Comments on: I Made Dick Cheney President

By: Al Ewing

Al Ewing — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:29:40 +0000

Annoyingly, it’s very crashy on my machine – it completely locks up if I try to start a campaign game, which means I can’t unlock any of the campaign characters, and most games are interrupted by freezes. I’m admittedly playing on a laptop, but it doesn’t strike me as anything that should be crashing so hard, so often. Caveat emptor etc.

By: Damian G.

Damian G. — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:09:14 +0000

I’m furious that no stores near me have it, and it supposedly released last week. I LOVED the original, but the politics and candidates have since changed, so it was irrelevant by 2006 or so.

By: Al Ewing

Al Ewing — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:42:44 +0000

Christ, I hate these damned ‘download managers’. When I buy something I WANT TO HAVE IT YOU CHRISTING SHITBAGS JUST GIVE IT TO ME AND FORGET MAKING ME INSTALL YOUR CRAPPY DOWNLOAD TWATPROGRAM THAT TAKES EIGHT TIMES AS LONG AS JUST DOWNLOADING IT ARRRRRRGGGHHH

Also, have you seen the forum on the site? Scary, scary biscuits.

By: Tinsley

Tinsley — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:41:57 +0000

I did the exact same thing last night! I made Cheney president! Great minds….

By: Mr. Brand

Mr. Brand — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:54:32 +0000

TPM 2008 is the REAL Monsters, Inc.?

By: moromete

moromete — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:45:14 +0000

I played the game for a bit yesterdayand today and it’s great… I see myself being occupied for about a month winning as everyine vs. everyone else. Do try out to play as Lord Kona, he’s one hell of a candidate…

By: theleif

theleif — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:54:44 +0000

How come this game makes me think of Nuclear War on the Amiga?

By: Maximum Fish

Maximum Fish — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:33:30 +0000

“Cheney and Fred Thompson endorsements? This thread is terrifying.”

This is precisely what american political discourse has become. It used to be that people accepted that there were two predominant political ideologies, and accepted that other people could conceivably have different opinions than they do without being inherently defective.

Now everyone just aligns themselves with one side or the other and dismisses everyone who disagrees with them as being stupid, backward or “terrifying”. It’s like watching 5th graders pick a kickball team, only more childish. Self-righteousness and closed-mindedness are polarizing and damaging an already bass-ackwards politcal system. It’s awesome.

By: simonkaye

simonkaye — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:10:26 +0000

Tell you what, it DOES get hard. I developed a candidate of my own who’s basically Toby out of the West Wing and he’s getting slaughtered by the populist rantings of Teddy Roosevelt.

Loving the game so far. But it does need some more stat-porn, ala Democracy 2 or GalCiv. Where are my flow diagrams, my bar charts, my demographic breakdowns, my long-term poll standings?

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:33:25 +0000

The one reason I play games is to escape the joke that is the American political system tbh.

By: yutt

yutt — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:19:22 +0000

Cheney and Fred Thompson endorsements? This thread is terrifying.

By: Lucky

Lucky — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:10:31 +0000

“Granted this game set on easy so far, so I hope the AI gets better as the new opponents come.”

At least in the original the difference between low and high difficulty levels was huge, so I’d expect it to improve here too.