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Legendary. For 2 and 3 it basically does not matter, the changes are non-perceivable. Mass Effect 1 Legendary edition greatly improves combat, which was awful in original game. However the graphical updates do not always respect original art direction, ruining atmosphere of certain moments. It also does not include one DLC (source code got corrupted), but it is just a combat arena with no story. Still, Legendary edition turned Mass Effect 1 from my least favorite in the series to favorite.
Also Legendary Edition unlocks all difficulties, previously you had to finish the games once to be able to select the highest. I would not recommend picking it for Mass Effect 2 though, it becomes unbearable slog on insane. Fine for other two though.

Anyway, very good series. Peak video game space opera. The most disappointing ending ever, as you probably heard.

Just play andromedia genius. Its the last one they made and duringvthat short window of xbox one before video games are trash

>>45832
I mean other than outriders and once human of course. Then even i had to get a working version of once human to even exist

I have this on PS2, but my console is unusable due to being raided and fucked to death by dead cockroaches
I do know there's a big modding scene online to add tons of other other characters, I respect it for making certain comic covers or whatever unlockables and shit

Lots of abandonware because licenses. But honestly licenses are also kinda an excuse so they can make you the buy the newest game in the franchise like forza or pokemon. Pokemon used ds game prices are nuts.

>>45791
To add to that: Its a great example of piracy (and unofficial mods) preserving videogames. Atleast you can still get most games on PC that way. Im also forever grateful for those chads that make sure older games can run on modern windows.

>>45787
Storm is broken in the second game btw

>>45788
Jormungand mentioned

>>45795
I have finished chapter 1. Clearly my affection for Gokumba, the UFLL boss, was not reciprocated, as after getting rid of local APR leader I was betrayed. UFLL attacked Mike's bar where fellow independent mercs hang out, and church with friendly priest and refugees. I had to choose which one to save, opted for former. Not that it did any good, everyone was still killed and me grievously wounded. Once again I was nursed to health by Jackal and then found by APR mercenary lieutenant Greaves. He tasked me with eliminating Gokumba at his victory rally. Once that was done I ventured to report back to Greaves and transition to new chapter 2 area. This whole segment of the game was quite tense as all my buddies died, so no rescue if I get shot. Greaves was displeased with recent political development between factions which were about to agree on cease fire, meaning mercenaries are out of the job, so I was to escort a barge full of weapons to a central town of map to make it look like UFLL is gearing up for offensive.
I knew this mission was coming, I remember it being a giant pain in the ass when I played the game as a kid. I ignored the whole no reloading rule during it. It is a scripted turret section, except if you attempt to actually use the turrets on the barge you will die. You are bombarded by an RPG, a mortar, and infinitely respawning gunboats. Halfway to town harbor a gunboat with automatic grenade launcher will spawn, which I suspect is glitchy, because its splash damage killed me multiple times through cover. Explosions damage barge engine which has to be repaired to continue moving. Took me like 20 restarts to get through, and even that was only when the grenade boat somehow accidentally blew itself out. It is virtually impossible to finish without knowing exactly what to expect beforehand. First time I when I died to a mortar shell I didnt even know was coming I felt bad and was considering quitting, but after experiecing what a bullshit designed mission it is I continued. Devs seem to agree too as they had put a save station on the barge, an acommodation not present anywhere else in the game.
Then after delivering the guns you go meet the doctor who lives in the middle of the town, and the fighting suddenly breaks out between factions. So now you have to get out of town with with infinitely respawning troops clashing with each other. AftePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

And this is what the escape from town is like.

>>45799
And shortly after died normally in the open world in an absolutely most pathetic way. Was driving, got rammed by a car patrol, not even those two man trucks with machine gun, normal car with a single dude armed with rusty AK in it. He immediately got out and started shooting me, I didnt even know what was happening, switched to my cars machine gun, too late. Entire thing happened in like two seconds. Still no buddy rescue, so I am dead.
I dont know, this time I got too far to do it all again.

>>45800
average day in post 2012 libya

noticing a lot of "retro" game stuff on youtube, facebook, etc. tends to fall into this trap of just pumping out AI slop (be it through remixes, goonbait, video thumbnails, etc.) I think in part it's the same thought process of "this makes me happy just cause it exists/reminds me of better times" that also creates things like fanart, fangames, remakes, challenge runs, etc. (and if the audience doesn't care about quality, they'll surely click your shitty Suno-genned city pop remixes), partly also that the lower technological/financial requirement for say, playing Mega Man X on an emulator means you reach plenty of people that don't really care about having anti-AI sentiment, partly also that it's very rare to find anyone that cares about games beyond immediate gratification or nostalgia value and will also write or make interesting stuff from them. Also, after 20-30 years, i imagine the "novelty" of genning slop makes them feel like they're sparking light on a thing that is otherwise dead, lol.

I only go on imageboards(bad)
>>45661
and I only watch youtubers who I already know pre-AI(good)
It's the sloppiest of gamer tubers who adopted AI shit

>>45661
It's just really sad to me since this series had such a nice community back in the day. They were out here doing like 3D animations before PSO came out, actual fanart (pic related), fanfiction, it all looks so much more human than what it is now.
Like I can't in good will look at some douchebags praising some AI slop bullshit recreation of the PS2 title screen, which actively takes away from the original art (because AI prompts are specifically coded to draw women a certain way), as anything other than sheer irony.
They literally exemplify everything the original game warned us about, but they can't see that because they literally don't value old games, they only like them BECAUSE they're old. If they came out today they'd probably never even glance at them.

Piracy is a victimless crime and copyright should not exist in the first place, who cares is big tech will lose prophets.

>>45782
It's only a crime the same way jaywalking is a crime. IP laws are nonsense they aren't even consistently enforced or OpenAI wouldn't exist, so "crime" might be too charitative as a description

>>45486
Who the fuck downloads games from tpb? Rutracker, negro.

"Is it bad to pirate games"
No.
"If they are too costly for me"
Two times no.

Any independent developer who can not take the cost of production on the neck made the wrong business decision (speaking from experience). Of course, you should compensate them if you can and feel they deserve it. You do you.

>>38590
Kojima is a fucking legend

Kojima hasn't made a good game since mgs2

Kojima is a pseudo and a proud one at one

Also the board is so dead OP could genuinely be dead by now

>>45773
>Also the board is so dead OP could genuinely be dead by now
True sadly

>>45793
Local posters dont play gaymes.

>>45776
i have played both of the most popular games on luanti and they suck
hytale has had 8 years of financed full-time gamedevs working on it

>>45774
It's on the aur.
There's the zip linked in this json:
https://launcher.hytale.com/version/release/launcher.json
Can't figure out from my browser history how I found this, but that should work.
I ended up resorting to using the flatpak on NixOS though since steam-run wasn't getting the right GTK stuff.
>>45776
Luanti is fun too, but I like hytale for different reasons. It's more of a 3D starbound than a minecraft.

>>45779
>https://launcher.hytale.com/version/release/launcher.json
Thanks you very much for that link, I am on xbps so the AUR is out of the question
I wonder why they don't let linux users whi are quite techy on average download that. I hope they don't remove this json

>>45774
you vill run zhe appimage launcher

anyone wanna make a mod? my team is busy or wants to go each on their own so they don't have to split the prize even if they have lower chances to win it.

>>45759

at this point prostitutes have more freedom than the average vtoober

The concept of the male gaze comes from Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Mulvey's work was based on the psychoanalytic theories of Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Lacan (pseudoscience). You are wasting your time on idpol baizuo garbage.

>>45769
So what specifically is your issue with her essay?

>>45754
This picture is inherently flawed because the only people who watch Gura and her current persona Saba are literal pedophiles who prefer the one on the right. Saba even got in trouble because she pandered to them with an exposed stomach emote and had to remove it after people rightfully pushed back.

>>45771

idk i stay away from vtoobers as much as i can

>>38771
>>38772
I was just thinking how there should be more mecha fighting games
I know there's Cyberbots though I never touched that game

Do you guys use arcade sticks? Thinking of getting a leverless.

>>45742
After my hands started going out from using pad in Tekken, I looked into stick. Every lever stick I used I couldn't get a hang of. Eventually I got a leverless, but its essentially just a mechanical keyboard in a nice layout

>>43719
You can only play as Chinese characters
I was going to include Russians but Zangief worships Gorbachev

>>45742
I moved from stick to leverless and the adjustment period (a few days) was way faster than when I went from controller to stick (like 2 weeks). Leverless just feels like the best of playing on controller and stick to me but ymmv.

I'm pretty fond of enemies in Hytale being able to parry. Like a lot of games have parrying but I rarely see the enemies do it.
They do have a roll animation that's used for evading light fall damage, they could probably make a button to do that as a dodging option.

>>45617
But you cant trust the snakes.

>>45617
there's no good endings in dark souls because miyazaki was in his emo, misanthropic era in dark souls. humanity is an incomplete pile of curse that cant help but be burned to a crisp. the counterpart is the age of stars in elden ring, which is miyazaki in his happy optimist era, and that's like the dark ending if humanity wasn't a pile of misery. the only exception is usurpation of the fire which is humanity steals the fire for themselves, prometheus style.

>>43012
elden ring is not slop bro

>>45635
>for themselves
lol,more like under new management
I'm sure a protag that sacrificed Anri just because som lady gave him promises of great power is a VERY benevolent lord