Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20200211191341

The genre kind of died after the early 2000s as well, bit hard to change if there's barely any games. Only the heavy hitters released games then and it just kind of stopped after the mid-2000s. Those kind of improvements were a godsend though, I remember playing AOE 1 after I played 2. Pretty sure holding shift to multi-place buildings wasn't even a thing. I guess those changes kind of started with Medal of Honor, that's for the "cinematic shooter". Fast paced shooters kind of died off. I still want to try the original EU (and 2/3), but booting it up pretty much gave me that same feeling. I guess I'd just have make some time and force myself to learn it, generally the case for older less standardised menu games. I assume they can, they just don't care to draw it properly if it just gets censored (see Sengoku Rance's uncensored CGs). Why bother if it's getting mosaiced?

It's a "simple" MMO, it just kind of clicks with the average MMO surfers. One of the good things I've heard is that one character can spec into all classes. Good way to replace alts, though I guess it isn't "role-playing friendly".

Yeah, I had a list laying about somewhere and those should probably be documented. probably not scanned though. There are also an absolute ton of the older variants (90's user club bulletins), these are probably some of the rarest Alicesoft media as they weren't produced to be sold. I generally can find old store sold books just fine, anything that was mail-order only is always going to be luck based. I did see that book, I didn't get it, maybe it was already scanned? some of the covers look very similar at times. The mail order bonus is always nice, those tend to actually be the rarest stuff. Pretty cool that it is an early sketchbook as well, might be some interesting stuff in it. I assume the mail order sketchbook for Rance VI is different to the Rance VI rough art book? That should be scanned if you'd like to compare, it was cheap after all. I don't have any invoices of them, but at this point the import papers have become a giant stack. Probably should get rid of most of them soon, just takes up space. I'll probably stick to auctions and Suraga-ya, they serve my purpose. Probably covers 99% of what you can find second hand, suruga-ya stocks literally everything. Lots of single stock items people probably dump on them for store credits or something.