Damn, it would seem that I need to play this. After playing Fallout 2 my dream was the play a game like that set... in a fictional renaissance Italy with more t

Damn, it would seem that I need to play this. After playing Fallout 2 my dream was the play a game like that set... in a fictional renaissance Italy with more tech and maybe some magic. There would be no evil in the world. Just the possibility to raise one town or family above the others and at the end of your life/game have a retrospective on how your actions made a difference in the world. Maybe dwarf fortress can get us close to this, because to pull it off you need a reference history (or rather set of histories) from which to compare. But the idea of being able to see whether you as an individual can actually make an impact on a simulated world seems incredibly valuable and educational. Sadly most cRPGs today have completely forsaken the idea of truly simulating the world in favor of narrow story telling. What happened to games made by programmers?