games

>never heard of Master of Orion
You serious?

I'm not interested really

Anyway, I'd recommend Patobox or Mulaka, better and more fun games

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Why don't you ask all your famous Latin-American game companies? Oh wait, there are none.

holy shit this board has truly been taken over by zoomers.

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Here:

It'd unquestionably be cool and could certainly fit, given the themes of stuff in Aztec mythology already fitting the lore of Dark Souls almost to a T, as I explain here: arch.b4k.co/v/thread/461953759/#461964945 (tl;dr: the duality of life of death, the cyclical nature of it and reality as a whole, with all things being transient: living things consume and kill others to live themselves, the world itself had been created and destroyed 5 times, with the gods giving up their own effort, blood, and lives to make the world again; sacrifice being the gods consuming people in this cycle as well, etc), and the aeshetical themes with stuff like skull motifs, crazy gods which are basically already bloodborne bosses, etc (the skulls and gore motifs you often see in Aztec art are a reflection of this, a reminder of your own mortality; with things not lasting and eroding, but that making life and things all the more precious, also being a major theme in Aztec poetry, see pic)

But I also think a sort of played up, dark fantasy version of Mesoamerican stuff is overdone. All this shit is a single element of Mesoamerican culture and society which gets exclusively focused on because that's all most people are familiar with, it'd be nice for a change if that wasn't the sole focus:. As an example, Floral motifs are just as common as skulls and blood ones, with Aztec society also being super obbessed with flowers and gardens; you could find them in communal spaces, built into noble homes on roofs or in open air courtyards, royal gardens could cover multiple square kilometers; the Aztec straight up even had a floral taxonomic system comparable to Linnaeus's system from 18th century europe for categorizing plants and flowers.

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