I'd agree with that. The updated version from the early 90s is the one I played, and it's probably the easiest to find unless you really go looking for the old version.
I still think it counts. It's still the same fundamental Starflight experience.
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Starflight came out in 1986, and if you liked Mass Effect, you should give it a try. IMO it has a deeper and more interesting implementation of the space/planet exploration mechanics, not to mention a solid story to tie it all together.
The UI looks dated, of course, but it's straightforward enough to use. It influenced the Star Control games, another series that holds up (but just barely misses the 1990 cutoff).
Lol, this DLC description:
With the DLC, you will have 50,000 coins in Holy Clash Cards and this coin allows you to open all cards. It also gives you in-game privileges. You receive priority in error reporting
Kind of in awe of the guts to ask people to pay for the privilege of having their bug reports read.
This is tough to answer, because a lot of pirated stuff is literally priceless, i.e., can't be bought at all.
I'd be happy to pay for the recent Ace Combat 5 and 6 upscaled ports, but they were only available briefly with preorders for AC7 on consoles I don't have. They haven't been sold outside of that brief window several years ago. Even if you tracked down unopened copies from 2019 and bought them from third parties, the license codes they contained expired long ago.
Fortunately, the Ace Combat community has put a lot work into making emulation work. The older games are playable, just not in a way you can pay money for.
OpenAI: "Our AI is so powerful it's an existential threat to humanity if we don't solve the alignment issue!"
Also OpenAI: "We can devote maybe 20% of our resources to solving this, tops. We need the rest for parlor tricks and cluttering search results."
I'll preface this by noting that the sin of sloth has traditionally been understood to be a sin of omission, not just commission, i.e., you are insufficiently devoted to the things you ought to be.
Which means you could, in theory, have a (reflavored tiefling) devil paladin so devoted to sloth he works against evil causes. He's not interested in good per se, it's just that advancing the interests of good and traveling with a good adventuring party has the best ROI for failing to carry out his evil responsibilities.
Naturally, this has caused a fair amount of controversy among sloth devils, and there is a multi-century trial going on in the Hells about whether this ought to be allowed. This is not expected to be resolved in the foreseeable future because the advocates for both parties keep filing their responses well after petition deadlines expire.
Hey, kraken live a long time. Maybe it picked up heirophant levels back in the 3.5 days.