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What I learned from Quill18: One way roads. ONE WAY ROADS ALL THE THINGS!

EDIT: And here's the not fun part. I want to play Cities, so I can't be arsed to play any other games, but it won't come out until whenever, and since they didn't include a pre-download, I can't play it as soon as it's out.

It's pretty bad that this interview with Molyneux

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/02/13/peter-molyneux-interview-godus-reputation-kickstarter/

is almost as outlandish as THIS satire interview parody

http://www.pcgamesn.com/godus/an-interview-with-peter-molyneux


There's a term in Spanish, "vergüenza ajena"... it's kind of sad to see a grown, established developer, fail so badly and then provide such lame excuses.

Quote from: FearfulJesuit on March 06, 2015, 01:42:15 pm

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Your Honor, I was only following One Direction's orders.

Not on my watch.

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Rediscovered today how good coffee can actually taste. It's better than I remember.

2+2=5
is advanced programming. The "Cities" franchise has not been very deep at all. I'll be waiting awhile as more people get a hold of this and poke and prod it.

Oh, and to the Bioware Discussion froma  few pages ago.

It's not just morrigan and sten whining at a good character. This is the case with basically any party where the character does not align with the two sidekicks you take along. Alistair whined at me the entire time troughout the game if I deviated even SLIGHTLY from the goody two-shoes path.

I like most Bioware games and Dragon Age Origins / Mass Effect 3 are still two of my favorite games ever. But I was sorely dissapointed in how hamhanded that whole "Paragon / Renegade"-shtick was. On paper, you could actually design a pretty nifty system, where it isnt allways clear what is the right or wrong thing to do. Paragon might be the guy that will try to save everyone everywhere, regardless if it might cost victory or not. Renegade the guy who's prepared to sacrifice a few thousand people, as long as Reaper ass get's kicked. There is a lot you could do with this, with both Shepards basically being the good guys, albeit with different approaches.

Instead, it's the tired "Satan vs Jesus"-Cliche, only slightly more competently handled than the Fable series.

On the subject of Fable, has anyone played Fable 3? Fable has been my guilty pleasure for years. The whole alignment stuff was gimmicky and poorly handed from the start. But the story was sort of interesting and it was one of the few games where I could play a total dick for once.

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Fable 3 actually managed to almost pull my pants off, when a Molyneux game, for the first time since Theme Park World, actually managed to present a REAL moral dilemma. After you get crowned king, and your brother tells you "Cuthulu incoming, enjoy!", I was absolutely shocked that there was an actually hard decision to make. One year of being best king ever, followed by sacrificing two thirds of your population to the elder gods, or a year of total dickery, but everyone get's to actually live after it.

But of course, they had to ruin it. The game continues to refer to all your action as "Good" or "Evil". Failing to fulfill your promises fills your Satan-meter, even tough you are doing it to save everyone's stupid asses.

This means you will get the "Yay good king" ending, even if most of your population just got eaten by an eldritch abomination.