Don't want to spend too much on building apartments, have to build embassy first then get a building contract with Russia, then I will build for half less money, goddammit these homeless beggars want to kick me out, have to raise salary to my henchmen... I mean soldiers, in case of revolution. Revolution? What? How? Gold! That's it! Okay just enough money to build two gold mines, ah but the site is on the other side of the island, I'll just convert grain farms into tobacco farms for now, surely they'll learn to fish or something, What revolution again!? But I haven't even got the time to build a bank and start swindling money! I don't want to poison people with tobacco and alcohol. I will be the best green vegan president in the world! My pineapples will become the envy of all of my competitors. Hmm I need to build more farms, goddammit why can't my treasury grow any faster, a bit more and I can build that cannery! What economic instability? Go vegan or get out of my island! Don't make me build an immigration office and politely escort you out! All right, to hell with it! You want war? I will give you war. No elections, no housing, build factories, build outposts, build an army and pay them double, triple! Oh and don't forget the holy of holies - the prisons! Anyone against us will be branded as a traitor to our glorious regime! *Forever alone*. The game is unforgiving, the dark souls of the strategy games. Git gud?
...stayed for the world. When it came out and I saw the screens I thought how can a game look so unreal, it whispered to me of playing it, and I had to buy a new pc too, so it took a while. Then I disappeared from the real life at least for a month, oh how young and strong and free I was to allow myself such a thing. Of course now it looks old, still the atmosphere is unsurpassed, at least for me. All kinds of spells, creatures, the cities! The world! Go anywhere kill whatever you like, get killed, start again! The music... probably the most iconic theme in rpg games, so beautiful. The story... the story is minimal or so it seems, a cutscene now and them would've helped but I guess the story was not the point of the game, at least for me. The point of the game is to explore a gigantic world, the lore, the factions, the depression, the mystery. It has aged, but for the fans of rpg's it is must play.
