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You could do it if it was a relatively sparse exterior set, perhaps as a "make your way into the city" kind of multi-level climbing puzzle. What you couldn't do is an entire city explored with this kind of detail and openness. BUT you could do the exterior and the city interior with some forethought and planning.

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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Right now I'm digging the art direction of this Russian movie Hard to be a God.

It's medieval and it's billed as possibly the filthiest movie, if not ever, of at least the last 10 years ... filthy in terms of sheer dirt, grime, and muck.

What better inspiration for our world could there be? :P

 

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Watched only the first 5 minutes so far.

Walking through such streets with ancient houses as a thief with the mud squashing noticeably between your toes.

Paint your face with dirt, so at least you can not be spotted that easily.

That would make fine mission!

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Petike the Taffer

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Since Bridgeport and other TDM-verse cities and towns seem to have quite a few bridges, here are some links to real world medieval fortified bridges and toll bridges that are still standing today:

 

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Monnow Bridge in Monmouth, Wales

 

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Ponte Scaligero in Verona, Italy

 

Right now I'm digging the art direction of this Russian movie Hard to be a God.

It's medieval and it's billed as possibly the filthiest movie, if not ever, of at least the last 10 years ... filthy in terms of sheer dirt, grime, and muck.

What better inspiration for our world could there be? :P

 

I had no idea there's a new adaptation of that novel. :)

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And some old-timey industrial inspirations from my homeland...

 

The old hydroelectric powerplant near Kežmarok, under the Tatras. Founded in 1910, it's still in full operation today, even with some of the original Austro-Hungarian era machinery:

 

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Some of my own photos of the old red brick factory halls of the Solivary salt processing plant in Prešov:

 

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More to come. I've posted plenty of these over at ttlg.com, usually my own photos. I'll cover some medieval and early modern housing next time.

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Speaking of aesthetically inspirational movies, I also like a French classic called Le Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre). Really captures the look, lifestyle, and ways of thinking of a medieval village.

 

http://theredlist.com/wiki-2-20-777-781-view-1980-1990-profile-1982-bthe-return-of-martin-guerre-b.html

http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/?p=27296

http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/filmclipexercise/returnmgpaint.html

http://www.myreviewer.com/DVD/59308/Return-Of-Martin-Guerre-The-UK/59328/Review-by-Jason-Bagnall

 

Oh, also The Devil's Whore. That one had such good imagery I actually took a ton of screenshots of the movie, which I rarely do.

 

http://crowdofstars.livejournal.com/14688.html?nojs=1

https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=the+devil%27s+whore&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-5PLVJOkH87n8AWU0IGYDw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1060&bih=721

 

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Edit: I'd be interested in seeing some medieval movies made into FMs -- Name of the Rose, Hard to be a God, Excalibur, the two I mentioned here, etc -- as long as there's still some good gameplay. Some of them have really good stories.

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Speaking of aesthetically inspirational movies, I also like a French classic called Le Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre). Really captures the look, lifestyle, and ways of thinking of a medieval village.

 

I like the colourfulness of a lot of the clothing. It always annoys me when many contemporary films equate medieval clothing with literally everyone wearing apparel made from drab, sack-like cloth. I blame the "gritty realism" crowd. Misplaced realism, more like...

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Right now I'm digging the art direction of this Russian movie Hard to be a God.

It's medieval and it's billed as possibly the filthiest movie, if not ever, of at least the last 10 years ... filthy in terms of sheer dirt, grime, and muck.

What better inspiration for our world could there be? :P

 

 

Another movie on the same topic but different - in cooperation between Germany and USSR, although the latter had little to do in the end with the film's creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GiefHPD7HY (has english subititles in the caption)

 

Also, the book is good from what I've hear and there's even a Russian video game which I tried, I thought was a nice RPG as well. Even if mostly ignored in 2005.

 

The movie looks more like Dune but I thought it was still cool in case anyone wants inspiration for Arabic landscapes (I'm not sure the book actually had these steepes as it's setting but whatever ^_^ ).

 

However, arguably the movie you sent is more in line with the original material of the book - i.e. a harsh, unforgiving and barbaric system under a Medieval Theocratic dictatorship as a setting.

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"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

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Right now I'm digging the art direction of this Russian movie Hard to be a God.

It's medieval and it's billed as possibly the filthiest movie, if not ever, of at least the last 10 years ... filthy in terms of sheer dirt, grime, and muck.

What better inspiration for our world could there be? :P

 

 

They made a movie! Nice, petty is in russian and black$white.

 

edit:. Deleted some stuff because was just repeating what other people said.

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As for subtitles, I just ripped it from YouTube via the downloader app and got the subtitles from a google search.

 

Last night I did a search for movies and tv shows set in the medieval period from any country. Will report back my favorites after watching some.

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You rang? ;)

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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OK Biker, time to get to work...

 

That is SO designed for modular building....

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Melan

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Blimey, what mission is that from? the sight distances/line are insane :-)

Guess twice!

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Both are good guesses.

 

Using Google's reverse image search, however, is unsportsmanlike.

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It takes the challenge and fun out of guessing.

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