Best game to learn about the japanese empire?

platypus said:
Read Shogun by James Clavell.
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Doesnt really tell you that much about jap culture. Its mainly about the Dutch and English start to trading in the far east, guns being introduced to the land and because of that the beginning of the end of the era of the Samurai. Its still viewed from a fairly narrow perspective over about 5ish years iirc.

Like pretty much anything Clavell, I find the characters and story only class B (obviously the guy is a master at producing lots of accurate period pieces, but thats different from a ripping yarn), but if you are interested in the exact era depicted, you will still chew threw them. Iirc Shogun was a good 1K pages.
 
TheMightyTen said:
Is this really what the world has come to now, we have people who do their learning through games :(

If I wish to learn things my first thought is books, libraries and research on the internet not "Ohhh what game can I play to learn about Cathar Supression by Pope Eugene III" :(:(:(:(
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No, he said he was using book but games are a nice supplement.

The best student is the one who uses every resource.
 
Tobywon said:
Dynasty warriors 4, amazing game lol not sure how factually correct it is but tis an awesome game
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Well for starters wrong country.

Dynasty Warriors is China, based on the 14th Century Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel which in turn is based on the historical 3rd Century Three Kingdoms period.

Samurai Warriors is the one if you want to look at Japan, 15th Century Sengoku Period.

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Shogun Total War is an obvious choice but this is only in the Sengoku Period itself.

19th Century Meiji Restoration to 20th Century World War II Empire of Japan is pretty hard to come by especially for strategy games.

EDIT - I remember seeing this WWII Pacific Naval based game where you can play as the Japanese Empire which does a "What if" scenario after Pearl Harbor. Shame I cannot remember what it was called though.
 
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JTrickle said:
Doesnt really tell you that much about jap culture. Its mainly about the Dutch and English start to trading in the far east, guns being introduced to the land and because of that the beginning of the end of the era of the Samurai. Its still viewed from a fairly narrow perspective over about 5ish years iirc.

Like pretty much anything Clavell, I find the characters and story only class B (obviously the guy is a master at producing lots of accurate period pieces, but thats different from a ripping yarn), but if you are interested in the exact era depicted, you will still chew threw them. Iirc Shogun was a good 1K pages.
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It tells you an awful lot about Japanese culture. It's 1250 pages iirc.
 
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