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I hear it's terrible.

The Grauniad said so. So it must be true.

 

In my circles I've always heard way more about Poor Unfortunate Souls--but then, I've been to a lot of drag shows.

 

Ah just needs a little patching (Beta Patch fixed a lot of things on my PC) and you might need to set your PC to some odd resolutions for it to work fine.

 

Edit: Second thought, best to let that go.

So, on the topic of Disney Songs...I have to say, Strangers like Me has always been my favorite.

Nice to have a song about learning and exploration instead of the usual themes.

 

Well I somehow missed it

I guess the obvious question is if it lives up to the first game? I enjoyed Shogun II, but didn't like it as much as the first Rome.

 

I was watching it last year on youtube and was so disturbed. Similar to the Pink Elephants scene in Dumbo. My thought after watching that for the first time since I was younger was 'I used to watch this stuff?' That is scary. Be Prepared, Hellfire, Prince Ali reprise (man that was brilliant of Jafar) are amazing.

 

If we're discussing the disturbed and wacked side of Disney, the whole plot of 101 Dalmatians is... really bothersome... in retrospect. The song doesn't really convey the point enough, alas.

Also... those pink elephants... kids' cartoons really didn't shy away from the alcohol theme in those days. Bizarre.

 

That's because alcohol was just a thing that made some adults silly sometimes, and drunkards were harmless figures of fun!

 

Was that supposed to be a complaint with regard to the books he has to read?

 

Disney animated films do not even come close to disturbing. As much as I loved growing up on films like The Brave Little Toaster and The Secret of NIMH, if I ever have kids I'd rather they watch Bambi.





EDIT: As for favorite songs, if Pixar counts, then I'm all for "You've Got a Friend in Me". Gets me every time.

 

I think he's confusing 'books' with 'cartoon shows'.

Although Adventure Time death is around every corner. Makes up for the 100+ Hanna Barbera 70s cartoons, where you just wish they would die.

 

I watched the Brave Little Toaster when I was about five or six, in my cartoon phase after movies like Aladdin hit video. I didn't have a cartoon phase for much longer. It scarred me even more than Pinocchio did. That clown. That demon clown.

My favorite animated movie from that period, though, is still The Land Before Time. It still makes me cry like a little baby.

 

It's not as good as Rome I with mods, i.e. Europa Barbarorum. It's pretty buggy, but still a solid game. That being said, I do have some complaints with it.

I think that patches and the mod community will take care of the lion's share of the issues, of course. Empire was just as buggy on release.

 

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