Has anyone ever wanted to experience being a ruthless colonizer only interested in conquest and trade? Like a hyperrealistic experience, not just any game but a game that looks almost exactly like real life with advanced AI that can excellently talk and act like a human? To be able to invade tribal peoples, enslave them, trade them, use them for slave labor, pillage and conquer new lands, explore the lands, build infrastructure, enact laws, declare sovereign nations etc. Like an almost exact replica of life around 1600-1800 pre-industrial era playing as a colonialist trader (or even a pirate)?
I know this thread would generally belong to
>>>/games/ but its more of a conceptual idea. For one - technology hasn't developed enough to get it to a good enough level of realism and two - there likely won't be any such game since it would be considered as "glorifying" that side of history. Even though it could have optional routes like being a slave to lead a revolt, a pirate or like an Ottoman slave owner.
It's not that I condone any of it, its just that it would actually feel good and be fun, to basically experience a second life as a part of the bad guys of this historical period in a close to reality experience, as would any such experience even. Had true hyperrealism in games come surely WW2 games would also allow factions to play as axis and commit atrocities. It would be fun if we could do a true simulation of reality, much like the concept in assassins' creed (the Animus)
https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Animus . The reason I start off the thread with the idea of living out colonialism as a colonialist, is because they genuinely had it good and it does feel pretty good to be a slave owner, however it is always at the misfortune of others, this is where such a problem wouldn't matter in simulated realities as games since they've always been an outlet for such escapism and an outlet for careless misanthropic murderous and tormenting fun.