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Spent today playing Ryse: Son of Rome (broadly enjoyed it) and idk if it's just me but I immediately decided that the alternate timeline the game openly occupies is not ancient Rome, but an alternate modern-day Rome.

Everything about the way it's designed put me in mind of a world where Christianity never rose to prominence, the Roman Empire never split, and somehow the apparatus of the Empire just kept going, like a Japan of the west. Rome looks like you could imagine 1st century Rome eventually looking if they had two thousand years of unchallenged dominance and development behind them.

Emperor Nero isn't OUR Nero Augustus Germanicus - he's a guy with the same name, just like Boudica is (which was by all accounts a common Brythonic name anyway).

Idk, it just made the world feel way more engaging to me.