Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20190930013409

Probably just cheaper and a more recognizable brand on the GB's part. Would've helped if they didn't make such odd decisions, launching the Saturn early ruined early sales and no "real" Sonic game meant there was no mascot game for sale. GBA games can be good, sadly they always look too bright (emulated or DS) or if you use an unmodded GBA, you can't see much. This is very noticable when you play any ports. The shovelware started slowly dripping in though. Again racing games can be interesting. the GBA had a surprisingly "large" european dev base and they made some interesting stuff. I recently checked out Drome Racers and V-rally 3, I much prefer that GBA racing style as opposed to the Mario kart clones. I always though that my limited IT knowledge would become common at some point, I didn't quite expect people to succesfully use things they don't know quite how to use. I expected them to atleast be superuser level after using technology for their entire life, but I guess you do need to be interested in it.

It printed a shitload of money for a failure though. Generally the people which had ones over here might buy some of the big releases and for the first few years maybe use them at parties. The PS2 just kicked the shit out of everything. It didn't help the Gamecube could only be used for games. The XBOX and PS2 had the bonus "gimmick" of DVDs and music CDs being playable, not that I ever used it much. Did put some music CDs on my XBOX though, a few games allowed for custom playlists. It might not've helped the XBOX a lot, but I heard the DVD excuse did convince quite a few parents to get a PS2. True enough. I'd still like demos to come back though, even if they might be a bit misleading. It's not as bad as the phone game and browser game ads these days, they just straight up lie. Wasn't it always like that with some genres? RPGs were everywhere in the west (80's had too much) and east (still too many now). It's what makes money. However slay the spire (which doesn't have microtransactions?) is more comparable in that sense to a roguelike, roguelikes themselves might have a completion state but replayability is the point. Not that I'd call it a roguelike mind, but that genre's definition is a mystery to most (me as well). Yeah, but i'd say the amount you hear it is important. I can clearly remember No One Lives Forever 2's soundtrack and that's mostly a backing type track of the locale you are in. Good stuff though. Same with MM2, It's been used in so many retro game videos and streams. I'm used to it, Dragon Slayer 1 by Falcom wasn't exactly a masterpiece either. That had the excuse of being made by a small budding Japanese developer in 1984 though.

Was the polar opposite over here, in fact can't really imagine it. Even know most of them stick to phone games. I'm not sure if physical would work in most places, most people I see online already have this mindset of "I want all my games in one place". That place being steam. It would be nice, but we might get Japanese prices for new releases and I'm not sure if people want to pay that much. The few physical buyers I know tend to wait for prices to drop, that won't work with limited runs though. There's a reason why I'm very careful when buying from e-bay. You can see something priced for $5 but you'll have to pay $101 dollars shipping. The shipping can be similar to UK prices though, like €15-20? I'd say that's fair enough for a package coming from America. The tech should be fine, but I wonder if they can keep it affordable enough. The porn industry might play a nice enough role, but porn games are still considered a bit taboo. That'll take a few years before people would be fine with that. I think many people want Stadia to fail, but even more people don't care or actually want a "Netflix for games". I can see it being succesful, sadly. Not this time around, but maybe the next attempt when they've worked out the kinks and manage to provide decently to countries with worse internet infrastructure.

It's not just Apple anymore, brand worship in general has gone out of control. It's like they need a side to pick in everything. That's what most people hated, paying attention. He shells were the norm when I played. AP for arty kind of faded away as HE did plenty of reliable damage to most.

They'd probably go for what sells the best and frankly vicky 3 would do the worst. Most people are far more into CK2 or EU4 and I guess HOI4, but that's relatively new. Probably have to get some streamers to play, that's the main way of getting exposure these days as much as I dislike it. Problem is, what big streamers play RPGs, let alone tactical combat ones? Custom engine kind of started to die out since the mid 90's, remember starting to see lots of extra credits for middleware and 3D engines used at the time (and the usual sound systems). It's probably a case of it being cheaper not to reinvent the wheel. COD has been running on their old engine for a long time, just opting to upgrade instead of develop a new one. It's not like Activision-Blizzard is lacking money to sponsor it.

I'm more worried that these are PCs used by companies which don't want to upgrade because it's cheaper. It's still useful for 16-bit applications though. technically Vista as well, but that one is a bit less reliable. I guess it just doesn't matter these days, either you opt-in to a company's botnet or your old vulnerable PC gets infected by one. Hard to pick one, not sure which one is safer for me.