Ireland is a part of the British Isles (thats British Isles not GB). I would not call it british though, I think british only refers to people from the UK or one of its overseas territories. Keep in mind Northern Ireland is a part of the UK so some people here do think of themselves as british. Regardless a lot of people…
Yes, Ireland is a part of the British Isles geographically - but not a part of Britain. It is however a republic and has little to do with the United Kingdom; it's people are not British, they're Irish. It's sovereignty isn't disputed, either; the dispute is over the political status of Northern Ireland as there is a…
I'm kinda hoping there's a bit more variety than creating tons of British games. There's options for Scottish/Irish titles. But I feel like they'll be a bunch of Victorian Era and steampunkish titles.
Scotland, Ireland (England and Wales) are British... but yeah this conjures up the idea of games of tea drinking and crumpet sniffing. Perhaps a spell of doffing yer cap and tugging yer forelock to the aristocracy. Be all proper like. Lame.
As a British citizen I'm disappointed you used American English throughout that post. I'm still struggling to see what you're angry about. I think I got lost when you started talking about athletes. But ok!
Requiring it to be a cultural export just seems silly to me but as I understand it's a loophole to get around EU regulations. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOrA9-2xnGY"]SuperEgo: M asks Bond, "How British am I?" - YouTube[/ame]
At first I was like yaaaaay! then I heard this stuff about the game needing to be uk in cultural content? thats a really limiting factor. haha maybe we will have devs trying to cash in making games like scifi rts based on a steampunk british empire? or a fantasy hack n slash mmo based on celtic lore?