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But water prices will skyrocket :D

Fair enough. Not saying it's impossible. Just rather strange. I don't understand the science of it, so I'll write it off as magic.

Hmm, it seems as though the "franchise sales" includes predecessors and whatnot. Which means that Half-Life (which sold over 8 million units worldwide) only sold a million of them in the US!

Actually, I'm quite confused at the numbers. I thought they were rather small. Now Valve has stated that Half-Life 2 has sold over 4 million copies. Yet that link has Half-Life 2 selling a mere 680,000 copies, with an obscure 1.5 million in "franchise sales." And it seems EA was Celebrating the success of Sims 2, when it sold 4.5 million units in 5 months. Yet I don't even think it made this list. In that list, only 7 games have sold more than a million copies on the PC in the last 6 years. Doesn't World of Warcraft have over 4 million subscriptions? Yet it's only sold 1.4 million units? EDIT: Seems as though that link indicates the Sims selling 16 million copies.

DOn't forget that it neglects the XBOX sales as well.

I could see that as an April Fools joke. Something that is fine for us to touch, but gets as hot as the surface of the sun if it touches anything else? Hmmmm.

What's the "Estimated Sales" compared to "Franchise Sales."

I wouldn't count on any DirectX 10 AGP cards being made.

Interesting.

I don't think so. I haven't seen any.

Something for the Christmas list!

I have heard that if you get "negative" Chivalry, it switches to dread. And yes, Princesses get their own stats IIRC. From the M2 wiki: Sounds like someone with high dread can scare other units!!! :D :D :D

It also derails threads. If you want to talk about the merits of character creation, citing Gothic 3 as being an example of what not to do in a game because of the lack of character creation, it'd probably be best served in its own thread.

Necroposting? It's only been a few days. It sounds like Chivalry also shares a spot with dread. So you can be a heroic, chivalric dude, or a mean, fear-inducing dude. Rule benevolently, or rule with an iron fist!

That's fine. Some would say your loss, others would agree with you. However, did you not know that Gothic 3 had a pregen before coming into this thread?

They aren't CRPGs therefore irrelevant. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> NO!!! I'm not in the mood for your mindless bull**** today. You can't hold one subgenre of gaming to a different standard when it comes to making serious claims such as sexism.

Given your disclaimer, you just basically said Gothic will be the future Mecca of gamign.

It wouldn't be the first time that such a thing happened in an RPG. It's still moot. If the developers don't want to spend the time making a female model, it doesn't mean that they are sexist. Lest we start accusing Valve for making HL male only. Or Monolith for making NOLF only playable as Cate Archer!

No, I don't think it's sexist. It's a video game, and given the overwhelmingly large majority of games don't let you pick the gender of the character you play, I'm not going to read too much into it. Especially seeing as, AFAIK, you're playing the same character that you have been playing since the first Gothic game.

Oh my...playing the sexist card...

I just shoot them all with the Jaime Sue.

Mythbusters had an interesting episode where they examined stuff like driving your car on hydrogen. The little bit that they separated wasn't enough to start the car. But because they are goofs, they did use some pressurized hydrogen and they were able to start and run the car with that. No modifications to the engine even (though at one point the hose started shooting fire, so they stopped doing that quickly. They were able to get a diesel to run entirely off of used vegetable oil. They just had to use some filtering process and do some work on it first. Again, no modifications necessary (and I think they got roughly the same gas mileage too!).

Steam Power is what most power plants use to generate power already.

Awww. I was hoping for a discussion on the situation regarding DX10 being implemented on the XBOX 360.

I think I've done most (every?) ending. I did Anarchs, Lacroix, Kuei-Jin, and a solo ending. I can't think of any other. I prefer the "solo" ending the best.