Nearly beat it, not a great game 5/10.

The environments are nice and fun to explore.

Story is mediocre. Dialog is tiresome, I started button spamming to get through a lot of the conversations that didn’t matter. Combat is nothing remarkable, no matter the weapon combos, and the enemies are just damage sponges with no real tactics necessary to defeat a given enemy. Magic is kind of cool but you have to really spec into mage to get there. The immersion is about as deep as a puddle on flat concrete.

It is one of the games of all time, a game you could not play and miss out on nothing.

Edit: Just beat it, terrible ending that feels like it was tacked on last minute to provide some sort of conclusion.

In the antenna days, sure, but cable and satellite sure weren’t free.

The reality is there aren’t enough people that care about ads to do that.

You either grew up with TV commercials or you grew up with ads, the conditioning is already there. There is a narrow band of people who don’t watch much or any TV and got on the internet for most content that remember when ads weren’t a thing. They have done studies and reviewed user data to determine how much ads they can play.

They might push users to leave by tickling the ad tolerance while increasing subscription fees, but that is unlikely to happen as the frog is already boiled.

Not the best example to make a valid point about the US stopping illegal immigration, as the Statue of Liberty welcomed immigrants going to a legal port of entry.

Also 1883 was one year after they passed laws banning Chinese immigrants(After they built all the railroads) for 10 years(was extended) and implemented a tax of 50 cents($15.47 today) to all immigrants.