Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20190927153736

Am I glad my requirements are "If it works" or "if it's readable/scannable". I've never really had any bad luck with foreign packages yet, but I've probably not reached the hundreds yet so it'll happen. In my case the Rance 6 rough art book appeared in the warehouse, checked yesterday and it wasn't even shipped. Looks like they don't really care too much about updating internal shipping status at buyee. Book is 400g and 1000 yen and the shipping costs have dropped to 890 for small SAL and 1190 for small AIR. Apparently I still had some coupons though, one for free shipping and one for 50% off. Sadly only to the 30th, but I'll take it for free EMS.

I really would recommend playing maybe 1 or 2 of them in a row at most. I've gone through them (the western originals) back-to-back and I had to take a long break from any DRPGs for a long while. I faltered after the Japanese unique official wizardry ones, they get a bit more level grindy whilst still relying on the class switching. Wizardry Gaiden 4 is pretty good though, non-bonus dungeons are actually very forgiving for low levels and are non-linear. Seems like something I should pick up at some point, though searching for the PDF points me to what looks like the PDF version on their own website for free? It's probably intended considering it's top of the search results. It's actually surprising it's that big, but I guess urbanisation isn't really an issue here. You'll see more people taking the car if it ever freezes again.

Test drive got quite a few late 90's releases as well, all British devs. I only saw those later two on an abandonware website, you can find some interesting stuff (and lots of trash as well). I have heard of Hard Drivin' 1 was a nice arcade game, 2 was home computer only though. Simcade is the best way to describe most "sim" games, or just add in "sim elements". I guess people like the idea of playing a "real sim" even though a lot of things are handled for them. I do know they have online events with leaderboard, probably not with a wait timer since hundreds of thousands of people would be playing it. Maybe it's possible on local or Esports events? Dirt rally (1 and 2) should have crashed driver events in singleplayer though, never seen someone else on track, but I only played it for a small bit. Depends on the grind for me, 30 minutes with clear conditionsm sure. Ultra rare drops or hours of level grinding, no. It's not hard to do so I prefer to skip it, generally results in low level runs...

It was high and I'm pretty sure those modules were separate purchases, from a blog I read the modules being $600! Granted most of them did more than one system (MEGA LD does 5 formats and controller).

I was actually thinking of Sugiyama instead of Toriyama (I blame the yamas) when I brought that up, the composer. He decided that they didn't pay enough for orchestral renditions, so MIDI was all the devs got. This way he could sell orchestral discs most likely. I thought of him because people fondly remember his music and it plays a big role in its popularity, but Toriyama's artstyle and rep probably did far more in the early years and still to this day. I'm sure lots of people would be better of without easily accessible social media, forums take time to deal with and have some standards. Now people just post & share the most ridiculous things, ofcourse generally with a nice little tag of where they posted it from. Thanks tracking services. Empire Earth was great, was really into RTSs back in the day. Helped that cheats were common for them so even a small kid could have fun. The scale was also much larger to Age of empires/mythology despite not even really losing that much content per age. Too bad they killed it with 3, same dev as 2 as well so I don't understand why they made such a mediocre game. Yeah, it's not that I mind horrible trash fires as an online community. Sometimes they worked like early to mid life World of Tanks (EU server at least). Communication did not really exist because of 50 languages being spoken at any time and insults were the norm. Either you couldn't understand the insults or they were the funniest engrish stuff. I might just be a glutton for punishment though.

Same principle as arcade games I guess. That's why you have so many people put off by smaller games essentially begging you to pay for an extra life (or watch an ad). Too bad young kids grow up with that, they might get amazing banned blindness though. I played 3 and 4 when I was really young, later in my teens I had heritage of kings (which was more Age of Empires), I liked it well enough, but it always felt more like Age of Empires than the settlers. The press clearly did as well, blasting the game with bad to mediocre. I guess it looks too crisp, I generally play old dos games at VGA resolution in windowed. I am quite willing to pretend I have a Roland synth though, played the sierra port of Sorcerian with that and it opened my eyes to old DOS midis. Never even knew it was really a thing, but I'm guessing not many people knew people with Roland synths. We never really had it, we are slow with stuff like that. I do remember watching a few gaming shows, weird that they all died but I guess the internet holds a monopoly on that content. Also niche genres on TV were bound to die, dwindling TV viewership and all. Would've been cool to have over here though. We have quite a few dedicated retro sections in shops for things over here, so atleast the income seems fine. What I did notice is a shift in "what's retro". Just like most people of my age would say Atari might be a bit too old, I hear younger people calling the NES too old. Granted if it's shrinking in Germany it probably will (or is) over here as well.

I wish archival crawlers/websites were around earlier, just imagine what kind of web 1.0 greatness you could find. Educational websites sometimes hide good stuff as well, I needed some old software which something was dependant on. Microsoft deprecated it in 90's so links are dead at this point. some college in Twente still had old user shares up which had redists of it.