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April.

Remove the giant percentage completion signs or at the very least make them optional. Please. Turning character development into a metagaming collectathon isn't a good idea, especially in a game where the narrative and the player's relationship with the characters are an essential part of the gameplay.

He talks like my grandmother, then.

While more activity will be nice and something I've been wanting, I hope things don't turn into something akin to the Bioware forums. And not just because of the extra mod workload.

Nice try! Corrected link. Awards for 2009 ORLY Your editing skills are weak.

Really? That many? I had no idea. I was convinced the numbers were closer to the ones for Finland.

wot? Example?

Heh, I know. It was a cheap blow on my part, just for the lulz. Regarding Sweden, immigrants are a very small part of the population, unlike in the States, so that could be the difference between Sweden and the US when it comes to violence. That isn't the case, at all, when comparing Sweden to Finland, however.

The roleplaying aspects of DeusEx were excellent, in terms of the options provided by the gameplay, if not in terms of the rules system, itself.

MAFIA So I hear.

It's like if a game is a genre hybrid, it excuses any mediocrity exclusive to each of its parts.

They had legal alien street violence when I was there. Multiculturalism was the problem, not legality.

Her husband?

I'm not sure if MW is more complex or textier than Daggerfall. Daggerfall had a lot of unique content, despite the randomness.

IIRc Julian LeFay was the mover and shaker on both Arena and Daggerfall. I've heard he had a limited role in MW and left during or soon after development because he didn't like the way things were going. Whether that is true or not, I don't know. But regardless, MW, which had a lot of problems, was still, I think, a much more complex and interesting game than what came after. I think Ted Peterson was the writer of all the best stuff, though. LeFay is a programmer (and designer?).

As far as I can remember the guy who wrote most of the stuff in Morrowind was the same guy that did the writing in Daggerfall. I think he left Bethesda before Morrowind was finished.

Space marines and their loving companions go here, and not in the previous thread. Enjoy.

Perhaps Shepard drags around two oxygen tanks tethered to him. Just like in the first game. Edit: Size killed the thread. Look here for more Next-Gen anticipation.

According to mkreku's link, Switzerland is very near the top of the list, and Israel isn't far off.

I have to disagree, the Romans were the antithesis of ancient China: outward-looking, mercantile, flexible and curious. Rome, played out differently, seems a plausible candidate to climb the tech tree rapidly. you need capitalism for the rapid technological progress that launches you from fireworks, ornate sailing ships and metallurgy to engines, internal combustion and electricity. And, in the early Medieval era the Muslim kingdoms of the Caliphate were the most technologically advanced. Cheers MC Early on, they were, indeed the antithesis of China. What I'm contending is that if they had resisted disintegration in the state things were being run, they would have become as inward looking and conservative as the Chinese. In any case this is even more empty arguing than most alternate history, as the fall of the Roman Empire stemmed from a myriad of factors, and in no small part from their flexible and outward looking nature. I'm not sure if the Muslim were more advanced than the Chinese, in Medieval times.

"But masters, remember that I am an ass: though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass."" Lay off, you two. And get back on topic.

Not for Europe. Besides, some culture would have to do it, eventually.

If the Roman Empire had not imploded when it did, the stability would have lead to increased stagnation, corruption and general backwardness in Europe. Europe would have become a bit like China, in terms of a tendency to have their backs turned towards the rest of the world. If it wasn't for the Middle Ages, Europe wouldn't have conquered the world. But of course, I'd say the fall of the Roman Empire was pretty inevitable by the time Marcus Aurelius kicked the bucket, and how are you going to stop something that far reaching?

It's a typo. Aptitude!

There's bagged milk here, too. You use a dedicated milk jug.