Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20190928110039

Guess coupons do work in getting customers, would've probably grabbed another book if I knew it included free shipping instead of just 50% off. Too late now, wouldn't arrive in time.

Yeah, that's why it's nice for me if a series has lots of very different spin-offs (or main games). Gives that variety. Though going through the Mario (technically DK, the arcade game came first) series is really testing the limits of that idea, that series is nearly entirely spin-offs. Doesn't help that most retro communities are more interested in the popular stuff or just buying than playing, either that or forum/subreddit is very slow. Probably, I didn't check the main website, but they should have copies on Amazon available, maybe a change of plan? Oh sure, even the B-roads and paths for cyclists. I meant more that the weather is below zero Or close to it. Busses will be packed as well. It's not that surprising though, these days I see people put on winter gloves when it gets below 10 degrees. Can't imagine people like that walking around when it's freezing.

I don't think the term is that new, but obviously simcades prefer to be called sims so you won't hear it that often. The idea of the leaderboard runs is that they setup a rally or a stage everyone can run, just a worldwide time attack so separating that wouldn't work. It would be cool for a pro league, but racing e-sport likes to stick to sim games. So probably won't have a real league with it yet, maybe if WRC starts sponsoring e-sports like football leagues and the F1 did. I played a few MMOs (mainly EQ2 and a few newcomers) as well and it's when I learned that I much more prefer the world around the MMO than the game itself, sadly I joined in late and the mindset changed already. Very competitive with raids and even just when you did an unimportant group dungeon run, maybe I should've gone for ultima online. Yeah, JRPGs are generally seen as having a simple battle system. However in many of the "simple" ones I've played it's generally the way skills and equipment are handled which add to the complexity. There's a pretty legendary thread of someone bitching about how they can't beat a boss in FF6, turns out they didn't really bother with equipping (didn't even carry enough armor) or properly levelling and the battle got nearly impossible. A few people who asked for his save managed to do so though, barely. The grind this was the OP's original complaint obviously.

Probably, keep in mind that most of those "multimedia entertainment systems" were for a higher class. The CD-I and CDTV were $1000 and they were the "cheap" variants. Just checking the library for CD-I games and you see quite a few art gallery and yearly news summary "games".

It can sound great. I recently discovered C64 (and by extension Amiga) chiptunes, not really growing up with any of those two (just an IBM PC) I never really heard any of them. Good stuff, especially on a technical level. It's amazing what the SID chip can be made to do and even how early they started using tricks to push it further. It's been a while since I've played either of them, I'd say both were acceptable with EE2 being worse than 1 and AOE3 just being different. The Age of Empires 3 home city system is actually a nice way to spice up casual competitive play (it's not always balanced for real competitive, strelet rush is a good basic tactic for beginners) and the campaign had far more discoverable objectives in the campaign. You did have to grind your homecity a bit to get the cards for a deck though and you had to do that for EVERY homecity. AOE3 was well received, but I do believe AOE2 official online support ended around the time and the hype was too big for the original release. Another complaint I heard a lot was far more limited towers and no grid system, buildings can be placed somewhat more loosely. I can't say much on EEII, I'd have to play it again after I played I (and resist the urge of the great cheats). Ultimately complaints vary from "not dumbed down enough" to "bad resource management and UI" and "slow gameplay/resource gathering". I can believe the last complaint, skirmish matches always felt slow and the campaign was always set-up for action not building up from scratch. I do like how "badly received" back then meant, "4/10 here's an indepth list of all my grievances" or 7/10 "cool game", it's a welcome change from seeing modern reviews like "0/10 its a [opposing console] release or "10/10 it has some large issues, but I liked it" Generally though, in both cases the media wer more positive than the userbase, but it was pretty close. They should be enjoyable though, atleast the campaigns. Never played the others, so can't judge them. They were never quite as popular here.

I remember it like that, I'm sure if I go back to it I'd want to hang myself after every match. I still smoked back then and I'm pretty sure the amount I smoked went up the longer I played the game. That does sound like Wargaming yeah, I played free for nearly the entire time I played, I had plenty of time so generally could do events to get premium time. It helped that the EU servers were in Amsterdam, though 1 later on in Germany I believe. They are Belarussian company so they operate with a Russian mindset, same with their main rival Gaijin entertainment "Russian company, does Warthunder". Their motto is no refunds if it's used, I believe for premium vehicles this was one battle? They suck in customer service.

Horse armor man, people joked but it really somehow caused the floodgates to open. I sure won't buy the game, if I really want to for some reason I can always find a 100% discount coupon somewhere. But generally the games which do that are uninteresting to begin with. The worst ones I've generally bought are Forza games, they milk hard, but you get a ton of content by just buying the game and the DLC isn't "unlockable" like that Star Wars game had a few years back. I think the car packs ($€7,- for 7 cars) are kind of bullshit, but I appreciate the effort that goes into modeling the cars and the expansion packs are fine. It's at that point where you'd have to pay to unlock things at a reasonable rate it goes too far for me. No, I guess the settler's name was too small for them to show up in my hometown's toy store (no gaming store) at that time. I was planning on checking the series out for the nostalgia trip anyways, so another thing to add to the list. The resolution, I have a win 95/98? virtual machine setup which uses some weird software to be usable in Virtualbox at higher resolutions and colour, it's set to a 1600*900 SVGA screen. It works just fine, but such a resolution for an old windows version looks alien to me. I prefer playing emulated stuff without upscaling, so windowed mode makes it look better for consoles with an acceptable resolution size which doesn't get shown as a poststamp (like a Game boy, that gets X3 atleast). I don't know if GOG has the setup still included in the game installs, quite a few DOS games allowed you to change the install config. But that is one of the reasons why I look for DOS disks or CD separately from GOG. They're a good company, but a few of their pre-installed games I played where setup terribly and had far better options for modern PCs. Doing it yourself allows you to set it up yourself and the installers aren't that complex either. You never quite know with Pewdiepie, he played some games I wouldn't have expected. You have the somewhat "meme" channels like SsethTzeentach and videogamedunkey, they're quite popular with most ages. Sseth has some weird pics for games, notable very old titles, very niche titles or porn. Don't know much about dunkey, one meme channel is enough for my dose of juvenile humor. Not sure how many of the kids actually check out the games afterwards though. Technically it's not wrong, they are nearly 3 game generations old. Keep in mind people considered the SNES retro when the gamecube got released, it was barely 10 years old in the west. Ultimately at some point we have to accept it as retro. fine by me though, plently of PS2 games I enjoyed.

Apparently it is, though I got greeted with a banner stating that Silverlight 5 support ends after 2021. Better dowload a redist to backup ;) Generally Windows 7 serves me fine even for older stuff, only have to change JP character set in my browser once in a while so it gets turned from gibberish into gibberish I can put in google translate.