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I love MGS, so maybe that's my problem. :D As long as the gameplay parts are amazing (they are) and the cutscenes are amazing (they are) I don't have a problem. It could be have and half and I wouldn't mind. But people do exaggerate the cutscenes, MGS is about 90% gameplay.

No, but I don't think SMB is a very good game. :p You're right though. I think there are two classes of videogames- the "game" half, that descend from boardgames and cardgames. Examples: Tetris, Minecraft, any multiplayer mode for first-person shooters. And then there's the "video" half, that...

The good ones do. As do the good videogames.

See, that's what keeps videogames from becoming a respected industry like movies or literature. That's like saying TV doesn't need plot because it's just supposed to be visually stimulating, it doesn't need to try to be like books. Just because videogames have added an extra dimension (the...

I didn't think about MW being an alternate timeline. That's really interesting. With a POD dating back to the 70s/80s, it's probably still implausible, but I can pretend they left out the minor details that would make it all make sense for the sake of my gaming experience. I can shoot Russians...

Unsurprising, all of the Modern Warfare plots are shit. As is the plot of any videogame set in the future. They should really stick to doing pre-made plots, like WWII. But it's not like anyone outside of AH will notice. Some of my friends I played MW2 with were all "man what's scary is how...

I am getting on early this time, buddy. You're not tricking me like you did with LttW. Waiting until it got to 200 pages and then reading it all in one sitting. Pfft.

Does anyone have a map of 2000? The closest I can find in this thread is nineteen ninety something. Or has nothing changed from 1991 to 2000?

Sorry to change the topic after you gave me that very helpful piece of information, but I came across something interesting that gave me a different PoD idea. In 2000, foreign operatives working for the CIA fired an RPG at bin Laden's convoy- but it hit the wrong vehicle. What if the their...

I've been wanting to do a timeline for a long while, but to be honest I don't have that much in-depth knowledge about history. I plan on doing a lot of research, but I'd still like to limit the PoD to sometime within the last decade or two to avoid being too out of my depth- like September 11th...

I apologize if I've revived a dead topic, but I ran into a snag while trying to make maps for my timeline: how do you decide which countries get their own color and which remain white? Why do countries like Mexico and Romania get their own color while Australia and Canada don't?

It's quite possible this thread was destined for thread of the year, IMO. Black Angel's greatest sin.

The world may never know.

I got the game two days ago; just started my first serious campaign as Germany. I allied with Portugal early in the game and used it as a base to invade Republican Spain (for some reason they always annex Nationalist Spain, even when I intervene.) After Nationalist Spain wins the civil war, I...

Yeah, I realize it wouldn't happen. This is theoretical. Like, say, if the same countries who attacked Israel in the 1948 War decided to do it again, and won, who would get what?