They already gave this one out but I thought I'd post anyway, I haven't played much of 6 but loved 5 when I was younger. 6 is a pita to pirate as well iirc.

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Just curious if/how anyone handles playing FPSes on consoles. My first FPS games would have been GoldenEye and Turok games on N64, which have okay-to-awkward control schemes. Turok's basically the southpaw WASD + joystick aiming, which isn't too bad. Then probably played Halo 1/2 on a friend's XBOX and later COD4 on PS3/360, so I didn't really have any opportunity to use KB+M ever until I pirated Half-Life years later, which I think I was even using the trackpad, not even a mouse with it. Although I started PC gaming after that and lost my abilities by a large margin. Really prefer KB+M but I put some thumbstick extenders on my controller(s) right sticks and that helps a lot. I notice how much gamers bristle at learning new control schemes. Only thing I really don't like is mouse games like RTS on controller. Also don't get why '90s consoles frequently had mouse accessories and support while later consoles seemed to do away with them when FPS and RTSes got even more popular if anything.

I found this Piranha FX mouse controller thing for PS3 for really cheap at a game store and decided to try it out and it's neat. It converts controller inputs to a mouse with a left-handed half-controller thing.

I feel like I'm reasonably good at picking at a game on the gameplay level, as per what works and does not and why and surface videogame essayist stuff like ludonarrative dissonance (or the rare examples of ludonarrative harmony).

I may offer you my finest insight into video games such as "Lara Croft has some sort of father complex going on" and "Shadow of Chernobyl is unintentionally about life in the collapse of the soviet union" which even by my own admission feels shallow and trite. You watch someone like Jacob Geller or Noah Caldwell-Gervais and they have fascinating things to say even on games you wouldn't expect it, like NCG on Quake.

How do I become that knowledgeable? Interesting? Analytical? about video games?

Most cards are here, some real bangers in there. Some really dated cards too, like Imelda Marcos. Some are still current today. Some great meme material if anyone wants to go mining. https://archive.org/details/illuminati_card_game/

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