Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191209155242

Been quite slow on the Alicesoft front (except lurking the /VG/ general), which does include this. No new items to make articles on either, prefer to have them in some form so I can double check. It'll take quite a change for it to happen. Technically the whole Soviet Union thing was supposed to do this, but like most coups it replaced one totalitarian empire with a totalitarian socialist state. Atleast they used camps, but not for the rich. Ultimately someone will pocket the most power in a rebellion and they'll probably come out on top. Very little people will stick to their morals if a cushy life will be very possible. Hell most African dictators just flee to some other country and live peacefully.

I'd probably remain calm if I wouldn't have to deal with the same person all the time, that does get tiring. Especially if they don't just learn. The stress would kill me though.

Plenty of people also use the argument of "all my games in the same place" when someone mentions another client. It's all the same shit, but them having to open a different application to play a game is too much already. Nevermind the fact that we had all of them just directly installed on my PC. Shame that most modern moddable games use steam exclusively as it's repository for mods. Atleast the mods aren't DRM'd, yet. I'm not sure if they knew what they were doing back then either. Most weird games I've seen that don't work are Japanese. At this point I think the most technically competent "classic" devs were Europeans, shame most of them made essentially tech demos and they died around the early 2000s. The Japanese did "basic" games better, but they fit consoles better (I'd probably say JRPGs fit on consoles more as well). I need to play more old North American games before I can judge those, the only series I've played that could qualify are Wizardry, Ultima and the Age of Empires series. Plenty of loose games, but most were "modern" (post 2000s). I'm sure the Japanese have done some cool shit, but their PC libraries are a bit inaccesible due to the language barrier. The few older PC games I've played were pretty primitive. The Ys series was fun, but I wouldn't call the early games complex. Ultimately fun is good though, no need to innovate for no reason. Bit of a tangent. Haven't had a chance with them yet, but I haven't heard many bad things about them. Considering I browse /v/ that should be good enough as all they do talk shit about games IF they manage to discuss games. I'd think GOG would need more success though to be able to pull them in, I think most people still just see it as a place for old games. They also seem to focus more on their own launcher/steamlike program. Haven't bough in a while, so still don't know what's changed. Apparently GOG supports Ideal (Dutch local e-payment solution), though you have to switch to prices to euro for it to appear. Don't they support giropay/Sofort in a similar manner? Though you'll probably have to activate E-banking, which you said you didn't do if I remember right. Mostly seems that "average people" go for "smaller" auctioneering sites like Marktplaats for us. Ebay is generally seen as (small) business, though I've dealt with plenty of people just selling their stuff. The barrier of entry is probably slightly higher as with Markplaats you don't even need to add a bank account. People either pay in cash or send a payment request. Ofcourse it's more fraud sensitive as well.

Most of the complaints seem polish issues, TADA admitted to wanting to do too much with the game and having to drastically reduce it. Can't have been good for the core mechanics if they were changed as well. Either way, playing it is the best option if you are interested. Voice acting does seem to be a big deal to their market though, I can imagine that's expensive as most of the games are rather text heavy, being VNs and all. Hell, one of Alicesoft's mid/late 90s game dropped seems to have dropped CD audio for MIDI just so they could have voice acting in it. I do agree on the voices, you can just look at a character most of the time and guess their voice. Even voices didn't escape the archetyping in Japan. I'm sure most otaku care more about the looks than the voice though, among other things. I generally see people speak about how characters should have a specific voice actor if it ever gets voiced. Says enough that a VA gets seen as a specific voice. That's my biggest problem, which I guess is basically the tangent I went on summarised. The changes they make are very limited and when I play through series huge gameplay changes generally come with either: 1) a reboot of a series or 2) A different game developer or 3) spin-offs. Obviously changes don't have to be genre changing, but they do play it really safe. It's kind of the reason I also play (and generally look forward to) spin-offs these days, it's different. I probably wouldn't have done so 10 years ago.

It's not like I'm particularly into it, at this point the fireworks are the worst for me. Especially since they seem to start earlier every year. With us it's basically just the children of my parents (and their kids), we already have the grandma/pa sundays so it's basically the same. It helps that we all live in the same region and that we are on good terms. New years are separate though, I like my family but long meetings twice a month are fine ;) More so that the archiver also dumps it online, but no one knows who did it. saves issues. I'm pretty sure your case was some 90s Windows/mac game dumper, shame they pissed the guy off. If they just collected longer and waited or dripfed to make it seem like it's not related we'd have had more. Especially since those PC games are kind of neglected to begin with, being Japanese and of the Win 9X era. Hard to emulate and read and the hardware is getting slightly harder to find as well. Pretty sure the guy stopped dumping, but I only saw the rumours float by.