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The Houstonian
alexk2796
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« on: December 03, 2020, 01:29:12 AM »

I am only familiar with Campaign Trail (pretty good for a free game), President Infinity (not realistic enough to justify buying it), and some emulator of a game that was made in 1992.
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alexk2796
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2020, 04:37:14 PM »

I am only familiar with Campaign Trail (pretty good for a free game), President Infinity (not realistic enough to justify buying it), and some emulator of a game that was made in 1992.
The Political Process is a good one if you have a windows computer and have Steam.
How does it compare to other games (such as Democracy 3) in terms of realism?
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alexk2796
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E: -3.87, S: -0.87

« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2020, 04:51:51 PM »

I am only familiar with Campaign Trail (pretty good for a free game), President Infinity (not realistic enough to justify buying it), and some emulator of a game that was made in 1992.
The Political Process is a good one if you have a windows computer and have Steam.
How does it compare to other games (such as Democracy 3) in terms of realism?
It's pretty realistic, sure there might be some outdated stuff due to averages of all senate/presidential elections combined to create an average. You can govern and all that as well.
Please explain what you mean by this.
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alexk2796
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E: -3.87, S: -0.87

« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2020, 05:11:04 PM »

I am only familiar with Campaign Trail (pretty good for a free game), President Infinity (not realistic enough to justify buying it), and some emulator of a game that was made in 1992.
The Political Process is a good one if you have a windows computer and have Steam.
How does it compare to other games (such as Democracy 3) in terms of realism?
It's pretty realistic, sure there might be some outdated stuff due to averages of all senate/presidential elections combined to create an average. You can govern and all that as well.
Please explain what you mean by this.
You can't win as a Democrat in Texas or Georgia on the normal modes because of the fact that the Democrats did bad in Senate/Presidential elections until then and you can win as a Democrat in West Virginia, but I'm not sure if you could do it now and Iowa and Ohio is pretty close in elections because of that.
Is it possible to adjust this with a DLC?
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alexk2796
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Political Matrix
E: -3.87, S: -0.87

« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2020, 04:42:47 PM »

This was the "game from 1992" I was alluding to. I would need help figuring it out.
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alexk2796
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2020, 11:09:53 PM »

The Campaign Trail really is the best presidential campaign simulator available.  The choices you make seem real, imply tradeoffs and dynamically affect the story and events of the campaign.  It satisfies the deep itch that players like us want:  role-playing, as opposed to dressed-up spreadsheets and mathematic resource-management that underly games like President Infinity.


This is disappointing if true. The game is alright, but certainly there should be something better from this genre.
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