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We understand.

All around the world millions are declaring their undying love, singing paeans to someone's beauty, describing a person in wonderful, perfect detail while thinking "I could do worse". People don't just choose the richest or the prettiest partner or the one with best personality. Most(all?) people settle for someone. Someone within their proverbial league, someone they can strive for without too much work/money/selflessness. People are lazy, scared, generally incompetent and unable to face the reasons behind their choices. No one's together with a perfect 10, everyone's married to a 5 and everyone knows it.

Keep your fantasy to every other game released, ever. This is a game set in the real world.

Pretty good? That's like saying that that Beethoven dude wasn't a bad composer. Or that Psycho was kind of an enjoyable movie. Or that the Sistine Chapel was a fairly nice bit of painting. Or that Alpha Centauri was a rather engaging game. I think I got my point across.

1984 To a God Unknown Old Man and The Sea O Anjo Ancorado The Trial The Metamorphosis Crime and Punishment Good Omens Of Mice and Men Foucault's Pendulum A list of books. Or an attempt at giving myself airs of intelligence.

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I'd like a whole game set in old European cities from Budapest to Lisbon, passing through Florence, Barcelona, Stockholm, Prague, Paris, Edinburgh and Vienna. It could be a noir adventure/FPRPG set in the 30s. And I'm talking real locations, not fictional locations that are inspired by the real thing.

Why not build your own?

You must be doing something wrong because one general complain is that the Wasteland is a bit too packed and busy.

Just in case anyone thinks I didn't like The Witcher, let me say I enjoyed it a great deal, and in fact I'm replaying it right now. I simply think it was, in a few ways, a wasted opportunity. The combat was crap but just a step away from entering combo awesomeness, and, like I said before Geralt really was a bad choice for a protagonist, especially in a game that tries to take itself so seriously.

I don't know if it is part of the literature, but you do get some casual remarks along the way implying that the sexual prowess of witchers is legendary. Maybe a side effect of the mutagens? I think it's just the way Geralt is portrayed in the books.

The Witcher's biggest problem was that you played Geralt instead of your own character. Not that I have anything against predetermined PCs generally, it's just just that in the case of The Witcher, it lead the developers into the crooked path of fan fiction, which screwed up the main character's development and turned him into some sort of magical superhero. The amnesia and all the sex were part of that. And the fact that no one outside of Poland knew who the hell Geralt was only made things worse.

Yes, it is. Like the Loch Ness castle.

Seeing as you seem to not care what we say, follow these steps next time you are with her in public: 1. Lick your lips seductively. 2. Jump her bones. 3. get bitch slapped and/or kicked in the 'nads. 4. Pleadingly propose to marry and give her children, through the tears of pain. 5. Bask in your success.

It's probably something she really wants, and she finds it safe to talk to you about it, because she isn't interested in you in any way. Her wishes call for financial stability, not a young artist type guy who works in games.

Just count the States

She's nuts. On its own, the strategy map in Total War games is pretty bland and superficial, even if there's been definite improvement since Shogun.

Fab game. One of the best TB strat games ever. I still have my CD from years ago. DId the developers ever continue on with their follow-up? LAst I heard they had basically stopped worked because no one would pick it up for any sort of publishing deal. Actually, I think the story is that they actually finished Supernova, the sequel, but never found anyone to publish it.

Have you played MOO and its sequel? Also Stars! is absolutely awesome, just completely devoid of graphical bling.

Isn't Bilal still working on the Hatzfeld books? Good stuff is still being done. Massimiliano Frezzato would be a good example of an excellent comic book artist. Also, Val

Moebius and Bilal are still alive and kicking. And good stuff is still being done in Europe.

It's today.

And then there's this style of doing business. By the way, why isn't there a big RPG company actively working the niche RPG market like Paradox does for strategy?

Watching some Bayonetta videos got me to install DMC3 again. Check out what it says at the end of the installation, regarding WMP: Stellar work right there.

I remember seeing a lot of returned Torment copies in stores here in Portugal. I think a lot of people actually didn't like it.