Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2ED7:3508:12B2:7608:C87C-20190928125240

To be honest, I've never been that much of a fan of Mario. I mean, I had a Mega Drive and also Sonic 1 and 2 but I do genuinely thing that they are better games than Super Mario Bros. 3 or even Super Mario World. Though, both series at that time were pretty different from my point of view. Sonic was about going fast and having a complex and tight level design. Super Mario Bros. has pretty simplistic level design but offers some secrets here and there. Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine I like though. Comparing it to Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, the series drifted even further apart, so no real one can be made. Galaxy was meh. I haven't played the DK arcade game, Mario Bros. or other titles like Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario etc. I don't think they are selling on Amazon. There is some UK website that is the distributor. Maybe they just wanted to be nice. The book is barely above its production costs and the extra stuff goes to some charity. Depends on the person though. I do it below 10°C as well because cortison (had to take it for an allergy and it didn't help at all but had tons of side effects -.-) screwed me over and the skin of my hand got thinner for instance which makes it more susceptible to temperatures. Of course, cycling at my speed doesn't help at all either. I do still go outside when it's freezing and do what I want to do. Maybe it's the same or similar for other people.

Well, thanks to me getting DSL really late, I joined the MMO community too late as well. WoW was already released, EQ2 too of course, Dark Age of Camelot was already on the market and in general, tons of WoW clones were coming out. I like more difficult games, as I have mentioned before, and that applies to MMOs as well. Ideally you lose exp upon death or are at least punished in some way. Starting in 2005, I only really played F2P MMOs, almost exclusively Asian ones. Still had a lot of fun with them. I would call me "competitive" as well. But it's more along the lines of paying attention and not messing around. Yep, exactly. That's why overlevelling destroys that complexity and difficulty. Hahaha. I really don't remember FFVI being difficult at all even. What I noticed when playing the game though, Kafka is definitely overrated. No idea why people call him one of the best villains ever that gets things done.

Never looked into the CD-I to be honest. I generally got the impression that it was basically a complete failure as a gaming system and as such, it isn't that interesting a system to me, especially with Japanese PCs around who are still somewhat unexplored.

Absolutely. In general, back in the day, people needed to be really creative and savvy to work with the limitations. In contrast, nowadays, you are free to do what you please which made game development and what's connected with that, a lot easier...and somewhat less interesting, I would argue. AoE III was likely well-received by magazines but here, among my friends, they basically either didn't like it or had no interest anymore anyway. I kinda fall in both categories. Pretty sure it was the same with people around the world. Also, DotA (and in general, custom maps) had begun replacing the RTS genre. The creativity that used to flood into RTS games was instead put into custom maps, I had the feeling. And well, that's how it developed, with LoL copying DotA and stealing their ideas on the forum, HoN copying DotA and then DotA 2 copying DotA and those other copy-cats which were less relevant. Regarding AoE II, I played that on Voobly again back in 2010. Unfortunately, all those new "releases" kinda split and messed up the community. Unofficial fan expansion party becoming official expansions, some garbage HD releases, other releases. Meh. Hehe, well, possibly paid media again. Who knows. Maybe they were also just out of touch with the users. For RTS, I always liked playing on large maps and either it was EE II or Cossacks II that reduced the maximum size. Regarding the campaign, I always really liked the ones in Empire Earth or Age of Empire I and II. They weren't super long, just more tight but several scenarios because of that.

Events? I don't remember any events. I played like 5-7 years ago though. The servers moved around IIRC. So when they changed servers, they messed something up and that was that for me. If some company would start a new World of Tanks, I would likely start playing it. Personally, I prefer to play early in such games (which includes). It's meh if you are late to the party and everyone already knows everything. And there is stuff that you won't be able to get, like tanks that got removed at some point etc.

I generally, heavily dislike "games as a service". I'm fine with buy the game at full price, pay for proper expansions down the road...like they used to do it back in the day. (Empire Earth, then the expansion released on year later...alhough that one wasn't good, AoE I would have been a better example I guess). Including stupid skins, unlocking stuff, any kind of micro-transactions, no, thanks. Reason enough to not buy the game. (Well, I have a policy anyway. I don't pay more than 15€ for a digital game. Has worked so far on around 500 games on GOG (and I dislike digital games in general and joined only about three years ago). Maybe I will make an exception when Europa Universalis IV releases there but until then, nothing over 15€...and even over 10€ is extremely rare for me. Funnily enough, I have no issues paying 100€, or more, for a physical game, as seen by me importing Japanese PC games. Kickstarter was a thing some time ago but it has somewhat died down. Apart from not having access to a CC for the longest time, I have only supported one game so far...and that's a traditional RPG which draws inspiration from 80s and 90s RPGs and which also uses its own engine. So no bland-looking Unity engine. Additionally, they will release DRM-free physical games and proper expansion like 9-12 months after release. So basically as it should be. (There is a bonus that it's a German game too.) Only time I was really compelled to back a game on Kickstarter aka "buy the cat in the bag". Ideally look for a manual for Siedler to know what some symbols actually stand for and what certain options mean. Hm, I get you. I generally play anything without upscaling. No idea why people always clamor for a higher resolution for old games. I still need to play Baldur's Gate for example and almost everyone recommended me some resolution patch. No need for that, I'm fine playing in the original one -_- Hm, I guess so. GOG has some other bad practices, like including fan patches in the game you actually download. Warlords Battlecry III had one which altered the game balance and they eventually removed it after people complained about it for a while. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has one fan patch but there is no choice when it comes to other ones etc. So the preconfigured stuff doesn't surprise me at all, I guess. It's more for the less savvy users probably. Too bad you don't get the option to choose here either. Err, you are going further into that matter which I didn't expect. I'm not really a fan of Youtube anymore (thanks to Google with their policies, forced Google login, UI changes etc) and was never a fan of Youtubers. So I don't watch any of them or even have much clue about them. I've been in the live-streaming game for a long while thoug, basically over ten years at this point. Back in the day on Livestreams, then Ustream, Justin.tv (nowadays Twitch.tv), own3d, Hitbox but also foreign streaming services like Nico², Afreeca and Douyu. But even then I don't know much about the popular streamers anymore because the whole streaming culture has become really awful. Best time was probably 2012-2014/5 in the West when the most popular streamers were nice and likable people and/or speedrunners. There were basically no cam whores and no corporate interest either. PSX, Saturn and N64 and everything afterwards will never be retro to me. NEVER! I think it's more a question of how old you are, not how old the systems are themselves.

Backup? You mean download it to shred it with some program. Same here, also on Windows 7. Have no interest to switch to Windows 10. Had to use that OS often enough, it's terrible. You also see people complaining all the time which is understandable. When I buy myself a new PC eventually (this one is from 2012), I will likely reinstall Windows 7 (though, hardware support will be an issue) or try out Linux? *sigh* Will be tough. You have to change something in your browser? My Firefox ususally displays everything without issues.