Hey everyone I am creating a temporary containment thread for all posts related to the WB video game releasing this week.
All posts after this one will be removed, consider donating to aid groups for the earthquake.
Here is a pretty exhaustive list that hasn't really been researched in depth or vetted, please let me know if there are any terrible links and I'll remove them
LINKS
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https://www.heyvasor.com/en/
https://www.akut.org.tr/en/donation
https://konusmamizgerek.org/en/we-need-to-talk/
https://ahbap.org/
https://www.ted.org.tr/ulkemizin-basi-sagolsun/
https://www.rescue.org/
https://dona.unhcr.it/campagna/emergenza-terremoto-turchia-e-siria/
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ST5BWWFB7FPGS
https://www.msf.org/
https://sharethemeal.org/campaigns/earthquake1?adjust_t=g22otdx&hl=en-US
https://www.sams-usa.net/donate/
https://www.unicefusa.org/
https://www.projecthope.org/
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/turkey-earthquake-relief-fund/
https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/turkey-syria-earthquake/
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/what-we-do/emergency-response/turkey-syria-earthquake
https://ihh.org.tr/en/gecmis-olsun-turkiye
https://www.kizilay.org.tr/Bagis/BagisYap/404/pazarcik-depremi-bagisi
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What a problematic favorite of mine that is. You play hired mercenaries fighting to restore the "legitimate" monarch of an impoverished country... but it's like an 80s action movie done as an RPG. :sicko-pig:
Tbh I forgot everything about the story. I mostly played Unfinished Business and most of what I remember is the 90s-ass computer and the shitty gun most of the mercs start with that can't hit anything more than 10 ft away and how nice it feels to get rid of it.
It's too bad that Unfinished Business got rid of the open ended strategic part of the original Jagged Alliance 2. It was fun to plan how to approach the Queen's fortress, which towns to take, which logistics conveniences were worth the risk of securing (from a helicopter to an ice cream truck), and even a weird "sci fi" toggle mode I avoided that involved Aliens-style creatures coming out from underground tunnels that were just extra stress and a waste of ammo.
I actually kinda liked that it didn't have that. For whatever reason Unfinished Business was my introduction to the game and when I tried the base game I found it kinda... disorienting? Without the open-ended strategic element, I felt like you really had to manage resources carefully and think creatively about how to solve problems with the tools you had instead of just building up strength and going in super well equipped. But like I said I didn't play much of the base game so I can't really judge it and I think I'd have experienced it differently if I hadn't started with the assumptions in Unfinished Business.
I just pretend like the "legitimate" monarch is actually Lenin. :lenin-disguise:
Although Fidel might be more apropriate. :fidel-bat:
It's such a cool game. All the mercenaries have backstories and a lot of them are mixed in with each other. You can hire a divorced couple who hate each other and it'll be a problem if you try to deploy them together. Some people won't work with others, some people will only work with specific friends, some people will leave if a friend dies or you commit specific actions they don't like. It was such a neat system with a lot of depth and made the game fun and repayable. Losing a mercenary was never just an "oh well time to grab a new character" because they all had distinct personalities, skills, and relationships. When somoene died they were gone and you wouldn't get that indvidual back.
I was also a Wizardry 8 enjoyer, so when I heard Magic's voice as Saxx in that game, I wished that Saxx would stick around and be as awesome as Magic was in JA2. :sicko-wistful: