Random Gaming Thoughts

[MrPopo]

But its especially frustrating because this game is supposed to take place in the far future. God forbid we entertain the thought of a presently dominant country going into decline, or another non-Western country rise into power within the span of 400 years from now.

The plan is to keep bombing non-white people if they start to do better. That's the whole point of getting the bombs first; so we can lock out everyone else.

[ZeroAX]

Doesn't this take place in the future? Don't they realize that out of 7 billion people in the world right now, 5 billion are asian/black/indian ect.?

And I will admit I will agree some of the civilizations added seem pretty random, but I think the same of some of the European civs added.

Also yes, Hitler as a leader for Germany is a must . Russia had Stalin in Civ IV, and we always get Alexander the Great, and what the fuck is he well known for? Killing lots of Persians. (at least in a civ iv expansion we got Pericles too).

[AmishSamurai]

Doesn't this take place in the future? Don't they realize that out of 7 billion people in the world right now, 5 billion are asian/black/indian ect.?

And I will admit I will agree some of the civilizations added seem pretty random, but I think the same of some of the European civs added.

Also yes, Hitler as a leader for Germany is a must . Russia had Stalin in Civ IV, and we always get Alexander the Great, and what the fuck is he well known for? Killing lots of Persians. (at least in a civ iv expansion we got Pericles too).

They're gradually trying to remove some of the more infamous civ leaders, hence replacing Mao with Wu Zetian for China, and using Catherine the Great for Russia.

I personally love when they add non-western civs though, because I admit I don't know much about the history of a lot of the world and I'd like to see things like the Songhai rather than say, Venice (no I will never stop being mad at the inclusion of Venice in BNW).

[darsparx]

Yeah but to me there's a such thing as too young in some cases I still enjoy it though just to be able to multi-task with the dub going ha ha

I guess we have deferring opinions on this matter . And yeah fair enough about the multi tasking thing.

Though imo you should really start reading the manga. The anime has poor animation and way way way too much filler scenes (fodder fights, extras talking and saying pointless things, stuff like that)

I would but I like having a tv show I can watch ha ha, plus having extras talk at least gives it some depth unlike most shows(where the extras just seem like ghosts thrown in there)

[Erik_Twice]

Franco-Iberia as a power sounds dumb as fuck

[ZeroAX]

Franco-Iberia as a power sounds dumb as fuck

You're lucky that when the French conquered you they even bothered adding you to the title

[Sload Soap]

I thought Venice was a pretty cool idea for a Civ.

What I want to know is where's the Scottish Civ?! England get their own Civ but not the Scots? W.A.S.P bias, right there.

[ZeroAX]

Firaxis will add then as a bonus when they vote for independence

(Where's that Scottish guy living in China right now?)

[MrPopo]

I thought Venice was a pretty cool idea for a Civ.

What I want to know is where's the Scottish Civ?! England get their own Civ but not the Scots? W.A.S.P bias, right there.

I'm not convined Adam actually plays games, but if he does I'm expecting an appearance to hotly rebut this sarcastic comment.

[Ziggy]

So after just seeing this, I got the idea... Sega should make their own Super Smash Bros. style game.

Nintendo has the Mario Kart series. It's such a great formula that there has been many clones. Crash Team Racing, Diddy Kong Racing, LittleBigPlanet Karting, Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing, there's too many to list. Of course, some work better than others.

Nintendo has the Super Smash Bros. series, which is also a great formula. Take all your popular mascot characters and pit them against each other. Why aren't there many clones of this like there are for Mario Kart? I understand that it would be hard for some companies, it's not the same as a Kart style game. You need to have enough well known characters.

I know a lot of people liked Sega All Stars Racing, but I wasn't a fan. It was just too Crazy Taxi for me, and not enough Mario Kart. But, I think Sega could make a fantastic SSB style game. They certainly have enough of their own characters to work with, and the fan base is there. And there's no shame in making a blatant rip off. I think it would work well for them.