Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2EEC:3508:12B2:7608:C87C-20190928070909

That's not just the case at Buyee. The one I used before, it often took a week for it to be marked as "arrived". Yeah, I saw that. Always use Buyee to see whether some adult VNs are being sold on YA. Also, a friend of mine apparently also ordered something there because of the free shipping.

I know that feeling, happens with other genres or even media as well. After finishing Warcraft, I immediately started the sequel and now I haven't played it in a few months. At least I don't have an issue with grinding, it's more about playing something same/similar right afterwards. Another disadvantage is that they are old games. If they would be released today and people would be playing them and talking about them, there would likely be more motivation behind it. That's a modern issue too. Apart from the mainstream titles, you are often playing "alone". Back in the day, my friends and I would at least play some games at the same time. Yep, the version should be complete, although I haven't compared it to the book or accompanying .pdf. The intention was to not offer the free version as long as there are books left. So I guess maybe they have all sold out now? Pff, weak. If it freezes, don't you have the people paid by the county to unfreeze it? It definitely happens here with main and mid-size streets.

Don't think I have ever heard that term before but I guess it exactly describes what it is. Well, they could separate those drivers. Like 50 in a Rally. In general, one could also do it in a more professional way and have a league and then give people the exact time when they are supposed to start racing. Hehe. I'm one of the people that like the levelling aspect of MMOs and also optimizing dungeon runs. However, once I've mastered the game pretty much and reached max level, I just lack motivation. Also never found the social construct to keep me in the game. While I have been in guilds and also voice chats before, I'm more of a solo player. Talking about grinding though, it's what I like in JRPGs. Either you play as intended and fight difficult battles throughout the game or you just grind and overlevel your characters, making the game easy. You have the choice and I like that. (Of course, people whining that you _have_ to grind, they don't really understand the game and don't want the original challenge.)

Wow. $600 is a bit high for a module. What was their targeted group millionaires and high earners?

Yeah, I wondered a bit about the MIDI part but then thought maybe he was somehow involved in that as well. To be fair, I really like MIDI music and I actually have some thousands files of old VGM on my HDD (mostly from Japanese PCs but also arcades and more modern consoles). So who cares about extravagant sound? Simple works a lot of the time (see Mega Man II for instance). RTS were my jam back in the day until I switched to FPS in like 2004 or 2005 and then also added MMOs in 2006. And yes, it's why I mentioned in some other posts that they should make a game "hard" but offer cheats for people. That way, everyone is served. But nope, they want to sell cheats instead and water it down for the lowest common denominator. Wasn't Empire Earth II already not good though? I remember seeing it at a friend's and we were definitely disappointed. Same with other RTS games. Age of Empires III was meh, Cossacks II was meh. C&C3: Tiberium Wars was meh (though, apparently some people liked it). Were they? I played World of Tanks for a while and people were generally ok. Too bad Wargaming.net screwed me over. Around 2-3 weeks after I made the jump and bought a yearly premium account, they messed up the servers which made it completely unplayable for me. I provided them everything they needed (Pingplotter log, DXDiag etc) and they basically said: "Screw you". After I filed a dispute on Paypal, they threatened to delete my account. Unfortunately, I didn't go through with it. After all, I wasn't able to play it again and also had a heavy dislike of the company now. Meh.

Absolutely. The gaming industry telling the youth that it's the norm is really bad. Tons of really bad practices are already accepted and the gaming community either never pushed back at all or eventually gave up because publishers tried again and again and again. Also, people are inconsequent as hell. If some publisher does something awful, I just won't buy the game, ever. However, a lot of people whine but still buy it in the end. Total lack of self-control. Haha. So you never played 1 and 2? Those are really different from the later games, no RTS elements and it's pretty relaxing to play. Hours will run past you like nothing. Everything after IV I didn't even bother looking at to be honest. I think I saw V on TV but didn't pay much attention. What looks too crisp? For me it's just about the resolution because in SVGA, you see a lot of the map which I can't really get used to. VGA is way closer to the action and it's nice to see all the pixel from close up. Also, fullscreen all the way. I only play handheld emulators in windowed mode. I'm not even sure what I select but then again, GOG's games have something pre-selected and I only played Siedler which isn't sold there. Need to instill the interest in retro games in the youth somehow. The Youtubers etc that they watch don't really play that at all though. Imagine that PewDiePie guy playing some old Ultima game. That would certainly drive up interest and some people may stick with it. And yeah, I've seen the Gamecube or PS2 being called "retro" even.

Gah, don't remind me of old software. Damn Korean websites and their need for the Silverlight plugin...which was still a thing just some years ago. Maybe it still is but I don't really check out their websites anymore. And that's not even old but it still bothered me. Ideally, you have some virtual PC with Windows 98 or something and browse the web that way, with everything needed installed.