general media Historical periods that you want to see more often in fiction

[Enemy Stand 446]

Personally, I'd like to see more of World War I, the American frontier in the early 19th century, and the British Raj, just to name a few.

 

What are yours, if any?

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,151]

^I can agree with World War I. I'd love to see some emphasis on that futility of that war; as well as the cost of it in the leadup to WWII.

 

As for what I would love to see, I'd like to see more games on the classical period; specifically ancient Greece, ancient Rome (Ryse & Total War aside), and especially ancient Persia; including the Achaemenid, Parthian (not Persia, but same area), and Sassanid periods.

 

Of course I love Prince of Persia, but it I'd like to see another take on Persia mythology.

[Twisted Cyclone 🚓 6,221]

• Bubonic Plague (Black Death)

American Civil War

American Revolutionary War

[Phoenix Flair 332]

The French Revolution.  Always been a fan of grey-area periods of history, and it seems there's a lot of chaos in that era a writer could play around with.  I might even try my own hand at that one day.

[Snoochi 28]

Nirvana live so like 1993 rip kurt

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

I want to see a Pharaoh simulator game. A lot of fiction is borrowed from the mythology of the ancient Egyptians, but that's not really something I see in games.

Edited December 5, 2014 by Regulus

[Shanks 10,811]

I didn't expect World War I to be mentioned right off the bat, that war hardly gets any attention in history class or popular culture even though it is largely unresolved issue from that which lead to World War II. Most people have no idea just how stupid and pointless that war was, it was a bunch of powerful empires getting in each others way with America only getting involved after the Germans sunk the civilian ship the Lusitania after it wandered a bit too close to German waters. Early American frontier sounds good too, there are all sorts of things you could do with that. I have always been interested in Ancient Egypt, ancient Mexico, Central and South America also have a lot of potential. Ancient Persia and feudal China.

[VitalSpark 1,830]

 

 

I didn't expect World War I to be mentioned right off the bat, that war hardly gets any attention in history class or popular culture even though it is largely unresolved issue from that which lead to World War II.

 

I fully expect that at some point in the future, historians will consider them to be a single war with an extended ceasefire period. In fact, that ceasefire period, the "interbellum" is an interesting one. A lot of international tension. A good time to set spy fiction.

 

Others have mentioned the Roman empire. I specifically think that the periods during its rise and fall would make interesting fiction - in particular, the something set in the Western part of the empire during the reign of Justinian I would be awesome.

 

Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle also whetted my appetite for late 17th century and early 18th century Europe.

[Dark Horse 12,795]

WWI is definitely something I'd like to see more attention too, even for all its controversy and debates. Just the thought of what those soldiers went through, both physically and emotionally, and how they reacted to being in such a hostile environment for what must have seemed like an eternity, and for reasons that i'm sure most of them thought vague and meaningless... I don't think its something that can ever be truly settled.

 

Going a bit further back, I'd love to see some work of the middle age crusades, around the times of Saladin and Frederick Barbarossa, those were some interesting campaigns that saw massive armies move across most of Eurasia and many sudden shifts in power. Really anything around the mid to late 11th and early 12th centuries I find to be very appealing.

[Lordav 3,426]

a sci-fi from anywhere between the high medieval era to the 1840s or the Roman Empire would be interesting as most sci-fi movies take a more modern setting... Why not some variety? Personally I'd say aliens invading a place where ppl fight in lines and fire twice a minue from a old musket would be hilarious =)

[Sekr Gray 520]

Oh boy. History, and fiction >:3

 

• WWI, of course, for the reasons mentioned prior.
• Civil Wars in general. Video games might be odd, when reloading your rifle takes half a minute, but that could add to the "realness" of the game. And I can't recall hearing about Cromwell in /any/ game or story I've read, so it'd be a nice twist.
• Virtually anything from before the fall of Rome/Middle Ages. While we get mythology quite often, it's hard to find good ways to spark people's interest in how Ptolemy XII just loved the flute and enraged his court
• And of course, I demand the Viking Ages.

[Megas 27,038]

Some more games sett during the French Revolution and the American Civil War

[Duster Dawnhorse 247]

Have a bulletpoint list.

• Dust Bowl (1930s.) Yeah, my ponysona/brony fandom name gives away I'm a little Dust Bowl biased but there's so little on it other than Grapes of Wrath and Ken Burns.
• Red Scare (1950s.) There are plenty of cleverly disguised critiques (The Crucible and Invasion of the Body Snatchers being two that come to mind) but not many solely on McCarthy's communist witch hunt.
• Vietnam War in America away from the popular hippie movements. Extremist activism during this period led to some of the first acts of domestic terrorism.
• Spanish Flu Pandemic (1918.) There's surprisingly not a whole lot on this other than a few books and two TV documentaries. Often gets overlooked for Black Plague.
• Post-war WWII just about anywhere (mid-40s to mid-50s) America's class structure was completely redefined and other countries had to deal with the physical and emotional damage war wrought. Kinda like to see more on the evolution of the American class structure though.