Should PDX ask Extra History (Credits) to do a new series?

[grandad1982]

For the launch of HoI4 PDX sponsored Extra History to do a short series as a form of promotion. Since then Wargaming.net have also sponsered a couple of series.

I thought this was a great from of promotion as it lead to interesting and entertaining content to watch.

Would you like to see more of this kind of promotion and if so which game and topic would you be interested in?

For me I would like something related to EU4, as the time line of the game offers a long and varied period to choose from. Maybe the fall of Byzantium? The reformation? The rise of the Quing?

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I'll say that it was Extra History that got me to start playing World of Ships with their coverage of the hunt of the Bismark. It didn't really turn out to be my kind of game, but I took advantage of the opportunity to at least try the game. Without Extra History, I wouldn't have even tried it. So, there's that.

I think it has a lot of merit. One the one hand, Extra History has a LOT of viewers, so you're sure to get an influx of new players. On the other, people get introduced to vignettes of history which are actually researched and done properly, as well as entertainingly, with their sources cited and the viewers encouraged to do their own research further, freely admitting that they truly can't cover everything within the time available to them. Which makes it better than most 'educational' programming seen these days, which have tended to the sensationalist programming to try and garner ratings, without such disclosures being mentioned.

 

[EldarPanic]

Yasss

 

[Samman666]

Industrial Revolution series for Vicky 3
Cyrus the Great series for a new antiquity game
Soviet-Afghan War series for a new Cold War game

Just some ideas

 

[Tssha]

I would absolutely LOVE a video series on the Industrial Revolution! Granted, it's a broad topic but...

...when I was a kid, I played the hell out of Imperialism. That ol' SSI game that you had featured on ParadoxExtra. At the time, I wanted to study up on the industrial revolution, find books on the period, learn more about it. I was home schooled at the time for...reasons. The only book I could find was one on the Russian revolution. I barely got through the first thirty pages or so. I was so disappointed that there wasn't something going in depth on the period and the associated history. I'd love to see a video that does the period justice. Maybe taking a small vertical slice of the period, showing off one war, one social movement, or political event that was emblematic of the period. It would make that teenage me very happy.

 

[Alblaka]

On the other, people get introduced to vignettes of history which are actually researched and done properly, as well as entertainingly, with their sources cited and the viewers encouraged to do their own research further, freely admitting that they truly can't cover everything within the time available to them. Which makes it better than most 'educational' programming seen these days, which have tended to the sensationalist programming to try and garner ratings, without such disclosures being mentioned.

I sucked in both national and global geography (and I still suck in the local one and/or map reading, despite excessive hours sunk into DayZ ), but since I put some time into EUIV and CKII I can actually label a ton more of countries, geographic landmarks, even a few provinces and islands. I could even say that my current job in an IT company could POSSIBLY rest on that, since I impressed the personal manager in the interview: He apologized for the delay in the interview (2 months after I handed my application in), mentioning that he spent his annual vacation on Cape Verde. I could promptly respond "Oh right, the islands to the west of central Africa, the first stepping stones of the colonizers." Turns out he was vacationing regularily on the island for the past 2 decades and had taken a liking to it's history etc, leading to him being positively impressed by that random piece of knowledge (which I gained from playing colonizers in EUIV, obviously). Sure, I can't tell how much of that contributed to the result of me being hired, but it did set up the interview to a very good start.

Of course, the games aren't very good at teaching history (at least that weird version of history where [insert your naton/ruler here] didn't conquer the world), but geography, always.

 

[yourworstnightm]

Don't Extra Credit have enough on their work slate already with new shows and all. Not that they'd say no to making sponsored content of course.

 

[grandad1982]

Don't Extra Credit have enough on their work slate already with new shows and all. Not that they'd say no to making sponsored content of course.

I'm sure that they have space in their timetable at some point in the future. It wouldn't have to be immediate content, I can wait!

 

[LumberKing]

A series for each bookmarks from the games will be very interesting.