Not familiar with DA: Origins, but being as old of a game and the first from the company (afaik) with such a function, you may notice every once in a while the limits of it. Still, having to cycle between gambits, battle speed and active/wait modes, it gives quite an unique spin on real time strategy. But that if either you are exploring earliest, doing powerleveling, or hunting optional bosses. Usually gambits carry you through most of a normal playthrough if you’re smart about them.

Using what I know of the original version and the little I know that changes in this one, doing some slight powerlevelling in Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age.

Still, a bit annoying you can no longer get phoenix downs from Lohen in the Westersand, and best ways now are either a chest in the far corner of the first area of the Estersand, or the rarest drops and steals from an enemy that isn’t easy to chain, the cockatrices.

Also glad now FFXII TZA allows resetting jobs. With how long the game can be, making a permanent mistake early on could be… tilting.

I’d need to check how long the validation lasts, since it may be well be like emulated PS1 games from the PSN (“PSOne Classics”) and Steam’s offline mode, both that take a few years to reset, but neither permanent.

But about people complaining, they usually do so only for problems that are obvious to them. And the obvious is usually immediate.

And if it takes a few months/years to expire, I’d say it is not ethical, but pretty vile, as then people will not notice the problem at first, and when they do, they may no longer access their contents.

And considering people that forgot to upgrade their original Mojang accounts, or didn’t have access to the needed tools while the change to Microsoft accounts happened, there is a precedent for Minecraft validation methods to not become available any longer.

Also, from my experience with Windows Vista, where even though I have an actually original key for it, if I try to install Vista nowadays and try to connect it to the internet, it will lock the whole system from my access on the next start-up, I’d imagine because it can’t reach the validation servers. So I’ve seen first hand how Microsoft’s preservation goes over several years. And since Minecraft may also be used online due to multiplayer, checks may still happen, and being nowadays also a Microsoft product, it may suffer from the same vices of origin.

Login to access the contents afaik is still DRM, even if it takes more steps.

There’s a saying in my mother language that goes like “if you lower yourself too much, your underwear starts appearing”.

Afaik, the Java version is only accessible with an account, 3rd party launchers potentially being considered cracking means. Bedrock version is tied to its platforms’ DRMs, like Win10’s Microsoft Store validation and a hard-to-access folder which changing permissions is a nightmare, and Google Play Services’ validation on Android.

As for console versions, major consoles have DRM to their games by default, with a case like PS Vita games even requiring the user to create a dummy validation file by launching the game once to be able to use backups (also iirc all Vita cartridges have a self-explanatory gro0:/DRM/ folder). And as for cartridge overall, be them Nintendo’s, Sony’s, etc., being hard to access their contents due to using non-standard could be considered DRM, and some cases formally considering as in the DMCA.

So sounds to me like it has DRM in most versions, yeah.

Or he could be a crypt’s necrodancer.

Starbound and Terraria come to mind. Also Planet Centauri and maybe Stardew Valley.

Also Minecraft if a DRM-free version other than the Pi Edition (which is abandoned) ever comes.

Ah, another game that comes to mind: Persona 3 FES

Dunno how not liked it is, but I always see people getting scared away because of the difficulty, and that trying to convince people to play that version for the good part of a decade now.

But just saying, learning the ins and outs of the game makes it far more manageable, and even gets mechanics of P4G and Persona 5 to make sense.

Also, pinning a god-like being to the ground for ~50 turns thanks to Thunder Reign and making another god-like being slap itself to death thanks to Marakarn and Tetrakarn, both due to exploiting mechanics to my benefit, were certainly high points of the game. =D

Even Mitsuru was useful for a single battle in my whole 170h save because of having to exploit the game’s mechanics

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(“burn by bread” reference)

Arcane Labyrinth is fantastic. Adds much to the game, both in lore (which the base game barely has so it needed) and in challenge. 👌

NES FFII.

Final Fantasy II, though from what I talked with people, it suffers more from bad reputation than people actively playing it and not liking.

Oh, boy

Favorite gameplay genre of mine probably =D

Someone I follow would say, and paraphrasing because I don’t have photographic memory, if you keep looking downwards, you may say with confidence that you are in soil and that it doesn’t end because that’s what you see, but someone else looking forward is able to see where both are going. (Diogo Forjaz the guy I am paraphrasing)

But to reach a decent outcome, one actively needs to raise his/her head and seek the best path visible.

And these I’d say are problems being built up for at least a century, but knowing the problem being the first step to change it, awareness has never been higher, the reversion taking off in only 20~30 years.

But to those that benefit from these problems, they are likely setting up so once one agenda falls, they have a new agenda they parasite. And the next one apparently is already taking form, which is still somewhat nebulous to me, but with some patterns already taking form.

One pattern is old actually, to make people have an immediate and panicked reaction to a new problem each week. So first, the better course of actions is to calm down, evaluate how bad things really are and not how they seem to be, evaluate what would be a good outcome (and if you aren’t defending a problematic outcome without knowing), and evaluate how to get to such a good outcome.

Played up to Metal Slug 5 from the franchise (incl. Metal Slug X), and all were pretty good, specially if playing with a friend. Also all of those you can find digitally officially nowadays.

Other than those, only played The King of Fighters 2002, which was fine.

Even commercial, service-based LLMs demand a great effort of quality control, with their hallucinations and all. With local ones being mid in comparison from my experience, my suggestion would be that if your company does try implementing any, they should make sure to at least pay a nice extra to the QA folks.

“That’s a nice claim, senator, but why don’t you back it up with a source?”

“The source is that I made it the fuck up!”

(From Max0r’s parody of Metal Gear Revengeance)

About batteries, check if any from other devices, like phones and the sort, match the output yours has.

Idk if you’re being intentionally awkward/making things awkward for everyone, specially considering the other post, but please, first, read the rules, and second, take your lust thoughts to fedinsfw.app or some community akin to “Off My Chest” or “Mental Health”, or go seek a local help center.

Mystic Quest for the SFC with the intent of finishing it before the 31st!

From the little I played of it previously, it seemed fine, far from what people complain about it, specially if thinking “it’s a kid’s JRPG”. Also been partaking in the [email protected] challenge, and this month’s been specially long for me.