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@SmilingPig: Yes, I'm Scottish but lived in France for a while. Once, I saw a Québécois soap on TV... I was startled to see that it was subtitled into French-French! I needed thos subtitles, as I didn't understand the Canadian-French. I have since made an effort to learn some of the differences. Much prefer French-French, mind you!

As a Scot I wish to add an interesting extra wrinkle to this. Many Scottish people constantly mix and code-switch between multiple forms of English: we have Scots (much debate as to whether this should be regarded as a dialect of English or an entire language of its own), Scottish-English, Standard British English (RP etc) and American English.

Those are effectively different registers of the same language to us. If you've seen Trainspotting, they were speaking Scottish-English, mostly, with some Scots blended in there. Is that film subtitled in the US?

(Scots is nothing to do with Gaelic, another thing entirely which few speak)

Terrible. Aside from the shape, and the terrible d-pad, who thought up the names of those face buttons? 'To sprint, press O, to reload, press O, to switch weapons, press O, to bring up the system menu, press O'. Will be unusable for colour-blind people, and ridiculous for the rest of us.

Considering the people involved, it's astonishing they're making basic mistakes like that.

The only games I've ever seen to have anything set in Glasgow (in Scotland) are train simulators, so eh... Railworks' rendition of Central Station is pretty good.

The closest to this feeling I've had was watching the Jet Li/Morgan Freeman movie Unleashed (aka Danny the Dog). The entirety of the exterior shoot was filmed here and it is full of familiar areas to me but - apart from one throwaway line by Morgan Freeman mentioning the name of the city - could have been set just about anywhere for as much relevance the location has to anything. Directed by a Frenchman, starring an American, an Englishman and a Chinese bloke, and even the cashier in the local shops has a cockney accent. There's not even a single accent from the same country never mind the local area. Truly baffling, and very jarring to see your city represented like that,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342258/

@fri3drich:

Yep. Especially when they're charging quite a lot of money for those planes with no cockpits... the average player who isn't super into flight sims and just wants to fly some planes around (me!) is better off just playing Just Cause 2 or something like that.

This game had some potential - it got me playing it, as someone terrified of flight sims (X-Plane is intimidating as hell). The idea of a user-friendly but realistic flight sim is very compelling. They quickly squandered it through poor decisions, such as releasing very poor quality DLC (disaster when DLC sales are the only way you're making money) and so on.

@iAmJohn: Well the main reason was that he thinks PCs are for spreadsheets.

Maybe he'll now realise that he should have released this on PC, instead of being his arrogant self with regards to his comments about it.

Plenty of much less succesful games have had patches to fix issues like this. It's basic customer service.

If you're playing as an islamic ruler with the DLC you pretty much have to kill all your brothers when you take the throne. It's great.

The Queen has corgis. The Queen is pretty awesome really.

Endless Space should fit the bill, it's a lot like civ in space. It's also surprisingly beautiful for the kind of game it is. Some people dislike the combat, but otherwise it's great.

If you wanted to try something older, then the obvious one is Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. It's really old though. Would love to see an updated version.