Steping away from the rankings debate, I'm concerned about Clint's comment about 'modernization" of the game. I beleive this is a code word for changing the game and warping it significantly away from what it is presently. This would have to wait for GSI to release the source codes.
I'm opposed to major changes in this game. Why? Played it eleven years and I love it. What keeps making me comeing back is the fantastic subtleness of it. Every game I learn something I didn't know before. It has many levels and people who think you have plateaued the learning curve after four games just lack insight. And then I have accumulated useful bits of knowledge (the hard way) such is where to hide stolen evil artifacts where a hostile encounter will kill DS searching for the artifacts. Then there is the bag of dirty tricks I learned in the old GSI/Deft days and now have a whole new universe of Europeans to inflict them on. Hell yes, don't modernize this game.
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