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Yet somehow manages to be even more cringe than Squall, which is quite the achievement.

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It's a decade old lol.

Rattlesnake in the wild, thanks to an insane ex-military Scout leader I had that was trying to prove a point to us (his Scout troop).

It was actually a lot better than I expected, but I wouldn't recommend it for a number of (hopefully) obvious reasons.

I finally played Mass Effect 3, I'd played 1 and 2 but after all the stink about 3 and it being on Origin / EA Play for years I never bothered until a recent $1 sale on a month of that EA subscription, which has ME3 on it.

I spent 90%+ of the game going "Wow this isn't bad at all, I am really impressed! This really is a good game!"

...until I got to the ending sequence, when it felt like the game had taken crazy pills all of a sudden. I understood why everyone was mad about it, and totally agree that it ruined the game. It wasn't that Shepherd died, it wasn't the Red/Blue(/Green) choice they gave you, it was a combination of 3 factors though:

1. Crippling your character and making you limp along, unable to use any of your powers, forced to slog through a bunch of token combat EDIT with only pistol, and all your cosmetic choices were erased as you drag around at half speed through corridors just to get further in the chain of conversations.

2. Except for the pass/fail check on the conversation with the Illusive Man (which is very easy to miss the requirements for without expecting it), none of what you did before entering that final sequence matters, it really was just press a button to receive ending. On that same note, you can have all 3 endings regardless of what you did, spent the entire trilogy making nothing but Renegade choices? Don't worry you can still press the Blue button! Hail Mary deathbed confession!

3. I found the child avatar kind of out of place and a bit weird, yes I know it was a reference to the kid that died, but it was not really immersive and it made this gigantic long conversation that makes up "the last boss" really awkward, especially since half the conversation is just explaining the story for people that weren't paying attention or missed all the side quests.

There are a lot of great single playthrough MMORPG, but very few have a steady enough update cycle to keep a proper endgame. If you want to just play through a story and putter around, SWTOR, GW2, FF14, and others are a lot of fun for at least a while.

Nearly every MMO should be on here, it's basically a dead genre but zombified 20+ year old MMO still keep going. Ultima Online got an update last month, WoW keeps pushing xpacs on the regular, even ones that do get killed 50/50 get brought back as private servers like SWG, CoH, and many more.

If an MMO hasn't already been closed, chances are it will still be here in another 5 or even 10 years, because there is a diehard MMO fanbase out there that regularly or even exclusively plays MMO (and often the same MMO they've been playing all these years). Surprisingly there are tons of new players showing up, as children and younger relatives of existing players or just curious people that heard the legends of some weird niche game come to check it out, so although the player base is declining as they age out (or die, come on gamers we're getting old) it will still be there for a long time.

Mark my words, the first truly decent MMO to come out in the next decade is gonna hit it off big, we've had lots of disappointments in the genre in the last decade, and niche or region specific games that didn't really hit it off, but if we got a well made MMO especially one connected to a big IP (no, Dune is probably not it, sorry guys I wish it was) it would knock it right out of the park.

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GaaS took all the profitable pieces of the MMO model, and left the entire genre a desiccated husk populated with zombie games that refuse to die from the 90s, 00s, and 10s. Other than a couple Asian market games (because that market is a lot more accepting of extreme monetization in MMO), Lost Ark, and New World, I literally cannot think of a single MMO released in the 2020s that wasn't just a kickstarter scam, and even those are less common now.

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Especially in the game series that basically put BioWare on the map, that would be like Blizzard losing the Starcraft IP and another studio making Starcraft 3 and reinvigorating the entire RTS genre in the process, setting new standards for what an RTS is and should be.

It's downright embarrassing for BioWare.

I mean... the most negative thing I've heard about Starfield is that it's a bit empty, and doesn't meet the (insanely high) bar that Skyrim set. A lot of people I know bought Starfield at launch, played it through once or twice, and although they stopped after that they didn't have any really bad things to say.

Fallout 76 was a much worse game, with way more negative sentiment.

Look, this is gonna sound rude and maybe it is, but I am not a fucking moron and I know that's how it works. I specifically stated that I have used linux in the past, and I can easily google any specific game and find out if it does or doesn't work.

I was asking what distro is best for people to give current opinions on the subject, not because I cannot google very basic cut and dry info. I appreciate that you are trying to help but I am not about to sit here for hours typing the name of every game I might be interested in playing, so that someone else can read it and check it for me, were you about to spend your entire night checking games I listed for me? Of course you weren't, and the entire idea of either of us doing that is insane.

With all due respect, if you have any opinion on which distro is currently the best for gaming feel free to share it, don't waste both our times with useless basic linux info that I already knew about.