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Tropico needs to have the option for more difficulty. The elections are easy as pie to win and if money was that easy to earn in real life I'd be wiping my ass with it.

From Dust: Proving that developers with the right amount of motivation can even make being God boring.

Four words: Massive waste of potential.

Well I don't blame Peter for Black and White 2 (it was a production nightmare) other then him pretending it turned out well.

Fable 3 is all him though.

Peter Molyneux is the most dangerous kind of developer, a developer who is so completely delusional that you can almost be assured that any time he opens his mouth it's only to deliver another piece of outrageous misinformation... He actually claimed you could "DO ANYTHING" in Fable II. I mean sure... You can do anything in that game... As long as your definition of "ANYTHING" is restricted to communicating with wooden NPC's via flatulence and pretty much nothing else of note that hasn't been done by a thousand other RPGs throughout the last two decades of gaming.

Most gamers these days are tired of traipsing through the same old linear corridors and having the obtrusive hand of the developer pushing the message "HEY LOOK AT THIS... LOOK WHAT I DID HERE!!! HOW COOL IS THIS?" down players throats. Make me a game where I can influence the world in some non-superficial ways and I won't NEED you to point out how cool it is. Just look at some of the most successful games right now; The Sims, Minecraft, Terraria and others...

People like being able to be a part of the world of the game and making it their own and yet there are still so many greedy and short-sighted developers out there that insist on forcing their and only their vision down peoples throats or think that letting you change the colour of the main characters hair is so super-innovative...

Peter Molyneux and other developers like him are dinosaurs... And soon they'll be replaced by people who don't treat gamers like idiots that need a one-button win and are capable of having meaningful input.

Just a note. I am still working on this. I mod for several games, I also play games and have to attend to real life commitments like family and work. Work especially takes up a lot of my time.

Had I been born in America I have no doubt that I would have become a full-time video game developer and devoted all my time to this kind of stuff but unfortunately I was born in Australia instead where there is not much of an industry for it and unless you know some noteworthy people you're shit out of luck. So this must stay a much beloved hobby which I can only afford the little free-time I can scrape together . I'm still dreaming that one day I will pick up enough programming knowledge to create an indie game and hopefully get a foot in the industry but without any kind of formal training my chances of becoming adapt at much outside of basic scripting are kind of zilch.

If you're reading this and you have always wanted to create a mod or do some scripting or something though I heavily encourage it. Everything I learned (which is admittedly very little) I have taught myself. I have no flair for mathematics and no classes in computers. If you want to do something just go out and teach yourself how to do it. As time goes on and you learn how to do one little thing and then another little thing soon enough you know quite a bit . The Dwarf Fortress RAWS are quite simple and a great place to start!

I'd suggest Darklands.  It has sandbox-like play.  You play a band of up to four characters (the same player controls all characters, single-player game) exploring Late Medieval Germany.  You can make and use alchemic potions, call upon saints for help, and use primitive firearms!

Regarding survival, you have two options: Try to make enough money to afford staying in the cities, or try not to die in the bandit and beast infested wilderness.

Admittedly, I'm not doing a good job describing it.  But I did a very brief LP a while ago.

Here is a better description.

Where can you buy this?

EDIT: Also try cataclysm with my mod.

Monsters

- Removed all non-zombie and special-zombie monsters [excluding animals and some other special cases]
- Removed the starting pet dog
- New zombie description
- Tripled number of zombies
- Zombies spawn in all areas
- Increased zombie speed to a run
- Varied speed of zombies
- Improved zombie hearing
- Removed grace period. Zombies spawn from game-start
- Implemented zombie dogs as a new monster

Map and Terrain

- Removed knowledge of local terrain at beginning
- Made windows and some objects a little bit easier to traverse for humans and zombies

Items

- Added 'lemon soda'
- Added 'orange soda'
- Added 'grape soda'
- Added 'grape juice'
- Added 'condensed milk'
- Added 'cheddar cheese'
- Added 'carrot'
- Added 'onion'
- Added 'black berries'
- Berries are now based on color. Must be identified via the description to tell if it's safe to eat or not
- Rebalanced some drugs
- Renamed 'marijuana' to 'cannabis'
- Made 'cannabis' addictive
- Added 'aluminium baseball bat'
- Removed 'butter knife'

Your pain level permanently goes down by 1 every half-hour.  "Excrutiating pain" means your pain level is at least 50; so to go from the minimum level that's "excrutiating" to no pain at all will take 25 hours (assuming you don't accumulate more pain during that time).  Get used to using painkillers on a regular basis.

Ah, good memories... My first death...

UGH WHY AREN'T THESE PAINKILLERS WORKING!? *Takes a handful*...

*Takes another handful*...

*Goes to sleep*...

*Dies*.