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« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2011, 10:51:02 am »
Capitalism I/II for all kinds of capitalistic stuff
Wall Street Raider for how to read a basic balance sheet/income statement and how to dismember companies.
All the KOEI games for various chinese rulers and events.
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« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2011, 10:52:55 am »
Larry Laffer and Space Quest expanded my english vocabulary with many useful words.
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« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2011, 10:56:32 am »
Quote from: Moron on August 26, 2011, 09:00:06 am
Hearts of Iron: All the tech advances had a big page of detailed historical information about the advance being researched, its effect on the progress of the war etc.

Sadly, this was removed in Hearts of Iron II
Very much this.
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« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2011, 10:58:30 am »
Ants (at least slaver ants) do coordinate attacks to some extent.
1. Take position near enemy colony.
2. Release fake enemy "panic" pheremones.
3. Wait for enemy to start evacuating.
4. Rush in, engaging any hostiles left in the colony.
5. Pick up all the larva you can carry.
6. Run home before they come back.
7. Brainwash the kiddies.
8. Profit!
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« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2011, 11:37:49 am »
With a lot of this stuff I wonder how much misinformation you pick up along with the info.  I mostly find that they serve as a launching point for me, leading me to find out more on my own.  I definitely love Paradox games though and they have served as a great launching point for me to learn.  This one time in an English class full of engineers, the teacher started ranting about how we didn't know anything about Byzantine history, to which I replied by giving a 5 minute summery of the history, culture and social structures of the Eastern Roman Empire.  I looked like a historical savant but the truth is that I had been playing EU II that afternoon and had spent the past hour reading a bunch of articles on those subjects.  Imagine my glee when she said "None of you even know what Byzantium is."
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« Reply #20 on: August 26, 2011, 01:17:42 pm »
Quote from: Ivefan on August 26, 2011, 08:42:55 am
Europa Universalis. Staring at a map for a long time is bound to give you some geographical knowledge.
And some other historical stuff.

Thirding.
Despite largely being a game loved for its alternate history potential, it still provides tons of historical information. And yeah, the geographical information. I probably know the names of half of the world's provinces/major cities by now. Though a lot of them have had province/name changes since the EU3 era...
And there's at least a few known inaccuracies with the province map. But in general it's pretty good.
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« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2011, 01:21:04 pm »
I know 95% of history from Civilization. A great, great game...
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« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2011, 01:22:08 pm »
Quote from: Kaleb702 Games on August 26, 2011, 01:21:04 pm
I know 95% of history from Civilization. A great, great game...

All I learned from Civilization is that Montezuma and Catherine were both total jerks.   :P
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« Reply #23 on: August 26, 2011, 01:28:09 pm »
Quote from: Levi on August 26, 2011, 01:22:08 pm
Quote from: Kaleb702 Games on August 26, 2011, 01:21:04 pm
I know 95% of history from Civilization. A great, great game...

All I learned from Civilization is that Montezuma and Catherine were both total jerks.   :P
They were IRL too.
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« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2011, 01:30:08 pm »
Quote from: Levi on August 26, 2011, 01:22:08 pm
Quote from: Kaleb702 Games on August 26, 2011, 01:21:04 pm
I know 95% of history from Civilization. A great, great game...

All I learned from Civilization is that Montezuma and Catherine were both total jerks.   :P

 You forget things like the ability to have tanks around three hundred years earlier, and learning things like nuclear theory without alphabet :P
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« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2011, 01:38:10 pm »
Hmm. How about the Cat and the Coup. Very nice little game with a very deep subject and some nice visuals?
Makes me wish we studied it in English back in the day (assuming it existed, which it didn't).

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« Reply #26 on: August 26, 2011, 03:44:40 pm »
Various quotes from loading screens on numerous games.

Paradox Interactive games for geography/history, although only working as basis. I actually used my base knowledge from Paradox Interactive games and studied most current nations of earth ( leaving small island nations out ). Now I can name every nation on Eurasia, Africa, Americas and Oceania-Indonesia-area, as well as small facts about some of them (other names, whose colony it has been, etc. etc.) [/brag]
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« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2011, 04:50:03 pm »
Sim Life
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« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2011, 05:14:22 pm »
Oregon Trail for sure.
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« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2011, 05:21:05 pm »
A surprising number of games are good at encouraging mathematical, logistical, and efficiency/effectiveness concerns.
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