• Syndicate (loved), Black Flag (Fun to be a pirate, fun story, but again…that same gameplay loop)

• Original Assassin’s Creed (I recognize its groundbreaking nature for its time, but found it kind of underwhelming),

• Rogue (got it for free at some point…don’t know where or when or how. But found it similar to Black Flag; fun to be a pirate, but the same gameplay loop)

• When I had Game Pass, I also took stabs at Origins and Oddysey.

I think anyone can recognize the loop I’m talking about. Go into an area. find a point that let’s you sync a bunch of little mini games (in AC it’s syncing from high points, in Watchdogs it’s hacking towers, etc…) Then you just randomly do enough side-plot and main plot missions and kill the sub-bosses until you “control” that part of the map and then do it again. Every game. Every Franchise. They all follow the same loop.

It’s only when a game adds something somewhat different to the equation (a grappling hook in Syndicate and a train that is constantly looping through the city or sailing a pirate ship in Black Flag) that it has any sort of novelty for me.

Those cheeky buggars have made the same basic game for over a decade just by changing time periods and art assets.

I’ve always had trouble getting into the Assassin’s Creed games, even though as a history buff they should be right up my alley. There’s something about the Ubisoft generic play-loop that bores me after a certain amount of time. ( I have that same issue with the Total War series…love history, so I should love those games, but for some reason they just don’t click with me).

Weirdly enough, the only AC game that has really clicked with me is (AFAIK) one of the least popular ones, and that’s Syndicate. I think it’s because the setting. Victorian London had a lot of verticality from the various buildings that allowed a very spider-man like experience.

So brave posting this on Lemmy.

Other than Mastodon this is the only social media presence I keep around. So I’m limited. It was either here or c/showerthoughts. Figured it fit better here since controversial is a kissing-cousin to unpopular

Maybe not in the Lemmy-verse where well all tend to lean left. But certainly in America at large.

It should be pre-emptive.

Johnny beat-cop walking the street dealing with traffic stops, vagrants, etc…; nothing that for the vast majority of times requires anything more lethal than a taser.

Suddenly they get called to attend a potentially dangerous scene with a high likelihood of violence occuring and the supervisor says “okay, based on the suspect’s history and the run down of the situation (or whatever), I’m authorizing weapons unlock for this one”.

Tweeter and the Monkey Man - The Headstones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLEvl_uplUk

The OG Playstation had, by far, the biggest collection of games that I consider my favourites.

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You need to keep in mind that we are part of a niche community (Fediverse), where most of the people (I’m betting) run linux and are pretty old-school in their FOSS and design mentalities. Any excitement that exists here is going to be skewed by confirmation bias in a network where everyone basically thinks the same.

X-Com: The Bureau Declassified. Your “teammates” are fundamentally suicidal, making keeping them alive almost impossible. But the setting, story and challenge made up for it. It was inventive.

The Technomancer: Mid-budget game by Spiders. Was short and straightforward, which most people disliked, but I thought it was a blast. The story still sticks in my head screaming for me to write a novel based on it.

Speak for yourself.

I’ve honestly been having some trouble getting into Prey. Don’t know why. It theoretically should be everything I enjoy in a first person game, but somehow I always turn it off after a half hour or so. I’ll keep trying because, hell, I paid for the damn thing. But yeah… It’s no dishonored (but what is really)

I’d go a step farther and say it’s time to come up with an entirely new type of monster.

I don’t mean “villain” like a Candyman, or a Jeeper’s Creepers, or a Terrifier, or something like that. People make up new ones of those all the time.

I mean an entire new class of monster. Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, etc… Where are the classes of monsters that represent our modern sensibilities?

Technically there is no such thing as a “completely secure system”

What Linux offers is the fact that by nature of being FOSS, there are millions of eyes on source code at any one time, and so potential exploits can usually be spotted and mitigated faster than waiting for the software maker to fix their own shit. And the fact that, in most cases with Windows, the call is coming from inside the house, so-to-speak; It’s the operating system itself that is malicious and anti-user.

To put it simply: Yes…linux can be attacked just like windows. But we live in an open-concept house with no hidden corners, and we’ve got a pretty great neighbourhood watch thing going on. Versus Windows users who live a house filled with cameras and alarms, surrounded by a giant wall that they can’t see over, and they have to rely on the security company to do anything about the burglar trying to get in.

I’ll take my chances with the community approach every time.

Nobody ever says the AUR is safe. In fact they say specifically that it’s not; for exactly the reasons you mention.

That’s why it’s the Arch USER Repository. You take your fate in your own hands when you choose to use it.

As for your comment about using a distro that has everything in the main repo? How so? Every flavour has software that isn’t included in the main repos. For Arch based systems, that means either the AUR or Flatpaks. For Debian based systems, that means adding new repos to your sources, which is exactly as unsafe as the AUR in most cases, or using Flatpaks.

If you’ve ever added a repo on Ubuntu, than you’ve essentially used their version of an AUR. The end result is no different.

Which one? I don’t recall running into anything critical.

I would desperately love a remaster but upgrading the squad mates AI operate similar the Mass Effect squad mates.

XCom 2 - War of the Chosen (with the Long War mod) is easily in my top 3 games of all time. Its a must-play.

X-Com: The Bureau Declassified

Its fatal flaw was simply that the A.I. squadmates would far to often make suicidal decisions unless you micro-managed then, which made winning far more about luck than skill.

But the setting, the writing, the story were all super interesting to me. And the graphics hold a special charm for me (I still say the facial animations were better than LA Noire)

I go to ebay and select “Canada Only” when trying to find a particular item. (Am Canadian)

Choosing the easier path when it really mattered