Interesting. EA, Crytek and now Ubisoft are aiming for free to play games. There must be some sort of fad going on. I doubt whether it'll be good for them on the long term.
Firstly: I was talking about romantic as in the sense of the assumption that Roman history was an epic tale full of valour and glory. You must have confused the term 'romantic' as if I was calling it a love story. I wasn't. The word isn't applied for only that single meaning. I meant it as in a heroic romance. A chivalrous tale. Like Homer and Virgil wrote their stories to give you some examples.
Secondly: I never backed the assumption it's romantic myself. I've read enough of Cicero and other historians to know.
It's rather dodgy to play a sports game with buttons.
If it's football, it's okay, because then you're playing for the sake of the tactical perspective of the sport. In athletics only the physical achievement counts, not the teamplay. That isn't possibly simulatable by mashing buttons. You better can go out and run a few blocks yourself.
It would be great to experience some of the political intrigue within the Roman empire from the very beginning till the end. There is really a lot to cover. Sons betraying fathers, senates turning on kings, liquidations of emperors. Read some of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita and the rise of the Roman empire isn't as romantic as it seemed anymore.
Why do the asians always get the stuff for free? Hell, I paid 50$ for that.
But whatever, since it's going to be a free fps, it's likely to suck anyway. Just take a look at the weird dubstep-trailer and the always popular 'online' suffix. Those give a clear enough indication of the quality of the game in my opinion (besides, since when was the original Call Of Duty not online?). Those sort of games are all the same. Glitchy, buggy, lobby based, microtransaction-based, containing overreactive 'kill' and 'hit' messages and full of idiots on cafeine. The same thing was done with a Counter-Strike spin-off and there are thousands of other games like that (Soldier Front, Wolf Team, A.V.A., Combat Arms). But, maybe it just isn't my sort of thing and perhaps I am being a snooty western imperialist.
I'd say they should try something new to stand out between the overdose of this sort of free FPS spin-offs there in China, but apparently it works good enough.
The portal theory isn't complete nonsense, no. Wormholes in space are actually some sort of shortcuts through the folding of space allowing travel to further away places, or better said: the same distance in less time. The survivalrate of such transportation is zero for any sort of material/mass.
Artificial intelligence is something people would never be able to successfully create. I humans could understand their own sentience, their sentience is so simple they couldn't understand it. It isn't impossible, but programmed computer logics can't be as complicated (or random) as biological -neural- logics. Therefore, robotics might be capable of more smooth movements and reactions to circumstances later. They will never be really sentient.
I think Deus Ex is far more interesting as for future technological advancement, looking at the augmentations. I'm not really sure on optical cloak and such, but there is a lot of future in the making of protheses and biological enhancement technologies. I know there is some sort of gel in the making which can slow down the coagulation reaction of xenobiotic organs. It'll only be very hard to recreate the exact neural synaptic and axonic network in mechanics.
@thphaca It's probably because of the huge amount of sequels these days (Call of Duty 9, what the hell), that intellectual property such a popular term. In this case, an intellectual property stands for the console-exclusive game series and it's spin-offs.
Nothing new however, since I believe Final Fantasy 15 is in the making at the moment.
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