I don't either. I'm used to having a choice. It seems like they added an unnecessary mechanic to the game, one that seems rather unpleasant to accomplish.

That's both hilarious and quite awkward. CoD feels like a parent demanding you eat all the food on the plate. Too bad I'm decades past that mode of life, and could easily find myself quitting the game, if that indeed is the absolute and only option.

What's the penalty if you choose to give none shits about the funeral like most gamers would?

Defending myself is fun, and the issue really isn't the units or the change from Stacks of Death which were prevalent in previous iterations of the game. SoD actually seems like a worse situation with the warfare.

Considering there are a ton of first person shooters and space shooters, at this point, a lot of realms in history haven't been covered (or covered well), I agree ... but there's going to be a point where the setting as well as plot points are all going to be done to death.

So set it in China, India, and include much more than just Japan ... the whole Far East. Is there a hard and fast rule that keeps an AC main character in one spot in the world?

Depending upon the situation, both you and bafford are both correct.

Considering that not all religion is in conflict with scientific ethos, they really should add that in at some point, Gods & Kings style.

The lack of context with the warmongering is maddening to me. I can't throw down on some long-time belligerent, because reasons? No thanks.

The positive mod for "fighting a common" enemy/foe is also strong. If Boudicca's afraid, she's also grateful for the help, even if you may have ended up with some of the lands she wanted when she came to you with the tag team offer.

I was going to say, either bull or dog, neither explains the 3rd film's penchant for alien wall-and-ceiling walking. Seems to be an eventual trait they wove into the alien's own biology that's more indelible than what type of host from which it spawned.

I read somewhere that it can hear the motion tracker, so hiding inside a concealed space with a virtual noisemaker is probably where people are failing at cover.

I do like your wife's perception accuracy! It seems like this is the norm for most players.

This is true ... and the divergence in later aliens, particularly the 3rd, was from its birth from a non-human host. The xenomorph is apparently called as such due to its ability to inherit traits from the species that serves as the host.

Can't wait for a discount on the game to try my hand at terrifying tension-filled locker-hiding.

Didn't the alien use the walls and ceiling in the original film? Brett's attack came from the alien in the cargo hold ... and it descended upon him from above, carrying him up through the air ducts, to its lair to become an egg.

AIs tend to take the radioactive game on each other first.

I'm starting to look at that as almost a total advantage. The speed of the information age happened at just the right time so the younger look and sound as helpless as some of my elders.

Believe it or not, I'm a new entry to Civ. Never played it before 5 ... didn't have a good enough rig to run anything until 2011.

Pretty much. Getting the business end of any widely-regarded individual will create a difference in opinion.