Will Civ 4 be written with the gloves off?
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There are a lot of issues in society today which have become extremely taboo. We can't avoid them, but to talk about them, or include them as game content runs a serious risk of being ripped apart by various extremist groups (who sit on the both extremes). Some of these things could apply to the macro-managed world of Civ, including terrorism, global warming, and bio technology. Also there are a number of older frowned upon topics, that are part of our history whether we like it or not, racism, genocide, and slavery.
These are just to name a few issues that might make the game to hot to publish, but may be relevant content in the context of empire building/managing. Will CIV 4 have some of these aspects included insofar as they are relevant, or will the game pussy foot around the most controversial?
Live under an oppressive regime, or die? Live in a world of limited freedom, or see the land scortched? Die today but know the society, and your children may live on to be free another day, or destory all hope for mankind and civilization?
If a preemptive strike has the possibility of leading to mutual assured destruction, then isn't any totalitarian nightmare better then that?
Hey Boeing isn't the only one who can screw up a first launch, the 'sexier' Ariane 5 self destructed on its first launch do to a software glitch in the primary and redundent guidance systems. Of course on their site the launch log only marks the occasion with a * with no corrosponding note(see flight 88), and the milestones for the Ariane 5 makes the brief a very brief note, "The Ariane 5 501 test flight fails."
I think this may be why blue ray wins the format war. If PS3 uses it, and the average PS2 owner stay s true to their old behaviour, it won't be long before they are modding and burning and complaining about fair use. Before you know it, blueray dvdrw will be fly off the shelf, driving the price down, and making fence sitters say "hmmm do I get nearly equivilent option 1, or cheaper option 2?" Cheap wins (re: beta vs vhs) and boom blueray is your standard of choice. All thanks to the power of software piracy!
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There are a lot of issues in society today which have become extremely taboo. We can't avoid them, but to talk about them, or include them as game content runs a serious risk of being ripped apart by various extremist groups (who sit on the both extremes). Some of these things could apply to the macro-managed world of Civ, including terrorism, global warming, and bio technology. Also there are a number of older frowned upon topics, that are part of our history whether we like it or not, racism, genocide, and slavery.
These are just to name a few issues that might make the game to hot to publish, but may be relevant content in the context of empire building/managing. Will CIV 4 have some of these aspects included insofar as they are relevant, or will the game pussy foot around the most controversial?
Live under an oppressive regime, or die?
Live in a world of limited freedom, or see the land scortched?
Die today but know the society, and your children may live on to be free another day, or destory all hope for mankind and civilization?
If a preemptive strike has the possibility of leading to mutual assured destruction, then isn't any totalitarian nightmare better then that?
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Hey Boeing isn't the only one who can screw up a first launch, the 'sexier' Ariane 5 self destructed on its first launch do to a software glitch in the primary and redundent guidance systems. Of course on their site the launch log only marks the occasion with a * with no corrosponding note(see flight 88), and the milestones for the Ariane 5 makes the brief a very brief note, "The Ariane 5 501 test flight fails."
I think this may be why blue ray wins the format war. If PS3 uses it, and the average PS2 owner stay s true to their old behaviour, it won't be long before they are modding and burning and complaining about fair use. Before you know it, blueray dvdrw will be fly off the shelf, driving the price down, and making fence sitters say "hmmm do I get nearly equivilent option 1, or cheaper option 2?" Cheap wins (re: beta vs vhs) and boom blueray is your standard of choice. All thanks to the power of software piracy!