Agiel
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That's right: You shouldn't. Even if Obama doesn't have to worry about re-election, he does still have to worry about trying to get his party to have the upper hand against the Republicans. And with a Republican majority in the House and the Democrats having a very tenuous hold on the Senate, we could be looking at a Washington as red as I like my steaks ("rare, but not cold") if Obama doesn't play his cards right. If we were to extrapolate the current political climate to four years from now, which party ends up in the White House is anyone's guess, so unfortunately it's not in Obama's best interests to rock the boat on the issue of Palestine.
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Take into account whatever limitations of the engine Obsidian manages to create, whether they be AI or graphical in nature. A big part of why some of the crazier mods manage to work in a game like Skyrim is because it's a world where with sufficient points into pickpocket you can rob every single NPC in the world of their *clothes* with everyone none the wiser, or a giant can send a bear going, in the words of Alan Shepard, "For miles and miles and miles" in defiance of the laws of physics." -
Tell you what. If you can get francophones to stop using "Euh..." when they begin a thought then maybe we can get to work on getting "So..." out of the English vernacular.
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Warhammer has always been about juxtaposing the stuff that's "sensible" to the stuff that's totally out there. For 40K, compare Kasrkins: to Vostoryan Firstborns: And the Catachan Jungle Fighters: And don't get me started on Harlequins, who are by far and away the most lethal mortal warriors in the Warhammer fiction:
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Don't know if you've noticed, but Obsidian doesn't have a whole lot of reasons to abide by a design philosophy that matches the real world. In fact, their art department has had a history of giving that sort of thing the finger. I mean, for god's sake, the baddest-ass of the badasses of the NCR in Fallout: New Vegas wore rodeo jeans with a longcoat, and for the Legionnaires old football shoulder pads somehow equates to kevlar body armour. And it doesn't take an engineering major to figure this out (hell, I majored in art and I figured this out), but a big robot that relies on a single wheel for locomotion is not the soundest chassis design for a weapons platform.
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Can any of you take that "realism" thing a step further and pick up a game like Digital Combat Simulator: A-10C or Falcon 4.0 BMS? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSIGzDMJ-ik I get enough "as-real-as-it-gets" action ramp-starting an F-16C Block 52 for every sortie over Pyongyang in Falcon 4.0 and slicing guys up in War of the Roses, and honestly I find it difficult to get educational value out of a game with elves and dwarves in it, however mentally stimulating the combat and character editor is.
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This argument sort of reflects my views on Warhammer 40K: Cadian Guardsmen and Space Marines wearing "sensible" flak jackets and power armour? Boooring. Catachan Jungle Fighters with abs and pecs that give them the same armour saves as the above? Space elf ninja clowns who make no distinction between dance and combat and wear form-fitting and highly visible garbs? Sign. Me. Up.
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This topic and replaying Arcanum made me wonder: What if technology in this Tolkien world of elves and dwarves progressed to our age where precision guided munitions and C4ISR replaced maces and enchanted swords as the tools of war?
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Olivier Ledroit of Requiem Chevalier Vampire fame (if you have not read it, DO). Ostentatious? Yes, but look into more of this guy's stuff and you would have wished bringing him on board was one of the stretch goals.
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I have never seen people complain about the Govenator firing an M-60 machine gun with one hand while shirtless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix3EEipwRJk#t=6m12s And damn if that scene didn't make that movie for some people (I know it did for me). It's a video game, people. Let's indulge in a power fantasy why don't we? And, you know, sometimes actual soldiers DO fight relatively exposed:
