Monte Carlo

I think it makes more sense to say they've become too PC-centric, actually. Could you expand on that please?

I'm just finishing off my first novel. Guard Dog is a writer. So is Wals. Why don't we create a virtual writer's critical evaluation / support thingie (technical term)? Mind you, my opus is weighing in at 125000 words so I probably need an editor more than you do.

Blimey, this takes me back to Sociology 'A' Level. I failed. by the way, by virtue of not actually turning up to the exam. Sociology has been successfully and succinctly described as 'The study of people who don't need studying by people who do.' Anyhoo, Chicago school in a nutshell, despite being written in the 30's turns a lot on anomie theory. That is the poor and dispossessed, scorned by the mainstream, will invariably adopt their own value system that nonetheless mirrors that of the mainstream. Rap culture, with it's bling and hyper-materialistic values, is a classic example. The other stuff worth looking at is the Human Biogrammar by right-wing sociologists (a contradiction in terms normally) Tiger & Fox. These guys were presaging the stuff we increasingly know via advances in genetics by using anthropolical techniques thirty years ago. As for London, Wals just send me a freaking PM and I'll sort it out.

I suspect this is the crux of it, although being fabulously wealthy I don't have to concern myself with such trifles.

AND THEY ARE WRONG!

Genuinely witty, bravo.

I'm not bashing EmoWare in this post, it's a serious question. Which is: Have CRPGs become too NPC-centric? Of course NPCs are an important part of the game, but FFS the amount of effort that goes into them, for me, has outweighed their overall significance. I know a few folks here look down on old-skool values like exploration, fighting in tunnels, fun, humour and all the rest of the things that make games worth playing in the first place, but isn't the current NPC paradigm akin to the tail wagging the dog? Frankly (done really well), a bit of dialogue, a side quest here and there and maybe a special item or two is more than enough NPC input for me.

I was calling it McBio but I was wrong and I'm sorry. From now on it's EmoWare.

^ Poor taste. You should know better. Reagan is the most consistently underrated American President, mainly by Libtards.

Ah, happy families. It's like The Sound of Music. With very big swords. Dave Gaider is at least being completely up-front about the customer's essentially passive role in his interactive novel.

I think it's more of a "Monte wants to draw conclusions that make him go postal based on WMGing and incomplete second hand information"? No.

Move to France, it's the cornerstone of European agriculture.

I don't know why Bioware do it, set up a special design team called 'Make a game uniquely calibrated to make Monte want to go postal' but they have.

Nice strawman, bro. I take it that's a 'Yes' then.

^ Yeah, right and the only solution is (let me guess) epic re-distribution of wealth, nationalisation and living in yurts. No thanks.

Er, no. North Korea is 'Far Left'. China is 'Far Left.' The USSR was 'Far Left.' Please explain for those of us not gifted with your skills of political divination how these 'Far Left' entities were flag-wavers for civil liberties and free speech?

Exactly and well said! Why do we need our news and info spoon fed to us though some biased filter? Can't one think for themselves? Or have we gotten to become sheep to the point some people want to be told what to think (aka fox news)? Scary thought. Why is it that it's only folks on the political right-of-centre who are 'told what to think?' Aren't there any knee-jerk liberals too in your world? Because you're doing a pretty good impression of one.

Games 'such as' PST? Come on Volo, name another game like PST? Alternatively post something like roofles or similarly enervating.

**** Cheney is awesome - did you know he once shot someone in the face?

Player 'choice' ruins immersion in Dave Gaider's interactive console drama!

Descriptor originally coined in Germany for left-wing environmentalists : Watermelon - Green on the outside, Red on the inside. Most Greens are socialists in hippy clothing, at the end of the day they want to take your money and tell you how to live your life and how to think. The vehicle for their authoritarian leftist agenda is saving the planet.

The tin foil hat brigade are already suggesting that Wikileaks is a CIA / Mossad false flag op designed to paint Middle Eastern governments in a bad light. Personally, I think the US State Department internal security people should be given development opportunities digging ditches in Guam or Alaska. If a disgruntled 22-year old private soldier can d/l all those documents onto a pen drive and give them away then it's the OpSy equivalent of leaving a new Rolex watch in an unlocked car in a vehicle crime hot spot. Doh!

^ Absolutely nothing. But the Watermelons of the 'Green' movement don't like anything that might deflect them from their true agenda.

The wrong side lost.

WH 40,000 Dawn of War. It's pretty good.