Baggie

I understand where you're coming from, but I also heartily disagree.

Sure it's remaking something using similar technology, but doing something out of the simply desire to do it is one of the most important things for a human. Not only that, but projects like this are excellent for building skillsets in the industry.

That's entirely fair. I think it suffers a lot from most of the interesting stuff getting hidden in the codex. I totally get your experience though, I've had a few games that have been good, but I've seen the concept done enough for it but to hook me in.

I cannot do balders gate 3, or any rpg of that style. I suspect it's to do with trying to roleplay a character while simultaneously viewing them in that top-down third person perspective. I can do X-COM, strategy, I can do roleplay in third person, but that particular combination just kills it for me. It's bizarre.

Personal opinion here obviously: Mass effect, or at least the first one, was actually surprisingly well written and internally consistent. Kind of like a star trek lite. There was interspecies tension, people expressing feelings on the state of the universe, but also enough moustache twirling to keep it interesting as well. It struck a good balance between that and a decent looter shooter/RPG combo, at least for my tastes.

The later games lost a lot of that and overly relied on what the first game setup up without expanding much on it, but that first game was just chefs kiss.

Not saying you're wrong or anything, more just this is what I personally get out of it.

We have a metro in Sydney that does this. It's usually pretty alright, but difficult to build and scale. The lines that actually go out of the city would never be able to achieve such things, the construction and setup alone is astronomical.

Fuck me that's bad, last I used it was in 2019, and even then it wasn't fantastic.

Honestly I'm finding their falling outs funnier each time it's happened. What is this, number 3?

Hell yeah deltarune still going strong. Just had a power outage, kept myself amused by seeing how low you can put the tdp/clock settings on it without it breaking.

Turns out I can't break it. I don't know if there's a computer that exists that couldn't run this game honestly.

What like the elite four member?

Yeah, but unfortunately the people that are predisposed to fucking the children kind of seek the roles out. That or the amount of power it takes to poison some people is much lower than I thought, but I don't want to consider that.

They've been dying for a while. COVID was a bit of a deathblow, but the rot was setting in way before that. A combination of online marketplaces becoming the norm, and the progression away from people ever leaving their houses really ate away at American malls over the past two decades.

I don't live in America, but I spent a decent amount of time on r/deadmalls back in the day and found the factors behind these monoliths crumpling fascinating.

Funnily enough though they're also potentially losing desktop users to Linux.