Wrath of Dagon

Non-generic art would clash with the rest of the game design.

No, that's Colonial Marines. There used to be an Aliens forum over here you know, so it's not exactly "nothing".

I wonder if Sega is eating their hearts out over NV success. Aliens is another established brand after all.

No, they should've made Aliens.

Not lately though

So how many days do you guys think we have left?

The right way to deal with complexity is to introduce it gradually, instead of getting rid of it entirely. Hard to say what the approach actually is without playing the game though.

You're forgetting the much lamented Aliens RPG, which was cancelled. I didn't say released games. It wasn't an original IP If you going to be strict about it. It wasn't based on any other game, that's what I meant, and the engine, story, everything would be brand new. Only the setting would have something in common with the movies, but that's a pretty weak connection.

You're forgetting the much lamented Aliens RPG, which was cancelled. I didn't say released games.

Their original games don't exactly have a stellar history. Anyway, if the game is good, what difference does it make what the IP is?

Nope. It's down on ME2 numbers after 2 weeks(360 comparison), but only by a 100k. But it has done better then Fallout 3. Evidence? When did ME2 ever ship 5 million units, or made $300 million? Btw, VGChartz is global, NPD is US only, but NPD is also a lot more reliable.

China forecloses on the US and tells us to move out.

I give you Somalia and the retreat thereof. I also give you Kosovo / The Balkans where the US army adopted their infamous Force Protection doctrine. Not that the UN covered itself in glory in the Balkans but one expects a bit more gumption from the US Army. The reason for that was our interests weren't involved, at least not to the extent that anyone plausibly explained. Somalia was a humanitarian operations, no one signed up for heavy casualties. Also it was Clinton still learning the ropes and probably getting bad advice. The Balkans again, no one knew what the hell we were doing there, it was already unpopular, significant US casualties and Congress would demand an immediate withdrawal. I assume you didn't really mean to question the gumption of the US army, it was purely a political decision, nothing to do with the military.

If anything I thought Clinton was too agressive where our interests weren't involved, like in Kosovo. Anyway, I think Clinton would've handled 9/11 OK, may be better than Bush. The thought of Al Gore as president at that time scares the hell out of me though.

You should look into Age of Decadence, if you haven't already.

I don't think either Kerry or Gore would've gone to Afghanistan, let alone to Iraq.

KOTOR 2 had the best inventory system I've ever seen. I don't understand why RPG's don't just use that instead of constantly screwing with different idiotic implementations. I'm not including Bioware in this, as they don't even try to make RPG's any more.

And yet you bought ME2 after ME1, how do you explain that?

I'm glad our politicians are bought instead of inherited.

I'm not sure what you're asking, if you're saying people turned against "hope and change", then yes, since there's no hope and they didn't like the change. However Obama also failed to sell his program because he failed to sell himself as a credible leader.

It's not a bad strategy to point out the faults of your opposition, the problem is when the President himself dwells on it, not his underlings or other people in the party. People like their leaders to take resposibility instead of making excuses. Well, not really, virtually no Republican incumbent lost. It's more correct to say it's anti party in power. If the country doesn't dramatically improve, Obama will still get most of the blame.

Was there a Nigerian prince involved in there somehow?

The President doesn't control everything, in fact his power is very limited contrary to popular belief. Nevertheless, even stipulating that a lot of the problems were Bush's responsibility, constantly blaming your predecessor only diminishes one's own stature and makes you look weak and defensive. You didn't see Ronald Reagan constantly complaining about what a mess Jimmy Carter left him, whether that was justified or not.

It's not what normally happens, there hasn't been that many seats to change since the 40's, it's a historic moment. There're a lot of reasons for this, but Obama is certainly a major one. Constantly whining how it's all Bush's fault and critisizing your own country abroad just doesn't make you look like a leader, and people pick up on that.