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  • I just finished playing X3: Terrain Conflict, and I’ll never play another X game.

    As an achievement hunter, I normally play past the point of normal enjoyment, but this game told me, more or less, to go fuck myself.

    The first kick in the nuts was completing “Dead Is Dead” mode.

    You don’t get to save (with the exception of shutting the game down, but the save will delete upon starting it back up).

    The game is prone to crashes, meaning you can have your entire save wiped in an instant because the game decides it doesn’t like it when you use the fast forward function within 10 seconds of a cut scene.

    On top of that, one of the campaigns requires you to set up a massive complex of microchips and silicon, which also has a chance of triggering a crash each time you place a factory down.

    The final 2 achievements are basically “grind until we say stop”. Which functionally resulted in me leaving my computer on overnight, four nights in a row.

    The fact that the devs left the game in this state is inconsiderate at best, and disrespectful at worst.

    Besides, the game is basically just an excel sheet simulator, it really isn’t very engaging.






  • ACKTHUALLY

    My other post gave an answer which made sense.

    I would want to know what moment in the future causes me the most stress, which I don’t need to worry about at all.

    No paradoxes, just convenience.

    Also, I wasn’t saying money making wouldn’t work, only that your future you would cease to exist because you would have changed things.

    If you’re okay with suicide to offer your past self financial advice, then the same should be true of your future self.

    Personally, erasing that timeline seems unacceptable.



  • Everyone here is trying to make a quick buck, without thinking about whether it will work.

    If they change the past, they will cease to exist, unless time is looped, which means nothing would have changed.

    So the past is a dead end, and the future you should know this too, answering you will either make them vanish from existence, or answering you will not change anything.

    If they vanish, there’s no guarantee you’ll be better off, even if you do become rich.







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    I realised all these years later that so many games from my childhood had the issue of “floaty characters”.

    Mario 64 felt so good because you could run at full speed, snap the alalog stick back and jump, and Mario would pivot on a bees dick and launch himself at your face.






  • I wonder how long before someone starts getting offended on behalf of cavemen for the phrase Ooga Booga.

    Seriously though, perhaps RPG’s just aren’t for OP. Some people get enjoyment from taking things slow, learning all the mechanics, and building the most powerful character possible within the limits of the game.

    Many people choose not to cheat in games like this to give yourself max stats because that’s where the fun is, as opposed to a a game like borderlands, where an already maxxed out character can still be challenged with the endgame content which scales to their level.