>HERE IS YOUR ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN CIV VIITHEY MADE HIM HIM A SWARTHY AFRICAN
What's drive them to make everything ugly and boring? No one wants to play something ugly and boring.
>>738471495>Greek guy looks GreekHow could they do this to gamers?
I bet they struggled a lot to not give him brown eyes
>>738471495>brown hair>blue eyes>tanned skinHonestly the biggest problem is how ugly they made him. Would not follow him into battle.
>>738472276One brown eye and one blue eye would have been more realistic.
>>738472474He's supposed to be blonde
that looks exactly like a med nigga what do you mean
>>738472212He was Macedonian, thoughbeit.
>>738471778REPRESENTATION~
>fag and nog in one ick token containmentgood idea in general , but a bit too late to matter for that specific game
>>738471778Have you seen the modern activist?
>>738471495Source? Can't find anything at all.
>>738472543Not blond hair, but not black hair either. Brown hair.
>>738471495Not as handsome as he was in civ 5/6, but he looks fine. Did they accidentally leak him by using the wrong thumbnail or something? The dev diary doesn't even mention him lel.
>>738472212Modern day Greeks are mostly of an Albanian decent.
>>738471495You deserve the shit you tolerate, layoffs in gaming will continue until morale improves
>>738474263but...he doesn't even look particularly different from your image in the game
>>738474057>>738472212He was Macedonian, hence why his empire was called the Macedonian Empire, not the Greek/Hellene/Athenian Empire.
>>738471495He looks Greek to me.
>>738474263You just demonstrated he's most likely based ON the reconstruction you posted.
>>738476390Macedonia was Greece though no matter how much pissing and crying ancient Sparta Athens and Thebes did to the contrary.>>738471495Not realistic because Alexander doesnt look continually drunk and paranoid, and he's not wearing Persian royal finery
>>738472689Half Macedonian since his mother wasn't
>>738476390Ancient Greece was composed of independent city states linked together through a shared Hellenic culture. If Sparta or Athens had accomplished what Macedon had it wouldn't have been called the Greek empire either. And at the time it was definitely considered a Hellenic empire.
>>738476835>>738476712Hello Pavlos,Alexander the Great was Macedonian, not Greek. He didn't even speak Greek, which should be a pretty major indicator. Thanks for your attention on this matter.
>>738471495I have similar colourings to this because of french blood and I've never had a problem attracting women.
>>738476712Macedonians were begrudgingly accepted as Greek for participation reasons, ironically they adopted some Persian customs while Persia was their overlord
>>738476976>they adopted some Persian customsso did Alexanderif you know what I mean
>>738471778They all use metahuman for making the humans in games, to save time and money. metahuman is shit, it's really hard to make anything that looks good.So it's just greed.
>>738472689>>738476390The monkeydonians have arrived.
>>738474263He look exactly like the one in OP's pic, in fact it's even more accurate because the only color depiction of Alexander has him with dark hair.
>>738476904Alexander did know Greek. And while we dont know much about ancient Macedon's language, there is clear Greek influence on people's names.Besides, England has had anglo kings that only knew French. Japans had emperors who's Japanese was so archaic that normal Japanese people couldn't understand it. The language alone doesnt determine things one way or another. When Philip began preparing for his invasion of Asia Minor, it was absolutely considered a Greek revenge for the previous wars with Persia. And when Alexander fully conquered Persia and began adopting regalia of Persian rule, there were people who were angry at a GREEK ruler adopting the traditions of Asian barbarians
>>738476904>He didn't even speak GreekHis tutor was literally Aristoteles, wtf are you even talking about..
>>738477364>had anglo kings that only knew FrenchThey weren't even Anglos to begin with, most Anglos got smashed by the Scots and by the Danes, and that guy Guillaume was definitely a French with Danish ancestry.
>>738474263I'm a little confused. He looks quite a lot like the pic you posted in OP. He even has a similar smirky look. All that's different is his hair is a bit darker.
>>738471495Looks very similar to the Roman mosaic depiction of him from Pompeii. Except with blue eyes and no sideburns.
>>738471495Nose is too big.
>>738477979It's a cartoon
>>738471495YOU'VE LEFT YOUR KANG...IN INDIA
>>738471495He looks a bit off but not African, come on... Nose is a bit large, tan too strong and both his eyes are blue (supposedly, one should be brown and one blue) but all in all it's far from the worst. The goofy look is probably part of the artstyle, which I dislike, but unlikely to be related to ethnic concerns.>>738474263Imagine this with Civ VII's ugly cartoonish artstyle
>>738476390>Greek/Hellene/Athenian EmpireHow and why is "Athenian" more indicative of Greek ethnicity than "Macedonian", given that both are subgroups of Greeks? There was strong regionalism at the time, and the language that spread throughout the empire was Greek, so...>>738476904>He didn't even speak GreekYou don't actually believe this, do you?>>738474057Not really, not to mention that an Albanic language is first attested after 1000 AD, by that time the speakers of that language would have been a Greek-Roman-Illyrian-Thracian-Slavic mix similar to their Hellenic-, Romanic- and Slavic-speaking neighbours, just in different proportions. Maybe some isolated regions were purer, but your claim assumes that there was an ancient Albanian ethnicity, clearly distinct from its neighbours in the southern Balkans, that migrated to Greece in such numbers that they more-or-less replaced the local population. None of these holds much (any) water
>>738479765>How and why is "Athenian" more indicative of Greek ethnicity than "Macedonian", given that both are subgroups of Greeks?There are Greeks in Athens, there are Macedonians in Macedonia. Easy as. They wouldn't be called Macedonians if they were Greeks.
He looks fine
>>738471495He looked good in civ 5
>>738480534Handsome Chad>>738471495Goofy Rajesh
>>738471495>historical accounts say alexander had reddish-blonde hair and heterochromia>yet they make him look like thiscant wait to play as empress harriet tubman
>>738471495I don't think anything will top them turning a Turkish Sultan into an Indian Maharaja
Daily reminder Alexander the Great was 5'2
>>738471495Next they're gonna give Augustus brown hair and brown eyes...oh, wait, that's exactly what he had.
>>738480194Its no different to Boetian, Achaean or Athenian. They were all greeks.
>>738480708It's fucking weird how they do these raceswaps when we have actual art from their time periods of how they looked.
>>738480708...is every civ 6/7 leader some species of indian?
>>738480194"Macedonia" (now North Macedonia because of disputes with Greece over pretty much this exact shit) is a modern nation made up of mainly Slavs"Macedon" was an ancient Greek Kingdom.
>>738471495What African looks like that, exactly?
>>738480696Worth noting that the "historical accounts" we have of Alexander are mostly Greek "historians" writing hundreds of years after the fact.
>>738471495He looks fine.
>>738471495They leaned more towards the mosaic of him this time
>>738471495and for no reason at all no one bought our game
>>738471495Probably accurate.
What part of this looks "African"?
>anons discovering that greeks are brown too
>>738471495He's tan you retard. Aryans were always baking in the fucking heat back then.
>>738483264looks like tobey maguire if he was an indian mutt
>>738483667No, he does not.
>>738482468thousands of years closer than this account
>>738472879>>738472879Stop getting mad at a made-up scenario that OP invented.
>>738483667He doesn't look Indian OR like Tobey Maguire. Do you need glasses?
>>738483725and neither saw him
>>738482468>>738483264meanwhile in reality: this bust of alexander was made by lysippus, whom alexander thought was the only one worth of depicting himaccounts say he had reddit blonde hair and heterochromia>>738482894this mosaic was made by romans 200 years after alexander's death
>>738483821He's in the bannerhttps://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/game-guide/However, OP deliberately used as low quality a picture as possible.
>>738483923I'm sure "@royaltynow" is basically a time machine right?
>>738483923>reddit blonde hairim tired kek ignore that
>>738472689>>738476390>>738476904Aren't Macedonians Greek? Or at least don't the modern ones claim they are?
>>738471495Didn't he notoriously have blonde hair?
>>738471495Looks bussin
>>738484058Ancient Macedonians were indeed Greek.I think those guys might be referring to the people of North Macedonia, who are largely Slavic.
>>738483667you're just stringing random words together at this point
>>738471495that just racist. alexander clearly wanted to be considred blond even if he wasn't its just disrespectful to not depict him that way
>>738482894that was created like hundreds of years after his death by romans who wanted the greatest conquer who ever lived to have roman features. alexander himself always depict himself with blond hair
he had red hair like cleopatra, dont know why this fact upsets people so much
>>738484058Ancient Macedonians weren't Greek. They were a different people, just like Thracians and Dacians.
>>738484398this thread is full of shills/literal retards saying everyone in ancient times was brown, not surprising for a game franchise that made fucking harriet tubman a leader
>>738483264This is my premier, I share her phenotype. Between her and a African they sure added those famous ottoman rape colours Greeks gave a thousand years too early.
>>738484464He's not even "brown" in the image.
>>738483923sculptures are idealized and nothing about that says blonde
>>738484464You think the mediterranean was full of blonde blue eyed vikings?
>>738484464>man with blue eyes, brown hair and a hint of a tan is now "BROWN, LITEARLLY INDIAN"
>Swarthy europoors seething over who was more white and relevant a thousand years ago
>>738484730>man described as having something between red and blonde hair having brown hair is completely normal
Egypt Mummy portraits from some of the Greek invaders with Alexander's army. Blonde is a myth.
>>738471495He looks better than he did in the drawings
>>738483923>whom alexander thought was the only one worth of depicting himAlexander was an egomaniac and I wouldn't put much stock in someone he says is the only one worthy of portraying him
>>738485000>2 mosaics done while alexander was aliveor>a bunch of portraits of people who were not alexanderkill yourself
lol at the dudes who've never touched a piece of Greek literature being fanatically glued to the idea Alexander must be platinum blonde
>>738483725They point bring they never saw Alexander and also had a vested interest in portraying the leader of a Greek Empire that stretched into Persia as a man who stood out from normal men
>>738485083WTF Where's the blonde hair and blue eyes? This is leftist historical revisionism!
>>738485217Stretched into India*, he completely conquered Persia
>>738485206Also retards who are insisting "A Greek historian who pulled 80% of things they wrote about out of their ass said it, so it must be true!"
>>738484058The modern ones are Bulgarians
>>738484398source?
>>738485717He's literally lighter in 7
>>738485197source?
>>738480194There were Athenians (Attic Greeks) and some others in Athens, Macedonians (NW Greeks) and some others in Macedonia. Greeks may have originally been a tribe in Epirus, but the name came to refer to all tribes with similar (Greek/Hellenic) language(s), ancestry/descent, religion and culture.
Fresco from the Tomb of Philip II in Vergina: believed to depict Alexander, and it is particularly important as it comes from his lifetime. In this depiction, Alexander’s hair appears brown, with a natural shade that does not suggest a blond color. This representation is significant as it was created by an artist who lived in the Macedonian court, offering a likely accurate portrayal of his appearance.
>>738485908>believed to depictwow
>>738485839https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_Hunt_Mosaic
>>738484058>>738472689literally the same thing
>>738471495>Some people saying 6 is good>Look at the reviews of people who say 6 is good>pog faced zoomers and millenialsYou fuckers will never get me to try 6, and 7 doesn't exist at all.
>civ 1blonde >civ 6/7jeet
>>738483264brown hair is african
>>738485938>>738485197>The figure on the right is possibly Alexander the Great>possibly
>>738486029No it isn't.
>>738486028>jeetHow so?>>738483264
>>738484464>Anyone who doesn't have blond or red hair is brownBy this logic, most native, pre-Roman era Europeans were "brown", you can see how ridiculous this is, right?>>738484961"between red and blonde hair"Which source says that? I remember one passage claiming he had hair that appeared blondish or had blond tendencies, which to me sounds like light brown>>738485000Those came centuries later and depict people who lived there at the time, likely Egyptians or Greek-Egyptian mixes (perhaps with other ancestry, such as Roman or Syrian, as well).
>>738486028shieeet
>>738486028When Alexander was conquering the world, blonde snowniggers were still living in mudhuts. Sorry to spoil it for you.
>>738486517
>>738486028>everyone else is brown and swarthy>except this one guy, trust me
>>738485083>>738485232made by romans 200 years later diengenious retards
The worst thing about this website is how neurotic everyone on it is about race. Truly embarassing
>>738485000this is always posted as evidence when those are all ragdead egyptian mutts born several centuries after alexander
>>738471495I will never buy/play civ7 as long as Harriet Tubman/ada Lovelace are in the lineup.
>>738486765>implying i'm the neurotic one, not the leftoid culture warriors brownwashing everything
>>738486772>ragdead egyptian muttsThe Ptolemaic line was Macedonian, to the point of incest to keep it that way.
>>738486317>Those came centuries later and depict people who lived there at the timeYeah Greeks who still have Greek fashion and ruled Egypt. And you better believe some Greeks only married other Greeks. Those portraits are only a few generations after Alexander and yet we can't find a Blonde person.
>>738486827See what I mean
>>738483956Alexander the Great… the great… not front and center, instead put the pancake syrup lady front and center
>>738485000But those are ethnic Egyptians
>>738486959Greek
>>738486827>While the show was conceived and written months before that attackYup, typical culture warrior. Believes something on twitter that can be proven wrong in 5 seconds of googling
Macedonians are basically the rednecks of the Greeks. Like rednecks are Americans but aren’t the same as the rest of the country.
>>738486819>pretending to totally have strong feelings about Ada Lovelace
They should have just made him look like Colin Ferrell
There are some iconic strategy games that have been run into the ground by the retards that own the IP that make me wonder why someone hasn't ripped off the parts people like to make a new game that people want. Civ is an obvious one. I think someone should do it with Stronghold.
>>738487057Then how come Alexander toppled the Persians?
>>738486994Maybe a few Greeks but this was in Fayum so mostly Egyptian
>>738486517jesus fuck can we rangeban india and all brown shitholes this is embarrassing
>>738487140Because like American rednecks are great soldiers, Greek rednecks are good at fighting
>>738472689What is this thoughbeit shit? Did the sharty really traumatise people who say though?
what are these redheads and blondes doing on the alexander sarcophagus...
>>738487227>American rednecks are great soldiers>lost the only war they ever fought
>>738487291The country boy teenagers that went to the pacific are who I’m talking about. Not the city draft faggots from Vietnam
all the mockups based on busts being posted are all well and good for the shape of his face but if the mockup just makes him as pale as a norwegian for no fucking reason youre not going to convince anyone. he was from southern europe, if anything the model in the OP is a bit pale
>>738487445alexander was so pale that his skin was reddish from historical quotes
Another episode of Americans docilely obeying their Kabbalistic Jewish masters and subverting History, for the millionth time...A nation of fools and slaves.
>>738483264Looks kind of Egyptian actually, I bet you could find a Pharaoh that looks basically just like that
Classical/hellenistic macedonians were genetically similar to modern central italians/northern greeks
>>738487914uh yeah, a Ptolemaic one
>>738486698I never realized the ancient Romans were SJWs
>>738471495
>>738474263blue eyes blonde people we wuzzing will never not be funny
>>738472689the distance between greece proper and macedonia is smaller than the distance between washington dc and baltimore
>>738471495>that>africanpeople like you should be airdropped into africa
>>738471495SAAAAR PLEASE DO NOT BE REDEEMING THE EGYPT SAAR
