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Maybe it's mostly due to increasing costs, but it seems to me that many developers are taking an all or nothing approach to game design. It's a design according to which you either appeal to everyone or there isn't any point in trying.

I don't think western RPGs are being actually directly influenced by JRPGs. Correlation does not imply causation and all that. I do find it bitterly amusing that Bioware's games are turning into the sort of RPGs many Biofans were supposed to despise, without any of those fans complaining or even noticing.

That ties with what I've been thinking of late which is that Bioware is slowly turning into the Squaresoft of Western RPGs, where meaningless, shallow gameplay just strings you from one cutscene to another. Bioware's games are a bunch of plot points strung up linearly through gameplay that actually has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual plot. Imagine if you were watching say, the Matrix, and after each of the movie's scenes you had to peel a bunch of potatoes before getting to see the next scene. Note that the peeling of the potatoes has no effect on The Matrix's plot other than serving as penance for the viewer to "earn" the whole plot. That's a Bioware game.

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You can get both from Steam without copy protection for 25 bucks plus VAT.

Rooney looks like the one on the lower right whose name I can't remember. Edit: Scooter!

Now if only Mcdonald's made tasty food.

Well, this sucks...

English players are generally overrated. Wayne Rooney would be the most obvious example.

Germany [2] - Turkey [1] Spain [1] - Russia [3]

Russia played a pretty good game, Xard.

Does anyone doubt that the final will be Italy-Germany?

Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join Worms World Party!

Sure.

Johao? The little forkers. Well, thanks MC That was just what I wanted to know. I'm guessing that that mod which changes leader's names works with this mod. Edit: Is Kingdoms required for this to work?

Well you know my real name, so you should know that's not the right spelling.

First, with the creation of Israel they didn't, in any way, try to avoid a new World War so I don't see where you're coming with that. Secondly while obviously they couldn't have predicted terrorism in its modern form, they certainly should have predicted the war that immediately started right after the British pulled out of the region, and the conflicts that continued and the tensions that mounted in the area over the next decades, which of course were completely avoidable.

What?

Oh, I see! I'd say you are about right, then.

It seems like the provinces were fixed. Portugal no longer controls the province of Aragon. Have the names of the generals been changed? Thanks again!

No, it would have been better not to give the Jews any state whatsoever. Also, hindsight wasn't necessary to see what was coming to the region.

Thanks, Rosbjerg!

There are dialogues that are affected by your character stats. And there's driving.

Of course.

The founding of the modern Israeli state was perhaps, the most idiotic act in international politics ever. It just boggles the mind. "Let's create a Jewish state by decree in the middle of Muslim territory, thus dislocating and pissing off Muslim tribes in the region, and every single Muslim state. Oh, and while we're at it, will give the Jews control over of the Muslim holy cities." A retarded monkey could have figured out what the consequences would be.