Save your game first though.

Ending ◬ (white up pointing triangle with dot) came from the 3C3C1D DLC. You likely played the Game of the Yorha edition of the game which had the DLC included.

The true ending though…

The lyrics are designed to evoke a feeling, but not confuse the player with actual lyrics they might understand (especially if the song is playing while characters are talking in-game).

To do this, the songwriter just created nonsense words that made the sound they wanted, and later on called it Chaos Language. That way they only had to record the song once for all localizations. Its not a real language though, because it doesn’t have any grammar rules or anything.

They did sing some songs in multiple real languages though, which typically play during the end credits.

Highly dependant on the game and the content.

NieR Automata has you get 5 endings and see the credits roll at least twice in order to actually get all of the story, and the content is actually very different. Like the credits rolling isnt treated as the end of the game, just a way to break up the pacing.

But if the game is highly repetitive, extremely linear, and exactly the same on subsequent playthroughs? Nah.

I don’t consider them tedious, but I generally dont end up doing all the side content, I just played the game and occasionally did the side quests between main story quests, so I wouldn’t be able to give you a good assessment on that.

For whatever reason eBay prices on the game have spiked dramatically, but you used to be able to get the game disk for Xbox 360 for like, $10. Its backwards compatible.

You could also just download and emulate the PS3 copy of NieR Gestalt for free if you are concerned about not liking it and buy the game later if you do.

Automata was good, but I found myself enjoying NieR (Gestalt, not Replicant) way more. Its older and less refined, but the story was more captivating, and I found the father a more charming character.

Now listen up! Back in my day, we didn’t have fancy allowance money! We had siblings. Two siblings and a single income for the entire family! And we had to share the single income! You should consider yourself very lucky children!

I get this is supposed to be satire, but do what you want. I don’t control you. But you are responsible for what you choose to do (or not do). Childcare is a big responsibility, and if you can’t handle it, at the very least be responsible enough to realize that and not subject potential children to mistreatment.

Its pretty easy to not have kids. It does take self-control, though.

I would like to point out that there are deadbeat moms as well. It’s not exclusively a dad thing, its more a “deadbeat parent” thing. Unfortunately.

Its hard to argue with Russian Tim Curry. He was such a fun pick for that role.

I liked it more. Red Alert 2 was good but I just prefer Generals Zero Hour.

RA2 isnt bad, I just wanted to really limit the list to not repeat a bunch of games from the same series if they werent equally as good IMO (which is why Danganronpa 2 is the only one in its series, for example). I just had more fun with Generals Zero Hour.

Here is my Quality Slop list (I only like them because they are good):

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Metal Gear Solid
• NieR Gestalt
• Test Drive Unlimited 2
• Halo Combat Evolved
• Dark Souls
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• Half-Life: Opposing Force
• Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
• Silent Hill 2 (the original, not the remake)
• Super Metroid
• Need for Speed Underground 2
• Shenmue 1, 2, and 3 (Shenmue 3 is probably the worst game on this list, but its still pretty good regardless)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2
• Age of Empires II
• Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
• Policenauts
• Panzer Dragoon Orta

Each of these have contributed to my high bar of expected quality for games. Most of these games were made on a very tight budget and schedule, with pretty harsh hardware limitations, usually with a small team of less than 100 people, and are the greatest games of all time. Modern game studios have no excuses for the awful quality they launch games in today with more time, money, more people on the dev team, and lack of hardware limitations.

I have two.

A 1981 JVC 5" radio TV, and a Sylvania 27" with builtin VHS+DVD combo.

Okay wait, why the DLSS 5 AI kinda cooking with those casting picks though??

As a Shenmue fan, and even one that liked Shenmue III, I would absolutely play that.

No, the problem is the people. All the people. Even if you take away business and money, which isn’t realistic, you still have to deal with the fact that humans are awful to each other, especially when they have power over each other. Government rulers throughout history have been horrible to their subjects just for the love of the game, sometimes they didn’t even get anything out of it. They just wanted others to suffer.

Look at Reddit, or even here on Lemmy, honestly. Is every moderator and admin some magnanimous and benevolent person? No, of course not. Moderators have a bit of a reputation for being horrendously corrupt power trippers, right? Do they get paid to be that way? Sure, some, but even without that they would likely act the same regardless. And I am a moderator here on Lemmy saying this.

There are not enough “nice” people in the world for a human government to ever work the way you suggest. And even if there were, there is no guarantee that they would always be that way. All it takes is one person criticizing people with authority, one person suggesting something those with authority don’t like, etc. No human government ever started from purely bad intentions. But the bad was baked in from before the start, it is unavoidable.

I am considering Tainted Grail, I have heard good things about it. Also looking forward to Screamer and seeing how that is.

Screamer wont be on sale most likely, but Tainted Grail might be. If its less than $30 USD I will probably get it.

Not just the US government. All government. Literally all of them. Not a single human government has ever existed in the history of humanity that wasn’t the villain of the story.

I am not an anarchist, governments provide useful services and protections for their citizens. But lets not fool ourselves into thinking that any government is better than another, they are all bad equally, just in different ways.

If the game is good and I can afford it, yeah

Does the game have a cash item shop? Will they be removing that? I can understand if they are removing a cash item shop or something, that is technically a trade of that revenue for subscription revenue. A little late to the subscription party though, people are wisening up to the fact they end up paying more on subscriptions.

I am not unreasonable though. Nobody ever likes price increases but from the perspective of the business price increases are sometimes necessary to keep up with inflation and cover server costs, etc. I dont know Jagex’s business and financials enough to know if this is necessary for the game to stay online or if it is just greed.