Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! No, I've not lost it. I just think of the stuff I've read about the "Conan-Hyborean Adventures" game out there as I read the posts here. Now, it does have an "M" rating, and it naturally shows all sorts of blood and gore and stuff, but they've really drawn a lot of fire over . . .  dare I say it?
Boobies.
Oh, my . . .
Now, they're not the first, and EA knows that. They also know that every time somebody tries to make a mature game, there's always those lawyers representing the moralists out there that sees a way to make a buck. Remember that joker that tried to sue them over the Barbie-doll nudes they use? EA's about greed, not need, and I figured that'd find it's way into TS3, and it has. Granted, it would make wonderful sense to have a "M" version of TS3, but EA just doesn't have the guts, and they never will. They'll go where the money is, and leave the rest to hackers like they always have.

There are several reasons folks are pessimistic about TS3. For one, when TS2 came out, you were going from 2D to 3D. The differences were massive, but clearly they won't be so massive going from TS2 to TS3. With TS2, you literally got a whole new game. However, TS3'll probably come off like a really big EP rather than a giant leap forward. A second reason is this-you won't have all the custom content going straight into TS3. It'll take about eighteen months to two years to really get good custom content out, and that's a big factor when you're used to rigging the game the way you want. Third, we are in a bit of a recession, and people are wondering if they'll need bigger machines to handle TS3. Lastly, a lot of people flatly do not trust EA to use quality software in the game. I keep remembering something GunMod mentioned when he made his magnificent hack for lighting. He'd mentioned Maxis deliberately used a "broken" program for it-in other words, they were cutting costs, pretty pathetic when you consider how much money they've made off of TS2. We'd see more of the same with TS3 I'm sure. Furthermore, you flat burn out on TS2 in time unless something really new comes along, and I'm not sure just how "new" TS3 will be.