Hey, I went back and played both NWN and NWN2 base campaigns. I don’t care. But others will emit a never ending keening wail and possibly break their own bank accounts on it.

Sure, but even with all that, what are the odds? Given the amount of “dated engine” and such in review commentary.

There’s so much it’s hard to keep track but wasn’t there already a recent story about a trans person who was iirc knocked down, pulled their gun, and was then charged with brandishing or something similar?

That game was such a bleached out, thin piece of repetitive garbage. Every character, and their dialogue, was about as deep as a guard NPC in Skyrim.

Season 8 of GoT had better production value.

ME manages to incorporate just about every SciFi trope in a good way, have punchy dialogue and characters, offer chills at some points, and have a great overarching plot. More importantly, they give it an ending.

BioWare really fucked themselves with that EA deal. I don’t see them saving themselves like Amplitude did. I suppose there’s DDO, it’s still around, love of D&D being what it is within D&D communities The devs made a deal with Warner Brothers and now it’s Standing Stone, but how often has that happened? Mostly, studios just die.

I grew up with a card catalog and had Netscape navigator at college right out of high school. Stellar graphics are great, preferred, but not necessary. Would I care if graphics/engine quality went back to Dragon age origins or II? Mass effect the original? Even FO:NV? No. But I want the story level, complexity, and total game time to be triple digits when being completionist about it. Witcher 3 is lovely but it’s the quality of darkness in it that makes it so compelling.

Even without the hardware limitations, good, immersive stories that keep you as involved as GoT before the writers stopped writing are already in short supply.

I’m presently replaying the Dishonored games. There’s only so much of that a person can do. Games worth the time sink are already in short supply.

Candy crush and similar bullshit can’t replace good games.

Well, there goes the last remnant of possibility for a dragon age or mass effect revival.

Replaying Dishonored 2, still mad about Arkane.

It’s like the long game is to kill gaming from two directions. Game Studio deaths and making PC components unaffordable for working class.

Step 1: close dara centers.

It’s vandalism. It’s property damage. It’s rude as fuck. But it’s not terrorism. Trying Americans for protests calling it terrorism is a form of terrorism.

Sure, but with cost of shipping, most online estate sales are limited to the radius of local pickup, minus the very rich.

True, every market is different. Makes sense to me every time I’m outbid.

Free and clear music added to your personal digital library. Resell the CD. Or keep it.

I bought a record player that digitizes, on estate auction, for $5. You can do the same with LPs. But it’s “cool” to hold onto those.

Country doesn’t sell. Or if it does, whole boxes go for a single digit.

I shop estate auctions. DVD/Blu-ray lots and the players always bid up I’m little bidding wars. Boxes of music CDs that are not classical or country get bid up pretty high. And vinyl that is not classical or country goes through the roof. Granted, that last one appears to be a popular wall ornament with the mid-generations.