It doesn't cost extra resources for someone to use design talent + willingness to let anyone in the game die. It's just that developers don't want to do it anymore because of "triple A" standards. As for realism: Skyrim is a game where you can shoot fire and lightning out of your hands while battling dragons.
Oh, but it does.
Letting anyone in the game die while still leaving the plot and major subplots intact (which Bethesda's really finicky about) means adding a lot more dialogue, redundancy in the cast, coding to allow branching paths to even exist. And that means more time at the office, more time running the electricity, more lunches stolen from the marketing team's refrigerator. And that means more bills to pay, which means more money to spend, which means less profit for the investors and eventually the people who actually made the game.
The "being able to kill everybody is realistic" argument is weird to me, because it assumes that everybody always wants to kill everybody else.
Anyway, I have a big decision coming up in this EU4 game, whether to convert to Protestantism, convert to Reformed Christianity, or to remain Catholic.
Furthermore, realism in the setting is not the same as verisimilitude. A world may break the laws of physics as we know it and still feel like a "real" world with actual consequences and characters who act like real people would in that kind of world. The reverse is also true: Consider the average Harlequin romance.
Anyway, I have a big decision coming up in this EU4 game, whether to convert to Protestantism, convert to Reformed Christianity, or to remain Catholic.
Hmm.
The Calvinists are kooky, the Roman Church is corrupt, and Luther was an anti-Semitic jerk...
(This represents the Christian denominations more commonly referred to as Calvinist - the generic name is more appropriate for an alternative history that may never see the existence of John Calvin.)
The Reformed religion typically appears a decade or so after the Reformation begins.
Basic Features of Calvinism:
Possible Advisors: +1
Tolerance of Heretics: +2
Possible heretics include: Methodist, Baptist, and Quaker.
It does have the cool "Fervor" mechanic....if you have Wealth of Nations installed, and I do not.
Protestant's bonuses meanwhile are pretty straightforward (some bonuses to tax income and idea cost). So I think I will go with them.
This is the era where Samus' gender was conceived as a "reward" for the player, recall.
I meant way back in the Commodore 64 era, when video games were marketed on an essentially gender-neutral basis due to the large female gaming base. My mom's era, in other words.
It wasn't really until the 90's that gaming started to really be seen (read: marketed) as a purely male thing.
Lift those skinny arms like antenna to the heavens, Marten. Liiiiiift
Good album.
Maybe overrated in that people talk about it like the second coming when Swans had already paved the way years earlier, but it's still a classic and really a brilliant political album.
This is the era where Samus' gender was conceived as a "reward" for the player, recall.
I meant way back in the Commodore 64 era, when video games were marketed on an essentially gender-neutral basis due to the large female gaming base. My mom's era, in other words.
It wasn't really until the 90's that gaming started to really be seen (read: marketed) as a purely male thing.
It's worth noting that Sierra On-Line was created by someone who was, for all intents and purposes, a fangirl.
This is the era where Samus' gender was conceived as a "reward" for the player, recall.
I meant way back in the Commodore 64 era, when video games were marketed on an essentially gender-neutral basis due to the large female gaming base. My mom's era, in other words.
It wasn't really until the 90's that gaming started to really be seen (read: marketed) as a purely male thing.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Someday, Anonus will lay on his bed, and a brown arm will reach out from under the bed and drag him underneath it. The arm belongs to one Yogi Bear, and Anonus will live in Jellystone Park...forever....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Touhou Reiiden ～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers (1996) Touhou Fumaroku ～ the Story of Eastern Wonderland (1997) Touhou Yumejikuu ～ Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream (1997) Touhou Gensoukyou ～ Lotus Land Story (1998) Touhou Kaikidan ～ Mystic Square (1998)
Touhou Koumakyou ～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002) Touhou Youyoumu ～ Perfect Cherry Blossom (2003) Touhou Eiyashou ～ Imperishable Night (2004) Touhou Suimusou ～ Immaterial and Missing Power (2004) Touhou Kaeidzuka ～ Phantasmagoria of Flower View (2005) Touhou Bunkachou ～ Shoot the Bullet (2005)
As for realism: Skyrim is a game where you can shoot fire and lightning out of your hands while battling dragons.
Yes, but the Elder Scrolls games attempt to create verisimilitude through extensive, consistent worldbuilding, through lots of choices for the player, and through high realism with regards to aspects not directly related to magic or fantasy creatures (the society, the environment, that kind of thing). There is no particular canonical reason why, in Skyrim, the Dragonborn would never under any circumstances kill Maven, nor why she should be immortal.
The suggestion that realism is irrelevant in a fantasy is one that irritates me. You often see people attempting to justify inconsistent characterization and plotting in fantasy novels on the same grounds. Fantasy doesn't automatically imply nonsense, and I feel that to equate the two is to disparage the genre.
“2.0’s awake,” she said. The baby had been Beta Test when he was in her womb, and when her water broke, he got the call and dashed out of the office, shouting, The Gold Master just shipped! They’d started calling him 2.0 before he’d finished his first cry. “This little bastard was born to suck tit.”
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Anyway, I have a big decision coming up in this EU4 game, whether to convert to Protestantism, convert to Reformed Christianity, or to remain Catholic.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I think
It does have the cool "Fervor" mechanic....if you have Wealth of Nations installed, and I do not.
Protestant's bonuses meanwhile are pretty straightforward (some bonuses to tax income and idea cost). So I think I will go with them.
This is the era where Samus' gender was conceived as a "reward" for the player, recall.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
hahahahahahaha
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
that's the second multipage book excerpts i have typed up and illegally reproduced this month
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Touhou Fumaroku ～ the Story of Eastern Wonderland (1997)
Touhou Yumejikuu ～ Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream (1997)
Touhou Gensoukyou ～ Lotus Land Story (1998)
Touhou Kaikidan ～ Mystic Square (1998)
Touhou Koumakyou ～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002)
Touhou Youyoumu ～ Perfect Cherry Blossom (2003)
Touhou Eiyashou ～ Imperishable Night (2004)
Touhou Suimusou ～ Immaterial and Missing Power (2004)
Touhou Kaeidzuka ～ Phantasmagoria of Flower View (2005)
Touhou Bunkachou ～ Shoot the Bullet (2005)
Touhou Fuujinroku ～ Mountain of Faith (2007)
Touhou Hisouten ～ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (2008)
Touhou Chireiden ～ Subterranean Animism (2008)
Touhou Seirensen ～ Undefined Fantastic Object (2009)
Touhou Hisoutensoku ～ Choudokyuu Guignol no Nazo o Oe (2009)
Double Spoiler ～ Touhou Bunkachou (2010)
Yousei Daisensou ～ Touhou Sangetsusei (2010)
Touhou Shinreibyou ～ Ten Desires (2011)
Touhou Shinkirou ～ Hopeless Masquerade (2013)
Touhou Kishinjou ～ Double Dealing Character (2013)
Danmaku Amanojaku ～ Impossible Spell Card (2014)
The suggestion that realism is irrelevant in a fantasy is one that irritates me. You often see people attempting to justify inconsistent characterization and plotting in fantasy novels on the same grounds. Fantasy doesn't automatically imply nonsense, and I feel that to equate the two is to disparage the genre.