>>33951
>>33946
Lol your library looks almost identical to mine except for a few things like Ducktales, Farcry, Final Spam, Flatout 2, Arma II and so on, and if you dont count those and combine my wishlist with few games I only haven't got yet because I'm not rich or it got delisted from Steam like Alpha Protocol and it's basically my library.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197973112890/games/?tab=all I may or may not end up killing the post for this but whatever
I nabbed Alan Wake once it got relisted on Steam again. Not sure why they took that off before or why Alpha Protocol got taken down. On 4kanker /v/ when I was checking threads this year or last (those are the only things remotely tolerable about that hellhole is steam summer sale threads) Alpha Protocol was routinely showing up, but it must've been last year because I saw it before and had it wish listed iirc but it got taken down sometime before the summer sale of 2019.

Of course then there are the games I have taken down from my wishlist just out of principle like Age of Mythology and Dragon Age Origins. I refuse to pay for those games or have any of my money at all go towards Activision or EA. I am on a complete boycott of those companies and will only pirate them. The worst part is when I'd see a nice game and get it a few years ago and find out later it is fucking EA. So I haven't played Age of Mythology, Alpha Protocol, or Dragon Age Origins yet partly because I haven't remembered to pirate them and I only have like 1.5tb to work with. More if I finally went ahead and formatted a couple old drives I have hanging around since I'm pretty sure I already backed up anything valuable it's just I cant remember if I have a disassembled laptop somewhere that's fixable or not for them. Hell I should try that.

I wish I had both my own house and free time. Just lots of free time to tinker with shit. Not a big house. Not even a nice house. Just some place where nobody can bother me and I own it so I can do anything I want. I have vidya so I guess it's an okay tradeoff for not being a retarded boomer owning my own house from a bydlo bricklaying job at 19.

>>33953
Wait...ohhh right because I actually wasnt even plugged in to the internet at that time when I was playing and finished Fallout Tactics. Which, wait a minute then why the hell is PoE so long
I could not have POSSIBLY spent more time in that pos game than it says but maybe I did. That is just one campaign and not even counting the DLC which might be part of why I rip on it so much so frequently because of the sheer amount of time I felt like I sunk in that game without getting a whole lot back. It's almost like playing the slot machines or something, where you just keep hoping to get better and it drags on and saps your time and then every once in awhile it does a cool little interesting thing for just long enough to keep your hopes up and keep you playing. God I can't even imagine how much of that is loading screens. I probably have like a solid 20 hours on PoE which is just loading screens. Can you imagine? I'm not even young anymore. I wasted probably three solid full time job shifts worth of my life minimum on doing absolutely nothing but sitting there looking at Pillars of Eternity loading screens. And it isn't even fucking turn based so you can't just walk away and like cook pasta or have a cigarette as you can on XCOM2 thinking about what you're going to do next or savoring a hard won victory speaking of which why the fuck did they change that in WOTC? I liked watching my dudes sit there shifting around their sits on the drop ship. Now I just get that stupid fucking XCOM badge icon and a blank screen while spending almost exactly the same amount of time on loading times, not to mention how they half assed it to try and improve performance so now all transparent surfaces look like pixelated obnoxious dog shit I swore was a bug. Firaxis really makes some great games and XCOM2 is quite possibly the only triple AAA I bought at full price on release period, but man did they fuck that up with WOTC. Probably the only game I'm going to ever actually do that again and grab it when it's not on sale is Wasteland 3, and possibly also Disco Elysium and VTMB2 if my machine has a chance in hell at running it

Anyway I'm rambling and half talking to myself at this point but the point is times are deceptive. I probably have a third of my game time just on pause while I'm walking away doing other stuff, and others I played the hell out of while I was not connected to the internet or not on steam. DEFCON on it's own by god I cannot imagine the sheer volume of time I wasted drinking beer and watching those little pixel dots travel slowly across the screen for a solid half hour because I actually played DEFCON in its real time mode not sped up.

I also am not sure what I'm going to think of Project Highrise. SimTower was one of those games that was really cool as a little kid and plus I didnt manage to connect it to any awful abuse or anything that makes me depressed like some other games did. I just remember getting into it halfway and not actually managing to make properly functioning buildings but man it was a neat little game.

OH. And Deadlock. Boy did I love that game as a kid but I have never ever managed to find something that's truly compatible with newer systems anywhere, not even the GOG version, and Deadlock 2 runs and looks like shit on my 8 year old rig, plus I have mixed feelings about the air and navy enhancements to Deadlock 2.

I really wish more developers could do kinda what Project Highrise and Firaxis was doing, and Beamdog and inXile sadly now a Microsoft subsidiary, which is to take all these amazing or even not great old games and either fix them up to work on newer systems with some fine tuning or to outright reimagine them because quite a few of the games I really like have just been reimaginings of very old games like Wasteland, UFO, Planescape etc and just expanding upon its feel like Master of Orion 2 inspired games minus the furries. I fucking hate that shit in my 4x games. I want aliens not a goddamn bear or cat wearing a coat. Speaking of which did you guys know that not only are they making a Baldur's Gate 3 but also a new System Shock? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVkwfgjnx5k

I mean just imagine it if they remade or reimagined Jedi Knight II Outcast or Academy. Can you imagine it? Because I can and while I can imagine very bad things for it...oh wait fuck never mind I was going to say something hopeful and positive about an even better version of Jedi Knight game being made I just realized that fucking Disney that child molesting terrible company is in charge of it so never mind. Fuck. I wish they would like sell out licenses or something so Disney wasnt in charge or had any say on Star Wars game development at all because all of them, every single one of them without fail from the last many years has been absolutely pure HORSESHIT garbage I can't even fathom it. Going from LucasArts to this was such a sad and terrible thing. But anyway I still like to imagine it'd be cool to have a new Jedi Outcast type game being made in 2020.

>>32639

> Morality System in ME
> had the conversation option written differently than what Shephard said

God, i'm SO with you for this point. I was pissed of by that shit almost from the start of the game, you could only guess what sheperd actually says. O wait, sometimes he even said something entirely different than the thing you picked, alas for me.
And for the moral-stuff, after playing ~10 hours and reading that you MUST choose a side and/or you CANNOT even answer with the other side pissed me off. Heck, i got me a mod where both were at 100% so i could answer how i liked.
What is this shit? If i want to be nice with some npc and want to fuck with another i will do so. But the logic says "nono, you are good/bad, you can't be the other way!

> FNV

You mentioned your way of simply killing almost everything later in game. Funny, was the same expierience for me. At first, i tried to understand the motives for each faction or important person i found and thought about how to handle with em. Later on i just thought fuck, they're all spupid, it's the best otion to clear them from the surface and rule it myself.
Of course, that ended up with a wasteland almost cleaned up from human being, leaving only some minor support habitats. Thinking about it, it's an ending that has some ironical logic itself ;)

>do u like classical music, and if yes, which types?

It's pretty much the only musical tradition I am interested in.

I mostly listen to Baroque, late Romantic, and Modern.

>do you attend live concerts?

Yes.

>with what frequency?

Once every five years or so. I live in a sub-civilized city, which means it's safer to stay home. Next year I hope to move to a civilized one, and then I will certainly attend much more regularly. Ideally, I'd go to a concert every week.

>>33500
In the really old does it actually was true that you could get to loot somebody else's country or citystate in certain times and places. Also in a defensive war like I said total war has existed a lot longer so being invaded by a hostile neighbor really did mean the men would be slaughtered and the women sold into slavery which is the one time it's not needed to lie or manipulate people to fight because it is an existential threat, but typically the ones doing the invading needed to be manipulated.

Also warfare you keep forgetting only steeped breeding disease and pandemics in the last like 80 years thanks to modern medicine. Before that and even as recently as WWI a war meant the civilian population could then enjoy the fruits of a decimating disease killing millions of people although to be fair trade and urbanization had as much if not at times more to do with that and the great bulk of the superstitious and ignorant people probably hadn't fully connected vast movements of people with causing huge disease outbreaks.

Anyone with any sense would not join a war. It is disastrous for the fighting parties involved. The only thing that really benefits you directly in the short term is the same as a pandemic which is so many people can get killed that it frees up jobs and spoils including land that the survivors of the catastrophe can pick over, and that is only if whatever disgusting feudal lord or government allows you to keep it. Otherwise no war is thoroughly stupid and also continually beating back people tends to sink everyone's conditions rather than raising themselves and each other up out of poverty.

Like the Napeolonic wars. What, praytell, did any of the soldiers really benefit from all that? What was even the pointing of freezing to death on the outskirts of Russia? What is the point of starving and dying of typhus in some God forgotten land on the outskirts of a burning village where wolves fuck? Nothing, unless you are already part of that caste and that caste tending to treat it as a "gentleman's game" which is partly why they treating captured enemy officers so well because at the end of the day all these guys were on the same elite team getting the peasants who are their true adversaries tricked into killing each other over nothing.