Quick Look: Dawn of Man

@edmundus: When I played it a few years back, I found some weird caves and then a lady that fell in love with me on some strange island. She started following me around!

@offdutyninja: i was thinking the same thing. The systems feel equal and if it from the same developer I'm very excited to see how the steam workshop is going to mod this game

Yup. I get what you mean and I agree but American schools just don't teach it that way. My Mother spent a year in England when she was in High School and she always mentions just how drastically different history was when taught there compared to here. Like at the end of the day chemistry and physics and mathematics are universal. History is subjective in many ways. And in America the focus is largely on US history not human history. Like decaped said, you get a year of human history that is presented as largely separate from the rest of your education.

If Food Wars taught me anything, bear meat tastes very gamey and requires a top student of Totsuki Culinary Academy to be prepared correctly.

Also, yo, this game is straight up Banished.

I'm also kind of puzzled why this game is as popular as it is. Looks pretty neat, but...yeah.

I love Dan, but Dan's questions made this quick look borderline unwatchable.

I get laughing at how dumb Dan is but him reveling in it is infuriating.

Came for the endumbening, not disappointed.

This video highlighted a fact I hadn't thought of before. There are so many questions Dan has, that he's wondered forever and not found satisfying answers for, that he could just google.

Dan should go ride Spaceship Earth at EPCOT, that's a pretty good loose overview of the history of man.

Speaking personally:

1) I don't know about other schools in the US, but growing up, at my school, History was a normal class and then World History was an advanced class. So of course I didn't take World History, why would I want to take a harder class? Looking back I find the situation quite funny and American.

2) The history I did learn was presented to me in such a mind numbing way that I forgot a lot of it. A lot of the focus was on the "what" and not the "why it matters". That, and a lot of it was just basically listing off events and the year they happened, which isn't a great way to actually retain information. Also, by the time I hit high school, I could just look up events on wikipedia if I wanted to know the date of something, so why would I need to memorize it?

@lofi: Huh. That explains a lot.

For what it's worth, where I'm from you get one year of national history and one year of world history, alternating all the way through middle and high school. It's astounding to me that you can get to be a grownup opting out of hearing what happened in the... well, the world at all.

I still think we have too much focus on memorization and fact checking, but I did have a few good teachers who would just tell you the story of what happened, which totally expands how you view learning history. Turns out it's all like now just with different costumes.

So this is basically a Banished rip off?

I thought this was "Don of Man" and just about a guy named Don, with prehistoric animals

This is a citybuilder, not a godgame. different genre's