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If you are trying to learn about history or geopolitics there are a huge number of games that could be used to incidentally teach about it the Civ series, Age of Empires (or similar), Total War, etc. There are also the games from Paradox: Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, etc...

Hopefully the skill points are not allotted solely upon Intelligence attribute. I know it makes sense as a simple game mechanic (especially if there are few other benefits for a high Int score), but in my experience there are lots of athletic and mechanical skills that would probably be easier...

If long movies are bothering you this much then you guys should probably check out http://fanedit.org. Basically a bunch of video editing hobbyists rip DVD/BR versions and reedit them (The Phantom Edit is the most famous example). The edits might have differing intentions such as changing...

A bit of advice, if you've finished your prototype game then post a screenshot or a video link. Second, you need to specify what your role in the team would be (programmer, scripter, artist, lead designer, writer?) and what other people's roles in the team would be. To speak frankly it sounds...

Did anyone here enjoy Motorstorm Apocalypse?

If a hacker really wants to be ethical, once they get into a system they just peak at the internal workings/security and then make a copy of some random config file that only an admin would have access to (for proof). Maybe add a brief message on the front page just so users know about it...

If a hacker really wants to be ethical, once they get into a system they just peak at the internal workings/security and then make a copy of some random config file that only an admin would have access to (for proof). Maybe add a brief message on the front page just so users know about it...

A friend of mine got scabies when he was being fed dinner at a house in a rural town in the Philippines. His host was nice enough to tell him that he was eating dog about halfway through the meal. He kept eating. A few days later he felt the itching and figured out that he had scabies...

There is a post-apocalyptic mod for Civilization IV (you also need the Beyond the Sword expansion) called Neo Cristi. However, it seems that the apocalypse was mostly caused by zombies. The mod has been the work of one person for at least 3 years. While the mod is available for download, there...

Has anyone tried the Centered and Raised 3rd Person Camera mod? The video looked very good except for some diagonal running. Of course you would likely have to change views when entering combat or buildings. Also to me the dx9.dll fix and the d3d9.dll fix look like two different fixes...

That's why I am so pro-multitude of options in video games. Usually as the game designers are tweaking things they find that they could leave such and such in or take it out, or give a variable that affects something either this or that value. It would take very little extra coding to allow both...

Everyone is related to everyone if you go back far enough. So not that shocking. If you go back n generations then you have 2^n ancestors (assuming zero cross-genealogical breeding). So if you go back 2^11 generations, you will have 2,048 ancestors. And the other person has 2,048 ancestors...

I completely agree that their should be a contingency plan for cases like this. But then it is equally preposterous for them to demand to be constantly be praised in the public arena. New Reporter: You guys truly are heroes! Firefighter: Yeah, I totally do this because I want to help...

I'm not saying that slavery is a good thing, but if I had a choice between being killed by a blood-thirsty, well-armed rabble and being made a slave by them, I would probably pick becoming a slave, unless they were horribly brutal to their slaves (frequent torture or rape). In the pre-Civil War...

I second the weapon degradation ideas of Joervol and UncannyGarlic. Too bad those ideas won't make it into the release. Maybe someone could mod them in? What I think is the worst part of the Radiant A.I. is that the NCPs have no regard for their own lives. If I am a shopkeeper, and a fight...

It would be neat if someone would make an RTS where the short term winning strategy is antithetical to a long term winning strategy. For example, you are the leader of a tribe in Africa. You are at intermittently at war with most of your neighbors. White people show up. They offer to trade...

I had an idea for a Zelda-esque action RPG, where the hero instead of leveling up, levels down. The justification for this is that the hero starts off the game in the prime of their life, and as the game progresses they age. The game would have to taper off the enemy difficulty to match it, but...

This is just another reason that game developers should allow players to turn off or dial down as many "features" as possible. Fallout 1 and 2 had plenty of options, Burnout 3 let you turn off the automatic slow-motion crash views, but it seems that more and more game developers insist that they...

Movie gossip site Moviehole reveals that George Miller is making not one but two new Max Max films. (News first spilled by Twitchfilm). This was brought to light when Teresa Palmer dropped out because the 1 year commitment of shooting in Australia. Bottom line: 2 movies shot back to back...

In most of my Fallout 1 and 2 playthroughs, I usually don't tag Small Guns because I can raise it high enough to be competent (about 90%) with Guns & Bullets magazines. Then, to get it to around 120% (which solves most mid-game combat situations) I just use regular skill points (after using all...